7/22/06 Brewers (Bush) @ Reds (Mays), 5:10 PM CT

[JoeH33]

Booo...we no longer have a .900 OPS player on our team.

[AJ Love]

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Do people here really, truly, in their heart of hearts believe that 18 pitches in a game, on the day of a side session, has anything to do with today? Really?

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Absolutely. Huge difference between bullpen sessions and actual games. Please point to another example where a MLB manager has done the same thing with success.

[jloos19]

We didn't give up a run! Woo hoo!

[Kaukauna]

I'm sure if I found one example, that would not be enough to prove it, just as if you found two or three instances where it turned out as it has today for Bush. There were unusual circumstances involved and I don't fault Yost for his decision, even if it seemed far from ideal.

 

How exactly are bullpens different? Do they not throw as hard? Do they only use some of their pitches? Do they not prepare as much mentally? Maybe the latter, but that shouldn't affect the mental state of mind days later.

 

I just don't buy that a brief showing can throw a routine out of wack dramatically. And in any event, as pointed out, Bush has done this before ... he's not a dominant enough pitcher for me to believe anything was really "wrong" as a result of Wednesday.

[bullox]

Homerun Hall. Yost is safe.

[wisconsinfan47]

Can Billy Hall Pitch?

 

Nice shot, and Brewers tie it again.

[JoeH33]

Yay....I heart Billy Hall!

[AJ Love]

We can agree to disagree. But to answer your question the energy level and intensity of being in a game is much more intense than throwing in the bullpen, mentally for sure but physically as well... there is a reason why it isn't done often...

 

Think it through a little, if such a thing was no big deal, we'd see it all the time. Seriously, who would you rather have pitching in a tight spot in the 7th inning, Capuano or Brian Shouse?

 

*edited for spelling

[AJ Love]

Way to go Billy Hall!!!!

[AJ Love]

I hope Billy Hall is our starting Shortstop for years to come. That kind of power out of the SS is huge. He's a perennial All-Star if left at SS

[sweepscc]

Pitchers have won world series pitching on three days rest. 18 pitches will not ruin a guy three days later.

[brewers255]

un real. Freel the leadoff man. 2 hr's

[MadisonBrewerBlue]

the brewers have fallen and can't get up....word to your mother

[brewcrew00]

I just wish there was 1 game where the bullpen could put it away without any question. Just one time, to show me that it CAN happen.

[MadisonBrewerBlue]

i can't wait for packer / badger football

[Team Canada]

un real. Freel the leadoff man. 2 hr's

 

unFreel. It works on so many levels.

[adamb100]

You know you've reached an all new low when we cant even do a check swing right.

[Team Canada]

Boo.

[MillerBombers]

We are not very good right now.

[And That]

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[MadisonBrewerBlue]

i bet melvin gets more and more calls about Lee as the Brewers continue to slide

[Invader3K]

Well, looks like the Brewers on the field have basically made the decision they'd rather see their organization be "sellers" rather than "buyers."