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  1. TooLiveBrew
    They're pretty set at 1B, too, imo -- Gamel*, Halton, Morris, Kh. Davis (if he's moved there). If Morris can have the kind of year I hope he can, suddenly the Brewers aren't without an impact bat in the system anymore; not to mention Kh. Davis. Can we start calling him KhD? Or would that just imply that he has a doctorate in whiffing? A doctorate in Khrushing? * I say they're pretty set at 1B primarily because I think Gamel will man that position for the next 6 seasons or so. Wouldn't necessarily be a bad idea to move Kh. there, though. Just that he & Morris aren't on too dissimilar a timeframe, but I guess Morris could keep trying to stick at 3B.
  2. TooLiveBrew
    Anybody else think Gomez would've been an all-star in the steroid era? Dude's a power hitter without power who plays awesome D and runs like the wind. Roids could've put a few more feet on those fly outs. He's not without power, he's without contact ability. I think he would have still sucked in the 'roids era', even though I don't think that PED abuse is over by any stretch of the imagination.
  3. TooLiveBrew
    There's no way Mark A. sells the Brewers. 0% chance. Zilch. I wouldn't go nearly that far. I'd agree it's more likely his group wouldn't sell, but it's certainly not a 0% chance.
  4. TooLiveBrew
    I would agree that he's a decent athlete, and not a bad runner, but he's a terrible defender. Although, you know what? For all we complain about the NY & BOS hype that players get, let's just keep quiet on this one & let ESPN's hype machine plug away in favor of Fielder.
  5. TooLiveBrew
    Escobar wasn't the defensive wizard last year with us as many were so waiting to see But he was a very young player that obviously projected to improve going forward. I think the expectations were just way too high for him last season amongst Brewers fans. His defense alone will make him more valuable than Betancourt this season. I hope he can start to hit, though. It'll sting if he does, but I wish the best for him, and frankly, the Royals.
  6. TooLiveBrew
    Jeez, left out of the sentence "Former Sound Vinny Rottino led off the frame with a base hit that chased Sounds starter Josh Butler from the contest" is the useful context, provided above by UeckerPowell, that Rottino's single hit Butler in the head. Yeah, that was my thought precisely. That's a pretty egregious omission.
  7. TooLiveBrew
    I'm sure most here heard it mentioned on tonight's broadcast, but the surgery for Shaun's father reportedly went well.
  8. TooLiveBrew
    Alcides Escobar made a fantastic play tonight, robbing another former Brewer -- Michael Brantley -- of a leadoff hit. Seeing this clip made me check out Escobar's other highlights this season, and wow. How about this throw, and does this play look familiar?
  9. TooLiveBrew
    I thought it was OK, but kind of cliched and slow moving. I'll give it a chance with the next episode, but I found it a bit underwhelming so far. I can't think of the last HBO ensemble cast show that *didn't* seem to start off slowly. I'm definitely going to have to try to catch the premiere & DVR a rerun. I've been wanting to watch this, but forgot it was on!
  10. TooLiveBrew
    Wow... best of luck to Shaun, his father, & their family.
  11. TooLiveBrew
    I don't believe it... I honestly didn't think you'd use it http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
  12. TooLiveBrew
    The important thing to remember is my signature. RockCoCougars loves Chris Dickerson! Just wait & see if he gets that avatar running.
  13. TooLiveBrew
    Did you just start watching baseball this season? This may sum up how the Yuni haters see his play. A bad hop play is seen as the worst ever. So you either have seen very little baseball or just look for ways to kick the guy. Yeah, the main problem with that play was the ball catching the lip of the infield grass & not taking much of a hop off the ground. However, on that play (& numerous others), he just doesn't get himself into good position. Even when he has plenty of time to get in front of the ball, he'll typically opt to backhand the play. He's just got lazy habits on defense (& poor foot speed), which made that incredible hustling play to snare the liner off Mitre all the more impressive.
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    Just a (at this point) bad running joke between RockCoCougars & me. He championed the 'Chris Dickerson: Baseball Player, or human pile of dog poop?' camp, while I was firmly entrenched in the 'Chris Dickerson: Ken Griffey Jr. pt. II, just give him time' camp.
