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I'm really starting to hate FSNWI's production/broadcast team. Schroeder rarely criticizes the team, especially when it's obvious. Sometimes he flat out lies (McGehee is better defensively than Green and Yuni is average defensively). Telly constantly fumbles with his words. Davey Nelson is another who doesn't seem to grasp the English language. For some reason, FSN loves alliteration and forces it in their pre-game with stupid stuff: Augie's Angles, Rillo's Rants, Nellie's Nuggets. They sound stupid and are unnecessary. Now they are auto-tuning Schroeder's voice and trying to turn sound-bites into dance music. And they are talking about Augustine's sleeping habits. Counting sheep to fall asleep? Really? /end of rant

But don't most teams have injuries throughout the season? Teams should expect that and therefore should try to get a good 4th OF. Like others, I'm fine with Kotsay as a 25th man type player. The problem is he's been used as a #1 PH and main backup OF (counting Morgan/Gomez as 1 player).

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Yuni's had a few falling over plays that he's gotten lucky on this week. It looks ugly but somehow he's made the plays.

Then I wonder what he thinks Taylor Green would have done.

I don't have the sound on. Is Schroeder still defending McGehee's terrible defense?

I honestly think a lot of that is being overplayed. Catchers rarely play every day and he does. Even when he doesn't start, he will usually PH and finish the game for Kottaras. I think Kottaras should play the whole games when he catches Wolf and he should also catch someone else at least once every other time through the order (so he would catch 3 out of 10 games and Lucroy 7 of 10).

Considering Hairston got the start yesterday, this isn't surprising.

No mention of It's Always Sunny? Bad reporting.

Couldn't happen til the second round.

Well they just announced a Triple Threat HIAC in two weeks with Punk/Cena/Del Rio. HHH & Punk still talking conspiracy. It looks like all the storylines could be tying together.

Obviously he shouldn't be starting in the playoffs but you act like he is some horrible pitcher or something. The guy is probably one of the better #5 pitchers in the league.

Hairston already showing why he should be starting.

My fear with arbitration is that the closer/late inning relief market is so full this off-season that it might be financially worth it to accept arbitration if offered and test the waters next off-season when the closer market is much lighter. I would bet he doesn't accept arby either ... but it wouldn't surprise me if he did.I can see why the Brewers wouldn't risk arby, if that is the way they go. If all KRod cares about is money, he will be better off taking the arby and then going free agency in 2013. Hopefully the closing role is more important. Here is what Jayson Stark had in his column: • And then there's a guy who's no longer the Mets' problem: Francisco Rodriguez. When he vented to cbssports.com this week about his setup role in Milwaukee, he may have thought he was just letting the world know he wants to sign this winter as somebody's closer. But all he really told other teams is that wherever he goes, it will be about him, period. "He's just telling you what he's all about and what's really important to him," grumbled one NL exec. "All he had to do was say, 'When I talk to teams in the offseason, I want to close.' How hard is that? But it didn't come out that way." The same exec said he looks at this incarnation of K-Rod as "probably just a 5 or 6 million-[a-year] guy. He might give you 30 saves, but he also might give you 10 blown saves. He's just not the same guy. When you look at this stuff, he's only throwing 90-91 [mph] now. So it's not like people will be ramming down his door." People are forgetting that he's a Boras client now and Boras likes money too. And Boras won't get any until KRod signs a new contract. It will ultimately be up to KRod whether to accept or not but I think the desire to close (and knowing he won't in Milwaukee) along with the pressure from Boras will mean he turns it down. And if he doesn't, we could pay him for the one year and have another dominating back-end of the bullpen or we could try and trade him. I think that's worth the risk.

It's pretty difficult to tell, because Green's playing time has been so inconsistent. He came up, and at first Roenicke refused to use him. Then he had a couple of pinch hits, so he "earned" his way into some starts. After that though he had a couple hitless games, and now it seems Roenicke is again very hesitant to give him any significant playing time. I firmly believe that if Green started against almost all RHP, he would out-produce McGehee by a decent margin the rest of the way. Not to mention 3 of Green's consecutive starts came against Carpenter, Halladay, and Worley. It's tough to do well against those guys to begin with and Green had to contend with inconsistent playing time.

I'm thinking it will just be a one-on-one HIAC to prevent any outside interference and then maybe they'll move on to something else after that. I don't mind HHH getting the win because I like him in the COO position. I'm hoping Punk gets the win in the next one but that they somehow keep HHH in that COO role. I still think they'll end up having either Stephanie or Laurinaitis take over that role.

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Really? I think we need a little more effort than that. At least a picture or something.

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I don't want to start a big thing but he wasn't really whining. He was asked a question and he answered it. And everybody knew what the answer would be. I have zero problem with what Prince said because it was fair and the elephant in the room, but a player shouldn't be complaining when one of his teammates is succeeding in the role he insists upon far better than he ever could. He's blown 3 leads since becoming a Brewer. Axford has blown zero in almost twice as long of a span. Plus, K-Rod is winning. There is nothing for him to be dissatisfied about unless he's a spoiled brat and has skewed priorities. He's been a closer almost his entire career and has that mentality. He's competitive. And if you read what he said, he said that he was told he would be given a chance to close some games but he's closed one game in a non-save situation. When they got him, they probably planned on giving him more opportunities but Axford has been lights out, you can't fault the Brewers for it. So in KRod's eyes, he feels lied to because they told him one thing but did another. And 2 of those blown saves were early on and a result of bad defense (though weren't scored errors). I believe one game alone had plays that Yuni and Prince both should've made.

When was the last non-off day that Lucroy had an entire game off? It seems like never.

I don't want to start a big thing but he wasn't really whining. He was asked a question and he answered it. And everybody knew what the answer would be.

Alright, someone needs to get up quick. edit: Nevermind, Roenicke's on top of it for once.

I think this is what gets overlooked by most people. Yeah almost everyone in the world would take the most money but when you add in the fact that Prince saw Cecil blow millions and millions of dollars, it is even more understandable.

I still think Green is better defensively than McGehee, regardless of what Schroeder says. McGehee may have made that but he will also boot/throw away easier plays and Green probably has a bit more range. edit: Schroeder is acting like McGehee is Ozzie Smith and Green is Yuni out there. I think a lot of it is because Green's a rookie.