Jim Goulart

Nashville Media Notes: To make room for Zelous Wheeler, veteran infielder Anderson Machado was placed on the temporary inactive list. He is not with the Sounds on their current road trip. Mike McClendon is expected to join Nashville by Monday. A counter move will be needed to add him to the roster.

Just a ridiculously entertaining and thorough job with the comments, Eric. I have no chance of matching the effort next time out, but will try. The fact you snuck in a "eulogy" reference on Frankie De La Cruz is just gold. http://www.jeanierhoades.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Kenny_Bania.jpg

PCL American North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Omaha 31 24 .564 - - 17-11 14-13 6-4 W1 Iowa 25 30 .455 6.0 84 11-12 14-18 5-5 L2 Memphis 24 30 .444 6.5 84 16-15 8-15 5-5 L2 Nashville 23 31 .426 7.5 83 16-14 7-17 6-4 W2 SOU North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Tennessee 35 20 .636 - - 18-7 17-13 6-4 L1 Jackson 33 22 .600 2.0 14 17-11 16-11 8-2 W3 Huntsville 28 26 .519 6.5 10 15-9 13-17 6-4 W1 Chattanooga 25 30 .455 10.0 6 12-18 13-12 2-8 L3 Carolina 16 39 .291 19.0 E 11-19 5-20 3-7 L4 FSL North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Daytona 40 15 .727 - - 21-6 19-9 7-3 L2 Clearwater 35 20 .636 5.0 11 18-10 17-10 7-3 W2 Dunedin 30 25 .545 10.0 6 11-15 19-10 5-5 W1 Lakeland 30 25 .545 10.0 6 17-11 13-14 7-3 W5 Tampa 26 29 .473 14.0 2 12-16 14-13 7-3 L1 Brevard County 20 35 .364 20.0 E 12-18 8-17 5-5 L4 MID Western Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Burlington 38 18 .679 - - 18-5 20-13 6-4 W1 Quad Cities 30 25 .545 7.5 - 12-12 18-13 5-5 L1 Peoria 29 26 .527 8.5 15 18-8 11-18 4-6 L1 Wisconsin 28 27 .509 9.5 14 17-12 11-15 2-8 L1 Beloit 27 28 .491 10.5 13 11-14 16-14 6-4 W1 Cedar Rapids 27 28 .491 10.5 13 15-11 12-17 5-5 L2 Kane County 24 31 .436 13.5 9 12-14 12-17 5-5 L1 Clinton 17 39 .304 21.0 2 6-20 11-19 5-5 L1 DSL S.D. North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak DSL Brewers 5 0 1.000 - - 3-0 2-0 5-0 W5 DSL Mariners 2 2 .500 2.5 66 1-1 1-1 2-2 L1 DSL Athletics 2 3 .400 3.0 65 1-1 1-2 2-3 L1 DSL Cardinals 0 4 .000 4.5 64 0-2 0-2 0-4 L4

Follow Saturday's action as it happens: Nashville (Gameday also available) Huntsville (Gameday also available) Brevard County Wisconsin DSL Brewers

Saturday's Daily Menu: Times Central; pitchers subject to change -- Nashville: LHP Sam Narron at New Orleans (Marlins), 5:45 PM pre-game, 6:00 gametime Live Audio Link iPad/iPhone: Listen MiLB.TV -- for subscribers Huntsville: RHP Wily Peralta at Mobile (Diamondbacks), 7:05 PM gametime Live Audio Link -- it's the BayBears feed Brevard County: RHP Hiram Burgos at Daytona (Cubs), 6:05 PM gametime Live Audio Link -- it's the Cubs' feed Wisconsin: RHP Tyler Thornburg at Dayton (Reds), 5:47 PM pre-game, 6:07 gametime Live Audio Link DSL Brewers: at the DSL Mariners, 9:30 AM, although game data won't be available until late afternoon at the earliest

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The Segovia / Coles connection -- who knew? From the "you learn something every day category", right? Although, given the need now to free up a roster spot for Mike McClendon, and the impending return of other ailing Brewer bullpen arms, can't help but think that Zack Segovia is on a bit of a roster bubble regardless.

