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Sadowski aided by the sun (glare)?


Of course, he was!  But, also of course, Suppan wasn't!

And then we can't forget about Giant hitters were helped as well?  But the Crew can't see worth crap at Miller Park day games.

Unless the Brewer hitters would like to chip into a fund to improve the background for them - to boost their all-important STATS?  Get the owners to chip in, as well.  The pitchers?  Except for Suppan, they probably like the background as is.  But please, let's not ask the taxpayers to chip into the fund....  They've more than done THEIR part.

Finally, did anyone ask Sadowski whether the glare had anything to do with his getting nailed in the leg by a Ryan Braun screamer yesterday?

Crashing into an outfield wall, getting an ankle torn up on a slide into second, outfielders colliding, falling into a dugout, getting beaned all can and will happen.  Add Miller Park glare to the baseball players' list of "safety" problems.

Ryan may, and probably does, have a point about glare.  He's made it.  Management heard him, lord knows.  Let's move on.... 

(There's no crying in baseball.)


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I understand your point

that Suppan has this advantage too. Actually the Brewers should handle it better since it’s their home field.

But then you trailed off… weird

by gizmo6d9 on Jun 29, 2009 2:16 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

The point is

Ryan Braun is complaining that Miller Park day games are dangerous for hitters due to the glare from the background in the outfield area. But baseball is inherently dangerous. How many games have the Brewers played in the new park? How many batters have stared into the glare? How many have been injured? Braun should stick to baseball, and I’ll stick to writing about baseball.

by heybatterbatter on Jun 29, 2009 9:27 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Meh, a guy died from a pitch to the head and it still took 30+ years for batting helmets

Lots of batters stared at pitchers in that time. He probably exaggerated, but…so?

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

by TheJay on Jun 29, 2009 9:30 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Well

I think Prince’s comment in the story about not knowing what pitch he hit a HR off of can clue us into why it might be dangerous. He swung and didn’t know if he was even going to hit anything. If there was a wild pitch or a ball too close to the inside, a player could get creamed without being able to try and dodge.

"If lovin’ Braun is wrong, I want to be a repeat offender!"

RIP Nick Adenhart - Stop Drunk Driving

by kirbir on Jun 29, 2009 9:31 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

prince knew where the ball was

just not the spin, etc.

or at least that’s what i took away from his comments.

by PagsBrewCrew on Jun 30, 2009 12:09 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

I took it as:

He knew where the pitch was (inside/outside, up/down) but he couldn’t see where it was going (curving down, sliding in…) He just swung at a general location and happened to make good contact.

Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, ""That’s all they need is another home run hitter".

by tcyoung on Jun 30, 2009 10:17 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

This just looks like a series somewhat-related of comments strung together

into a fanpost

Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, ""That’s all they need is another home run hitter".

by tcyoung on Jun 29, 2009 2:17 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

dude...

lay off the mescaline.

"That's not a weird stat. Rickie is a run-scorer," Yost said. "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter," Yost told reporters. "See, you guys have no concept. He's a run-scorer. So there's nothing weird about it. That's what he does."

by Hyatt on Jun 29, 2009 4:00 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Can’t we keep the crazy contained to game threads? Irrational crazy is much easier to deal with in the heat of the moment.

by Getting Yosted on Jun 29, 2009 5:49 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

"we"....?

I didn’t get the memo re the initiation ritual, I guess.

by heybatterbatter on Jun 29, 2009 9:29 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Maybe SBNation should follow Gmail's lead

And start asking people questions at odd times which can’t be answered by a drunk or otherwise influenced person.

"If lovin’ Braun is wrong, I want to be a repeat offender!"

RIP Nick Adenhart - Stop Drunk Driving

by kirbir on Jun 29, 2009 7:37 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

post was at 11:07AM

you can’t fix stupid

by mopack on Jun 29, 2009 8:58 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

It's irony

look it up….

If you read the article reporting Braun’s complaining about glare, you might have gotten your collective intellect around this.

Point: Braun should stick to baseball, not ballfield design.
I’m forgetting this website is about stats and trades and phenoms. My bad.

by heybatterbatter on Jun 29, 2009 9:18 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Thanks. I'll check it out.

I’ll be more careful what room I ventured in to before I lay down a comment.

by heybatterbatter on Jun 29, 2009 9:40 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

it is pretty

apparent that the ballpark should have been rotated 90 degrees to avoid the greenhouse-type haze that occurs during day games. BUT if you’re going to carry yourself with the confidence, or arrogance depending on your perspective, that Braun does, making excuses such as that one should not even cross his mind.

by mopack on Jun 30, 2009 9:09 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Wow

Really surprised at the hostility in the comments here. This isn’t a fanpost that I would write, but that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate the thought and effort that went into it.

If you don’t like it, or don’t think it’s in the appropriate venue, feel free to ignore it … this isn’t spam, it isn’t trolling, and it’s right on topic. heybatterbatter deserved about 1% of what he has gotten.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on Jun 30, 2009 12:13 PM CDT reply actions   1 recs

Even BCB needs

an umpire every now and then. I do appreciate “the call” on this one. ;-)

by heybatterbatter on Jun 30, 2009 5:24 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Why?

Why do the Brewers lose to Sadowski, a AAA starter making his major-league debut, and then two days later defeat Cy Young award winner Johann Santana???

by ddloml on Jul 1, 2009 11:09 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Maybe they wear Remetees on AAA starter days

Cards Announcers On Gamel's First Career HR, ""That’s all they need is another home run hitter".

by tcyoung on Jul 2, 2009 1:32 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

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