2007 Vent Thread, Part 7

[DougJones43]

Here is a list of things I'd rather do than see Ned Yost manage one more game for the Brewers:

 

- Get a flat tire

- Sit on a tack

- Accidentally zip up my privates in my pants zipper

- Get flogged with a bamboo cane

- Listen to Miss South Carolina talk about something

- Get stabbed in the eye with a rusty nail

- Have "the runs"

- Watch Becker

- Drink a shot of Drain-O

- Stick my head in a toilet

- Get mauled by a bear

- Hang out with David Hasselhoff

- Try to brush my teeth using my Shick Quattro razor

- Drive to Orlando while wearing an adult diaper

[T B0NE 10]

yes and i was really mad about mench swinging at the first pitch...i mean dempster wasnt throwing strikes! come on!

[billyhallfan]

dj43,

 

thanks for the laugh, that was great especially after this loss.

[Yaz]

Oh man, do we have to continue with Ned Yost any longer? Please tell me this has all been a really bad nightmare since the end of June someone! I am going to add on and ask why Jenkins was not up there against Dempster in the 9th????!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh geez, Hart just drew a walk and showed some plate discipline. What, Mench is the new Johnny Estrada?

 

I have to mildly agree I was somewhat annoyed that 1250 was carrying the Packers postgame package while I was driving home. However, it's probably a good thing that there was no other place to VENT than here at BFan.net. :-)

 

I can almost see the Pirates sweeping the Brewers this weekend. :-(

[jlau20]

DougJones43...I don't know if it's because I'm really tired or because your list is just that funny, but atleast I can go to bed having had a laugh rather than just be irritated at Ned all night.

[jason21nl]

I watched the whole game at a bar with 3 cubs fans. The all were blown away by the strike 3 call to hart. Seriously, how the hell can you call that a strike? add that to the freaking moron sitting behind home plate in a green shirt and pink hat who would jump up and scream at every close pitch it was a long night.

[TooLiveBrew]

DJ43, that's my vote so far for post of the year.

 

I, too, watched the game with a Cubs fan. He didn't even say much. He just dropped his jaw, and said, "Wowwwwww. That pitch was definitely not a strike." In not-surprising-in-any-way news, this made me feel 0% better.

[YedNost]

Piss poor managing. Flat-out awful. Everything I want to say has already been said.

 

But, I need to say this.

 

Why the hate on Cappy? Seriously. In the 18 or so appearances since his 5-0 start, he's had maybe 3-4 completely awful and forgettable starts mixed in with a bunch of passable and even a few excellent starts (Cincinnati). Not to mention the run support he receives is by far the worst on the team and maybe of any Brewer pitcher in the past few years. In his first 7 starts (resulting in a 5-0 record) Capuano was given a total of 40 runs (not all 40 were scored while he was in the game, this is just the final from each game added up). If you do the math, that's 6 runs (rounded up from 5.7) per game. In his last 18 appearances he has been handed a total of 55 runs (again, not all were scored while he was in the game, so tonight he was actually handed 0 runs while in, but I included all 4). Do the math again and that's an embarrassing 3 runs (rounded down from 3.05) per.

 

I mean, who would you rather have starting, Vargas or Capuano? Based on stuff alone I go with Cappy. But if you add all other factors in, you would probably go with Vargas because he gets so much run support that when he gave up 6 runs in less than an inning, he got the no decision, and guess who got the loss? Capuano.

 

My ideal rotation would be (for next year):

 

1. Sheets

2. Gallardo

3. Bush

4. Capuano

5. Parra

 

Vargas is completely awful in my opinion and when Suppan is on he's golden, but he's rarely "on".

 

Anyways, I'm done. A pretty lengthy first post.

