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Holy Prince!!!!

Thanks! I didn't know much about Stetter.

Can someone explain why Shouse, as a bullpen lefty, is pretty much a LOOGY, but Stetter is used multiple innings?

There was nothing more comical than being in Minute Maid when Lidge would come in and the announcer had this ridiculous voice to introduce Brad "Lights Out" Lidge.

If you're doing this for a journalism class and in hopes of having a career in the future, treat it more like you would an article you're writing to run in the paper. Don't just tell me the bullpen is doing bad, give me stats. When you get your info from somewhere else, link back to it, don't just tell us that you got it there. Remember that pictures help. A couple of rules of thumb are that people all have their own opinions and don't really care about yours. You have to give them a reason to come back and see what you're saying. Your thoughts may be very interesting, but you need to give insight. Right now you're posting things you'd see in a thread here. Short and to the point opinion isn't going to get you readers. Also, do your research. People are lazy. They don't want to have to go look for stats, they want someone to do that for them. Link. Link. Link. Don't be someone who only reposts other people's stuff or link dumps, but if you find something obscure or in a place that maybe lots of Brewers fans don't normally frequent, link to it. This goes to the laziness thing again. If I have 5 minutes in my day, make me want to come to your site to get the info I want: Links to the best info from the day. Insightful comments. Good analysis. Up-to-date info. Remember that other people ARE reading this. It reflects on you. It's the same as having clips in a folder. If you wouldn't submit it for publication, don't post it online. Blogs can make someone who wants to be a journalist lazy. Spell and grammar check. Don't throw out unsupported info. Cite your sources.

If you're doing this for a journalism class and in hopes of having a career in the future, treat it more like you would an article you're writing to run in the paper. Don't just tell me the bullpen is doing bad, give me stats. When you get your info from somewhere else, link back to it, don't just tell us that you got it there. Remember that pictures help. A couple of rules of thumb are that people all have their own opinions and don't really care about yours. You have to give them a reason to come back and see what you're saying. Your thoughts may be very interesting, but you need to give insight. Right now you're posting things you'd see in a thread here. Short and to the point opinion isn't going to get you readers. Also, do your research. People are lazy. They don't want to have to go look for stats, they want someone to do that for them. Link. Link. Link. Don't be someone who only reposts other people's stuff or link dumps, but if you find something obscure or in a place that maybe lots of Brewers fans don't normally frequent, link to it. This goes to the laziness thing again. If I have 5 minutes in my day, make me want to come to your site to get the info I want: Links to the best info from the day. Insightful comments. Good analysis. Up-to-date info. Remember that other people ARE reading this. It reflects on you. It's the same as having clips in a folder. If you wouldn't submit it for publication, don't post it online. Blogs can make someone who wants to be a journalist lazy. Spell and grammar check. Don't throw out unsupported info. Cite your sources.

I have a completely irrational desire for Gagne to succeed. I mean, as our closer, of course I want him to be good, but prior to him being on the team, I had no interest pro or con in Gagne, but for someone reason I just really am giving him a long leash and really want him to do well.

Considering how they've stuck by Turnbow, I can't imagine why they let McClung sit for 5 days when we're worried about fatigue with other guys. He went three scoreless his last outing and it was against this same offense. Strange.

Gagne. The Furry Canadian

I like the call to put up Soup and leave Hardy on the bench. It's looking like extra innings, we have few position players available and another pinch batting situation possible later in the game when bunting isn't practical. If we use Hardy and the order comes around again in extras, we'd be questioning why we didn't use a pitcher to bunt and leave Hardy to pinch later.

Shocker, Billy strikeouts swinging. The more things change...

The thing I think you have to give Gagne is that he doesn't freak when he gets into a jam. I have yet to see a reliever with the kind of composure he has. I think that's the most impressive thing about him. Imagine Turnbow at his peak in that position. The second he puts a guy on third, he's a wreck.

On the radio, Jim said they were killing us with paper cuts, which I thought was a great way to put it.

Yes. And we're going to go through the order.

Turnbow still throws hard. He still has a nasty slider. And he does have a history of some success. Wow, you are an optimist!

What reason do you have to still believe this? I'm trying to not be too incredulous, but I hope you have some stats or something to back up what I think most of us feel is a bit of crazy at this point.

Bill explained why we didn't walk Schumaker. We were hoping to avoid Pujols - who was in the whole.

Is it wrong that I'm a little upset that didn't go worse? I feel like this is going to be used to justify keeping him.

Turnbow with a K?!?!?!

The parcel of land that is called The North End (which is the area east of Lacke & Joys and west of Water St before if curves) is nothing but construction. It was a very large old warehouse which they tore down. I'm not sure if we're discussing the same area, because the area I'm picturing (and drive past 4 times a day) is full of construction workers are we speak. I guess for me the biggest point is parking. You lose all the parking revenue. You have to build more UGLY parking structures and you lose tailgating. I, too, would live in walking distance were the stadium built downtown, but I don't see that as a bonus to outweigh the other things. I'd much rather drive the 10 minutes to MP.

The entire North End is under construction.

I wonder where people think new bars and parking structures would be built downtown. There is not empty, available land and if they could find places willing to sell, it wouldn't be cheap. Do we really want a downtown filled with MORE parking structures? Between the lake, river and the already set-up neighborhoods, there is a finite area in which to expand. You would also be completely killing the tailgate culture that exists. In addition, think of the HUGE amounts of revenue the Brewers lose because people are paying the privately owned structures for parking instead of the Brewers. Think about weeknight games where the parking structures filled by the downtown work crowd don't empty until 5 or 6. My first instinct when I hear all these blanket thoughts about having the stadium downtown is to question where the poster lives - I'm not sure if that's presumptuous, but I feel like if someone were at all familiar with the Park East area or the area around the stadium (Bluemound, State, Miller Park Way, National) they wouldn't/couldn't question the choice.

Damn straight. This is the one thing that kept me from throwing something today!

Because we're carrying a 14 man pitching staff. Should Gagne have been able to handle it? Maybe. But not because he makes $10 million. To me, that's not relevant here. He's been prone to injury in the past - why even put him in here and take the chance? His velocity was down yesterday. I guess it's the idea that there are plenty of reasons not to put Gagne in there and it feels like Ned didn't concern himself with those. He gets set n these ruts - and it feels like instead of looking at the situation, as we've done, and seeing it's a bad choice, he had one thought "Gagne's our closer." And that's it. I also feel it's a larger issue (mentioned over in the Yost thread on Major Leagues) that we seem to give up on these third games of a series if we already won the first two. We leave them be gravy games and just take em' or leave em' and it's these kind of games that add up and will make a difference at the end of the season.

I just don't understand how Nedly can refuse to use Shouse because he's tired but has no clue that this logic applies to Gagne as well. It's contradictory and ridiculous.