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  1. Flood Pants
    I just don't get the "wasted slugging skills" argument. slugging gets you into scoring position. isn't that what you want from your leadoff hitter?
  2. Flood Pants
    I'm impressed that Hawkins still throws mid-90's heat, considering how many pitches that arm has thrown in its lifetime.
  3. Flood Pants
    Where did this bizarro small-ball loving Ken Macha come from? How often did we see multiple steals in the same game last season?
  4. Flood Pants
    I haven't seen Wolf pitch much. Has he always gotten a lot of ground balls, or is it just a special treat tonight?
  5. Flood Pants
    I think Escobar and Gomez might be fraternal twin brothers separated at birth. It's kind of like we have the same player with the same skill set playing at two different positions.
  6. Flood Pants
    Me to, it's only 2 games but Zaun reminds me to much of Kendall. I think Kottaras will start as I think unlike in the past with Kendall, the backup catcher will get a lot of the day game after night game starts.Let's not sour on Zaun yet. 6 straight years of very solid OBP with some power mixed in, hitting from his weaker side tonight. he'll contribute.
  7. Flood Pants
    nice D by Wolf! quick reaction.
  8. Flood Pants
    No kidding. I'm watching WMLW over the air on my HDTV. Looks like a Super Nintendo game.
  9. Flood Pants
    Really nice at bat by McGehee. He showed lots of patience. Really, everyone but Gomez has had very nice at bats. Let's hope they wear down Smith quickly.
  10. Flood Pants
    Weeks is showing off why he belongs in the leadoff spot.
  11. Flood Pants
    Schroeder: "Last year, Philly was effective starting lefties against the Rockies" Anderson: "yeah, they threw Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels..." Nice commentary. Sure was brilliant of them to start their top two starters... I like what I see from Wolf so far. Fast worker. Throws strikes.
  12. Flood Pants
    It sure is. There seems to be no way to improve this, though. FS Wisconsin is really their only option. No other station will give them as much air time. Milwaukee's only hope for media revenue is to get on national TV more.
  13. Flood Pants
    Gomez is in the 2 spot for his ability to sacrifice, says Macha. That being said (not that I agree with it), that skill is useless at #1. I'm a big fan of Weeks at leadoff. His OBP and speed are good, but more importantly, his power is valuable there too. Hitting a double is as good as hitting a single and stealing a base (and less risky) and hitting a homerun is obviously best of all. Around the league, we're seeing teams rightly starting to value good power in the leadoff spot. ex. Sizemore, Granderson, Soriano.
  14. Flood Pants
    you may enjoy this article. I remember this being in Baseball Prospectus the day Yost was fired, and I dug it up on their site. Justice in Milwaukee
  15. Flood Pants
    Ned Yost. I felt that he had managed the Brewers out of the playoffs the previous season, and after that Philly series he looked like he was about to do it again. I know it was a controversial move, but it was absolutely an astute choice by Melvin/Attanasio. And I wasn't blaming him for bad performance of the players. He routinely made moves that statistically decreased the Brewers chances of winning games. It was a "where were you when Kennedy was shot" type of moment for me. I remember sitting in a staff meeting at work when one of my coworkers showed me the Brewers text update on his phone. After work, I hopped on my bike and rode to Miller Park to buy tickets for the next series. And on my way, I called my dad and said "did you hear the good news?"
  16. Flood Pants
    Here's another angle. By signing that contract, he became "the man" in Milwaukee. He may have left money on the table contract wise, but he's already been very successful marketing himself. Taking the hometown discount is an important part of that marketable image.
  17. Flood Pants
    Completely agree. While runs prevented do matter, most players have a lot more opportunities to contribute runs at the plate then to prevent runs on defense.
  18. Flood Pants
    I'm sure a lot of common injuries which players play through would qualify for the DL. If Suppan were having a good spring, they'd probably just have him play through it. But since they need him out of the picture, and they can send him to the DL, they're taking advantage of it. This is a smart move.
  19. Flood Pants
    Carlos Villanueva needs to send the team physician a thank-you note.
  20. Flood Pants
    MNBrew, I imagine you're thinking back to a couple of years ago when they sent Turnbow to AAA. He had a non-guaranteed contract, and electing not to accept the assignment would have meant turning down his salary. Unfortunately, not the case with Suppan.
  21. Flood Pants
    they basically did this with Jorge DeLaRosa a couple of years ago. They used blisters on his hands as the excuse to DL, and they kept him on extended rehab until they found a trade partner for him. If Hart decides to get Lasik, this could be the Brewers' opportunity to do the same.
  22. Flood Pants
    I'd agree on 30 Rock. I've always thought that The Office treated its viewers with more respect, if that makes any sense. There's plenty of subtelty in The Office, and it's paced to give you time to digest it all. And it rewards you for paying close attention and having knowledge of the entire series and its character development. 30 Rock is funny, but it seems to just jump from obvious joke to obvious joke so fast there's not time to process one before the other comes up. It makes for more laughs packed in a half-hour, but they feel a lot cheaper. Then again, I haven't watched the entire series, so maybe I've missed a lot of quality that I haven't had the patience to give a chance to. I think The Office is still the most well-crafted show on Thursday night, though Parks and Rec is climbing the ladder very fast.
  23. Flood Pants
    Basically, the Brewers will get his best years when he's still cheap, and they can let somebody else pay top-dollar for his decline. That seems to be a pretty typical progression for pitchers.
  24. Flood Pants
    That's really interesting. I've been apologetic of Suppan because I thought his skills weren't as bad as his contract. Apparently things are pretty grim now. If he really is such a disaster, the Brewers should ignore his salary and make the best performance-based decision. You don't want to waste 14.5 million, but I bet the Brewers would happily pay 14.5 million to make the playoffs, and that may be what it comes down to. This is a good example of how "just one more year" can come back to haunt you. Remember the extra year we had to shell out to get Wolf? Let's hope we're not having this same conversation at the end of his contract.
  25. Flood Pants
    I think this team can very well be better than last year, but it's hard to predict that they will. A lot has to go right. Weeks has to stay healthy (which is unreasonable to predict due to his track record). Gomez needs to step it up at the plate (which he has the potential to do, but no track record). Wolf needs to be the good pitcher he is about every other year (but he's been too inconsistent to count on this). I'd argue that this team has potential to be better, but there isn't the hard evidence to firmly predict that they will. We fans should be cautiously optimistic. But a national prognosticator should go with the odds.
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