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  1. Bring Back the Stein
    "Twilight of the Longball Gods" has some essays about some minor league figures that might be useful for your research in that area. Also, wasn't there an important meeting of the Western League, which became the American League, in Milwaukee? There's a historic marker about it downtown.
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    Terrible road trip, punctuated by two possibly three losses to the motherloving Nationals, but we're going to get fed the same applesauce by Melvin and Yost when they come back to town. All is well. Just need to execute. Need to get some good outings from the pitching. Need to be more patient at the plate. Blah-blah-blah. You folks see what PNC Park looked like? Get ready. That's Miller next year.
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    I just can't muster any hatred for the Pirates or Pittsburgh. As an organization, they had Clemente and Pops. As a city, it's pretty much Milwaukee with mountains. Good corned beef in the Jewish neighborhood, great stadium and the Warhol museum's really cool. As for historical enemies of the Milwaukee Braves or Milwaukee Brewers, the Yankees, Cubs and Cardinals are far more evil than the Pirates. However, I will cede the point that if a Pittsburgh sweep helps to continue the Yost junta, then certainly some evil points for Pittsburgh do obtain.
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    Some poor guy with his family died at Shea this year. I was at that game at Miller when the guy fell. Did he die? Think he did. Horrible.
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    (I have some stupid business meeting at 6 p.m., so a little rain delay wouldn't bother me....)
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    I saw that on badgerblogger.com. Whoops. Sorry.
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    Yes, I suppose I would be unhappy too, and prone to hypocritcal outbursts like everyone can say what they want, and yet it's irresponsible for people to say what they want.
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    People say it like it's a bad thing, but I say there's nothing wrong with Ned Yost as our scapegoat. Let's hope that Mr. Melvin is guided by Scripture: "But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness." In this case, Georgia.
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    Yost's failures don't merely date to this season, this rotation and this lineup. The idea that ownership would be acting hastily is erroneous, I think. There is a great body of work to attach to Ned, including a historic second-half collapse, last year's nosedive and a panoply of veteran players underperforming according to their historical numbers and prospects sliding into mediocrity. There are plenty of arguments made as to why the manager isn't as powerful an influence as knee-jerk fans like me think he is. Okay, I'll grant that. To me, that's the perfect rebuttal to the question, Why NOT fire Ned Yost? If the team is so endemically troubled, what are the great achievements that Yost brings to the table to justify keeping him? How could firing him hurt? If it's merely a cosmetic change, then you've thrown a segment of the fan base a bone. If it's a change that could bring results, then you've made an improvement. I don't think anyone, even the biggest Yost backers, think he's kept things from getting that much worse.
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    Well, I will say that I'm grooving on how everyone on this thread is punchy. Shows some fight for this team. As Al Swearengen might say, "Tell your god to ready for blood."
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    Unabashedly ridiculous. I won't address the ad hominem, but I will say that the very existence of this Web site is evidence enough that there is an appetite for alternative sources of information about the ball club. The reporter in question pulls his punches. Maybe he has to, since it's a small-market town or because it's just easier. And I'm sure he's a good guy, or someone you look up to, or someone who uses proper punctuation. The fact remains that what he knows about the organization is managed by the organization and he does not have a record of dogged pursuit of additional sources that would somewise illuminate the very real problems of the organization. Remember the "debate" over public financing over Miller Park (and how it was only outside news organizations that reported on the Selig plan to retire equity of the other owners, thus enriching himself at a time the payroll went into the gutter)? Or what about the Selig-Prieb front office and the free ride IT got? It suffices to say that while Doug Melvin has had some "unabashed" successes, his failures are a big part of the story of this team, and those aren't in the spotlight. To give a simple example, look at a beat writer like Paul Sullivan at the Chicago Tribune. His employer OWNS THE TEAM, and yet his writing reflects multiple-sourced skepticism of management decisions and on-the-field play. The reporter in question here? Like I said: His value is mostly stenographic.
