Juju Jeff

by battlekow on May 29, 2007 11:05 PM CDT in Milwaukee Brewers News

Yes indeed, Jeff Sackmann has brought winning back to Milwaukee. In thirty years, he'll be commissioner of baseball and generally reviled, but for now I'm sure he's basking in the glory of a job well done.

The game, as you no doubt already know, was awesome. Great game to see live; there were few dull moments, as the game oscillated between exciting and terrifying. The were a bunch of Little League-quality fielding hijinks, a three-run first inning for the opponent, and a near-blown save, but all's well that ends well (except maybe for Rickie Weeks, who committed 1.5 errors and was retired by a guy with a broken finger). It'll be nice to sleep on a win for the first time in awhile. Goodnight everybody.

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Good stuff

I came home for lunch and saw the Brewers were up 5-4 in the 7th and worried about coming home after my shift to find out Brian Anderson said something like "Cordero's been well nigh unhittable this year, let's hope the Braves don't get lucky here" and find out he gave up a walk and homer to blow the save...but I needn't have worried (too much), I see.

Too bad Saltalamacchia didn't face Villanueva - it would have been a proofreader's nightmare.

Tomorrow I would guess Braun or Weeks will get a day off (hopefully the day lineup doesn't mean rest for both), Mench will be in the lineup if only because Yost will think it's an advantage that he's seen Hudson a lot, both being from the AL West a few years ago, and Damian Miller will be behind the plate.

by TheJay on May 30, 2007 12:13 AM CDT reply actions

Whats Millers record now??

I must have lost a couple games by now!

by Grinder12000 on May 30, 2007 6:13 AM CDT reply actions

Miller's Record is 13-3

Magic # is now 106, which is still the lowest in the NL (thank you crap division).

We have a 5.5 game lead on Pittsburgh(?!?), 6 games up on the scrubs.

Alright, here is the benefit to our hot start... we have played like absolute crap in the 5-13 stretch we have endured, but the plus side is that we are still 6 games above .500, and we still are the class of our division.

Looking ahead at our June schedule we have:
Florida (2 games below .500)
Scrubs (6 games below .500)
Texas (worst team in baseball, by far, it's not even close, just don't get me started)
Detroit (tough team number 1)
Minnesota (tough team number 2, though just 1 game over .500)
San Fran (2 games below .500)
KC (2nd worst team in baseball)
Houston (Horrible team this year)
and the Scrubs again.

We have a relatively easy June to run away with this division. It should be a much more fun month than May ended up being.

That's not the Chirizo, It's Enrico Polazzo!

by hyattff2003 on May 30, 2007 9:45 AM CDT reply actions

I wonder

With the way we've played, would our record in May be much better if we played easier opponents? I'm not sure it'd take "good" teams to beat us, not with our current level of play.

"C'mon, boys, let's get 'em some RUNS!" --- Daron Sutton, pretty much every game of the 2005 season.

by roguejim on May 30, 2007 11:08 AM CDT up reply actions

Yes

We'd have maybe a .500 record during the last three weeks. If you play worse teams, they won't take as much advantage of bad pitches, and our hitters can take more advantage of worse pitchers. We'd have won a few more games.

by craigholl on May 30, 2007 11:48 AM CDT up reply actions

Yeah

I agree with roguejim, I just think that we didn't play very good this month. Atleast thats what I would like to think. I would hate to go into the playoffs and have to play a team like the mets or padres and think right aways that we can't beat them because they kicked our ass in May! Chalk up May to some below average play, can't win them all

by Bigdogg2002 on May 30, 2007 11:53 AM CDT reply actions

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