2009-05-09 Cubs (Dempster) at Brewers (Gallardo): 6:05 PM CDT [Brewers win, 12-6]

[GormanHarvey]

Here's the line-up per TH (I had a feeling we might see Counsell; Cam is a bit of a surprise to me)

 

BREWERS

2B Rickie Weeks

3B Craig Counsell

LF Ryan Braun

1B Prince Fielder

SS JJ Hardy

RF Corey Hart

CF Chris Duffy

C Jason Kendall

RHP Yovani Gallardo

 

Cubs

LF Soriano

SS Theriot

CF Fukudome

RF Bradley

1B Hoffpauir

C Soto

2B Fontenot

3B Freel

P Dempster

 

Once again, I figured I would get something started so those of us that want to start chatting about the game can. GO CREW!

[BuckyBrewer61]

I'm not all that thrilled that Cam is out of the lineup, but looking at his numbers in the month of May...

 

.194/.265/.323/.587

 

...I suppose he could use a mental health day. Might as well do it with your ace on the mound.

[cheesecup22]

Yeah I like keeping hall and cam our for today. Cam's swing has not looked the same for a week or so now.. hopefully a day off will help

[GormanHarvey]

I agree that Cam could probably use a rest. I just don't like it when he is out for selfish reasons - I love watching him play CF. Duffy is good defensively too, and I doubt he can do any worse at the plate against Dempster than Cam has in his career (although Duff doesn't have near the pop of plate discipline Cam possesses). As hard as it is for me to say this, I am glad Counsell is in there today. IIRC he is like a .308 career hitter off Jazz Hands

[uwmbrewers]

is this game on tv?

[GormanHarvey]

FS-WI in HD!

[Gobias Industries]

Bill Hall looked terrible last night, so I'm not really surprised he got the night off. I'd rather see Corey #2 than Counsell though.

 

Weeks has looked like garbage the last 2 nights as well. IIRC, he's only gotten one day off so far this year. I'm guessing McG will start in his place tomorrow.

[GormanHarvey]

I agree with you Gobias that Hall has not looked good the past few days, but I would be very surprised to not see him in there against a LHP tomorrow

[jeffy]

Ah, that is probably the idea, rather than give him and Cam the day game after the night game off, Macha is reversing it so that the left handers are in against the right hander tonight.

[Invader3K]

Since I have nowhere better to put this, I'm pretty sure I saw Trevor Hoffman at the Best Buy in Delafield earlier this afternoon. I have no way of knowing for sure, and didn't say hi to him or anything, but feel 90% sure it was him.

 

Anyway, it would be awesome to win secure the series win tonight. I will be at Miller Park tomorrow and would love to jeer the Cubbies out of town...

[GormanHarvey]

Thats cool Invader! Was he in the AC/DC cd section?

[Invader3K]

No...actually with two younger kids (I assume his), near the video games. I saw him and gave him kind of a smirk and a nod...he gave a nod back and then they left pretty quick after that. So that kind of reinforced my thought that it was him.

[GormanHarvey]

I bet it was him. Were the kids boys? When I was at ST his 2 boys were out in the bullpen most of the time with Hoffman Brewers jerseys on

[crossface21]

I was able to get some last minute tickets to the game last night. I was hesitant about going because the Brewers had lost the last 11 games that I had been at. Yes, the last 11. What are the odds of that?? In any case, now that my streak is over, I'm going to try and score some tix for tonight's game. Go Crew!

[GormanHarvey]

Ol' Lou must be having a helluva time figuring out a lineup for tonights game with all the injuries - can't find the cub line-up any where yet

[Invader3K]

I bet it was him. Were the kids boys? When I was at ST his 2 boys were out in the bullpen most of the time with Hoffman Brewers jerseys on

Yeah, I think they were. I didn't get that good a look to be honest.

[Gobias Industries]

I agree with you Gobias that Hall has not looked good the past few days, but I would be very surprised to not see him in there against a LHP tomorrow

Yeah, I think Hall will start tomorrow too. I was thinking Rickie will get the day off tomorrow, as he's been scuffling, hasn't had a full game off, and doesn't really have a pronounced L/R split like Hall does.

[logan82]

Should be an annoying weekend with the umpires today and tomorrow. Crawford and Cuzzi are pretty poor umpires.

[GormanHarvey]

Yeah I can't stand Cuzzi. There are always confrontations because his strike zone is so inconsistent and he is not one to shy away from it. Umps and their attitudes...ugh

[southpaw121505]

I'd rather see Corey #2 than Counsell though.

I'm guessing this is to separate Counsell and Duffy in the lineup.

 

Let's go yoga, nice start

[Gobias Industries]

Yovani is throwing gas. 96mph on the FSN gun, 94 mph on mlb.

[thablingster]

Nice start! Good to see us getting some runs early off of Dempster.

[derflotr]

Wow. Gallardo is really pumping that fastball right now. I saw a 96 up there in the corner.

[logan82]

Wow, those pitches looked really close. I think Bradley dodged 3 straight that could have gone either way.

[kiwi brewer]

nice, RW. how bout a stolen base here with old man chippy at the plate?