BraggsBustedBat

That incident is what inspired my screen name. I will never forget seeing that. He used to snap bats over his knee like Bo Jackson after striking out too.

I'd like to see the Brewers keep their affiliates. It was cool when it used to be Helena, Stockton, Beloit, El Paso, Zephyrs for year after year. There was a National Geographic article that went through the Brewer farm teams and interviewed John Jaha and Darryl Hamilton and some other guys before they got called up. Now that they've had the same teams again for a while, I'm starting to get attached to these ones. My brother runs a blog (http://sportchange.wordpress.com/category/milb/) looking at realignment/relocation/and new nickname/logo scenarios in sports. About half his posts seem to be about MiLB. He did one about the expiring PDCs a few weeks ago. Reading it has gotten me interested in the minors again--beyond Brewer prospects.

And if I ripped on McGehee you'd have also rushed to his defense.No, I'm ripping completely ridiculous posts that come out of emotion rather than common sense. McGehee walked his first AB. I don't think his approach is to hit early in the count because of who is hitting behind him. I think McGehee would be used to Yuni hitting behind him by now and would be a walk machine if that was actually that approach. In here it just seems like a travesty whenever a player like Yuni doesn't go 4-4. Every single at-bat gets 5-6 of the same post explaining that he's a terrible hitter. We know. Yet when he actually does do something good it's 5-6 of the same posts explaining he's still a terrible hitter or fielder. I've never seen anyone acknowledge he's made a good play defensively. He's had a handful tonight and has shown some range. When a Cubs announcer said he had decent range there were 5-6 people who laughed at the notion. Yet just last week Uecker was talking about Furcal's range and said Yuni also had decent range at SS. When he gets a good hit it's somehow still a bad thing. How depressing must it be to watch this team. 1/3 of your position players will make you angry regardless of the outcome. I can't even imagine some of you people watching the team when Bill Hall was playing. I generally like reading the in-game threads here, but literally the majority of the posts involve complaining about two players. It gets really old. I've been reading this site daily at least since the "Spivey Injury Excuse" days. I've never felt compelled to post before and may never again, but I just wanted to say I agree 100% with this post. We get it. Betancourt has some serious limitations in his game and probably wouldn't be difficult to replace. But he's a Brewer and a seemingly good guy. Be happy when the man succeeds.