Reviewing the Brew » Jacoby Ellsbury http://reviewingthebrew.com A Milwaukee Brewers Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Wed, 22 May 2013 23:02:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Ryan Braun Will Not Be Named MVP Tomorrow http://reviewingthebrew.com/2011/11/21/ryan-braun-will-not-be-named-mvp-tomorrow/ http://reviewingthebrew.com/2011/11/21/ryan-braun-will-not-be-named-mvp-tomorrow/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:47:38 +0000 Lou Olsen http://reviewingthebrew.com/?p=4259 Today, Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers took home the AL MVP Award.  The truth is, he deserves it.  Roger Clemens was the last player to win the Cy Young and MVP in the same season.  Verlander did it with a pretty slender frame and the neck size of a normal human, which makes it [...]

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]]> Today, Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers took home the AL MVP Award.  The truth is, he deserves it.  Roger Clemens was the last player to win the Cy Young and MVP in the same season.  Verlander did it with a pretty slender frame and the neck size of a normal human, which makes it all the more impressive.  To be a starting pitcher and go 24-5 in this day and age of baseball, you should be awarded goblets encrusted with the finest jewels.  If any pitcher deserves this honor, it should be a guy like Verlander.  Truth is, the guy seems so nice but he is not your friend whilst on the mound.  The last time I remember being this afraid of a pitcher, was Pedro Martinez in 1999 when he was 23-4.  Imagine having to stand in the batters box against the new AL MVP.  Justin Verlander throws harder as the game goes on.  You might see a 94 mph fastball in the 2nd inning and then in the 5th he is up to about 97, but the 7th and 8th is when you get the 101 mile express.  It is big, fast, and mad as hell.  Congratulations to Justin on an amazing season.  Tigers fans were lucky to be able and enjoy his season.

You are probably already wondering what this has to do with Brauny not winning the MVP tomorrow.  Well, I will not keep you waiting any longer.

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Since July of the 2010 season, we have all been prepared to say goodbye to Prince Fielder.  We knew all to well that his talent was too great for our humble city to keep for itself.  It seemed like an almost certainty that he would be traded at the deadline last year, but he never was.  Then most of us just presumed the Brewers would trade him to acquire pitching this past off-season, and we were half right.  They went and got their pitching and kept Prince in Milwaukee.  The 2011 season was going to be our “all or nothing season”, right?

Wrong.  The 2012 Brewers are going to be fine, so I never really agreed with that mentality.  Sure we don’t have a shortstop or bullpen, but we are certainly going to be in the NL Central race all season.  Will the 2012 team win the World Series?  Maybe.  Also maybe not.  A greater concern for me is the 2013 season…

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