Random MLB News And Discussion

[fondybrewfan]

Marlins sentLogan Morrison to AAA today; what a completely inept organization. Morrison has an OPS near .800 as a 23 year old. And we thought sending Hardy down was questionable.

 

If there was ever a transaction that the MLBPA should file a greivance on it is this one. He has been one of the best players on a pretty crappy team

[Glennron]

Marlins sentLogan Morrison to AAA today; what a completely inept organization. Morrison has an OPS near .800 as a 23 year old. And we thought sending Hardy down was questionable.

 

If there was ever a transaction that the MLBPA should file a greivance on it is this one. He has been one of the best players on a pretty crappy team

http://www.jsonline.com/b.../fanblogs/127698383.html

 

Some guy on the JS fanblog thinks the Brewer should maybe possibly think about looking into Morrison.

[Nottso]

Pretty good, funny read, regarding what the author calls "the worst plate appearance in the history of baseball."

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2...jose-ceda-giants-marlins

[jjgott]

Delmon Young hit a HR in his first AB with his new team against his old team.

[pingman]

This is why you should never watch espn for baseball. I think several analyst at MLB Network had the Brewers picked for the division, wild card, or at least in the race. Plesac may have had them going all the way.

+1 The ESPN talking heads are a joke.....and biased

 

I like most of the MLB Network crew....but please, please get rid of Kevin Millar & Jerry Manuel .....and give me more Peter Gammons & especially the guys from Baseball America

[M Skjellyfetti]

Thanks, Nottso. That was a very entertaining read.

[heresrobin]

Prince needs 44 more hits to get to his career 1,000th hit. I know it's sort of stupid and arbitrary, but I want to see Prince get his 1,000th hit as a Brewer. At his current rate, it's probably going to be very close. Purple Reign, baby...go Prince.

[Patrick425]

Houston is 8 games away from being mathematically eliminated. This got me thinking about two things. A) What is the earliest that a team has ever been mathematically eliminated? and B) How many times has a team been eliminated in August? Seems like that would be fairly rare...but maybe not.

[craigharmann]

Houston is 8 games away from being mathematically eliminated. This got me thinking about two things. A) What is the earliest that a team has ever been mathematically eliminated?

From a little googling, I found that the 1899 Cleveland Spiders were eliminated after 105 games. They were 17-88 and were behind Brooklyn, who had a record of 67-34. Brooklyn had 53 games to play and was up 54 games in the loss column. Crazy!!

[TooLiveBrew]

Here's a post from a different forum by a Giants fan I'm acquainted with:

This is [...] ridiculous with the injuries.

 

2 more Giants hit the DL today, Beltran and stud reliever Sergio Romo

Plus Schierholtz is out today as he gets an MRI because he may have broke his foot with a foul ball last night

Plus 2B Keppinger is out today as he gets an MRI on a possible wrist injury

Sandoval is in, but dinged up after a foul off his foot

 

I suppose it's just the biggest possible sway in karma compared to last year, but this is [...] bananas.

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Rowand is now hurt too. Granted that's actually good news, but ridiculous.

Looking like the Giants might not be as imposing down the stretch

[RightFieldCoder]

Lyle Overbay was picked up by his original team, the Diamondbacks.

He then single handedly beat Doc Halladay and the Phillies. Good for him, I always liked him.

[dlk9s]

For some reason I just stared at the old Brewers ball and glove logo. Good lord is it amazing. I mean, I've always loved it, but holy cow. It's a work of art. I don't know why I'm all of a sudden so blow away, but I am.

[trwi7]

[hawing]

For some reason I just stared at the old Brewers ball and glove logo. Good lord is it amazing. I mean, I've always loved it, but holy cow. It's a work of art. I don't know why I'm all of a sudden so blow away, but I am.

Forgive me for asking, but do you also have the munchies? I mean, I know it's amazing, but blown away?

[young guns]

For some reason I just stared at the old Brewers ball and glove logo. Good lord is it amazing. I mean, I've always loved it, but holy cow. It's a work of art. I don't know why I'm all of a sudden so blow away, but I am.

http://ts1.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1051923130932&id=85167472962cb865a3166066ec1ae6e7

[dlk9s]

I do have the munchies, but not for those reasons. I am very anti-drug, actually. I think it's just because I'm tired.

 

Looking back at my post, I can see how one might get that idea. Ah, the internet. Where everything lasts forever.

[RightFieldCoder]

This is random MiLB news, but I thought I would share it here. The Brewer's minor league is getting into the defensive wizardry schtick.

[Eck17]

The Brewers have moved into #4 on the ESPN power rankings this week. But unfortunately, I decided to read the comments and now my IQ feels like it dropped about 20 points.

[dlk9s]

The Brewers have moved into #4 on the ESPN power rankings this week. But unfortunately, I decided to read the comments and now my IQ feels like it dropped about 20 points.

Never read comments on any internet article or Youtube video.

[Schlitz001]

The Brewers have moved into #4 on the ESPN power rankings this week. But unfortunately, I decided to read the comments and now my IQ feels like it dropped about 20 points.

I tend to think rankings are pretty pointless. That said, I sat down and ranked all the MLB teams on espn.com in the fan poll, putting the Brewers #1 and all the other competing teams at the bottom. I clicked submit and to my surprise the Brewers were ranked #1 overall in the fan vote. I guess I'm not the only Brewer fan with too much time on his hands.

[DatHoser]

Congrats to Cappy on a 2 hit, 13 k CG against the Braves! Career high for strikeouts.

[Tailgat0r76]

Mark Derosa doesn't need to touch third base...

 

http://sanfrancisco.giant...tent_id=18527415&c_id=sf

[istanbultaye]

http://images.yuku.com/image/png/67415d9a7ffae2f879b1c4cd2a51d84bf897b68.png

 

Looks to me like he barely gets the corner of the base with his right foot, though the view isn't completely conclusive.

 

 

[Thurston Fluff]

I just looked at the standings on Yahoo and the Brewers are the first team to have a magic number next to it. Appropriately enough it started at 19.

[GAME05]

The Phillies play 33 games in the next 31 days without a day off because of the hurricane.