Greatest Brewerfan Game Thread Ever

[Mass Haas]

This morning's BrewCrewBall "Today in Brewers History" (please read for context) reminded me to link to the unquestioned Greatest, Most Entertaining Brewerfan Game Thread Ever.

 

A Tuesday night, West Coast game, 17 innings, four hours and 46 minutes, a Brewers victory -- awesome.

 

Living on the East Coast, I still remember staying up for every pitch and listening to Jim Powell comment on the thread, which was brought to his attention, as he relayed how impressed he was with the number of people who stayed with this great contest.

 

Needless to say, a few of us struggled at work or the classroom the following morning.

 

Be sure to check out the remarkable work of our then-staffer "Batman" on this game.

 

Batman left us without nary saying goodbye, but is still doing well, from what the web tells me. He had to cold turkey us, but man, was he prolific while on board.

[hawing]

It's a shame that the images of cheese sandwiches did not survive the site migrations that have occurred since 2004.

[DHonks]

I know I posted a bunch that night....but I'm still baffled why anyone would eat a cheese sandwich when they could have a grilled cheese. It's vastly superior in every way! MMM...molten cheese

 

Great memories, and it's funny seeing that we just drafted Mark Rogers and people were joking that we might need to call him up to start the next game. Wow that was a long time ago.

[FVBrewerFan]

I'm assuming you mean best BF thread after WHOA SOLVVD?

[trwi7]

I remember staying up to watch this game. That just happened to be the last day of exams at school that year.

[davego]

8 years ago. Wow. For me, that was 3 cities, 3 jobs, 5 homes and one marriage ago. Time sure goes by!

[theavrock]

8 years ago. Wow. For me, that was 3 cities, 3 jobs, 5 homes and one marriage ago. Time sure goes by!

 

Brewerfan.net: stability in an unstable world

[DuWayne Steurer]

I remember that game, and I remember the next day at work, after about 2 hours sleep. WHOAH SOLVDD indeed. I hated going to bed and not catching the end. In retrospect, I should have just stayed up all night.

[razzzorsharp]

Ah, the night I joined. Good stuff.

[brettac1]

I will never forget that one. I got 45 minutes of sleep and had to work at 5 AM.

[pitchleague]

thankfully, the game ended around 11:00 local time so it wasn't all that bad for me. It certainly was a fun one. I think it was one of the first IGTs that I really participated in.

[ELCABALLO45]

That was a crazy night and game. As I read the first part of the game thread

 

"Ben Sheets gets back on the hill for the Brewers. He was originally scheduled to face Jarrod Washburn".

 

I now coach with Jarrod Washburn and have coached his kid. I am getting old.

[jerichoholicninja]

I will never forgive Vladmir for costing Ben Sheets a perfect game the way he did. Sure he probably wouldn't have been credited with a perfect game anyway since it went into extras but still, you don't swing at a ball the hits the ground and get a hit out of it.

[Glennron]

"I'd prefer to see Kiesch in the DH spot, but I assume they brought Liefer up to be the DH in these series'. Winable series if they win tonight, as Washburn is very beatable."

 

Just read this post and laughed out loud.

 

Brooks Kieschnick

[Funketown]

Does anybody know why Kieschnick couldn't find a job anywhere after the Brewers? He was a .248/.315/.444 career hitter in 336 PA's and had a 4.13 FIP in 96 innings. Seems like he would have been a good 25th man on an MLB roster for at least another year or so.

[brettac1]

"I'd prefer to see Kiesch in the DH spot, but I assume they brought Liefer up to be the DH in these series'. Winable series if they win tonight, as Washburn is very beatable."

 

Just read this post and laughed out loud.

 

Brooks Kieschnick

Yup, so did I. And that was my post. He was a better hitter than Jeff Liefer, though.

[endaround]

Does anybody know why Kieschnick couldn't find a job anywhere after the Brewers? He was a .248/.315/.444 career hitter in 336 PA's and had a 4.13 FIP in 96 innings. Seems like he would have been a good 25th man on an MLB roster for at least another year or so.

 

Because mangers are poor thinkers. A power bench bat that filsl a Dillard bullpen role? Not sure why you wouldn't want that.

[thablingster]

That was a compelling game. I still recount Vlad hitting a pitch at his ankles to break up the no-no. Junior Spivey committing errors. Geoff Jenkins striking out 6 times. As I was watching the game in the middle of the night I'm pretty sure I yelled at my TV "Run Craig, run!"

 

As far as the thread, I enjoy how whenever the Brewers are in extra innings or have a really long game now someone mentions cheese sandwiches because of that thread.

[DatHoser]

We still never answered the question: Can Bill Hall pitch?

[hawing]

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/americas-favorite-grilled-cheese-sandwich-2526-300x199.jpg

[Dragonbait]

Best part is the mentions of Cesar Izturis....

 

I *wish* he was hitting as well as Cesar Izturis. That's right, *Cesar Freaking Izturis*.

 

and K-rod was a Angel at the time...

[thebruce44]

I will never forgive Vladmir for costing Ben Sheets a perfect game the way he did. Sure he probably wouldn't have been credited with a perfect game anyway since it went into extras but still, you don't swing at a ball the hits the ground and get a hit out of it.

 

Sheeter's hammer curve was unhittable that game. Well for every MLB player except one.

[homer]

Batman was a Keith Ginter apologist!

[rluzinski]

I was so jet lagged during that game that I was less tired at 2 AM than I was at 10 PM. Funny how two of the most memorial games for me (that and the Sheets 18K game) happened so close to each other.

[thablingster]

We still never answered the question: Can Bill Hall pitch?

 

The Kansas City Royals did find out that yes indeed, Bill Hall can pitch (http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=8455089).

 

He's no Drew Butera, but high 80's isn't bad.