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I agree, this is professional baseball, not little league, it's paid for entertainment. In the NFL, NBA, and NHL, players celebrate big plays. Yet for whatever reason, some want to gasp and act offended if a hitter enjoys watching a dramatic home run or if a pitcher gets all excited after a big strikeout, it's ridiculous. I actually enjoy seeing some players with flair in baseball. When say Manny hits his big homers, i liked the little posing and shrug he'd do, it cracked me up. I also have zero problem with the emotion that Zambrano shows on the mound after getting important strikeouts. If anyone doesn't like that the Brewers untuck their shirts after a win or if Braun poses a bit after a big home run, all i'd say is F them. There is no reason professional baseball needs to be devoid of personalities and fun just to abide by some silly socalled unwritten rules of behavior.

Frustrating game. Plenty of baserunners and hard hit balls, yet no runs to show for it while the Cubs have hit only one ball hard all game and have the lead.

In general i think baseball mangers get to much credit for team success and blame for team failure, but they can have some impact. It's early on, but Macha so far at least hasn't made any of the just completely head scratching moves where i sit there watching TV and thinking, what the hell is he doing which Ned was good for once in awhile.

I don't have any big issue with the current system. It's not like fans simply vote in Yankees/Red Sox players and/or only big name guys. They often vote for players having a good year even if say the guy plays in a small market. Last year in the NL Braun, Hanley Ramirez, and Matt Holliday were starters. Only Fukudome was a starter that didn't deserve it IMO. In the AL they voted in Josh Hamilton. It could be argued that Jeter shouldn't have been the starting SS, but it's not like that was a mockery for him to start. Overall, i think fans do a better job than many imply they don't. They amount of times a player is voted in as a starter that i think is ridiculous is fairly limited, to me at least. Fan voting in the NBA i think is much worse.

In general i agree with that, but i also do wonder if some players are just more able to handle the limited at bats and still be productive? My only problem with Nelson so far isn't the lack of actual hits given there can be luck in so few at bats, it's just that often he's had some very ugly at bats. Granted Duffy has also looked ugly, but he at least brings stellar defense, speed to pinch run, and the ability to leg out weakly hit balls into the equation. So even when Duffy isn't hitting well, there are other ways he can contribute, Nelson is utterly worthless unless he provides quality hitting off the bench. More so than being concerned about pinch hitting production, i'm more worried about what if one of our starting outfielders got hurt and had to miss a few weeks. Neither of Nelson or Duffy looks to be an appealing option, especially when lefties would be on the mound. My buddy brought up seeing if Jenkins would sign for the minimum. I'd guess that Nelson is a little better of a hitter, but Jenkins is a much better outfielder. Duffy i'd keep around regardless because he's a high quality defensive CF in case Cameron got hurt and had to miss a few weeks.

I bet the older crowd would say no and the younger crowd would say yes. (I say that as part of the older crowd too)I don't agree Over the years, here and there i'll read other NL teams forums and i've seen the DH subject talked about, i usually see more people being anti-DH and i highly doubt baseball forums are filled with mostly a bunch of stuffy old guys resistent to change.

I don't miss AL baseball one bit and i have no doubt that if a poll was taken among fans of NL teams about if they'd rather switch to a DH rule, the results would be heavily in favor of no.

College football IMO has a much better system. They have a man in the booth that is watching replays all game. So instead of all the wasted time in NFL where the official on the field goes over to a replay booth, in college football a guy was watching the replays as fans on TV were. A signal gets sent up to him and he sends his ruling down to the official on the field. The process is often quite quick, rarely does it take more than a minute, two at most. Plus, because the official on the field isn't making the call, a bunch of time isn't wasted by both coaches arguing with the on field ref because he's only relaying the final decision sent to him by the replay official in the booth.

Only on disputed home runs

Love those There is this small place called Vinchi's that's inside a bar and they make this incredible steak and cheese sandwich that's really just a big burger and it's truly amazingly good. It's is though for those watching their weight a pounds putting on killer given all the cheese/butter on it.

This is a bit off topic, but to often when i watch games the strike zone IMO is to small with some of these umpires, especially on pitches that they deem are to high. It drives me crazy when pitches go right down the middle across the belt of the batter and so many umps call it a ball.

