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Weeks is as bad right now as I've ever seen any Major League Baseball player be. Just an atrocious season.
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Seriously Wolf...the Astros? This is the best you can do?
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I was begging that the Brewers would attempt to trade Wolf after his fluke of a 2011 and utilize that money better elsewhere. No such luck. Not much you can say except "Well, at least he wasn't as bad as Suppan".
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If you don't want a human element, then why even bother having on-field umpires? Put a few guys up in a booth somewhere with some TV monitors and 'Pitch Track' or whatever. This way, we wouldn't have to worry about a call being overturned. Personally, I don't want to watch games in which every close play results in a five minute delay, but that's me. There have been blown calls throughout baseball history, and officiating is probably no worse these days than it has ever been. The problem is that with every single game televised and the internet, every blown call becomes an international incident. You know this is an extreme exaggeration, especially if done right with someone already up in a booth looking at the play. If this individual in the booth is vigilant and already reviewing the play immediately after it occurs, there's really no reason it should take more than 30 seconds or so even on the closest of calls. You could easily say that a call that can't be overturned in 60 seconds from when it is called for is inconclusive and thus stands. That's a very minimal amount of time -- a manager argument, a visit to the mound, even a timeout at the plate, etc. Very few calls are close enough to warrant review. You're not going to be looking at balls and strikes or every out at a base, you're going to be looking at bang-bang base calls or close line calls, and in almost any game there's only going to be a small handful of those.
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Roster construction problems with this team
adambr2 replied to adambr2's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
This is not to say the season is over, it's not. But here's what scares me the most. If things aren't looking up by June, it's probably just not going to be a successful season. At that point, the thing I will probably be most excited about is our young arms in the minors. However, Doug and Mark have an extremely aggressive philosophy where they're going to go for it in just about any possible scenario and sell in just about no scenario, so the idea of them gutting the farm completely to go trade for a rented ace in July when we're 5 games under .500 and really in no position to buy, isn't that farfetched. Sounds insane, but it's the exact same thing we tried to do in 2009, and would have done if Halladay didn't void the deal to come here. I can't say enough about what Mark A's done for the organization, and it's commendable that he's always willing to do whatever it takes to be a winner, but using the farm almost primarily now to buy major league pieces isn't a sustainable philosophy. You can keep trying it, and you might give yourself a chance a few years like we did in '08 and '11, but eventually we're going to be left with a nightmare scenario of a high payroll of very overpaid aging veterans with absolutely no viable future replacements at any position of any high upside, and that's the point where we won't have any choice left but to rebuild. -
They don't always get the calls right, but they get a lot more than they otherwise would. They don't always get them right because there is still that non-reviewable "subjective" element. (holding, pass interference, etc). I am sure that when the automobile was invented, many traditionalists of that time swore up and down that they would never need more than a horse and buggy to get around, but eventually it was accepted that technology offered a better way to do things. Change is inevitable, and if they instituted full replay next year, baseball would go on and 20 years from now it would still be going on and still be popular. Every time in professional sports something new comes around that threatens the tradition of the game; i.e, gloves back in the 1800's, helmets, smaller ballparks, biomechanics, bullpen roles, etc, people panic that it's going to ruin the game. But it never does, and as much as people complain about instant replay in the NFL, the NFL is even more popular than it was before instant replay. The strike season of 1994 season and the steroid era of the late 90's and early 2000's came and went, and the game survived, as it would survive instant replay.
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I would like to think that last year's 13-19 team means this one could turn it around too, but it ain't happening this year. This team just isn't good enough. I think it's going to be more like 2009/2010.
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Hmm.. I wonder what will happen here on 3-0.
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Feels like we are striking out in every AB today.
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Why do announcers say "not sure where that missed" when it it pretty clear where the pitch missed? It missed outside, Rock. It was really, really, really close, but you know exactly where it missed.
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I'm shocked to look at the numbers and see that Hart is still sporting an OPS over .900. It feels like he hasn't looked good since the beginning of the season.
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I always found it surprising that in this day and age of instant answers/results and technology, even multi-billion dollar industries like the NFL and MLB cannot get MRI's done for them on the weekend.
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Eventually you just realize that Rickie has about 3000 career AB's under his belt and probably isn't going to get better than he is. (not that he'll hit .184 all year, but he's never going to develop into the player that many of us had hoped for).
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Agree. Ramirez isn't fast by any means, but the right fielder is making that catch on the run with his momentum carrying him towards the stands. You definitely take the shot given the game situation, it's still going to take a good throw to get him.
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I'm very bothered by the fact that a 6 IP, 4 ER game from Randy Wolf isn't very disappointing right now.
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Ramirez. Is this your first baseball game?
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Booing Bonds is not the issue. I'm not saying they should have booed Bonds. I'm saying if you're going to excuse or condone Bonds, it's pretty hypocritical to act like Braun's supposed actions were despicable.
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After hearing the Giants fans react to Braun both in spring training and now, I can't imagine that there is a bigger bunch of hypocrites in professional sports than San Francisco Giant fans. You're really going to cheer on Bonds to the very end like he was some kind of hero but then you're going to act like Braun is the devil?
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If every ball that Rock says is "a homerun in most ballparks" really was, most players would average around 50 HR's per season.
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Whew. That definitely looked like a 3-3 game off the bat.
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Yeah, it's really hard to tell who was/is a bigger defensive liability at 3rd, McGehee or Ramirez.
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Hugggge hit by Lucroy bailing Alex out there.
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Way to help out a guy that can't find the strike zone, Alex. Well done.
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I disagree. They can be intentionally precise right on the corner without being an inch off. Why should a pitcher be rewarded for a pitch that by definition, should be called a ball, just because the umpire is deceived? Scoring is down enough as it is without hitters having to expand the corners of the zone to account for such things. I agree with you that position of the catchers glove and how far he has to reach is often a determining factor in whether a ball or strike is called, but by rule it's not supposed to be that way.
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Very nervous that it sounds like Ishikawa is going to be our everyday first baseman. First base is a premium hitters position. When your first baseman is the weakest bat in your lineup, that's not good.