2012-04-06 Cardinals (Garcia) at Brewers (Gallardo), 3:10 PM CDT (OPENING DAY)

[dlk9s]

I called Garcia's hotel room and woke him up 25 minutes early, so we're all good.

[razzzorsharp]

Gomez will bring some excitement to the game today. IF he gets on base, he'll distract Garcia enough to give Ryan some juice right down the middle of the plate to hit out. Have faith in Gomez. Roenicke just doesn't want to deviate too much from the daily lineup. Gonzalez had a great spring as well. I have no problem with the lineup. See how it goes. Have some faith. It's the first game of the year.

 

Welcome to the forums. Not many with agree with you but that's ok, it good to have differing opinions.

 

Also, today is most definitely a must win game.

[stalton]

O baseball how I missed thee...lets show the classies that Milwaukee without a prince is better than St Louis without a king

 

I'm going to tomorrows game...I wouldn't mind watching the undefeated brewers take the field

[topper09er]

I guess his reasoning is that Carlos is a free swinger so he wants to put him in a position in the order where he is most likely to get good pitches.

 

RRR does not think like that, he has 2 reasons for hitting Gomez 2. First is the old school mentality of having a light hitting, fast guy batting 2 who can bunt the leadoff hitter over for the "run producers." Secondly, he wants the centerfielder to hit second so the lineup has to change as little as possible when Morgan plays. It would be too difficult for Hart to hit 2 sometimes but 5 some other times. He would go crazy and forget how to hit. Just like how Kotsay had to hit 3 when he filled in for Braun last year.

[MVP2110]

watching this season in review. Man what a year last year was. best I can remember as a Brewer fan

[saget]

Rather see Gamel at 6 after Hart, but not a big deal. I can dig.

 

I have presented my sacrifice of assorted sausages and beef patties to the baseball gods. May their judgement be terrible and swift.

[MVP2110]

Im predicting Yo goes 7 innings. Braun homers and so does Gonzalez. Brewers win 5-2.

[tommyboy42609]

Let's go brewers. Weeks with a homerun in his opening at bat, most likely on the third pitch.

[1992casey]

As a reminder, the [chat]chat room[/chat] is available. It's in the navigation bar at the top of all board pages.

[logan82]

I have presented my sacrifice of assorted sausages and beef patties to the baseball gods. May their judgement on the Cardinals be terrible and swift.

[BradWI]

as usual, only about 15% of the crowd in the stadium for lineups

[pitchleague]

I shall now sign out for the remainder of the afternoon/early evening as I begin the annual Opening Day internet embargo.

 

Let's hope Directv is doing their job and the game, which I am recording at home, is not mysteriously blacked out or something like it seems to do every year on Opening Day.

 

Go Brewers!

[razzzorsharp]

Let the Gamel era begin!

[pebadger]

Holy cow. Lots of empty seats.

[jazzytrav]

I actually kinda like that lineup, given the options available. Statistically, it's hard to root for Gomez, but then I watch him play and get those "I feel like a kid again" nostalgic baseball feelings.

[razzzorsharp]

Attanasio's dad doesn't do the anthem much justice.

 

Also, yes, there is a lot of empty seats. Glad those in the lot are having a good time with their tickets in their pockets.

[dlk9s]

Let us gogogogogogogogo!

[JET15]

Play ball!

[MVP2110]

Here we go! excited to see Aramis & Aoki. Lets do this

[dlk9s]

I literally got goosebumps watching the NLDS Game 5 highlight just now. Actually, I just realized it's still on my DVR.

[stoutdude04]

Tight zone it looks like here early.

[BradWI]

Gallardo already throwing too many pitches. Some things never change...

[dlk9s]

He looks good, though - nothing close is getting called in his favor.

[stoutdude04]

It was a good pitch on the stolen base too.

[dlk9s]

I guess the curve is a little off so far. Good break, just not getting it close enough. He'll be cool. Not worried.