Team Canada

It's not like they have a choice in the matter though. Non story.

49!!!!!

Hey, that's how you start a game!

I want to get one just on the off chance that the Cubs blow it and I could wear it around Cubs fans and laugh my head off. Of course, not that MLB will ship them if that happens..

I think you are seriously misinformed about Attanasio's knowledge and capabilities.

This is a no-lose situation for any takers. Either you win $5, or the Brewers make the playoffs. I'd gladly pay $5 for a playoff berth.

There is still some misunderstanding (by Yost and others) about the motivation. Why do you want your closer to face the *bottom* of the order? Wouldn't it make more sense to use your best pitcher against the best hitters? As has been stated, everyone's going to pitch anyway, you might as well manage things so that the worse pitchers face the worse batters. To do otherwise make no sense.

If you have time to walk around, the Freedom Trail was great. Also, we enjoyed a ride on the St. Charles, forget which company it was.

Yaarrr! Avast ye Cubbies, we be preparin' to board ye and cast ye straight outta first place into Davey Jones' locker!

Yes, they're done. I'll be rooting for them hard.

Exactly. In the grand scheme of things, you should be able to say "Billy's got to get the job done in that situation", but given the game he had, it was foolish to expect a suddenly different result.

"I'm happy to have a fresh start," Sarfate said. "I've been with the Brewers for seven years and to come over to a class act like these guys are, I'm happy for a new experience." What, because the Brewers were a shoddy organization that never gave you a chance? Curious.

My beef with letting Hall bat in the 8th with one out and runners on the corners was because it just delayed the inevitable. Why not PH Jenkins, then switch to a RH batter before Hall K's? Why wait until there are two outs to force Tracy's hand. Bill Hall should not have hit in that position, and just might be on his way to a career platoon type player. Although, he even looked awful against a lefty yesterday. Ned never forces the hand of the opposing manager, which is why he is out-managed almost on a daily basis. If Ned's players don't execute the way he foresees them to, it's game over. The only right handed batters left were Estrada and Rivera. Which when you are trying to avoid the GIDP are the last two guys you want hitting. Yes, however, if you PH Jenkins for Hall, then the Pirates bring in Grabow, which Ned let Jenks face anyway. Then the next batter you bring in someone else (Estrada, Rivera, whatever), and you don't have to worry about a GIDP, because Jenks already made the second out. I think sheethead makes a great point. If Jenks is going to face Grabow anyway, he should have PH for Hall, not the pitcher.

I must be missing something. Care to explain the correlation between the two situations (other than the fact that they were questioned by fans)? That is the whole point of what I was saying. Yost is questioned on every move he makes at this point in the season. It is just the attitude that people seem to take every move as being right or wrong that bothers me. Some moves are better than others, but it is just degrees. If Yost does something one way he gets blamed for the loss. He makes the move the other way the next time and still gets blamed. At this point some people just have Yost hate blinders on. People are entitled to that opinion. I just think there should be some blame spread out to the players and a little less on the manager. Personally, I would much rather have seen another pitcher blow that game. Yes, it would still suck, but Turnbow had a 0% chance of salvaging that situation, and I firmly believe any other pitcher had some chance higher than that. If he goes with Aquino (why, when Linebrink and Wise are out there, I don't know), and he blows it then fine, at least he tried. It's still on the players to perform, and Turnbow clearly didn't have it. So give up and move on.

I used to like how Yost would throw out splits all the time in his postgame comments, but I'm really starting to wonder if A) he doesn't understand how to use them, or B) he just does whatever he wants and then throws out some applicable split to support his preconceived plan. Today for instance, how do you say with a straight face "well Billy was 4-11 vs this pitcher, so that's the matchup I wanted", when the whole world saw how absolutely pathetic his ABs were today, and knew he needed to be PH for?? If he thinks that 11 ABs versus a pitcher actually mean anything, then he shouldn't even be allowed to look at splits. I can accept that he didn't want to use Gross because they'd send Grabow right in, and Gross isn't very good vs lefties (not that that stopped Ned from sending Jenkins in there against him), but then send Estrada up there or something, I don't care. Everyone and their mother knew that Billy was going to have another horrible AB, except Ned. And this is going into another thread, but clearly he doesn't grasp how Turnbow works yet, which is also unfathomable.

Somewhere there should be a similar thread from a while back when a ton of people posted pics

ESPN works fine too.

Well, even so, putting 3 guys on due to control problems is ridiculous, so he still earned that run.

Good grief Dave, get it together!

Jimbo, you need to pick another color instead of yellow. That's impossible to read. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

Team Canada, you read my mind. I just spent the last hour going through box scores and game logs and even skimming the archives looking at the losses that Braun had an error in. Nice list. baseball-reference.com is your friend. I just pulled up each box, checked for errors, checked for Braun errors, and then skimmed the game log to figure out what happened in that inning. Wasn't too horrible.

