Comments on: Sooo… the Brewers, huh? Exciting

By: fermorules

fermorules — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:15:48 +0000

It took the entire 2007 season….

The entire winter….

And half of spring training in 2008….

For Billy B to figure out Horacio Ramirez can’t pitch!….

(Or perhaps he was just stubborn in admitting his mistake)….

By: msb

msb — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:36:17 +0000

five unearned runs later ….

By: msb

msb — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:17:39 +0000

Jason Kendall was the best the Brewers could do for a catcher?

hey, he is now A Proven Veteran, and somewhere along the line received the “Handles Young Pitchers Well” imprimatur.

By: mln

mln — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:14:46 +0000

Is Ichiro still hitless this Spring? He must be saving all his hits for the regular season.

By: joser

joser — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:29:30 +0000

Jason Kendall was the best the Brewers could do for a catcher? And they think he’s worth $4.25M?

By: msb

msb — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:26:51 +0000

Horacio, Weaver and Kyle Lohse can have a little confab about ‘catching on’

By: Dash

Dash — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:05:36 +0000

Thank you Mr. Nye. Just knew I was going to mess that up.

By: astroboy

astroboy — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:52:45 +0000

HoRam is gone! This gives me a warm happy feeling in my tummy, or maybe that’s just the coffee I just drank… Anyway, I’m happy.

By: Gomez

Gomez — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:49:31 +0000

Yeah, well, never mind about my HoRam remark then.

By: joser

joser — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:46:42 +0000

Please, don’t remind me. There’s the cost of acquiring him, and then there’s the cost of keeping him. Last year was last year, I try not to think about it.

I wouldn’t assume this changes anything about the 12 man pitching staff except there’s a different 12th man. When asked about that during a game a few days ago, Lee Pelekoudas said something to the effect that “it’s really hard not to have a 12 man pitching staff” and claimed (:roll:) that most teams use one.

“We did not believe Horacio was going to break camp with us,” Mariners GM Bill Bavasi said in a release. “We felt it would be in everyone’s best interest to give him time to catch on with another club.”

“Catch on”?

In related news, pitching staffs all over the grapefruit and cactus leagues have been calling in sick. “Yes,” said one trainer, “They’re all catching something. We think it’s HoRam. It’s been going around.”