8/13/2004: Marlins (Valdez) @ Brewers (Obermueller)

[RoseBowlMtg]

Come on Danny boy! I need a fantasy save and you are the man!

[batboy37]

Why is Jenkins still batting third?!

[burniebrewer]

Holy crap, nice positioning of Branyan.

[burniebrewer]

Quit saying how bad Lowell has been, they're scaring me.

[stkmtimo]

Uh-oh...here comes Mike Lowell.

 

Tim

[burniebrewer]

VICTORY!!!!

[RoseBowlMtg]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stkmtimo]

YES! Great win for Obie and the Crew! I saw Victor Santos and Doug Davis laughing after the game and frequently see them joking around together in the dugout - are they good friends? Just wondering, glad to see a W!

 

Tim

[AJAY]

Brewers Win !!!!!

[tyguy20204]

Yes, they are pals. Daron and Bill have mentioned how they were on the same team before (either minor league or major league, I don't remember) and have bonded since then.

[Jaylyn]

Congrats to Wes O. on probably throwing his best game ever, jeers to Adams and Viz on almost blowing it, Kolb to the rescue, thank you! Couple of comments, Jenkins needs to ride some pine for a few days to see if that would snap him back to reality. Branyan needs to be the everyday 3b, bottom line! Helms can you feel it slipping away! I wonder if Ned is beginning to rethink his thoughts on Helms yet? Come on Ned you can deny it no longer, Branyan is just better!

[stkmtimo]

For some reason it seems that Yost has a tough time sitting his "franchise player" Geoff Jenkins.

 

Tim

[rluzinski]

If that account of Yost scowling at Branyan's HR has any truth to it, that is trully sad. Yost's freindship with Helms is more important than his team winning?

[DuWayne Steurer]

I thought that as well rluz. I saw the scene, but obviously we don't know what was said. Like you said, if it's true, that's pretty pathetic. Show some professionalism Ned.

[hawing]

Well...

 

Who'd have thought that tonight's pitching trouble would NOT have involved Obermueller? My hat is tipped to lil' Wes. He got what might well have been a Kinneyesque last chance and (unlike Kinney) made it work. I gave him a personal standing ovation after each successful inning, plus one for his hit.

 

Solid crowd tonight (35K, and without the bobblehead draw of Saturday and Sunday) which was moderately into the game. We actually got some people in our section to do the Overbay "O" with us.

 

And lord-a-mitey, was it nice to see Russell instead of Big Wes. I tried to keep track of the number of "no way would Helms have made that" plays, but I lost count.

[phxMILWfan]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to remember Obie throwing a complete game shut out in San Fran. Great outing by him tonight but I don't think it was his best.

[brewmann04]

he showed today that he can be a very good pitcher

whatever maddox did he needs to repeat it.

 

Ned Yost if he does not play Brayan over Helms just might cost him his JOB