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  1. pebadger
    3-0 lead, Mench triples. The D-Backs have us right where they want us.
  2. pebadger
    Anyone who condemns Cappy based solely on the team record going to step up and just as enthsiastically sing Vargas' praises for the wins?
  3. pebadger
    How about Royster?
  4. pebadger
    I thought the hiarcuts were supposed to take care of that.http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/wink.gif
  5. pebadger
    I agree, Ennder that if he checks out medically, he pitches, regardless of the standings. I'm not a doctor, and I didn't stay at a Holiday In Express last night, so I'm just wondering what the margin of error on the clearance process should be.
  6. pebadger
    At this point, I think it's fair to ask whether, if there is the slightest question about the healing/recovery process, it's worth bringing Sheets back at all this season if the upcoming road trip turns out to be a debacle. I'm certainly not giving up on the season, especially as I don't believe in any team in the Central at this point, but if the Crew comes out of the trip 3 games back, under .500 and possibly in third place, I think there needs to be a depper evaluation made, most especially because as disappointing as this season may turn out, the future is still very bright.
  7. pebadger
    I'm more worried about how the boys hit Harang today than how Cappy pitches. It seems soft tossers like him just eat our lineup for lunch. Don't want to throw around the "must win" tag, but today's game might be as close as the Brewers have been to one this season. A win today, followed by a decent road trip (even 4-5 might be OK) and I think the Crew will be OK down the stretch. Win today, and have a winning roadie, and the Crew will be in really good shape (barring injury, or some freakish trip where they win 5 of 6 out West, then get swept by the Cubs to kill off all their momentum) On the other hand, a loss today, followed by a 3-6 roadie (or, God forbid, worse) and I think the postseason is likely nothing but a dream.
  8. pebadger
    That may be a fair interpretation of the play, as far as it goes. But it is also eminently fair to say that Braun, as a big league third baseman, needs to make that play, at least in terms of getting one out if not turning two. It certainly wasn't an impossible predicament by any stretch of the imagination, and the error was not "caused" by the shift. So if we leave it there, we can debate the strategy of the shift, at least insofar as it makes a mostly routine play a bit more difficult, though one within the confines of what should be expected from a big league defense. But then we add Gross' contribution to the mix . . . It's at this point that a not uncommon error becomes an uncommon farce. If we want to place some portion of responsibility on Yost for the first part of the problem, I think that's fair (though I'd argue the portion is so small as to be inconsequential). But everything that matters that happened after the ball got past Hardy has to rest with the players. I'm ceratinly not as big a Yost fans as I used to be (and I wasn't much enamored of him at any point), but much of what I hear in terms of Yost bashing recently seems to be nothing more than "we have to do something NOW" frustration.
  9. pebadger
    I'm prettty tired of all the "talent"-based arguments. The Brewers have better players than they've been used to having in quite some time. These players are young, came up together, won in the minors and created some expectations for the fans well before they even arrived in the big leagues. But now that they're here, I think we need to take a pretty hard look at exactly what these guys are. Not saying they're not good players. But I think it's a bit delusional to think this lineup can just roll out there and beat most other NL teams on physical talent alone. Just look at last night's game. The Reds strike fear into nobody, but can anybody really say that the talent gap is so great that the Brewers should just win 75% of the season series with the Reds by just playing to their statistical averages? Overall, the talent gap, to the extent that it exists, is not that great, and in fact you can probably make the argument that the Brewers aren't even the most talented team in this least- talented division of the weaker league in MLB. I think you can make a fair, if not exactly point-for-point, comparison between this year's Brewers and last year's Reds, in terms of the big picture of talent, production and an extensed season in which individual abilities do not always translate into long-term winning baseball.
  10. pebadger
    The Cubs lost again. Normally this is better than free beer and pizza, but I've now come to expect it and every Cubs loss is followed by the inevitable mention of the *still* 1.5 game lead which now only serves as a reminder of just how pathetic the Brewers have also become in recent weeks. There are at least 9 AL teams that would immediately be favorites to win this division if they swapped places with the Pirates today.
  11. pebadger
    There is no truth to the rumor that the FSN postgame show is changing its name to Brewers Dead. Not yet, anyway.
  12. pebadger
    It's gonna be one exciting 4 team race in the NL Central.
  13. pebadger
    The first 82+ win season in 15 years is still a pretty good bet, and you could probably get a lot of action on it too.
  14. pebadger
    An extra day off might not hurt right now. If there is a rainout on Monday night (30% chance of T-storms in the latest Denver forecast I saw), when would a makeup be scheduled? I'm guessing it wouldn't be in the next two days (which would defeat the potential short-term positive value of the rain-out) , but you never know.
  15. pebadger
    This is like throwing a great party at your place, finally hooking up with the hot chick you've had your eye on for years, then waking up the next morning to find her gone, your apartment trashed, your HD and sound system missing, and a floater in your clogged up tolet. Yeah, last night was great, but it's only a memory, you have a huge mess to clean up today, and unless things go right for you, you'll have to work extra hard to replace the things you lost.
