dlk9s
-
Posts
10,654 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
1
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Blogs
Events
Milwaukee Brewers News, Rumors & Analysis
2026 Milwaukee Brewers Top Prospect Rankings
Milwaukee Brewers Videos
2022 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses
Milwaukee Brewers Trade & Free Agent Rumors
Milwaukee Brewers Fan Guides & Resources
2023 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses
2024 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses
The Milwaukee Brewers Players Project
2025 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses
2026 Milwaukee Brewers Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses
Store
Downloads
Gallery
Everything posted by dlk9s
-
He seems to really want to be a celebrity manager.
-
The #1 on that list is very clever.
-
Random MLB News And Discussion 2012
dlk9s replied to RightFieldCoder's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I would never have recognized that as a squirrel. It kind of looks like a turd. -
A solid percentage stayed until the end, probably helped by the fact that there was a fireworks show after the game. I really didn't want to go to Opening Night, but I'm leaving town in an hour or two and can't make either of the other two games. I was lucky, though, and somehow got tickets for below face value (not difficult normally, but for last night, that was an achievement). I will say that normally Atlanta fans aren't that bad. They are typically pretty tame and probably about average when it comes to baseball knowledge. I actually really enjoy going to "run of the mill" Braves games because it's a good game day experience. Getting to the stadium is easy from the northern suburbs where I live and parking is a breeze. The stadium is nice - enough frills to be catch your eye, but not so much of a circus that it takes away from baseball. Not many bad seats, either. My seats of choice tend to be front row upper deck behind home plate because I can usually get them for cheap and it's a good view. Great scoreboard, too, as long as the operator isn't failing all over the place like last night. Despite it being easy to get to the stadium, I didn't drive last night. Opening night combined with Friday rush hour made for horrible traffic and the lots filled up really fast. My brother and I went to a MARTA (subway system, though it's above ground) stop by his apartment, took it two stops to the state capitol and walked about a mile to Turner Field. Easy peasy. First Brewers game I've seen in person in two seasons. I went last year in Atlanta, but it was the rainout.
-
Random MLB News And Discussion 2012
dlk9s replied to RightFieldCoder's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I had a small, caught-early case of shingles once. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. I got the TLR eye-face version of shingles in November 2010. I felt so bad I just hoped to go into a coma until it was over. Day 1: Minor eye discomfort Day 2: Felt like my eye was being poked from behind with a ballpoint pen. Days 3-6: Perpetual throbbing headaches that would not go away with any medication and that kept me virtually sleepless the entire time. The worst subsided after a week, but I still had headaches for about 3 weeks or so. One of the weirdest parts was that my scalp was so sensitive to the touch that it hurt if so much as a feather touched my hair. Of course, there were the crazy sores and what-not on my face and my eye was almost swollen shut, but what could be seen on the surface didn't hurt. It was inside that was horrible. -
Thousands of Little League managers would be able to figure that stategy out. I like Roenicke, but stuff like that just perplexes me. My wife is not a sports genius, and even she was saying "why didn't they walk him?" I know I sure wouldn't want the bases loaded with K-Rod on the mound. I was happy taking a chance with Uggla, who is not known as the most disciplined of hitters and has the tendency to strikeout, especially since it was righty-on-righty. I thought RR did a good job last night. Yeah Loe against lefties, whatever. It's not like there were better options.
-
My brother and I discussed IBB or not while sitting in the upper deck last night and we leaned towards no IBB. Loading the bases with K-Rod on the mound just seemed like a bad idea. Plus, you had a righty at the plate who is prone to striking out. Overall, I thought RR did a fine job managing the game. Yeah, I would've liked Wolf to get the hook earlier, but he imploded so fast that it was tough to get someone ready quickly. The fans were horrible, by the way. I already talked about the booing in the Braun thread, so I won't rehash it. I don't know if Miller Park opening day is normally like this, but Casual Fan was out in force. My seats were just past the infield on the first base line, next to one of the concourse tunnels. A few thousand people had to have gone up and down and up and down and up and down throughout the night, all of course walking in our view. The same people often left their seats 4-5 times. Plus, it literally took 2-3 innings to get any food because of the lines. I tried, but when I saw the lines, I went right back to my seat (to Atlanta's credit, it's not normally that bad, but you'd think they would have taken steps to prevent this on opening day). Also, despite the announcement that it was a sellout, the stadium was about 80% full. The scoreboard operator also had a really, really bad day.
-
I think the Arizona fans are going to be the worst. They booed Fielder pretty lustily just for not picking Upton for the HR Derby. Now they have a target on the same team, a team which just happened to knock them out of the playoffs. Oh, and the positive test happened during the playoffs.
-
I was the first game of the Braves series and hoo boy did the crowd let him have it. Every time he was up to bat, fielded a ball, ran to second, anything. It was loud. There was even a chant of "Ster-oids" started. Someone also hung a huge banner from the Chophouse (the restaurant in right field where the big Budweiser sign is) that read, "Congrats, Ryan! 'Urine' MVP now!" And this was one of the least passionate, tamest fanbases in the game. It's going to get really bad elsewhere. I can't see how he can keep his mouth shut if he really has a story that could get him back in the good graces of the public. The abuse and general hate from fans is going to wear on him.
-
Deep Down, what are your thoughts about Gamel?
dlk9s replied to RobDeer 45's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I really wouldn't read anything into that. -
Zack Greinke close to hiring an agent.....
dlk9s replied to miggs721's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I opened this thread just to see if there would be a post like this. I wasn't disappointed. -
Schroeder said it looked like Gamel thought the ball was going to get through, so he was getting into cutoff position. Maybe I can't blame Gamel when, even in his short time in the bigs last year, he was used to seeing Yuni at SS.
-
He made a fantastic play and Gamel wasn't on first base. It was TOTALLY an E-3. My .gif above is what happened.
-
http://i.imgur.com/5Ea3R.gif
-
It was still an inside-out swing, but it was solid.
-
Bloop double, jamshot single, then I missed one of the next two, but one was a liner, Soriano three-quarters swing broken bat blooper on a pitch 3 inches outside, 18-hopper that beat the shift. Put it this way: Izturis hit his DP ball harder than at least three of those base hits.
-
I say let's just use up all our runbad today so when I go to the game in Atlanta tomorrow night, everything works out.
-
Just wondering if you watched the inning. Maybe 2 of the hits were good.
-
Combination of good hits and "lucky" ones. The double was a bloop, the single after that was a jam-job that the guy muscled into left-center. Pretty legit hits after that until Soriano's luckbox. And now a little dribbler gets through the shift. On top of all that, the Lucroy actually did a decent job of blocking a wild pitch, but the runner was really aggressive and made it to third. I don't think most runners would've chanced it. Lucroy made a nice throw to come an eyelash away from getting Soriano at 2nd, too.
-
Of course Soriano breaks his bat on an "excuse me" swing and drives in two.
-
No way he could have caught it. He misplayed it when it bounced, though, which probably turned a single into a double.
-
Yeah, I posted just in time.
-
Pitchers are dealing today. Brewers have had a bit of bad luck so far. Hart looked like he crushed one with 2 runners on in the 1st inning, but the wind just laughed. Izturis actually had a solid little grounder up the middle, but the double-play shift did exactly what it was supposed to do.
-
FIST PUMP
-
I'm wondering if he was getting Estrada warm in case the Cubs tied it. Then Estrada could go multiple innings if it went to extras. Just a guess.
