08/11/2006: Brewers (Capuano) @ Braves (Smoltz), 6:35PM CDT

[iluvlamp]

Yosted...I like it....Never seen a manager so bad with pitchers

[MadisonBrewerBlue]

jones was struck out there

[MillerBombers]

You would think after a while Melvin has to start questioning some of Yost's stupid moves.

[Shampoo4U]

Does anybody want to play in Milwaukee???

Nice effort by Gross--- bring up and play Gwynn.

[Mass Haas]

Would any of us have complained if Kolb or Capellan or Helling were brought in to start the 9th and lost the game? No, we wouldn't have questioned it.

 

But Turnbow was an obviously questionable, hideous move.

 

Ned and Maddux's manlove for the guy has literally ruined our Brewer summer.

[iluvlamp]

This realy is unreal that he put Turnbow in...I mean that was just UGGGGGLY

[Bruce Ciskie]

Who pitches there, besides maybe Helling?

 

And if Helling pitches there, aren't we kind of wasting him, considering the pitcher's spot could have come up in the tenth?

 

Seems to me like the best options were Kolb and Turnbow, which is kind of like picking between getting stabbed with a knife or salad tongs.

[endaround]

Are they just hoping that sooner or later Turnbow can throw his slider again? I mean Kolb isn't good, but he won't wlak men into scoring position most of the time. Turnbow has one pitch, a flat fastball that goes out fast with solid contact.

[craigharmann]

How did Smoltz pitch better?? He's got the W

[sheetswannabe]

Maybe Jenkins would have caught that ball.

[MadisonBrewerBlue]

i'm done with this team this year..Packers start tomorrow...good night Milwaukee

[Bruce Ciskie]

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Would any of us have complained if Kolb or Capellan or Helling were brought in to start the 9th and lost the game? No, we wouldn't have questioned it.

 

But Turnbow was an obviously questionable, hideous move.

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It was a terrible move, yet the only reason it didn't work was because the moron behind home plate was afraid to ring up Andruw Jones in his home park in the ninth inning.

[Mass Haas]

Damian Miller turned his mitt and under-caught that last pitch to Jones. If he had just plain caught it, they probably get the call. Not a good job of framing on that pitch.

[TauPentaRei]

how's that old saying go?

 

fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me...

 

what happens around being fooled for the 9th, 10th, 11th... time?

 

i wonder if ned feels like an idiot, because I do.

[TeeJayh1980]

http://www.holdren.org/fired.jpg

[iluvlamp]

Maas...you are absolutely correct...If Turnbow had his problems identified earier....sheesh...I really am mad right now...just mad...deep breath, but what for? No hope for this manager, I want him gone, i do.

[craigharmann]

I'll still watch the games and pull for the team, but I don't see any way this team gets the wild card. Too many inconsistencies. This was a winnable game that they lost.

[endaround]

Or maybe it wasn't called because Turnbow couldn't come close to finding the plate? I mean he has no clue where his pitches are going to go.

 

And Gross made the last out, so Ned could have easily doen a DS not to watse Helling.

[Bruce Ciskie]

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Damian Miller turned his mitt and under-caught that last pitch to Jones. If he had just plain caught it, they probably get the call. Not a good job of framing on that pitch.

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Which is a really stupid way for an umpire to make a decision.

 

If he needs the catcher to frame the pitch so he can see where it is, he shouldn't be back there.

 

The catcher's job is to call the pitch and catch the pitch. He's not the home plate ump.

 

Not only that, but that pitch didn't require framing. It was almost perfect. If that's not a strike when you're throwing into a mitt the size of Mench's head, the umpire just plain isn't paying attention.

[JohnBriggs12]

Yost is a Turnbow addict. He announces one day, that Turnbow "will not close games for now". Kolb gets one opportunity and saves a game. What happens? Yost goes right back to Turnbow even after they acquire Cordero.

 

After Cordero bails Turnbow out of a sure blown game vs. the Reds, Yost finally makes a change. Ah but he finds a way to get him in position to lose another.

[Shampoo4U]

Barry will look like Cy Young against the Brewers Saturday night. Bring up the AAA guy to start against the Brewers-- good move.

[TauPentaRei]

also a good point endaround,

 

the ump is not going to give him the benefit of a doubt when he is blazing straightballs 8 feet off the ground.

[PeaveyFury]

Maybe Jenkins would have caught that ball.

 

Just wondering the same thing myself....

[MadisonBrewerBlue]

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Maybe Jenkins would have caught that ball.

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Jenkins would have at least have gave 100 percent effort to try to catch the ball

[thablingster]

And as much as I don't have faith Turnbow would have gotten out of it had that ball been caught, that was an atrocious effort by Gross which should not be tolerated. That's akin to Aramis Ramirez walking to first base because he thinks he hit a HR and getting gunned out at third.