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  1. RU Rah Rah
    You do have a good point. The team has been succeeding lately; there's no question about that. And so I don't think it's totally ridiculous to accuse us of nit-picking over Kendall and Counsell. Still, the Brewers are not going to keep repeatedly playing last-place teams over the last 40 games. The next few series foes include the Dodgers, the Astros, the Cardinals, the Pirates (twice), and the Mets. The Pirates aside, those teams are actually halfway competent, and the Brewers are not going to win just by showing up (which is pretty much what happened in the Nats series; those four wins were pretty much freebies). And so I don't think it's absurd to point out some potential problems with the lineup, if those are things that can potentially hurt the team when other factors (scheduling, overperforming starting pitching) eventually even out.
  2. RU Rah Rah
    I hope you're not right, but part of me has exactly the same fear. Basically, the team is running 3/4 of an offense out there (6 competent batters instead of 8) -- and getting away with it, at least for now, because of the starting pitching and HR's. (Not to mention the schedule.) And speaking of the schedule: has anyone else noticed that the Astros are over .500 and playing well?
  3. RU Rah Rah
    Since July 1, Kendall is .186/.281/.248. Over that same span, Counsell is .179/.294/.214.
  4. RU Rah Rah
    (Laughs.) He has an obligation to rake, then.
  5. RU Rah Rah
    I think he's gotten almost weirdly defensive for someone who's a professional journalist. Yes, you are going to take some unfair shots, and it's human nature to want to respond in kind. But if you honestly believe that you know more than your blog critics about baseball in general and the Brewers in particular, then why would you let yourself get dragged into name-calling? Just point out the critics' errors and move on, or simply ignore them altogether.
  6. RU Rah Rah
    What really gets me about TH is his tone. It's not really that he has opinions, or chooses to take on posters; both of those things actually can be kind of entertaining. It's more how he does it that is borderline repulsive to me. I mean, "What a mind you have"? Up to this point, I've generally thought he's been tolerable, but my respect for him is really plummeting b/c of the blog.
  7. RU Rah Rah
    I also get what you are saying, but sometimes not jumping to conclusions is a good start. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/laugh.gif I dunno -- I think it's pretty logical to conclude (in the absence of evidence to the contrary) that players are healthy and available. Anyway, it's a moot point.
  8. RU Rah Rah
    I get what you're saying, but if the team wasn't forthcoming with injury info, how were fans supposed to know why Counsell was playing?
  9. RU Rah Rah
    I am waiting for trampoline to appear one afternoon on MSNBC. (Although that might be pretty cool, actually.) But, yeah, synch diving -- pretty low down on my list.
  10. RU Rah Rah
    That's it, in a nutshell.
  11. RU Rah Rah
    Hey, maybe it really is an oblique? Apparently, Paul Konerko also went out with an "intercostal strain" last month, and this is what the DL Informer had to say then. (Just thought it was interesting parallel, given the bat-swinging element.) Seriously, why call an oblique injury an intercostal strain? This is how Paul Konerko's injury was classified today, following an injury apparently sustained during batting practice. I highly doubt that Konerko strained an intercostal muscle while swinging a bat, especially since the intercostal muscles do not rotate the trunk. This seems to be the cop-out diagnosis of the year. In any event, a muscular strain in the lower rib/oblique area can be painful because of the amount of force generated during the swinging motion (I repeat - intercostal muscles do not rotate the trunk - they assist with exhalation (internal intercostals) or inhalation (external intercostals). This could be a mild oblique strain that takes a couple days to get over, or it could be something that lingers and requires a DL stint (like Gary Sheffield or Jake Westbrook). We'll have to await word of how he is feeling.
  12. RU Rah Rah
    I'm totally impressed with the team bronze in gymnastics, given the injury situation. Am I alone in finding beach volleyball really tedious?
  13. RU Rah Rah
    Didn't Bobby Crosby allegedly do this? I seem to remember it being some kind of freakish thing. (Not saying it happened to Braun, though.)
