Tuesday Afternoon Open Thread
by Jeff Sackmann on Jun 3, 2008 11:39 AM CDT
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PrintThere's no Mug today, as KL is under the weather, and I only have a minute to post something.
So...Bill Hall wants out (see the post below), Branyan is averaging 400 feet per swing, and Eric Gagne has been permanently reassigned to an undisclosed location.
Anything else interesting going on?
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oh yeah, the draft
I almost forgot :)
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Jun 3, 2008 12:04 PM CDT up reply actions
hopeful, but hard to get "psyched"
Baseball’s draft will never be able to compete with football or basketball in terms of excitement. For the NFL and NBA, we’ve already seen the players play substantially, and we know they can have an impact in a few months. For MLB, all we can see is stats for college and high school, none of which are very informative.
I’m hopeful because I trust our drafting evaluation, but knowing now that we have six (?) picks in the top 65, or whatever, and having names to go with them isn’t very different. Right now I’ll have no idea if Bob Smith is the next Yovanni Gallardo or the next Mark Rodgers.
by keephopealive on Jun 3, 2008 12:05 PM CDT up reply actions
I know where you're coming from
It’s where I came from, after all. But I wanted to know who Bob Smith was, so I did the research; it’s really not all that hard to do. Read Baseball America, PG Crosschecker, SaberScouting, MinorLeagueBall.com, etc. It’s quite a lot of fun, and it’s always satisfying to know what you’re talking about.
He's extremely quick and good.
don't get me wrong
It leaves you hanging a bit, but I’m still excited about the draft. Apparently others are too. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/draft2008/news/story?id=3406616
(not much information, but it’s rare that the Brewers get national press)
by keephopealive on Jun 3, 2008 1:32 PM CDT up reply actions
Robb Edwards is back as the PA guy
He had a heart attack a few weeks ago but has recovered.
From tonight’s game preview on the official site:
Fans attending Wednesday’s matinée against the Diamondbacks will see the Brewers sport an environmentally friendly message at Miller Park. Fans will be rewarded for environmentally friendly behavior and for wearing green to the game in support of the cause.
It’d be confusing if they were playing an interleague game against the A’s or something. More on the promo here, including the tidbit that hybrid vehicles get free parking.
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Maybe the Brewers corporation
would be willing to play the game with 1/3 the bulb wattage directed toward the field, turn down the beer coolers and unplug the TVs in the johns for just one night so a few folks would have less problems with asthma for a day or so. Nah. Never mind.
The parking lot would make a great site for a huge solar array, actually….
And now, back to….baseball!
by heybatterbatter on Jun 3, 2008 5:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Confusion about Hall
It’d be nice if the team’s beat reporters could get the story right.
From the JS: “Bross indicated he had not formerly requested a trade from Brewers general manager Doug Melvin.”
From Brewers.com: “According to the report, Bross had not formally asked Brewers general manager Doug Melvin for a trade.”
So either he hasn’t asked for a trade before but is now or he’s not formally asking for a trade.
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by TheJay on Jun 3, 2008 11:49 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs
In which case, it would be nice if the team's beat reporters could spell
Maybe the JS thinks misspellings add the the authenticity of a blog post, kind of like buying $70 jeans that have holes precisely worn in them already. The text equivalent of a sepia tone. It really lets the reader emerse himself in the direct connection between him/herself and the writer; it gives the blog much more credability.
He's extremely quick and good.
by battlekow on Jun 3, 2008 11:58 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I think it's "immerse" in this case
Just busting your chops :)
Good use of “sepia tone” though.
To be fair, I read the two quotes four times before I figured out where the problem was. I guess the copy editors that read It (oh wait, they probably didn’t read it) failed to see what I failed to see.
Being a breaking story, I’m sure TH was hammering this out as quickly as possible, and the blog format doesn’t seem to have a copy editor screen before it goes live. Pretty dangerous I suppose, but necessary if the beat writers want to break news on the spot. What’s really irritating is that nobody at the JS seems concerned with the online work that’s out there—it’s been posted for hours now, and nobody has fixed the glitch.
Ah, I missed the joke
Damn me!
In a slightly-related note, Tom Verducci is so fond of Ryan Braun, that he credits him with things which did not happen.
Braun (Milwaukee), Chamberlain (Yankees), Troy Tulowitzki (Colorado), Justin Upton (Arizona), and Clay Buchholz and Jacoby Ellsbury (Boston) all helped their teams get to the postseason within two years of being drafted.
by Brewers standards
.500 is the postseason.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Jun 3, 2008 3:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Also, by Brewers standards
Being noticed after Packers’ training camp starts is the postseason.
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What's weird
They didn’t bother checking/fixing it when they took it off the blog and ran it on the regular website. Oh well.
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Yet in the paper...
It’s fixed. Shouldn’t a bell go off in some copy editor’s mind if they catch that mistake, taken directly from material on the web?