[TooLiveBrew]

Welcome aboard! Great to hear a lot of sense in your first post. http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/glasses.gif

[Flying Dutchman]

I honestly don't think I can follow the Brewers anymore if Ned is going to be at the helm... I just don't think I canput myself through this anymore. So maybe he didn't like Jenkins' numbers against Dempster, he still has Counsell on the bench, and for as much as I don't like Counsell (especially in a starting role) he would know how to take a pitch from someone who had just walked in a run. Not only that but now my girlfriend (who lives out of state) pieced together that I was not "fully involved" in our phone conversation when I started screaming at the TV (apparently my language was very "colorful"). So not only does Yost screw up, he gets me in trouble with the girl. Edit: Grammar

[trwi7]

This vent is about ESPN and the research they do while writing articles or talk about anything outside of the Eastern Seaboard.

 

Despite some recent success, Wisconsin continues to search for more national respect. This year's team might have the talent to help earn it.

"At Wisconsin, we have to play with a little chip on our shoulders," said Brad Bielema, named 2006 Big Ten Coach of the Year in his first season.

Way to go ESPN. You continue to amaze with your stupidity and lack of basic sports knowledge.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/preview?gameId=272440275

[jlau20]

My ideal rotation would be (for next year):

 

1. Sheets

2. Gallardo

3. Bush

4. Capuano

5. Parra

 

Vargas is completely awful in my opinion and when Suppan is on he's golden, but he's rarely "on".

 

Anyways, I'm done. A pretty lengthy first post.

The bummer is I really don't see too many scenarios where we don't have Soup on the team for the next three years. I'm sure it will be interesting how it pans out. Good stuff about Cappy too, I'd have to agree that he has a slight, yet very prolonged case of the 'Victor Santos/Doug Davis' lack of run support syndrome.

 

[TooLiveBrew]

trwi7, I share the loathing. They even showed the Corey Hart "Strike 3", and their newest former-player moron analyst said (essentially), "Mar-mul [can't even pronounce a name correctly] was filthy!" No mention of leaving Mench in to hit, either, but that's waaaaaaay too much to ask from those simpletons. And such as.

[Postseason2006]

I am so sick right now. Below 500 with a team 40 percent more talented than the Cubs. I called for Yost's head last year and was ridiculed here. Yost is lost and clueless as a manager and his postgame comments for not hitting Jenkins over Mench were pathetic stating Mench was 0-1 while Jenkins was 4-17.

 

But most of you think as Brewer fans think getting to .500 is good enough because of our futility. Sorry, but that is the weakest excuse to keep a coach I've ever seen and heard. Last I checked .235 is better than .000 not too mention, Mench should've been hit for in the 8th.

 

Melvin has done little to nothing as a GM to show he's good enough to win. He got canned in Texas and we took him in when he pissed away a ton of talent there. Now, he traded Lee for a reliever that has imploded along with a OF that is at best average in everything he does. Then he trades for a reliever that was washing up on the beaches giving away 3 younger arms. Unreal.

 

If Yost and Melvin are still around after the season ends, I will not support this team. I will root for every team except the Cubs when we are played against or I just won't watch. How can you support someone that doesn't see the big picture.

 

These two are nice guys but losers. They are the equivalent of Mike Sherman as I said last year and some of you made comments that were insulting. Yet, he were are Aug. 31, and behind by 2 1/2 games with guys we have??? Un-flipping-real. I am sorry but when a team loses this many close games, IT IS MANAGEMENT'S FAULT not the players. And if it's the players, how many guys are you going to get rid of??? All of them? This team does not even do the fundamentals well, and that is SQUARELY ON THE STAFF! If a guy doesn't do what he should, he should be benched or doing what he's supposed to.

 

In the two losses this series, we lost to a guy that should've been out of coaching when he couldn't win with the team he had in Seattle. Sad...sad...sad...

 

I keep hearing how Anastasio is this business man. Did he inherit this money because smart businessmen don't let their business sink like this. Instead, Giligan and the Skipper have sunk the SS Minnow. It's not too late to make a coaching change and at least light a fire to show the players there is going to be accountability instead of excuses.

[Fatter than Joey]

I mean, who would you rather have starting, Vargas or Capuano?

