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That's a bold statement. Do you have anything to back it up or is it just your opinion? I'll stay with neither being much more or less productive. Roenicke's style has certainly hurt us at times but it has also won us some games that we would in all likelihood have lost with Macha at the helm. Read anything on small ball or bunting and it will tell you it needs to be very situational and should generally be a surprise. With our manager it is way overdone. He is trying way to hard to force the offense to score runs. That I can agree with. I'd still rather have Roenicke's style over Macha's, assuming that Roenicke will slack off some on the squeeze play. If I know when it's coming I have to assume that the other team also knows.

So, are you suggesting that Randy Johnson was on steroids? I'm suggesting that steroid use was as rampant with pitchers as it was with non pitchers. I'm not prepared to say that any particular individual was using unless I were to see strong evidence that he was.

That's a bold statement. Do you have anything to back it up or is it just your opinion? I'll stay with neither being much more or less productive. Roenicke's style has certainly hurt us at times but it has also won us some games that we would in all likelihood have lost with Macha at the helm.

I'll take Roenicke's style over Macha's style any day. In all reality, one is likely no more or less productive than the other, but Roenicke's is a whole lot more fun to watch.

No doubt. I wonder if the juice had a lesser, equal, or greater effect on pitching performance as it had on batting performance. Anybody ever seen anything on that or have any ideas? I guess I'd have to say lesser just because of the offensive explosion of the times.

I cannot believe that anyone on Earth has a problem with what the ump said to the kid. This is Major League Baseball, not Politically Correct Teeball. Creepin' Jeebus.

He was looking right at the ump when he launched it and it sure looks to me like it was meant to bounce at the ump.

If I wanted to watch something where officiating mistakes/problems made it more "entertaining," I'd watch professional wrestling. I just typed that very thing.

I am not sure that would be enough. Unfortunately my faith in DPR making good choices is gone, done, kaput. DPR? Still? What are you, 12?

I'm exactly the opposite. I'm ready for Melvin's tenure as GM to be over, he just isn't a long-term builder, he's a win-now/patcher. He's gotten decent to good results with that style, but he's left the Brewers in a really bad position in doing so. I would've rather had a new GM be the one to come in & clean up this mess; I just fear Melvin will continue to make bad long-term decisions. Are you forgetting that Melvin came in at the end of the '02 season, proceeded to clean up that mess he was given, and then build the team back up into a winner? Why can't he do that again if put in that position? I'm not sure it'll come to the point where a total rebuild is necessary, but he's shown he can build a winner. The win-now approach actually has a lot to do with Attanasio's influence. The guy loves winning. It's not all Melvin. I approve the win-now approach he's used the last few years. It got us the best season of my lifetime, and a deep playoff run. In the next few years I might think differently, but we'll just wait and see. There's talk that because Melvin was named President of Baseball Operations, that he'll be allowed to pick his successor. He would likely be GM until he decides to step down, and then pick his guy, and continue to stay in the front office. Attanasio really likes him, and trusts him to run things. Melvin didn't inherit a mess, though, and he certainly didn't clean up anything. Melvin inherited the best farm system in all of baseball. Dean Taylor inherited what was known as the worst farm system in MLB from Sal Bando and built it into the best farm system in 3 short years with the help of Jack Z. Then Taylor got hosed and Melvin was hired. Since then, Dean Taylor has been hired by KC who had the worst farm system in MLB at the time of Taylor's hire. In a very short time, Taylor has built the best farm in MLB in KC and the crew is back to having the worst. Melvin needs to go.

Last 2 lines of the article: "8*twelve is expected to open sometime in June on Bluemound Road where Charro used to be. Braun and Rodgers will be making scheduled and unscheduled appearances there." It might just as well have said "It's on planet Earth. Find it on your own. Or not."

Rookies. If you remember it, you ain't old. As for suits, I too always had good luck with Men's Wearhouse. Possibly the best customer service I ever received.

He was pretty awful at the beginning of last year as well. Not this bad, but still really bad.

That extra time could be easily made up by prohibiting batters from stepping out after every pitch and futzing with their batting gloves, helmets, protective gear, etc.

It is not lost on me that after this debacle we proceeded to beat Lincecum like a rented mule.

I'm with AZBrewCrew. To me it's way more about the man's overall character than $$$ value of the ball.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6e7awt1hn1qza49co1_500.png "Newman!" http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-CJ843_melvin_D_20080923131425.jpg "Suppan!"

I'll take the following, please. 1. Aoki RF 2. Weeks 2b 3. Braun LF 4. Ramirez 3b 5. Hart 1b 6. Lucroy C 7. Gomez/Morgan CF 8. Gonzalez SS 9. Pitcher

Charter now has 100mps Internet. It rocks. Empirically.

Based on what has happened since the Brewers released him, I'm still not fully convinced that he wasn't a Trojan Horse double agent unleashed on the Brewers organization by Tony LaRussa. Why is that in blue? I think you very well may be on to something.

Didn't he fight Godzilla?

Threw down a few. Good luck.

It annoys me that stat lines show OBP, SLG and OPS. Just give me OPP and SLG. I'm perfectly capable of simple addition.

Also done. Good luck.

You were warned.