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  1. cnycerveceros
    I watched Strasburg make his AAA debut Friday night. It was very impressive: 6ip, 6k, 1h, 1bb, 0er, no fly balls and just 65 pitches. If he's even close to that effective if/when he's called up, then the attention will quickly move from Heyward to Strasburg. At the same time, Heyward definitely deserves the attention he's getting - his numbers jump off the page, and then you realize he's a rookie. Wow.
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    Ken's Krazies Macha's Mystery Men (riffiing of one above) Or, per Mark Grace last night, "Not the Houston Astros"
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    Win one more to split the road trip. I'd feel pretty good about that.
  4. cnycerveceros
    It is hard to watch DD pitch.
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    Raise your hand if you were also thinking this.
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    Things are gonna change. I can feel it.
  7. cnycerveceros
    I'm not sure if I'm depressed, or maybe disillusioned, or maybe just bored.
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    Earlier in this thread I said I wasn't (although previously in an IGT I said I was). Now I am again. 22 consecutive scoreless innings will do that to me. Right now they're 5 games under .500 and it's hard for me to see how they make that up. I know they can get it rolling, and probably will, but the longer it takes, the longer they'll have to roll to get to .500 and stay there until the end of the season.
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    That's an important point, and illustrates even more (for me) why the generic and caricatured Indians logo is on the wrong side of this debate. Not every Native American inspired logo and/or name is offensive, and we should be sensitive to the spirit of the choice. That said, sometimes you make a really poor attempt at honoring that spirit and to say 'well you just don't get it' isn't good enough. The Irish nickname is a really interesting question. It was founded by a French religious order, but it quickly attracted a lot of Irish Catholics. I've heard that early on ND football teams would be heckled as the Fighting Irish, but that the players/coaches (maybe Rockne?) sort of tried to turn it around and emphasize the tenacity aspect as something to be proud of. So, I think the issue here is maybe that there were actual Irish people involved in the choice to become the Fighting Irish. I don't know for sure, but I'd be really surprised if there were Native Americans directly involved in many of the decisions to name colleges/pro teams like the Fighting Sioux or the Redskins.
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    I don't think you have to be Native American to have an opinion, but I think it's fairly easy to understand the criticism, partially because it is such a silly logo. If I was a member of one of the many different tribes whose people were hunted and killed and whose way of life was destroyed, and then I had to turn around and see a lot of the ancestors of those people who destroyed my heritage wearing some generic, silly "Indian" on their shirts and hats to play/watch a game, I can see why I'd be upset. When you add to that the fact that somebody, probably not any Native Americans, has gotten rich from it, then I'd get that much more upset. In fact, I don't have to be Native American to see that it is an injustice and express that opinion. If it's PC to recognize that the destruction of several different peoples, the lazy appropriation of the generic 'Indian' label, and the ensuing profiteering with that name/image might be offensive to people who can legitimately say their ancestors were ethnically cleansed, then, sure, I'm PC. The thing is I live sort of close to Cleveland, I like the way that organization does (other) things, and I try to get to a game each summer. The AAA team here where I live is the Chiefs, and I go there very regularly. I just don't buy shirts/hats with the headdress. I don't hold it against people who do because I don't think that act is intentionally offensive to anyone. But to write it off as though it 'shouldn't be offensive' is too much.
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    Whose sensibility is it that should be privileged?
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    Demoralized? No. That distant feeling about the Brewers that I usually don't have until August? Yes. What I mean by that is that now I'll have every game on, but I won't be paying that much attention. I hate the feeling of investing the time and energy (no money because I live too far away) into a 3 hour game to watch them lose in the last 3 outs. It's something that happens, I know that, but it sure feels like it happens more to us than to other teams (teams I don't watch that closely and so don't know, and I'm sure I could look it up). This whole season so far reminds me of that game in Arizona a few years ago when they lost after entering the 9th up 5-0 and gave up 6. You just keep watching wishing you could make it stop. And yet, they're just a few games below .500 and the reasons they're losing are easy to identify. Just stay above the Astros!
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    Now for the always fun west coast swing.
  14. cnycerveceros
    I hate it when people boo the pitcher for checking the runner.
  15. cnycerveceros
    like I had to leave in the 6th. I come back to this. You never know what you're going to get! I get to listen to more baseball.
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    Glad he was playing today.
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    Early in the game Rock was talking about how they hadn't had a save chance in 9 games (for either side). Knowing how little fun the earlier save chances had been, I called it a night after the 8th thinking, "If they win I already saw the action, if they lose I'll read about it in the morning." It turns out that reading about it is only slightly less aggravating. I'd start worrying about Trevor now. It's not like these have all been bloops and errors behind him. They've pretty much been homeruns.
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    1- 5 against the Cubs so far, the Crew took one (and gave one away) in the first series.
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    Macha does a lot of things that annoy me too, and there is no reason to go into them. But, games like this happened under Yost too. It makes me wonder about the players when you see an entire series against a rival played like this. What sort of manager is it going to take to get them to play smart, and consistent.
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    They're gonna win today! Please!
  21. cnycerveceros
    I have it on in the other room, not watching, and I got fooled by the cheers that something good had happened for the Brewers when that last Cubs run scored. I'm just going to go to bed and hope I read about a come from behind win in the morning.
  22. cnycerveceros
    I'm with you 100%. The less exposure I get to Brewers-Cubs games, the more mentally healthy I feel. I live in the northeast, but at work I've got 2 Cubs fans who make sure to stop in and taunt me before and after these games. My brother lives in Chicago, so he's got it worse than me.
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    I actually have to pretty much ignore these games. Glad to get out of the first there.
  24. cnycerveceros
    Gonna win tonight!
  25. cnycerveceros
    Is there anything more enjoyable than spending Sunday afternoon watching a 10 run lead become a save situation? Let's get some insurance!
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