  14. RU Rah Rah
    Nice comments from Mark Spitz about not being invited to Beijing. (Sounds like it's from The Onion, almost.) US swim legend Mark Spitz won't be on hand in Beijing if Michael Phelps breaks his record of seven gold medals at a single Olympics-because, he says, no one bothered to invite him . . . "I never got invited. You don't go to the Olympics just to say, I am going to go. Especially because of who I am," Spitz told AFP in Hong Kong. "I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not almost-it is" . . . "They voted me one of the top five Olympians in all time. Some of them are dead. But they invited the other ones to go to the Olympics, but not me," he said. "Yes, I am a bit upset about it." Now a stockbroker and motivational speaker, Spitz also thinks he could have won eight golds himself in Munich if only he had had the chance. "I won seven events. If they had the 50m freestyle back then, which they do now, I probably would have won that too," he said.... Spitz thinks Phelps will succeed-for one very good reason. "He's almost identical to me. He's a world-record holder in all these events, so he is dominating the events just like I did," Spitz said. "He reminds me of myself."
  15. RU Rah Rah
    One of the funny things about the Central race is that you have these two sometimes fatalist fan bases (the Cubs and the Brewers) going head-to-head, so the level of angst/grumbling is bound to be fairly high. And I think that's somewhat inevitable whenever you're in the middle of a season, and you don't have much perspective. (Somewhere there are grumpy Angels fans, complaining about something.)
  16. RU Rah Rah
    He also went just 1-7 leaving 6 on base... Yeah, I am trying to imagine Braun wearing a size 6 collar through 12 innings against the Nats. (Possible, certainly, but not likely.)
  17. RU Rah Rah
    It's weird with Braun. I really thought it wasn't going to be a big deal when it happened last night. Let's hope some drugs can knock it down ASAP.
  18. RU Rah Rah
    I am not sure what booing accomplishes, but I definitely would have let out a groan (esp. after bomb #2).
  19. RU Rah Rah
    With a back, you never know. It's probably nothing, but it could nag at him, too.
  20. RU Rah Rah
    Not to comment one way or the other on the deal, but I swear that Gross has been featured in half the Rays highlights I have seen this season. He's had some big hits for them, although is overall numbers are not exactly eye-popping (OPS+ of 101). 8 HR in 171 AB, SLG of .433.
  21. RU Rah Rah
    Yes, technically, it was assault. One standard legal definition (not from Ohio code, but I'm sure it's in the ballpark) is that assault happens "when one person tries to physically harm another in a way that makes the person under attack feel immediately threatened." Of course, no prosecutor would waste time and money pursuing a brief shoving match when they are more substantive crimes out there to worry about -- murders, rapes, drug deals. However, what if Manny had fallen backward after getting shoved and cracked his head open? Or wrenched his knee? Then we very well could have seen criminal charges, or even a civil suit filed by Manny. (Had he been injured, the latter would have been fairly easy for him to win, given that the whole thing was caught on tape and Prince obviously was the aggressor.) I'm not saying that Prince should have been prosecuted for what he did -- that seems like a stretch -- but rather just pointing out some possibilities.
  22. RU Rah Rah
    "Snarky" is exactly right. His last few blog posts on the lineups have just reeked with it. I don't always like Ned's lineups, either, but TH's tone is becoming increasingly off-putting.
  23. RU Rah Rah
    I think playing three last-place teams in succession might also have something to do with the season turning around.
  24. RU Rah Rah
    With JJ, I think his rationale was that a day off today, plus the regular off day tomorrow, would give him two days off in a row, which would be good heading down the stretch. I might agree with that in another situation, but afeter has a point about the slump -- when you finally break out of an 0-for-29 funk, the last thing you need is a couple of days off. Of course, the same logic justifying sitting JJ (sneaking in two days off is good for regulars) should have applied to Kendall, too -- perhaps even more so because Kendall is a catcher and takes even more of a pounding than a SS.
  25. RU Rah Rah
    Well said. (And Latin-free!)
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