I'm sure he isn't telling the pitchers to walk scrubs and opposing pitchers

We'll find out how much this matters or not as the year goes on, but Coffey has mentioned a few times that while with the Reds, they pushed him to be more of a fastball/slider pitcher and to not use his sinker as much as he wanted to do. Watching him pitch this year, it sure looks like he throws his sinker the majority of the time, while mixing in a few straight fastballs and sliders. His sinker does look impressive along with his command of it. Lots of them on the corners with a nice late downward slant on it. When he's throwing sinkers there, it's going to be hard for hitters to elevate and drive those sinkers. I don't have the worlds greatest memory, but i do seem to recall when we faced Coffey with the Reds, he threw a lot more fastballs and sliders and a lesser number of sinkers than he's throwing with us.

I liked it and look forward to another season

Walks can really kill you We are 2-5 instead of 4-3 largely because in one inning of back to back games our starting pitcher nibbled to much instead of making hitters put the ball in play and this lead to a couple of devastating big innings. Even worse was some of these walks were to hitters that aren't exactly major threats to destroy a pitch left over the plate. When over those two innings you give up 10 runs on only 4 hits, well, there isn't much else to blame the losses on IMO. Throw some damn strikes. As for the team overall, the hitters do look more patient and that's great. In the end though, the main concern with this team is the same as it was before the season started, is there enough pitching? I didn't think there was enough to win a playoff berth and so far it's hard to feel otherwise unless Parra and one of Bush/Looper has a better year than i'd expect over roughly 200 innings.

Man, what a frustrating start to the year 5-1 lead that vanishes after Yo gives up six runs with two outs and nobody on. Now we load the bases with nobody out and Hart/Braun/Prince up and score nothing. I know it's early in the year, but the way we are losing these games is more frustrating than the actual losing of the games.

That's what happens when a pitcher nibbles around the corners with guys like Taveras and Dickerson which eventually lead to walks and created that disaster. I'd lob the ball down the middle before taking any chance to walk slap hitters.

Is there a more used cliche than that in all of sports? It doesn't matter the sport, managers or coaches all feel the need to say this for some reason. As if athletes should and do often quit trying in games that aren't even completely out of any hope to possibly come back and win in. Hell, coaches/managers will always say this even after playoff or title games. Their team will get behind and then after either coming back to win or coming close, it's nearly inevitable it will be said by the coach/manager that they are so proud of how their players didn't quit. What possible reason would the players have for quitting in a playoff/title game that wasn't a total blowout? Yet, it's said nearly every time.

Suppan has been brutal, but this ump has a wallet sized strike zone. That 3-2 pitch was a strike.

I agree, one gapper and this game is over Man it's painful watching him pitch

Can someone explain the huge fascination so many have with bobbleheads? I've got a few over the years while attending Brewers games and thought they were kinda cool looking, but nothing special and always gave them away when i'd spot a kid who happened to not have one.

I do think he chose the Yankees for both the extra money and the fact that his odds of being in the playoffs more over the next 7-8 years were higher in NY than Baltimore. Even if the money was equal, i think most players would choose to sign with NY over Baltimore given the track records of both franchises when it comes to winning and that's very understandable to me. That said, i still don't understand why some athletes who get huge long term contract offers from two teams, choose to take the biggest offer even if they'd prefer to play for the other team. I don't care what anyone says about you aren't in the athletes position to take this stance, i do know without a doubt that if say i was a free agent player and the Brewers offered me a 5yr/80 million dollar contract while the White Sox and Red Sox both offered me 90 to 100 million, i'd take the Brewers offer so long as i felt they'd be competitive and i still wanted to remain living here in Wisconsin. Unless i was a complete moron with my money, between what't i'd have made prior to that 80 million along with the 80 million, i'd have a life of current/future luxury and so would family members of my choosing. So i just question why some big time athletes put dollar amount as ther number one prioriy when they'll be silly rich either way. If i had multiple huge long term contract offers that would dictate where i and my family would be living, along with dictating which team a bulk of my career would be spent playing for, money would be third on my list assuming all the offers would make me silly rich to varying degrees. For the lesser athletes, i understand why those guys chase nearly every last dollar because they aren't choosing between contract offers that would leave generations of family rich if the athlete chose for it.

I don't boo any players, but the only issue i ever have with booing is when fans boo players on their own team even if the guy is giving his all, he's just struggling. If though fans want to boo certain players on opposing teams for whatever the reason, i have no issues with that at all. That's always been a part of sports where fans find reasons to really not like certain players on other teams and they let those players know it.

Riske is yet another example of the risk in signing non-special relief pitchers to multi-year contracts

You actually think if the Bucks landed Griffin that he wouldn't get much playing time? If we were lucky enough to get Griffin, he'd get 30mpg or maybe even more.