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Buckle up. Nice and tight. All ready. And awayyyyyyyyyy we go.

Do we at least miss Molina this last inning? In a Frankie interview he did say he pitched the best once he has done 10ish games in short time.

For sure Lohse. Or you could start Garza and you will know in the first inning if he is no hitter mood. If no, then Kyle. Or you could bore them to death with Marco painting the outside edge of the black all night.

"...this could go from our best win of the year (and a real team builder) to a super crushing loss that could be the downfall of the rest of the season." I was feeling this in my bones. Thank goodness it has become the former. Tomorrow will be amazing (undies now changed). St Louis will come out angry and on fire. If we can somehow stamp another bit of authority, it would be amazing. But, one can see this is going to be a dogfight always with the Cardinals. But if we can believe, we have hope. And today puts many weeks of belief in me - and hopefully the Brewers. Wow. What a game.

I need to change my undies before I think about tomorrow.

cant type... fingers shaking... I love this team

gday... 84 mph fastball followed by 83 mph changeup... way to mix them up Frankie... now 85 mph changeup... ha ha... c'mon man, finish it

Two great at bats by Molina and Craig. But still hopeful... very hopeful... c'mon Frankie

Sweating.....

Molina... he his too good. Would be great in the trenches in a war. But I don't worry.

This cant be true. But it is. x 2 Honestly, when Frankie puts this to bed, it will be one of THE great wins.

This cant be true. But it is.

And don't forget, Smith is a stater, hiding in the bullpen. So, if you needed, you could have a 2015 rotation with Peralta, Thornburg, Smith, Nelson, and let us say Fiers. Heck, that is much better than some of the five's we saw for many years. I am not advocating, but we have too many good starters.

I have been quietly watching Hermida at AAA. He was once a golden child of the outfield. At 30 years of age - just maybe - he can have a final golden year and be there if we need him. He sure seems like a Mr Ike Davis. He put up a 900ish ops at age 23 in the majors, then nothing since. How odd is that! But, yes-sir-ee. Any non pitching injury, ANYWHERE, will truly hurt.

Must he be kept on the 40 man after this year? Usually you have three years off the 40 man, then three years 'on it' using up your three options. Last year, I guess was Wang's first year of the off 40 man. Actually, I answer my own question as I type. The Brewers got him since he was NOT on the 40 man. So, they best keep him on it, or he will be pilfered again this December. Wouldn't that be awful for the kid... then two years of treading water. One is OK, but the 2nd would certainly be odd. Anyway, so next year would be option year 1, I guess. (since he will not use one this year). But now I am confused how arbitration would work for him. After three years on the 40 man, then you hit your three arbie years. So, does that mean if we kept Wang for three years in the minors, his third option year would be his 4th on the 40 man, hence his first arbie year... whilst he is still in the minors. Now I have unanswered my own question. Help!

"Wang simply is not ready to play MLB baseball right now. If the Brewers are going to have him on the roster they at least need to play him. And see what happens. My guess is that he gets shelled mercilessly." He was pretty lucky then in 2 out of his 3 appearances. One fastball today on Gameday was 97 mph. I wonder if the baseball knows it is being thrown by a 'rookie'. Hence the baseball becomes more hittable - knowing it should be hit, because the thrower has not done his proper amount of 'time' in the minors. Once again. There are NO NEGATIVES (or they are trivial) compared to the POSITIVES that project to outcome with Wang being 'hidden' as the last man - mop up man - on the roster. Just because other posters keep posting the contrived negatives - and ignore all evidence put to them to their contrary - does not make it the negatives to be true. Did you watch the video of the bullpen dancing on the Wednesday? And did you read Wang's FAMILY commenting how great it all is, and the Brewers are, and the Brewers bullpen is? I am almost happy to see the Crew down 4-0 so Wang could pitch. We used two bullpen guys today. One had not pitched for ages. One is the mop up guy. The other 5 guys had a day off. And I think we only used Smith and Frankie yesterday. Is that right. So with our starters going deep, our entire bullpen pitching lights out, a couple guys in AAA we can call on any time... AND with Wang proving (at least 66% of the time) he can mop up.... WHERE IS THE NEGATIVE. Now one may be able to conjur up an entire set of circumstances that will prove the outcome of hiding Wang is bad. Just like you can say we can be in trouble platooning 1st and 2nd. Because maybe one day Braun will hit Segura in the face with a bat, then Braun will strain a chest muscle and not be able to play and maybe even at the same time Maldonado will puch some other player from the other team and be suspended.... and and and. Of course any horror scenario can be constructed to back up any silly comment. But, aside from the remotely possible horror scenarios - as it stands - right now - the projected, possible positives of keeping WANG far, far, far, far outweigh any projected, possible negatives.

When you think it out - removing names - we have six guys that are relieving so well you simply could project any mix over 7/8/9. I guess Frankie throwing in 8 of the last 10 games is pushing it. But that sure has nothing to do with Wang. I can be as negative as the next guy, but there are no negatives you can even conjur up

Right! His stuff will improve and he'll learn to repeat his delivery through osmosis and progress as a pitcher by not actually pitching, because that theory has worked for whom in the past? Having a year around the traps on the MLB scene and pitching once in a while is not the ideal year. But it, in my opinion, does not count as a career negative. And can even be a career positive. re someone not on the mound repeating pitches in games for a year... and still end up with a decent career... can I nominate Tommy John... and all the his subsequent followers that had a year off.

Thanks end for the 4.65 mill of pa money comment. It seems the Crew will be happy to pay that IF Hart has all those plate appearances. I will stash this hope into the back of my mind.

Nelson, I assume, would really benefit from being a 'get feet wet' reliever in MLB soon. We have a weird problem for the Brewers. We have two AAA guys completely dominating (Nelson and Fiers). And nowhere to put them. Doug does have some options, it does appear!

Wang will have enough chances to pitch. If not it means the crew have closed out a 110 win year Re development. I don't see it as an issue or a negative. Just being in MLB a year is a positive

I would have traded fiers. But reading recently, the pirates and crew never got close. So sobeit. The ptbn will be interesting Re 1st base going forward the current patch seems to be ok for a while. The future is sure unclear. But if we manage an upgrade there say in 2015 that will be the easiest boost for this already good team Maybe we can pick up Ike Davis in the off season when he is released

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/ike-davis-and-the-malfunctioning-parachute/ I hope I don't need to re-write all I have ever written on each subject I comment on... because a reader may not know completely what I am talking about... and the reader cannot go to fangraphs and type ike davis in the search engine. 0 for 9... lucky us.

Oh goodie. We get to use Thornburg, Smith then Frankie ... again ... because our manager is a crap in game manager. He is quite good in all other roles... credit where credit is due. But, in game... he is a blithering fool. (bullpen management is easy when you have the bullpen doing what it does... you just squander all scoring chances... then get a 2 era starter to be replaced by NIL era relievers) but when I hear the term 'bullpen tired' for the rest of the year I will translate that to 'stupid in game management'

Now we are playing a 5-2 game with our poor baseball and dumb manager rather than a 7-1 game. It is out great pitching that is covering bad baseball. That can usually work, but maybe our pitchers are NOT THAT GREAT. And maybe we will start losing games with bad baseball and dumb managing... if our pitching becomes only very good, rather then the current AMAZING.