Nashville Sounds keep baseball all in the family Pitcher's in-law was in majors by Austin Gregerson, The Tennessean Standing beside the clubhouse beyond the left-field wall, Sounds pitcher Zack Segovia called his wife, DeAnna. After checking around the corner, they continued planning the birthday celebration for DeAnna’s father, Darnell. It would feature a clubhouse adorned with SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora the Explorer decorations, plus an in-game singing of “Happy Birthday” from players and fans in attendance during the homestand that ended Friday. Darnell isn’t just DeAnna’s father. He also happens to be Darnell Coles, former major league player, World Series-winning player and current hitting coordinator for the Milwaukee Brewers. And this week for his birthday, he was in town to pay son-in-law Zack a visit. This isn’t Coles’ first stop in Nashville. He spent a brief portion of the 1992 season here as a player for the Sounds when Nashville was the Class AAA affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds. “He makes sure in his schedule that whenever he came to see us, it was while we’re in Nashville to see his daughter and grandkids because he’s an amazing grandfather,” Segovia said. Coles, picked sixth overall in the 1980 draft by the Seattle Mariners, not only played with the likes of Ken Griffey Jr. and Harold Reynolds — a close family friend — but after spending 14 seasons with eight big league teams, he also had plenty of knowledge as to what personalities fill a baseball locker room. So when he heard his only daughter brought home another baseball player, he had his reservations. “I was a bit weary until I got a chance to meet him,” Coles said. “The first thing that came to mind when I found out my daughter brought back a baseball player was, ‘Are you serious?’ “Not in a good way or a bad way, but I just tried to keep an open mind. Baseball players tend to get a bad rap as being knuckleheads, sometimes.” As the minor league hitting coordinator, Coles spends most of his time traveling through the various teams in the Brewers farm system instructing the proper way of hitting a ball, not throwing one. That doesn’t mean he won’t give Segovia his opinion. “When he talks to me like a coach, it’s, ‘What are you doing with X, Y, Z, what’s going on here?’ ” Segovia said. “My initial reaction is, ‘Well, you’re a hitting coach — what would you know?’ But that’s a set of very experienced eyes and he’s sharing that knowledge with me.” The celebration of Coles’ 49th birthday wasn’t exactly typical of what a longtime coach and/or player would get away from home. Yet, it was, as Segovia said, in step with the loving “dumbness” of the baseball culture that has been typical of their family.

Nashville Audio Archive -- June 3 -- Chat with Pitching Coach Rich Gale Discusses the move of Mark DiFelice to the rotation, along with thoughts on Frankie De La Cruz among others

One of the more exciting aspects of the AAA season has to be the more-than-respectable go-rounds for Caleb Gindl and Taylor Green in their first experiences at that level (Nashville team stats here). Keep in mind that Nashville's OBP and SLG lines aren't influenced nearly as much by stadium and weather conditions as other PCL outposts. EDIT: Of course, just realized that Eric made this point clear with the current thread title...

Nashville fielders turned a triple play in the top of the seventh inning, the first for the Sounds in three seasons and the first in Pacific Coast League play during the 2011 campaign. Bryan LaHair led off with a double against Wright and Ty Wright walked to put a pair of runners on for Moore. On the first pitch from Wright, the Cubs' hitter smacked a sharp liner to Maysonet at shortstop, who stepped on second to retire LaHair then fired to first to Gamel to complete the triple-killing.Here's your audio (within the game summary) of the Sounds triple play, keyed by "Mr." Edwin Maysonet, of course. Tough to top Stu Paul for energy level -- nice.

How about over 8,400 in Dayton? Amazing how they support that squad (not that the Appleton area doesn't do well). Chris' post-game thoughts, always worth your time.

The Manatees were just swept by a Bradenton team that was 19-32 entering the four-game series. Of course, Brevard is now 20-35.

A gentleman named Jim Donten posted a nice photo gallery with individual shots of several Manatees. Shawn Zarraga is big (in a solid way), Scooter Gennett isn't big, Kyle Heckathorn walks off the mound after his worst pro outing, and Mike Brownstein rocks the 'stache.

Four Rattlers selected to play for the West in the 2011 Midwest League All-Star Game Dennis to start at DH; Walker, Ross, & Thornburg to play for West on June 21 By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers GRAND CHUTE, WI - The Midwest League announced the teams for the 2011 Midwest League All-Star Game on Friday afternoon. Four Wisconsin Timber Rattlers are heading to Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport, Iowa (home of the Quad Cities River Bandits) on June 21 to play for the Western Division. Chris Dennis will be the starting designated hitter for the West. Mike Walker was picked as a reserve infielder. Pitchers Austin Ross and Tyler Thornburg were also selected in a vote by the managers of the Western Division teams in the Midwest League. Dennis, the 13th round pick of the Milwaukee Brewers in the 2007 draft out of St. Thomas of Villanova High School in LaSalle, Ontario, is hitting .302 with four homers and 22 RBI in just 31 games for the Rattlers. Dennis joined Wisconsin on May 1 and has added seven doubles and three triples to his numbers. Dennis, who played part of the 2009 season and all of the 2010 season with the Rattlers, is currently second on the franchise career home run list with 26. Walker, who was picked in the 14th round of the 2010 draft out of the University of Pacific, is second in the Midwest League in home runs (10) and RBI (39). The left-handed hitter is also hitting .298 on the season. Ross, an 8th round pick of Milwaukee in 2010 out of Louisiana State University, is 5-2 with a 2.29 ERA and 56 strikeouts in 52 innings pitched this season. Ross was named the Midwest League Pitcher of the Week on April 25 and the Milwaukee Brewers Minor League Pitcher of the Month for April. Thornburg, Milwaukee's 3rd round pick in 2010 out of Charleston Southern, is 4-0 in nine starts for the Timber Rattlers this season. He is second in the Midwest League in ERA with a 1.31 (seven earned runs in 49 innings pitched). Thornburg has not allowed a run in three straight starts and ran his scoreless innings streak to 19-1/3 innings with a nine inning complete game shutout at Kane County on May 29. Thornburg has struck out 50 opposing batters in 2011. The 2011 All-Star Game at Modern Woodmen Park is scheduled to start at 7:00 PM. Subscribers to Time Warner Cable will be able to watch the game and the four Timber Rattlers playing in it on Sports 32. http://wisconsin.timberrattlers.milb.com/images/2011/06/03/mqDnxHwm.jpg

