Unstable

Slightly more info: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/sports/63737127.html Looks pretty sleazy to me. Oh well, on to Los Angeles.

Hey Brewers fans, I just wanted to let you know that I was in Milwaukee over the weekend for my best friend's wedding. He met his wife while in grad school at Madison. I was absolutely astounded by how awesome everyone and everything we did was. I have NEVER felt so welcome anywhere! Mostly we stuck to the marriage circuit: the hotel (Hyatt Place West), the church (Mt. Olive Lutheran), the country club (Silver Spring, I think?), a park for photos (I do not remember the name, it had a bridge with stone towers and steel suspension cables). But we drove around a bit, and had a nice dinner at County Clare Inn and a lunch at a restaurant right across the street from Usinger's. The bride's father offered to go with me to a Brewer's game if I am ever back in Milwaukee when the team is at home, so I'll have to be sure to make the trip!

If so I missed that. "In half" would be pretty arbitrary though.

Two team metros are disadvantaged by this metric. Hardly anyone is a fan of the Yankees and Mets, the White Sox and Cubs, the Athletics and Giants, or the Angels and Dodgers.

Nice to see you guys continuing the success of last season! I hope the loss of Weeks isn't too much of a problem. I'm bummed about that generally, since he's such a promising young playmaker. But there's a whole thread for that - I wanted to start a new one to say hi and congrats thus far.

See you guys in September, although I'm gonna nip over to the Off-Topic forum for bachelor party planning advice.

Did you not see Lidge's pitch in the dirt to Hart just before? Did you not see that he blew a save last week? It was a wild pitch against one of the biggest and closest-set batters in the NL.

I don't know, it's not that surprising. Bush is a local guy, and Phillies fans are mostly very classy individuals. Happy to cheer for people who deserve it, and we have lots of respect for the Brewers.

Good showing by Bush, very glad to see the fans standing and cheering for him.

Oof.

Hamels is locked in. Looks like a good pitchers battle so far.

One of the fun things about the Phillies is that they tend to make losses interesting, at least.

Textbook Howard there. The key pitch was #2, when he swung at Ball 2.

I'm living in DC now, and I'm optimistic about the Nats. I mean, the Redskins have the largest stadium in the NFL and no trouble selling out. The problem is the product on the field. And they need to grow through the farm system, like the Rays did. It's gonna take a while. However, the ballpark is not fantastic. It's a major disappointment. The upper bowl is too far from the field, and the building has no distinctive character.

Yeah, I imagine that corporations have been cutting perks like luxury boxes left and right.