strawbossisevil

Walks turn into runs. Greinke two walks, both have scored. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif

Goodness, there is some Cards fan being over the top obnoxious on every pitch....and booo. Come on Greinke.

I think the grandslams and terrible pitching had more to do with either of those losses than Yuni's defense. He did not cost us either of those games. His hit brought in the run, without which we would have lost the game. You can't be serious that there is no difference. If any post could be properly described as "trolling", these last couple come mighty close.

I want to thank the Cardinals for bringing to the public's attention the medical challenges of those who suffer from shingles.

Sure I watched the games. Both games were blowouts. His defense did not cost us either game. To make any such assertion is simply trying to be contrarion. Clearly blind hatred of a player doesn't even allow objectivity in this case. Without his hit, the Brewers season is over. That's a fact. He didn't cost us the series, but his play went a long way toward us winning the series, and that's a fact as well.

One could suggest that the Brewers wouldn't be in the NLCS if we didn't have Yuni as our SS. Like it or not, that is a very real possibility. How good he truly is, is beside the point. The Brewers are in the NLCS in large part to his efforts. This is exactly the opposite of the rantings and ravings all season about how he would "cost us in the playoffs." Well, that proved false. We remain in the playoffs because of him. I think this just serves as an example of how a point can be overstated and overblown. Yes, he is bad defensively and no great shakes at the plate, but would any of the supposed replacements that some were suggesting come through in that biggest of moments? Maybe, but probably not. Instead of having a pout-party about how much we don't like him, let's focus on our energies on encourging him and cheering him. It's time to be fans, not critics.

I'm still waiting to see Logan to post something, heck, anything positive about Betancourt. He's a Brewer, at least acknowledge that he came up with one of the most vital hits in our franchise's history. Without that hit, we'd be talking about who we hate the most, Arizona or St. Louis. I just think there is so much "hate" there that a compliment can't be paid. Prove me wrong. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

This is the playoffs. No point in saving your closer.

Surprised Bloomquist wasn't tossed there, the way he showed up the umpire.

Love the four camera option on mlb.tv. It's fun to see Rick Kranitz stressing out about Yo's pitches.

Jjfanec, that is exactly right. Top end pitching prospects are currently overvalued. Getting one in a trade like Buccholz or Niemann would have cost us at least as much as the Greinke or Marcum trades, if not more and when you consider the flame out rate of prospect pitchers, it's even harder. For every Buccholz there is a Homer Bailey. I think my biggest issue with ThCrew's argument is that it is always based on these hypothetical prospect pitcher trades, but please look around baseball. How many top pitching prospects change hands? It hardly ever happens. It happened with the Rays getting Garza, but they had to give up baseball's top rated prospect to get him. Of course one can always point to the absolute fleecing of the Mets a few years earlier by the Rays, but that had to do more with absolutelty horrific GMing by the Mets (there is a reason that GM is no longer running a club). Point is trades for top rung pitching prospects happened only a couple of times over the past decade. The argument isn't very realistic. As other's have pointed out, if the Brewers wouldn't have made this offseason's trades they would have remained in their "good" but not "great" run. Very few teams have been ever able to make postseason runs using the prospect only model. The only modern example was the Rays in 2008. Despite that one year of success, the Rays since then have remained in that "good" but not "great" category of teams, and that has been the case despite having the best farm system of any team in recent memory. If their farm system leaves them out of the playoffs more often than in the playoffs, what would that mean for the Brewers if they followed that model?

I've had two Vaios go down on me in less than a year after purchasing it. Unless you are going to spend a significant amount of money to get something like a Macbook, I think all laptops can essentially be expected to last 2-3 years. I tuck away money every month so that I have enough to purchase a new one after three years. Funny thing is, the laptop that has lasted me the longest is my current laptop, an Acer Aspire. It was also one of the cheapest I've purchased.

Come on Hernandez...you´ve been calling that all night. Booo.

That a way Yuni!!! Big run!

YES!!!!!

That´s a St. Louis Cardinal type hit. They´ve had all of the dinks and bloops go their way lately. Hopefully McGehee can bring Plush home.

Wow Hernandez. No concept of where the strikezone should be.

What a absolutely horrific game on defense all around. Absolutely brutal. Well, at least we have the big boys coming up. It´s probably score this inning or we´ll lose.

Wow. Just. Wow.

Whoever the idiot in the crowd who is screaming like a Yeti, needs to shut up. So annoying.

Well, if we lose this game we have no one to blame but ourselves. Both Braun and Fielder cost us a run.

How many of these little dips and dunks does this Cardinals team hit. Unbelievable.

Yeah, Prince should have never thrown that home. He is extremely fortunate.

Yep, the inning shouldn't have even gotten to this point for the Marlins, as Patterson's flyball should have been caught. The Marlins have just choked this game, and this series away. That and the Cardinals have caught a lot of breaks in the series.

A shame we didn't sit Betancourt like many were suggesting a week ago. We could have avoided all of these recent, horrible, horrible performances he;'s been having.