Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Brewers Blow game to Reds.

Why would anyone in their right mind put Greg Aquino in that situation? Where was Matt Wise? The play-by-play stiffs on FSN, Brian Anderson and Bill Schroeder, claimed that he wasn't available for the third day in a row, so why not just intentionally walk Brandon Phillips and then let Shouse pitch to Hatteberg?

Let me set the stage for you, in case you didn't see the game yesterday. Brewers up 5-4, and after Villaneuva had let two men on base with nobody out, Yost brings in Brian Shouse. He brilliantly, and I mean BRILLIANTLY, strikes out Adam Dunn and Ken Griffey (of the Jr. variety) with nasty pitches (Dunn to the point where he slammed down his equipment in the dugout and let out a nice, loud, "BULLSHIT!"). Anyway, it's two down, two on base, and for some reason, Yost decides to bring in Aquino to face Brewer-killer Brandon Phillips (as the play-by-play guys stated, batted .411 against us last year), this of course backfires to the point where Aquino let in 5 runs and couldn't hit the strike zone, literally walking a run home with the bases loaded. Absolutely awful, there should've been someone, ANYONE, warming up in the bullpen. I was screaming at the tv for the Brewers to get that bozo out of there. He hasn't been very good this year so far, and, outside of one outing where he struck out the side, he hasn't looked much different from Jose Cappellen thus far.

Let's look at the Brewers bullpen to see who else was available and could've gotten the job done:

Matt Wise-usually the 7th inning his job, but apparently he was "unavailable"
Derrick Turnbow-I'd hate to bring him in the 7th inning, because whenever he pitches for more than an inning is usually trouble, but if we get out of that 7th inning jam, they've got the bottom of the order coming up, and possibly we could bring the 8th to Cordero.
Francisco Cordero-Closer. I would save him for the 9th. I don't believe the crap that you bring your best guy in for the 7th inning, if so, then who faces the heart of the order in the 9th?
Elmer Dessens-I'd be tempted to suggest him, but after seeing him give up another two runs in the 8th inning, when we needed a hold, no way.
Brian Shouse-should've left him in.

Here's a suggestion that might seem out of left field, but why not bring in a starter who's in the middle of their five day resting period? Even if it's for only one or two outs, it's still basically the same pitch count as the bullpen session they normally throw? Imagine sticking Cappy in there or even Suppan. Give them 20-25 pitches, and you get out of the jam, stick Turnbow in the 8th, Cordero in the 9th, and bam, the Reds never recover first place.




Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Boys for sale!

I've finally made a rudimentary DVD of a couple of my pieces from my Basic I and II courses, from before my portfolio review. The three pieces, "The Puritan", "Jacob: Age 12", and "Verse, Chorus. Verse" are all included. If anyone wants a DVD, mail me like, $3 for shipping costs and I'll mail you the DVD, otherwise, let me know and I'll try to put the films onto Pantherfile here for downloadable purposes.