Yeah, it cost Ned Yost his job!! http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3589405 MILWAUKEE -- The Milwaukee Brewers have fired manager Ned Yost in the midst of a late-season slump that has jeopardized the team's chances of making the playoffs for the first time since 1982. Third-base coach Dale Sveum will become interim manager for the remainder of the season. Bench coach Ted Simmons was reassigned to an advisory role. "This was a very difficult move to make, and we appreciate all of the work that Ned has done to develop this team into a contender," executive vice president and general manager Doug Melvin said in a story on the Brewers' Web site. "In the end, this was a collaborative decision made to put our club in the best position for the final two weeks of the season." The Brewers have lost 11 of their last 14, and share the NL wild-card lead with Philadelphia.
Well...the game is pretty much over. Now, it's just a matter of if we can get a hit before the end. I have serious doubts.
So after playing mere hours after landing last night, we have to play a day game about half a day later?
I'll probably get flamed for this but it will make Drayton and Selig look like bigger a-holes if we get no-hit two games in a row.
It appears the best thing we can do now is delay the ending of the game by letting them rack up some runs. Then, maybe our guys can wake up enough to actually get a hit before it is all over. I think I saw them taking turns sleeping on a cot in the dugout.
If we are no-hit two days in a row, under THESE circumstances ... WORST moment in Houston Sports History ... & that includes Lozenzo Charles NC State, & Can't kick the door in @ Pittsburgh, & The Astros losing to the Mets in '86.
15 innings of no-hit baseball... 2 days after a hurricane and 1 day after traveling and playing a game on the same day for the first time in club history... potentially, 2 no-hitters in a row for a team that hadn't thrown one in 36 years... coincidence?
The Cubs are a bad road team this year and an excellent home team. This "neutral" venue plays so incredibly into the Cubs hands it's sick. Butt Selig should be absolutely embarrassed at his dumbass decision. He should walk around with a sack on his head to cover his stupid face, and he should be fired statim. What a crock of crap. What a load of manure. Hey Bud: from all baseball fans in the hurting city of Houston: kiss our collective asses, *******.
I take it this will be a major league record for two different pitchers to pitch two no-hitters in a row like this? I found this: http://major-league-baseball.suite101.com/article.cfm/two_nohitters_in_a_row .
I'll agree with that. Even if we were winning I would stll think it's dumb how it al happened. but from how it's all unfolding.....I'n pretty pissed.
Reds and Astros traded consecutive no-hitters in the 70s. Don Wilson threw the second one. This game should not even be taking place at this time. Nor should yesterday's. Astros Friday night: stay up all night while a storm beats the hell out of your city. Satuday day: make provisions for your family while getting yourself together for an unplanned road trip Saturday night: sleep horribly because there's no air conditioning and no power Sunday morning: get up at 5am after precious little sleep in the last two nights, drive to Minute Maid. Get on a bus. Ride to some airport somewhere, board a plane. Sunday afternoon: arrive in Milwaukee a couple of hours before the game One hour later: BP One hour later: "Home" game begins. The stadium has exclusively Cubs fans, your family is back home with no power, you've had no sleep in 48 hours. Cubs Friday night: get a good night's rest after the latest meltdown. Your suckball POS team is 3-7 in its last ten, and you're facing a tough road trip in Houston this Sunday. Saturday: enjoy your complimentary day off. You find out you won't have to go to Houston, after all Sunday: get up around 11am after another good night's rest; drive an hour and a half to Milwaukee, where 26,000 screaming Cub fans await you on this "road" game. Yeah, that's fair. That's neutral. Can grown men really be this stupid? Fire Bud Selig, a dumbass for the ages.
It's pretty well documented that McLane and the PA complained pretty loudly, all to no avail. For heaven's sakes, let's not employ any common sense or equality, here. This is "Destiny Year" for America's lovable losers, after all.
I'm no expert--I read that he disagreed and complained. What does he do, though? The MLBPA complained rather loudly, and were not listened to. Seriously, does anyone know if McLane has the latitude to say, "hell no, Bud, and kiss my ass. It's not good for the team, their families, or the city. Get back to me when you have a solution that's not stupid."
I misunderstood I guess. The Astros should have just never gotten on the plane and forfeited then. I wouldn't have blamed them one bit.