Okay, here's the results. By my reckoning, Braun's errors have played a critical role in 3 losses (nicely called, Ennder). 1. 7/28, lost 7-6, he had an error that led to 2 runs, but he also had 3 RBI 2. 8/5, lost 8-6, 2 runs scored as a result of the error, he had 1 RBI 3. 8/14, lost 12-4, 6 runs scored following his error. You could argue that he was actually a net gain for #1, but you don't know what the replacement 3B would have done offensively. In any case, it's clear that we've won FAR more games with him and his errors than we would with the alternative, like Counsell. [b]Date Score E? Affected? Comment[/b] 25-May 6-8 N N 26-May 3-6 N N 27-May 0-3 N N 28-May 1-2 N N 29-May 5-4 N N 30-May 3-9 N N 31-May 4-3 N N 1-Jun 8-5 Y N 2-Jun 2-5 N N 3-Jun 3-0 N N 4-Jun 2-7 N N 5-Jun 7-5 N N 6-Jun 2-6 N N 8-Jun 6-9 Y N no runs scored 9-Jun 3-4 N N 10-Jun 9-6 Y N 12-Jun 0-4 N N 13-Jun 3-2 N N 14-Jun 6-5 Y N 15-Jun 11-3 Y N 16-Jun 5-2 N N 17-Jun 9-10 N N 18-Jun 5-4 N N 19-Jun 6-2 N N 20-Jun 7-5 N N 22-Jun 1 1-6 N N 23-Jun 7-1 N N 24-Jun 3-4 N N 25-Jun 6-1 N N 26-Jun 11-5 N N 27-Jun 6-3 N N 29-Jun 6-5 N N 30-Jun 13-4 N N 1-Jul 1-5 Y N 1 run scored as result of error 2-Jul 10-3 N N 3-Jul 2-6 Y N 1 run scored as result of error, 1 RBI contributed 4-Jul 3-5 N N 5-Jul 3-6 N N 6-Jul 6-2 N N 7-Jul 4-5 Y N no runs scored 8-Jul 2-7 N N 13-Jul 6-10 N N 14-Jul 2-1 N N 15-Jul 4-3 Y N 16-Jul 4-3 Y (2) N 17-Jul 3-2 N N 18-Jul 2-5 N N 19-Jul 10-1 N N 20-Jul 4-8 N N 21-Jul 0-8 N N 22-Jul 7-5 N N 23-Jul 1-2 N N 24-Jul 5-3 N N 25-Jul 3-7 N N 26-Jul 5-6 N N 27-Jul 12-2 Y N 28-Jul 6-7 Y Y? 2 runs scored as result, contributed 3 RBI 28-Jul 2-5 Y N no runs scored 29-Jul 5-9 N N 31-Jul 4-2 Y N 1-Aug 5-8 N N 2-Aug 4-12 N N 3-Aug 2-1 N N 4-Aug 6-5 N N 5-Aug 6-8 Y Y 2 runs scored as a result, contributed 1 RBI 6-Aug 2-6 N N 7-Aug 4-11 N N 8-Aug 4-19 Y N 10-Aug 5-4 N N 11-Aug 7-4 N N 12-Aug 4-6 N N 14-Aug 4-12 Y Y 6 runs scored as result 15-Aug 3-8 N N 16-Aug 0-8 N N 17-Aug 3-8 Y N no runs scored as result 18-Aug 8-4 N N 19-Aug 6-7 N N 20-Aug 9-0 Y N 21-Aug 7-4 N N 22-Aug 2-3 N N 24-Aug 6-11 N N 25-Aug 2-6 N N 26-Aug 4-5 N N 28-Aug 3-5 N N 29-Aug 6-1 N N 30-Aug 4-5 N N 31-Aug 3-2 Y N 1-Sep 12-3 N N 2-Sep 7-4 N N 3-Sep 7-9 N N 4-Sep 5-3 N N 5-Sep 14-2 N N 7-Sep 4-11 N N 8-Sep 4-3 N N 9-Sep 10-5 N N 10-Sep 0-9 N N

But FTJ, it IS possible to determine when an error definitely *did not* contribute to a loss. If no run was scored that inning, or if the margin of victory was substantially more than the number of runs caused by the error, then it's safe to say that his error did not lead to a loss. Now I want to go pull all the game logs...

Couple other recommendations: Pieces of April The Return (the Russian film of that name, directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev) The Station Agent

Yes, in fact he was just proud of his heritage and wanted to express that, which is wonderful. The problem was that many other people felt that "jewboys" was not, in fact, a positive statement about someone of that ethnicity, so it seemed wisest to change the avatar.