Wednesday's Frosty Mug
It's Yovani Gallardo vs Cole Hamels at 2 today. Let's start with the previews and predictions:
- Another Baseball Blog has the Brewers at 46% to win the series.
- Baseball Digest Daily has three keys for victory for each team.
- Cardinals Diaspora has the Phillies in 5.
- The Good Phight has the Phillies winning in 4.
- Some guy named Jeff Sackmann predicted a Brewer victory over at The Hardball Times.
- Two other, less knowledgable guys predicted a Phillies win.
- Ken Rosenthal has the Phillies in 4.
- 8 of the 10 writers at MLB FanHouse have the Brewers winning. They're also staging a debate?
- MLB Playoff Odds has the Brewers at 45.7%.
- Peter Schmuck has the Brewers winning the series.
- I have no idea how betting on baseball works, but Results Disoriented has the Brewers at +190 today and +164 to win the series. Whatever that means.
- Rohan Chatterjee of Bugs & Cranks predicts the Phillies in 4.
- WhatIfSports gives the Brewers a 49% chance of winning the series.
Still need tickets for Games 3 and 4? Big League Stew notes there are tickets available for trade on Craigslist, if you've got tickets to a Celine Dion concert or a tab of generic Viagra to give away. And if you're visiting Milwaukee and looking for food, Keith Law has some restaurant reviews for you.
Even if you don't have tickets, you can still follow the Brew Town Beat's postseason roadmap. Or you could follow the Brewers by reading Ryan Braun's postseason blog. By the way, Braun's errorless 2008 season made Umpbump's list of biggest surprises.
It doesn't look like Dale Sveum will be asking Ryan Braun or anyone else to bunt all that often in the postseason, as the small ball experiment is out. A rule against wasting outs in the postseason makes me feel better about the Brewers' chances.
Another thing that could help: Pat Burrell left BP yesterday with discomfort in his lower back. He'll be re-evaluated today.
It's time for the daily gathering of links about CC Sabathia. Jon Heyman has him second for NL MVP, behind Manny Ramirez. Marc Hulet of FanGraphs thinks the Brewers won this trade. MLB Trade Rumors says the Indians are leaning towards taking Michael Brantley as the PTBNL.
Then, on the other end of the postseason-usefulness spectrum, we have Ben Sheets. Sheets was left off the NLDS roster and revealed he has a torn muscle near his right elbow yesterday. The Brew Town Beat thanks Sheets for his efforts as a Brewer.
If you could have any first baseman in baseball for the 2009 season, where would you draft Prince Fielder? Baseball by Paul has him sixth.
Would you have guessed the best offense of any NL playoff team belongs to the Los Angeles Dodgers (of Los Angeles)? Me either.
On the coaching carousel: the Indians have fired bullpen coach Luis Isaac, who had been with the team since 1993. Hopefully he didn't punch anything on the way out, because apparently that can get expensive: The Padres are trying to recover some of Khalil Greene's salary after he missed about a third of the season with injuries sustained punching a storage cabinet.
Oh, and here's the Youtube video of Salomon Torres' speech from Monday's rally, which is now my second favorite Youtube video of the week, behind If I Were A Bond Girl.
Drink up. Then have another. See you back here at 2.
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I'm a little surprised about the near unanimity of Phillies-winning predictions
jeff: but i shudder to think of the bullpen analogy to sending the runner
by battlekow on Oct 1, 2008 10:11 AM CDT 0 recs
The Red Reporters are rooting for the Brew Crew
by Brendanukkah on
Oct 1, 2008 10:25 AM CDT
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"Decalcomania"
A new word for me. Maybe someday I’ll be able to blow someone’s mind after they play “decal” in scrabble and I have “comania” on my rack. That would be a high quality decalcomania for sure.
jeff: but i shudder to think of the bullpen analogy to sending the runner
by battlekow on
Oct 1, 2008 10:31 AM CDT
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BP's third-order wins
Philadelphia Phillies, 86.8
Milwaukee Brewers, 86.4
Granted, that’s with Sheets, but it’s also without Gallardo.
jeff: but i shudder to think of the bullpen analogy to sending the runner
by battlekow on
Oct 1, 2008 10:31 AM CDT
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I couldn't agree more
That is also with half the year of CC and here he will pitch twice. They have the home field but this is far closer of a series than most pundits seem to think.
by dixieflatline on
Oct 1, 2008 11:12 AM CDT
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the obvious often eludes me
Can someone restate this Sveum quote from the jsonline piece?
“A lot of the patience, a lot of hitting with runners in scoring position, comes with failing. We learn a lot from failing. Basically, you just get tired of it.”
by ol Pete on Oct 1, 2008 10:45 AM CDT 0 recs
"Those who do not learn from their mistakes are destined to repeat them"
jeff: but i shudder to think of the bullpen analogy to sending the runner
by battlekow on
Oct 1, 2008 10:48 AM CDT
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"Well, I guess there's just one thing to do."
“Win the whole damn thing!”
by Brendanukkah on
Oct 1, 2008 10:54 AM CDT
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It was really awkward when Dale Sveum wouldn't put any clothes on after Mark Attanasio came into the locker room
But man, has Mark A got a nice rack or what?
jeff: but i shudder to think of the bullpen analogy to sending the runner
by battlekow on
Oct 1, 2008 11:21 AM CDT
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Dale is out of towels......
and he’s too old to go duckin’ into a locker.
Mark A. said he could handle it if Dale can………
It is dangerous for an athlete to believe his own publicity, good or bad - Bob Uecker, 1982.
by Adam P on
Oct 1, 2008 11:54 AM CDT
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T-minus 2 hours
I’m so happy – two hours from playoff baseball. Cool huh?
by redtiger on Oct 1, 2008 11:55 AM CDT 0 recs
From a Cubs fan
a hearty congratulations to all of you. And MAN do I envy that man child that you have in CC. That guy is an absolute STUD. You have to like your chances when you get to run him out there every third game for the post season.
Anyway, good luck and I hope that you do well. (Unless you play the Cubs.)
"Manny Trillo is coming in to pinch run. You know, for a lot of teams, you would pinch run for Manny Trillo." - Harry Caray
by Archie on Oct 1, 2008 11:57 AM CDT 0 recs
Ahhhh, Manny Trillo
One of my all time favorite baseball players.
"I will agree that the attitude [at BCB] is ridiculous and they have done so much to instigate animosity and then block us from responding. Real mature!"
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Oct 1, 2008 5:21 PM CDT
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