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Everything posted by Bruce Ciskie

  1. Bruce Ciskie
    The Reds put TL Hopper in center field?
  2. Bruce Ciskie
    We could always bring in Gross or Gwynn to pinch hit. They don't seem to get a lot of PT. Oops.
  3. Bruce Ciskie
    I will say this. Counsell and Mench had the first two genuinely hard-hit baseballs I've seen for us tonight. Maybe that's a good sign, especially once Encarnacion forgot it was Fielder and not Weeks running.
  4. Bruce Ciskie
    Could we hit any more lazy fly balls? Ridiculous.
  5. Bruce Ciskie
    Suppan will end up being okay for us. Certainly not worth $10 million per. The problem is that he's not spotting his pitches well at all right now. And when a control pitcher has no control, well...
  6. Bruce Ciskie
    Where the hell would we put Conine? Is Phillips stupid enough to think we would give him playing time over Fielder? (Questions: Rhetorical)
  7. Bruce Ciskie
    Wow. ESPN is letting Steve Phillips work a game. I feel so bad for Dan Shulman, who is really, really good.
  8. Bruce Ciskie
    The longer Suppan pitches, the higher that number goes. Quite a long way from 0, I'd say.
  9. Bruce Ciskie
    July 26 - Brewers trade P Jeff Suppan and cash considerations to Devil Rays for player to be named later.
  10. Bruce Ciskie
    So the consensus is that Yost still doesn't know how to put a lineup together? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/happy.gif
  11. Bruce Ciskie
    Woogie-- I demand that you take that back. Cincy would have scored at least seven runs off me. He may look like it, but Jeff Suppan is no Doug Davis. Signed, Doug Davis
  12. Bruce Ciskie
    Does anyone else think we may have just bolstered the staff to make a run at Dunn? I mean, he would make the offense more dangerous. Windier, too, but more dangerous.
  13. Bruce Ciskie
    This baby had better be important.
  14. Bruce Ciskie
    Why say anything more than "We're getting him a day off after he caught 12 innings last night"? Why raise a red flag with everyone by saying he's hurt and has been for two weeks, if that's not really the issue? I don't doubt anything that you posted, by the way. I just don't understand the logic of lying and saying the guy's been hurt for two weeks. All it does is make me doubt Ned even more, because he let the guy catch 12 innings while injured. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/happy.gif
  15. Bruce Ciskie
    Yeah, but he's won a World Series. That automatically makes him a managerial genius of the highest order. Right? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif Please understand my skepticism towards your initial show of concern. You don't just get away with having "Chief Cynic" below your name on a message board. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/happy.gif
  16. Bruce Ciskie
    My wife works in health care, and I am a sports broadcaster who works mainly with college teams. Trust me. Nothing that the law does prevents a coach from discussing generalities. Even at the college level, coaches have to be allowed to say who is and who isn't playing. And when a reporter says "Is ___ injured?", they can answer at least in Yes/No terms. In some cases, they can go into specifics, but not all. At the pro level, there isn't much that can't be said, from what I have been made to understand. But even if you believe Ned can't talk about specifics related to Estrada's health (maybe Johnny doesn't want Ned to do that, which is his right), he can still speak generally about it.
  17. Bruce Ciskie
    I'm wavering between thinking this is sarcastic and thinking this is genuine. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Meh. I'm stressing over a stupid pennant race. I hate the Cubs. I work with two Cub fans, and a third party (non-baseball fan) has taken to wearing a Cub hat to work because I think he wants me to kill him. Otherwise, life is good. I'm going to get Guitar Hero Encore in about an hour, and that'll be fun. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Oh, and Mike DeJean had it coming. I'm sure of it. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif
  18. Bruce Ciskie
    For the most part, yes. But in many ways, he's just like every other coach in sports. He uses the media when he sees fit. He communicates with the fanbase when he sees fit. Announcing, for example, that you're benching Jenkins (last year) is nice. Fans do sometimes get to know that stuff. But why didn't he make an excuse for Jenkins' poor play by saying he was trying to play through a back injury? No law would prevent Yost from saying "Estrada is banged up, but he's going to try to play through it", or "Johnny needs to sit a few days with an injury". In some cases, they're not allowed to discuss specifics, depending on the wishes of the athlete. In general, though, I agree with you. All that this "revelation" does is make Ned look bad. Or Johnny. Depends on who you believe, I guess.
  19. Bruce Ciskie
    World Series titles Ozzie Guillen 1 Ned Yost 0 Division titles Ozzie Guillen 1 Ned Yost 0 Winning seasons as a manager Ozzie Guillen 3 Ned Yost 0 I knew someone would come after me on that angle, and I figured it might be you. Not really surprised that you would pull that kind of angle out of what I posted. Don't you find it really strange that Ned has no problem lambasting his pitchers in public, but he won't even issue a mild rebuke of one of his position players? I'm not asking him to bite the guy's head off, but instead of talking about the "good pitch" Weathers made, and later making excuses for Estrada by saying he is hurt, wouldn't it have been much less of an issue for Ned if he were just upfront at the start? I don't care if the guy's hurt or if he was dogging it. But I shouldn't have to read through a bunch of crap to figure it out. If he was hurt, why was he playing practically every day? If he was dogging it, then why did you see fit to say he was hurt? I don't see any of that as "unreasonable". It's too bad that no one in the press in Milwaukee is going to run far enough away from the company line and actually ask a tough question. They'd rather ask stupid questions about scoring too many runs out of home runs after a ten-run game where a bunch of runs were scored without the benefit of home runs. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/happy.gif
  20. Bruce Ciskie
    Either he lied to us (Estrada is healthy but just dogged it), which is the wrong way to handle this, or he was stupid to keep playing Estrada every day when he KNEW Estrada was banged up. Pick your poison. Frankly, I find it pretty difficult to stick up for him either way.
  21. Bruce Ciskie
    I guess I'll go back to something I mentioned in the Vent Thread. I have a huge problem with Ned covering up his anger when guys aren't hustling, but he has no issues whatsoever about walking to the mound and dressing down a pitcher in public when he can't find the strike zone. I guess I see some hypocrisy there. Certainly some inconsistency.
  22. Bruce Ciskie
    Hey, a win.
  23. Bruce Ciskie
    Okay, who's the idiot at FSN who keeps trying to kill me?
  24. Bruce Ciskie
    Hats off to Ned. (See, I give credit when it's due.)
  25. Bruce Ciskie
    Shouse can't start the 8th because Turnbow has to start the inning. Um... Yeah, this ain't on Yost. This is on the offense and the stupid bullpen.
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