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That was such a balk, he totally stepped towards the plate not first, dirty lefty

I think from the video it is obvious he threw his helmet at the ground. If he wanted to throw his helmet at the umpire I think he has a good enough arm to hit him directly with it. Once it bounces on the ground no one knows where it is going. He was mad because the ump obviously called him out for "showing him up" on the previous horrible call and Lawrie knew it.

In 2011 we had the 2nd highest OPS from the 1B position, .960. Only Detroit as higher at a whopping 1.040. This year we are 13th (out of the 30 teams) down to a .753 1B OPS, but that can only go down the longer we do things like start Brooks Conrad over there. Brad Nelson made it to 0-21 before we let him go, Conrad is at 0-16 so far.

No you're not, you are calling it "hitters" which in my opinion implies something different from "batters", which is what bb-ref calls it.

Clearly, no one actually can see into the future. If you cant tell that all I am doing is predicting that he will never stop being a free swinger in the same way that you are predicting he will stop being one then I don't know what to say. His age doesnt really matter, what matters is his 1700+ PAs with a 5% walk rate. How many examples can you find of players like this who then upped their walk rate to 8-9% for the rest of their career? You think he has improved, I think he is just having a hot streak. He has improved slightly in his 2 weeks worth of PAs this season, swinging at 8% fewer pitches outside of the zone with an 8% higher overall contact rate. However, he also has seen about5% more fastballs this season and 6% fewer curveballs compared to his career average. His walk rate is very important, if he never takes his walks he will never get enough hittable pitches to keep up his current pace.

Ive heard the quote that ESPN is the E channel for men, which is exactly what it is. ESPN knows they have a monopoly on sports TV and all the sports fans that come with that. If you like sports enough that you would prefer to watch Sportcenter instead of the news then you are going to watch Sportscenter because there are no other options. ESPN has no reason to show programming that you will like because they already have you. So they don't, they show things that really are unrelated to sports but just make sure the stories are somehow related to some athlete. Their goal is to get the average "sports fan" to watch ESPN by making them think they are being cool and manly by watching sports related programming but actually giving them celebrity gossip and over sensationalized stories which keeps their attention. ESPN does care about the people on this forum because we are in the extremely small minority compared to the typical guy who "likes sports" They also have realized that the vast majority of "sports fans" don't really know anything about sports besides playing little league when they were kids. The problem is these people think they are hardcore sports fans who are obsessed with their favorite teams but in reality they are mostly bandwagon fans who don't know anything about sports besides all of the token cliches. Any opinion they have on anything about sports they are told from some ESPN anchor or sportswriter, they don't actually know enough about sports to make opinions on their own. Their model is to start with the Yankees-Red Sox game which was say 10-7, show the biggest star hit a HR and the final out in about 20 seconds, then go to some big name ex athlete "analyst" (who the average sports fan think is credible because he was a good player and they have heard of him) who will talk for 5 minutes about if the season is over for the team that lost and then say something juicy and over the top like some guy is playing poorly because he was out late the night before with his celebrity girlfriend. If instead they showed you how each run was scored and other important plays and then had some no-name, well spoken, very knowledgeable ex player discuss whether or not he would have called for a 2-1 slider or fastball in a key at bat with runners on in the 6th inning, the average "sports fan" would lose interest and not watch ESPN as often. The greatest show in the history of the network, Edge NFL Matchup, which featured relative no names Jaws (pre MNF) and Merril Hodge breaking down the Xs and Os of plays in the passing and running game, was aired at 2:30 in the morning because the average sports fan is totally bored by these things...even though they "love" sports. And as mentioned above none of this addressed their East Coast bias.

The thread title is very misleading. The list ranks the best non-pitchers or position players using everything, not just hitting. Baseball-reference just calls non-pitchers "batters" but the list is about all around value. Clemente is the best defensive RF of all-time and that helps him compared to Rickey who was just average in LF. An interesting note on this list is that Ryan Braun was around the 220 I think last season, but now he dropped all the way to around 400 due to people just discrediting his entire career because ESPN told them to.

No he hasn't, he has 1 walk in 54 PAs, he is the same player as ever who has had some hits fall early in the year. He was and is a free swinger who will never be above average with the bat. Saying, he does still have value

"Down goes Conrad" hopefully to the minors

As usual horrible fundamentals and no accountability at all 1) Lucroy needs to run him back to the base much more 2) You get the ball in your hand right away in a rundown After the game RRR will just say Ramirez did everything right but he just dropped it, tough luck.

They haven't gone oppo all year. This team misses Dale Sveum badly. For many different reasons. He did such a great job with Casey McGehee in that department last year

Hey Brewers: All you are going to see all day are low and away 85 mph pitches with no movement. Please go oppo

Maybe he needs to get rid of that mullet, I cant think of anything else at this point.

Just hung a garbage first pitch high curveball...well lets go right back to it for this next guy.

Suppan is practically pitching softball and we cant do anything with em

STOP RUNNING WHILE BUNTING...why do we even have coaches.

Maybin was kinda close to getting his head knocked off

Yo, remember this loser started over you in game 4 2008 because he was a 'veteran'

Lets go Ish, this should remind you of batting practice

Lucroy takes an 86 mph fastball with 0 movement right down Wisconsin avenue...what are you doing!?!?!

ARam with an infield fly on a BP fastball

Rickie was late on Suppans first 2 87 mph pitches, he needs to move down in the order now.

Season GB/FB LD% GB% FB% IFFB% HR/FB IFH% BUH% 2012 Brewers 0.96 9.8 % 44.3 % 45.9 % 25.0 % 10.7 % 3.7 % 0.0 % Total Career 1.26 17.0 % 46.2 % 36.7 % 14.0 % 14.0 % 10.7 % 22.2 % So this year he has cut his line drives in half in favor of infield flys. That is not bad luck, that is a slump. He is still walking and his OBP is actually above average in the NL so far in 1968 2012 (NLave=.314)

Braun set the Brewer franchise record for TB in a game with 15. The previous record was 14 by Richie Sexson on April 25, 2003 with 3 HRs and a 2B Molly had 13 with 3 HRs and a single on May 12, 1982 in a Brewer loss And Fernando Vina had 13 with 2 HRs, a triple and 2 singles on September 12, 1996

Player of the game Was that what I was saying? It was just an observation. I praised Braun plenty throughout this thread. You are interpreting tone over the internet. I was joking