 

Agreed -- I think that Villy won't fare any better than Cappy has either.

 

My guess is that the only way Yost will effectively use his players until he is fired is as human shields to deflect blame from himself.

[lukevan]

The ump was totally fooled on that strike three to Hart. It was literally 6 inches off the plate; one of the worst calls I've seen and it had to come in a high leverage situation. Yost totally should've been out there in the ump's ear, of course the Cubs started up their 7th inning stretch festivities immediately.

[Nearsighted Views]

So I went to bed--Angry. I usually wake up in better spirits such as in other, um countries where they sleep. Asia. Such as...

 

Also, when thinking about the, um, such as, strike three call, it made me think of South African maps. South African umpires knew that wasn't, um, a strike.

 

This post is lame. I'm too angry to even come up with anything funny. It's hard to watch a season go DOWN THE CRAPPER.

[sheethead]

I just might find myself compelled to watch something else instead of the Brewers. Unlike Toast I have choices... maybe i'll watch a war movie with some good battles.

[endaround]

My vent? Tom Haudricort somehow believing that Capuano has bad voodoo and by just pitching even when there was little otehr chocie teh brewers were doomed to lose. Of course he wrote most of the article before the 8th inning.

[brewmann04]

Yost looked lost in last night interview and that was a terrible excuse not to use Jenkins.

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

My frustration with Yost is he's getting whipsawed all over the place. He's got to be consistent. If he wants to be like Harvey Kuenn, just set the lineup and let the chips fall where they may...fine. If he wants to juggle the lineup endless ways to eke out that extra percentage point...fine. That may be the right approach with this young club. Make a choice and be consistent. Don't go through all this movement and then at a critical juncture, go against it and not pinch hit for Mench. Be consistent.

 

In the end, it may not have mattered. The Brewer hitters have been woeful late in the game in clutch situations. They had numerous chances to bury Lilly early as well and let him off the hook. This team is packed full of good hitters, but they need another disciplined high OBP guy in the lineup.

[Brian the Automator]

http://kscakes.com/LolCats/Uploads/Saved/im-in-ur-dugout-wreckin-ur-inningz.jpg

 

 

[thablingster]

Last night's game still aggravates me.

 

This morning I saw an argument (not on this site, another place I read about Brewers stuff) defending Mench that was "well he did drive in two of our runs." My counterpoint to that is he did it against a left hander. He's supposed to do that against lefties. That would be like someone defending Yost for leaving Shouse in the game to face Aramis Ramirez in a similar situation because he struck out Mike Fontenot. Sure, the move may work out in our favor, but it definitely doesn't give us our best chance to win.

 

and Brian, that macro will most assuredly cause giant lol's. http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/roll.gif

 

Also, I was too caught up in the game drama, and I went to look at when the Cubs play today and completely forgot with that loss last night we're back under .500 http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/mad.gif.

[RU Rah Rah]

SoCal Brew Crew Fan wrote:

 

In the end, it may not have mattered. The Brewer hitters have been woeful late in the game in clutch situations. They had numerous chances to bury Lilly early as well and let him off the hook. This team is packed full of good hitters, but they need another disciplined high OBP guy in the lineup.

I agree about plate discipline. You can even notice it when you're listening to games on the radio. The first pitch of a half-inning often is missed because the broadcast is late coming out of a commercial, and it seems that all too often Jim or Ueck will start by saying, "While we were in commercial, so-and-so swung at the first pitch and grounded to short, so there's already one out." The most obvious culprits are Mench and Estrada, but I don't think Billy is going to win any awards for plate discipline, either.

 

[TerraceReserved]

Since this thread is already cluttered with Yost hate, I'll vent on someone else.

 

Johny Estrada. He's my least favorite player by a mile. Sub .300 OBP, zero hustle, is slower than molasses, can't throw out a runner to save his life, and is terrible defensively behind the plate. The DD trade looks worse and worse everyday.