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Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:17 pm**

New York Mets (4-5)

Vs.
Milwaukee Brewerrs (7-4)

TV-FSN
Radio WTMJ 620

Starting Picthers:
O. Perez 1-0 0.00 ERA

VS

Jeff Suppan 1-0 2.02 ERA

Probable Starting Lineups

Milwaukee:
Weeks
Kapler
Braun
Fielder
Hall
Hart
Hardy
Suppan
Kendall

New York:
Pagan
Castillo
Wright
Beltran
Delgado
Church
Easley
Schneider
Perez

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:23 pm**

I'll give you a tasty cookie if you stop using the ball and glove logo forever

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:53 pm**

Ok Im promise from here on out on my game threads I will stop using that logo.

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:00 pm**

You keep using that logo until we lose. Then dump it forever.

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:14 pm**

Go Brewers!

First game I'll be able to watch in peace.

Prediction: Prince Fielder goes deep.

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:40 pm**

Yost flips Fielder and Braun
By Tom Haudricourt
Sunday, Apr 13 2008, 10:35 AM

New York - One day after saying it wasn't time to flip struggling hitters Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun in the lineup, Brewers manager Ned Yost did exactly that today.

Apparently, that's what happens when your two best hitters let it be known they want to switch.

When the Brewers play the Mets this afternoon, Braun will be batting third and Fielder fourth, the same spots they occupied most of last season, when Fielder became the youngest player in major-league history to slug 50 home runs and Braun was National League rookie of the year.

For the first 11 games of the season, Yost batted Fielder third and Braun fourth, ostensibly so Braun could protect the only left-handed hitter in the everyday lineup. But both hitters have struggled in those slots. Fielder has yet to hit a home run and is batting .244, and Braun is hitting .229 with three homers and seven RBI.

On Saturday, Yost insisted it wasn't time to make a switch and said doing so would be only "a placebo."

This morning, Yost said he decided to make the change after going to the two young sluggers and talking about it. But that's not the full story.

Braun said he and Fielder discussed making the switch after the game Saturday and asked hitting coach Jim Skaalen to broach the subject with Yost. It was only after that manuever that Yost went to talk to the players.

"We're excited about it," said Braun. "It's just a matter of being more comfortable. We just feel more comfortable this way."

Yost tried to downplay the switch, saying "it's not a major deal."

"Let's not try to over-dramatize it," Yost added.

Fine, but there definitely is drama when a manager says one day he's not going to make a switch and he does so the very first day, with the players making the first move.

Anyway, here are the lineups for the game today:

Brewers
2B Rickie Weeks
CF Gabe Kapler
LF Ryan Braun
1B Prince Fielder
3B Bill Hall
RF Corey Hart
SS J.J. Hardy
RHP Jeff Suppan
C Jason Kendall

Mets
LF Angel Pagan
2B Luis Castillo
3B David Wright
CF Carlos Beltran
1B Carlos Delgado
RF Ryan Church
SS Damion Easley
C Brian Schneider
LHP Oliver Perez

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:54 pm**

Why can't Yost just say he tried something, it didn't work, and he's switching it back.

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:52 pm**

Braun and Fielder will add to the "drama" of switching in the line-up by both having good games.

Fielder will get his first home run in this game :nod:

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:53 pm**

No Reyes once again, that is a big plus.

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:04 pm**

MickeyDavis wrote:Why can't Yost just say he tried something, it didn't work, and he's switching it back.

Because that means he has to admit he was wrong for making the switch in the first place.

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:07 pm**

Brauns going deep twice today... 3-4 with 5 RBIs

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:13 pm**

Brian thought Rickie drew a walk with two balls. It hit him dumbass. :rofl:

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:13 pm**

Bill: "The Brewers will have to be patient today."

Nah, why try?

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:14 pm**

GOODBYE KAPPY...

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:14 pm**

OMG KAPLAN!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bowdown:

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:14 pm**

I am in awe of Gabe Kapler. Unfingreal.

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:14 pm**

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:15 pm**

Prince wearing the sunglasses to prevent everyone from seeing how bloodshot his eyes are from a heavy night of secret binge steak-eating

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:18 pm**

never thought Id say this but...

Where would we be without Gabe Kapler? :bowdown:

Posted: **Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:20 pm**

BigSmooth_31 wrote:Where would we be without Gabe Kapler?

Who the hell is that? He's no Gabe Kaplan that's for sure.

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