IGT 8/19 Reds (Harang) at Brewers (Birthday Boy Capuano, 29)

[Nearsighted Views]

I want to punch someone and now I have to go back to work.

 

I'm starting to hate myself for following this crap every day.

[sheetswannabe]

Positive note....Football starts soon:)

[Eddiehitsthefoulpole]

Capuano will get another start, won't he? He will get hammered.

[thablingster]

Maybe it's because small ball isn't a very good way to try and score runs? I mean, you only get 3 outs an inning. Giving a third of them away to move a runner 90 ft just isn't worth it.

That's what I was thinking and why I didn't want us to bunt, especially with Weeks and Hart coming up after the pitchers spot. I'd have taken my chances with Dillon trying to advance the runner or get a hit instead of Counsell bunting.

 

[Nearsighted Views]

5-0?!?!?!?!?! AGAIN!

 

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? COME ON!

[Bruce Ciskie]

Valentin's career #s as a righty

 

213/.290/.276

 

Well done Ned!!

 

You can't possibly be insinuating that the gentleman paid seven figures to run this baseball team spend 2.34 seconds researching the baseball-playing abilities of his opponents, right? http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/mad.gif

[crewcrazy]

Jim Skaalen speaks the truth in the post game. He basically said this upcoming road trip is going to decide whether or not they're going to win this thing, and that winning teams play better on the road than the Brewers have, and that they've "played like crap" on the road. At least someone in the organization is saying it, even if it's one of the recent scapegoats. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[thablingster]

Valentin's career #s as a righty

 

213/.290/.276

 

Well done Ned!!

You can't possibly be insinuating that the gentleman paid seven figures to run this baseball team spend 2.34 seconds researching the baseball-playing abilities of his opponents, right? http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/mad.gif

Even his bench coach could be like "Hey Ned, this guy sucks as a RHB." ... but alas, we let Javier Valentin beat us for like the 5th time in his career (I honestly don't even think I'm kidding, which is the sad part http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif)

 

[brewmann04]

Crazy crew i would rather see a 9-3 blow out becase this 7-6 game after blowing a 5 runs lead is far from enteraining

[Bruce Ciskie]

Even his bench coach could be like "Hey Ned, this guy sucks as a RHB." ... but alas, we let Javier Valentin beat us for like the 5th time in his career (I honestly don't even think I'm kidding, which is the sad part http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif)

 

I'm thinking even Sveum has given up on trying to infuse common sense into that dome.

[rotoherb]

Brewers team ERA by month:

April: 3.81

May: 4.18

June: 4.02

July: 4.63

August: 6.82

 

Somewhere along the line, the bottom just dropped out on the pitching staff. Does the mere presence of Sheets on the staff mean that much?

[Eddiehitsthefoulpole]

Mr. Attanasio, if you read this board please help us. We have suffered long enough. We are frustrated. I don't know if you can do anything this year. But by next year, get us a team that won't break our heart.

[thablingster]

Mr. Attanasio, if you read this board please help us. We have suffered long enough. We are frustrated. I don't know if you can do anything this year. But by next year, get us a team that won't break our heart.

I'd guess Mark A is just as upset if not moreso about this collapse (has it gotten to the point yet where we can call it a collapse?) than we are.

rotoherb wrote:

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Brewers team ERA by month:

April: 3.81

May: 4.18

June: 4.02

July: 4.63

August: 6.82

 

Somewhere along the line, the bottom just dropped out on the pitching staff. Does the mere presence of Sheets on the staff mean that much?

It would appear that way, especially when young guys like Villanueva, Parra, and Yo have to pick up the slack and major league average pitchers such as Spurling and Balfour have to suck up high leverage innings. Not to mention that the guys at the back end of the bullpen are overworked in that they not only have to pitch in close games, but sometimes in not-so-close games because everyone else sucks so hard we have no one left.

[rluzinski]

Yeh, maybe we can sign another Suppan. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif

[phatmatt1215]

Yeh, maybe we can sign another Suppan. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif

Worst signing EVER... or at least this year. Man, is he ever TERRIBLE.

 

[jlau20]

It's truly disappointing that when watching games where we get up 3-4+ runs in the first few innings that we still have a legitimate chance to lose. Just looking at the graphs that some post about probabilities of winning during the game is quite depressing.

 

The Brewers are literally defying all odds of being able to blow a game.

 

2007 Brewers: Never count our opponents out.

[dlk9s]

Jim Skaalen speaks the truth in the post game. He basically said this upcoming road trip is going to decide whether or not they're going to win this thing, and that winning teams play better on the road than the Brewers have, and that they've "played like crap" on the road. At least someone in the organization is saying it, even if it's one of the recent scapegoats. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

I don't think the road trip is going to decide whether or not they WILL win the division, but rather, whether or not they CAN win the division.

[davego]

Good point. This trip will either finish the 'Crew off, or let them still have a chance. Sort of like...the playoffs.

 

When we look back on the season, I suspect it is going to be these past 10 days or so when the Cubs way cooled off and the 'Crew did nothing but tred water.

[BrewCrewForever]

Yeh, maybe we can sign another Suppan. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif

Worst signing EVER... or at least this year. Man, is he ever TERRIBLE.

 

 

He is the Doug Melvin era Jeffrey Hammonds signing. No doubt about that. He got paid on one year just like Hammonds got paid on one year.....in Colorado.

[Brian the Automator]

Yeh, maybe we can sign another Suppan. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif

Worst signing EVER... or at least this year. Man, is he ever TERRIBLE.

 

He is the Doug Melvin era Jeffrey Hammonds signing. No doubt about that. He got paid on one year just like Hammonds got paid on one year.....in Colorado.

I don't think Suppan is comparable to Hammonds. Yes, it was overpayment on both contracts, but Suppan isn't plagued by injuries, and he's been a solid innings eater throughout his career. Soup would appear to be the biggest mistake Melvin's made to date, but it's not a franchise-crippling mistake like Ham-bone was.

 

[Eddiehitsthefoulpole]

I think we kind of overvalued Soup because of how well he pitched against us, and how well he pitched in the play-offs. It wasn't that long ago that Boston pretty much gave him up for dead. Soup will be OK because he won't miss starts. I suspect that in the future he will pitch a bit better than he has this year. He isn't going to be worth the money, but he will be better than Hammonds.