8/15/05 - Brewers(Big Ben) @ Rockies(Cook) - 8:05 pm CST

[brettac1]

Look on the bright side, at least it wasn't close.

[pogokat]

But if we win everygame, we can still win the wild card!!!

 

this team ain't very good

[rluzinski]

Don't any of you DARE say the Crew is out of the wild card race!

[ja002h]

Sheets is ... how do you say? Ah yes ... sucking.

[brewmann04]

turned this game off

what a pathetic offense that makes another bum look like Cy Young.

 

This really stinks

[ja002h]

EARTH TO NED YOST..

[naivin]

Why do they always feel they have to prop these guys up in a situation like this? Sheets is getting pounded - it happens. Everyone knows he's good, you don't need to go on and on about how good he has been.

[moofnelson]

Sure am glad I stayed up for this!!!!

 

This is batting practice.

[rluzinski]

Dink, dink, dink, dink, dink, dink...

 

8-2

 

What a WIERD friggin inning. Six hits, ALL SINGLES. The Brewers have 4 doubles and 2 less hits... and 6 less runs.

 

How depressing.

[AJAY]

How come we can't hit like that?

[H0FFY]

again, I am amazed by the teams lack of effort to step up

 

refusing to run home????????????

 

having no pitching plan for Coors

 

These are mental errors and coaching errors and not lack of talent

 

The entire organisation suffers from this losing culture

 

yuk

[batman]

This might not work, but what would y'all think of spot starting Justin Lehr in one of the three games at Coors, perhaps for Santos? He was starting at Nashville and should still be capable of throwing at least 80 pitches and his stuff profiles as well as anyone's for Coors Field. Sheets, Santos, and Cappy are all gonna have trouble pitching at altitude... perhaps Lehr and Obermueller would have been better options (the team could have recalled Obie instead of Capellan).

 

I doubt they ever really considered it, and it might have just messed up the pitching staff (if Lehr or Obie struggled), but it would have been an interesting experiment.

 

In other news, Sheets is getting smoked.

 

~Bill

[Fike85]

Yuck.

[moofnelson]

Well, dink, dink, dink, dink, dink, dink is better than the Brewers version: dink, dink, out, out, out.

[no19no1]

Any reason we can't put 7 or 8 up this inning. Cook is not no hitting us.

[RoseBowlMtg]

That was a great example of going the other way and scoring 5 runs small ball style in the thin air of Colorado!

 

Will every Brewer swing for the fences now?

[naivin]

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EARTH TO NED YOST..

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What are you talking about? He wasn't the one out there getting killed. Those runs came awful quick too. Not alot of time to get someone ready in the bullpen. Not sure how many pitches, but I wouldn't be opposed to sending him out for one more inning if his pitch count is reasonable. There is no point in wearing out the bullpen in game 1 of a 7 game road trip. After all, he has Victor Santos pitching in Coors Field to look forward to.

[moofnelson]

I have a question not pertaining to this debacle: Will the Brewers ever consider JDLR as a starter? I'm thinking Johann Santana.

 

moof

[MachMeister5]

i feel like throwing up

[ja002h]

Not alot of time to get someone ready in the bullpen.

 

They did bat around..

[rluzinski]

having no pitching plan for Coors

 

I think the plan was to bust out the curve after the first time through. Just guessing.

 

HOW MANY TIMES is the TV crew going to talk about how many runs Sheets gave up. WE GOT IT. He did bad. We were right there watching.

[scrapiron]

From a certain point of view, that last half inning was a thing of beauty from the Rockies. What is painful is that there is no way in heck that the Brewers could have done the same. Just far too much execution for the Brewers.

[HighLifeandPeanuts]

I am not mad at Darron for not being a Brewers fan anymore.

[naivin]

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They did bat around..

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Yeah, but I would have left him in with the bottom of the order coming up too. By the time he didn't get them out, the damage was done. Ned is smart enough to realize that this suckfest line-up can barely get the 2 runs they have scored, let along the amount they would need to win thsi one.

[bucksman4]

Will a sweep by the Rockies finally shut up all of those people in here still thinking Wild Card??

 

If they can't beat the Rockies, how will they survive 10 games against the likes of Clemens, Pettite, and Oswalt.