PeaveyFury

Dang it... good call by Dale to stop him, but if he had sent him, that throw from Dunn to the plate was horrible.

Nice work by Jenks to keep the runner from scoring.

Feels like we're on the verge of disaster here.... EDIT: Or not. Way to go Doug!

A bunt hit by the pitcher ends up tying the game...ugh.

Calling it right now: Prince with 30+ HR's this year...

If I'm Nedley, I'm thinking about giving Kolb a look in the closer role the next time Turnbow blows a save and costs us a game. If I'm Ned, I'm thinking nothing of the kind.

T-bow's our closer and Kolb threw 2 innings yesterday. Other than that, great idea. Heh. No kidding.

That 0-1 pitch was clearly a strike.

This is a fantastic move by Narron... he's using his best reliever in a non-save situation that nonetheless is really important. You wouldn't think it'd be rocket science, but I'd guess 90 percent or more of MLB managers wouldn't be doing this. Of course, right on cue it horribly backfires. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

Man, that pitch to LaRue right before he hit the HR was clearly strike 3.

Ack. We're in for a fight tonight.

Good work by both Lee and Prince there. Get Zack the win!

Then again, it's probably not in his best developmental interests to just be sitting in the bullpen for the rest of the season. And that's my concern as well. It's going to be hard to send him back to the minors at some point if he keeps this up and the injured pitchers start coming back.

I'm developing quite the man-crush on Zack Jackson. If he keeps this up, it's going to be real hard to send him back to AAA when Helling comes back.

I'll give a guy with 20 HR and 50 RBI a little more slack than a guy who leads the NL in strikeouts and K's in essentially every RISP opportunity Jenkins RISP 2-outs: .417/.500/.792, 1.292 OPS, 16 RBI, 6K Lee RISP 2-outs: .233/.439/.467, .906 OPS, 11 RBI, 2K. Interesting?

Tied back up... way to go Carlos!

Do I need to say how bad Jenkins sucks? I don't think so. Of course people weren't here praising him for his nice AB and walk his first time up.....

Anyone else still trying to figure out why Rich Aurilia is hitting cleanup?

When a guy is stinking it up as bad as Jenkins is and still continues to be in the lineup everyday and for some odd reason stays in the best hitters' position in the order (3rd) it isn't out of the realm of thinking to call the player a "buddy" of the manager. So when Carlos was sucking it up in the 2nd half of the season last year and hitting in the cleanup spot, it was perfectly ok to say that the only reason that continued was because he was Ned's 'Buddy,' right? Helms did nothing to merit starting, yet for some reason got to play and stunk it up. Helms actually was Ned's friend, and didn't start everyday since early 2004. I fail to see how that proves your point.

In both threads I withdrew because we seem to be incapable of having a civil discussion. I guess I fail to see how either of the threads has been uncivil. The truth is that I find it thoroughly unpleasant to have a discussion with someone who throws about words and phrases like 'Evil' ( a word I use about people like Hitler rather than the Brewers as you characterise me), 'mental-cases' (a phrase I happily don't use at all and thought had been dropped by most thinking human beings) and 'talking out of both sides of your mouth' (a phrase I find unnecesarily rude). If that's what you view as uncivil, then you're being a bit overly sensitive. "Talking out of both sides of your mouth" is a phrase that is used pretty much every day where I live, so I'm not sure what the problem is. And I fail to see how your opinion of the organization can be seen as good, as it is quite apparent that you fail to see anything that the Brewers do as far as player development goes as good or appropriate, regardless of whether it actually is. Referring to them as the "Evil Brewers" is a bit of hyperbole, which is a common method used in writing to emphasise a point. I fail to see how you can legitimately take offense to that. As I said, your continued claims that the Brewers' prospects are routinely "hurting their confidence" or get them upset by calling them up or sending them down or trying to improve their mechanics or whatever paint them in a very poor light emotionally and mentally. If those 'examples' are what causes you to think that the discussion isn't civil, I think you're overreacting. If you choose to think that iI'm dropping out of conversation with you because I cower before your irrefutable logic, please do so and I hope it makes you feel warm and fuzzy. No, that is not my claim or feeling. But when you withdraw from a debate where you heavily slam the organization after people raise valid points that challenge your argument, it certainly looks like you're sulking away because you don't have an answer, whether that's correct or not. I come here for relaxation and polite intelligent discussion And I come here for intelligent discussion as well, and expect it to be based around evidence and facts. If you're not prepared to defend your constant allegations that the Brewers' organization is mistreating players and hurting their development, what kind of discussion are you actually engaging in?

Jenkins sitting??? That would be a laugh. No way Ned is going to sit his old "buddy". I love how somewhere out of the blue Jenkins is now Ned's 'buddy' because somebody on the internet thinks so.

I'm not going to get into this again with you, I'm entirely happy you disagree and you're free to paraphrase my arguments in whatever wild fashion you care to. How exactly was what I paraphrased inconsistent with your argument? I'd also imagine that I'm not the only one on this board who has had dealings with mental illness and you throwing around phrases like 'mental cases', is not only distasteful but entirely unnecessary in the context of a supposedly civilized conversation about baseball. Like I said, you talk about the psyches of these players as if they're poor mistreated guys who are destroyed mentally and/or emotionally every time the organization promotes or demotes them or whatever. I don't think that's the case at all, and I think you're the one that is portraying these guys in an unflattering light. I'm done with this thread So that's two of the last threads where you slammed the organization heavily for supposed mistreatment of players, that you've withdrawn yourself from the threads when people raise counterpoints that question the basis of your argument.... stick around and have an actual debate, don't sulk away.

They let a potentially excellent 2B pay little or no attention to his D, promoted him continually despite his failures and I hate to think that they may have left it all too late and robbed us of the privelege of seeing a guy who could have been a genius in the field as well as at the plate. Ah, so they're not promoting Hart/Sarfate/whoever when they're ready to produce, but when they justly promote Weeks the Evil Brewers are just as guilty. Coaches can only coach, at some point the players have to take responsibility for their own play. I'm quite sure that the Brewers have been trying their best to get Weeks to straighten his defense out. Krynzel I think is entirely more tenuous, but I think they screwed very badly with his confidence in the middle of his second year at Huntsville. How exactly did they do that? The way you talk about these guys (Hendrickson and Krynzel) you'd think that they're mental cases that fall to pieces at the drop of a hat. If there's a side at fault in the Krynzel-Brewers relationship, I think Krynzel's actions this past offseason didn't exactly treat the organization well.

Of the top prospects, Krynzel, Hendrickson, Hart, Sarfate, Eveland and Weeks just off the top of my head. I would LOVE to hear a reason for how Krynzel and Weeks have been mishandled.

Capellan bats to lead off the inning? I see what they're doing, but Cirillo has to be at least considered there....