JohnA17

You have to think Braun got mixed up on how many outs there were or thought it was gone. That ball was in the air long enough for him to score.

Wow the third base coach really gave a run away there. Hart would have scored easily. You can't give away runs like that against Zambrano.

When you watch this team play today, both on offense and defense, you have to wonder what a miracle it is they made the playoffs. They are sooo slump prone and can look so easy to pitch to and beat. I hope we don't get no hit

Man this is just an ugly inning, the Weeks error was much worse but Cameron is supposed to money on plays like that. uggh

Not that I disagree our bullpan sucks but the pathetic hitting with RISP has been a bigger problem than the bullpen IMO. Thank god it is just random variance and we can expect a surge with RISP any time now.

It's been like that all year, we just hit enough homers and win enough one runners to cover it. But it has been our achilles heal and at this moment seems to be bringing us down.

I doubt this was the case here since it was a nice rebound by the SS, but I have been watching the opponents announcers a lot lately and there have been a lot of comments about lollygagging jogs down to first by the Brewers that have been pointed out. Sort of a fundemental flaw that has bugged me all year about the Brewers but doesn't seem to be addressed by our manager.

He is here to extend the misery of us Brewer fans, I was wondering what would finally bring us down this year. Oh well, at least it is football season, I usually stop paying attention to the Brewers at this time anyway so Gagne is just in time. Yost will be let go after the season, that is a bright side.

What's funny is how so many of us thought "what do we have to lose?" when we signed Gagne. The thinking being if he blows up it is only a one year deal. Wow. OK it's not funny it's really very sad.

I have to say it, how is a pitcher with a 6 and half ERA still pitching for a playoff contender down the stretch? I have seen nothing from Gagne all year except the occasional luck that any pitcher gets now and then. Again and again he gets hammered when he goes out there and we just put him out there in a 2-1 game that we HAVE to win. It's politics, no reason he should be on the team except to cover the GM's ass for signing him and it may cost us the playoffs.

Wow it sure has been hidden by our starters but out bullpen really sucks, I had little hope we could hold this one 2-1. They really may as well release Gagne, he has been consistently bad throughout the year.

Yeah I know, I just can't seem to shake the old "the brewers will let us down in the end" feeling. Games like this always throw me into a negative funk, if the Cards would have blows us out I would have shrugged it off. Totally irrational on my part but it comes with so many uears of losing. Heck we may even still win this one.

Man you could just feel this game getting away the last few innings, getting out of that bases laoded jam was just a repreive. The cards woke up just in time.

I'm not trying to harp on you here I really am not but what you are really seeing is a slow start that takes forever to fix. Fielder has an OPS of .917 since June 2nd and he has been pretty steady over that timeframe. He just had a pretty mediocre April/May and hasn't been able to make up for it quite yet. I agree he hasn't had the year I expected out of him but he has hardly been bad either.I know he had a bad start but even the OPS since June is well below his numbers last year. Again he is good but not great, just disappointing for me after the 50 homer, 1.000+ OPS, runner up MVP season he had last year. Plus when he came up I thought he would be a much better contact hitter than he has become.

I'm not trying to harp on you here I really am not but what you are really seeing is a slow start that takes forever to fix. Fielder has an OPS of .917 since June 2nd and he has been pretty steady over that timeframe. He just had a pretty mediocre April/May and hasn't been able to make up for it quite yet. I agree he hasn't had the year I expected out of him but he has hardly been bad either.But that OPS since June is still well below the 1.000 something he did last year. We hoped we had one of those special players and this year he has been another one of those just good ones. Again probably something for a regular thread not a game thread. He has actually done well tonight, the strikeout set me off is all. I never said he was bad, but coming out of the minors I expected a better contact hitter than he has become, maybe I was mislead.