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  1. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Not quite good enough tonight. Missed chances, Wheeler made pitches when he needed to, and Wilson struggled in his first inning. Pitching matchups won't get any easier. I don't believe we've been swept yet this year, which is pretty impressive. Hoping we can at least keep that streak alive. Let's win tomorrow and have a chance at the series.
  2. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Bauers has been...okay? But I'd rather have Black. Has Monasterio even been in a game in a week? I don't really care about the last spot on the roster, but it seems like maybe there's a better use for that spot if the guy in it is not going to see the field ever.
  3. Cool Hand Lucroy
    I tend to agree. But I also am willing to trust the organization at this point. Unless there's a rift between what Murphy wants and what the FO wants, I feel like the Brewers have earned the benefit of the doubt.
  4. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Kind of surprised to see them rolling with Wheeler against Ortiz.
  5. Cool Hand Lucroy
    I know people get down on Rock, and I'm not the world's biggest fan, but man are there some bad color guys around the league. John Kruk is awful. Between him and the White Sox lead commentator, I have no idea how these positions are distributed. We're spoiled. Ueck is a legend, BA is great, Levering and Grindl are good to very good on the radio side, and Mauer and the rest of the TV crew are generally fine. I think Dillard and Rottino are generally subpar, but compared to the other guys I hear daily, they're like borderline Steve Stone (who's one of my favorite broadcasters of all time).
  6. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Thought the same. Rhys must not have gotten a great secondary to be out by that much, but a throw like that gets a lot of guys.
  7. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Bryse as a starter has pitched from behind so much the last few outings. Very tentative, like he's waiting to get shelled. Doesn't trust his fastball at all. He's just better suited as a bullpen arm. Looking forward to being healthy enough where he can move back into that role.
  8. Cool Hand Lucroy
    This is one of the worst strike zones I've seen in a while...
  9. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Way too early to scoreboard watch, but I'd sure like to see the Astros blunt some of the Cardinals momentum. Funny that I saw Marsh get hurt last night and thought it might be a break for the Brewers. Guess that turned out poorly.
  10. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Phillies pen had to work A LOT yesterday, so keeping contact matters a lot tonight. Even if they can't complete the comeback. BTW, when was the last time we scored first? Feels like it's been a while. Or, wait, we took a 1-0 lead in the first game of the Sox series? Anyway, just feels like we've been playing from behind a lot.
  11. Cool Hand Lucroy
    I thought it was a pretty good AB, honestly. It's just where the contact approach hurts you. On a pitch there, you'd just as soon K in that situation.
  12. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Also, I have the Phillies broadcast, and they have no clue that Wilson is a starting pitcher. Lol. Maybe they're right?
  13. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Possibly bad take: I blame a lot of that on Bauers getting horrible read on Ortiz's base hit. But maybe I'm just looking for reasons to lose the guy 😄. Wheeler is a great pitcher because of innings like that. Just gotta keep at it. This is going to be a tough series, and I'd take 1 and get out of town if you offered it to me yesterday.
  14. Cool Hand Lucroy
    I largely agree with the critiques of the rotation. We know it isn't very good. Obviously, I'd rather have last year's rotation in a vacuum. That said, I'd rather have this year's team. It isn't so much that I think the roster is better as I just prefer this brand of baseball. It's nice to watch guys who can hit. It's nice not to be terrified every defensive half inning. I'm having way more FUN this year than in a long time. Probably the most fun since 2018, when we were all about Yelich, Cain, and bullpen. That team is my favorite Brewer club of all time, even though I think the 2011 Crew was probably more talented overall. Hopefully this team manages to win a few more October games than those two.
  15. Cool Hand Lucroy
    First pitch, no-doubter with a great swing. Love to see that.
  16. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Nastrini looks like a young guy with potential to me. Good stuff, inconsistent command. Being able to hit the bottom of the zone with fastballs is a good skill. I wouldn't be surprised if he put up a quality start. Well, Bauers needed that hit.
  17. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Freddy is not as consistent as elite aces. That's all. I'd put him in the next tier of guys, and that's great. As our number 3 starter, he was fantastic. As our number 1, he's a downgrade compared to what we are used to. Long way to go today.
  18. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Good point. These discussions are complicated. In some ways, the pitch clock seems to have partly diminished pitcher advantage, but at the potential cost of injuries. Do others see pitchers getting better at pitch clock gamesmanship? This is just a gut feeling, but pace of play seems a little slower this year (which I think is fine...pitch clock often feels too fast to me), maybe the result of guys getting better at strategically walking around the mound or asking for a new baseball? Fedde was very deliberate last night. Back on topic: thrilled with this offense's approach. For the first time in a long time, we are ANNOYING to pitch to. Long at-bats, more contact, always pressure on the basepaths. Love to see it. I'm not fully bought in on this team's ability to go far, but I will say that I'm having way more fun this year than in the past four or five. The style of baseball is just much, much more enjoyable to me.
  19. Cool Hand Lucroy
    It looked like he slid into 2nd funny on that steal late in yesterday's game. Dude wants to play every day, and I respect that, but I'd give him Friday off so he can get two days in a row.
  20. Cool Hand Lucroy
    "Subject to Review" is a great little 30 for 30 short on how this works in tennis. It makes the same point as you: it's surprisingly difficult to determine whether a fast-moving object fits within a particular boundary. Even in tennis, there's about a 4 mm margin of error with Hawkeye. That's often the difference between in and out. Soccer has also had instances where VAR has had to determine whether a ball was in or out or crossed the goal line (it happened in both the men's and women's World Cups, and to the US women's team). The reality is, it's just impossible to know for certain, and there are certain balls that can be thought of as BOTH in AND out. In baseball, with the variable strike zone, this gets even more complicated. Plus, you're dealing with a much more three-dimensional space than a tennis in/out line. The modeling just has to be very sophisticated, and it's not going to be perfect. I'm good with the challenge system because teams then theoretically have the ability to strategically call on the technology. I really don't like the idea of a full electronic zone, though. Some pitches are both balls and strikes (because you can't really know the precise dimensions of the strike zone and whether the ball passed through them), and I think it's better to have a human making that determination most of the time. Fix egregious errors, and use the tech strategically. That's the best you can do.
  21. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Early in the year, Jackson's strike zone discipline was really good. Not so mich lately. He's going to figure it out.
  22. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Glad White got an out before I had the chance to yell about him being bad.
  23. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Adames really making good contact.
  24. Cool Hand Lucroy
    I think that is one of the best catches I have seen this year. Paredes likely gets the 8th too? He was efficient.
  25. Cool Hand Lucroy
    Hilarious that going from Imanaga to Hendricks scares me so much as a Brewer fan.
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