Okay, so we are up 5-1 over the Cincinnati Reds after 7 innings on a beautiful night at Miller Park.
Then RR puts in K-Rod for the 8th inning. What? What did he think was going to happen? Did he think it was August of 2012 when the Brewers were good and we could count on K-Rod and The Ax Man to finish things off? Well, obviously this put the game in jeopardy and he takes K-Rod out just in time. Now he puts in The Ax Man, OH my god, RR must want us fans to see another meltdown by this team!
So the lead was still 5-2 but the bases are loaded, I felt like leaving to avoid seeing the Brewers lose again but as I thought about it I saw a ball looking like it was going to be a base clearing double somehow caught by Hiroyuki Aoki. If not for great Defense all night by our Right Fielder we totally lose this game. The Ax Man survives the 8th with the team still up 5-3. Up 6-3 going into the 9th I was excited to see who might be the NEW Brewers closer (we need to try someone because it has been obvious for a month that The Ax Man and K-Rod can no longer do it) and what does RR do?
YEP, He puts the Ax Man back out there. Crap he really has lost it. RR is stuck in 2011. Well the Ax did finish it off and we did win 6-3 on my final Brewer game of this lost season BUT the credit for this save must go to Aoki and the win to the Home Runs the team hit and to the starting pitcher Yovanni Gallardo. The problem is that after The Ax finally did get another save, RR is sure to keep sending him out there, the Defense will not always bail him out so we can expect the final two months of this bad season to include many more losses.
The Brewers will finish about 72-90 in 2012. Why did things go so bad? Not having Prince Fielder surely hurt the team a lot. Many injuries early in the season made things difficult. The biggest problem was the bullpen that was better than average last season, especially K-Rod and Ax, and much worse than average this season, especially K-Rod and Ax again, but sometimes in life it is not what happens to you but how you react to it. Much like what happens to me in my own life, RR did not handle it well. In fact managing a major league baseball team is just to much for him to handle. We saw how he messed up the 2011 NLCS and now this season he and his team was never able to recover from things that happened to them because he is too resistant to change.
Ryan Braun cannot do it all by himself and some bright spots did emerge this season. It is too bad that we had to trade Zack Greinke away but we did add three good players in that trade and the new Shortstop just played his first game as a Brewer. It is hard to be real confident about what next season will bring but I know this:
In my opinion the Milwaukee Brewers need a new manager for 2013!
What do you think?