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    While I completely agree with you, to play devil's advocate, you could look at the presidential election and ask why did CNN report Al Gore as the next president instead of waiting for more results? There is quite a bit of pressure now to be the first to report news. Also, perhaps Tom couldn't get a response from his source and felt he should go with it. Plus, he's posting this in a blog (a jsonline blog but a blog nonetheless), he didn't print it as a story in the Journal-Sentinel. Sort of less official. Actually, the news organizations declared Bush the winner first and Gore was stopped from conceding only at the last minute as it became clear that he had more votes. It's a pretty sensational rumor about a figure central to your beat from a far-flung source. Where are the standards?
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    "And really, do you think he cares about the pesky kids on the internet? Why would he?" Reporters, especially those who make tenured-type salaries, are pretty replaceable nowadays. I'll stand by what I say about him. He's been part of the atmosphere over the years in which mediocrity has been tolerated. But whatever. His value is as a stenographer, not as someone providing valuable analysis or criticism as you'll see with beat writers in other markets.
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    The simple explanation is that the reporter in question, always in the pocket of the team's management, is a little bewildered by this "Internet" thing and so has entered into its embrace rather reluctantly. That leads to ham-handed posts like the one in question, where his competing impulse to keep within kissing distance of management is met with the nattering of some pesky kids, as he sees them. (Also, an earlier post suggested Simmons as a drughead, whose "lost" look could be attributed as such. I think the drugs we were talking about from the 1980s clubhouse would have had quite the opposite effect.)
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    Seven games back in the division, five games back in the wild card, with no real prospect of major improvement in the performance of the starting pitching and major holes in the lineup. At what point does the season become unrecoverable? I'm going to watch til the bitter end, but, as in other threads, there is a reckoning upcoming, for the fate of the manager, when it must be decided at what point it becomes no longer worth buying and the only wise thing to do is plan for next year. So when is all lost?
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    "But it's not about trying hard. You have to expect to win." With the numbers to back that up. Good on him for manning up in the midst of the poop storm that is this season.
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    Billy Castro is never fired because...because he's the bullpen coach.
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    It's Billy Castro's time to shine.
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    Among the most depressing of many depressing parts of this series was listening to the Boston feed, in which the announcers spoke about the Brewers as they would special needs children, a patronizing tone almost bordering on tenderness, but never anything veering on the way you'd speak about worthy peers. And neither should they. The Brewers are worthy of the contempt. The franchise. The management. The personnel. It's an odd place to be, getting charity from the mouthpieces of a franchise that, other than the Chicago Cubs, had been synonymous with historical baseball futility.
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    Being within two runs of the Red Sox at the end of that game feels like a victory. Started the season thinking we could play in the big boy's sandbox. Not any more. Even though it's predictable, it's still depressing. The only good news at this hour is the statistical difficulty to sweep or be swept in a doubleheader, though I have every faith the Brewers can come through.
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    We're not going to win a bleeping game in Boston. To that end, I just bet a friend that if they win one of three I'll do a cartwheel, and YouTube it. I've never done a cartwheel in my life, though I don't think I'll have to learn now. (These losses do not aid in rational thought.)
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    Yost's argument is that the bullpen suffers when Gagne's not available. It also suffers when Gagne is available. As for that stunt last night, I'm not sure it's best practices to rely on the word of someone who's getting close to a mental-health assignment. Did Francona rely on Gagne's word when he struggled last year? (Though his options were admittedly better.)
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    This story shall the good man teach his son; And (Mother's Day 2008) shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that (endures a Rickie Weeks four-pitch strikeout) with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in (Cudahy) now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon (Mother's Day 2008).
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    Is there a developmental league in Eastern Europe or Latin America where there are no restrictions on new classes of human growth hormone? Can Gagne go to Albania and pitch on a ginned-up rehab assignment for a full undetectable HGH cycle and return in July?
  25. Bring Back the Stein
    Since we are all so grateful that he's so full of honesty and virtue, maybe we can further appeal to the better angels of his nature and have him give back his $10 million.
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