04/16/05 - Cards (Carpenter) @ Brewers (Davis), 1:05 PM CT

[squarepusher]

NL Central Standings:

 TEAM WON LOST PCT GB HOME ROAD EAST CENT WEST STREAK HOUSTON 5 4 .556 - 4-1 1-3 00-03 05-01 00-00 WON 1 [b]MILWAUKEE 5 4 .556 - 2-2 3-2 00-00 05-04 00-00 LOST 1[/b] ST LOUIS 4 4 .500 1/2 2-3 2-1 01-02 03-02 00-00 WON 1 CINCINNATI 4 5 .444 1 3-1 1-4 03-00 01-05 00-00 LOST 1 CHICAGO CUBS 4 6 .400 1 1/2 3-3 1-3 00-00 02-02 02-04 LOST 2 PITTSBURGH 4 6 .400 1 1/2 1-2 3-4 00-00 02-04 02-02 WON 1 

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Milwaukeebrewers.com game preview:

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[razzzorsharp]

If the Brewers win today I go tomorrow. Come and get my money Crew!

[Invader3K]

I am going to the game tomorrow (Sunday). I really hope the Brewers can pull out the win today...I want tomorrow to be the "rubber match", not the "let's salvage this series and not get swept" game. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/grin.gif

[DHonks]

interesting to see no Jenkins in there today. Less power today with Magruder and Cirillo in there. Of course, Magruder can flat out hit...I just always worry about his defense, especially with the afternoon game sun.

[1992casey]

Deleted due to irrelevance. Thanks, Brian.

[squarepusher]

 ST LOUIS AT MILWAUKEE -- LINEUPS ST LOUIS MILWAUKEE AVG HR RBI AVG HR RBI David Eckstein SS .333 0 1 Brady Clark CF .351 1 3 Mark Grudzielanek 2B .261 0 2 Junior Spivey 2B .275 2 5 Albert Pujols 1B .242 2 4 Lyle Overbay 1B .273 2 6 Scott Rolen 3B .125 0 1 Carlos Lee LF .270 1 8 Reggie Sanders LF .240 4 8 Damian Miller C .400 1 3 Hector Luna RF .250 0 0 Jeff Cirillo 3B .273 1 2 So Taguchi CF .333 1 1 Chris Magruder RF .333 0 1 Yadier Molina C .045 0 0 J.J. Hardy SS .130 0 2 Chris Carpenter RHP .000 0 0 Doug Davis LHP .000 0 0 (1-1, 7.84) (2-0, 2.77) 

[Getpaddled]

The line on this game is 8.5 Gonna take the over agian.

(5-4)

 

still 1-4 in my ya-ya guesses .200

 

ya-ya today: Clark

 

Beer records

Bush light 2-0

Bud light 1-1

Stroh's Light 0-1

Miller Light 0-1

Old style light 2-0

Pabst blue Ribbon 0-1

 

Drinking Miller Light today.

GO BREWERS

[endaround]

Sanders, Luna, and Taguchi in the OF? Nice of LaRussa to give us a sporting chnace.

[thermalnoise]

I'm please to share that my Firefox/MLB audio woes are resolved after a fresh install of the latest Firefox release.

 

But alas, no Branyan in the lineup. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif

[scoop53714]

Prediction of the day...

 

davis goes to 3-0

[MUCrisco]

The line on this game is 8.5 Gonna take the over agian.

(5-4)

 

still 1-4 in my ya-ya guesses .200

 

ya-ya today: Clark

 

Beer records

Bush light 2-0

Bud light 1-1

Stroh's Light 0-1

Miller Light 0-1

Old style light 2-0

Pabst blue Ribbon 0-1

 

Drinking Miller Light today.

GO BREWERS

I think you need to get Budweiser out of your rotation.

[scoop53714]

so branyan is officially hurt or what? No Jenkins either? Whats the story with THIS lineup?

[H0FFY]

I thought Magruder was terrible as a left hand bat. So he starts in place of Jenks against a right hander. Just checking Chris was .250 obp and .264 slugging v righties last year. Using my calculator I come up with .514 OPS.

 

Have we got down to Ned 'guessing' and going by 'hunches'.

[1992casey]

Branyan: shoulder tenderness, will probably rest tomorrow, too.

 

Jenkins: flu.

[molitor fan]

Jenks has been yacking all morning according to the announcers....

[H0FFY]

This is again proving that Ned would rather manage to prove himself right rather than learn and grow. I guess only the players are supposed to learn and improve. Ned already knows it all. And he will PROVE IT.

 

You know Ned as a rah rah, hunch manager was ok when our team was just terrible. But when you have a little talent to manage you need to manage it - not just rah rah, hunch it.

[molitor fan]

Huh?

[batman]

Branyan: shoulder tenderness, will probably rest tomorrow, too.

 

Jenkins: flu.

 

Bench: regrettable.

 

http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/happy.gif

 

~Bill

[ja002h]

Uh H0FFY, read the posts above you. They aren't playing for real reasons.

[ja002h]

buh-bye. 2-0 on the Rolen HR

[Ralph Wiggum]

so...um...who should be starting in right then? Magruder is the 4th OF. His job is to take over when one of the top 3 guys goes down. Branyan is probably the 5th OF, and he's not well, either. Do you want to see Bill Hall in right?

[batman]

Man, Scott Rolen looked absolutely terrible during that entire at-bat. Then he crushed one into the Brewers bullpen, and quickly jogged around the bases with his head down.

 

It sure is hard to dislike him.

 

~Bill

[scoop53714]

the way milwaukee has been swinging the bats....thats likely the ball game.

[H0FFY]

Well, how am I supposed to read a 1:14 post when I posted at 1:14.

 

Secondly, Ned has managed just like I point out. So, without information to know otherwise, Ned has the spotlight on him.

 

Finally, what sort of roster is this that we suddenly have NO LEFT handers to bat or on the bench. But we have pitchers that see 1 inning a week.

 

All these things need to be managed. Other teams can manage their rosters. We should be able to manager ours.

[DHonks]

I would assume Hall and Cirillo are the backup OFs, with Helms sliding to 3rd if Cirillo went to the OF