TooLiveBrew

Wow, with 2 outs & on a 1-2 count no less.

Really nice to see that Rogers had a good start & an efficient start. Here's hoping he can keep building on that success.

The west coast PCL parks are why the league is so offense-heavy. Not saying I think Maysonet is a great hitter, but since he doesn't play on a west coast team, his numbers have a little more legitimacy imo.

Really good win for a struggling & banged-up team.

Great piece by Woods. And you have to actively create reasons to dislike Rob Zerjav, that dude is really down to earth & cool.

Nice. My brain was thinking about something like this; kudos to yours for being able to form it into a slick joke.

You sure you're not saying "Booo-zturis?"

Raw power like that is what keeps Izturis in the bigs.

Time to tack on a run or five.

K-Rod's stuff actually looks really good so far.

So... K-Rod time. [nervous laugh]Totally not nervous, you guys![/nervous laugh]

Oh, I like "victory whiskey". I'm joining you.

I guess I kinda get the feeling that if RR ever inadvertently spit on an umpire while yelling at him, he'd fish a handkerchief out of his pocket & wipe the spittle off the ump's face... and then ask to hug it out.

"Pansy", "wimp"... I prefer "cordial" or "considerate"! But yeah, I would love to see RR just go ballistic at some point, if only out of curiosity.

I completely agree. This season has been awesome so far.

Seriously. Show some balls. Make a scene. Anything to try and shake this group out of the funk they're in. Looks like maybe a manager getting ejected has nothing to do with whether or not a team can rally

Hyperbole like this makes this kind of discussion completely impossible. No, it really is easy. Just watch his foot and listen for the catch. Quite simple, yet these clowns blow a call practically every game. That was an easy call. Blown. The Jerry Hairston play, easy call completely blown. You made an absurdly overstated claim & then back it up by saying that one play was (obviously) terrible. Refs in all sports make mistakes in almost every game. You're convinced that since you found umping easy, it's easy to do at the big-league level. Obviously some calls are easy, that's really not the point at all.

Thank you for this post, Mass Haas -- I was assuming there was something to this effect at play

Oh, sorry -- I totally forgot. Sample size is super-relevant for every player so long as it fits your narrative.

Fwiw Rivera said he's planning on returning next season

Hyperbole like this makes this kind of discussion completely impossible.

Mariano Rivera might be done for the season. He looked to tear up his right knee while shagging a flyball in batting practice before tonight's game. He's shagged balls in BP for his entire career, before anyone asks what he was doing. http://web.yesnetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120503&content_id=30330526&oid=36019

Somehow, this never gets old. Ever.

Or we could use scouting & his most recent production, which was nothing short of anemic in the hitters' paradise of the West Coast PCL in 2011. The guy's not a bad baseball player, but he's a bad big-league 1B in terms of offense.

No, it's nothing like Cruz at all. Axford was released by the Yankees in 2007, & the Brewers signed him in 2008. He'd had TJ surgery in college, and his lack of velocity (& success) was basically why he got released; his velocity was in the low 90s at that point iirc. Lee Tunnel helped Axford refine his mechanics & turned him into the flamethrower he is now. The only thing the Brewers did with Axford was develop him. EDIT: Here's an excerpt from a story SI did on Axford in '11: Recalls Axford: "The first thing [Tunnell] said to me was, 'We want to work on something. Do you know who Roy Halladay is?' I'm like, 'Uh, yeah.' He had worked with Halladay [in the Arizona Fall League], and he says to me, 'I want you to throw like him right now. Try to think about how he throws and emulate his mechanics.' So I did a little bit of a turn -- my back was always very straight up and down, so I just kind of had a little bit more of a knee turn, and my back immediately went down and my arm slot lowered. Obviously, I didn't look anything like Roy Halladay, but in my mind I guess I kind of did. I kept on throwing and I threw a couple two seamers that actually moved, which had never happened before. "I used to throw 89 and as high as 92, 93 on my fastball. But my next outting, which was the next day, I don't think I had a fastball that was lower than 93 or 94, and I was topping out at 96. The way the coaches put it was this: I needed to stay more athletic. I was just too mechanical, too up and down, focusing too much on trying to throw strikes. I needed to stay more athletic out there and throwing strikes. And everything kind of changed after that."