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  1. DuWayne Steurer
    Stupid that Lucroy is still hitting 8th. Just stupid.
  2. DuWayne Steurer
    I REALLY hope they don't blow this lead. As I said before, I don't think it's even close to happening, but this is not over. 7 1/2 games CAN be made up with 23 to go. And we're only 3 ahead of AZ. That still has a lot of meaning for playoff seeding.
  3. DuWayne Steurer
    And to add, it's not like these games are meaningless to the Brewers. We're only 3 games ahead of a red hot Arizona team, and that's the difference between staying home vs. Atlanta, and going to Philly.
  4. DuWayne Steurer
    It is not 'panic button' time yet, but anything other than a sweep in this series would have been acceptable. I know momentum is not measurable, but letting the Cardinals back into this race, even giving them a glimmer of hope, well it just sucks. Hopefully the Crew can go to Houston and take 2 of 3 and get back on track. I'd hate to be going into St. Louis with the Cards having a chance to getting within 3-4 games.
  5. DuWayne Steurer
    Predictable.
  6. DuWayne Steurer
    This inning's about to turn into a disaster
  7. DuWayne Steurer
    Even if their offense were a wash (which since Furcal joined the Cardinals, I'm sure it is), Furcal is a tatanic upgrade defensively over YuniB. It's all water under the bridge now though.
  8. DuWayne Steurer
    People need to stop saying that the Cardinals can't/won't catch us. Is it possible? Yes. Is it likely? No. Is it even remotely likely, or predictable? No But bigger leads have evaporated in less time. I'm not even saying that past collapses are predictive of what the Brewers will do this September, I'm just saying, it's not out of the realm of possibility just yet.
  9. DuWayne Steurer
    I think I saw this tv show before...........
  10. DuWayne Steurer
    You have to be kidding me....
  11. DuWayne Steurer
    Like the bruce says, this analogy doesn't work. When I was a foreman for a concrete company, I had a 6 man crew. Every job, I had the same 2 guys put the windows in. Theoretically, I should have been able to have any of my 6 guys do this, but I knew those 2 guys could be counted on to do it RIGHT. IF they didn't do it right, it was my butt, not theirs on the line. Why? Because I already know which of my guys can be trusted. If I choose to have someone else do it, when I full well know those 2 guys are the guys for the job, it's not their fault for not being able to do it right, it's my my fault for knowing ahead of time what the result would most likely be, and choosing to go that route anyways. RR can say all day "Yuni's a pro ball player, he should be able to bunt", that doesn't mean he will. Part of a job of a manager is knowing his players strengths and weaknesses, and blindly ignoring them, and saying "well, that guy OUGHT to be able to do that" is just bad managing, period.
  12. DuWayne Steurer
    General comments about his ineptitude are still allowed. Well thank goodness for THAT! I think the top would eventually blow off this place if we couldn't complain about Yuni's awfullness.
  13. DuWayne Steurer
    At this stage, Tejada is YuniB........without the power. I'd say there's a really good chance Tejada's done finding work in MLB.
  14. DuWayne Steurer
    Team seems to have tightened up a bit, maybe not. Wolf sure sucked tonight. Tomorrow's certainly not a 'must win' game, but I don't know that I'd like the big momentum boost the Cards would get from coming into Miller and getting a sweep. They still need something approaching a miracle, but it's not impossible.
  15. DuWayne Steurer
    It's interesting that AZ, in the middle of a playoff race, saw fit to take 23 year old Paul Goldschmidt and plug him right in the starting lineup just about a month ago. Amazingly, in 85 plate appearances, this young buck has swatted 5 homers and put up a nice .842 OPS while driving in 14 runs. I'm impressed that he hasn't absolutely wilted under the pressure of starting at age 23 for a team with playoff aspirations.
