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Cant be any worse than the Madison Police Department which only solves half of its 1 murders per year.

will always remember watching him pitch the only brewer playoff win of my lifetime

Braun and Fielder time after time fail in the clutch

If Braun GIDPs here Im giving up on the season

thanks, gameday error

Just walked the pitcher on a fastball in the dirt, patient Rickie.

All I can think is grounder to Prince, tosses to Gallardo covering for the out, then Gallardo tosses it to Prince like there is no one on base to throw it around, Prince sees Kemp trying to score and throws him out at the plate? Or Gallardo gets the out at 1 then drops the ball that Prince picks up?

3-1-3-2 double play?? Why did Prince get the ball the second time?

Corey Hart August: 76 PA .282/.316/.423 1 HR 4 BB 25 K

How did Cain's bunt attempt look?

I have so many stories from hanging around outside of County Stadium with my brother before games trying to get autogrpahs. It was usually just me and one of my friends, both around 12, my little brother and about 5-6 adults trying to get autogrpahs. I lived close enough to walk to County so we would hang around from 3-4 hours before the game until BP started almost every day in the summer. The brewers parked in their parking lot near RF and the other teams players were dropped by cabs near home plate. A few of many Brewer highlights: Whenever a brewer would park we would go near their lot for autographs but always kept an eye on the cab area because we could get a brewer autograph anytime but we only had one shot with the other team, so whenever a cab came we would leave the Brewer area and go over there. Jeff Cirillo realized this and I guess it bothered him so sometimes when he was coming over to sign he would yell something like "look, theres a cab" (which was a lie) and then he wouldnt sign for anyone who ran. Bud Selig once came and I talked to him about interleague play and how it would work for possibly 10 minutes even though I was only a kid and we actually had a real discussion, I thought that was pretty cool. Pretty much all the Brewers would sign anything we wanted and no one really stuck out as a real jerk. Some other random players: Gary Sheffield was also very nice and signed everything anyone wanted, when he was done he even asked everyone if they had anything else they wanted signed, which was pretty rare. Maybe he felt guilty about what he did to leave Milwaukee? Tony Gwynn was really nice, he got out of his cab and everyone went by him and he said "so do you guys want my autograph," and then laughed and signed everything. Brett Mayne was signing and he asked me to hold his coffee cup, then since I didnt have anything for him to sign I had him sign the cup which I still have. Jason Kendall, who at the time was considered a good player, got out of his cab and starting running past everyone towards the door, then he stopped and said just kidding and signed everything. Rickey Henderson once got out of his cab, wearing a total pimp suit including a hat with a feather in it, and just said sorry kids Rickey dont sign. A few other stars that were really nice and just signed everything for everyone were Randy Johnson, Frank Thomas, Mark McGwire and Chipper Jones. A few guys who were total jerks and just walked past 3 kids and refused to take 1 minute to sign an autograph (among many) were Will Clark, JT Snow, Kerry Wood, and the king of them all Barry Bonds.

Yeah, well, Macha played Edmonds in CF and Gomez in RF when there was no doubt in anyone's mind who the better CF was.That was Gomez first start in RF all season, previous to this game he played 2 innings in RF all season.

Does this mean we could just give him to the ChiSox and they have to assume his contract and buyout? Why would we not do that, wouldnt that save us like $3 Mil. Does a no-trade clause allow you to block waiver pickups, because we dont have to trade him we could just give him up?

Wow, interesting that Gomez gets bumped to RF when he must be better in CF than just about anyone else on the planet. Glad to see Cain has "established" himself as the CF starter.

So did all of the other players but they posted a league average OPS 80% higher.

Maxvill was still almost 3 times (57 OPS+) the hitter that Bergen was (21 OPS+)

Ron Wirght played in only 1 game in his entire career and as DH he struck out, grounded into a double play, and hit into a 1-6-2-5-1-4 triple play. Thats it, that was his entire career.

You only get a "chance" if you record a putout, assist or error. So, for example, everyball hit to Braun that he doesnt touch doesnt count as a chance if he runs the wrong direction and the ball falls. This makes sense because the LF is usually the worst fielder OFer so they would get the least chances but I would still assume more ball are hit to LF than RF.

Well he had La Russa as drunk driving mentor so this type of performance is expected

Except that the majority of those balls could be handled by a good high school 1Ber. Not true of any other position.

I just discovered that the Brewer left fieder for the Nieves no-hitter was Jim Paciorek, brother of John Paciorek. John, 15 years older, posted the most perfect MLB career of all-time going 3-3 with 2 walks, 3 RBI and 4 runs scored in his only career game.

If we go 8-1 on the upcoming 9 game homestand we will be at .500............very unlikely but something to cheer for.

C: Carter, Fisk 1B: Murray, Hernandez 2B: Sandberg, Whitaker 3B: Schmidt, Brett, Boggs SS: Yount, Trammell LF: Henderson, Raines, Rice CF: Murphy, Lynn, Dawson RF: Winfield, Jackson, DwEvans, Parker Top HRs during this time: 493 Schmidt 381 Rice 365 Kingman 354 Murphy 353 Murray 345 Jackson 345 DwEvans Top hits during this time: 2516 Yount 2434 Rice 2394 Brett 2314 Parker 2250 Winfield Top OPS+ (min 5000 PA) 150 Schmidt 150 Boggs 145 Brett 139 Jack Clark 138 Murray 136 Winfield 135 Ken Singleton 135 Carew 134 Henderson

It did not happen because they were copying Ruth, it was because the live ball era started. The main change was that they started replacing the ball as soon as it was altered in any way, previous they would use less than 5 balls per game. This happened because of the only death during a game when Indians SS Ray Chapman was hit in the head by a pitch from Carl Mays and spectators claimed he did not even try to get out of the way because he could not see the ball because it was twilight and the ball was grey. They also outlayed the spitball then players started hitting dingers.

I was in Pittsbugh for Sabathia's no-hitter which was incorrectly scored as a 1-hitter.