Team Canada

To answer my own question: "I usually have the 10th and 11th innings, but I was downstairs in the clubhouse, ready to do interviews in the bottom of the 10th of NLDS Game 5 when [the Brewers] beat the Diamondbacks," Provus said. "So it was not until later that I heard Bob's call, and all I could think was, 'Thank goodness he had that call.' We all dream about having that big call, but you know what? Milwaukee and Wisconsin and baseball fans, they deserved that man to be on the mic for that moment. He nailed that call."

It may also be that a lot of people are just waiting til Game 7.

Hey, 2 runners!! Let's go Braun.

Hairston better not actually bunt.

Here's another good one: Weeks has 4 errors in the postseason. All other 2B combined have 2.

Fun facts of the day: 1. Braun has faced Dotel 9 times, and struck out 7 times. 2. No team has won any postseason series when their starters failed to go more than 5 IP in any of 1st 5 games. The Cardinals have not pitched more than 5 innings this series.

...and there you go. With average defense it would be 2-1 right now.

Good grief.

Drat, so much for my plan.

Just need one run each inning and we win the game.

The lack of defense is frustrating.

Let's just go ahead and tie it up right now.

Someone started discussion of this in the Roenicke thread, so to prevent it going on in two places I'm merging the "Strategic Analysis of Unique Situations" in there..

SUCCESS!

1 more!

The Ax Man cometh...

I thought it was a horrible decision - then he had a HR and 2 walks. How on earth do you keep coming back to this as a excuse? Kotsay could have played RIGHT field and still given that offense. His day at the plate has absolutely No relevance. None. People are upset that he was in CENTER field. Why is this so hard?

Well done Frankie!

Phew. 1 more!

Pujols retired, I already consider this inning a win.

Because McGeehee is completely lost right now?

Wow, what a monster outing from Wolf. Kudos.

Nice to see someone calling Ron on this one: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/a...il&partnerId=rss_mil "None of what happened on this play is Mark Kotsay's fault. The primary responsibility for what happened lies with the manager, who filled out his lineup with a center fielder who would be least likely to cover enough ground to make this play. You don't win like this in the postseason. This is not a series in June against the Cubs or the Astros. Roenicke had said before this game that, with Gallardo going against Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter, you could reasonably expect a close game. If that's what you expect, you shouldn't sacrifice defense for offense. It is true that Kotsay eventually had a solo home run and two walks in four plate appearances. But his inability to catch that ball in the first inning outweighed the offensive contribution. Ron Roenicke has been one of the major reasons that the 2011 Milwaukee Brewers have succeeded in winning a division, compiling the best regular-season record in the history of the franchise, winning the franchise's first postseason series in 29 years. He's a fine fellow. He's an ideal manager for a Milwaukee team, a sincerely modest man who cares far more about the collective good than his own ego. But Wednesday night, Roenicke's decision to start Mark Kotsay in center field was one of the major reasons that the Brewers lost Game 3 of the 2011 NLCS and fell behind the Cardinals in this series." From TH's blog post: "Gomez is a fabulous centerfielder, but you also have to look at trying to score runs and trying to figure your offense and where you slot guys," Roenicke said. "When we take Nyjer out, sometimes it's hard to slot that guy in the second spot. "So there are questions that it's easy to look afterwards and say Gomez would have caught it. But Gomez, I didn't think he was an option for today's game. I like him out there any time I can get him out there, but I didn't think that was a good choice today." So many problems with that quote...

Yes, we should be outraged that a player who had a good playoff performance with another team would be invited back.

Uh, not all clear at all.