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  1. crewcrazy
    Nice to see Captain Clutch come up huge for the Yankees tonight. Chase Utley has just been incredible this series. We may just end up going all 7 if the 3-man rotation catches up to Andy Pettitte.
  2. crewcrazy
    Yeesh, what the heck happened to Cole Hamels? As much as I dislike the Yankees, I do like seeing Alex Rodriguez get the huge playoff monkey off his back. Sure, he's an unbearable person who is hard to get behind, but the media scrutiny he's had to deal with in New York due to a handful of bad at-bats over his years there was short-sighted.
  3. crewcrazy
    Heckuva series developing after the first two games, but surprisingly the pitching has been the story. Both Burnett and Pedro had great outings last night. Here I was thinking there would be about 35 homers hit between the two teams in this series.
  4. crewcrazy
    While CC didn't pitch poorly last night, I really think Girardi's three-man rotation will start to show its negative effects in this series. CC can handle it for the most part, but sometimes you're left with a scenario like tonight where a shaky A.J. Burnett is starting and you used 5 relievers the night before. It'd be like the Brewers needing Dave Bush to go 6 or 7 strong with only a couple available relievers -- you know the potential for a great start is there, but you can't be sure you're going to get it.
  5. crewcrazy
    One less managing candidate for the Astros. I think this is a good hire for the Tribe...Acta was regarded as one of the better managing "prospects" out there until he took over a Nationals club that had progressively worse talent every season he was there. This little tidbit from the article caught my eye:
  6. crewcrazy
    Yeah, that was my favorite line, too. And I'll agree that the only possible explanation for that play was that it was a make-up call for earlier that inning. Swisher never should've been at third to begin with, as he was picked off by a mile in another horrible call (and the ump at second was looking right at him!). At the very least, we'll know which umps aren't working the World Series now. Yeesh.
  7. crewcrazy
    I have a hard time believing KC would even do that deal. They'd probably want something over-the-top like Braun, Gamel, and Gallardo (someone to replace Greinke in the rotation, and Yo is the only attractive young pitcher that can contribute now that the Brewers have). IMO, it would be great to have a guy like Greinke around, but the Brewers just aren't a match. Rumors like this give TH plenty of opportunity to toot his "blogs are evil" horn, though. From Twitter: Some know-nothing posts a Greinke-to-Brewers blog and gets what he obviously wants: attention. Never mind how ridiculous it is.
  8. crewcrazy
    Nah, Coop will get his interview in a couple years after they fire whoever gets the job this winter. Talk about a mess of an organization.
  9. crewcrazy
    I think the number of similarities between Matt Holliday this year and CC Sabathia last year is surprisingly high: - Both acquiring teams, the Cards and Brewers, gave up their top hitting prospects to land their new players - Like Sabathia, Holliday played out of his mind with the Cards in the second half - Both players played significant roles in their teams' playoff pushes - Neither were very productive while their teams were eliminated in the first round - Both head into the free agency period as potentially the most coveted players in this year's class, with big market teams looking to throw some money at big holes. Here's to hoping Holliday gets overpaid by the Mets (or Boston if they don't bring back Bay), and the Cards have to deal with the fact they gave up Brett Wallace only to get swept out of the first round. The situation would be doubly funny considering how the NL Central played out down the stretch -- even without Holliday, they win the division easily. In my opinion, the loss of Wallace will hurt the Cards more than the loss of LaPorta will hurt the Brewers.
  10. crewcrazy
    I suspect we'll be getting a lot of news like this in the next few days. We already heard that Macha would be back earlier, and now it appears that Trevor Hoffman may be close to coming back next year. Per a TH post-game blog post: It'll be interesting to see what he's willing to come back for. Considering the way he performed this year, I have no doubts that he's at least in for a bit of a raise.
  11. crewcrazy
    As trying as the past couple months have been, the final game of the season will always make me sad. With no Brewers to root for, I guess I'll turn to rooting for the Twins in Game #163 and hoping they can take down the Yankees if they get into the playoffs. If that doesn't happen, I'll just root for all outcomes not Cards/Yanks.
  12. crewcrazy
    Rather than starting a new thread, I'll add it to this one: it looks like J.P. Ricciardi is getting fired in Toronto, as well, according to Jon Heyman on Twitter: Honestly, I'm a bit surprised he lasted as long as he did. He's made a lot of costly mistakes over the past few years.
  13. crewcrazy
    Suppan is dependable in that you can usually count on him to make a start every 5 days, but like others have said, I don't think "innings eater" applies to him anymore. The only season with Milwaukee in which Suppan has hit the 200-inning mark was his first year here.
  14. crewcrazy
    At least the Braves can't get too upset with the Brewers for not helping them out too much in the wildcard race, as they've lost the past two games themselves. Ricky Nolasco struck out 16 (!) Braves in 7.2 innings tonight.
  15. crewcrazy
    Can't think of a better way for Ryan to finally break through and hit #30. I'm glad this team is still showing some signs of life...it would've been easy to quit after they were down 4-0 early again, but they hung in there.
