Wednesday's Frosty Mug
by Kyle Lobner on Mar 19, 2008 9:27 AM CDT
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PrintThe Brewers may be off today, but the Mug is not. Enjoy.
The JS "Young Guy Hopes to Make the Team" series has been replaced by "Here's a guy who won't make the team." Today: Chris Narveson.
Three more predictions on the web today, two of which will be wrong:
Braves Journal has the Brewers third, behind the Cardinals.
Chop-n-Change has the Brewers in second.
Squawking Baseball has the Brewers winning more than 84.5 games.
I don't usually post on fantasy baseball, but The Hardball Times' latest fantasy mailbag includes mentions of Braun and Parra.
Batting the pitcher 8th continues to spur conversation. Today, at Bird Land, Derrick Goold posts Tony LaRussa's defense of it.
Remember yesterday's Baseball Analysts link, with the chart of starting pitchers listed by their ground ball % and K %? Here's part two: relief pitchers.
Only one injury to report today, but it's still alphabetical and in one line or less:
Marlins C Mike Rabelo has a sprained left leg.
This video, though, is an injury waiting to happen: Jim Caple tries to catch R.A. Dickey's knuckleball.
Via Baseball Musings, I learned that Rangers P C.J. Wilson is working on throwing a gyroball.
Environmentalists across the country (including the newest one, one Prince Fielder), should be happy to see this: the Nationals and Pirates are both taking steps to go green at the ballpark.
The Mets have reportedly changed direction and will not trade for someone to play left field in place of Moises Alou, who is out until May. One of the candidates to replace him is Brady Clark. If Brady Clark and Scott Podsednik both make teams out of spring training, I'm going to fall out of my chair.
Finally, file this one under "ask and you shall receive." I asked TheJay over at Recondite Baseball to finish the trifecta and post the career leaderboard in BB/9, figuring at least a couple of the former Brewers who had already shown up (Karl, Wright, Haynes, Rusch and Bere) would appear again. Surprisingly, they didn't.
CORRECTION: Bere did. More coffee please!
That's all for today. Drink up.
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Sprained Leg?
BB/9 list
And yet somehow...
by Kyle Lobner on Mar 19, 2008 10:11 AM CDT up reply actions
Stay classy Nedly
by hyattff2003 on Mar 19, 2008 11:56 AM CDT up reply actions
I say screw the Angels
The hypocrisy
It's not just the Angels. He's been sending Gwynn and Kapler out there and claiming they're "regulars."
Just another example of Yost's nincompoopery.
by Marty McSuperFly on Mar 19, 2008 12:39 PM CDT up reply actions
Cards in Second ????
I hope everyone keeps thinking the Crew was a fluke last year. I really think the changes to the pen will put us over the top.
They have Lohse
Sure, Pujols arm can't even bend anymore, Chris Carpenter's arm is held together by Popsicle sticks and wishes, and Rick Ankiel is the new king of the Three True Outcomes, but the Cards are definitely going to be in contention this year.
Funniest prediction yet
by stevie ray Braun on Mar 19, 2008 8:23 PM CDT up reply actions
oh. my. god.
Incidentally, how is it that Bud Selig makes $15 million per year and can't manage to handle a single public relations issue properly? Is he just paid to sit on his pile of gold and grind the bones of peasants?
by Marty McSuperFly on Mar 19, 2008 11:39 AM CDT reply actions
Just Curious
I don't talk much about the guys I like
Here's a short list, off the top of my head (I actually like most Brewers players (the non-gritty ones), but these are my favorites).
Brewers:
Bill Hall
Rickie Weeks
Corey Hart
Ben Sheets
Carlos Villanueva
Other teams:
Manny Ramirez
Ichiro
Vlad Guerrero
Jose Reyes
Tim Lincecum
Russell Martin
Ken Griffey Jr.
by Marty McSuperFly on Mar 19, 2008 12:22 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh!
by Marty McSuperFly on Mar 19, 2008 12:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh Yipee Oral !!!
Usually when i say
I might not choose those exact words, either.
by Jeff Sackmann on Mar 19, 2008 1:27 PM CDT up reply actions
Mets/Clark
Gotta love Prince
And, wow, I am surprised MLB didn't already have recycling.
by Braunstalker on Mar 19, 2008 1:56 PM CDT up reply actions
MLB
Those recycling containers are pretty pricey for a bunch of poor old MLB owners. I wonder how many of them complained that the training rooms needed separate biohazard bins.
Seems like he's leaning...
I'm not worried
by Marty McSuperFly on Mar 19, 2008 6:51 PM CDT up reply actions
I just looked up at the clock...
It took me several minutes to remember: no game today.
My brain is fried.
Look on the bright side
Still no ticket package
by Dikembe Meiztombo on Mar 19, 2008 7:02 PM CDT reply actions
A Coco story
The Reds produced some interesting stats. What was the Brewers stat that the media beat to death last year, number of 3 run leads lost? The Reds have their own version. The eye popper was they got outscored by 71 runs after the seventh and by 92 runs after the sixth.
Interesting as well that the opinion of the signing by baseball executives was so divided.
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| W | L | PCT | GB | STRK | |
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Chicago
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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Cincinnati
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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Houston
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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Milwaukee
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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Pittsburgh
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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St. Louis
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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