adambr2

That was my thought....how was this not identified a week, a month, six months ago? I’m sure it was on their radar Clearly not.

This is such an embarrassment for the NFL. You knew you were going to play a game on a CFL field and you didn't verify ahead of time how you were deal with it to create appropriate field conditions?

You don't say.

Well there’s our “Ace” bullpen arm. That would be fantastic. But perhaps we should let him appear in an actual MLB game again before we get too far ahead of ourselves.

Schildt sounded annoyed that they called the game, like it was our fault and they were going to win otherwise. Get a roof on your stadium if you don't like the rules.

I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you, that you've changed your position again in less than a day. Real question is, what if he goes "all in" but doesn't extend Hiura 8 years? Does he still have to go? Asking for a friend. Not really, just resigned to the fact he’s not leaving anytime soon. Not really sure why he wouldn’t extend Hiura, unless Hiura doesn’t want to. I don’t know, maybe you can come up with a good reason not to extend a 70+ hit tool player? Well, and I say this as someone who is a Hiura fan and wouldn't mind extending him: 1) Maybe they are concerned about his glove at 2nd 2) Maybe they are waiting to see if the DH will be implemented in the NL 3) Maybe they don't see the buying of two additional years as worth the risk/reward of guaranteeing that money now when they are currently protected against injury or underperformance 4) Maybe they don't want to distract Hiura and his camp with extension talks during the season 5) Maybe they think he's a better fit for an AL team and plan to shop him in the offseason I don't know. Is that enough reasons? I just cannot reconcile myself to the idea that 6 months ago, you were the loudest singer of praises of David Stearns and told anyone who would listen about the powerhouse of a 40 man roster that he built and that he had earned our trust and today, literally half a year later, after a season that has been a disappointment at 65-62, but not a disaster, you want the man replaced. Would you want someone such as yourself, who wants massive change at the slightest hint of a bump in the road, in charge of an MLB organization?

Call the game, please. I trust mother nature to protect a 2 run lead much more than I trust our bullpen.

Tyrone Taylor is essentially a non-prospect at this point and could be a 40 man casualty anytime we need the space. I hardly even know what to think of any analysis that he could just come right up and replace Cain's production.

Time to get ruthless time to get Steinbrennerish! TPlush did better than I could explaining the ridiculous amount of mistakes that Stearns made this year. Close doesn’t get the cigar. Stearns did not have a great season. I don't think even his strongest supporters will deny that. However, looking at the larger track record, he took over a franchise in the middle of a rebuild with no a weak farm, made some great deals to turn it around in 2 years, and has had them in contention every year since including a division title and one win from the Series. Perhaps he has earned the benefit the doubt after one down season, a down season still being one where we are within reasonable contention in late August. Stability is important too. You don't just clean house every single time things don't go perfectly to plan.

Again, you were praising Stearns as a genius back in February, and when I brought this up yesterday, you said you didn't want Stearns fired.

Whoa. They "let" Prince get to free agency because HE decided he wasn't going to sign an extension, but they still made a very significant effort to re-sign then-FA Prince with a near-Brewers-record contract (5 years & into 9 figures -- uncharted FA territory in franchise history up to that time -- only to repeat the effort & fall short the next year w/ Greinke). Yes, they could've tried to trade him for comparable value, but they chose to keep him for the last year of arbitration-eligible/process salary as part of the "going for it" effort that ended 2 games short of the World Series -- and which yielded a great year by Prince. But to say the Brewers "let him walk" is simply inaccurate. . . . Walking was Prince's choice, not the Brewers, and happened in spite of the Brewers' huge efforts to keep him, thus involving no "letting" at all. In hindsight, NOT paying Prince the Joe Mauer-like money/term he signed for was reasonably wise given that only 3 of the years were remotely worthy of that kind of money. 2 were injury-riddled, 1 was injury-missed, and, fortunately for Texas & Detroit, he graciously retired & walked away from the last 3 years of the deal. Walking is a mutual choice, a great majority of the time. Yes, they did make ill-advised efforts to re-sign Prince. But they did have their line in the sand. We'll never know how much of it was true earnest efforts to bring him back, and how much was PR type offers that they knew Boras would never accept, knowing they had to at least appear to be making an effort. And Prince Fielder did not walk away from anything. He is still being paid every last penny on his contract to this day.

Any hard hitting questions from Sophia and Tom? "Weren't you impressed with Gio tonight?" "Cain, he looked good in his return tonight, yeah?" "What are you having for breakfast in the morning?"

I have no idea what you're going on about in the first paragraph, but no one said remotely close to those things. Sometimes players get overpaid, sometimes they get underpaid, that's just the way it goes. I understand that. I'm just not in denial about it when it happens. Jeff Suppan was probably one of the most overpaid Brewers ever. Jonathan Lucroy and Carlos Gomez were probably the two most criminally underpaid Brewers ever. Again, as I said before I was against the deal in 2011, because it was so early. That's not hindsight. Pretty sure Prince Fielder was a franchise icon too, and they let him walk. Yes, sometimes you have to let great players walk. It's a business, not a charity club where you reward a player for his service and undervalue contract with a cool 105 million. And yes, a significant portion of the fanbase thinks the second contract was an overpay. That should not be a controversial thing, since it was. Not significantly. It wasn't an albatross of a deal, and I said that myself as well. It just was a deal they probably wish they wouldn't have done. It's rather simple -- do you believe or do you not believe that Ryan Braun was worth $80 million dollars from 2016-19 and will be worth another 20 next year? Since you've dodged the Lucroy question, maybe you can at least answer that one? If you can't say yes, then perhaps you should understand the perspective of the other camp on this.

Two veteran rentals and two soon to be out of option arms is not playing for the future.

I'm beginning to think that it isn't out of the realm of possibility that no one was buying what the Brewers would have been selling. Moose and Grandal haven't exactly been tearing the cover off the ball in the second half. Who else were they going to deal? I think that's a possibility too. I still just don't understand the point behind anything we did.

I'm pretty suspicious of that declaration as well. Pretty convenient to say after the fact when it works, but I can count on one hand the number of times in my lifetime I've seen a team purposely walk the winning run into scoring position with 2 out in the 9th.

It's still hard to believe our deadline moves were neither to buy nor sell, but rather go get 4 junk pitchers to add on to the many junk pitchers already on the roster. I could understand it if DJ was still here, who just seemed to have a knack for polishing up a turd and making it shiny, but Hook has no such magic to work.

Any of the analytics guys know what the catch probability was on the "double" that Braun couldn't get to?

And now Albers is warming. Well done, Craig. You probably wanted the groundball guy about 20 minutes ago, but what do I know?

This isn't a playoff team, fellas. If the crappy run differential hasn't convinced you by now, the eye test should. This isn't a very good team. They're probably just as likely to finish with a losing record as they are to make the playoffs.

Braun is the Keston Hiura of outfielders.

Where was Albers? Or even Hader? This is the game right here. You wouldn't even trust Junior Guerra in extras the other day when Jeffress had thrown 30+ pitches, yet you trust him in a bases loaded 1 out situation in a 1 run game against a team you absolutely HAVE to beat? Mind-boggling decision by Craig Counsell. We deserve to lose. Craig deserves to lose.

It's a bigger drag to have game outcomes decided by guys behind the plate not being able to do their job.

Score 23 runs in 2 games. Then can't score once the next game and a half. You can't make this stuff up.

Nope.