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  1. Thurston Fluff
    With Sheets on the DL YoGa gets his innings now instead of August. I don't think it has to effect September/October all that much. If his innings get to the point he will be overused in September we could always give Villenueva or Parra a couple starts. I wouldn't mind the three of them all taking a couple starts for Sheets instead of relying one one guy to do it.
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    finding things to do outdoors in winter is good for both weight managment and mental health IMO. If dressed properly in layers so you can shed some before you sweat then cool down makes the weather irrelevant. What I learned while dieting for wrestling was how much people eat out of habit or ritual. It seems like no one ever does anything without some sort of food involved. I don't think it's anything out of the ordinary for you psycologically. One thing I learned is avoid TV. It is rare to see anything on TV go for more than 15 minutes without a food related visual. It's a terrible subliminal stimulant for those who are used to eating ritually. Breaking the ritual will help avoid eating for any reason other than hunger. Hunger itself can be managed by activity. Anything that occupies the mind means you aren't thinking of food. Along those same lines is start to do things that you normally would do with a bite to eat without the food part. It's like smoking. If you normally smoke while doing something it triggers a need to smoke. After breaking the habit of adding the food to an activity (even healthy diet food) the craving for food when doing said activity will diminish. Good luck best wishes for better mental and physical health.
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    I started following the Brewers in 82 so guess I must have started out as a bandwagoner. I remember asking a lot of stupid questions from the guy who I worked next to who was an avid fan. He was great. Gave me little stories about old Brewers and managers ect. He never got tired of talking Brewers or answering my stupid questions or even acting like he was somehow more of a fan than I was because I was new to it. He was just happy to talk Brewers. I mention this because now any time I meet someone who is a casual fan I try to be informative so they might become Brewer addicts like myself. In a way it's my tribute to the man who got me hooked.
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    I think we all can agree that Carlos V has been fairly effective this year, but I think we can also agree that he fell into that equation last night just as much as Cappy, if not more. Does that make him a head case? My point was neither of them are head cases. They both rely on control and hitting their spots to be successful. When the strike zone is small it effects them more than it does guys who can occasionally throw balls past hitters. You are right though colorado is a pretty good offensive club which only added to the problem.
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    Small strike zone + soft tossing control pitcher = lots of runs given up. If ever there was a case to be made for hard throwers with nast stuff being better than control pitchers it was last night's game.
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    That article is the sort of thing that people have to resort to when they have no legitimate response to somehting. Ridicule sort of puts them above the stats. I think some fans hate hard evidence in general. It interfers with thier preconcieved notions or ideas of how the team should be built. It's very similar to people who always hate a manager or coach. (I'm not talking anyone on this site specifically just in general terms) It makes them feel knowledgeable.
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    It should be interesting to see how they respond to him. If we start to see all the Mets crouch down nearly doubled over to make the strike zone 2 inches high we'' know they're listening to him.
  8. Thurston Fluff
    We may also have more injuries than this year. Other teams may get better. Some of our players may not play as well as this year. This team will be good for years to come for all the reasons you stated. I'd just hate to look at next year as being "the" year when we have a team good enough to be winning for several. There is as much reason to believe this is "the" year than any of the next 4 or 5. Which is why it's important not to overlook winning it all this year. We may wait forever to have "the" year only to find out 07 was as good as it got. Enjoy the moment because the future is promised to no one.
  9. Thurston Fluff
    I'm with casey, you move more cautiously when you have to DFA someone and may not have the option of going back. There's certainly the possiblity Parra/Balfour could struggle. Same with me. DFAing someone should be a last resort for someone who just has not and most likely will not contribute. Obviously Spurling was doing well enough in AAA to warrant the call up when he did. If Spurling could produce well enough at AAA to be called up then not pitch up to some people's expectations what makes those same people think the others will? Especially ones with a history of injury and very little major league experience to go on. If you have to DFA someone to call up another you darn well better be right about them being an upgrade. You better be equally sure the move doesn't drain your depth ion the event a rash of injuries occur.
