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by KLSnow on Sep 5, 2008 8:51 AM CDT Comment 17 comments

I have to be on the road in a little more than an hour. I have so much to do. Yet here I sit, compiling Brewer links. Yup, I need this shirt.

Win Expectancy Graph
BR Box Score

Apparently Mark Attanasio was at last night's game. If he, or you, need a list of reasons to be worried after the Brewers dropped a game at home to a bad last place team, Tom H. has you covered.

Manny Parra is already 23 2/3 innings over what he threw last season. This is about the time when you start limiting innings on a young pitcher, right? Wrong. There is no plan to keep Parra's arm from falling off, and MLB FanHouse thinks the Brewers should go ahead and schedule a visit to Dr. James Andrews in advance.

Brewed Sports caught CC Sabathia on Pardon the Interruption yesterday, and (potentially mis)quoted Sabathia as saying he'd like to stay if the Brewers win the World Series. While we wait to see how that plays out, we can add Geoff Baker to the list of bloggers considering CC for NL MVP.

The most recent Bugs and Cranks Power Rankings have the Brewers holding steady at 7. The (once again) reworked Whisnant Rankings have the Brewers at 11.

On injuries:

Ronnie Belliard might be done for the season with a right groin strain.
Ian Kinsler will have surgery to repair a sports hernia and is done for the season.
Rays CF B.J. Upton continues to play with a torn labrum that is affecting his ability to hit for power.

A revelation occurred in the office of CBS Sportsline's Scott Miller, who suddenly realized that six teams not from Chicago will make the playoffs this season, and one of them could prevent the Cubs and White Sox from playing a World Series no one outside of Chicago would care about.

Could the manager of the year come from the fourth best team in a division? Jose de Jesus Ortiz makes the case for Cecil Cooper. Granted, the Astros have turned their season around in impressive fashion, but Cooper was also the manager when they were awful in April and May.

Oh, and the New York Sun may cease publication at the end of September.

Drink up. See you Monday.

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im going to the game tonight! my first at MP this season. they cant lose 5 in a row can they?

"If they don't want to see it, then beat us," said Yost.

by Jamie in LA on Sep 5, 2008 9:57 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Look on the bright side

They’ve played poorly lately, but that won’t last forever…and they’ve lost only a half-game in the wild card. It would’ve been nice to extend the lead, but it’s up to the other teams to do better than the Brewers and they haven’t. The Crew’s not going to go 0-for-September and they’ve got a good stretch of games ahead of them to get hot again.

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by TheJay on Sep 5, 2008 10:39 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

good point...

"If they don't want to see it, then beat us," said Yost.

by Jamie in LA on Sep 5, 2008 11:16 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

And now, in response to your actual post

Welcome to Milwaukee – hopefully CC dazzles you at MP tonight. :)

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by TheJay on Sep 5, 2008 11:19 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I will also be there.

Wait, what?

by NoahJ on Sep 5, 2008 1:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

If anyone is interested, here is the podcast of PTI from yesterday

PTI with CC

by brewfan2 on Sep 5, 2008 10:06 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Free agent rankings update

CC and Ben project to be two of only four Type A FA starters. $$$

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

by battlekow on Sep 5, 2008 10:10 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

And...

Kyle Lohse might actually not end up sitting around twiddling his thumbs into spring training waiting for a contract this time.

by Zeyes on Sep 5, 2008 5:42 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm Ned Yost?

I love it

"Brett Favre looks like a man in a parking lot playing with boys." - John Madden
"Pujols just unloaded." - Bob Uecker

by kirbir on Sep 5, 2008 10:24 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Last night

Tom H. forgot to mention Kouzmanoff’s defense. If he doesn’t grab everything the team isn’t 0-9 with RISP and the game looks a lot different. Oh well. It’ll be interesting to see the lineup tonight against a RHP – first time that’s happened since a certain lefthanded “3B” joined the team. I don’t expect it to be different from the lineup against righties from last week, but you never know.

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

by TheJay on Sep 5, 2008 10:25 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Very True

He played some great defense last night and made some very good throws.

by zsattler on Sep 5, 2008 12:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Certain lefthanded 3B

I actually think Lamb is a decent defender, if that’s what you’re getting at :).

Sat: George 2 (37, missed catch, fielding) Fri: George (35, throw) Tues: George (34, throw)

by Jordan M on Sep 5, 2008 1:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

This calls for expanded DH rules...

We could put CC in the lineup, and have Gamel DH for Lamb. ;-)

by Zeyes on Sep 5, 2008 5:36 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm going to the game tomorrow

Which means I won’t be around today (ugh, 5 hour drives) and I see, just like when I went to Denver and the Rockies signed Livan Hernandez just in time for me to fear that I had tickets to see yet another one of his starts, the Brewers now apparently sign an ex-Twin whom I’ve seen quite too much of this season.

Yes, my mother will be with me. She’ll be so irritated because she wants to see Counsell start in person.

by morineko on Sep 5, 2008 12:17 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Clutch Hitter?

Where do we find a clutch hitter? Isn’t that what those guys found frozen in the woods a few months ago. Or was that a hoax?

The difference between Bigfoot and a clutch hitter is that Bigfoot might exist, right?

by grant76 on Sep 5, 2008 12:22 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs

yes

It was a hoax.

There have been some hard hit balls with RISP, the hits will come.

by ol Pete on Sep 5, 2008 4:14 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Another Sabathia article

Tim Marchman reminds you that nobody is this good.

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

by battlekow on Sep 5, 2008 5:05 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

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