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  1. Electric Elf
    Not only did they sign him, he pitched on Tuesday night. it was the 9th inning, the Braves were up on the Dodgers 9-1, nothing could go wrong, right? It did. He gave up two runs, only managed to get one out, and the lead was emperiled. He gave up 2 hits and 2 walks. Mike Gonzalez luckily contained the damage.
  2. Electric Elf
    I want to believe but I don't think that I can. Last year was just too much. I followed the team from 1988 to 1994 and only got back into baseball last year when I realized that I missed it so much. Back then, I didn't expect much out of the Brewers. 1992 was bad enough, but 2007 was just as horrible and potentially worse. I keep thinking that once again everything will be blown in the last week of the season. I miss Derrick Turnbow so much, and I didn't even get to see the good version. I want to believe that he'll put it together by September...but rationally I know that he won't. I want to believe that Seth McClung is a genuine #3 starter and that he doesn't have a "dead arm" but in every start this month where I see him unravel like fuzzy yarn, it's becoming harder and harder to do that. And, yeah, Uecker's losing it. Powell is so sarcastic that I can't believe that nobody else has made a big deal out of it. Even so, I kind of enjoy that.
  3. Electric Elf
    The Wild have had a competitive team for the past two years, which is a great record for any expansion team. I find that the Xcel Energy Center is easy to get to and it's in a great part of St. Paul where parking is easy to find and there's enough to do before and after the game. Target Center's area is at least comparable with activities but Minneapolis is a maze of one-way streets and the Wolves...well, they're awful. The Metrodome--enough said, except I find it hilarious that the area near it has finally been revitalized, largely due to the Guthrie Theater moving to the riverfront following other arts-related development, and now the Twins are moving.
  4. Electric Elf
    Gates open 2 hours early on weekends.
  5. Electric Elf
    Great, yet another recap where Baker gets all the attention even though McClung got the win. And this time it's in impenetrable prose! (Weintraub is trying waaaay too hard to be funny at the same time he's trying to pastiche 19th century sportswriting, and he's failing at both.)
  6. Electric Elf
    This is where I have an issue with the other side of the "Topic of Ned." Why is it so difficult to put him in that sentence as well as the others mentioned? Obviously he has helped with McClung's development to this point. Because I posted at 2 AM and I was mainly thinking about people who directly talk to him about pitching? I'm sorry about that. I really do have to give Yost credit for putting him in the rotation and not undermining his ability in the press. Lou Pinella did that all the time with McClung in Tampa Bay and I'm not surprised why McClung keeps saying that he hated it there. One of the things about Yost I like is that he doesn't insult his own players in the press.
  7. Electric Elf
    I'd like to see McClung get 102 wins with the Brewers, but to do that requires that "run support" thing where he isn't the only one getting on base while he's pitching. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif Getting back to the original topic--Melvin identified this guy as having some potential. It's Castro, Maddux and Kendall who are poking him towards achieving it. I was poking through online newspaper archives last night looking up McClung-related items from 1999 to 2003, and it doesn't appear that he'd had any sort of significant coaching since high school. Tampa Bay wanted him to throw as hard as possible, and by gosh that's what they got.
  8. Electric Elf
    Don't most of the Twins fans' signs exist to get Bert to "circle them"? Not to necessarily defend the annoying people near you, Invader, but their TV crew encourages that bit of signage culture. Just looking around last night, I saw what seemed like an unusual number of signs, and figured they were would-be "circleds." "Circle Me Bert" signs are definitely part of the Twins fan culture. Signs are indeed held up every half inning. (Nobody knows if Bert has circled them unless someone watching at home gives them a call, of course.) The Twins aren't the only team with that encouraged by the broadcasters. Jerry Remy of the Red Sox TV crew doesn't circle signs but he'll certainly talk about signs mentioning him during the broadcast. I admit to seeing equal numbers of "Hey Jerry" signs at the Dome last month as "Circle Me Bert" and thankfully I wasn't behind any of them.
  9. Electric Elf
    I'll be there on Saturday and Sunday, stuck in the lower deck left field foul territory. Sightlines there are horrible. The Brewers will probably win on that Friday. I'll be watching at home. (McClung should be pitching. I want to see him pitch. I can't get the day off.)
  10. Electric Elf
    You have it in three sentences. The "natural rivals" thing with Twins-Brewers is probably more to benefit the Twins' attendance. I remember their series against each other during the 1980s and early 1990s and it looked like half the attendance was Brewers fans. Based on anecdotal evidence from attending the interleague games at Minnesota last year, it hasn't changed much. (Are the Twins drawing any sorts of home-fanbase attendance? I was at all four games of the Red Sox @ Twins and if it wasn't for Sox fans, there wouldn't have been any attendance at all. And if a team can't draw more than 30,000 for a game against the defending world champions, what do they draw against teams like the Royals? --well, nothing; I've been to a few of those games, too.)
  11. Electric Elf
    I've just noticed it with the outfielders. It seems less "faddish" and yet another form of baseball superstition. The whole "do it twice and it's a tradition" thing. Ballplayers do all sorts of silly-looking things because they think it's lucky.
