My Heart goes to Bill Hall (pictoral)

by Bush League All Star on Aug 12, 2009 1:15 PM CDT Comment 16 comments

First FanPost. So it may be messy!

Bill Hall. You stole our hearts in 2006. 35 Jacks, 85 RBI, 270 Avg!!! We fell in love! Your sorcery, though, blinded us into signing you to a back breaker deal. Bill Hall Love Potion worked, but it was dispelled later by your 2007-2009 run.

Brewer fans even immortalized you in Chuck Norris fashion

You stuck out like you stuck us out of your love.

(The Blue message says The 2009 Milwaukee Brewers present you, Bill Hall!)

We experimented with you at different positions.

Finally the camel's back broke.

(2006 Pic!)

The day, that will be forever known as Black Wednesday, has come for you to move on. You will be missed Bill E. The Mother's Day Homers will be missed. The 0 for 4 with 3k's will be missed. You were the only player who had a separate crew assigned to clean up the Skoal Sea in the dugout.

I hope you figure things out Mr. Hall.

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The second one is amazing

E: George 4 (5, throw, throw, throw, throw).

by Jordan M on Aug 12, 2009 1:19 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I love it

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

RIP Nick Adenhart - Stop Drunk Driving

by kirbir on Aug 12, 2009 1:27 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Facebook status'd

Imagine the Brewers offense without Bill Hall. Wait. What?

by Dikembe Meiztombo on Aug 12, 2009 1:55 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

My favorite

"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 Aug 12, 2009 3:18 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

in memorium

bill hall left the team
packed his bags for a new home
12 mil down the drain

by sicklebeat on Aug 12, 2009 7:08 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

12 mil for no Hall
Some call it a waste of cash
I say investment

by dickie_thon on Aug 12, 2009 9:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

lol

Looking to buy: General Manager Deputy Badge

by Bush League All Star on Aug 12, 2009 9:35 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

no spring training photo of him in his track uniform?

by PagsBrewCrew on Aug 12, 2009 7:19 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I was so going to do that one as the "You're doing it wrong!"

Looking to buy: General Manager Deputy Badge

by Bush League All Star on Aug 12, 2009 7:20 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That Mother's Day highlight...

…the walk-off, that is, is the best Brewers highlight in recent memory that doesn’t involve Prince Fielder and the phrase “inside-the-park home run”.

C. Magruder scored, R. Weeks to second on balk

by alkaseitzer on Aug 13, 2009 10:31 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

On a more serious note

Hall came to baseball as a shortstop – a very good one. But the Brewers never committed to him there – at least when they knew he had a good shot to make it to Milwaukee. The JJ Hardy Experiment was already baked in the team cake.

Except for Hall, all of the Crew’s regulars were quickly assigned their postions and there they have stayed. If you buy into the axiom that daily players perform best when their field positions are secure, Hall didn’t have that advantage. In each of his eight seasons with the team, he has played numerous positions.

His best season – 2006 – almost entirely played at shortstop – should be an indicator of the future he still may have in the MLB. I for one wish him well.

We can only hope that team management will learn from the Bill Hall Experiment….

"At times I'm emotional," --Ryan Braun, 7/7/09

by heybatterbatter on Aug 14, 2009 2:20 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

What about Ryan Braun moving from 3B to LF?

For that matter, what about Corey Hart changing positions about three times while he was working his way through the minors?

If Bill Hall’s offensive potential is so brittle that it completely falls apart due to defensive assignments, I guess he should hope to end up with the Royals or something (on that note, Royals team SS line: .207/.232/.296/.527 – OMFG!), a team that is so bad that they can afford to test your theory and keep him at one position all season even at the risk of him continuing to suck. (I guess the Reds might qualify, too.)

Another puss who hides behind crap.

by Zeyes on Aug 14, 2009 6:57 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

Hall played well as a shortstop

17 errors on 511 chances in 127 games in 2006. And management was moving him around even that year. Why? Because he can play.

Braun was an embarrassment at 3rd. He was stuck out in LF in a truly “defensive” move by the team. LF is where Carlos Lee and Manny play.

Corey Hart will stay in RF for the rest of his career with the Crew. Mediocrity in RF is as good as it’s gonna get for him and us.

Hall is a natural doubles hitter (as Hardy and Hart are). Somewhere along the way, he developed a “home run” swing (to keep his job at SS?) or to show he was worth the money, I dunno.

Hall may surprise before it’s all over for him. I’d like to see him catch on with the Reds.

Bottom line, I think the cheap shots here are maybe to be expected, but I think the guy has always shown class. (Think Braun would have accepted all the moves Hall accepted?)

"At times I'm emotional," --Ryan Braun, 7/7/09

by heybatterbatter on Aug 14, 2009 9:32 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

So...

You have to be bad at a position in order for it to effect your offensive game?

And I’m guessing the team didn’t tell him to change anything after he hit 35 HR’s. I don’t really get how you can blame the team for his struggles.. they gave him soooo many chances to get better and he’s blown it everytime. If he hit .250 this year he would be the starting at third still. And I would question if he’s shown a lot of class over the past 2-3 months. I like him, I hope he succeeds somewhere, but to blame anyone but him is kind of ridiculous

"Cubs suck. I own them" -Doug Davis

by Metagen on Aug 15, 2009 12:53 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not a believer in the existence of a 2.5 year slump.

I am a believer in the concept of a career year. Maybe Hall will figure it out at some point in the future and start to look more like he did in 2006 than he has since. I doubt it, but it’s possible. My guess is that at the plate he is the player he has been in 2007-2009. The notion that somehow the Brewers ruined his offensive productivity by moving him around too much defensively is pretty ridiculous in my opinion.

by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Aug 15, 2009 3:42 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs

Very Very Very

well put. Rec’d for, um, parallelism?

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

by tcyoung on Aug 15, 2009 7:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

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