This Week in Baseball 4/23 - 4/29

[Dobbs 3K 0]

Brewers beat the Astros just now, after the Astros left like a dozen guys on base today. Pretty sure this is the first Brewers series win in Houston in forever.

[Brett Favre 0]

I have a feeling, it's going to be a looong day off for the Yankees tommorow

 

24 hours long. Nothing more than usual.

[vivalaultra 0]

Brewers beat the Astros just now, after the Astros left like a dozen guys on base today. Pretty sure this is the first Brewers series win in Houston in forever.

 

I'm pretty sure since the early 90s. Like 91 or 92. The Brewers are looking pretty good, especially by comparison to the rest of the NL Central.

[Guest Richard McBeef]

I wish I could say Milwaukee deserves a winning team, but they really don't, at all, so hey.

[Guest Smues]

The ump calls ball 2 one what was clearly strike 3, which results in a Wickman walk, and a 3-0 count on the next hitter. And make that ball 4 2 on no outs 7-5 Atlanta. Not liking this. At all.

[Guest Smues]

7-6, 1 out, bases loaded. Me no likey!

Edit 7-7, 2 outs. Runners at 2nd and 3rd. The 9th inning is quickly becoming my least favorite inning.

[Guest Smues]

Francoeur saves the day again with a great diving catch to force extra innings. Phew.

[Guest Richard McBeef]

Smues, do you agree that Chip gets way too excited for the opponent's achievements? I hate that about him. It's not a matter of giving the other guys props when they deserve it, it's more like "he sounds like he's their announcer."

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

TBS replayed the unassisted triple play. I tuned in at the 10th. This is looking like one of the great games of the season.

[Guest Queen Leelee]

Holliday should have won this game already. Grar.

[Guest Smues]

Smues, do you agree that Chip gets way too excited for the opponent's achievements? I hate that about him. It's not a matter of giving the other guys props when they deserve it, it's more like "he sounds like he's their announcer."

 

It can be a little annoying, but he plays up his employeer's team's achievements too, so it balances it out. I'd rather have that than blatant homerism and bashing the opposing team no matter what they do. (White sox crew I'm looking at YOU)

 

Edit: and as I'm typing that the Rockies win with a walk-off shot. Oh well

 

Edit X2 LEVEL UP: Oh and I like Chip, but nothing will ever beat Skip and Pete.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

I wish I could say Milwaukee deserves a winning team, but they really don't, at all, so hey.

 

Well, the tax payers around Milwaukee certainly do, after building Miller Park at the very least...

[Guest Richard McBeef]

I wish I could say Milwaukee deserves a winning team, but they really don't, at all, so hey.

 

Well, the tax payers around Milwaukee certainly do, after building Miller Park at the very least...

They built it, but they don't come. Cub fans driving up from Kenosha and the northern suburbs are the ones keeping the lights on at that place. I can't shake the feeling that we're dealing with people who, all things being equal, would rather just watch the Packers year-round.

[Guest Queen Leelee]

Edit: and as I'm typing that the Rockies win with a walk-off shot. Oh well

Matthew Holliday.

 

He made up for his shitty game.

[snuffbox 0]

Last weekend's Houston series was almost completely sold out, but don't let that get in your way.

 

And 'nobody' went to those Indians games in Milwaukee.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

I wish I could say Milwaukee deserves a winning team, but they really don't, at all, so hey.

 

Well, the tax payers around Milwaukee certainly do, after building Miller Park at the very least...

They built it, but they don't come. Cub fans driving up from Kenosha and the northern suburbs are the ones keeping the lights on at that place. I can't shake the feeling that we're dealing with people who, all things being equal, would rather just watch the Packers year-round.

Looking at attendance numbers, the Brewers' average of 32,462 so far is the second highest in team history, behind only 2001 (Miller Park opening). It's tough to draw fans to a perennial non-contender, especially when they play in one of MLB's smallest markets.

[Guest Richard McBeef]

THE smallest, I'm pretty sure. Portland, Sacramento, Orlando, San Antonio, Las Vegas, and Columbus are bigger than Milwaukee and don't have major league baseball. (yet)

 

 

The Brewers seem to have a dedicated core of fans just like anybody else, then the people who like the ball-in-glove hats but don't really care about the team until they're in first place at the end of April, but we've been over this before: the Packers dwarf everything in importance when it comes to Wisconsin sports. The Brewers have been playing to an empty house for years, and nobody cares about the Bucks.

 

Me, I don't hate the Brewers by any means--they seem fun to watch, and I can't hate a team with Bob Uecker, a German mascot, and people dressed as sausages--but I've begun to get a little miffed with Wisconsinites taking out their inferiority complex on those FIBs that dare to come to Summerfest and Miller Park and Lake Geneva and dare to drive there with a fucking sense of urgency as they come spend money in the state. (Nobody cares about the roof of your art museum, by the way.)