Jim Goulart

Media notes: ON THE MOUND: Also scheduled to pitch this afternoon (subject to change) is RHP Claudio Vargas, LHP Chuck Lofgren and LHP John Halama. MINOR DETAILS: Joining the team from minor-league camp today is RHP Ruben "Buddy" Flores (#91) and RHP Jim Henderson (#96).

I have never seen an episode of Friends.

WSSP's Tim Allen with: Yovani Gallardo Manny Parra Todd Coffey George Kottaras Rickie Weeks

Box score here. MLB audio subscribers can listen in via the webcast (which will archive) here. The Cubs audio broadcast is available for those driving around at AM-720 or XM radio subscribers on channel 186. A Gameday, which mainly allows you to scroll through a "game log" later on, can be found here. By the way, the last couple of days Gameday has kept up batter-by-batter, but not on a pitch-by-pitch basis. As game time approaches, the Brewers' media notes will be available here. That's where you will learn who else is scheduled to pitch beyond Jeff Suppan, and whether any minor leaguers are up from their camp for the game. *** We know posts may be light here during spring training games in particular, and while posts are still welcome, we will be pushing our Spring Training Chat Room during all our In-Game Threads. When you look at the list of all our Forums, you'll see how many are in the chat room at any one time. Schmooze with fellow Brewer fans who are into the team enough that they've made listening to spring training games a part of their day!

Our Brewerfan 40-man roster page has been updated to indicate that RHP Alex Periard now has one option remaining, his option for 2010 having just been exercised. Periard could spend time in the minors again in 2011, but would have to be kept on the 25-man roster beginning in 2012, to avoid being exposed to waivers.

Randy Wolf on WSSP with Tim Allen

Well, the "B" game got underway (temps in the 40's) because it's reported Homer Bailey pitched well.

ON THE MOUND: Also scheduled to pitch this afternoon after LHP Manny Parra (subject to change) is RHP Dave Bush, RHP LaTroy Hawkins, RHP Carlos Villanueva and RHP Todd Coffey. MINOR DETAILS: Joining the team from minor-league camp today is RHP Ruben "Buddy" Flores (#91) and RHP Juan Sandoval (#94).

Sean Penn's presentation speech (link as to the why) was a blithering mess, I'd expect nothing more from him. This was also a bizarre Kanye moment -- talk about awkward.

Amaze your friends today with bar trivia -- Only three players in Major League Baseball history have last names starting with the letters "Kot," and they all played on the Red Sox last season — Casey Kotchman, Mark Kotsay and George Kottaras.

First of all, there is a "B" game scheduled this morning against the Reds, weather permitting. "B" games aren't like official split-squad games, they don't count in the spring standings (as if that matters), aren't broadcast, etc. We may or may not be able to obtain a box score, so we'll rely on the usual Maryvale coverage from the J-S and MLB.com for any details. The J-S notes that Eric Arnett, John Axford, Zach Braddock, Tim Dillard, Scott Schoeneweis and Chris Smith are on the Brewers' pitching list for the "B" game. *** As for the regularly scheduled game against the M's -- Box score here. The game is live on FSN Wisconsin as of 2:05 CT. It will be re-broadcast at 7:00 PM if you forgot to DVR. That same broadcast is available to MLB video subscribers here. That online video broadcast will also archive for subscribers who wish to catch it at home rather than the office or campus. No access to those two sources? The MLB network has the game at 6:00 PM Central on tape (subject to blackout to FSN viewers). There is no audio only coverage on WTMJ or for MLB audio-only subscribers, hence no XM radio coverage. To participate in this one, you must watch, although... A Gameday, which mainly allows you to scroll through a "game log" later on, can be found here. By the way, the last couple of days Gameday has kept up batter-by-batter, but not on a pitch-by-pitch basis. As game time approaches, the Brewers' media notes will be available here. That's where you will learn who else is scheduled to pitch beyond Manny Parra and Dave Bush, and whether any minor leaguers are up from their camp for the game. Forecast is better for the afternoon game than the morning affair. The Mariners are also playing the White Sox today in an official split-squad game, but the Brewers will also be split, in effect, if they get the "B" game in. *** We know posts may be light here during spring training games in particular, and while posts are still welcome, we will be pushing our Spring Training Chat Room during all our In-Game Threads. When you look at the list of all our Forums, you'll see how many are in the chat room at any one time. Schmooze with fellow Brewer fans who are into the team enough that they've made spring training games, in this case watching spring training games (!), a part of their day!

Also scheduled to pitch this afternoon (subject to change) is RHP Todd Coffey, RHP John Axford, LHP Zach Braddock and LHP Scott Schoeneweis.

We know posts may be light here during spring training games in particular, and while posts are still welcome, we will be pushing our Spring Training Chat Room during all our In-Game Threads. When you look at the list of all our Forums, you'll see how many are in the chat room at any one time. Schmooze with fellow Brewer fans who are into the team enough that they've made listening to spring training games a part of their day!

