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Monday's Frosty Mug

A four-game sweep would be almost as delicious as the Corn Dogs at the Iowa State Fair. I missed most of yesterday's game waiting in line for one.

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How back-and-forth was yesterday's game? Check out the front page at BR and scroll down. Three of the five biggest plays in all of baseball yesterday happened in the last six innings of yesterday's game.

Tom H. gives a lot of credit, as we all should, to Mike Rivera, who started for just the 12th time all year, but still got on base 5 times yesterday.

Of course, after the game the Brewers continued to commit the most heinous atrocity in the history of organized sport: they untucked their shirts.

Ryan Braun isn't feeling any better. I'm just hoping his sore back doesn't have anything to do with the time he's been spending with Marisa Miller.

CC Sabathia has already thrown 57 innings as a Brewer, but has allowed just 40 hits. I thought that was worth noting.

So apparently Catfish Stew tracks the Heavyweight Champion of Baseball. The process seems pretty simple: 2008 started with the Red Sox as champions, and anyone who beats the champions takes over the crown. During interleague play the title passed over to the NL via the Mets, and now the Brewers have it. I don't think a parade is planned.

The Brewers rank 8th in Phil Rogers' weekly power rankings, just ahead of the World Baseball Classic. They're 15th in Skyking162's rankings.

On injuries:

Mariners utilityman Willie Bloomquist has been placed on the DL with a strained hamstring.
Chris Carpenter left last night's game after 66 pitches with a triceps strain.
Carl Crawford has been placed on the DL with a "right middle finger tendon subluxation." That's a new one for me.
Jose Contreras will miss the rest of 2008 and some of 2009 with a ruptured Achilles tendon.
Twins OF Michael Cuddyer was hit in the foot with a line drive last night in a AAA rehab game and suffered a broken bone.
Orlando Hudson broke his wrist Saturday and will miss the rest of the season.
Carlos Lee has a broken finger and is out for the season, ending any playoff hopes he thought the Astros had.
Brad Lidge was unavailable for the second straight day Sunday with biceps tendinitis.
Scott Rolen has been placed on the DL with a sore shoulder.
Tim Wakefield is on the DL with a stiff shoulder.

Baseball Musings notes that the Cubs just finished a 13 game run played entirely within the NL Central, and went 10-3. He says they may have put the NL Central away during that stretch. BP Postseason Odds have them at 96.7% to make the playoffs. These guys realize there's 44 games left and we're talking about the Cubs, right?

Oh, and the Gwinnett Braves would like some help naming a burrowing rodent.

Drink up.

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There's no such word as "bicep"

“Biceps” is singular. More priggish pedantry: the correct Latin plural of “octopus” is “octopodes”, and similarly “platypus” yields “platypodes”.

BCB's "very own marginally deserving all-star!"

by battlekow on Aug 11, 2008 10:13 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Fixed

Hence my decision to call it "screwing around" as opposed to "in-depth study."

by KLSnow on Aug 11, 2008 10:21 AM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Same rule for triceps?

The Bambi's Bombers won because they played the game like kids! Let's do that again!!!

by 80badger on Aug 11, 2008 10:47 AM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

You got it, dude!

BCB's "very own marginally deserving all-star!"

by battlekow on Aug 11, 2008 10:54 AM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Fixed too.

Hence my decision to call it "screwing around" as opposed to "in-depth study."

by KLSnow on Aug 11, 2008 11:02 AM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Crawford to the DL

Rocco Baldelli was activated in his place and played in an MLB game for the first time since May 2007.

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

by TheJay on Aug 11, 2008 10:20 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Postseason Odds

Anybody else surprised to see the NL East at a combined

In other news, the Hootie and the Blowfish guy is on ESPN Radio right now. Penant Race, Olympics, Golf Tourney, NFL Preaseason, and the best they can come up with is the Hootie and the Blowfish guy?!? Maybe tomorrow they’ll talk to Kirstie Alley. I think it’s time to switch to FM.

Steve
http://nohuddleoffense.blogspot.com

by stigmo on Aug 11, 2008 10:33 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

a combined non-existant?

yeah, I’m surprised by that too? What happened, a nuclear attack I didn’t hear about on the news this morning?

by PagsBrewCrew on Aug 11, 2008 11:43 AM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

National ESPN show? Local?

by ol Pete on Aug 11, 2008 11:50 AM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Tried to use the less than sign, and it must have mistaken it for html tagging or something?

I meant less than 10 percent chance of the wildcard

Steve
http://nohuddleoffense.blogspot.com

by stigmo on Aug 11, 2008 3:43 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

ahhh...yes...it does that

use & lt ; without the spaces.

pain in the ass I know:P

by PagsBrewCrew on Aug 11, 2008 4:25 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

The retarded, one-armed monkey strikes again

Over three days Yost has to make ONE pitching decision and he comes up with Eric Gagne, in a tight game in the 8th inning when the entire bullpen has had three days off. Even randomly drawing names out of a hat gives you a 71.4% chance of making a better decision. It’s great to be in Justify-Big-Contract-Damn-Consequences Mode™.

by Getting Yosted on Aug 11, 2008 10:50 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

"ho got a pitch up"

or somesuch was his response. No big deal.

by ol Pete on Aug 11, 2008 11:13 AM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

But

Gagne’s the current Eighth Inning Guy™!

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

by TheJay on Aug 11, 2008 11:15 AM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Come playoff time, a team doesn’t have much use for more than 4 quality relievers. You need your garbage guys if a game gets out of hand, but in tight games you need a closer, a LOOGY and two other quality arms to pitch the seventh and eigth innings. The Brewers four should be Torres, Shouse, Villy and Riske with McClung as a possible replacement for Riske. Travel days give you designated off days for your bullpen, so there is little need to rest any of your top 4 on game days. Gagne, Mota, McClung/Riske and Suppan* should all be designated as garbage guys. That Win Now Mode™ doesn’t include managing your bullpen during the playoff push like you should manage your bullpen during the playoffs should concern everyone. It should concern us even more if this is how the Retarded One Armed Monkey plans on managing his bullpen come playoff time.

*Assuming ROAM’s mancrush on gritty Dave Bush beat’s the mancrush on veteran Jeff Suppan.

by Getting Yosted on Aug 11, 2008 11:46 AM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

that last assumption

is pure craziness. I see virtually NO WAY that they start Bush over Suppan in the playoffs. Remember Soup is supposed to be a gamer - we justified giving him the big contract based on his World Series MVP - while Bush until recently was the nervous pitcher that would give up the big inning because he’d lose his head. Not saying that I agree with that thinking, but I’m pretty confident that’s the thinking from Ned.

by keephopealive on Aug 11, 2008 11:36 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Gwinnett Braves

We have a number of names for that rodent down here: deceit, liar, kickback, swindle…. The deal that was done by the County Chariman to get the Braves in a new stadium was done with no public input and yet has the county citizens are paying for the damn thing for the indefinite future. To say they bent over and grabbed their ankles and didn’t even get kissed would be mild.

The Bambi's Bombers won because they played the game like kids! Let's do that again!!!

by 80badger on Aug 11, 2008 10:51 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Did anyone else's

whole group of friends and themselves get absolutely plowed in some sort of drunken Brewers love fest last night?

by Braunstalker on Aug 11, 2008 11:12 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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