  16. crewcrazy
    I could see how they came to that conclusion if they weren't looking at all the stats and were simply looking at the traditional counting stats: Bonds -- .322/.517/.724 (221 OPS+), 317 HR, 697 RBI Pujols -- .334/.427/.629 (172 OPS+), 366 HR, 1106 RBI There's also the considerations about defense to make -- for much of the decade, Bonds was too musclebound and old to play in the field. Pujols is still generally regarded as one of the better defensive first basemen in the game (although I haven't seen the metrics for his defense lately, so don't quote me on that). To be fair to Bonds with the counting stats, though, Pujols is playing in his 9th season of the decade, while Bonds only played in 8. Bonds never had many RBI opportunities later in his career, either. The year he hit 73 home runs he drove in 137 runs, which seems low to me when you're hitting that many out. And really, neither of them compare to the counting stats compiled by Alex Rodriguez. I don't have much of a problem with Pujols being considered the best of the decade...he's certainly gotten off to a hell of a start for his career, even if it's getting tiring seeing the media proclaiming him the best of this generation every chance they get.
  17. crewcrazy
    Coming from a guy still fighting for a possible fantasy baseball championship, not at all. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif Nice win, Brews. This is why I continue to get my hopes up for Manny Parra.
  18. crewcrazy
    Nice to see some of that promise that made Narveson one of the better pitching prospects in the Cards' system a few years ago. I'd like to see him get a fair shot for a #5 starting job during Spring Training if he keeps this up.
  19. crewcrazy
    Can't expect Ed Wade to fire himself, although he should've been sent packing along with Coop. Hopefully Coop gets a second chance somewhere else, though...it was never an ideal situation in Houston, and it likely won't be for awhile until they can develop some minor league talent. IIRC, Wade hung his hat in Philly on drafting the bulk of last year's Phillies squad that won the Series (Utley, Howard, Burrell, Hamels, Myers), but he also made some hideous trade. It's a trend that's continued in Houston.
  20. crewcrazy
    Desperate push for 200 K's and a winning W-L record for Yo, I guess? I don't really see the point and would much rather see Butler out there. I know Burns was essentially needed with Yo being shut down after Sunday, but part of me is still terrified the remaining starts will be filled by Burns, and not Butler. You might as well see what you have in the latter now -- who knows, if he does well maybe he enters ST with an outside chance at a rotation spot in Milwaukee instead of starting the year in Nashville.
  21. crewcrazy
    Wasn't able to watch the game live last night, but it looks like Narveson was at least solid, which is what the Brewers need from him to close out the year. It would be nice to see guys like Narveson and Butler step in and contribute with solid starts to end the year, which would at least make the pitching situation interesting during Spring Training next year. Looking at the box score, I got a kick out of seeing Felipe Lopez with a 1-for-1 night, drawing 3 walks. It's sure nice having that at the top of the order. The Cubs lost to St. Louis, so while the Brewers' elimination number shrinks to two, they still have a pretty decent shot of still getting to .500 and at least beating the Cubs out for 2nd place. I couldn't even imagine the hysteria in Chicago if the Cubs went into this season as division favorites (and possible World Series hopefuls), only to finish third behind the Cardinals and a Brewers team that hasn't been able to pitch since May or June.
  22. crewcrazy
    Hey, a winning road trip. Nice to split the series with the Cubs, but it sure would've been nice to take the series. I still have hopes of catching the Cubs for second place, slim as they may be.
  23. crewcrazy
    Gallardo getting the extra rest kind of bumped him down those rankings. He's currently tied for 20th in the majors and tied for 8th in the NL. Link Edit: Appears that list is through the 14th, so it doesn't include his latest start. Once everyone gets through their turn in the rotation, though, I don't imagine the list changing much.
  24. crewcrazy
    Yo hasn't looked sharp for almost a month and a half now, and the 10 days off between starts didn't appear to do him much good. At this point, they should probably shut him down for the rest of the season, and let the likes of Butler, Narveson, et al pick up the remaining starts. For the most part, Yo's done a pretty good job considering how little he was able to pitch last year, and thankfully he declined the WBC invite in the spring.
  25. crewcrazy
    I don't think we can look at the rumored Halladay offer and say that Fielder should get a better return than that. For one, if the offer was made, it's entirely possible that Theo Epstein thought he had to ridiculously overpay in an offer for Halladay due to J.P. Ricciardi's concerns about trading within the division. Also, while Fielder would be more valuable for a lot of teams, Boston needs another frontline starter more than they need Prince's offense, especially considering the disappointing season Dice-K has had. I do generally agree that this offseason, Melvin should hold out for a ridiculous offer if he's going to move Prince at all, though. If the team is incredibly disappointing in the first half next year, maybe you consider moving him at the deadline, otherwise you hold off on seriously considering a trade until next offseason (especially if you can't get him to agree to another 2-year deal).
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