Samurai Bucky

The other day, I really enjoyed listening to the post game show on 1250 with my 11 year old daughter in the car. Then... a "Silk Exotic" commercial came on. *Click* 540 sounded a lot better.

1. I was 13 years old in '82. In '82, I would say I was more excited about the race than I am now. Perhaps it was because I was looking through a child's eyes seeing players that I idolized. Heck, I wanted to "be them" when I grew up, so their successes were my successes. I also remember the anger I felt the previous year when the Yankees beat the Brewers in the strike-shortened season. The trades during the off-season is what probably fueled the fire. I do think that that team has a little more character than this team in the fact that Rollie had the handlebar, Gorman was, well, Gorman, and Vuke was a big 'ole messy-type guy. I remember sitting in the outfield bleachers at County Stadium yelling "Rollie! Rollie!" at the top of my lungs has Rollie came on the field. Now as a parent of four children, I see some of the same excitement in the eyes of my children that I had. My son pretending to be J.J. Hardy while he's hitting; my daughter reciting the starting lineup to me; another daughter asking, "What does CC stand for?" I'm just glad that I have this chance to share the same emotion with my children that my parents shared with me. 2. I am very optimistic. Perhaps one reason I would really like to see the Brewers win is to spite the "experts" that say the Cubs are so incredibly talented. 3. If the Brewers were out of the picture, I would probably pay more attention to football. I'm more of a baseball fan anyway, so with all things equal: baseball wins. There is a little different flavor to baseball than football in that baseball is a sport you follow daily. If a baseball team is in the playoff hunt, you look at the paper (Internet) daily to see who won, lost, etc. For football, you have one day a week (for the most part), and then the rest of the week focuses on who got injured, and what the matchups might be. So with baseball, the cycle of the emotional rollercoaster just seems to be shorter. For example, if the Brewers are one game back and beat the Cubs, may people would be euphoric. However if they lose the next two games against the Cubs, panic starts to ensue, message boards are flooded, and people are thrown under busses. 4. Favre wants the attention, and I don't want to give it to him. End of story.

I was reading a fantasy BB blog where it mentioned CC ran out of gas towards the end of next year. I don't remember if he did or not. Heck, he was the Cy Young Award Winner! I'm guessing he will get 13 more starts and let's say he averages 7 IP per start, that puts him at 236 for the year. Last year, he had 241. He looks like a horse out there. If the Brewers are up 6 runs in the 7th, do you pull him at all to give him a bit of a breather?

While looking for other articles about the trade, I found this gem: http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/FantasySourceFastball/160119 It reads: "The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel acquired Ray Durham from the Giants on Sunday for minor league prospects." Dang... I knew the MJS owns a lot of things in Milwaukee... but they are now acquiring Major League second basemen? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

Jack Cust I don't think he is a leadoff hitter for the A's... is he?

I hope Rickie gets the message here. I really want to see him succeed at Milwaukee.

Good night, everybody.

Bring out Mr. Jugs...

Gonzo just needs to hit a dinger...

Time for redemption, Uggla...

It might be tough to get Zumaya from Detroit. He'd be a nice get.

Will McCann get a chance to play?

The grounds crew union was only contracted for 12 innings, I guess.

How do they determine which managers get to go along? Is Lou there because they won the NL Central last year?

They American League should get Clay Counsil suited up!

The only reason I'm staying up is because our FBB league's salary cap goes away after the game is over.

Let's go Corey... clap, clap, clapclapclap

Terrible bunt!

Yeah... the end of the bat was coming back at him.... Sure, Tim.

This is nuts. Will Corey get another chance to be the hero?

I feel bad for Uggla. One of the best fantasy baseball team names: Beat 'em with an Uggla Stick

Under Under Under Over Under Rickie will underperform yet again. This will be followed by people who will scour the many different statistical formulas to convince people that he is still productive.

I just saw somebody at Best Buy tonight buy 4-6 of them. I have no idea how much they cost.

The defensive display we are seeing tonight is why Greg Maddux will not be a Brewer. You don't want too many pitchers that throw to contact.

I just saw Steemer in the front row, too. I think that was Gullickson on his right. I'm such a geek, I booted up the laptop to post this. Wow...