Game Thread #PS minus 2: Cubs at Brewers
Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee Brewers, Sep 27, 2008 2:55 PM CDT
This afternoon's matchup is Ben Sheets (yes!) and about 75 pitches of Ted Lilly.
Lineups are here--Piniella is sending in the second string. That was hardly a guarantee of victory for the Mets, though. Either Sveum had an epiphany or Durham is really hurting--Weeks is in there, batting 7th.
Game time is 2:55 CT, it's on FOX, and here's the BR Game Preview.
Go Brewers!
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Sheets
I bet he’ll do everything he can to go at least four innings even if he’s hurting. If he goes 4+ and gives up one earned run, he threw over 200 innings this year with a sub-3.00 ERA.
Since Dale Sveum took over as head honcho, Corey Hart has an amusing .200/.186/.250 line in 44 PA.
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"Amusing" isn't the word I would use
I think Weeks has started vs. every lefty the Brewers have faced in the Sveum era, by the way. Durham probably wouldn’t have gone today even if at full strength.
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not really...
more hopeful and excited
by Oakland Brewer Fan on Sep 27, 2008 2:46 PM CDT up reply actions
i have memories of being in a wild card chase with New York
and the Reds chooking against teh Brewers in the last weekend of the season, forcing a one game playoff between teh Reds and Mets, and the Reds lost to Al Fucking Leiter.
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
by justin007000 on Sep 27, 2008 2:56 PM CDT up reply actions
but i'm pulling for you guys
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
by justin007000 on Sep 27, 2008 2:57 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm out of town tomorrow
So.. not going to be able to watch the game live. I’;d rather have locked it up so I can stop watching my blackberry all day.
sheets velocity is down a bit
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
He looks fine
velocity is never good in the first, that’s not a concern too much. That was just a terrible pitch.
Sat: George 2 (37, missed catch, fielding) Fri: George (35, throw) Tues: George (34, throw)
Must start drinking...
keep my mind loose.
by Bernie's Mustache Wax on Sep 27, 2008 3:06 PM CDT reply actions
I wish the radio was in-sync with the TV
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that’s why the tv is on mute and i’m tuning in ueck
"Cubs fans boo again – 99% of these people can’t see the plate." -Ueck
He was talking about when he played
He mentioned that’s not the case today.
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did Grace just say
that he found a way to throw harder because he is in trouble?
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
Idiots
he’s hit 92 a few times before that. He never gets it going until the second or third, anyway.
Sat: George 2 (37, missed catch, fielding) Fri: George (35, throw) Tues: George (34, throw)
see, that's what theriot brings to that team
he’s the mvp because he doesn’t make errors.
and least when he’s not playing.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Sep 27, 2008 3:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Who the hell is the play by play guy?
“Hardy’s a big guy, but he runs well”
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he's a shortstop!
all shortstops are fast.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Sep 27, 2008 3:24 PM CDT up reply actions
is grace going to feliate a Cubs player before the game is over?
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
this is not good
today more than ever, the goal should be to make lilly throw as many pitches as possible. better to get him out after 4 or 5 than let him go into the 7th, and we KNOW he’s on a pitch limit today.
but no…2 innings, 25 pitches.
Also, cheese.
Wow
Rotoworld is rockin’ out today:
Ricky Nolasco limited the Red Sox to two earned runs over seven innings Saturday but the Marlins couldn’t put a run on the board against Johan Santana.
Also, cheese.
days like this
i’m very happy i don’t have a tv.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Sep 27, 2008 3:33 PM CDT up reply actions
6-0 Badgers
10 minutes left in the second quarter.
"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!"
I usually avoid complaining,
but doesn’t it seem like he’s getting squeezed a bit?
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Hate to say it
but it did seem like that to me too
by cubsfaninatl on Sep 27, 2008 3:48 PM CDT up reply actions
Mark D
Do what you did last time this happened
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I really hope he just didn't get booed
If so, every fan that booed him is a douche bag. It was hard to tell, maybe it was just Cub fans.
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Inexcusable
This game is for your season…it was obvious from the first inning that Sheets (bless his soul for giving it a try) did not have it. There is no excuse for not yanking him after the first or even the second inning and going to Bush.
no arguments here
The problem is that it is hard to say what “healthy” means. Most pitchers will tell you that they hurt…often. It is just a matter of degrees. I don’t have a problem with putting him out there to start, but you have to read what he is tossing…and it was so apparent that he had nothing that you can’t keep him out there.
by badgermaniac on Sep 27, 2008 3:47 PM CDT up reply actions
thats
kind of a sad way for Sheets to maybe end his brewer career
No 200 for Benny
Mark DiFelice hasn’t faced the Iowa Cubs since July 2007.
