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Wednesday's Plastic Cup

Yesterday, all 30 teams in baseball were in action.  Only three NL teams won a game, and one of those, the Dodgers, beat the Reds.  The Brewers and Rockies were the only NL teams to win an interleague matchup.

With all those home runs last night, the Brewers didn't have to run very fast during the game.  This guy needed to run faster, though.

All you girls--except for Kirbir, who obviously wouldn't know a warm-up partner if one fell out of the sky into her bed--should be sure to watch the game tonight.  Hardy is healthy, and Yost plans to put him back in the lineup.

Speaking of coming back: David Riske dominated in Triple-A last night, and more importantly, he felt good.  He may not need another rehab, in which case the brass will have to figure out who goes.

I suppose there are four choices to get the axe: Mike Mark Mike Mark Mike Mark DiFelice, Tim Dillard, Julian Tavarez, and Hernan Iribarren.  Given how well DiFelice and Dillard have pitched, and that Taverez is a crusty veteran, I wouldn't be surprised to see Ned go for 13 pitchers.  Rambling Al notes that DiFelice has continued his amazing K/BB ways in the big leagues.

Whether you like it or not, I'm going to keep monitoring the available starting pitching.  (Sorry Seth, I'm sipping the kool-aid, but I'm not chugging it yet.)  Freddy Garcia has been throwing for scouts, and he could be back before September.

TheJay, apparently, is freelancing at Baseball Prospectus under the nom de recondite of "Jim Baker."  Baker takes the case of Robinson Cancel (nine years between major league appearances) and finds the players with even longer gaps between spells in the bigs.  Unsurprisingly, World War II shows up quite a bit.

If you thought the article about Kendall needing your All-Star support was a little silly, you should see what Gaslamp Ball has to say about a similar piece concerning Adrian Gonzalez.  Gonzalez has been one of the best players in baseball this year, and has stayed firmly under the radar in San Diego.  But no matter how good, I suspect he's not going to overtake Berkman, Pujols, D-Lee, and Fielder.

Here's part two of Geoff Young's interview with Sandy Alderson.

Two managers were fined by Major League Baseball for "failing to comply with pace of game regulations."  Word on the street (well, ok, word from my cat) is that Ryan Braun is next--if he doesn't start making outs more often, MLB will have to crack down on the extra time he adds to Brewers games.

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I'm shocked that this is being discussed

I expected Tavares to be DFA’d once Riske or Gagne came back. Unless we’re keeping him around as Manny-bait.

And how did TLR avoid being fined for slow game pace? Even if he hadn’t done anything specific that week, he should have been given a lifetime achievement fine.

by Getting Yosted on Jun 18, 2008 9:11 AM CDT   0 recs

I hope your shockage is correct and Taveres gets the boot.

by Braunstalker on Jun 18, 2008 10:39 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Fan on the Field

It was odd to have a fan on the field during a blow out game. And during Little League night.

Does anyone know the cost of the ticket??

And the guy didn’t even make an attempt to run the bases, I call that wussy.

by SgtClueLs on Jun 18, 2008 9:21 AM CDT   0 recs

i’d be really surprised if he isn’t convicted of a crime and fined. Plus he probably spent the night in the Charles Barkley Suite AKA the Milwaukee jail. It reminds me of a game about a month ago that Sparky attended. He was shocked how security literally kneed and punched the guy after they surrendered. His funniest line was “they can’t do that,” after having watched them do it.

by ol Pete on Jun 18, 2008 11:21 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Taxes

Don Walker of JSOnline just blogged about Prince owing over 400,000 in back taxes from the year he earned his signing bonus.

by oconnobe on Jun 18, 2008 9:46 AM CDT   0 recs

Whoa

Only took two and a half years to break that news. Something tells me he’ll have plenty of money available to settle things pretty soon.

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by TheJay on Jun 18, 2008 10:28 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

credit crunch

Maybe that will have him eager to sign an extension and get a bonus. That’s a lot of money to have on a credit card… not.

by keephopealive on Jun 18, 2008 11:22 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

following in his old man's footsteps?

wasn’t that something cecil was accused of? I thought prince made an issue of it too, but maybe I’m way off.

by PagsBrewCrew on Jun 18, 2008 11:59 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Partly

Cecil was more into gambling and bad investments, but he did owe some back taxes as well.

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by TheJay on Jun 18, 2008 12:09 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

If I remember the story

Prince’s entire signing bonus went to get his dad out of debt. So it’s not that he’s following his dad’s example, he’s still paying the price for his dad’s screwup.

by Getting Yosted on Jun 18, 2008 12:16 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Slow game pace

I wonder how they decided that – both those guys were ejected from games against the Brewers so maybe that’s it. Pretty dumb. As for the long gaps between major league stints, who could forget Julio Mosquera? He had only eight years in between at bats but that’s still a long time.