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    You've inspired me to change my sig
  16. TooLiveBrew
    Just wanted to say that I saw a scout for the Blue Jays at tonight's Timber Rattlers game. He could definitely have been there to scout the Twins' Beloit affiliate, as the Twins are obviously a team that needs to make a trade or two. However, that's just no fun for a Brewers message board. Let the wild, unsubstantiated rumors about John McDonald or Yunel Escobar begin! Not sure dealing for McDonald would make a ton of sense, since he's in his age-36 season & his career high for PAs is around 350. Yunel Escobar is definitely a trade target I could get excited about, though (both guys are solid defenders). Not sure why Toronto would be looking to move Escobar, though... that part of my wildly dreamt-up scenario doesn't make much sense either. Like I said, the team Toronto was scouting could easily have been the Snappers, but I can dream that this is a prelude to returning the name Escobar to the organization to man SS.
  17. TooLiveBrew
    First pitch temp. for the T-Rats? 38 degrees. Ugh. Also, I noticed a scout for the Blue Jays in attendance tonight. Not sure if it means anything more than that or not -- the Twins' Beloit players could be the ones he was there to look at even if it was trade-related.
  18. TooLiveBrew
    The reasoning for keeping Reed as a 3rd string CF over Boggs seems to have no valid logic behind it. Sadly, it was the same flawed logic that led to Suppan being kept on the opening day 25-man roster last season -- the better talent was able to be sent to the minor leagues, so it was. Nevermind that it hurt the team, this way we kept all the players! Oh yeah, except for Cruz. Whoops.
  19. TooLiveBrew
    Like Chris Dickerson!
  20. TooLiveBrew
    NOAA site has up to 6" snow/sleet accumulation projected for Appleton & Oshkosh. They have 7" projected for Wausau, but as all snow.
  21. TooLiveBrew
    I'd have to imagine that, if Chris wanted to move up the proverbial broadcasting chain, he'd pretty easily be able to find opportunities. He does great work for the T-Rats, & we're lucky to have him. What a great call!
  22. TooLiveBrew
    Winter Storm watches posted for the northern half of Wisconsin for Tuesday. Says there are places that could get 6-10 inches of snow. http://i.imgur.com/wZ4Kl.gif
  23. TooLiveBrew
    D'oh, think I posted in the wrong link report thread initially (sorry MH & Sessile) Rogers looked awful today. The 2-run double he gave up to David Lough was an absolute bleeder (very bad luck down the 3B line), but he had basically no command & was getting hit for singles, doubles, & even a triple.
  24. TooLiveBrew
    The only outfield defender I've seen in the past 2-3 years that looks to have worse instincts than Ryan is Mike Morse... that dude is terrible. ... Which is saying something, because Braun flat-out sucks on defense. No, he said something about how you can't question Ryan's effort. ... Which was kind of a lame thing to say since his judgment, & not his effort, was what was in question.
  25. TooLiveBrew
    It does matter when a left-handed pitcher is in late in the game, and you need a right-handed batter to hit in a key situation. Right now, that would be Erick Almonte, or later on possibly Carlos Gomez. Don't worry, Gomez won't be an option -- he'll be already in the starting lineup, batting second! Point being is that yea the 24th and 25th guys on the roster will generally have limited impact on team, but they can factor into a few games. This is very well-stated, danzig. The dismissal of very valid complaints about the roster and/or lineups as being of small importance ignores the fact that these very simple moves would improve the MLB squad immediately. Why worry about making those smaller moves? Because this team really doesn't have much margin for error. Hart's missing a month+, Greinke's missing a month+... you just can't say that these things won't matter only because the month missed is at the front end of the season. The Brewers are 2 games behind the Reds, which could very well wind up being the margin which wins the NL Central. I can see the dismissive counter-argument now -- 'Worrying about that kind of deficit is silly!' But it's not that any one of the small-ish concerns (Betancourt, Gomez, Kotsay/Almonte/Boggs, etc.) will singlehandedly derail the season, it's that making clearly less-than-optimal decisions isn't wise when your margin for error is so small.
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