fire Jim Skaalen?

Let’s see. . . at age 25, they can buy Jim Skaalen 10 times over already.
He can’t tell ‘em nuthin’, cuz they ain’t listenin’.

As Nuke LaLoosh said, “I got a Porsche already; a 911 with a quadrophonic Blaupunkt”

It takes experience, and getting tired of making right turns.

What concerns me is an apparent lack of understanding what the pitcher is doing to them.
They’re not dumb, just stubborn,
It takes more experience.

... that Attanasio will take a close look at what’s going on if there is no playoff appearance this year. Attansio’s watch-word when he took over was accountability and more than one business magazine used that word when asked to sum up Attanasio’s style in a few sentences. The payroll is all but maxed out and Attanasio appears to have given Melvin the chance to raise it even higher if he had found another deal he liked. The business side of the organization is running well. So is the scouting department run by Jack Z. If the baseball operations team can’t get into the playoffs with a corps of players supposedly on the front edge of their prime productive years, with the highest payroll in the history of the team, and with a once a generation mid-season trade for Sabathia, when will they make it?

Many of Melvin’s acquisitions from last offseason have underperformed and at least one (and maybe more) of the young core of players we’ve pinned our hopes on continues to underperform. When questioned, Ned continues to blame the team’s faults on its youth, despite the existence of similar problems from veteran players at 3B and CF. And “Nervous Ned” continues to preside over a tense dugout despite the removal of irritants like Estrada, which bubbled into a physical confrontation in the face of a tension filled playoff chase and a struggling offense.

I believe we’ll see some changes if this team doesn’t make the playoffs this year.

That’s all I have to go on. Interviews here and there with Skaalen or sometimes Sveum.

My impression of those is that the players are coached on how to deal with pitchers and situations or sometimes adjustments with their batting and they frequently don’t do it.

I’m not really communicating it well, but in my opinion, the coaches can only coach and if they aren’t backed by the manager it doesn’t work.

But the players alone can’t be the problem. The fact that every young player on this team has a similarly eager plate approach indicates something in the coaching.

Our offense is pretty damn good though and that also reflects the coaching. Our recent offensive struggles (as in, more than the past couple games) are primary due to our batting with RISP, which in my opinion is really more bad luck than anything (unless you believe we’re just not “clutch” enough…)

... Brett Favre should be our hitting coach. Why is Ted Thompson keeping him from teaching our boys how to swing at strikes? Freaking ego-maniac.

seem so silly after a solid 4-2 road trip with plenty of “clutch hits” in the last two games.

We see no particular pitches, do we? As viewers, we only speculate and infuse our thoughts onto the situation. I see us making the wild card, but:

Truthfully, I despise our hitters’ approach at the plate. With the minor exceptions of Counsell (who cannot hit to save the world from an approaching asteroid), Kendall (whose approach seems to vary) and the situationally selective Bill Hall, very rarely does a Brewer not hack like Chuckie (Carr).

Is our hitting coach to blame?

I was a teacher for 5 years and I know who’s at fault when the kids go wild (I’ll give you a hint: I am no longer a teacher).

...you sort of have to pin it on either the batting coach or the trainers for not making the players go through enough stretches and other warm-ups.