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    Has putting a "meaning" on it changed the way that managers make substitutions? I don't think so. What if the NL had tied up the game last night and it went into 12 or 13 innings. How many pitchers were left? Actually I think it has. They had pitchers left. If you read the article on Pujols being angry at not getting in the game it even mentions LaRussa kept him in reserve because he wasnted to be covered ifthe game went into extra innings. I'm like others who didn't understand the "outrage" of a tie in an game that doesn't count. It didn't make any sense other than people love to hate Bud. Especially since it wasn't his fault to begin with.
  11. Thurston Fluff
    I remember Bob Sebra...he had a hell of pick-off move. He had to. There was always someone on base. Plenty of practice throwing there I guess.
  12. Thurston Fluff
    I wonder how all the Yost bashers are gonna react to this? Wait until the post season and if they don't win the WS claim Ned isn't a good enough post season manager to get them over the hump? Honestly I think a lot of manager bashing in general has very little to do with the actual manager. It's the one area in baseball a fan can have an opinion that cannot be disputed by stats.
  13. Thurston Fluff
    It is much better to be chased then to have to track down the front runner. I agree with this totally but I've noticed that it's nerve racking being in the lead. Every time we drop a game in the standings and the Cubs creep closer it makes me nervous. In the good old days if we came close to the lead I'd be all excited that we were catching up. Now if we don't maintain an 8 game lead I'm nervous. Is this what it's like for all fans of division leaders? I'll take it nerves and all.http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
  14. Thurston Fluff
    Nice to see someone feels the Brewers infield is that good. Especially considering they are all under the Brewers control for the next three years minimum.
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    I think a couple surgeries and years from having pitched is probably the answer. He needed to get back to pitching, gain some strength and log some innings to show he could actually pitch agian before they would trust him on the major league roster. Especially if he showed promise but wasn't quite ready yet. He would have had to be put on the 40 man and go through waivers if he wasn't quite ready and had to be sent down for a while. This way they have his rights without juggling the roster and is more of a proven comodity when they do bring him up.
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    After reading the article the only thing that makes me nervous about Balfour is he pitches up in the zone. I am not nearly smart enough to know how that translates from minor leaguers to major leagues but it could mean a few more longballs than desired.
  17. Thurston Fluff
    I guess we just disagree on how tireing running bases is Jason. If indeed he was gassed then it is on Cappy to tell Yost that. I don't buy into the arguement that he couldn't because Yost wants gritty battlers. Sheets told Yost he was gassed once this year. That hasn't seemed to change Yost's view of Sheets. Yost has always wanted pitchers to tell the truth. If Cappy was asked and he said he was fine when he wasn't then it's on Cappy. He has to be honest. If it's so obvious that running the bases combined with the heat really takes such a monstrous toll on pitchers then Yost would have understood and been happy Cappy was being honest. I'm not sure it's all that easy to tell if someone is tired vs just pitching poorly as some make it out to be. As I've said all along I'd have been fine if Ned did pull him earlier. I just don't think those are situations that have a clear cut right or wrong answer. At least not until it unfolds one way or the other. Thus it's hard for me to sit and critisize such moves.
  18. Thurston Fluff
    jason21nl a short stint on the DL shouldn't make a guy incapable of running a couple bases and pitching. Most guys on the DL also work on maintaining their conditioning so I just don't buy that as an excuse. Especially since this isn't his first start coming off the DL. The weather was hot but that isn't an excuse for being gassed after 75 pitches. It's not like baseball requires extreme conditioning to begin with. Guys like CC Sabathia, David Wells, Carlos Lee, John Kruk all seemed to have enough energy to run a few bases and still produce afterward. Granted it appears he was gasses but I don't know if it was obvious he was after a couple guys got on base. It could just as easily been that he lost his focus and simply didn't locate his pitches were he wanted them.
