Primary Brewers Backup Catcher?

My thoughts on this riveting thread.

1.) Asking if a catcher “calls a good game” is an entirely defensible question. As I talk to and read about pitchers who have pitched at a high level, I have concluded that there are 3 types of catchers: a.) bad catchers b.) catchers who call pitches based on hitters weaknesses without regard to whether a pitcher can reliably make those pitches on a given day. c.) catchers who call pitches based on what a pitcher can effectively throw.

I have no doubt that there is a tangible ability by a catcher to “call a good game” — to think otherwise defies sensibility and logic IMO. That said, I don’t think a person can watch a few games and somehow discern which catchers can call games better than others. I also think it is abused as a cliche, and also overvalued. It is tangible but hard to separate and define.

2.) You can’t get orange juice from a lemon — Jeff Suppan is a lemon.

3.) Gregg Zaun has caught:
Bush with the Blue Jays
Davis with the Rangers
Suppan with the Royals

So signing Zaun makes a lot of sense for our pitching staff (whether intended or accidental).

4.) SJLee — A lot of posters were very wary about the Suppan signing at the time it happened. Many people pointed out at the time of the signing, that the backloaded nature of the contract would make it impossible to trade him. We were also concerned about having to pay Suppan when Hardy, Hart and Weeks were all hitting their Arby years – that turned out to not be such a big problem. Certainly the Suppan signing had its share of support – however there were detractors at the time.

5.) Hats of to Mark Atta… for having 2 million to jerk off with. I don’t imagine Sal Bando had any jerk off money at his disposal.

6.) As an aside — I let my wife down on Valentine’s Day this year, I think VD is stupid however, my wife read me the riot act. I am sort of pissed off about it, so….

Next year I am going to give her a “Dickeybangbang Coupon Book” — which with have coupons for the “Dickeybangbang dinner and a movie”, “Dickeybangbang backrub” and the headliner coupon the “Dickeybangbang 5 Minutes Anything Goes”.

In 2012 she will be content with her box of candy from Target.

that can associate “VD” with “Dickeybangbang” is a winner in my book.