VIDEO: Mat Gamel's home run swing and trot, or as Stu says, "Mr." Mat Gamel

Via the Rattler Radio blog: TRANSACTIONS: INF T.J. Mittelstaedt has been activated from the DL RHP Damon Krestalude has been placed on the DL retroactive to June 2 Nice to see the tag to the back of the neck didn't sideline Mittelstaedt longer.

Catch up from last night with the Rattlers via Chris' post-game thoughts, delayed version. Jameson Dunn 94 MPH! Mr. Belding!! And an unfair bias against the eastern time zone. Yes, it's all here.

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AAA All-Star voting has begun (you go, Anderson Machado!)

PCL American North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Omaha 30 24 .556 - - 16-11 14-13 6-4 L1 Iowa 25 29 .463 5.0 86 11-12 14-17 5-5 L1 Memphis 24 29 .453 5.5 86 16-14 8-15 6-4 L1 Nashville 22 31 .415 7.5 84 15-14 7-17 5-5 W1 SOU North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Tennessee 35 19 .648 - - 18-7 17-12 7-3 W3 Jackson 32 22 .593 3.0 14 16-11 16-11 7-3 W2 Huntsville 27 26 .509 7.5 10 14-9 13-17 6-4 L3 Chattanooga 25 29 .463 10.0 7 12-18 13-11 3-7 L2 Carolina 16 38 .296 19.0 E 11-19 5-19 3-7 L3 FSL North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Daytona 40 14 .741 - - 21-6 19-8 8-2 L1 Clearwater 34 20 .630 6.0 11 17-10 17-10 6-4 W1 Dunedin 29 25 .537 11.0 6 10-15 19-10 4-6 L1 Lakeland 29 25 .537 11.0 6 16-11 13-14 7-3 W4 Tampa 26 28 .481 14.0 3 12-16 14-12 8-2 W5 Brevard County 20 34 .370 20.0 E 12-18 8-16 5-5 L3 MID Western Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak Burlington 37 18 .673 - - 18-5 19-13 6-4 L2 Quad Cities 30 24 .556 6.5 - 12-12 18-12 6-4 W5 Peoria 29 25 .537 7.5 16 18-8 11-17 4-6 W1 Wisconsin 28 26 .519 8.5 15 17-12 11-14 3-7 W1 Cedar Rapids 27 27 .500 9.5 14 15-11 12-16 5-5 L1 Beloit 26 28 .481 10.5 13 11-14 15-14 5-5 L1 Kane County 24 30 .444 12.5 10 12-14 12-16 6-4 W1 Clinton 17 38 .309 20.0 3 6-20 11-18 6-4 W3 DSL S.D. North Club W L PCT GB *ELIM # Home Away L 10 Streak DSL Brewers 4 0 1.000 - - 2-0 2-0 4-0 W4 DSL Athletics 2 2 .500 2.0 67 1-1 1-1 2-2 W1 DSL Mariners 2 2 .500 2.0 67 1-1 1-1 2-2 L1 DSL Cardinals 0 4 .000 4.0 65 0-2 0-2 0-4 L4

Follow Friday's action as it happens: Nashville (Gameday also available) Huntsville (Gameday also available) Brevard County Wisconsin DSL Brewers

Friday's Daily Menu: TGIF! Times Central; pitchers subject to change -- Nashville: RHP Mark DiFelice at home vs. Iowa (Cubs), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime Live Audio Link iPad/iPhone: Listen MiLB.TV -- for subscribers Huntsville: RHP Cody Scarpetta at home vs. Tennessee (Cubs), 6:43 PM gametime Live Audio Link iPad/iPhone: Listen Traditional broadcast -- look for the Tennessee feed off the master MiLB.com audio list Brevard County: RHP Adrian Rosario at Bradenton (Pirates), 6:00 PM gametime Live Audio Link -- look for the Bradenton feed off the master MiLB.com audio list Wisconsin: RHP Austin Ross at Dayton (Reds), 5:47 PM pre-game, 6:07 gametime Live Audio Link DSL Brewers: at home vs. the DSL Rays, 9:30 AM, although game data won't be available until late afternoon at the earliest

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Big (and deceptively speedy) 1B / LF Jason Rogers is indicating progress since his hand surgery. Tweet link (thanks, Chris Mehring)