TheCrew07

Google didn't help, but I thought of another...? all Bruce Hornsby songs sound pretty much the same if I'm close...? I don't know why I didn't think of him right away as I loved his tracks in Backdraft! Bruce Hornsby - Mandolin Rain Uploaded by jpdc11. - Explore more music videos.

Davis is a guy who's always outpitched his stuff and peripherals except for that crappy season in Milwaukee right before he was traded when I saw him pitch 4 times in one year and I ended up hating him. He pissed me off so much on Apr 23, 2006 when he walked 9 batters that I never recovered and was happy when he was moved. I tend to not trust pitchers like Davis to keep it going and I marvel at how he manages to keep his K/9 up around 7.0 given how much his BB/9 fluctuates from year to year (mostly slowly regressing). He's a guy that had 1 pitch save his career like DiFelice.

ohh my, Gindl went 0-7, that's rough.

I just went through all my mp3s, and my napster play lists, and other people's 80s lists on napster looking for inspiration. I'm out of ideas if I didn't stumble across it. Genre would help... was it pop? metal? hair bandish? heavy guitar? ballad?

Kansas - Dust in the Wind Not a piano, acoustic guitar but the lyrics you listed match and it's fairly popular. You're stretching my 80s knowledge... I might have to cheat and google this.

I doubt it is this, but I couldn't resist, everyone knows G n R.

I think people should realize that having jobs is better than not having jobs. The union model doesn't work in a global marketplace, you can't force other companies and countries around the world to pay their employees the same as American companies do.

Clancy is everywhere... http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/ohwell.gif too bad that 950 OPS LH catcher never came about...

Ugh.... a 3R HR... I think I'll find something else to do.

Macha is running Yo into the ground, he has 4th most pitches in the NL now as Lincecum has slipped past him into the top 3.

Those flags were strangely irresistible, one may show up as my avatar at some point.

As advertised Steve interviews rehabbing LHP Chris Capuano. I don't want to spoil anything, just listen in.

Heckathorn getting rocked early, he gave up a 3R HR on a belt high fastball.

One of the first great tips I picked up listening to other coaches talk, was to not get caught up playing talent. Play results, you can be better off as a team with a more productive but less talented player. However, you don't call up top prospects to sit the bench and accumulate meaningless service time. What I mean is that I get what Macha is trying to do playing the most productive player, but you don't waste service time of a more a talented player by sitting them on the bench. Turn them loose and give them an equal opportunity to compete, or don't call them up. Sitting them on bench is just dumb.

Steve sent me an email, and today coincidentally is the first day of school up here in NE WI, so we had a normal practice and I'm home before 9 PM. I'll be able to record and archive the CC interview for everyone. Thanks to Mass and Steve for the heads up.

If he was released I won't be surprised, he never had an appearance for anyone. I find myself once again disappointed with the situation. I wonder if he was injured prior to signing?

I saw that, I was following him on the net. After a horrible April he got better each month and ended up with a pretty decent line.

who says you're out of gas Mass... still going strong with 2 gamedays loaded.

Not necessarily, the market was different back then, proven MLB players carried much more weight, though we may have had to give up another prospect of significance, but it wouldn't have had to be Fielder. As far as Marcum vs Bush goes... it's not hindsight, Marcum threw slightly harder with better control... I view them as similar pitchers at the time, I would have taken the player with less MLB experience but slightly more upside. What's 2 MPH on the fastball worth? Probably not much in the grand scheme of things, I called Marcum a B prospect out of convenience to make my point, he was probably more like a C? type player. The point I was trying to illustrate was that Melvin seemed to be more interested in building depth acquiring multiple low ceiling players that were MLB ready and had MLB experience © than he was in acquiring impact talent. I'm not talking about trading for Peavy, Sabathia, Lee, Halladay, or any other proven MLB front line ace, they are simply too costly to pay and too costly to acquire. Many young pitchers have been moved in the last 5 years in deals that worked out very well, not necessarily in sexy type moves that garnered headlines. We've been in need of front line pitching depth since I found Brewerfan.net in 2003, we've never really had it, and the organization hasn't made any moves to acquire it. The only reason we have some top of the rotation depth approaching MLB now is the draft/signing process which is great, but won't start reaping benefits till next season at the earliest. That's quite the gap in the system... We went from Sheets in 2001 to Yo in 2007... who's going to be the next pitcher of significance to debut? Can we realistically only debut a single top of the rotation starter in 6 years and hope to remain competitive playoff wise? My answer to the question over the winter was "no" and I remain convinced that to win a WS we need very solid 1,2, 3 punch for the playoffs. Good pitching is greater than good hitting. We can get to the playoffs with an average staff if the offense is good enough, but we aren't winning anything until our pitching once again surpasses our hitting.

It looks more like a modern football helmet more than a baseball helmet. Not that the look is good or bad, there's no simple way to protect from concussions. I had 2 different sets of parents tell me that they wanted their son in a helmet that prevented concussions... well if there was such a thing don't you think we'd put every kid into one? Studies have shown that most football concussions are caused by impacts around the jaw which is why the modern football helmets are elongated to provide better protection. In baseball a glancing blow to the helmet wouldn't be a problem, but I wonder how the helmet mitigates the force on a direct strike in the area above the ear hole? Basically where the black stripe on the helmet is... does the shell distribute the force of the blow outward? Does the padding inside the helmet do the majority of the work? A combination between them?

I find the WAR stat itself extremely useful as a comparison statistic, I will not however, jump on the monetary value bandwagon, as the values are in many cases 40% over the player's fair market value. Not every team is willing to pay the same amount of money per win, and the $X per win value has been extremely over inflated since it's inception. They'd need to reduce the monetary value by 40-50% to get down around fair market value to make it worthwhile. This is the same argument I was having with TLB on the minor league forum. Somehow metrics end up being used as an absolute measure of right and wrong, when in truth they are just an another opinion, formed through a complex mathematical equation that cannot be proven true. Like I said a couple of years ago, when a statistician can prove their formula or metric is correct in the manner of a Geometric or Calculus type proof then I'll be on board with that metric being gospel, until then it's just another opinion I'll consider. I grow weary of people being told their opinions are wrong because fangraphs said so... what if fangraphs is wrong? What if UZR is wrong? I think a little bit of cynicism when it comes to advanced metrics is a good thing. They can be helpful, but they are not absolutes.