Thursday, May 10, 2007
Baseball minutia
Brewers' fans you are still beating up on posers and nobodies. Beating the Nationals does not impress the Clarion. Of course, the counter argument would be the whole National League is mediocre. The Clarion isn't buying that, yet. It's better than last year's quadruple A level.
We did say in our preseason predictions that the Arizona Diamondbacks would be pretty weak and we're sticking by it. Ditto for our stance that Randy Johnson will be a no better than .500 pitcher with 4.40+ era. What the Diamondbacks got out of, Randy Johnson Wednesday was about the best they will see out of him all season and it still didn't work out. Johnson started out dominating the Phils. He struck out the first six men he faced. He threw six scoreless frames and Arizona held a three-to-nothing lead heading into the top of the seventh. A leadoff single for Aaron Rowland, a hit batsmen, a walk. Suddenly the Diamondbacks are summoning a middle reliever to takeover for the Unit. Charlie Manuel signals for slumping Ryan Howard, hitting .198 on the season, carrying the 800lb gorilla of last year's National League MVP. Bam!! Howard hits grand slam off Mr. Brandon Medders, who incidentally is charged with the loss; although Johnson put the first three guys on. How about this for breaking Howard out of his slump, too? Ought to be just the tonic. The under .500 Phils, with Manuel still on the hot seat, desperately need him to snap out of it.
Want to read more about this game? 97 year old lefty Jamie Moyer won the game. He and Johnson, who is still winless, formed the oldest pair of lefty starters ever to face-off. Moyer got the win and Johnson got the quote of the night, ""I may have been the old Randy for six innings. Then I just got old."
We did say in our preseason predictions that the Arizona Diamondbacks would be pretty weak and we're sticking by it. Ditto for our stance that Randy Johnson will be a no better than .500 pitcher with 4.40+ era. What the Diamondbacks got out of, Randy Johnson Wednesday was about the best they will see out of him all season and it still didn't work out. Johnson started out dominating the Phils. He struck out the first six men he faced. He threw six scoreless frames and Arizona held a three-to-nothing lead heading into the top of the seventh. A leadoff single for Aaron Rowland, a hit batsmen, a walk. Suddenly the Diamondbacks are summoning a middle reliever to takeover for the Unit. Charlie Manuel signals for slumping Ryan Howard, hitting .198 on the season, carrying the 800lb gorilla of last year's National League MVP. Bam!! Howard hits grand slam off Mr. Brandon Medders, who incidentally is charged with the loss; although Johnson put the first three guys on. How about this for breaking Howard out of his slump, too? Ought to be just the tonic. The under .500 Phils, with Manuel still on the hot seat, desperately need him to snap out of it.
Want to read more about this game? 97 year old lefty Jamie Moyer won the game. He and Johnson, who is still winless, formed the oldest pair of lefty starters ever to face-off. Moyer got the win and Johnson got the quote of the night, ""I may have been the old Randy for six innings. Then I just got old."
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Remember Brewers fans not only haven't you made the playoffs is 25 years, you haven't even had a winning season since 1992.
That means if you hang on to go 82 and 80 this year, it is a major success.
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That means if you hang on to go 82 and 80 this year, it is a major success.