  19. Thurston Fluff
    If I'm the manager, and I know that I have everyone available, I'm using them. The goal (as Herm Edwards so eloquently stated) is, you play to win the game. That, to me, didn't seem like it was to win the game. Fine points. I also would have been fine if Ned had pulled Cappy sooner. I just don't agree that pulling Cappy was such an obvious choice for reasons I've already stated.
  20. Thurston Fluff
    we'd probably be about the same this year. Lee would certainly have helped offensivly but hurt on defense and the pitching would probably have less depth. Villy would be in the rotation so we would be short argueably our two best relievers. What would have been most detrimental to the Brewers isn't with regard to this year. It's what the outfield would have looked like in a couple years when Lee's already weak defense became worse and his salary would have been hard to dump.
  21. Thurston Fluff
    with it being so hot and humid yesterday was he should have posted at the beginning of the game: Cappy 1st 4 innings Gallardo 5th and 6th Villy 7th and 8th Coco 9th So a 90 degree day means the starter is only capable of going 4 innings? I'm sure everyone would have been just fine if Cappy was pulled after 4 innings with only giving up one run. Ned wouldn't have been crucified at all if he pulled Cappy after 4 and the bullpen melted down. I'm equally sure Cappy would have been just fine with being pulled after 4 innings of very good pitching wiyhtout the chance of getting a win. But, he didn't. And the decisions he made (or didn't make) cost the game. Cappy not being able to throw stikes to a horrible hitter after only 75 pitches might have had something to do with the Brewers loss. So did Wise giving up a double to the first guy he faced. The pitching staff gives up 7 runs and the hitters not scoring more than a couple runs off that pitching staff and it was Ned's strategy that lost the game? I get it. He should have known the players were not capable of throwing strikes or hitting the ball. After all it's not like he has capable major league players or anything. They are so boarderline talent wise that the moment they run into a rough spot they need to be pulled. No possible way an established veteran pitcher could possibly be expected to get through six innings in July after 75 pitches. Ned should have known that.
  22. Thurston Fluff
    I'm not sure why having a 4 day break is reason to use bullpen guys just to use them. The bullpens get overworked by a cumulative workload not simply based off how long since they worked last. I'm not in favor of using bullpen arms without need regardless of how long they have to recover. Whether this was a need situation is dabatable. Cappy is as good a pitcher as any bullpen guy we could trot out there and he shouldn't have been tired after only 75 pitches. while I underastand the rationelle for pulling him and wouldn't have had a problem if he did pull Cappy earlier I see why Ned left him in. Cappy lost his control for what ever reason. It happens to all pitchers from time to time. Sometimes they get it back without too much damage and roll along fine after that. There is no more reason to believe he couldn't get it back than there was to believe Wise could stop the bleeding. It's not like Wise came in and shut them down. Ultimately this is one of those times where there is no right or wrong. I would have been fine with either choice. That loss, like most wins and losses, had more to do with the failure of the players involved than it did the manager chosing which player should have been involved.
  23. Thurston Fluff
    I am just tired of the "he's no good because he doesnt have any power" argument....its weak. I'm not as concerned about his power as I am the fact that he doesn't do enoughto compensate for that lack of power. If his average falls he doesn't take enough walks or hit enough extra base hits to compensate. Its a shame weeks is playing so terribly, because Gwynn would be a good 8 hitter. He's willing to take the walks, unlike Weeks, apparently, who swings at everything thats not over his head. Gwynn has 8 walks in 83 ab's for a rate of one walk every 10.3 ab's to go with his 712 OPS. Weeks has 30 walks in 220 ab's for a rate of one walk every 7.3 ab's to go with his 724 OPS. I think Gwynn is playing poorer than Weeks so far.
  24. Thurston Fluff
    That makes sense. It does kind of put to rest the idea that they won't put him in the pen because he can't get loose very quickly.
  25. Thurston Fluff
    I ownder who he'll be replacing?
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