Oxy
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Plush is fast. Looks like we should at least tie it up this inning. -
Pitching to contact is a baaad idea today. I think Greinke should just try to strike everybody out this game, walks be damned (till a guy gets on third, anyway).
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This is comical.
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I do like him a lot more at Wrigley with the wind blowing out--that both minimizes his defensive deficiencies and maximizes his offense.
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BOOM! Awesome. I guess we can play like it's 2001 instead of 2011, then Kottaras will be great! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
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It was a high fastball, and by high I mean just out of the strike zone. I'm guess it was a cross up, hopefully those kinks can be worked out. However, it's not like this is the first time Kottaras has caught Greinke since he was catching during Zack's rehab assignment. Hopefully George hits a bomb here to make up for it--or at least gets on base.
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You guys still celebrating Kottaras back there? I remind you that a catcher has to play defense every single inning, but only hits 4 times a game.
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This is true to a certain extent. Loe has pitched in SO many games though, and his bad outings have been SO bad (giving up 3, 4, and 5 earned runs, which is rare for a reliever) that all of his good outings are just ignored. He's given up ERs in 10/37 appearances, which doesn't seem too bad to me. The main issue I have is that it seems pretty easy to tell when he's got his good stuff and when he doesn't. Instead of letting him get shelled for 5 runs, he should be pulled after 2-3 guys hit shots off his sinkerball that isn't sinking.
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There are managers, players managers, and guys who let the players manage. Roenicke appears to be in the latter category, at least with Kotsay and Hawkins. I just wonder where the buck stops (YuBet? Nieves?). This can be good and it can be bad. So far it's worked to the tune 39-30 and first place. I don't think anybody would argue with being 78-60 on September first. What this tells me is that Counsell needs to step up and tell Roenicke that he can start 4 days a week if he needs him.
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This just seems weird. Zach has performed just fine, and whatever he is dealing with it seems like it would be easier to deal with at the MLB level than in the minors (so many more perks at the MLB level that just make the day go by easier). At the same time, the gap between the pressure involved in pitching at each level is wider than the Grand Canyon. However, he's performed well enough that it doesn't seem like it has gotten the best of him or anything. Hopefully he's back sooner rather than later.
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I'm not as big of a Loe hater as most around here, but after about 5 pitches one can tell if he has his good stuff or not. He doesn't have it tonight. On the other hand, when he is good, he's good. That's not the kind of guy you want to pitch 3 out of 4 days in close games, though.
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Well, McGehee picked an excellent time to get an extra base hit.
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I have no faith in Kottaras behind the plate, and I have no faith in Nieves beside the plate. Since I only had moderate faith in Nieves behind the plate I support this move, but I shudder to think of Kottaras trying to catch Axford in the ninth with guys on base.
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Looking at the advanced radar, it should be raining straight through until about 10 PM.The radar I'm looking at shows that it's currently not raining around Wrigley, but there is a small cell a south of the stadium, and another thin line of showers that looks to come through in about an hour, and then it looks clear behind that. Pretty sure obsessed works in meterology though, so I'll defer to whatever he says.
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This team got a lot of breaks in the last couple of weeks, and now they have lost a couple. Big deal. Roenicke's managing may have knocked their chances of winning down in the last two games from 62% to 61%. Big deal. If Macha was managing the team and made ALL the "correct" lineup decisions and bullpen moves this team my still be .500. Who knows.
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I know you're not totally serious, but try to reserve your hate for the internet fanbase, and specifically the internet fanbase that posts after newspaper articles. That's a pretty specialized group of people.
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It's not so much the walks, since those don't count as ABs anyway, it's more the lack of specialized pitching and scouting reports. I guess the old-timey guys got there quicker in terms of games played and PAs.
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mlb discussing reallignment (2 15 team leagues)
Oxy replied to patrickgpe's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
It's been said over and over again recently, but what is the aversion to adding more teams around NYC? I think the Jersey Shore Guidos and the Brooklyn Hipsters would be more financially viable than the Pirates, Royals, Reds, and Brewers. And in the long run I would guess they'd be better off than Portland/Vancouver, San Antonio or Las Vegas. Four NYC teams might give too much of an advantage to the BoSox, I suppose. In that case, how about the Jersey Shore Guidos and the Providence Privateers? Of course the Yankees, Mets and BoSox would balk at this, but that is only 2 votes out of 30, right? Who else around the league could possibly be against this? -
I actually called it in the chatroomhttp://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/laugh.gif
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I wouldn't mind the squeeze if this was like Marcum against Halladay. However, 1 run in the 4th inning is very unlikely to be the winning play in this one. It was dumb. We will get to Dempster.
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That's just a mean post. The average meaning of this post means less than the average post that is mean. And that's really saying something. Lock it before I eat my toes.
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Ironically, the prospects that Melvin has traded away in his tenure who turned out to be the best MLB players (recent trades pending) have netted us Tony Graffanino, Kevin Mench, and 1.5 years of a decent closer. I would bet that De La Rosa and Cruz will end up having far more valuable as players then the other 8 guys combined. We'll see though. Odorizzi and Lawrie are the only guys who have a decent shot at being better than average players, and they certianly aren't guarantees. The other 6 guys are very likely to be the kind of guys who are available every off-season. Basically I'd say that the Crew gave up 3 legitimate prospects (LaPorta looked legit at one time; he might put it together to have a good year or two, but that isn't really that valuable at 1B/DH) and 5 filler guys. Meanwhile, one trade got us to the playoffs, the other two have put us in a very good position to be in the playoffs this year and the next. After that, we'll be relying on our drafts from 2009-2011 to have developed. Also, I'm not sure that "That's not good value regardless of the results on the field" really makes sense. I'd say that if we make the playoffs the next two years, the increased revenue and fan fervor for the years to come would more than make up for whatever value we lost by giving up the prospects. A WS championship would certainly justify it as well. It might be riskier in your estimation since these are no guarantees, but your philosophy is no guarantee either.
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I don't really believe in "defining moments" when you are talking about a 162 game schedule, but this weekend sweep to take 1st place could definitely be a "defining series" if things work out this year. As could the sweep of Florida last weekend. I love sweeps.
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How perfect has this worked out? Kotsay plays center all game to hit, does well at the plate and luckily doesn't have a ball hit to him. Gomez comes in as a defensive replecement and immediately makes a difference.
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Really? It was up and in right on the corner. Perhaps a ball even, which I'm not really opposed to with two outs and nobody on in a one run game.
