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Even the Astros announcers laughed at strike 3 to Braun. Not even close.

At least we're not the Mets.

I've been watching him all summer in Syracuse. Trust me, he has not improved. In fact, last game I saw him play he struck out on a pitch over his shoulders and I fondly recalled Sheets doing to that him over and over as a Cub.

I have to agree with Kurkjian here. The Brewers were in no position to be dealing this season and one of the ways you get rich like Mark A. is knowing when to hold 'em. (Not quite folded yet, I'm hopefull!). On Kurkjian - he's one of the few bright spots at ESPN. If you get a chance, read his recent book, _Is This a Great Game or What?_

Amen! Boo!

I've got some dry wall to take down soon, that's not a bad idea! I'm done. I didn't figure I'd be going to bed with the Crew behind, but I guess that's why they play the whole 9 innings.

It really bothers me how Anderson reminds you that it's going bad over and over and over. We know they were up 7-1! I don't need to be reminded 6 times.

This is painful.

This team is hard to believe. Or this is really easy to believe given what we've seen before. I can't decide. It's frustrating!

Come on. Seriously?

I'm starting to wonder why I invest any energy into this team at all.

Yes! 1st career, right?

The game's on MLB Network, in case anybody is wondering. Edit: Not only on MLB Network, but it is, and it's in HD.

This assume SportsCenter will show Brewer highlights.

Yep, it's Robideaux

there's a break.

All things considered, pretty good outcome.

Wow, quiet IGT.

Patrick425, I also grew watching those guys too and I basically agree with you that there is more 'bulletin board' material these days, but I don't think it's because this generation of players is dramatically different than past generations. The whole game of baseball has gone through a lot of changes, usually cyclical. I live close to the Hall of Fame and I go a lot, and I always read those guy's (Yount etc.) plaques and recall 'a different time.' Still, I think that "the 80s" (which started in the 70s and stretches into the 90s) get idealized by baseball fans, and in a lot of ways guys like Yount, Brett, and Gwynn are an oddity in baseball's history. In the late 19th and early 20th century players would switch teams for the biggest pay day all the time, and baseball was quite explicitly business and entertainment. Players like Ty Cobb were notoriously nasty, he'd definitely have said something like what Braun said. Through the 50s and 60s everybody knew that off the field the players were often drunk womanizers, and that on the field a wrong look would get you beaned. I think part of it is that today there is more media, and the media are more willing to show us the 'dark side' because they've got so much time to fill. But, the days of Yount, Gwynn, and Brett were also the days of Nolan Ryan who'd throw a 100mph fastball at you for hitting a homerun, and of course Pete Rose would run over the catcher in an All-Star game. And, still nothing really approaches the actual events and mythologizing of Babe Ruth's 'called shot' (mythologizing Ruth himself propelled in cocky interviews with the media). I think people basically agree that one thing that was happening when Ruth pointed his bat was that the Cubs dugout was giving him a lot grief while he was in the batter's box, and he was giving it right back. That wouldn't (couldn't) happen today because of how much more control umpires have (which advertisers and tv programmers demand). Today, if somebody like Braun glances at the opposing dugout after hitting a homerun everybody goes nuts.

Is booing when the pitcher checks the runner on first new, I don't remember noticing this until the last couple of seasons, and I don't like it.

Do the Pirates have a new manager this year?

I think in this case rluz, people were just having a little fun.

Jorge WHO-lio?

There's no way that was retaliation. Bush has been somewhat wild all night. Just a bunch of bad pitches. If it was retaliation, I trust Bush could have actually hit them.

ouch.