Yuniesky Betancourt a photo essay

with apologies to Amy Turk we bid a fond farewell to Yuni Betancourt

Around the infield episode 7

When we last left our loveable losers on the diamond they still had jobs.

Times have changed.

Scene: somewhere near the Milwaukee River

oh no oh noooooo

Oh wow this is probably the worst news I've had to hear minus a death notice.

Ryan Braun fails drug test

Seriously??

Seriously?????

This made me want to throw up.  I really hope this ends up not being true.  Ryan Braun is the face of the Brewers for the next 10 years at least.  He's on both of my player shirts, one of which I was wearing when I got hit by the steel chair by the ESPN report.

Seriously??

If this turns out to be true, I'm not sure how we deal with this. 

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K-Rod accepts arbitration, the Simpsons react

Ok, so Doug Melvin's gamble of offering Francisco Rodriguez arbritration didn't exactly work out as he kind of accepted it instead of looking for an actual closer job and a multi-year contract elsewhere.

$15 million for a set up guy....awesome!!

Let's get the public's reactions via Simpsons clips...why?? why not??

The part of K-Rod will be played by Christiano Ronaldo:





Brewers fans reactions:











Doug Melvin:





Melvin gets the news:







Attanasio gets the news:





reactions from around MLB:







Yuni checks in:

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The Brewers in internet memes

We're taking a break from the offseason stat analysis (will return next week) in favor of stupid internet humor.

Enjoy**

(**remember anything thrown at your computer will not actually hit me)

confused?? or just want more memes

or make your own and send it to me, I'll add it

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More numbers and historical comparisons

Want more statistical comparisons??  Of course you do.

This time we're taking career numbers (Brewers career numbers, that is) and comparing what they would average out to every 162 games.

These are raw numbers, 1 AB and you qualify.

you can see all the numbers here

Ready?? Go.

Introducing Dale Sveum

In my long-standing tradition (like a month or so) of over-analyzing important press conferences (see Doug Melvin Theo Epstein and MIke Matheny) today we turn to former Brewers hitting coach/interim manager Dale Sveum.

This should be fun

Dale Sveum is managing the Cubs!!

I was going to write about this but didn't have time and then Miller Park Drunk pretty much nailed it so I didn't have to, thanks!!

Never forget 1987

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Statistical oddities in baseball history

If you've been a regular to my little slice of the internet here you know I love working with numbers.  Looking for material for my newest hobby making sporcle quizzes I got a bit distracted and found some fun numbers.

Davy Force had 1 career home run in 4406 plate appearances (or 4407, Baseball Reference and Fangraphs have different numbers).  Pete Rose had 15861 plate appearances.  If Force had made it to Rose's number he would have had 3.6 HR's.  Force was listed at 5' 4" 130 lbs, not surprising he wasn't a power hitter.  If Barry Bonds had made it to 15861 PA's he would have had 959 HR's.

Introducing Mike Matheny

We've analyzed Doug Melvin and Theo Epstein, oh did the Cardinals hire someone??

Let's dig in, shall we??

The Cardinals on Monday formally named a manager blessed with intangibles

ingangibles > DUI's