Here's a second Brett Lawrie photo from ED ANDRIESKI / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/azstarnet.com/content/tncms/assets/editorial/9/a9/35f/9a935f11-7377-5c6b-922e-d083cb352cdd.image.jpg?_dc=1267941963

Getting To Know... New Manager Joe Ayrault -- Helena Site

Box score here. Listen on traditional radio to WTMJ. That same broadcast available to MLB audio subscribers here. XM radio subscribers can listen on channel 186 (may be Brewers or Reds broadcast). A Gameday, which mainly allows you to scroll through a "game log" later on, can be found here. By the way, the last couple of days Gameday has kept up batter-by-batter, but not on a pitch-by-pitch basis. As game time approaches, the Brewers' media notes will be available here.

The first ten photos (as of this post) in the Journal-Sentinel spring training gallery are from Saturday's action, and includes this nice shot of Brett Lawrie.

From the Giants at Brewers game -- non-big league camp invites for the day: 1B Chris Errecart crushed a home run that Bob Uecker is still gushing over, and is quoted in the J-S blog post on the game. Those fussy Giants plunked him his next time up. Chris was charged with an error on a tough-hop play that sounded as if it could have been scored a base hit. It was a nice Zelous Wheeler to Eric Farris to Errecart 5-4-3 double play that bailed out John Halama of a bases-loaded jam in the 8th. Wheeler walked and singled in his two trips, while Farris was 1-for-3 -- line drive single, line drive out, and a rare (for him) GIDP. After flying out in the 6th, LF Erik Komatsu crushed his own home run to center, a two-run shot, in the 8th. Komatsu's HR scored OF Erik Miller, who had singled. Miller was hit in the leg by a pitch his first time up. Taylor Green walked and Brent Brewer grounded out in their lone plate appearances. Among the prospect kids who are in big league camp, Lorenzo Cain smoked a triple off the wall in center that just missed going out. 40-man Giant OF and former Brewer Darren Ford grounded out in his AB. Final thought -- why did Haudricourt and Witrado both go to the same game on a split-squad day (not this game)? Only one rental car on the J-S budget?

From the Brewers at Rockies game -- non-big league camp invites for the day: 2B Brett Lawrie was in the mix for three of the four double plays the Brewers turned. Lawrie tripled in his first at-bat, then grounded out twice. OF Lee Haydel (groundout) and SS Josh Prince (flyout) each got an AB. Veteran Norris Hopper was 1-for-2 including a pinch-hit triple. Those were the non-camp callups. For young camp player comments, see theJ-S blog post on the game -- one thing to note beyond the comments made on RHP Alex Periard, while Periard did allow back-to-back line drive / fly ball doubles to start his second inning, everything else he recorded, including all his in-play outs, was on the ground.

Rough outings for RHP Alex Periard and LHP A.J. Murray as Ken Macha is now 0-3 and has watched another big lead evaporate.

This "no-name" Brewer split squad is up 4-0 in the 4th. The Crew scored three runs in the 3rd on nothing but ground balls, some made it through, others were botched or drove in runs with productive outs. Brett Lawrie hit a triple on an opposite field fly ball in the 4th, but was stranded (thanks, trwi7). LHP's Chris Narveson (two innings) and A.J. Murray have faced the minimum through three. Psyched for Narveson... MLB has that rule about sending at least four "regulars" to every game for the paying fans. The Rockies don't have a split squad today, so their fans might have been upset with the Crew's roster there. MLB certainly can't say much about first-week split squad games. The Giants split roster at the Brewers' park today was built similarly.

Within the In-Game Threads on the like-named forum here, we'll attempt to include up front on a daily basis those players called up from minor league camp for specific games, and as noted above, we'll detail their exploits here should they make it into the games. Check on the two Saturday threads there to see what we mean. The actual games by the minor league squads (Nashville, Huntsville, Brevard, and Wisconsin) will begin on Friday, March 19th. We are hopeful that we'll be able to provide you with box scores to those games, as we did last season. Those games will be detailed in a separate thread.

Media notes: Also expected to pitch (subject to change) -- LHP Chuck Lofgren, LHP A.J. Murray, RHP Amaury Rivas and RHP Alex Periard. Up from minor league camp -- INF's Brett Lawrie and Josh Prince, OF's Lee Haydel and Norris Hopper, RHP's Mike Jones and Juan Sandoval, and LHP Chris Waters.

Media notes: ON THE MOUND: Also scheduled to pitch this afternoon (subject to change) is LHP Chris Capuano, LHP John Halama, RHP Kameron Loe and RHP Claudio Vargas. MINOR DETAILS: Joining the team from minor-league camp today is C Patrick Arlis, SS Brent Brewer, 1B Chris Errecart, INF Eric Farris, 3B Taylor Green, OF Erik Komatsu, OF Erik Miller, INF Zelous Wheeler, LHP Chris Cody and RHP Ruben Flores.

Jim Breen and his recently-moved "Bernie's Crew" blog with a nice post summarizing the current injury status in camp.