FWIW, I'm a bit of a spelling and grammar nitpicker myself,
but I hold two media forms to lower standards – game logs and blogs. These are a bit more ad hoc and are subject to less editing…it’s only fair to tolerate a few typos here and there.
Who said anything about being fair?
Whatever that is. You guys have no concept.
He's extremely quick and good.
a local race for judge
in my area had one candidate (the incumbent)
who has proceeded over many different types of “trails”
the opposition was a DA with “a track record of 42 jury trials and a 99% conviction rate.”
Seriously, I didn’t know who to vote for! The guy that doesn’t know the english language or that doesn’t know how to do math!
don't you hate it when that happens?
You know why English majors always get sucky jobs? Because they never submit their resumes - they’re so paranoid that there’s a typo and they’ll get crushed by a great Boulder of Irony.
"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!"
hey, i was an english major
and i ressent that remark.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Jun 3, 2008 4:48 PM CDT up reply actions
Also, chese
"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!"
science are cool
I can type however I damn well please, I just damn well choose to type as damn well as I can dammit.
Hall's Value
He seems more valuable to the Brewers right now than anything they could get in a trade. His value is way down and he has two and a half years remaining on his contract. I like Hall but he’s underperforming versus righties…he deserves to get ‘platooned for’. Shutup and perform Bill.
Hall for Heilman
Listening to Mike and the Mad Dog and Dog just mentioned this possible trade. It doesn’t get Hall playing everyday but it would get him out of Milwaukee.
Matt LaPorta
New entry in Matt’s player journal today and it can be found here.
The Wallbangers won because they played the game like kids! Let's do that again!!!
Something completely different
tonight we will see one of the rare times that the Son of Clung will be the shorter of the two starting pitchers he is a mere 6,6” while Randy(the ugliest man in baseball)Johnson is a whopping 6,10”
So for tonight McClung is the “short” guy
:)
Its all about the Bullpen this season that is the key.
Coming into the series I was pretty exited about geting two lefties
Obviously both are quality pitchers but we have hit quality lefties before. Then Davis all but shuts us down and makes some of our batters look quite foolish. Maybe Johnson will be a better fit for our guys. His fastball is down to the low 90’s but he still has a lot of movement with it. His trademark slider has really lost a lot of bite and he has added a splitter/change (he calls it a splitter but it acts like a change) which he has yet to throw once against a LHB (93 to RHB, 0 to LHB).
One thing to possibly watch for on TV tonight. When Johnson gets to 0-2 you would think he would be throwing a lot of sliders to get batters to chase. Actually, he is throwing a ton of fastballs up and out of the zone: 83.33% FB 14.29% SL 2.38% CH. Some of our guys were way behind Davis’ high “heat” so my guess is you will see a lot of high fastballs from Johnson tonight. As the count moves to 1-2, 2-2, and 3-2, the slider percentage increases each level and ends up at 58% at 3-2.
by dixieflatline on Jun 3, 2008 1:04 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
It has been a while since I posted these
More umpire strike zones. Here is today’s home plate ump Scott Barry.
So the low/inside corner doesn’t look like a good place to throw to either handedness. Like most umps, he seems to give the outside corner against lefties so hopefully McClung can keep the ball away from the lefties in their lineup.
The Hall trade rumor is false
At least, it’s not on Badger Blogger, so I don’t know where Tom H. is getting it. :)
"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 3, 2008 2:33 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
thanks
a good read. I appreciate that you read ESPN so I don’t have to :).
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Jun 3, 2008 4:13 PM CDT up reply actions
I like this quite
“George always said, ‘The kids who want to get started playing, those are the kids you want,’” Zduriencik said. “I don’t think there’s anybody in the big leagues who regrets what he signed for.”
I like it too
On the flip side, though, a couple of notable holdouts: the Rays aren’t going to regret waiting for David Price, and the D-Backs don’t look likely to regret waiting (almost a full year!) for Max Scherzer.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Jun 3, 2008 4:36 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm always torn when Jack Z gets pub.
He deserves it, but I don’t want to lose him to a GM position on another team. I still can’t believe the Pirates didn’t take him when they had the chance.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jun 3, 2008 5:47 PM CDT up reply actions
he'll be raided one way or another no matter what
the article mentions two guys who became scouting directors elsewhere, and they had gotten virtually no publicity beforehand.
guys move between front offices all the time … if jack z wants to be a GM, he’ll get the opportunity … probably sooner rather than later.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Jun 3, 2008 5:50 PM CDT up reply actions
Bob Uecker blog?
I heard Bob Uecker mention his blog during a radio call but i didn’t have a pen handy to write down the website. Any help?
badgerblogger.com
"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!"
ha! pretty much...
if he is blogging about homerun calls….
“and way back way back; get up get out of here and…. CAUGHT at the wall.”
go get em' seth!
Found this
...but it’s probably a fan pretending to be him:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=27087513
Uecker
He often jokes about his lack of computer literacy by talking about his blog. I believe it is as real as his “pocket doppler” he also refers to.
FWIW
Jim Powell’s blog is here. He probably relates some Uecker stuff.
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