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I've been doing too many crossword puzzles
I spent 30 seconds looking at “No 200” without figuring out what it is. I was convinced you meant No., and I was racking my brain for what Ben was doing for the 200th time.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Sep 27, 2008 3:45 PM CDT up reply actions
IP this year
Though I assume you figured it out after all.
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Ted Lilly is on steroids
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
Sabathia would get hit tomorrow then
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Well, and it's an unprofessional thing to do
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Ok
we should get at least 3 innings of Cubs relievers, some of whom will be minor leaguers. 4 runs…no problem.
Also, cheese.
Really stretching
To get the Jeter reference on FOX.
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DiFelice's day is done
Nice 2/3 of an inning.
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I think that DF was just brought in due to batting order there
Had it been past the P spot, I think Bush comes in directly.
I am pro-Rodgers
That and they'll probably need him tomorrow
DiFelice hasn’t been run out there for a few days, though. I’ll take a wild guess that it’s Bush and Gagne today for the rest of the game.
Mota hasn't pitched in 2 days now, Gagne did
I’d think he makes an appearance for sure, and the setup crew is available.
Side note- if they pitch DBush for a few innings today and CC tommorrow, who would start the one game playoff if it is in fact on Monday? I don’t think they want to throw Yovani on 3 days, given his status. Maybe start with CV?
Sat: George 2 (37, missed catch, fielding) Fri: George (35, throw) Tues: George (34, throw)
amen
can you believe we’re being no hit through 3.1 at this time of year? insane.
by Oakland Brewer Fan on Sep 27, 2008 4:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Have you learned nothing today?
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by Dikembe Meiztombo on Sep 27, 2008 4:18 PM CDT up reply actions
is there any difference between being the bench coach or the manager?
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
Sveum wasn't even the bench coach,
so that’s even sadder than you realize. He was at third.
Sat: George 2 (37, missed catch, fielding) Fri: George (35, throw) Tues: George (34, throw)
though he was bench coach last year
right?
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Sep 27, 2008 4:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Yup
But Grace said, “What’s the difference between being the bench coach and the manager?” to Sveum.
Sat: George 2 (37, missed catch, fielding) Fri: George (35, throw) Tues: George (34, throw)
ahh
not getting these gems from jim & bob.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Sep 27, 2008 4:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Lilly may well go 7 on his 75 pitches
Ugh.
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First Pitch pop up.
You do get more than one chance to swing.
by Bernie's Mustache Wax on Sep 27, 2008 4:11 PM CDT reply actions
Braun didn't look comfortable
running back to the dugout. Seemed to have some pain on the left side of the chest?
I hope that Sveum doesn't come back even more after that interview
“Don’t worry about swinging at balls in the dirt” as Prince wails after head high garbage.
Is there a baseball game today?
Just wondering.
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by Dikembe Meiztombo on Sep 27, 2008 4:13 PM CDT reply actions
Okay boys, time to get some runs
or hell, even a hit!
by Oakland Brewer Fan on Sep 27, 2008 4:20 PM CDT reply actions
Zambrano
mlb.com has him starting and going a couple innings tomorrow as a tune-up. Anyone else hear that?
Twins update
…accurately, Royals update. They’ve got some rookie, Mike Aviles, playing short and apparently he wants to be the right-handed version of Craig Counsell. Bat straight in the air and everything.
Aviles is hitting well, has been all year
he’s been better in MLB than he was in the minors…very strange.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Sep 27, 2008 4:24 PM CDT up reply actions
I haven't been watching the Royals
Now I feel bad that I haven’t. I’m going to the game tomorrow, though, so I’ll have to pay some attention then.
The batting version of Jeff Samardzija? I’m still baffled by him (although I think he probably needed to spend some more time in Iowa.)
not even...
Aviles was never really even a prospect, but went on an absolute tear after being called up, and hasn’t entirely cooled off yet.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Sep 27, 2008 4:27 PM CDT up reply actions
19-0 Badgers
at the half
"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!"
Full count for Rickie Weeks=
Highlight of game so far
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This sucks
at least you guys have the Badgers to fall back on. I am a PSU grad so I have the potential for more than 1 bad loss today.
