Jim Goulart

Friday's Daily Menu: TGIF! All times are Central Colorado Springs: LHP Josh Hader (make that TBD) at home vs. Iowa (Cubs), 7:30 PM pre-game, 8:00 gametime Free Live Audio Link Dan Karcher, the longtime play-by-play voice of the Sky Sox is on Twitter @SkySoxKarch; joining him again this season is Dan Acheson (@Dan_Acheson) MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; all Colorado Springs games, home and away, will be available to watch via MiLB.TV's $49.99 season-long package ($12.99 to pay for a single month). The audio feed is from the home team. The video of each game is archived online, which is a nice feature. All MiLB.TV details available at the link. NOTE: Notice that on MiLB.TV's page, you can click on "Filter", then "Milwaukee Brewers", and you'll see just the Crew's organizational TV lineup. ********** Biloxi: RHP Aaron Wilkerson at home vs. Jacksonville (Marlins), 6:15 PM pre-game, 6:35 gametime Free Live Audio Link Chris Harris is the play-by-play voice of the Shuckers. Follow Chris on Twitter @CHarris731. We'll be linking to his fantastic "Shuck Dynasty" blog. Erik Bremer (@Erik_Bremer) joins Chris often. All games, home and away, are scheduled to be radio broadcast. MiLB.TV - Eight of the ten Southern League teams telecast their home games, and Biloxi is among them. Only games in Chattanooga and Mobile won't be available. ********** Carolina: RHP Jordan Yamamoto at Myrtle Beach (Cubs), 5:50 PM pre-game, 6:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link We look forward to Mudcats audio with Greg Young (@gregyoungjr), especially after going without gameday audio for much of the Brewers' stay in Brevard County. MiLB.TV - Yes, Carolina home games will be on MiLB.TV, sweet. It appears three other Carolina League teams (Salem, Myrtle Beach, and Winston-Salem) broadcast as well. ********** Wisconsin: LHP Cameron Roegner at home vs. Kane County (Diamondbacks), 6:45 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link Chris Mehring is back to do his customary fantastic work as the Voice of the Rattlers. Follow him on Twitter @CMehring; we'll link to Chris' infamous blog often -- Rattler Radio. MiLB.TV - Eight of the 16 Midwest League teams telecast their home games, and Wisconsin, once again, is among them. We'll let you know when a road TV feed is available. In 2017, fifteen games will be broadcast on Spectrum Sports in Wisconsin, available on channel 32 and in HD on channel 1332. We'll keep you posted with our "DVR Alerts" days in advance. *** DSL Brewers: at home vs. the DSL Phillies "White" squad, 9:30 AM DSL Brewers/Indians: at the DSL Cubs #1 squad, 9:30 AM For each DSL contest, game data won't be available until later in the day We'll link to this Dominican Summer League Brewers' thread as part of the Daily Menu all season to assist you with your familiarity with these young men. You can also use that link to differentiate between Brewer and Indians' prospects on the co-op team.

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AUDIO via Thursday's Pre-Game: "It's time for the Thursday 'Chat with Matt'. Rattlers manager Matt Erickson talks about the week of games, Joantgel Segovia, today's pitchers' meeting, the high school baseball tournament, and the draft." *** *** AUDIO via the Rattler Radio Soundcloud: "Chris Mehring & Kyle Lobner discuss the Rattlers 8-3 win over the River Bandits for the Papa John's Pizza Postgame Podcast. There are also comments from Ronnie Gideon, Monte Harrison, Jordan Desguin, & Hainley Statia.

Final: Round Rock 14, Colorado Springs 10 Sox Fall In Slugfest Eight starters record a hit and score a run in Thursday's defeat By Robby Veronesi Click the recap link above for a Nate Orf horizontal lean photo... *** Speaking of photos, check out Andrew Barbosa, Kyle Wren, and a Ryan Cordell catch we didn't highlight nearly enough among those you'll find here, all three shots via MiLB.com's Bobby Stevens. *** Colorado Springs Box Score Brandon Woodruff's outing was bad. Tyler Cravy's was even worse. Make what you will of the context of all the crooked offensive numbers. Colorado Springs Game Log Teams combined for 31 hits and 16 walks in a tidy three hours, 57 minutes. But hey, perfect defense all around! Seems like a good time to check in on Toledo, where we're hoping for two more years of ineptness to finally push the teetering ownership group to follow up on the hinted-at bail out on the decades-old relationship. Here's your International League standings.

Timely topic - Do or die time for the franchise; MiLB forcing their hand

From the Transaction thread -- An example of why we shouldn't dismiss "older" Latin signings -- when inked in May of 2015, Wuilder Rodriguez was already 22 years, four months old. Now, two years later, he's in AA.

Forrest Snow promoted to Colorado Springs, Wuilder Rodriguez joins Biloxi from Carolina Biloxi press release linked above...

Timber Rattler DVR Alert -- TONIGHT!! THURS. 6/8 vs. Cedar Rapids, 6:30 PM Spectrum Sports are available on channel 32 and in HD on channel 1332 in Eastern Wisconsin

Look for these just prior to the respective game times -- Colorado Springs Media Notes - Linked on the Sky Sox official blog Biloxi Media Notes - Linked on the Shuck Dynasty blog Carolina Media Notes - Linked on the Mudcats official blog Wisconsin Media Notes - Linked on the Rattler Radio blog *** STANDINGS: AAA - Pacific Coast League American Northern Division AA - Southern League South Division High-A - Carolina League Southern Division A - Midwest League Western Division Dominican Summer League San Pedro Division Dominican Summer League North Division NOTE: Divisional standings for the two DSL teams point to the same shared page link. *** Sortable individual stat pages: Colorado Springs Biloxi Carolina Wisconsin DSL Brewers DSL Brewers/Indians *** Weather.com: Colorado Springs, CO Pearl, MS Myrtle Beach, SC Grand Chute, WI Santo Domingo, DR

