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If he punishes Hall, he almost has to punish Jenkins. ned's strong suit is not consistency... see catcher substitutions vs infielder subs

way to line up 3 straight lefties ned

i've said this before and I'll say it again... the 4 game hot streaks geoff puts together simply do not outweigh the 12 game O-fers he lays. When Gord got prodded about shopping Lee and mentioning "untouchables", the producer cued a real subtle, effective pan of jenkins sulking in the dugout. i cannot stand jenkins. his stats are smoke and mirrors.

i would intentionally walk hall to get to jenkins with the bases loaded

Lasorda told Ben something along the lines of: your team needs you, you need to be pitching. get out there and pitch. baseball players play hurt. you need to learn how to pitch hurt. it's part of the game. grow a pair.

Tommy L had some bold things to say about Benny. Wow. Basically he told Ben: (paraphrased) "grow a pair and get out there and pitch"

how are the Cardinals able to defecate this smelly without their Pujols?

when all else fails, blame the grounds crew. From the San Diego Union-Tribune: ?Khalil made three of four plays this series on bad hops,? said Barfield. ?That's one of the worst surfaces I've played on so far.? Said Castilla: ?The infield was hard; the grass was worse.? Anybody else see/hear comments from opponents lending credibility to this claim?

should we be heaping praise on Doug for the "no walk" thing or the "i don't want to walk anybody so i'll put meatballs over the plate 10 hit" thing?

i love criticizing sveum, really i do - it's one of my hobbies. (at least i'm honest) i'm stuck on cbs gamecenter; why didn't jenkins score? love a 3 hole hitter who can't score from 1st on a double with 2 outs.

i hope you're right kiwibrewer... if Ugh Hatis can pitch into the 8th his ERA will be under 5. a 4.00 WHIP is not sustainable however.

First MP game of the season... How receptive has Mark A. been to refund requests for un-satisfied customers? If I have to walk out of a theater because the movie is so bad, you better believe I'm getting my $7.50 back. Or maybe there should be a third party arbiter who rules that since yesterday's product could have been witnessed at Huntsville that we should get Alabama pricing. If there wasn't a vendor set up 30 yards away from my seats with RiverWest Stein, it would have been a long (er) ugli (er) day. I thought that since Maddux is allowed to visit a struggling pitcher on the mound, Yount should be able to walk up to Rickie at second and slap him on the back of his head. If Hardy was alive, I'd send Rickie down in a minute. Awful awful slide considering the chance to pile up huge crowds on a home stand. 21K on a cloudless 80 degree sunny afternoon? Burn the retro unis. Yes, there was optimism around my seat when Jenkins was struggling to get up after being freight-trained by Prince. Hart doubles and alertly takes third... sure gonna look nice to actually have some fire in the corner outfield soon. High point: Soriano grounds into double play (team notices for the first time there is a crowd in the stands) Low point: Soriano ends game (crowd just scratches head) Yost's ejection was weak weak weak. again. no dirt kick. no belly bump. no spittle no red face no thrown hat no equpiment on the field no taking a base to the showers. just "oh, i'm ejected... thanks for listening to me sir..." had a great time... paid attention, got disgusted, got disenfranchised, bought another, left early, went to the lake... does that make me cubfanesque? so be it. this team is so disappointing to watch, it kills me. they play like the last time the oil was changed was 9000 miles ago. oh i'll keep watching, but this blows

Tough game tonight, be checking in sporadically... if we win, it will be a relief, collective exhale... yes, we should beat the Nationals at home. if we lose, the spiralling skid of anger, accusations and venemous posts goes on... another page added to the venting thread. go bats. weeks homers.

I've seen turnbow put in a sentence with Rivera, Gagne and (pre-Pujols) Lidge recently. Will that qualify for elite enough, or does it have to be semantically explicit? Man, people are feisty here. Cat claws.

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we do have to face Mr. Freddy .800 Sanchez one more time. That's batting average this series (not OPS).

ballsy move by yost to let bush start the 8th. ballsier to let bush pitch out of lead-off double top o the order. edit: cbssportsline sucks (again)

But it doesn't keep you from claiming that Jenkins is sluffing off because he's the longest tenured Brewer? If we are going by strict semantic standards (tenure vs longest tenured)... i never made that claim. i may have alluded to it though. i've tried to give geoff batting advice but he doesn't take it. he loves his 9 iron too much.

So how do you explain Carlos' major slump as well? If I could do that I'd have Butch's job. Hart has a lot of potential, but saying that he can step in and take over for Jenkins based on one game is a little far fetched. One game at a time... for 2130 games that is.

Just a TAD ungrateful to the longest tenured Brewer, don't you think? That's funny, the tenured professors are usually the ones that get away with doing the minimum because their job isn't in jeopardy.

DFA

(chant with me) Gehrig, Gehrig, Gehrig... See ya Jenks.

well done gentlemen, well done. can't hold your water for 4 measly innings