I've been thinking more and more about this. If you look around at most playoff teams...and not just teams that squeak in, but teams that make it to the LCS and the World Series, they usually have a very good combo of 3/4 type hitters, a legit ace, and then a very good #1/2 type starter in the second spot of the rotation. We have the offensive combo in Braun/Fielder, but I don't think Gallardo is ever going to be the legit ace some were hoping for. I think he is more like a very good #2. If Melvin could have somehow swung a trade for a guy like Halladay or Peavey, or some younger guy (can't think of names off hand that may have been available), we would be sitting much better off this year. A playoff rotation of something like Peavey/Gallardo/Wolf would not be bad at all. Of course if we traded for one of those aces that were moved last year, we might not have signed Wolf, but then again we might have let Suppan go and not signed Davis either. I just think our window of opportunity is shutting faster than Melvin and company could have envisioned, and it's closing with every series the Brewers let slip away this year. Melvin better not kid himself this summer. If the team isn't sitting in legitimate contention by the All-Star break (and I don't mean kind of hovering around .500 like last year), then it's time for rebuild mode. Trade Fielder and any other expensive pieces you can, and make the potential rebuild much shorter than it would be trying to make another half-baked contention run in 2011 with the same roster we have in place right now.