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Was Gomez walking to the wrong dugout?

The other team also forgets to catch a pop-up on the infield, allowing the 2nd run of the inning to score in the process.

Oh.. my.

Just tuning in to see Tori (Torii?) Hunter getting fooled on a line drive. Those are THE hardest balls to play in the OF are the line drives off a wood bat.. sometimes you just never knew how far the ball will carry.

I believe he was beaned on the thumb/hand, and then fouled a ball off or got jammed real bad and it sort of went from there, if I'm remembering correctly.

I think Gomez could probably use a day off. Clear his head. And not just a regularly scheduled day off, but a day off from playing. Doubt that will happen this weekend. He seems lost at the plate.

Two on with nobody out. Who is going to make a mistake that will cost the Brewers a run(s) this inning?

Wrong thread. Whoops.

The Brewers are down big, you'll see them hacking at 1st pitches and Lackey will cruise.

Is there a reset button? Wake up, guys. How in the hell is that a base hit?

I'm shocked that Ramirez hit into a double-play. Shocked.

I can imagine CardinalsFan.net right now with a bunch of posts like, "why do we always stink against the no-name rookie SPs?!?!" No, they're talking about their classy Cardinals and how they welcomed the new guy into MLB with open arms by grounding into a handful of double-plays, etc.

Haha. Every time I see Joe West behind the plate he always throws out someone.

That was a horrible strike 2 call on Braun. Joe West just doing what he can to let everyone know he's in charge. He sucks.

Rookie pitchers can't bat 8th.

I think we're going to exchange 1-0 shutouts. We went first, tonight it's the Cards' turn.

Not watching the game. What's this in reference to? Pop-up in foul territory (3rd base side) and Ramirez, Segura, and Parra were coming in at the same time and obviously weren't communicating. They all three collided (not super violent), but Segura fell into the stands and Parra was in the fetal position. It looked ugly but was - relatively speaking - tame. Edit - no one was hurt.

I saw that coming and I figured all three would be done for the season.

Great start for Tyler. He's kinda funky out there, reminds me a bit of Marcum for some reason.

I'm not sure which was worse at that time: watching Mench arrive at the ballpark and thinking how disappointed I was that this guy was suppose to help replace some of the offense that was going to be missing with the Carlos Lee trade, OR listening to Daron Sutton over-hype someone that even casual fans knew was nothing more than a 4th OF/RH bat off the bench. The real return was Francisco Cordero, but that didn't stop Sutton from going over-the-top (something he excelled at) with his Mench-love that evening.

Yes, you absolutely can. Because the comparison is all about what the two organizations feel is acceptable. The Packers before the twenty year drought had had massive success. And even when they were terrible, they gave people a few years to fix things, and when there weren't tangible results, they were sent packing. The Brewers have never had success. Never. They were good for about a 5 year span in the late 70s and early 80s, and made a single World Series appearance. Since the Brewers have never had any success at all, we have come to accept that level of mediocrity. By doing so, when you have a general manager like Doug Melvin, who (again, don't know how many times I have to say this...has never won a thing in the three decades he has been a Major League executive), you don't feel any urgency to expel him from the organization. "We're losers, we've always been losers, and under Doug Melvin, we've been less of a loser organization than ever before." When Melvin's track record is being glowingly compared to every other Brewer General Manager in franchise history (which is a flashing light substantiating my claim), there is a problem. Our measuring stick is our own failure! That's where this black hole of an organization has come to after four decades. Any rational baseball fan's measuring stick should be the record of a successful organization. Instead of saying "this is how far we need to go to reach the top", Brewers fans instead prefer to say "this is how far we've climbed up from the very bottom". And, here we are again, Brewers fans. At the bottom. The net effect of Doug Melvin's thirteen year tenure in Milwaukee is we're the worst franchise in the Major Leagues. Again. So basically you're saying you can compare an NFL franchise: the Packers - and an MLB franchise: the Brewers because one franchise has had a lot of success and the other franchise has had very little success? But you're going to completely disregard the fact that drafting in the NFL and drafting in MLB are two completely different sets of circumstances; you're going to disregard that the NFL has a salary cap and each team has the same amount of money to spend whereas in MLB that is not the case whatsoever, among a dozen other differences that danzig already pointed out. As I said, NFL and MLB is an apples-to-oranges comparison. In fact, I don't even know what you're arguing other than you think Melvin should be let go. Fine - I won't argue with you; but you also don't need to write things like "again.. I don't know how many times I need to say this" - plenty of others have said the same thing about Melvin since the 2012 season. Also, the Brewers haven't "accepted" mediocrity either since MA bought the team. How many managers has he gone through now? It's just happened through poor drafting and player development, and trading away any good prospect we had to take a shot when the window was open. Again, if you want to make a claim that Melvin should have been fired, then fine, but please.. don't compare the Brewers' situation to the Packers'.

The frustration is 13 years into Melvin's tenure, we're about as bad now as we were when he came in, with nothing to show for it. And considering how easy it is to make it into the playoffs in the Major Leagues now, to not at least have more appearances is an embarrassment. "I enjoyed '08 and '11" So because we made the briefest playoff appearance in history one year, and had one decent playoff run in another, you're willing to gloss over the other 11 years where we did nothing? You referenced the money analogy being a bad one (as a stockbroker, I agree). But show me anywhere in the world, any industry, any sport, where success in two years out of thirteen is at all acceptable. And I have a hard time calling 2008 a success. We caught lightning in a bottle (Sabathia's unbelievable second half), and that lightning dried up once we made our five minute appearance in October. Herein, folks, is the difference between the Brewers and the Packers. I love both teams, so please don't even bother questioning my loyalty. But the Packers are winners, and the Brewers are losers. You cannot compare NFL and MLB franchises when it comes to player development, or really other type of success. It is an apples to oranges comparison. I apologize that I didn't read the rest of your post except for the end when you - again - tell us how we should or shouldn't look at this situation.

Seriously, how does a Major League player get doubled-off second like that?

That throw was pathetic for a play that ended up being relatively close at 2nd base. Maybe if he could have, oh, I don't know, stepped into that throw he might have had a shot at the slow-running Trumbo.

I'm tired of seeing this ambulance chaser on almost every commercial break for the Brewers.