Brewers @ Phillies....So Far

Get some hits with RISP; SP and bullpen do your job and let’s take the series.

Why can't MLB do something about Angel Hernandez?  The man shouldn't even be umping little league gaames. It is time for him to go away.  Far far away.

Rob Manfred is a woke coward. He won’t touch Hernandez, because….woke.

Hernandez just called an inside strike one foot inside. What an incompetent POS.

Wait......what?  it was against Jean Segura.  That makes it alright.   

Does any team have a better starting rotation than the Brewers?     Is any team wasting that starting pitching more than the Brewers?

Painful watchIng Yeli and Adames so far.

Thing is, Yelich’s swing looks good to me.

I don't think I've even seen a faster ejection.  Schwarber must have said the magic word. 

Anyway a great win on national TV.

Great win. What a travesty that Hernandez is for everyone to see. Everyone knows, yet nobody has the balls to do anything about it. Sad.

Props to Shwarber for calling out Hernandez. Especially liked where he pointed at both dugouts noting both teams were getting bad calls.

If we’re too cowardly to call out incompetence if the incompetent person  is a minority, I feel bad for competent minority folks…they all get reduced.

@ammo posted:

Wait......what?  it was against Jean Segura.  That makes it alright.   

Does any team have a better starting rotation than the Brewers?     Is any team wasting that starting pitching more than the Brewers?

Mets, and they dont have DeGrom yet.

Mets?  They are in 1st place by four games.  Their record is 12-5.  What have they wasted?  You think they should be undefeated? 

@Blair Kiel posted:

If we’re too cowardly to call out incompetence if the incompetent person  is a minority, I feel bad for competent minority folks…they all get reduced.

Your whole point is accurate without being about minorities.  Your assumption, that Angel keeps his job because he is a minority, doesn’t hold a lot of water when MLB doesn’t fire any umps for poor performance.  The last guy fired was 2012 and that was for failing a drug test.  MLB tarnishes it’s product keeping Angel around, but this seems more like a shitty system than a skin color issue.  

in other news, Angel will be voicing “Germanicus” in Disneys animated remake of “Caligula “

@ammo posted:

Mets?  They are in 1st place by four games.  Their record is 12-5.  What have they wasted?  You think they should be undefeated?

responding to the single question of is there  a team with better starting pitching than the Brewers. The answer to that is yes.

@"We"-Ka-Bong posted:

Your whole point is accurate without being about minorities.  Your assumption, that Angel keeps his job because he is a minority, doesn’t hold a lot of water when MLB doesn’t fire any umps for poor performance.  The last guy fired was 2012 and that was for failing a drug test.  MLB tarnishes it’s product keeping Angel around, but this seems more like a shitty system than a skin color issue.  

in other news, Angel will be voicing “Germanicus” in Disneys animated remake of “Caligula “

Yet Angel sued (and lost) MLB for racial discrimination. He brought race into the equation, not me. He tried to hide his incompetence behind the race card.

Now pardon me, I’m going to Disney.

Correct, it was not discrimination due to race.  

So the only logical conclusion is that he still has a job because of race (and not that MLB doesn’t fire anyone)

Yeah, cause MLB never pussifies itself on racial issues.

In the last two games, Milwaukee’s starters Eric Lauer and Corbin Burnes have thrown a combined 12 2/3 innings, allowing 7 hits and three walks. They didn’t surrender a single run, while striking out 24.

And neither got the win. Milwaukee’s offense scored 3 runs on 8 hits in the two games.

Offense is way down across the Majors, but Milwaukee’s bats have been utterly putrid, thus far. Coming into today’s game, here were Milwaukee’s NL rankings (of 15 teams):

Runs: 13th (54 in 16 games).
OPS: 14th (.609)
AVG: 13th (.204 team AVG)

Milwaukee’s team OPS+ is 78. Our OPS is 22% below National League average.

Adames decided he needed to bulk up on his April stats today

So did Wong and Tellez.

Yelich managed another 0 for. 0 for 5 tonight and 3 for 28 with no walks since he hit the grand slam.

Ashby awesome

Hitters, not so much

Great sweep by the Brewers.  McCutchen becoming a Brewer saver instead of a Brewer killer.  Bring on the Scrubbies!! Sweep them too.

I picked an awesome time (top of the 9th) to remember it was a day game.

So, day drinking then?

Been in Phoenix area the past week on a working vacation.   Hard to get used to the early start times.  First pitch was 9:30am local time today!

Those Phillies uniforms were weird. If you forced me to guess I would have called them Pirates.

Pfunny.