The Mets are 3 games under .500 and have suffered injuries many times of those the Brewers have suffered. It still doesn't take away from them having a disappointing season. It is not amazing to me the Brewers are at .500. To me the Brewers have three studs, a couple nice surprises (Counsell and Mcgehee), a few steadies (Hoffman, Coffey, Stetter, Cameron, Kendall?), and a boatload of underachieving disappointments (Hardy, Hart, Suppan, Looper, Parra, Gerut, Villanueva & Hall). When the majority of a team is a disappointment, I would say that overall the team is having a disappointing 2009. Just my opinion, but I never point to injuries or previous year results to curb my expectations. Iffa (injuries) coulda (pitched better) with Weeks, Bush, etc all sound like excuses in my book. Name another team out there that hasn't suffered a significant injury this year. Just so I get this right, the optimism shown at the end sounds like a prognostication. Do you really want to predict the Brewers will go 5-1 in SD and LA? I am pretty sure that has never happened in Brewer history.