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by TheJay on Jun 18, 2008 10:19 AM CDT   0 recs

Zero career walks. Sign him up!

by Braunstalker on Jun 18, 2008 10:41 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

and of course

own very own Brian Shouse went five years between his first and second ML stint, and another four years between his second and third.

by Zeyes on Jun 18, 2008 10:58 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

According to WSSP

Prince owes the IRS 409 grand.

No mention of this yet?

Lordz Of Vengeance....If I'm not drunk, I'm at work.

by Dikembe Meiztombo on Jun 18, 2008 11:02 AM CDT   0 recs

Look above about half a dozen comments

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by TheJay on Jun 18, 2008 11:15 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Bah.

I fart in the general direction of previous comments.

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by Dikembe Meiztombo on Jun 18, 2008 11:48 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

starting pitching

Isn’t Dave Bush the most likely to be replaced? I think the Kool-ade is Bulldog Ale.

by ol Pete on Jun 18, 2008 11:30 AM CDT   0 recs

Marcum and Sheets tonight

Should be a great pitching match up. Marcum is a real junkballer throwing a four seamer, a change up, a cutter, a slider, and a curve. His fastball is mid-upper 80’s but he only throws it 36% of the time. He relies on his change and cutter which he throws about 25% each. That could give our suddenly red hot left handed bats trouble. The key is getting him into hitters counts where he is forced to use the very mediocre fastball. On 2-0 and 3-1 he throws the fastball over 60% of the time. Hopefully with Sheets on the mound we won’t need too many runs tonight.

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by dixieflatline on Jun 18, 2008 11:34 AM CDT   0 recs

unless Marcum is way off, we are dead. Hopefully we can hurt their awesome pen. bah, me no likey this mathcup.

by Braunstalker on Jun 18, 2008 12:09 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Me likey the term "mathcup," though

it sounds like something the high school math club puts on before going to a Saturday morning meet. With all the stats geeks on this site, I think BCB could produce our own line. :)

"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!"

by roguejim on Jun 18, 2008 12:18 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

He meant to write "math chops"

He's extremely quick and good.

by battlekow on Jun 18, 2008 1:32 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

One more tidbit

The PECOTA adjusted postseason odds report now has the Brewers as the most likely WC team in the NL. It is very close obviously but that is a good sign.

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by dixieflatline on Jun 18, 2008 11:45 AM CDT   0 recs

is that...

a subscriber only thing? I can’t seem to find it.

by PagsBrewCrew on Jun 18, 2008 11:58 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Prince's Tax Problems

Let’s just hope that the IRS once hit 75 home runs.

Coffee is for closers

by drezdn on Jun 18, 2008 11:57 AM CDT   0 recs

thumb

if that’s his thumb at 5 o’clock, that looks like a two-seamer. for a splitter his index and middle fingers would be outside the seams and up closer to the horseshoe seam, the ring and pinkey would be tucked down by the thumb.

great find on the photo.

Bring Back The Old Logo!

by jacob on Jun 18, 2008 12:33 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Thanks for the correction. As to the find, sadly, this morning I bounced around and 3 or 4 from the game where the fingers could be seen. Later they were gone. I guess I should have posted them.

by ol Pete on Jun 18, 2008 4:04 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

*found 3 or 4

by ol Pete on Jun 18, 2008 4:04 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

But I was enjoying Counsell in the lineup

He’s hot! Ned never pulls anyone who’s been hot! Hardy can’t make those sorts of dazzling infield plays!

(I’m still wondering how he hit 9 home runs a couple of years ago; playing in Arizona helps but I didn’t think it would help that much.)

by morineko on Jun 18, 2008 12:16 PM CDT   0 recs

Whoa

2005 was the only year he got 500 AB in a season. I didn’t realize he’d only done that once. It’s really strange that he had seven home runs in only two months—somehow “Craig Counsell” and “20+ HR in a year pace” doesn’t seem right.

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by TheJay on Jun 18, 2008 12:26 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

So what you're saying is

Forget JJ, Counsell is hot. Am I reading that right? Would your grandmother warm up with Craig Counsell anytime?

"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!"

by roguejim on Jun 18, 2008 12:26 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

he's hot right now, but it's a small sample size

A very small sample size. My grandmother has nothing to say about him, but my mom keeps complaining about him—”skinnier than Julio Lugo,” “is he trying to golf that baseball or what,” commenting on his stance creeping back to the old thing after what he had going on in spring training….

(I just remember the hordes of squealing fangirls that I saw on message boards after the 2001 World Series. He was a definite cover model for Nonthreatening Boys magazine, eh.)

by morineko on Jun 18, 2008 3:45 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Jeffress pitching right now

Weird line through 3 IP: 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 1 K, 1 HR.

He's extremely quick and good.

by battlekow on Jun 18, 2008 2:05 PM CDT   0 recs

Rocco Baldelli with the dinger

Probably better than Joe A-baller though.

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by dixieflatline on Jun 18, 2008 2:16 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Does Joe A-Baller wear a mathcup?

"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!"

by roguejim on Jun 18, 2008 2:27 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

No, but Jeff Sack-mann does.

He's extremely quick and good.

by battlekow on Jun 18, 2008 2:30 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

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