jerichoholicninja

Watched all of this bottom of the 9th of the World Series and I'm already annoyed by Joe Buck. So he's a San Fran homer now? He actually makes Harold Reynolds tolerable.

So it's $1000 for 1 ticket to go to any game Brewer home game you want? They do realize this is the Milwaukee Brewers and not the New York Yankees, right? Are they going to announce how few of these they actually sell?

It's being addressed the same way first base has been "addressed". Get a bunch of fringe major leaguers and hope one of them lucks into something good. In essence, it's not being addressed.

Is Jiminez the leading candidate for player who will make the opening day roster and play way too much despite being horrible? He's probably too young for that, though.

Third death in fifteen years or so for the Cardinals. Boy do I hate them, but that's got to be tough for an organization to take.

Is 3D TV still a thing or has that fad passed?

St. Louis Cardinals Holding 7-Game Intrasquad World Series The Right Way

That would make sense for being this late in the game for managerial openings.

Is Austin Jackson a non-tender candidate for Seattle? He's going into his last year of arbitration and made $6MM last year. He's a career 101 OPS+, the definition of average and his defense looks a above average. Would Seattle give up one of their pitching prospects for Gomez?

Are the Twins the only team without a manager right now? That's probably Molitor's job so I don't see him going there.

The contract length for coaches are irrelevant, they are hired and fired on a whim. He probably liked Milwaukee because he knows the organization and they know him and he'll have a shot at managing after Ron is fired. He wouldn't have a chance in Detroit with Ausmus there.

So what exactly has been the Giants strategy? They've been to 3 of the last 5 World Series and I don't see a whole lot of well thought out plan with their roster building. They've developed a few great players in Posey, Sandoval, and Bumgarner and some good ones with Belt, Crawford, and maybe Panik. They spend money, but have blown a lot of it - $20MM for Cain, $17MM for Lincecum, $6+MM for Scutaro. They traded away prospects for Pence, Peavy, and Beltran. I would say a lot of their success has to do with playing in a very poor NL West where 3 of the 5 teams have been borderline irrelevant for the past few years but they've been winning in the playoffs. How are they doing it?

It hangs from the mirror. I'm not sure how that makes it easier to see.

So, no Gomez. How does that makes sense?

Heh. That was a fun read. I actually didn't realize Dunn had announced his retirement. It doesn't seem like all that long ago we were getting excited on this forum, thinking Melvin had traded for him. I'm not sure it's official. After he was traded he said he would retire, then I think he said he might retire.

Did Adam Dunn ruin Baseball? Interesting article on 3TO and it's impact on the game.

No. It hangs from the rearview mirror.

I'm working part-time at a college for a few weeks. On my fourth day there I find a piece of paper sticking under my windshield wiper. It's a warning notice from campus police because I "pulled through the parking spot." Does anyone know why they would forbid such a thing? It's a big, open air parking lot and the spaces all line up, they are not staggered. I can understand if it was small lot or a parking garage, but it's not. They have their parking rules on the back of the warning and pulling through was not mentioned. It looked like a good number of the cars around me had notices on them too (none of them pulled through), seems more like someone just felt like writing a lot of warnings.

These playoffs are such a prime example of what largely a crapshoot the playoffs of late have become, with no clear formula required. Had there a game where say any baseball fans before the playoffs could have won a prize by predicting what two teams would end up in the World Series, odds are high that the least likely pairing picked would have been KC and SF. Simply get in and you have a shot. Just look at KC. They were down 7-3 in the bottom of the 8th with Lester cruising. After giving up three runs, Oakland still lead 7-6 in the 9th. Then after the game being tied, Oakland was up a run in the 12th inning, only to still lose. If hypothetically that game could be replayed 10 more times from that exact point in the 8th inning, my money is on Oakland winning all 10 times. Yost maybe gets fired after KC fans rage over his decision in the 6th inning and instead he'll get an extension. San Fran wins multiple playoff games on weird stuff like errors, wild pitches/passed balls, and then seeing eye base hits vs the Cardinals. On the flip side, teams like LA and Detroit with multiple aces which supposedly are required to advance in the playoffs get bounced early. I'm very happy for KC fans to finally experience success after decades of mostly futility. As a long time Brewers fan who witnessed decades of losing, i can relate. That said, the playoffs for awhile now have shown you don't have to be a great team to make the World Series. Don't have to have aces in your rotation. You just need more breaks to go your way than against and get hot at that exact time for whatever reason, then your team could be playing in the World Series. This is so true. Making the playoffs takes a well-built team, health, and a few breaks here and there. Winning a World Series takes mostly good fortune.

Royals looking more like the Rockies.

Think this quote is absolutely spot on and is by far my biggest gripe with out how most fans and baseball people treat inexperience players: I say give them the room to grow instead of the constant benchings or getting sent back to AAA to dominate inferior competition. Every player is going to have a unique learning curve and not hitting or pitching well right away doesn't make a player any less "ready" than he was 3 weeks ago when everyone wanted him up to help. I think that is pretty much the only thing about Ned Yost the BF liked. Me too. I would rather Ned's approach than Ron's constant rotating fringe major league veterans over younger players. It also begs the question, would Ned have stuck with McGehee or Yuni in 2011 despite them being absolutely terrible?

Hypothetical... The Greinke trade does happen but their team's success is reversed. The Royals, surprisingly, make it to the ALCS and lose in 2011 and the Brewers don't make the playoffs. The Brewers do whatever the Royals do this year. Who wins then?

But if you ask the Brewers you are just getting the starter sent to the bench that may be tiring a bit versus bringing in a fresh reliever that is throwing 95. Only about a quarter blue font on that. This is a good point. I'm not sure how it relates to team-building but most bullpens have pitchers that are better than their non-Ace starters. Look at KC. Would you rather face any of their starters (except for maybe Shields) or Herrera, Davis, and Holland?

As soon as some owner decides to sell his team's broadcasts live online, everyone will do it. The Brewers would be a great team to do it too. With Milwaukee being tucked way away in the SE corner of the state, there are plenty of Brewer fans in the FSN-WI market that aren't going to drive 5 or 6 hours to see a game at Miller Park but would probably pay a subscription to stream every game. Then, this would be added revenue to their crap TV contract they have I think it would be a genius idea and would have only a hair more than zero effect on attendance.

Detroit is always going all in. Next year they don't have a CF and they will probably be looking for a SP after Scherzer leaves. Do the Tigers have anything worthwhile for a Gomez and Lohse/Garza/Gallardo package?