Fatter than Joey

The Brewers allowed only 18 more runs than the Rockies did this year.(776 vs. 758) The fact that the Brewers allowed 18 more runs playing predominately at MP says a lot though -- If the Brewers played their home games at Coors, they would have given up a lot more runs. I am not sure you can just look at the runs given up by the Rockies and Brewers and draw a lot of conclusions off of that.

True, but they also improved offensively. I never thought I would have seen Willy Taveras used as evidence for this sort of argument http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

It seems neat. I think at some point putting them into your house will increase the house's value.

BHK = SUK

FTJ, that's not my understanding. You could be right -- although -- I don't see how they would somehow contract you for kwh -- afterall they need to know how many panels to put on your roof, and then you would have to rent said panels. For example Lets Assume you have X people in your house you require Y kwh I have 2X people in my house so I require 2Y kwh I would need more panels, and have to rent them -- so I would be contracted for 2Y kwh and you would be at Y. I could be wrong though.

To connect the Brewers' going downhill and Braun's arrival in the majors is an example of selective, convenient, and misguided reasoning. I wish you would elaborate more on this -- Upon Brauns arrival we had an injection of OPS. Why didn't we win more games? -- Lack of defense had a hand in it for certain. The pitching went to heck not because of the defense but because the starters pitched generally poorly and inefficiently (high pitch count for low inning totals) Perhaps the pitch count/inning rose because our D was making errors, or not making plays they should have? I don't know how a person can look at pitching results (in this case, runs scored) and not take a look at if a pitcher's D helped or hurt his cause. the bullpen was overused and became very inefficient I agree Ned Yost sucks. and because most of the hitters -- especially the veterans!!!!! -- didn't contribute for crap. What veterans? -- our lineup and the core thereof, is anchored by our young studs. I certainly can concede some of our vets came up short -- but most of our vets were situational players. To blame the decline largely on the defense is absurd. Really? -- "Largely" of course is your word, but if you watched the games, and walk away thinking our defense didn't leave games on the table, I guess we will have to agree to disagree. That said, I do completely agree that the defense MUST improve. Really? -- It sounds like to me based on your previous statements, the defense wasn't a substantial hurdle this last season, why then MUST our defense improve? -- It looks to me that you want better vet production, and guys like Suppan/Bush/Cappy to decide to quit sucking. Defense in my opinion is the #1 problem the Brewers have -- if Weeks/Braun/Hall/Prince are average fielders, I believe then that this team (after firing Yost and probably Melvin) can be a playoff team -- that is to say I think the offensive and pitching are good enough. If we stand pat with our D, we better get a bunch of pitchers that strike out 10+ batters in 7IP.

I think you sign an agreement with them, for how many KwH you want at what rate -- so you would say I need 10K kwh -- and then they would say OK that will be 10 cents per kwh and then they install as many panels/cells you would need to generate 10kwh in a year.

It did with Weeks for awhile Weeks -- even with his personal improvements, is still a bottom-feeder defensive 2b. Will the fielding come around or will we have a similar revelation 4-5 yrs from now that Colorado is enjoying now? Hopefully DM will learn from his mistakes in TX

Is Hurdle getting too much attention because of this hot streak or is Colorado onto something? Well -- They look pretty smart right about now, and regardless of the "Coors effect" they are winning ballgames on the road as well. But look at Braun -- Before he gets his first start (May 25) the Brewers are 28-19 and .596, and of course the Brewers end up with a .512 record (55-60 after May 25th .478). Of course we all know Fielder goes on to hit 50 HRs, and Braun replaces the vegetable stand that is Graffy/Counsell with a MVP type season -- yet we win at a .478 clip for the lion's share of the season. So basically in a quick and dirty sort of way I conclude that a lot of Fielder/Brauns's offensive production gets chewed up by their inability to play defense, and the Brewers lose more games. Now -- I know that there were other culprits -- numerable Yostings, bad pitching (although I think pitching is a function that includes defense and Yostings as variables). I am not exclusively blaming Braun for 2007 WOAHS DM tried to set up a slugging happy team in TX, and they never turned the corner -- and I don't expect the Brewers to either, until they address their inability to field.

Radio shows are reporting that Don Mattingly has told the Steinbrenner boys he is not ready to roll as manager for the Yanks

For health insurance, it is not bad at all. Yep -- It isn't bad at all esp. for a small business -- My family's ins. bill per month is about $2000 per month, and if you don't have the number of employees to spread it out -- it is pretty cost-prohibitive.

Congrats Russ!

Family Fun Day might be a good time to take my son down, Al -- How old is your boy? -- Mine was 7 last year -- Last year it was on a weeknight for some reason, and pretty late. If you get there early you can get right up on courtside.

yeah -- I went to the red-white scrimmage -- I think tonight is more for students.

When do the Badgers have their family day/night?

I like seeing big gumball machines set up, because I know if I am ever being chased by baby Godzillas I can tip a gumball machine over and escape. Who eats gumballs anymore?

I know the cost adds up and it's bad for you, but I gotta have my Peanut M&Ms. Yeah -- I hear you -- I have gone with the theory that it is better to buy the small .75 cent bags whenever you are jonesing for M&Ms rather than buying a 2lb bag -- even though the 2lb bag is more fiscally sensible.

I don't think a dollar a workday is killing my finances. Oh I don't know. Over the course of a Million years you will have wasted $365,250,000 -- you could buy your own MLB franchise for that.

Who are you buying your coke through? Ann Coulter or Sysco.

hookers and blow adds up pretty quick as well

I suspect the plants/breweries will remain as they are (my guess) -- I suspect they will try to be more efficient in sales and distribution. I don't think Coors will start watering down Miller products...

I have read so many negative posts about this team, especially about our defense. We lost more games for reasons other than defense. Defense is probably culprit #1, if not its in the top 3. It's a team game, not one player or play cost this team a chance to make playoffs, we are young and will only get better. If you read this thread -- No poster is singling out one player, rather pointing out that our TEAM effort is subpar -- you throw in Hall who was bad in CF, and it is no wonder Suppan's results suffered. We clearly need to improve in many areas, but defense is not the main concern just one part of the solution including consistent pitching and hitting for next year. I would agree that D is never going to be a big concern for a DM ran team, but if our IF was average --- instead of worst, we are probably enjoying meaningful games in October.

Maybe the baby's first words were not complimentary to Ben Sheets and is serving some time-outs.

Maybe he figured out that "up to 15lbs" is a baby-metric rather than a poop metric, and is changing more diapers now.

I'll have to work on toning down the absurdity of my humor-based comparisons in order to more accurately portray the real situation, and not upset Katuluu. I think Ned is more of a "I mixed up the Ex-Lax with the chocolate chips" baker