Probably gonna be a committee for a bit. They're gonna try a few guys and see who fits best. I could be wrong and they just roll with a guy but that doesn't seem like how the Brewers operate. One of these four would be my guess: Albers Jeffress Barnes Jennings
I'm pretty sure Craig is giving Villar an extended run to lock down 2B. Sogard needs ABs. If Arcia is only starting 4 out of 6 games in June or July, I'll be right there with you guys. Until then, I'm not getting my blood pressure up over it.
100% agree. The nitpickers need to be quiet. The man is a national treasure, and the team is lucky to have him. But come on. I will not come on. I also have no sympathy for you or your girlfriend. When Bob blows a call we are all in the same boat. If I have to look up the box score to find out exactly what happened, I'm ok with that. A minor trade off for years and years of entertainment. You can always pay $20 on the AtBat App to listen to every teams radio calls and then you won't have to listen to Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Uecker.
80% of what's been said about Ueck in this thread is nonsense. Way to nitpick a 80+ year old man who's still far more enjoyable to listen to than 90% of the rest of the league's radio guys. Yeah, he never tells you the score mid- inning and he has trouble seeing things clearly at times. But I think he's earned the right to call games as long as he'd like.
PSVue has virtually unlimited "DVR" but again, no regional Fox Sports, no "big" FOX and no History channel. But you can get both FSN and FOX on separate apps, sans DVR. Those are my only complaints since switching from cable in December, really.
I have PSVue as well and I don't mind having to use the FOX Sports Go App to watch games. The only thing is there's no recording capabilities like there is with PSVue but other than that it's way better value than our old setup with DVR.
Personally, I'm rather indifferent towards today's news. This has Doug Melvin written all over it. Once it was announced that Doug wasn't leaving I kind of suspected we'd see a "Stan Kyles" approach to any coaching changes. I'm just surprised it was Iorg instead of the other Narron. To those who wanted Roenicke fired, what specifically did he do/not do to have you call for his job? What specific things would you have wanted the team to look for in a replacement?
I don't watch ESPN at all if it's not a live event. I have MLB Network so I watch that for Brewers highlights/big news and they're pretty balanced in their coverage. I don't really have a problem with anything ESPN says about my favorite teams. It's all about selling ads to them, not sport.
With that attitude I highly doubt you followed the Brewers one iota during the unbelievably barren years between 1993-2005. If you actually did follow them during that time you must have been the most unpleasant person to talk to regarding Brewers baseball. Were you trying to get people to not go to games then as well? I'm pretty sure the teams we trotted out back then did that well enough on their own. No one's happy the team has done so poorly the last couple weeks. However, I just don't see how two weeks of (very poorly timed) awful baseball equals a boycott.
The Brewers fought hard tonight. They came up short in the end but the effort was clearly there. That's all I can ask. Please win tomorrow, Crew. Make us dream, again.
I'd have replied to this sooner but when I first saw this post my eyes rolled all the way into the back of my head. [sarcasm]Why don't we just campaign to have the team move and tear down Miller Park while we're at it? I mean, after all, they've lost EIGHT games in a row![/sarcasm] Or..... we could just take a deep breath, relax and see what happens the rest of the way.
Awful news. Unfortunate that most of us didn't hear about these relationships he had with his minor leaguers and his colleagues until this happened. The man spent a good number of years working for the Brewers and judging by the reactions of a good number of people all over baseball he will be difficult to replace and deeply missed.
The UEFA Champions League Draw for the group stage was today. The results: Group A Atletico Madrid Juventus Olimpiakos Malmö Group B Real Madrid FC Basel Liverpool Ludogorets Group C Benfica Zenit Bayer Leverkusen AS Monaco Group D Arsenal Dortmund Galatasaray Anderlecht Group E Bayern Munich Man City CSKA Roma Group F Barcelona PSG Ajax Apoel Group G Chelsea Schalke 04 Sporting Lisbon Maribor Group H Porto Shakhtar Athletic Club de Bilbao BATE Borisov Good draw for Liverpool. Being in Pot 3 it was always going to be a bit of a tough draw but Real, Basel and Ludogorets is about as easy as it's going to get. Overall, I think Manchester United had the easiest draw. They won't be playing ANY difficult teams.