Who should the Brewers get next

mgom27 · 07-20-2008, 10:03 PM

Bullpen help?
More Bench help?
Another Starter?

Dagrims · 07-20-2008, 11:00 PM

Probably

koohead · 07-20-2008, 11:09 PM

I'll go out on a limb and say Ray Durham.

ESPN - Brewers deal for Giants second baseman Durham - MLB

zekester91 · 07-21-2008, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by koohead

I'll go out on a limb and say Ray Durham.

ESPN - Brewers deal for Giants second baseman Durham - MLB

Would have been funnier as 2 posts

SandMan · 07-21-2008, 04:08 PM

The brewers only glaring weak spot was 2nd base so this is a big addition.

mikev · 07-21-2008, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by SandMan

The brewers only glaring weak spot was 2nd base so this is a big addition.

In the sense that it cost them basically nothing and Weeks is all of a sudden terrible, yeah.

mrskippy · 07-21-2008, 04:17 PM

Barry Bonds at DH. Oh wait, the Brewers are an NL team. Forgot about that. Nevermind.

koohead · 07-21-2008, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by zekester91

Would have been funnier as 2 posts

True. I have much to learn in terms of OOTP forum humor.

lungs · 07-22-2008, 06:54 PM

George Sherrill

Lawley · 07-22-2008, 09:02 PM

Randy Winn/ Omar Vizquel/ Barry Zito/ Rich Aurilla.

Russ · 07-23-2008, 01:08 AM

Jay Gibbons.

Russ · 07-23-2008, 01:09 AM

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thbroman · 07-24-2008, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by SandMan

The brewers only glaring weak spot was 2nd base so this is a big addition.

Weeks has been heating up recently. He has been all over the Cardinals and had a good series against SF, too. I like the trade for Durham, but he's not going to push Weeks out of the starting job.

The Brewers look unbeatable at the moment, but I realize that won't last. Still, it really anonyed me to see a column at SI.com that claimed they had "no chance" of catching the Cubs and that there were 3 teams in the NL East that were better than the Brewers. Have those guys even looked at the season records recently?

Recte44 · 07-24-2008, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by thbroman

Weeks has been heating up recently. He has been all over the Cardinals and had a good series against SF, too. I like the trade for Durham, but he's not going to push Weeks out of the starting job.

The Brewers look unbeatable at the moment, but I realize that won't last. Still, it really anonyed me to see a column at SI.com that claimed they had "no chance" of catching the Cubs and that there were 3 teams in the NL East that were better than the Brewers. Have those guys even looked at the season records recently?

Welcome to being a Brewers fan. No matter what we do people outside of the situation just seem to think of the Brewers as "that team the Commissioner owned that has sucked for 25 years".

Oh, and don't even TRY reasoning with a Cubs fan.

thbroman · 07-24-2008, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Recte44

Welcome to being a Brewers fan. No matter what we do people outside of the situation just seem to think of the Brewers as "that team the Commissioner owned that has sucked for 25 years".

Oh, and don't even TRY reasoning with a Cubs fan.

Hee hee . . .
Well, my loyalties are kind of divided, because I grew up in Evanston watching the Cubbies on WGN. But I've lived here in Madison for the past 20 years, so suffering with the Brewers is nothing new to me.
This new owner of the Brewers has really made a difference. He's injected an entirely new attitude into the organization.

Recte44 · 07-24-2008, 11:20 AM

The thing about it is, a lot of the older Brewers fans were actually Cubs fans in the 60's after the Braves left.

thbroman · 07-24-2008, 11:36 AM

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The thing about it is, a lot of the older Brewers fans were actually Cubs fans in the 60's after the Braves left.

That's definitely the case among older acquaintances here. After the Braves left,people found it comparatively easy to get down to Wrigley and it's easy to get WGN radio here in S. Wisconsin, as you know.
But what I find interesting is how this Brewers-Cubs rivalry plays into the larger status of the state of Wisconsin as basically a reasonably attractive third-world vacation destination for Chicagoans. My wife and I spent a few days in Door County last week and it was amusing to see everyone walking around either with Cubs or Bears tee shirts or Packers and Brewers tees. You almost got the feeling that given half a chance they'd square off in a rumble or something, a la West Side Story!

Chappy · 07-24-2008, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by mgom27

Bullpen help?
More Bench help?
Another Starter?

P. Rico

<Pion> · 07-24-2008, 03:51 PM

Brewers? Aren't they that team that used to be owned by the commissioner that has sucked for like the last 25 years or so?

Michael Hopcroft · 07-24-2008, 06:30 PM

They're the team that used to be in the American League, and used to be the Seattle Pilots. Nobody remembers the Pilots, even in Seattle.

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