So I have been watching Brewers live in sweet anticipation/flipping back & forth to ESPN & have the following to note:
1. Tony Gwynn Jr sounds EXACTLY like his dad, who sounds like a white dude who plays lots of dungeons & dragons when he's not doing extra math problems for fun.
2. Watching college womens softball is actually fun if several of the players are in fact attractive.
3. The Brewers called up Braun at just the right time. Although we are still comfortably in first, we have been playing like dog shit lately, have had exaclty 1 RBI from the Counsilino tandem this year, and judging by the postings on this blog, excitement for the Brew Crew has stalled slightly. Right now I am damn excited.
There will hopefully be more to report later as long as the Crew comes to play & I continue to pound the Highlife.
Polish out
Friday, May 25, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
The First Challenge
9-1 in the last 10, sweep of the woeful Nats, 24-10 overall. Life is good in the land beer made famous. The next few series will provide a good scale as to how good this team is and how they fare as one of the dominant teams in baseball.
The first series is away against the 21-12 Mets. Many picked this team to win the NL during the pre-season and the team isn't dispointing. It's loaded with talent, I should know, I own three players on my fantasy team. This could be a NLCS preview (wishful thinking?).
The Brewers continue their road trip with a visit to Philadelphia. The Phillies are 15-19 and underachieving, yet again. So this series might not really be a good litmus test for the crews dominance of the NL. They've still got "my boy" Pat Burrell though. And who knows what Charlie Manual has got planned. "I will drop you right there."
The Brewers then return home for some good 'ole interleague play against the Twinkies. Currently 17-16, this series always heats up the old rivalry between the two old AL foes. I hate all that is Minnesota and the Twins.
The Brewers then hit the airplane for a trip to La-La land and the West-leading Dodgers. In the 2005 MLB video game for XBOX I let Sheets go because I didn't want to pay his huge salary and he landed with the Dodgers. And for some reason he always pitched against me when we played them and he was tough. But it brought out my A-game and I always rose to the challenge of sticking it to the Dodgers. I see no difference in real life, but this times Sheets will assist in sticking it to the Dodgers.
Continuing their tour of the West the Crew will then take on the Padres. A constant .500 team in the weak west, 2 out of 3 should be expected, not hoped for.
Finally the Brewers get to come back for a homestand that begins with hosting the Hot-lanta Braves. This team has reloaded and looks as though it could compete for another 13 division titles. B. Cox has already cleared his calendar for this time frame. Ironically enough, he has openings in his schedule during the end of October.
The first series is away against the 21-12 Mets. Many picked this team to win the NL during the pre-season and the team isn't dispointing. It's loaded with talent, I should know, I own three players on my fantasy team. This could be a NLCS preview (wishful thinking?).
The Brewers continue their road trip with a visit to Philadelphia. The Phillies are 15-19 and underachieving, yet again. So this series might not really be a good litmus test for the crews dominance of the NL. They've still got "my boy" Pat Burrell though. And who knows what Charlie Manual has got planned. "I will drop you right there."
The Brewers then return home for some good 'ole interleague play against the Twinkies. Currently 17-16, this series always heats up the old rivalry between the two old AL foes. I hate all that is Minnesota and the Twins.
The Brewers then hit the airplane for a trip to La-La land and the West-leading Dodgers. In the 2005 MLB video game for XBOX I let Sheets go because I didn't want to pay his huge salary and he landed with the Dodgers. And for some reason he always pitched against me when we played them and he was tough. But it brought out my A-game and I always rose to the challenge of sticking it to the Dodgers. I see no difference in real life, but this times Sheets will assist in sticking it to the Dodgers.
Continuing their tour of the West the Crew will then take on the Padres. A constant .500 team in the weak west, 2 out of 3 should be expected, not hoped for.
Finally the Brewers get to come back for a homestand that begins with hosting the Hot-lanta Braves. This team has reloaded and looks as though it could compete for another 13 division titles. B. Cox has already cleared his calendar for this time frame. Ironically enough, he has openings in his schedule during the end of October.
Monday, May 7, 2007
central foes
For those of you that do not have Insider access on espn.com, Peter Gammons referred to the Brewers as the consensus NL Central favorite in a recent article about the Cubs.
Gammons writes of the Cubs, "Their fourth straight win Saturday put them at .500 and second to the Brewers, the team most everyone in the division believes is the team to beat. " As far as I'm concerned, Peter Gammons is the foremost media authority on major league baseball and this legitimized our successful start more to me than any media coverage we have received so far.
That said, I do believe that the Cubs are the central team that the Brewers will need to be the most concerned about as the season moves along. If you look at the teams in the central, the Cubs have the best combination of talent out of any of our opponents. The Pirates can't get enough consistency from their offense to be considered a long-term threat. Houston will be able to score runs but after not landing Roger Clemens their pitching is seriously suspect. Cincinnati strikes out too much and their bullpen has taken a major step back from last year, and the Cardinals seem to have lost most of their pitching (some to injuries) and seem to have gotten old quickly.
Rich Hill continues to pitch well and Jason Marquis has rediscovered some of the success he had in St. Louis. When they get Soriano, Derek Lee, and Aramis Ramirez all hitting at the same time they will be dangerous. Lee has been playing well but Soriano has just very recently started to come around. Brewers fans can hope that Carlos Zambrano remains distracted by his contract situation all year and that the Cubs don't pick up anyone to improve their bullpen but the baseball season is a long one and we can't be counting our money for playoff tickets yet.
This series with the Nationals is one that a legitimately good team should sweep, and I'm looking forward to our trip out east to see how we can perform in Shea stadium against a quality Mets team. Nice outing by Cappy tonight and I'm glad to see Coco coming in to get the save for my fantasy team.
peace out,
the brat
Gammons writes of the Cubs, "Their fourth straight win Saturday put them at .500 and second to the Brewers, the team most everyone in the division believes is the team to beat. " As far as I'm concerned, Peter Gammons is the foremost media authority on major league baseball and this legitimized our successful start more to me than any media coverage we have received so far.
That said, I do believe that the Cubs are the central team that the Brewers will need to be the most concerned about as the season moves along. If you look at the teams in the central, the Cubs have the best combination of talent out of any of our opponents. The Pirates can't get enough consistency from their offense to be considered a long-term threat. Houston will be able to score runs but after not landing Roger Clemens their pitching is seriously suspect. Cincinnati strikes out too much and their bullpen has taken a major step back from last year, and the Cardinals seem to have lost most of their pitching (some to injuries) and seem to have gotten old quickly.
Rich Hill continues to pitch well and Jason Marquis has rediscovered some of the success he had in St. Louis. When they get Soriano, Derek Lee, and Aramis Ramirez all hitting at the same time they will be dangerous. Lee has been playing well but Soriano has just very recently started to come around. Brewers fans can hope that Carlos Zambrano remains distracted by his contract situation all year and that the Cubs don't pick up anyone to improve their bullpen but the baseball season is a long one and we can't be counting our money for playoff tickets yet.
This series with the Nationals is one that a legitimately good team should sweep, and I'm looking forward to our trip out east to see how we can perform in Shea stadium against a quality Mets team. Nice outing by Cappy tonight and I'm glad to see Coco coming in to get the save for my fantasy team.
peace out,
the brat
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
