BruisedCrew

Another short start to strain the bullpen.

I guess that’s one way of looking at it. But I think it is more straightforward to focus on the magic number with respect to one team at a time and reduce it as the Brewers win or the other team loses. When you start getting into multiple team scenarios it can get tangled. I remember last year there was some difference of opinion about whether or not the Brewers had clinched a playoff spot because of how 3 team tiebreakers work. In a 3 team tie the Brewers tiebreaker over AZ might not be determinative Beacuase this will most likely resolve itself within a week, I can wait until then to see what the situation is

I think it’s 6 to eliminate the Padres because they have the tiebreaker over the Brewers and 5 to eliminate the DBacks. 89 Brewer wins plus 68 losses for both SD and AZ =157.

It’s not important who said it.

One small good thing about today is that we won’t be hearing anymore that Megill hasn’t given up a HR this year. Fortunately the inevitable first one didn’t blow a game. Now I wish Schroeder would stop talking about how well the Brewers have handled The Crow this season. Now that he’s hit HR in consecutive games we can put that to rest until after the playoffs.

How many years have you been following baseball? I’d like to know what makes you the authority to tell people how baseball seasons go.. A lot of posters here are willing to share enough about their age and backgrounds to provide an idea of what has shaped their perspective.

I just saw Murphy’s comment from yesterday that maybe he wouldn’t start and if he did it would be a shorter start. If in the meantime he decided to start Harrison maybe it will be a piggyback with Sproat if he isn’t needed for a long stint before that.

I don’t think he’ll be starting this weekend.

Another one from the 80’s

One of my favorites

One of the numbers passed today.

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This evaluation of playoff starters changes every cycle through the rotation. Maybe we should just wait to see how it looks when the time comes.

It was. It was a reference to something that somebody said quite awhile ago, I think when Chourio jammed his glove into the wall trying to time a potential steal of a HR.

I don’t follow and don’t really put complete trust in defensive numbers. But, it was never me that said he should be a DH only. I remember getting into an exchange where I strongly disagreed with whoever said it. I think that came up because of the problems he often has timing his jumps at the wall on potential HR steals. I am influenced by a spectacular HR stealing catch he made in a game we were at against the Twins last year.