The stache

This is going to be a long year. I wasn't expecting 96 wins, but I was expecting we'd be at least a .500 + competitive team.

Unfortunately, it's not. First pitch from Low, grand slam. Ugh.

Somebody explain to me why Ishikawa is now at first for Green?

Ugh. Let's get Brewer Amy out of the stands, and let her take a few swings.

Cubs doing all they can this inning to give us a run. Let's take advantage.

Nice outing tonight, Randy!!! /applause

Nice bunt, Taylor!

Yup. Good observation from the WGN broadcasting crew. This is Soto's backup in tonight, and he's not doing a good job of framing pitches.

Partly that, but more a comment on the difficulty we're having scoring runs. Brauny can break it open.

Come on Brauny!!

I'm dumbfounded. I don't know what's wrong with our lineup.

Ya, but even with the strikeout, it's a good sign. I like hitters that can work a count, and wear down a starter. I think once he gets it going, Taylor is going to be a good hitter for us.

Green is battling the heck out of Garza.

Nice job getting out of it. No damage done. Let's wake up, bats!

I think every team outside of Detroit has those types of situations. True, but not every team outside of Detroit had him already I'm wondering if we hadn't dropped K Rod, could we have offered more to Prince and kept him in Milwaukee?

Bases loaded no outs, and we get one run? If we had any luck at all.... Come on Wolfie, strand those runners. Let's go Crew!!!!

Weeks HBP. Come on Brauny!

Weeks with 39 K already? Wow. Come on Rickie, let's get it going!

Wow, T Plush with a bloop single.

I see Morgan and Weeks are 1-2 in the lineup again.

Metrics like BABIP are interesting, and can be very useful. But they should not be the be all end all, and I think too often people rely on them too heavily. When someone are saying that Lucroy "should not be moved up in the order because he's going to fall back to his .260 average of last year"....really? If his AVG does fall to .260, isn't that a lot better than the .164 average Weeks has, and the .192 average Morgan has right now? Lucroy has had a lot of clutch hits this season. How many clutch hits have Morgan and Weeks had combined? They may come around, and I pray to God they do (or we're in for a long season). But they may not. How long do we wait before we try something new? In a perfect world, we could point to past statistics, and use them as the justification for everything. But reading between the lines tells us that Jonathan Lucroy is only in his second year as a starter. He has less than 800 career at bats. Young hitters mature, just as veterans eventually tail off. Right now, Lucroy is the team's second best hitter. If his BABIP is up, can we really say that "he's only getting lucky, and that he's hitting the same number of ground balls, they're just going through" Or, is he getting better at controlling where the batted ball goes? Maybe if Lucroy is moved up to the two spot, he flops. The way I look at it, he's been hot, and while that may or may not continue, we can't be any worse off with Lucroy near the top of the order, and we may be better. We just don't know how he'd respond to being moved up so much. Many Brewer fans might be surprised by just how good a hitter he becomes. He makes contact, and if it means Luc batting #2 gives us a few extra runners on base and in scoring position for Ryan Braun and A Ram...why not give it a go? He can always be moved back.

30 games is a small sample size within the overall context of a season, but how much longer can the lineup continue struggling to produce runs before substantial changes are made? Perhaps Ron needs to change how he looks at some things. You have a future Hall of Famer batting third. It would make sense to me, a casual observer, that the manager should do anything possible to get people on ahead of him. Yet to this point, he has shown no willingness to change what is not working.

In my humble opinion, if you institute replay at all beyond reviewing home runs near the foul pole, you're opening Pandora's Box. Every play at the plate is going to be argued, and reviewed. Every close play at first, pivotal ball and strike calls..there's no end to the potential increase in game time if this is implemented. The game has been played for some 150 years with no replay, and it doesn't need it now. Umpires are human, and make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes hurt a team, sometimes they help them. I have a feeling it all evens out in the end. Umpires are part of the overall charm of the game, and if you lessen their roles, or take them out all together, the game loses part of it's appeal.

Really hate wasting this gem by Zack.

I prefer to look at it as "there's no way they can keep losing that many day games."