September 15: Not a bad little Monday
didn't have one before -- the cedeno error.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Sep 27, 2008 4:43 PM CDT up reply actions
just like mark grace
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
by justin007000 on Sep 27, 2008 4:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Positive
Lou either has to send Lilly back out past his pitch count and get ripped for overworking him, or he pulls him and gets ripped for taking out a guy with a no-hitter. Anarchist is happy :).
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you beat me to it
Though, I didn’t think to reference anarchists…nice.
by Oakland Brewer Fan on Sep 27, 2008 4:46 PM CDT up reply actions
This, and Bush for 1 or 2, probably
I’m rooting for it to rain in NY tomorrow
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Well, ideally
Washington will come back to win today, and tomorrow. If we and the Mets both win tomorrow, then the Mets/Phils have to play on Monday, and the WC play-in game would be Tuesday, correct?
Hah
11th PA all season for Ward against a LHP.
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Though at this point even a hit would be nice.
We've got uniforms and everything, it's really great!
Rally... something?
RALLY CAPS
Or is the rally dog hiding around here somewhere?
Sat: George 2 (37, missed catch, fielding) Fri: George (35, throw) Tues: George (34, throw)
I AGREE, LETS CAPITALIZE
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Wow...how did they not catch that.
by Bernie's Mustache Wax on Sep 27, 2008 4:54 PM CDT reply actions
Pie was standing on the ridge in front of the scoreboard, Fukudome was in the Mercedes Benz Field House
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Gameday
Still doesn’t have Pie in the game.
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yeah
did you see the random strike out graphic during the pitching change…
by Oakland Brewer Fan on Sep 27, 2008 4:56 PM CDT up reply actions
I've noticed today that Gameday does a spotty job of recording substitutions.
All sorts of crazy things came out of the database.
My favorite Gameday moment
Was when they said the infield fly rule applied with one baserunner on and no one out.
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I like to think
that there is alternate universe where the weird Gameday moments reflect a bizarro version of baseball.
by Bernie's Mustache Wax on Sep 27, 2008 4:58 PM CDT up reply actions
I was trying to figure out what fielders were at what positions when...
…from my Gameday database, and let’s just say I wasn’t very sucessful.
"Defensive switch from left field to left field for Jason Michaels"
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it's not that bad...
you just have to accept a 98% success rate or so.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Sep 27, 2008 4:59 PM CDT up reply actions
It doesn't help that I'm the world's worst database programmer.
Self-proclaimed, but nobody fights me on it very often.
i suppose that doesn't help
i’m hardly a world-beater in that department, but i do have a lot of experience with imperfect baseball databases.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Sep 27, 2008 5:02 PM CDT up reply actions
They called a Branyan HR about 2 minutes before it happened one time
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at least...
gameday scorers are about 1,000% better than the average ncaa scorer.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Sep 27, 2008 4:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Hard to complain about free, real-time play by play data.
And it’s hard for them to maintain Retrosheet standards for their data (and even Retrosheet isn’t perfect.)
Just get Weeks up with the bases loaded. The Rickie Weeks Boner Jam Oh-Eight Experience will carry us to a Grand Slam.
"Boner Jam" sounds like a Ben Sheets injury
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HA
I think of Quagmire
“Hello 911, yeah, it’s stuck in a window this time.”
by Oakland Brewer Fan on Sep 27, 2008 5:01 PM CDT up reply actions
gonna need another late comeback
"Cubs fans boo again – 99% of these people can’t see the plate." -Ueck
Last inning?
The bases wouldn’t have been loaded if Hart got on.
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now that he's had some rest
He’s looking to prove the september swoon was a fluke
by Oakland Brewer Fan on Sep 27, 2008 5:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Ummm
Jason Marquis is coming in? Or is Gameday insane?
Sat: George 2 (37, missed catch, fielding) Fri: George (35, throw) Tues: George (34, throw)
Marquis is coming in.
My feeling right now is that Z will pitch tomorrow, probably 3 innings, maybe 5, and then the game gets turned over to the bullpen scrubs.
the brewers are worried about the cubs bullpen?
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
If Cameron gets on
I bet Lamb bats because of his HR power.
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No, no, that would be logical
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Right, right
I forgot Sveumball prohibits playing for the 3-run homer. :)
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Escobar's second career run
Both scored against the Cubs.
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i've been a bit out of the loop lately...
what’s the deal with Counsell and pre-teen books lately?
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Sep 27, 2008 5:27 PM CDT up reply actions
One of the links on (I think) the Frosty Mug a while ago. Joking about Counsell being a nerdy pre-teen. And reading Goosebumps.
thanks
I’ll have to go find that.
