8/5/2004: Brewers (Santos) vs. Mets (Zambrano)

[Ralph Wiggum]

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Didn't one of the guys on this board have Melvin's email at some point. Why not shoot him an email and discuss Yost's favoritism?

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shhhhhhhhhh....

 

You're gonna jinx Helms...

 

He's gonna break out of his slump today by going 1-4 with a BB

 

Brewer fever....CATCH IT!!!

[PeaveyFury]

Mets announcer just said Branyan had a sore wrist.

 

So any of the people that bashed the fact that he was out of the lineup feel like appologizing?

[sveumrules]

endaround, that's cool about the win shares and all, but my main point was that clark has been our best hitter since the all star break and grieve has put up some gary bennett looking numbers in the same time frame, with the exception of a higher slg.

 

i don't see how anyone can at this point argue that it's a good idea to sit one of our hottest bats in favor of one of our coldest ones. especially given the recent offensive struggles.

 

also, as of 07/24/04 grieve had 8 win shares and clark had 5. so in less than two weeks clark has almost matched him for the season and will likely pass him if he continues his hot hitting after the break.

 

maybe everyone that thinks grieve is a better player is right, but right now clark should be getting the majority of the pa's until he cools off.

[squarepusher]

Brewerfan users don't apologize. It's not our way. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[JohnBriggs12]

There seems to be an epidemic of sore wrists among third basemen not named Helms.

 

Is he twisting the wrists of his competition?

[SlideBernieSlide]

I smell .200.

 

Gary B

[squarepusher]

Well, traditionally, Gary heats up after the all-star break. (by that, I mean he's had a .700 OPS after the break from 2001-2003)

[PeaveyFury]

I'd like to thank the Brewers' defense for deciding to completely suck after the AS break...

[GenoSeligPrieb]

"There's probably a difference between making a crack about a slick hallway and the wet ramp being selected for the all-star game. "

 

Or more likely, there's NO difference.

 

Ueck lightened up, and Rich Dauer joked about it last month, too.

 

No one wanted to see him paralyzed or even his career ended, Brian...

[squarepusher]

[ Or more likely, there's NO difference. ]

 

On one hand, you have Ueck joking about a freak injury.

 

On the other hand, you have people praising the wet ramp for taking Wes Helms out of the lineup.

 

There is a difference.

[sveumrules]

if it wasn't for that wet ramp helms would likely be down around .220 or so by now (if not lower) and yost would still insist on playing him for no good reason.

 

who knows, though, if it weren't for the wet ramp maybe he'd have 4 or 5 homers by now.

[DHonks]

and on the brewers' webpage it mentions :

 

"Medical report: Russell Branyan was dealing with some adversity on Thursday, when he was scratched from Yost's original lineup with a mysterious wrist injury."

 

and

 

"Branyan went 3-for-5 with three RBIs in Wednesday's loss and was a double shy of the cycle. He was originally slated to play third base and bat cleanup on Thursday, but he woke up that morning to find his right wrist swollen and hurting."

[homer]

Didn't you dummies see Butterfly Effect? If Helms hadn't slipped in Puerto Rico, we might very well be living under the rule of apes.

[squarepusher]

Personally, I don't care either way about the "wet ramp" cracks... I was just noting that there's a difference between praising "wet ramp" and acknowledging "wet ramp" was funny.

[lend d money]

If Clark hit .400 for the rest of the year, you would still have people telling you Grieve is inexplicably better. I don't get it either pal, but on this site Grieve is second only to our Creator.

[scoop53714]

Does Helms have any ties to Shane Eckert or Tonya H?

 

I would let Branyon go up to the plate swinging a piano leg with one good hand rather than let Helms play.

[7rebmun]

I'm late tuning in again today.

 

So let me get this straight. The Mets have plated 10/11 of their baserunners today and we've plated 3/10.

 

What a sad, sorry ballclub this is right now.

[madtownbrew]

Heck,

 

Plating 3/10 runners is a good day for the Brewers. What are you talking about?

[GenoSeligPrieb]

I give up.

 

Obviously, Wes Helms never recovered from slipping on that wet ramp...he was never able to play baseball anymore...he voided the remainder of his contract...his wife left him...his kids won't return his calls...he developed an alcohol problem...all his friends deserted him...his credit rating was destroyed...he now lives in a cardboard box...his life was ruined forever...

 

What? None of those things happened, he came right back to work a few weeks later, his friends and family still love him, and his loved ones are set for life, financially?

 

Never mind.

 

I wasn't ridiculing a handicapped person falling out of a wheelchair, or a soldier dying. An athlete took a header, and I made a joke.

 

This will dog me to my grave, I tell ya...

[squarepusher]

ARGHH....

 

Geno, are you saying there's not a difference between

 

a) making fun of a freak injury

 

and

 

b) being glad it happened

[950opsLHcatcher]

Jeff Bennett needs just 1 IP to graduate off the Power 50. And he's coming in. My heart is pounding.

[ja002h]

I for one will apologize for ripping Yost about Helms. So glad to read that Branyan woulda started. Not that it matters in this game...

[950opsLHcatcher]

Another strange catcher's interference call for Counsell - six times in one season. Wow.

[rluzinski]

Are we officially out of the playoff race, YET?

 

You are so right about Yost using Helm's injury as an excuse to start him next year. He'll COMPLETELY ignore how horrible Helms was before he was injured.

[rluzinski]

11-6, 2 more runs and the crew is officially back "in the game"

 

EDIT: DAMN, how close was Clark to that 3 run HR??