3/14/08 Brewers (Vargas) at Padres (Wolf): 9:05 PM CDT

[1992casey]

Yuku had a failed switch (whatever that is) and had to switch to failover equipment.

[Getpaddled]

that looks pretty sweet...... is it fast?

[Getpaddled]

Hall lookin real good at 3rd so far http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[bullox]

Yuku had a failed switch (whatever that is) and had to switch to failover equipment.

That is hard to believe. I'd imagine that an operation like Yuku would utilize Cisco switches. Not to say that it's unheard for a Cisco switch to fail, but when you pay $10,000 for a gig switch, it doesn't happen very often.

GP: Looks like the spring games only get a 400k stream, which is passable. It's not quite as good as regular TV. Once the regular season comes around, it will be much much better.

[MoneyballMan]

Well, I know some people were disappointed that Craig Coshun wasn't brought back...but you have to like his replacement!

[Getpaddled]

why was that a caught stealing and not a pick off?

[uwbufu24]

Well, I know some people were disappointed that Craig Coshun wasn't brought back...but you have to like his replacement!

She's not very articulate and her body language is awkward. She will improve a little bit, but she reminds me a lot of Ann Carroll (the pregame show host from earlier in 2007).

 

[bullox]

I think she's head-and-shoulders above Ann Carroll. She's not quite in mid-season form yet, but cut her some slack.

[jason21nl]

why was that a caught stealing and not a pick off?

because the runner went towards second and not first

 

[Mass Haas]

Callix Crabbe goes boom, psyched for him.

 

That Thatcher kid is pretty good, huh?

 

Counsell smoked that triple off the other Padres' rookie lefty.

[Mass Haas]

That was fun. Nice job, boys.

[1992casey]

Unlike Ann Carroll, it looks as if Trenni Kusnierek has actually paid attention and watched some baseball.

[enforc444]

She's not very articulate and her body language is awkward. She will improve a little bit, but she reminds me a lot of Ann Carroll (the pregame show host from earlier in 2007).

I agree she has awkard body language . When listening to the answers of her own questions she looked way to intense. Almost to the extent of freaking out the interviewee. She just needs to relax. The tough part is asking the question. Also noticed a significant cut down on the "you knows" by Prince in his interview, (I only caught the last end of it) was that just me?

 

 

(pared back nested quote --1992)

[jason21nl]

Brian and Bill were talking about how she could go home for the day, and she said no way, I have waited too long for baseball to be back, I'm not going anywhere..Or something like that...that won me over right there

[brewjihad]

Vargas looked good, but his velocity seemed a little bit lower than usual... that could just be a product of spring training.

 

Jim Powell said he didn't like the catcher batting ninth at all.

 

TV play-by-play was all right. Plenty of references to "gritty" players. However, I did catch one wierd comment from Bill about base coaches wearing helmets- it seemed like he was against it, or something, and asked why the umpires didn't have to wear them, and then said that the umpires were happy that they didn't have to wear them.

 

Fielder's homer made me pretty happy. That was a bomb.

 

I'm pretty pumped to have Riske on the roster as well. I'd take him over Linebrink any day, and his contract is smaller.

[trwi7]

However, I did catch one wierd comment from Bill about base coaches wearing helmets- it seemed like he was against it, or something, and asked why the umpires didn't have to wear them, and then said that the umpires were happy that they didn't have to wear them.

I caught that. It was really awkward for Brian. Bill said something like "Why do they have to wear those helmets? I wouldn't want to wear one." Then there was an awkward silence and then Brian brought up Mike Coolbaugh's death which lead the the discussion on why umpires don't have to wear them.

[endaround]

Hey, if Bill wasn't told about it in a production meeting it might as well didn't happen. Sure you would think that getting paid 6 figures for a job that last only 8 months would mean you might want to know what you're talking about but apparently baseball color guys don't work that way.

[drezdn]

I thought they had discussed it on one of the MLB.com broadcasts as well. Maybe they're just rehashing the argument for television people.