Follow Thursday's action as it happens with box score / game log links: Colorado Springs Biloxi Carolina Wisconsin DSL Brewers DSL Brewers/Indians MiLB.com feature -- organizational scoreboard, Brewers

Thursday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Colorado Springs: RHP Brandon Woodruff at home vs. Round Rock (Rangers), 7:10 PM pre-game, 7:40 gametime Free Live Audio Link Dan Karcher, the longtime play-by-play voice of the Sky Sox is on Twitter @SkySoxKarch; joining him again this season is Dan Acheson (@Dan_Acheson) MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; all Colorado Springs games, home and away, will be available to watch via MiLB.TV's $49.99 season-long package ($12.99 to pay for a single month). The audio feed is from the home team. The video of each game is archived online, which is a nice feature. All MiLB.TV details available at the link. NOTE: Notice that on MiLB.TV's page, you can click on "Filter", then "Milwaukee Brewers", and you'll see just the Crew's organizational TV lineup. ********** Biloxi: RHP Luis Ortiz at Mississippi (Braves), 6:40 PM pre-game, 7:00 gametime Free Live Audio Link Chris Harris is the play-by-play voice of the Shuckers. Follow Chris on Twitter @CHarris731. We'll be linking to his fantastic "Shuck Dynasty" blog. Erik Bremer (@Erik_Bremer) joins Chris often. All games, home and away, are scheduled to be radio broadcast. MiLB.TV - Eight of the ten Southern League teams telecast their home games, and Biloxi is among them. Only games in Chattanooga and Mobile won't be available. ********** Carolina: RHP Freddy Peralta at Myrtle Beach (Cubs), 5:50 PM pre-game, 6:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link We look forward to Mudcats audio with Greg Young (@gregyoungjr), especially after going without gameday audio for much of the Brewers' stay in Brevard County. MiLB.TV - Yes, Carolina home games will be on MiLB.TV, sweet. It appears three other Carolina League teams (Salem, Myrtle Beach, and Winston-Salem) broadcast as well. ********** Wisconsin: RHP Jordan Desguin at home vs. Quad Cities (Astros), 6:45 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link Chris Mehring is back to do his customary fantastic work as the Voice of the Rattlers. Follow him on Twitter @CMehring; we'll link to Chris' infamous blog often -- Rattler Radio. MiLB.TV - Eight of the 16 Midwest League teams telecast their home games, and Wisconsin, once again, is among them. We'll let you know when a road TV feed is available. In 2017, fifteen games will be broadcast on Spectrum Sports in Wisconsin, available on channel 32 and in HD on channel 1332. We'll keep you posted with our "DVR Alerts" days in advance. *** DSL Brewers: at the DSL Phillies "White" squad, 9:30 AM DSL Brewers/Indians: at home vs. the DSL Cubs #1 squad, 9:30 AM For each DSL contest, game data won't be available until later in the day We'll link to this Dominican Summer League Brewers' thread as part of the Daily Menu all season to assist you with your familiarity with these young men. You can also use that link to differentiate between Brewer and Indians' prospects on the co-op team.

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*** AUDIO via the Rattler Radio Soundcloud: "It's an All-Star Edition of the Papa John's Pizza Postgame Podcast. Chris Mehring & Kyle Lobner discuss the loss to Quad Cities but mainly talk about and with the Timber Rattlers 2017 Midwest League All-Stars: Monte Harrison, Mario Feliciano, and Braden Webb.

Tuesday's game --

AUDIO via the Shuck Dynasty Soundcloud: Farm Director Tom Flanagan talks about Corbin Burnes, Mauricio Dubon, Angel Ventura, Luis Ortiz and an overview of the organization.

Final: Round Rock 9, Colorado Springs 3 Sox Stymied By Express Sky Sox aim for series split Thursday night By Robby Veronesi / Colorado Springs Sky Sox Garrett Cooper drove in his 45th run of the season during his first at-bat in the series against Round Rock Wednesday night. (Paat Kelly photo) Colorado Springs Box Score RHP Michael Blazek hadn't had a clunker in a long time; still fascinated by LHP Wei-Chung Wang (hey, it was Wednesday!), lefty bats now hitting .139 against him, Wang with a 0.75 WHIP vs. like-handed bats; Ryan Cordell's bat off to a slow start in June... Colorado Springs Game Log

As also posted for archiving purposes in our season-long Mudcats feature thread -- Gatewood raising his game Brewers prospect breaks out after studying Machado, Cabrera By Damien Sordelett / Special to MiLB.com

Gatewood raising his game Brewers prospect breaks out after studying Machado, Cabrera By Damien Sordelett / Special to MiLB.com Jake Gatewood is batting .300 with seven homers and a league-leading 21 doubles for the Mudcats. (Chris Robertson photo/MiLB.com)

And more -- Lewis Brinson knows patience will pay off with Brewers Robert Murray, FanRag Sports

Harrison, Feliciano, Webb to Represent Rattlers at MWL All-Star Game Timber Rattlers Trio to participate at Great Lakes on June 20 By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

Finally healthy, top Sky Sox prospect Lewis Brinson heating up with the weather Brent Briggeman, Colorado Springs Gazette Quotes galore...

At Wisconsin, RHP Parker Berberet comes off the Helena "paper taxi squad" while RHP Andrew Vernon goes to that list.

Signed last week on June 2nd but yet to debut as a pro, 20-year-old Dominican catcher Joel Munoz (listed at 5'10, 155).

Five Shuckers named South Division All Stars Dubon, DeMuth, Ventura, Wilkerson and Ramsey to represent Shuckers on June 20 Read at the link above for full details from the team.