Also, cheese.
by Jeff Sackmann on Sep 27, 2008 5:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Braun looked pissed
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I bet
you know he wanted the homer to put us up.
by Oakland Brewer Fan on Sep 27, 2008 5:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Nice
although I have the radio delay today so I saw the score in the right hand corner of the Phils game first
September 15: Not a bad little Monday
Stupid fucking Marquis.
What an asshole
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by Dikembe Meiztombo on Sep 27, 2008 5:26 PM CDT reply actions
Tim Dillard
He hasn’t been used for anything else recently.
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somebody just got a gift from god
"It will put a smile on your face to see a Chevy with a Soviet transmission"
*god's son
jesus loves the brewers…it’s science
"Cubs fans boo again – 99% of these people can’t see the plate." -Ueck
Corey
We need another 200 foot bloop single.
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Come on, Corey.
Don’t suck here. Little bingo.
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by Dikembe Meiztombo on Sep 27, 2008 5:32 PM CDT reply actions
Corey sucks
Why?
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by Dikembe Meiztombo on Sep 27, 2008 5:33 PM CDT reply actions
He's probably gonna bring in Wood now
Can I has Kevin Hart plz?
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Gak
Just need to hold them here, let Weeks get on and Kendall (because he will bat) double him home.
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BRAD NELSON PLEASE
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someone just needs to tell these guys to stop swinging on the first pitch
"Cubs fans boo again – 99% of these people can’t see the plate." -Ueck
gay
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by Dikembe Meiztombo on Sep 27, 2008 5:38 PM CDT reply actions
Spare us of 10 consecutive posts ripping a guy who doesn't suck, please
Pick on somone that sucks.
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Alright, so Weeks will get on. Kendall of course won’t be pitch hit for so it’s either a double play or one on one out. So they’ll go with…Nelson or Gamel to pinch hit? Then Cameron hits a homer. Counsell grits out to get two outs and then Braun walk off.
i don’t think gamel’s with the team anymore
"Cubs fans boo again – 99% of these people can’t see the plate." -Ueck
"I let down the whole city with the bases loaded and 1 out."
The best situational hitter in baseball,
JJ Hardy
JJ wouldn't go out with me because he's not gay.
So I spend all my time ripping him online.
Sincerely,
Tim Q Mills
fuck this.
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by Dikembe Meiztombo on Sep 27, 2008 5:45 PM CDT reply actions
Tim Q Mills = troll
I can’t be wrong on that one.
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by Dikembe Meiztombo on Sep 27, 2008 5:47 PM CDT reply actions
Yeah, well
We got that about half a dozen of your posts ago.
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all the time?
30 total comments worth = all the time?
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by Dikembe Meiztombo on Sep 27, 2008 5:50 PM CDT up reply actions
You dont have to post all the time to be here all the time shit-for-brains.
How can I be the only one pissed at Hardy for fucking the team in the biggest AB of the season?
Go ahead and accept failure from your starting SS. I hope it makes you feel better.
I, on the other hand, actually care when he cant play fundamental baseball.
You're not the only one mad
You’re just the only one posting over and over and over and over and over and over about it.
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Just for the posterity of our sig lines
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by Dikembe Meiztombo on Sep 27, 2008 5:51 PM CDT up reply actions
and the badgers just fumbled on the michigan 5 yd line
by Oakland Brewer Fan on Sep 27, 2008 5:51 PM CDT up reply actions
at least the Badgers seem to have the manners to not string me along with them into November this year.
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by Dikembe Meiztombo on Sep 27, 2008 5:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Ben Sheets
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by Dikembe Meiztombo on Sep 27, 2008 5:55 PM CDT up reply actions
I know the least valuable member of the game thread :)
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by TheJay on Sep 27, 2008 5:55 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Lamb?!?!?!?!?!????????
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by Dikembe Meiztombo on Sep 27, 2008 5:58 PM CDT reply actions
does not make any sense
that’s sveum ball, I guess
by Oakland Brewer Fan on Sep 27, 2008 5:59 PM CDT up reply actions
Down 4, 2 out in the 9th
Doesn’t really matter, I guess. The other lefties on the bench were Nelson and Gwynn.
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C'mon, Scott Olson
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by Dikembe Meiztombo on Sep 27, 2008 5:59 PM CDT reply actions
Thank god for
Whit Men Can’t Jump on HBO
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by Dikembe Meiztombo on Sep 27, 2008 6:04 PM CDT reply actions
*White
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