We Can't Win In Florida

but some ugly trends are developing. the platoons, menchkins and counsellino are eating the rest of the team. and they are hitting. fielder, weeks, hall, and hart are off to slow starts, and the correct solution might be to allow the platoons to engulf the weaker sections of the team...

For a little while anyway. but we know yost's tendencies, and corey hart is never going to get firing on all cylinders with mench taking his ABs.

also, hall is having trouble in CF.

I think the problem is that Yost is not a winner. He's got his brand of baseball on the field, and he's happy with it. And we are going to lose 4-3 all day. Except for wade miller and opening day, we've scored 4,4,3,3,3

That's exactly what yost plays for, 3 or 4 runs. That's why last night with 1st and 2nd only one out and suppan up he sacrifices instead of going to the bullpen/bench and going for the big inning.

Short story. I had season tickets for the UW men's basketball run to the final four ('99-'00). Dick Bennet Ball. I went to probably only half the games because it was such an ugly brand of basketball. For those that don't remember it was a play for 50 points, hope you win style of offense. Keep the game close, play good defense, sit on the ball. It was such terrible basketball, that even though we were winning, i couldn't watch. It made me ill.

Yost is beginning to make me feel the same way. He's trying to play early 80s ball where 3 and 4 runs and a decent pitching performance gets you the win. But the game has passed him by, and his infatuation with gritty, battling, average ball players playing over their heads is not fun to watch.

I'd rather see the youngsters lose 5-0 than see graffanino, counsell, mench, and jenkins lose 5-3.

It was easy, when the season started, to say to myself it'll all be fine once Braun gets up here... Yost has shown, however, that it might not be true.

graffanino, counsell, mench and jenkins are all playing above their head... and we've lost 4 of the last 5. What happens when they come back to earth?

ugh! The uneasiness is warranted for sure, it'd be nice to R-E-L-A-X, but i just don't feel too good about the season so far.

Meh, we just need fielder and hall to come around, and weeks to start relying on his power instead of his speed and they'll be fine. And though the trends are disturbing, those three guys should each play 155+ games.

ok, end rant.

Let's Go Brewers!

Pretty tough to blame Butch Wynegar or Davey Nelson this year, but I'm sure Sveum is being prepped to take the fall.

Lots more baseball. It's just we know our ceiling with these guys, and i think Yost is comfortable with that low ceiling in exchange for the consistency, even if it is consistent mediocrity.

Lots more baseball. Maybe, just maybe, in Yost's 5th year, and after sticking with his normal game plan for what, the 655th consecutive game, maybe tomorrow will be different, maybe tomorrow he'll say you know what, Corey's had a rough start but his ceiling this season is WAY higher than Jenkins or Mench, perhaps he should play today... Maybe he'll say, you know what today Dave Bush has been pitching pretty good, but the bullpen is not hideous, let's play for the big inning, and instead of having him intentionally create the second out, let's give Gross the AB...

Maybe. Lots more baseball to find out. I should relax. :)

I initially thought that meant that Ned was getting a huge benefit of the doubt, but now I wonder if that isn't a little more pressure for Ned.  If the record isn't the only factor, then Melvin and Attanasio could come to the conclusions jacob outlined above, and fire him at any point in the season, if they come to believe he's the wrong guy.

My wife frequently reminds me that Ned is a likable guy, and a good face for the Brewers, so I assume that he will really have to screw up before he's fired.  I can dream, though.