Comments on: Ned Yost Should Be Indicted

By: Brad D

Brad D — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:01:33 +0000

Doddering Lou is a good manager but he is damn fortunate to have the luxury of a fairly consistent pen.

The Brewers are also not fortunate enough to have a loyal fanbase that will sit a watch a team that is not in contention.

We do.

So, while Ned Yost is abusing CC’s Largesse of pitches, he seem to be doing it out of fear rather than stupidity.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:34:22 +0000

Sabathia doesn’t care. Every great outing he has means more money in his pocket when he signs with the Yankees next year. I’m sure he considers each one of his pitches a financial investment.

By: BigFlax

BigFlax — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:18:42 +0000

If it leads to Sabathia falling apart in the NLCS just like he did in last year’s ALCS, all I can say is that I heartily support this plan.

Sabathia has a reputation as a horse, but after his next outing he’ll already be at his third-highest innings total for his career, with a month-plus to go. And he’s easily on pace to throw the most pitches of his career – he’s at 2948 already, and if you assume he’s got seven starts left, that puts him at close to 3700 even with a fairly conservative per-game average. He also has three 120+ pitch outings since coming to Milwaukee – he had 11 in the entire rest of his career dating back to 2001, and 130 is a career high.

But really, what does it say about how terrible the Milwaukee bullpen is that Yost doesn’t trust them to protect a seven-run lead with three outs to play? Sabathia is the only good pitcher on that team right now with Sheets struggling, and Yost knows it.

By: Drunk Cubs Fan

Drunk Cubs Fan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:02:09 +0000

Ned Yost is aware that the amount of complete games your team throws is like the 303rd tiebreaker should the Brewers finish tied atop the Central or the Wild Card, right? RIGHT?!?

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:22:28 +0000

I actually thought it was “Ned Yost Should Be Inducted,” and wondered what sort of Hall would accept that idiot.

By: JD

JD — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:30:11 +0000

I don’t get that HJE post title AT ALL. I think you left out some letters. It should be “Ned Yost Should Be INDICATED”. Right now it looks like gibberish. Use spell check next time, BK.

By: Bad Kermit

Bad Kermit — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:03:32 +0000

@Cubman in Satanic Fowl Land - That's my point. Yost is pretending to care about CC's future and his arm. If he cared at all about the guy, his usage pattern would be WAY different than it is.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:59:44 +0000

I think you have a typo in there. It says AW Baker is the “stupidest manager in the National League Central”. I’m pretty sure you meant “stupidest manager in the history of the National League”.

By: TDubbs

TDubbs — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:36:15 +0000

Paris Hilton COULD enter a convent if she wanted to.

By: Jim Nelson

Jim Nelson — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:20:11 +0000

Yost knows that the Brewers have about as much chance of signing Sabathia as Paris Hilton has of entering a convent, so he doesn’t care if his arm falls off, as long as it falls off during the offseason. After all, why do you think they call it the offseason?