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Are prime Turang, Conteras, Miz, and Chourio just chopped liver?

Lest things get taken way out of context like often occurs I am again by no means saying that Murphy sucks and shouldn’t be our manager. By and large I don’t really think there are any “special” managers and most just either win or lose 2-3 games during the course of a season and this can vary from season to season, Ned Yost won a World Series, presumably he was a very good manager that year. Would we all consider Ned Yost a very good manager in hindsight ? All I’m saying is that it’s far more organizational here and if they replaced Murphy with Rickie Weeks or whoever else tomorrow the beat is just going to go on and they are not going to suddenly devolve into an 85 win team.

I’m not saying Counsell was “better” by any means but this is not a fair or apples to apples comparison when you’re talking about managers that took over their respective teams at very different times and when the organization was in a much different place.

This is getting absolutely ridiculous for Biloxi.

Unpopular opinion: Pat Murphy isn’t special and doesn’t really do anything for the club as far as adding wins. He’s fine, and he’s a good players’ advocate type guy and this probably kind of evens out his deficiencies in tactical game decisions, I guess. He's having similar success to what Counsell did in this era. And if they replaced him with Weeks tomorrow the Brewers would still win 90-100 games under Weeks. It’s just more of an organizational thing and the manager is just sort of the personality that happens to be along for the ride.

Two games which could very easily end up being the H2H tiebreaker for the number 2 seed and a first round bye down the line.

I’ll give you two major differences. 1) their bullpen is flat out better. That was essentially the difference today. 2) they don’t have to resort to a Joey Ortiz or Blake Perkins in their starting lineup when someone throws a LHP at them.

4-6 in their last 10. Not a disaster, but not great baseball lately.

No you’re right. They swept us. To the original point — when it mattered, we were not in their league. We did not look like we belonged on the same field. Because we did not address weaknesses on our roster during the season and came in with a playoff roster that could not hope to compete against them.

Sorry, do you mean the regular season sweep that the Dodgers regularly sleepwalk their way through because they know they can, or the playoff sweep when they actually start to take things seriously and subsequently made us look like a High A farm league team?

They threw Miz and Harrison at them. Of course they weren’t going to lose by a bunch. But they still got outplayed by a better team. They may lose by 8 tomorrow.

Holy small sample size. Serious contending teams still aren’t starting a .157 hitter for three straight games, even if he had a randomly oscillating non-awful small stretch of hitting.

Not in Atlanta’s league. We threw our two best starters at them and couldn’t take one game. Keep throwing unserious players like Perkins, Frelick, and Ortiz against elite teams and you’re not going to win.

Ashby is lucky that that Albies didn’t hit that hanger 475 feet.

Well then the Brewers commentators are wrong.