Who's your scapegoat?

[mothershipconnection]

Now that we're hanging on by the smallest of threads, I thought I'd get everyone else's opinion on the guy they'll blame most if/when we're officially eliminated.

Aside from Yost, who is your 2007 scapegoat? That is, even though plenty of guys have wilted and failed us down the stretch, who do you blame even more than you probably should? Personally, I'm splitting it between Cappy and Sheets - two guys that could have been so huge, and were expected to be our top 2 starters, and they sucked and got injured, respectively.

 

There are plenty of players you can make an argument for, who's yours?

 

Please don't turn this into the venting thread part 2, we already have one.

[ccbrew]

Aside from Sheets getting hurt again, a vote also has to go to Bill Hall, who went from a 35 HR season to being a part-time player. Imagine how scary our lineup would have been by having a Bill Hall that even slightly resembled the 2006 version being sandwiched somewhere between Braun-Fielder-Hart.

[DuWayne Steurer]

If I had to pick just one guy that hurt the team the most, I'd probably have to go with Capuano. Sheets has been hurt and missed about a dozen starts, but the guys taking his starts (Villenueva, Parra, and Gallardo for a time earlier) all pitched pretty well when called upon. Cappy has been plain brutal since May.

[Ennder]

sorry its Yost. I can complain about a lot of guys but Yost put most of them in the position to lose.

 

Capuano hasn't pitched poorly, the defense has screwed him. Sheets got hurt, it happens. Hall hasn't been great but I never believed in the 35 HR's and had he played full time he'd be on pace for 20ish which is probably realistic.

 

Turnbow should have been taken out of the setup role the minute we got Linebrink but nope Yost has to blow game after game with him.

 

This entire season sits squarely on Yost's head.

[Brian the Automator]

I'll go with Capuano or Estrada. I guess I can't get that mad at Estrada, because we just didn't know what other teams knew... but Cappy just fell apart.

[Brian the Automator]

sorry its Yost. I can complain about a lot of guys but Yost put most of them in the position to lose.

 

Capuano hasn't pitched poorly, the defense has screwed him. Sheets got hurt, it happens. Hall hasn't been great but I never believed in the 35 HR's and had he played full time he'd be on pace for 20ish which is probably realistic.

 

Turnbow should have been taken out of the setup role the minute we got Linebrink but nope Yost has to blow game after game with him.

 

This entire season sits squarely on Yost's head.

Please follow the instructions in the thread, especially the bolded part.... otherwise I'll most posts to the yay/nay thread.

 

[iluvlamp]

I will go with Cappy, Sheets, Suppan, and Bush. Starting pitching failed us to no end in the mid part of the season. It overtaxed our bullpen (which maybe wasn't that great) and made things that much harder. Secondly, I blame the bullpen (unfair? maybe). Yost? He can go away for all I care and I have said that for 2 years now.

[xisxisxis]

I blame brewerfan.net.

[DougJones43]

Ned Yost's parents, for conceiving him.....Also, Wes Helms.

[iluvlamp]

I blame brewerfan.net.

 

awesome!

 

[markedman5]

Turnbow and really the whole bullpen other then Coco.

 

Linebrink has been ok, Shouse has been good when used against lefties but other then that not a dependable guy in the bunch.

 

Is sad when you have 15 guys down there and nobody to put in other then your closer.

[DougJones43]

Okay, time for a real answer. Gotta be Capuano.

[PeaveyFury]

This is clearly our faults. We should have stopped shaving, showering, and changing our socks at 24-10.

[trwi7]

I blame Gary Bennett and Bryan Adams.

[lcbj68c]

The bullpen and pitching coaches.

[bobskube]

Turnbow. Plain and simple.

 

He started the first Brewer slide in Philly after blowing a 6-2 lead in the 8th. It continued pretty much every other appearance he had. Just like Rex grossman-a total mental midget.

 

Sheets was the biggest letdown.

[adamb100]

Derrick Turnbow.

[EdgarDiazRocks]

I blame the fans.

 

They didn't believe HARD enough.

 

Should have rubbed more dirt on their retro uni's

[wisconsinfan47]

Prince Fielder...duh.

 

Actually, Bill Hall. Huuuge disappointment.

 

35 homers don't really matter in a year where you win 75 games.

 

We coulda used him...

[lcbj68c]

Derrick Turnbow has the most losses by the brewers bullpen. It's easily Turnbow. How do you walk 44 guys in 68 innings and be a setup man? I know there aren't a lot of better options, but my god. I also blame Doug Melvin for not finding better help at the break. Linebrink has been serviceable, but surely somebody could have been bought. There are no promises for next season and it doesn't appear Doug Melvin gave Ned Yost the ammunition to put up much of a fight in the 2nd half of 2007.

[JET15]

I blame Koskie for not manning up and maybe keeping Braun in the minors until his D improved

[Fatter than Joey]

Doug Melvin

[Mike Felder]

Turnbow or Hall.

 

I can't give it to Capuano because he pitched well in several of those games, but was screwed by the bullpen/defense/lack of run support.

[TooLiveBrew]

There's only one answer...

 

http://www.nychoke.com/images/a-rod%20slap.jpg

 

http://www.bronxpride.com/files/images/A-Rod%20Problems.jpg

 

http://domewright.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/arod_wife.jpg

 

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/arod.jpg

 

(I don't know why - probably the delerium setting in - but this pic makes me laugh so hard)

[Mike Felder]

What I'd really like to do is find some way to blame this on Sal Bando.