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I agree with all this except the part about Grisham being expendable. Braun and Cain do not make anyone expendable at this point in their careers, and Ben Gamel doesn't make anyone expendable because he's Ben Gamel. Urias may be worth the price, but Grisham is greatly missed in our outfield and future OF.
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Great game. Nice to see Middleton play well.
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Has anyone lost confidence in Stearns
adambr2 replied to brewers888's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Grisham may be sorely, sorely missed. It wasn't long ago when we had outstanding outfield depth on this team. Now the future of our outfield is Christian Yelich, ??, and ?? -
Has anyone lost confidence in Stearns
adambr2 replied to brewers888's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
The club option (1+) to a few FA guys was a rather underrated move, IMO. Bring back who we want in 2021 and get rid of the those that didn't do well. In the mean time, they can build/trade to fill holes. I appreciated the strategy behind the club options when they happened, but very few if any look like they're actually going to be exercised. -
For as good of a reputation as David Stearns has we are almost halfway through the season and his offseason acquisitions have been almost universal failures across the board. Lindblom Narvaez Holt Smoak Sogard Morrison, have all been spectacular failures. Garcia has been about the best of the bunch and he hasn't been good.
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You never know when you'll need a guy to turn a three run deficit into a 7 run deficit. There really ought to be a 10 run rule in MLB. Next man up. Might as well give Phil Bickford a shot.
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May as well have had Perdomo finish the game because he'll never be pitching in a Brewer uniform again.
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#phrasing It was on purpose. I get that Hiura could have a big future and maybe it’s the Millers talking but I’m just tired of his crap this past few days. It’s not like we are winning with him. Teach him a lesson. He just turned 24 and has a 130 OPS+ for his career and is the best prospect that has come through our system the last 5 years. I get the frustration with various guys but Keston has been largely successful through almost 500 major league plate appearances so I think there's some perspective needed there. Didn't see the pop-up that he dogged, no excuse for that if it happened and if they give him a day off to think about it that's fine, but he isn't the first guy in the Counsell era to do that and by and large that has never resulted in a long-term benching so I don't know what would be different this time. It's not like Counsell has a slew of better options to throw out there. Keston is a guy that we need in the lineup and hitting the way he's capable of if we are going to make the playoffs.
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He's young and developing. He's still had a better offensive season than almost every other player in this lineup. He needs to play, not sit for a week.
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I can't believe how awful Brock Holt has been. I thought that was a reasonably decent signing.
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I could deal with Sogard if he was used as the bench guy that his abilities have been suited for his entire career. Counsell, no doubt, loves the guy. It was like this even before he got released a couple years ago.
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We are several games under .500 this year when Eric Sogard starts and several over .500 when he rides the pine. I'm just saying.
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Houser has not been particularly good his last few outings.
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Yeah, this was my take as well. I never felt watching like they are back in command. They did play better defensively than Game 1, but Orlando did miss a ton of open looks in the first half-- we all know if we shot as poorly as they did we would point to it as an unsustainable oddity. To sum it up, they're still not playing the basketball they're capable of. It's enough to get them through Orlando but they have some work to do after that.
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What else do you do? This is not a rhetorical question. What else can they do? I'm not saying this was a great plan, but it's the one MLB and the players BOTH agreed to. The Marlins thing was handled like crap but ever since then I think things have been handled about as well as can be expected. It IS the cost of having a season. Don't know what else can really be done without just shutting it all down.
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Nice win, but they certainly have a lot of work to still do. 20 turnovers is far too many, and Middleton continues to be an enormous negative. They are fortunate that Orlando shot so poorly in the first half. Regardless, got the win when they really needed it. It just wasn't the "they're back" win I was hoping for. Maybe in Game 3.
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MLB should start putting the "No Hitter Watch" icon by our games as soon as the opening pitch is thrown.
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If there's a negative today, it's that Middleton is once again a total playoff no-show. I don't expect him to carry the team but seeing a 1 for 8, 2 point, 3 turnover line out of a guy you just invested 35M a year in is a little disturbing. You can maybe get away with it against Orlando but against the Heat or Celtics these performances are going to make things tough. He had a great regular season. Either he's just going through a major funk or he just can't handle the lights when they get brighter.
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Are we allowed to breathe on them without being whistled?
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To be fair they are shooting out of their minds bad. 4 for 34 and 1 for 15 from 3. They are going to be hard pressed to meet their end of 119-101.
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We should not write off the Magic so quickly. It's not just one game. We're in a funk. We've been in a funk the last 15 games or so. We can't pretend everything is the same as it was in February. It's not just us. The Lakers lost. The Clippers lost. Things just are just different than they were. We need a nice 15-20 point win to start getting some confidence back and avoid a dangerous 0-2 hole where we'll REALLY start pressing, and I think we'll get it. Bucks 119, Magic 101
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This alone would never have happened 15, maybe 10 years ago. Within my conscious lifetime, we've had Jeremy Shockey say he wouldn't "stand for" a gay player in his locker room, to very little blow black, and Ken Griffey Jr. make headlines by saying a gay teammate wouldn't bother him. I distinctly remember a game from around...2008 I think. It could have been 2007 but I think '08. Early on in BAs career. The camera panned to a lesbian couple, one of which got excited about something in the game and reacted to it and BA mistakenly said, "That young man is locked IN." There was an awkward pause and Bill said, "I don't think that's a young MAN." Another awkward pause before BA finished with "Yikes..." Anyway, I don't know why this conversation made me think of this (and I'm not saying BA had any ill intent), but it certainly shows the difference between now and just back 10-12 years ago. A conversation like that would be much more noticed now.
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Why does it matter? Whatever he says is obviously nothing more than attempted damage control at that point. An apology is fine when you have a slip of the tongue on the air or make a joke that you later realize is in bad taste, both of which happen. This is nothing like that, what was said was fully intended and he obviously believes it so I don't really know what the point of any apology is as it is meaningless.
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LOL. Brett is hilarious.
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The GIDP was still in play, but I would absolutely walk them loaded there for the force at home. Counsell has historically not done it that way, though.