  16. pebadger
    No way they can add help at the expense of another position player. I'd have no objection to Wise or CV getting some time off if a legitimate reason could be found to DL them, but otherwise I think the Crew is stuck with trying to work things out with what they've got. As well as he's pitched lately, I'm kind of surprised they didn't use Spurling before going to Parra. If Vargas gets in any trouble they now have no long man available.
  17. pebadger
    I know that's what journalists say they do, but there is usually a lot of borderline dishonesty in that statement, or at least plain laziness. To the extent they do root for "the story" I firmly beleive far too many journalists root for the EASY story. The Cubs, win or lose, are an easy story, and they carry the added benefit of playing in a large market and having a large national fanbase. To me a good story is what you make it. I don't mean to just pick on teh journalists: they only provide an overwhelimngly simple audience with simple, easy to follow stories. A good writer makes good stories accessible, regardless of how 'difficult' those stories are. From my admittedly biased perspective, a very young and talented team, made up of 'homegrown' talent, playing in a city that hasn't seen winning baseball in a long time winning the division is just as good a story as is the store-bought Cubs finally doing something. And it's certianly a better story than the Cubs losing.
  18. pebadger
    Seems to me it has to be Parra or Dessens, unless there is a legitimate DL stint in the works for CV. A big reason Parra was kept around as long as he was in the first place was the 18 games/17 days strech which included the need for a spot start in the St Louis doubleheader. He's extended his stay due to the fact that he's pitched well and there was no real "no-brainer" position player to bring up to the big club. Indeed, the Weeks situation only compounded that problem, as there certainly weren't two position guys who seemed to have more value on the roster than Parra did. Parra has showed that he belongs, but I think he's better off for the long term getting some regular work right now. He certainly CAN work the back end of games, but that work is pretty well spoken for with Coco, Bow, Linebrink, Wise, Shouse, CV and even Spurling (who seems like he's been kicked square in the nuts less than anybody in the pen in recent weeks). If Parra's your long man, he may not get much work, and then Dessens is expendable. If Dessens is your long man, then it's better to send Parra down for a month to get 4/5 starts inand bring him back with the call-ups.
  19. pebadger
    Coverage is one thing. The Chicago marketalone is huge, and the Cubs do have a national fan base. The problem , as I see it, isn't so much coverage as it is the barely (if at all) concealed rooting that is going on for the Cubs in much of the supposedly "impartial" journalistic coverage. It's pretty apparent to me that outlets like ESPN would like nothing better than for the Cubs to become the new Red Sox. They'd probably really love it if the Cubs became did so by beating the Sox in the Series. I can almost guarantee that, when the Brewers win the division and the Cubs go home without the wildcard, the story won't be about the small-market, organizationally-developed Brewers beating the we-bought-a-roster Cubs. Instead, it will be a story, told with clear disappointment, about how the Cubs lost yet again. Even if the tone is one of ridicule, rather than disappointment, it will still immensly overshadow the whatever coverage there is of a Brewer franchise which has fought off a losing history of its own.
  20. pebadger
    Without respect to a game which may or may not be in progress at Miller Park, why would a hypothetical manager pull in the infield in a 1-0 game in the 6th inning when the fastest guy in the major leagues is probably going to score on anything put in play anyway?
  21. pebadger
    If Duncan's little end-of-the-bat flare falls two feet left of where it did, and he pops out on the next pitch, there are two out and nobody on in the ninth of Staurday's first game. Are we talking about him being tired as much if he simply finishes up the game on saturday? Yeah, Coco's had trouble other than that, but there is a reason baseball is called a game of inches. I tend to agree that most of what the problem has been with Coco is throwing the slider consistently for strikes. Some of it may have to do with the weather, which is not completely within his control. I think the climate has been a bit more kind to him at home than on the road. I'm not making excuses, but breaking pitches are all about grip and aerodynamics. If he's not gripping well, or the air isn't conducive to making the pitch break as it usually does, it won't work. Sheets sometimes has the same issue with his big curveball. Then, if guys aren't swinging at it when it's out of the zone, Coco has to come in with fastballs and suddenly it's a crapshoot at best.
  22. pebadger
    A day of rest and watching the Cubs get beat on national TV by two former White Sox seems to be a pretty good prescription for short-term relief from a lot of ailments.
  23. pebadger
    I'm fairly confident that many of the people blaming Yost for the bullpen implosion over the past two weeks are the same guys who blamed Mike Sherman for Chad Clifton's false starts. This isn't a personal attack, just an observation of a certain mindset.
  24. pebadger
    I seem to recall that the Brewers changed managers in during the '82 season, and that worked out pretty well. Unfortunately, Harvey Kuenn is dead.
  25. pebadger
    I don't think it has anything to do with being fired up. It has everything to do with confidence and making good fundamental plays and sort of relaxing. You almost get nervous because you are ahead, and then you try too hard to make that one more big play to "put it away", instead of making every routine play you need to finish the job. I've been in athletic situations like this before. It's almost like somehow you feel powerless; as if "fate" is pulling you in a certain direction and the harder you try to escape, the more you struggle when something like that Molina abomination of an AB happens.
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