  12. Electric Elf
    Intentional walks NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Come on, it's not that McClung doesn't know how to walk people on his own. If Ned had let him work it out, we would have still lost, but 2-1 or even 4-1 (Tavarez, rrrr, nice to see that he sucks here too) is a heck of a lot more tolerable of a loss than 8-1. Bats, plz to be waking up now.
  13. Electric Elf
    Considering when the Brewers broke camp, McClung was the only pitcher with a defined role (long reliever) and he's already been moved twice to middle relief and then to starter...I don't think anyone has ever had a clue what to do with the guy, and that includes his time with the Rays. "All right, he sucks as a starter and he walks everyone in sight...let's make him the closer!" I'm seriously thinking that his constant shifting of roles isn't the sort of thing that would make him a better pitcher, only a horrifically unsure one. Whenever I see him pitch, he either starts off nervous or quickly ends up there no matter how well he's pitching.
  14. Electric Elf
    Not really a big fan of it, except for the chance to get to see the Brewers play in person once a year in Minnesota. I think using the rules of the away team's league would be interesting because it would give people a chance to see what the other league's style of ball looks like. (Also, I'm seeing Arizona play here and I'll be deprived of getting to see Micah Owings hit--unless they DH him, XD)
  15. Electric Elf
    This is a disappointment. I was at the Red Sox-Twins game on Monday night and Buchholz was absolutely horrible. If there's anyone the Brewers could score runs off of it's him and Jon Lester, and they're missing both of them. (Wakefield is inconsistent. Hopefully Bad Wake will be pitching on Saturday.)
  16. Electric Elf
    It wouldn't surprise me if the Brewers did pick up a rental, but it won't be a #1 starter--it's just going to be an expensive pitcher coasting on reputation or an old guy about ready to retire. I'm also assuming that the NL Central, even the awful bits, will be off-limits. There's no way in heck that anyone like Lincecum, Cain, Fernandez, etc. would be available--they're all cheap. Teams like to keep cheap. Gil Meche has a no-trade clause. He may be willing to waive it to go to a contender, but who knows? Same for Mike Mussina, who isn't the pitcher he used to be but could still be interesting. No way in heck Tom Glavine would leave Atlanta. The Dodgers do have Lowe and Penny. Lowe doesn't have any trade protection. The Rockies are really desperate for pitching. They may get desperate enough to trade for multiple scrub pitchers in exchange for one good one. Aaron Cook or Jeff Francis may be available if that's the case. (It's also really really unlikely.) Everyone thinks Greg Maddux will be moving somewhere. (But would he take pitching advice from Mike?) Kevin Millwood, if he ever gets off the DL. May not work as well without Gerald Laird, however. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif And in the ultimate salary dump, there's always Barry Zito.
  17. Electric Elf
    Last year, Prince DHed 4 times, Gross 3, and Estrada 2. I'd assume Dillon would start at 1st and Prince would DH for some of the games. Kapler may DH and not sub for anyone, or Counsell will get one of his 2 starts a week in while Hall, Weeks or Hardy DH.
  18. Electric Elf
    I'm going Saturday and Sunday too, sitting in Lower Reserved on the 3rd base side. 1st base was already sold out--in January. The Dome sucks, literally, that's what the warning about the doors is for; the pressure involved in keeping the roof up will suck you straight out of the doors when you leave. When I was a kid, my ears would pop every time. Home Run Porch section is fine. The sightlines are fairly good there. It's not general admission and it's always packed for Brewers games so I don't think you'll be able to walk around and get better seats in the same section (unlike the Twins-Royals games I always end up seeing.) (I haven't made it to Miller Park yet, but I do remember thinking that County was an improvement on the Dome 20 years ago.)
  19. Electric Elf
    McClung was used because at that point there was no way of knowing if he'd pitch one inning...or five. Such is the nature of extra-inning games, and that was exactly the sort of spot in which one would use a long reliever. (The Dodgers got some very good work and a good at-bat out of Chan Ho Park last night in exactly that role.) However, I do believe the team either needs to get Sheets on the DL or get him pitching.
  20. Electric Elf
    Is Counsell making the attempt too or did he just forget to shave the other day?
  21. Electric Elf
    I'm surprised that he didn't bring Peter Moylan in for the fourth game in a row and then substitute him at first. (I'm also surprised that Moylan is not their emergency first baseman, considering all the wackiness that appears to be going on in Atlanta this season.)
  22. Electric Elf
    That is just the coolest thing ever. I also see that he's optimistically put a Brewers runner on second. And that they're probably playing an NL Central team, what with the red uniforms.
  23. Electric Elf
    I think it's just an Easter lull. McClung was FTW today apparently...but 2 walks? And what's with Counsell and the three errors? Apparently the guy who said he appears to be into his offensive improvement at all costs was right on.
  24. Electric Elf
    The flu is really bad this year, isn't it? I hope everything's OK with JJ. I wish people wouldn't overreact to Counsell being in the starting lineup covering people with the flu--it's not even the DL. Heck, the Red Sox went and won a World Series last year with Julio Lugo at SS, and I really don't see much functional difference between Lugo and Counsell. (And at least the Brewers aren't paying Counsell $8 million a year.)
  25. Electric Elf
    I spoke too soon about McClung. Anyone watching the game who can tell me for sure that it appears he left his control in his other pants tonight?
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