BruisedCrew

Cubs and Reds both up 6-0.

I guess for the Brewers that’s what one run feels like.

At least A run. Let Kopech off the hook.

You mean like the Cubs or Reds who both scored 3 in the top of the first tonight? I asked my Magic 8 Ball and it said “Don’t Count On It”.

This is interesting message board banter, but IMHO it’s a little pointless because the circumstances can change tomorrow based on what happens tonight. Or it can change by Sunday if several pitchers are used both today and tomorrow. The opinions expressed here will change quickly if the alternatives don’t have immediate success. If the Brewers need a reliever in the 7th inning tonight with a small lead or a tie, I would use someone else, like Milner (if he hasn’t been used earlier) or Uribe. But I wouldn’t consider it “pulling the plug” on Peguero, even temporarily.

I would state this a little differently. The old adage is that a successful team should play about .500 against the good teams and beat up on the bad teams. Part of the challenge in evaluating this depends on what exactly you consider a “good team”. Some times you see this based on teams over and under ..500, but I don’t think that’s the best way to do it because it lumps the average teams with the very best and very worst teams. I took a look at how the Brewers have done against the 9 teams that are completely out of playoff contention (Mets, Tigers, Royals, A’s, Pirates, Cards, Nats, White Sox, and Rockies). The Brewers are 23-18 against those teams, which I think everyone agree is not “beating up on them” Against all other teams (the “good” teams and the average teams still in playoff contention) the Brewers are a decent 39-36, but against the best teams (ones currently with better records than the Brewers) they are 15-19. Against the very best teams in the NL (Braves, Dodgers, Phillies, and Giants) the Brewers are 6-13, which is clearly not good. That 10-3 record against the Reds is the main thing keeping the Brewers in the position they are in. It will be interesting to see what the Brewers pitching can do against the Dodgers and Rangers, two of the very best teams and offenses in MLB. So, as a conclusion, I would say that the Brewers have done OK against the middle of the road teams, not very well against the best teams, and not as well as they should have done against the worst teams.

So, your idea of fun is going back and commenting on other posters in game comments. You can post how you want but I’m telling you how it makes you look when you do that.

I usually don’t like doing this because I accept that posters blow off steam during a game and I contribute my share. But if someone is going to go back and respond to those comments, then don’t make them yourself.

What a gift. Was there any doubt that Adames would try to pull a sweeper 450 feet instead of going with one to right field.

Even while getting his hits (mainly on bloopers and seeing eye grounders) Yelich has not looked good the last few days

Who is available for the 10th today?

Then I guess I shouldn’t hope for more than 6 straight Ks.

Another example of why you done see many bunts. Of course, it took super athlete Suter to flag down that one. 🙄

I’m making a distinction between being negative and going out of your way to make excuses.

I didn’t realize the Rockies had a lockdown bullpen.

The Kevin Brown situation makes me wonder how much some of these announcers are told to be as positive as possible. To listen to the Brewers TV crew the Brewers have the most rotten luck in the world with line drives turning into outs, opponents’ bleeders going for hits, ball-strike calls, opponents making plays they usually don’t make, and now bad hops. ETA: Latest example from Schroeder: “Seems like every time the Brewers make a mistake it costs them big.” Maybe they’re making too many mistakes.

I thought the same thing.

Obviously you didn’t have daughters during the height of the High School Musical era.

This would be a good time for all of the managers on the board to declare how Counsell should handle the last 3 innings instead of waiting until something goes wrong to point out how he mismanaged them.

Marlins 5 Reds 4 Final I know nobody is worried about the Reds because they have been lucky and are due for a big regression. Today they surrendered a 3 run HR in the 8th and a solo HR in the 9th to let one get away

Playing the Dodgers and Rangers on the road next week should be another preview of what to expect when this team faces a serious MLB lineup.

This one is getting out of hand quickly. Would never tell from the Brewers that this team is 23 games under .500.

They were also beaten up pretty badly by the Giants (2-5) and DBacks (2-4). Their only really strong showing against an NL playoff contender is the 10-3 against the Reds.

Some might say it was the performance of a few pitchers that was brutal. Counsell did EXACTLY what he has done successfully many times this season to squeeze out wins with very little offense. This time it didn’t work.

I said after the demoralizing blowout sweep by the Braves I said that anything less than 7-3 in these 3 series would be disappointing. Disappointment was guaranteed on Sunday and now it’s just a matter of mitigating the damage.