jerichoholicninja

There's your problem. Didn't he do the world a favor and retire last year?

According to his BRef page he didn't.

He's been fantastic this year but he's also been pretty putrid during his years in Milwaukee. I think others, like myself, are just waiting for/expecting the Krod who can't find the strikezone to come back and implode the season.

For as much bad luck as the Brewers had last year, they are having that much good luck this year. Injuries have been pretty minimal and outside of 1B and Segura the lineup has been hitting pretty consistently well. The bullpen has been fantastic and the rotation has been solid. The only things I think we can really give Doug credit for this year is giving Scooter a chance and not selling the farm for a replacement level first basemen.

If you read Bill Veeck's autobiography you'll see that the Cardinals franchise and fans have been a bunch of pricks for decades.

Years ago I would have guess it was mind games and the Cardinals didn't actually take their own schtick seriously. Since it has continued after LaRussa left and after their displeasure with the Dodgers last year, I think they are 100% serious. I don't know why though.

Absolutely. If Lucroy hits into a double play, the DBacks "win" the situation and the Brewers come off looking like crybabies.

Lucroy could have just as easily grounded into a double play to end the inning and the D-Backs win the game. Ya, it was great that it happened but most of the time it won't. I doubt the Brewers would have handled it with as much "class" as they did had Lucroy not won the game on the next pitch. If AZ wins the game the Brewers probably come off looking more like the crybabies to everyone outside of Wisconsin.

Fixed.

Not worse, but probably isn't any better.

Hey, I was pretty close! Ya. I can't believe anyone expected anything.

You are overlooking his one full year as a regular with the Marlins in 2011 when he hit .296/.360/.393. That adds up to an OPS of .753. He's a .263 lifetime hitter with over 150 career steals. He's got some value. We're talking who is this year's Jerry Hairston. That bar isn't all that high. Hairston was a career .257 hitter with not all that much more power and less of a SB threat. Correction, he had one so-so year out of his 8 year futile career. [sarcasm]Go get him Doug![/sarcasm]

Bonifacio with the career sub .700 OPS? He's never even put up an OPS over .700 unless you count his half season with KC last year, which was exactly .700. Sure he can play a lot of positions but he can't hit a lick. Might as well keep trotting out Herrera or Bianchi over Emilio.

She's young so we are supposed to trust her knowledge of social media when she reads tweets.

I was 6. I don't remember a thing about it.

Smith isn't a LOOGY so there really only are two. Neither of those guys is going to bring back much. I'd just hold on to them.

The union would prefer clubs don't buy out players' free agent years. Players make more in free agency than if they resign before.

He's signed for 2 more years after 2014 at $11M each. Is that worth it? I don't know, I'm just curious what everyone else thinks.

The new MLB Gameday is terrible.

I have no problem with Nelson getting a shot in the rotation. I just don't know how you justify taking anyone out of the rotation at this point. No pitcher has been terrible, no one is injured, and Nelson hasn't really done anything to "beat" anyone else for a rotation spot. If this was Spring Training or the off-season, sure you make the change based on potential. But when your rotation is actually having success, I don't know how you can justify making the switch.

I think my future father-in-law's words summed it up pretty well when he tried to talk Brewers with me: "They're doing well so far. But they always start hot and fade in the end." Now there's really no truth to that but I think it sums up your very casual Wisconsin Brewer fan's opinion about the Brewers. They won't care about the Brewers until late July or August when the playoffs become a very real possibility and the news doesn't have to cover that the Packer's undrafted free agent, 4th string offensive tackle stubbed his toe and had to miss 10 minutes of no pads blocking drills.

I bought my fiancee a Gennett t-shirt for Christmas online from the MLB store. You can get them there. Your situation is the opposite of mine though. I think she only likes Scooter because she likes saying his name. When we were in Nashville we went to a Sounds game and she got excited because one of the players was named Scooter. So she was, of course, very excited when he got called up. I was debating whether to get a shirt that said Scooter of Gennett on the back. I wasn't sure if she was even going to know who "Gennett" was. Well she did and loved it.

I just finished my 7th year as a high school baseball coach working specifically with pitchers. In my time I've only had one shoulder/arm injury to a pitcher and that was from a player who dislocated his shoulder playing summer league basketball and then played a season of QB followed by a half season of basketball before finally seeing a doctor and having surgery because of the pain. Baseball had nothing to do with it. I'm not going to say I have any answers or that I'm doing things the correct way but just that I've made lots of observations over the years. Most often my players who are constantly having sore shoulders and elbows are my football players. The guys who are bulked up gym rats. Having a big upper body does not make you a better pitcher. It reduces flexibility and leads to sore/tired muscles from overuse. I had two guys a few years ago who practically lived in the weight room. One was a pitcher and the other an OF. I told them at the beginning of the season that they can't lift during the season like they do the rest of the year or they will be sore the whole season. Of course they didn't listen to me and were sore all year. Despite great mechanics and being in fantastic physical shape, we were lucky to get 7 innings a week out of the pitcher because his arm was pretty much shot after pitching one game. So yes, I feel pitchers training like football players is a bad thing and probably leading to injuries. Pitchers should focus on core strength, flexibility, and aerobic conditioning. Stay off the weights. As for specialization, is it really the adults that are pushing this? As a kid I didn't want to play any sport other than baseball. If I knew that spending 365 days on baseball would have given me a shot at D1 or the Majors, I would have done it. For pitchers, the problem is that the radar gun rules. Pitchers are being trained to throw hard, not pitch. Until that changes I don't think you're going to see the number of injuries go down.

A lot of pedestals in this thread. The number of games is right in line with every other MLB suspension. He threw a bat, which is pretty much the same as a pitcher throwing a ball at a batter, except a ball could kill someone while the bat probably couldn't. A pitcher would get 7 games at most for the same thing. I don't buy into him trying to hit the catcher in the head. He had no beef with the catcher and it would be pretty hard to try and hit the catcher on your follow through while actually still trying to make contact with the ball.

Didn't that happen to the NHL All Star game a few years ago?