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Harrison needs a mound visit. He's completely out of sync.

Lost challenge again. Back to back walks seems bad, right?

Goldschmidt can retire any time now.

I was pretty surprised by that to be honest. Hopefully he doesn't have any setbacks.

Sorry I had to work and missed that one today. Highlights were fun. Also, after the last 6 years I don't even know what to do with a Brewers team who's actual record is worse than their Pythag. It's disorienting.

OT: It annoys me that MLB.tv excitedly tells me about "Price Drop!" for Brewers.tv when pro-rated it's actually more expensive per game and the "drop" is simply a reflection that 22% of the season is over with, so there are 22% fewer games I'd get access to. The "price drop" is only 10%, not 22%. Time to go find something productive to do instead of posting into the ether on brewerfanatic. 🤣

Ok so I'm bored without a Brewers game to watch and I ended up doing a dive into coverage of a 2009 brawl between the Brewers and Pirates that, as dumb as fights are, produced some of the best post brawl quotes in 50+ years of Brewers history. A sampler: Prince Fielder: "Who the **** is Delwyn Young?" Jason Kendall: "I'm not going to get yelled at by Dave Kerwin.* (Actual name was Joe Kerrigan, which reporters pointed out to Kendall, who then continued to refer to him as Dave Kerwin for the rest of the interview.) That one still makes me laugh almost 20 years later. Ken Macha: (Tool, but I appreciated this:) "So there's not going to be any back and forth from me in the newspaper. You can ask me 100 more questions. You're not getting anything." And... "Some guys like to read what they had to say."

Also, regarding Zerpa's need for TJ surgery: you can't convince me that's not related to the fast ramp up and participation in the WBC. The WBC sucks. I don't doubt that Zerpa would say it's not related and that he doesn't regret participation, so... so be it. But I hate it.

The WBC sucks.

I'm sure it was motivated by $ in that two months notice allows them to mitigate lost revenue in that they have 2 months to sell seats not held by those who were planning on going to tonight's game instead of 18 hours. It also makes it far more likely that the rescheduled game will be broadcast via the existing media contract. It's always the $ first, second and third. I don't doubt that if they'd asked the Cardinals baseball people would have preferred a delayed reschedule but I doubt they even gave them the option. Money 1st, 2nd and 3rd is the MLB way. The Brewers playing 18 games in 17 days now in late June and early July? Nobody in a position to make those decisions likely even noticed and if they did they certainly didn't care.

I mean, it's asinine not to play the DH tomorrow but the upside is that, at least imo, the Cardinals will have faded badly by July? I'd get mad about the fact that it loads another game into a brutal stretch of games without a day off but it's literally what MLB always does. Player safety? lol. They don't care about that. They care immensely, however, about building enough notice into the schedule that they lose as little money as possible on a cancellation, and that means playing it weeks later regardless of other considerations so there's enough time to schedule it as a day - night double header. sell seats etc. That's MLB in a nutshell.

God dammit I hate losing to the Cardinals.

ok, well, NOW it feels like one of those nights even to me....

Rengifo comes through! 4 more of those and we're in the lead. lol

Let's get some runs Non-zero chance that is correct. Also possible that some guys got some pushback for bad challenges the last few days

It's May 4th!

well, ****.

I've seen/heard like 6 Cardinals fan write/say the same thing fwiw.

Still early!

How are we still small balling when the inning starts with a double? lol

Chourio's 1.000 batting average is sustainable, right?

OT: While what Priester did last year imo makes the trade a win for the Brewers almost no matter what happens from here, Yophery Rodriguez's #'s a month into the season: .296 /.374 /.605 /.979 These are inflated by 6 home runs in 81 at bats which isn't sustainable, but I was sad to see him go out at the time. https://www.milb.com/player/yophery-rodriguez-806983#stats-block He's repeating the level at High A at age 20. We'll see how he does if/when the Sox move him to AA.

Was at the TRats game last night. Dickinson needed to eat that throw. Line drive when off of Galindez glove and by the time Dickinson got to it, even though he reacted well, the play was already blown and he had no shot at the runner. The extra base the E gave up ended up costing them a run. It was a mental error compounded by a physical one because he rushed the throw on a play he had no chance to make. Completely brutal night for Fischer at the plate until the end. Lot of chirping between the dugouts/teams after the top of the 8th as Owen worked his way out of a jam. Dinges is a guy who I've seen enough now to say plays with an edge to his game that sometimes helps and sometimes doesn't (he was pulled very early in a game I was at last homestand after some pretty demonstrative signs of frustration behind the plate after he was slow to locate a wild pitch and gave up a base he probably should have prevented; I don't know that that's why, but he wasn't hurt, and of all the TRats on the roster he's the guy I've seen react to comments from the stands the most).., Anyway Dinges gave the TRats a path out of a jam in the 8th by throwing behind the runner at 1B and catching him off the bag. Rundown ensued, but the runner on 2B broke for 3rd, so Baez went after the lead runner throwing to Fischer, who ran at the runner who was now retreating to 2B (which was no occupied by the runner who Dinges caught off of 1B at the start of the play). Fischer kept the run down to a single throw by forcing the lead runner to retreat almost all the way to 2B while it was still occupied. Really well executed stuff in my opinion, starting with Dinges awareness and throw behind the runner between 1st and 2nd base. Dinges and Baez also combined to get an out at the plate in the 1st inning. With runners on the corners and 1 out, the Bandits runner at 1st tried to steal 2nd. Dinges threw to 2nd even though the runner on 3rd was already off the bag. The throw to 2nd was likely going to be late, but when the runner on 3rd broke for home Baez moved towards home to take the throw, fired back to Dinges who got the runner on the forearm with a sweep tag. It was a bad slide by the Bandits runner, as he slid with his legs to right of the plate and tried to catch the plate with his hand going by. If he'd have slid into the plate with his feet he would have beaten the tag, but Dinges took the throw and got him on the extended arm in time even though the runners feet were even or past the plate by then. I'm guessing/hoping that the neurologist consult for Pena is purely precautionary. Heat/dehydration is a pretty odd circumstance given the fact that was spring and relatively cool on the night he collapsed in the dugout, so my guess is that they want to rule out the possibility that it was a seizure of some sort. From personal/family experience I've seen medical providers ask for that follow up some time when they're struggling to identify the cause for syncope. There are other possibilities but the comment from Adams seems unlikely if the imaging etc. they've done so far suggested a referral to a specialist because the radiologist saw something they didn't like.

I get that it matters less than old guys like me once thought, but on a team that relies as much on speed as this one does putting the ball in play is more important than it would be for a team like the Diamondbacks whose lineup primarily relies on slugging to score runs. Not that I wouldn't use him. I would and given the current alternatives I'd use him most of the time. But the strikeouts matter in my opinion.