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This is bizarro baseball.

Says plenty about our SS when Rock notes that because Casey walked, they're "forced" to pitch to Kotsay. EDIT: Hahaha, and now an IBB.

Yeah, Braun was safe - he blew through the plate block.

My wife calls him "Yusuckskie Badatsports". Ole!

What a great hit by Lucroy. That guy is money.

Well, Brian Anderson served that one up nicely. Also: Please don't hurt yourself, Corey.

I also didn't really like it, for the same reasons. It's a rare beer for me that has been hopped to the point of being unpleasant, but this one was.

I'm moving to Atlanta in July (for grad school) - any tips on local breweries to look into? I'm familiar with Sweetwater - the 420 seems alright; I haven't been hugely impressed otherwise.

You're on one end of the Bourbon Trail in Louisville. The area between Louisville and Lexington is outstanding in general. Lots of great food, bourbon, etc. Very scenic. Churchill Downs is a lot of fun. If you're into more of an indie/arts scene, the Highlands neighborhood in Louisville is awesome - shops and restaurants, very independent-minded. Nashville has the Yazoo Brewery. http://www.yazoobrew.com/ Once you're in the south, it'd be difficult for me to not eat BBQ for basically every meal, breakfast included.

There is currently a sidebar headline on si.com of "Price set for Kolb-to-Cards Deal". My immediate and momentary confusion made me feel like a decent Brewer fan. (It's Kevin Kolb of the Eagles)

Scoring runs. It's a good thing. #martha

Thoughts on my visit to Turner Field (I saw Wednesday and Thursday's games, so I'm trying to set aside how awful they were for the Brewers and give an objective evaluation of the experience): - It's a very nice park, doesn't seem to show much age at all after ~14 years. Very intuitive in its layout - it's not hard to find anything. - Concession offerings are generally good, and are best in the "villiage" area straight out from CF. - We spent one game in the back of the Field Level equivalent, which was nice and had excellent sightlines. Not many people at the park, but it was the second half of the doubleheader. - The second game we had club level tickets - their club level is very similar to at Miller Park: ticket checkers at the door, lots of the same food offerings found all around the park plus a few extras. A combination of typical concession-like booths and little kiosks. It was all very familiar. - The club level is the only enclosed concourse, which was part of the reason we grabbed tickets for it the second game. The game temp was about 60 degrees and dropping a bit on Wednesday and with a healthy breeze and the sun going down it was actually pretty darn chilly at the field level. We were underdressed and wished we had an enclosed space we could escape to for a bit between innings. A few of the concession stands had little coffee drink/hot chocolate makers and they were doing a good business that night. - The stadium itself is just on the southern edge of downtown - if you come in off of the highway, it feels like it's connected to the city but if you come in anywhere else you really feel that it's in a run-down, poor neighborhood. It's an interesting contrast. - Fans drove in and drove out - there was little nightlife around the stadium at all. We searched online to see if there were any bars/restaurants that ran shuttles (one of our favorite ways to attend a game at MP) and there were exactly zero that we could find, outside of a public shuttle to take you to a MARTA station (their public transport). - Fans were very friendly and the staff was excellent and welcoming. There seemed to be a lot of staff for each game, though they were both lightly attended so I'm not sure if that impacted my perception. Lots of vendors, often not actually carrying much - just a few things in hand that they'd sell and go back to wherever they loaded up to get more. They'd stop and talk to the ushers for a while, just hang around, maybe sell a little maybe not. - Their famous jumbotron is huge and well-placed. It's very useful. I had no issues finding auxillary scoreboards for pitchcounts. - The whole atmosphere was very low-key. Not a ton of energy. Overall, a very good experience. We're moving to Atlanta soon so we wanted to get a feel for the stadium and came away very happy.

He's one awkward dude (watching the press conference). But man is he awesome.

Prince's foot was hard to see (and looked like he had his toe on it to me), but his lunge seemed unnecessary and got him called off the bag. He could've just stood there or given it a fairly typical stretch.

Reporting in from Turner Field. I can confirm that it's really Zack Greinke in a Brewers uni and not an imposter. (omg)

Seemed like Gomez was running full-out and his first somersault didn't really shed much momentum, so he either needed to do another one or probably end up diving forward and landing on his face.

Zach Braddock sure looked a lot like Suppan there for a second. (Purely in physical appearance, of course).

Winning last night really takes the edge off of this series. Hopefully everyone can play relaxed and surprise Halladay.

You could see Fielder's hbp a mile away. You're just not going to brush him back like that. You could tell what was going to happen before the windup.

Ankiel was apparently watching Major League between games. I feel like we wouldn't be real happy with that choice if it was our batter. EDIT: Thank you ump for not making the "ball beat him" call. Nice work.

My first thought: "Only 40?"

I hadn't been following it all that closely or anything, but I didn't expect it to happen by 2013. Should be interesting. I'm excited to play Michigan and Michigan State more often.

I think of it as a "Reverse Melvin."

It sounds like there are fireworks happening here in downtown Madison. What's going on? Can anyone help me out?

It's been exactly 13 years since the Brewers moved to the National League.