  16. DuWayne Steurer
    The thing is, I really don't think this just happens to us. I remember when Steve Woodard brilliantly went toe to toe with Roger Clemens in his debut, going 8, giving up 1 hit, 1 walk, and punching out 12 Blue Jays. Chris Saenz in 2004 came up and started agains the Cards, and went 6 ip, 2 hits, 3 walks, and 7 punch outs. I think what's really going on is it's a pitcher nobody in the lineup has seen, there's no advanced scouting, and probably little film. It's a guy coming into a situation where the opponent knows very little about him, and it's not all that uncommon where a guy goes through a league the first time around better than you might expect.
  17. DuWayne Steurer
    Again, it is the managers' job to know if someone is not suited for a specific task. It doesn't matter that Yuni should be able to bunt, he apparently is not suited for it. Roenicke put the team in a position to fail, by not putting the guy more suited for the task at the plate. Like someone else said, Shaq SHOULD be able to shoot free throws, but he can't, so you take him out late in games with small leads. And yes, Counsell could have failed as well, but the point of managing is to give your guys the best chance to success, and RR didn't do that.
  18. DuWayne Steurer
    Should and can are 2 different things. It's Yuni's job to know how to play baseball. It's the managers job to put his guys, and his team, in the best position to succeed, by knowing what their strengths and weaknesses are. You don't run a play asking a guy who shoots 8% from 3-ball land to take the game winning 3 point shot with 3 seconds to play 'because he should be able to'.
  19. DuWayne Steurer
    I don't think people are so much questioning the decision to bunt, they're questioning RR letting Yuni do it. He hasn't bunted all year, and CC was on the bench, is known to be a decent bunter, etc, etc, etc.
  20. DuWayne Steurer
    Ding ding ding! Pujols couldn't have been standing more than 30 feet from the plate, if not closer. The only way that bunt was successful was if it absolutely hugged the 3B line, and there's no reason to believe that YuniB has the bat control necessary to be that precise with his bunts. As you stated, there was one pitch that allowed everyone to see exactly how Pujols was playing, and it drastically reduced the chances of bunting there. At LEAST do the ol' butcher boy play there, if nothing else.
  21. DuWayne Steurer
    My understanding (and I could be wrong) is that on a bunt attempt, the hand is part of the bat. I know a lot of players aren't called upon to bunt very often, but it's still mind boggling how many of these guys don't know how to even hold the bat for a bunt attempt.
  22. DuWayne Steurer
    If Morgan is bunting without managerial approval, perhaps the manager should step in and say "let's not sac bunt in the 1st inning, that's not when we should be playing for one run".
  23. DuWayne Steurer
    I'd bet that's not even close to a truthful statement. Of all the sites I've trolled in the last dozen or so years, not many even come close to the in depth baseball talk and breakdowns that occur here. I'd bet there's no less than a good handful of guys from this very site that could be put in a Brewers uniform, sat in the dugout, and make better tactical decisions than RR on a nightly basis. It's actually amazing to me that a guy like RR could be involved in baseball for as long as he has, and still make these incredible blunders on a weekly, if not nightly basis. The problem is, that most baseball people feel that players simply can't play for/respect a guy who hasn't played baseball in the big leagues before. You don't see this in the NFL. Heck, the Packers head coach never played a down in the NFL, though he did play in college. And no, I'm not suggesting putting some 'nerd' in the dugout with a calculator and a laptop opened to Fangraphs, but the notion that a manager HAS to be a former player is a silly one at best.
  24. DuWayne Steurer
    Give a brilliant manager a terrible team..........fired in 3 years or less. Give a terrible manager a talented team, he's a manager of the year candidate. This is how sports works, unfortunately.
  25. DuWayne Steurer
    Nah. Betancourt is probably the most polarizing figure here since Keith Ginter. There's nobody else on the roster who could generate even 1/5th amount of discussion as YuniB right now.He's not polarizing at all. Everyone agrees he's terrible. It's just that there's a difference between wanting a guy benched and wishing an injury upon him.He's not polarizing? I would say that everyone does not agree he's terrible. There's probably half a dozen threads about the guy, and about 10% of all threads that have nothing to do with him end up being about him. And the reason is that most think he's terrible, and the rest think he's 'not as bad as everyone says'. We've spent the better part of a season arguing about just HOW bad he really is.
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