Kolek planning to go pro
Counsel did not impress me during the NLCS last year. Pitching changes and use of Hader were overthought.
You left no doubt about that last year Chicos.He had the Brewers one win away from a World Series starting Chacin, Miley, and Gonzalez. Counsel’s handling of the staff last year was borderline immaculate.
Why didn't the brewers make this an afternoon game?
Brewers record in last...10 games: 5-520 games: 10-1030 games: 15-1540 games: 20-2050 games: 25-2560 games: 30-30That is consistency right there. And amazing.
What's their magic number?
I feel like this should have been in last year's MLB thread?
You have 40 players to work with and you send up Travis Shaw in a 2-2 game with 2 outs and a runner on second in the bottom of the 9th? Counsel hasn’t had anything to work with so not much to blame him for this year, but that alone might be fireable. I’d take Tebow over Shaw. Heck I’d take current day Michael Jordan over Shaw.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
Dombrowski fired in Boston. I imagine a back story will come out.
Consider the following.... at the game today, after Russell gets HBP and is laying on the ground for a minute, some lady down the row makes a comment like “now he knows how it feels,” obviously in reference to his domestic violence allegations. Another lady in a Cubs shirt two rows in front turns around and says to the lady in the Brewer jersey “maybe your husband should beat your big mouth shut.” Lady in the Brewer jersey is stunned, doesn’t know how to react, especially since she wasn’t the one who said anything.The first comment came from someone in a group of Cubs fans sitting together. The lady stuck in the middle of the group wearing the Brewers jersey, sitting with her son, takes every bit of it, pleading “I didn’t say anything” more than once, yet apparently nobody around her bothers to point out she wasn’t the culprit.So what is one supposed to do after witnessing all this? Stand up and yell something in defense of an innocent from 25’ away, or simply mind your own business?
One month ago today, the Cubbies were 2.5 games up on Milwaukee and 3 up on St. Louis.Now, they are three times closer to missing the playoffs (1.5 games up for 2nd wild-card spot) than they are to winning the division (4.5 games behind Cardinals).One of the fun things about sports is the way this kind of thing can happen. Cubs and Cardinals still play each other 7x in the season's final 10 games, so who knows?
I'm continually annoyed by Russell's continued presence on the team, even more now that he's stepping in with Javy's injury. I actually said "karma is a b****" to myself while he sat dazed on the ground.
IMO, there is no back story other than they need to clean up the mess he's made of the future. The Red Sox project to spend $80M a year for the next three years for three starters who are oft-injured and on the downside of their careers. JD Martinez will likely opt out and they won't be able to afford him because of those expenditures, and the horror of all horrors, after next season they will have trouble finding the money to sign Mookie Betts, who is in the discussion with a few other guys as the best baseball player this side of Mike Trout. The Red Sox went from one of the two or three best farm systems in baseball to one of the two or three worst under his stewardship.The Red Sox knew what they're getting when they hired Dombrowski. This is what he does, he sells out the future to win today. Not bad if you win the World Series, but now you need a guy to straighten out the budget while staying competitive and that is not in his wheelhouse.