What should be included in the gift basket

[endaround]

that Ned Yost sends Willie Randolph for completely taking national attention away from the Brewer's choke job? I assume right away Yost will just forward the gift basket that Pinella will be sending him. I think Yost should include his copy of The Book because its obvious he isn't using it.

[Hate those Rodents]

How about if Ned throws in his journal on "How to Manage a Pitching Staff"?

[TooLiveBrew]

A chart on how to correctly identify and utilize flow-of-the-game splits, and then another on how to totally ignore them. A third chart as to what excuse to utilize for the media, namely whether to blame mistakes on chart one (f-o-t-g splits) or two (ignoring f-o-t-g splits). Also, some venison jerky.

[thablingster]

A list of quotes to use with the media about grinding it out, focusing on tomorrow, and giving the opposing team credit for playing well, even if they didn't.

[jaybird2001wi]

Add a thesaurus for terms 'like' battling. Also include a basket of grapefruits for the amount of homers the team gave up.

[AdvantageSchneider]

grits

[Mike Felder]

A book on "new math" and how it's still on your side even if you're 2 down with 4 (or now 3) to play.

[Patrick425]

A managerial guide to dealing with fans. With an extended chapter on how to get fans to "just relax and enjoy the ride".

[brettac1]

See, for people that thought the Brewers "collapsed" and choked earlier... this is what that actually looks like. Giving up a 7.5 game lead in September is near impossible to do. Even if they manage to win the division, that's crazy.

[Patrick425]

I guess it all depends on how, and in what time frame, you define collapse. The 69' collapse is unbelievable when you look at it. They had a 9 game lead on August 16th and ended up losing the division by 8 games. That's a 17 game turn-around in a month and a half. Ouch!

[Mike Felder]

Yeah, according to Baseball Prospectus, if the Mets miss the playoffs it would be the second worst collapse in baseball history, behind the horrifying fall of the 1995 Angels.

[LS Brewer]

The Gift Basket should be packaged in a FedEx box sent to the moon and include all of the snide, insulting, and counterproductive junk written about Ned on all the message boards (including brewerfan.net) this year just so we don't have to ever read that garbage again.

 

To all the Ned-haters, boo-birds, naysayers, "Turnblow"ers, Sveum-blamers, anti-TGJ anti-fanboys, chorizo-fearers, assorted nattering nabobs of negativism, and hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of recent Brewers history out there, let go of your hate. Just ONE day without the hate ... THAT would be a nice gift.

[hawing]

Is this a basket for Ned/Brewers management, or for the Mets? I'm losing track.

 

I think any quality gift basket should have those Bing Cherry Chocolates from Harry and David. Those are awesome.

[giffted1]

If anything, we owe the Marlins a case of beer for giving us some hope this week.