Friday's Frosty Mug

by KLSnow on Apr 25, 2008 9:18 AM CDT Comment 9 comments

Well, the Cubs lost yesterday too, so we're still two games back entering a 3 game series with the Fish tonight. Come and get your Mug.

Win Expectancy Graph
BR Box Score
BDD Recaps
BP Postseason Odds: 85.1 wins and a 22.6% shot at winning the Central.

If you haven't yet, go vote in this week's Fan Opinion Poll. And even if you have voted, go check out the results, which show a pretty interesting one week shift in Ned Yost's approval rating.

I'd never heard Scott Olsen called "Mr. Furious" before, but he's starting for the Marlins tonight, and Bugs and Cranks called him that, so I'll go with it.

The Junkball Blues thinks Rickie Weeks is on an upturn. That'd be nice.

The Official Site reports that Chris Capuano has begun a throwing program in his effort to avoid his second Tommy John surgery. Best wishes to him, but after a full ineffective year WITH the appropriate ligaments and whatnot, I can't imagine him coming back to be effective without them.

It must be a slow news day: Bugs and Cranks is pulling out old baseball cards featuring Troy O'Leary and Matt Mieske.

Today's Brief Alphabetical Morning (BAM) Injury Reports are sponsored by the letter C and the number 2:

Rangers C Adam Melhuse has a bruised hand and could head to the DL.
Mets C Brian Schneider has an infected left thumb and will be placed on the DL.

Related to the Melhuse injury: I took a friend to the Iowa Cubs/Oklahoma Redhawks AAA game in Des Moines last weekend. She didn't really know much about baseball, but was a big fan of Jarrod Saltalamacchia, based purely on his very large name. Sometimes you take what you can get.

Maybe they've been watching the Brewers: The A's tried out a lineup with nine right handed hitters last night against the Twins. It seemed to work. It certainly worked better than anything Ryan Howard has tried in April.

The market for closers grows as we speak: Gaslamp Ball is ready to pull the plug on Trevor Hoffman.

Former Brewer notes: The Mets have DFA's Brady Clark, and the Nats have sent Ray King back to AAA.

If either of them (or you) are looking for work, The Twins are hiring an administrative assistant. Job duties include receiving AND opening mail. I frequently struggle with the second one.

That's all for today. If you've got something to throw into tomorrow's Mug, drop it in the comments.

Drink up.

0 recs | Comment 9 comments

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

15 Pitchers

Break the mold Yost! Pick up big fat Ray King and lets have 3 Lefties in the pen, and 15 pitches! I’m sure King can at least get on base by a HBP.

by SgtClueLs on Apr 25, 2008 9:31 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Saltalamacchia

Be sure to inform your friend his name means “jump the stain” in Italian.

Obscure baseball records and more at my blog, Recondite Baseball.

by TheJay on Apr 25, 2008 9:50 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Does anybody know

when today’s site maintenance is going to occure? These site crashes are making it very difficult for me to remain unproductive at work

by SunglassesAtNight on Apr 25, 2008 9:52 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I would guess

It’ll go down about forty-five minutes prior to game time and come back about forty-five minutes after the game is over. It reeks of an MLB crackdown. ;-)

Obscure baseball records and more at my blog, Recondite Baseball.

by TheJay on Apr 25, 2008 9:56 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Seliged?

by SunglassesAtNight on Apr 25, 2008 10:07 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

at least

now the site maintenance message tells is straight. Wednesday night was not fun when I wanted to complain about getting Yosted and the site told me it was the seventh inning stretch and to grab a hot dog. I guess their cliche machine didn’t crash.

Good time for Prince's fourth homer

by molitorfan on Apr 25, 2008 10:51 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

A really good sign

So not only am I excited about the 13-9 start but the teams that the Brewers have played have a combined winning percentage of .520 which is 5th best in all of baseball. Combine that with having played two more road games than home games and you have to like where this team is sitting. The Cubs sure are playing well right now but even if we can’t catch them the wildcard is looking might juicy this year in the NL. Only the Dbacks are off to a good start in the west and the east is still being led by the marlins with the mets, braves, and phillies hovering around .500. If those teams beat each other up we could easily slip into the wildcard even if we can’t catch the Cubs.

Visit my baseball blog ...or else!

by dixieflatline on Apr 25, 2008 12:03 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

The Cubs...

have played 14 of 22 games at home, and it was 14 of 20 before they started their road trip two days ago (they’re 1-1 on that trip so far). I don’t know what the future holds for the Brewers this year, but everyone who thinks the Cubs are going to play .690 or win 108 games this year raise your hand.

Anyone?

I didn’t think so.

"He just needs to eat some bananas." - Lou Piniella

by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Apr 25, 2008 4:59 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

dude

fukudome is teh awesome. that’s all you need to know.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Apr 25, 2008 5:14 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Comments For This Post Are Closed

Search

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recent FanPosts

New FanPost All FanPosts

NL Central Standings

	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
St. Louis Viva El Birdos	44	38	.536	0	Won 3
Milwaukee Brew Crew Ball	42	38	.525	1	Lost 3
Chicago Bleed Cubbie Blue	39	38	.506	2.5	Won 3
Cincinnati Red Reporter	39	39	.500	3	Lost 1
Houston The Crawfish Boxes	38	39	.493	3.5	Won 2
Pittsburgh Bucs Dugout	37	43	.462	6	Won 1