Underachiever

You’re chalking up tomorrow as a loss already? I thought you were switching to America’s Got Talent.

The Brewers are 14-17 against teams with a winning record. If the DBacks lose two more, that will drop to 9-16, and we can start picking at that thread again.

And KC just tied STL!

I hear ya, man. Giving players two - OR MORE! - days off per season is total BS. He's counting playoff and World Series games in that number, so it's closer to 175.

Saladino's hit is big. Allows the Brewers to clear the Bandy spot in the order.

He was 15th in NL fwar going into tonight. This start is extremely flukey. The banked wins are nice, but relying on 1 run wins in not a recipe for success. They have played mediocre baseball and continue to be rewarded by sequencing and unsustainable late "magic". Eventually the bad pitchers who are inexplicably performing well will come back to earth, and it's going to be a struggle. The injuries negate some of the good luck they've had, but it's still been insane to watch the other teams constantly let the Brewers win games like these. Enjoy it while it lasts I guess. Fangraphs still only has them projected to 83 wins. Dude, look up the definition of optimism. Seriously, guys who come in immediately after wins to piss in everybody’s Cheerios kind of suck. Enjoy the win. We get it, you’re the smartest guy in the room.

That's your takeaway from this game? I gotta find the ignore feature on this site.

6-7-8 hitters go 6-12 with five runs scored.

If Pizza Ranch has a new closer, and according to Craig Coshun, "everybody's getting a piece of him," isn't that a bad thing?

That's a good win.

5-4 Road trip. Success!

I know this is the optimism thread, but the last game before the all-star game in Pittsburgh is trouble. The Brewers may want to rest some of their 15 all-stars on that day.

I'll be randomly picking comments like these throughout the year as Chacin settles into a groove just to reemphasize David Stearns knows more than we do. Nothing against you ASAAD, you are juyst first. 6 shutout. Or you could, you know, just let it go. It's a freaking message board, not a deposition. Go Brewers!

To be fair, Counsell had been ejected the batter before.

Can we just preemptively remove the oblique muscles from all of the Brewers? They seem like they are more trouble than they are worth.

In case anyone is here in St. Louis, I have four tickets available for tomorrow's game. My friends flaked on me. Great seats, box 165, row D, you can get a real sweet deal.

I was traveling all last weekend, working yesterday, and couldn't wait to watch tonight's game. I feel like the sentence "career-high in strikeouts" gets said a lot in reference to opposing pitchers in Brewer games.

Holy crap. A feet-first slide should never include a half-twist.

I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area this year for work. No one thinks the Giants are going to rebuild, because they don't believe that they can sell a rebuild to that fan base, given recent success and the exorbitant prices they charge. The media expect them to be heavy players in free agency. My thought is that people have a lot of money out there, and everything is so ridiculously expensive, that people will still come out. They certainly aren't going to become A's fans.

Can someone tell me what's going on? Gamecast is a mess.

8-2 the last ten, gained three games on the Rockies, kept pace with the Cubs, down by a run. That's your definition of crapping the bed?

I read the thread title as "Wilkerson to start on Meds" I know there's pressure in a pennant race, but...

I have been to 23 parks and I have liked most of them. I can usually find something positive. I travel a ton for work and one of the perks is getting to see a lot of parks. 1. Sat in the rightfield bleachers at AT&T with McCovey's cove at my back on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Also went to a playoff game there last year between Cubs and Giants. Great atmosphere, great food. Froze my ass off at Candlestick, and never felt more in danger than I did at a Dodger/Giants game. Man, people were yelling **** at each other. 2. Love Miller Park, but then again, I loved County Stadium as well. Was in attendance when the Brewers swept the Yankees in a doubleheader in 74(?). Boomer Scott hit a grand slam. Great memory from childhood. 3. Went to two Red Sox-Yankees games at Fenway last year. Saw A-Rod and Papi hit a home run in the same game. 4. Lived in Cincinnati for a while. While Great American is nice and new, it's kind of anonymous. Best memories of Riverfront is that it was $3 to sit in the top six rows while I was in college, but there was a gate in the lowest level of the parking garage that would let you into the field level. So we would buy our $3 ticket. go down to that gate and sit in the lower level. Also got to attend both of the home games in 1990 series with a press pass. Was on the field during batting practice. 5. KC, Anaheim, Shea, went to all in the 90s, don't have much to say about them. Went back to an Angels game a few years ago. The updates are nice. 6. Comiskey, old and new. The new one always struck me as sterile, and just a concrete bowl with better concessions. 7. Liked Target field, hated the Metrodome. 8. Dodger stadium is great. Been there on a beautiful Sunday, and a playoff game, and also at Hideo Nomo's debut. Love it there. 9. Old Tiger games featured a brawl started by Gary Sheffield. Sat so close to the bullpen I was worried that I was going to get drilled by a warmup pitch. Haven't been to Comerica. 10. I like Wrigley, the whole neighborhood. Sat on the rooftop for a game, that was great. 11. Went to a Cardinals game at Busch last week. The Reds won, so it was a good night. Love the setting, and I think I sat in the same place as the guy who posted the picture above. Old Busch was an anonymous concrete bowl. 12. Safeco is great. Beautiful park. 13. Oakland is just awful. But, as far as a positive, I saw Sonny Gray against Verlander in a playoff game, so the game was great. 14. Old Cleveland. Not sad to see you gone. Can't wait to see the rest!

They also play each other 6 times. So we are guaranteed to make up ground on one of them 6 times. We need to start rooting against the Marlins now. Only a game behind us. This doesn't make sense to me. There is no guarantee of anything. Those teams could go 3-3 against each other, but if the Brewers go 0-6, they lose ground.

I am confident that Davies could have struck out looking, like Broxton did.