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Suppan looked pretty good in the 1st. Strike 3 to Weeks may not have exactly been a strike but it was a good pitch and he pitched Braun pretty well. After that not so much. There weren't any Brewer fans there who were happy to see him go.

All very mild at Petco Mon. and Wed. and I had Brewer gear on both days. But I was in good seats near the Brewer dugout so there were a lot of Brewer fans and those that weren't weren't drinking all that much. By Wed. Braun wasn't drawing a single boo, at least that I heard. And outside of the boos for him (and to a much lesser extent Morgan) on Monday no hostility towards the Brewers or their fans at all. I think it will be a whole different thing on Memorial Day at Dodger Stadium. One thing about San Diego, as noted in one of the threads one of the Padres radio guys, Ted Lightner, is insane on Braun. He "reports" as absolute fact that Braun cheated even though he agrees that it makes no sense for him to have done so. Before Tuesday's game he said something like "I was proud of the Padres fans for booing him." I like him on the whole but he would rather be a raving lunatic than be ignored. Kind of a Keith Olbermann wannabe.

Well this was pretty much the nightmare scenario. Ishikawa sure made us all forget Gamel. On the plus side I got to see the game from Dave Winfield's dugout seats with Winfield, his agent, and one of my colleagues who has been friends with his agent since jr. high. He is very personable and was very gracious with everyone who came by at the ballpark and at the hotel bar afterwards. Met Trevor afterwards too. Took a lot of the sting out of the loss, especially since the dugout seats are all you can drink.

Suppan is 12-2 lifetime against Milwaukee. Although pretty much in another lifetime. His ERA in AAA this year is 12+ Anyone else going to be there today?

You bet. Although after a couple minutes I was thinking the losing to him would be the flip side of seeing Braun's night yesterday.

Pads announced that Luebke will miss his start so they are activating Suppan for tomorrow. Sorry, didn't see the thread in Major Leagues. Ooops no more Gamel.

Yes the only thing sweeter than seeing Braun do this in Petco would be seeing him do it at Dodger Stadium (OK maybe Busch as well). We are going to be there on Memorial Day, are you going to be around? We were about 4 rows behind the guys they kept showing last night and were in the background of a couple of clips. My favorite, on Braun's 2d HR you can see my daughter watching it go out, me watching it go out, and my wife staying focused on her cellphone. Busted . . .

Well as Ueck would say, how about that one folks? The most fun Brewer game I've been to since the Nieves no-hitter 25 years ago. Petco is pretty good to Braun; he had his first HR there in his first series in 07. First 3 homer game there for anyone, and on a night when everything hit to the outfield pretty much went there to die and no one else got one out. It didn't look until the last second (ball 4 to Morgan was pretty close) like he'd get the last AB and the crowd (including, finally, the Pads fans) got into it and . . . almost. Not much to add to the play by play above. Agree on how good Loe looked. Roenicke again let the P bat and then pulled him before he got another out but the situation tonight was much different than Saturday's and it was the right move this time even though it didn't work out. Wolf leaving Wieland and Denorfia out there in the 3d w nobody out was huge and seemed to turn the game around just like Garcia getting left out there was followed by a 3 run inning yesterday. The play at the plate was also big since if he's in there Bartlett scores on the GO and the Pads are back up. Braun got boos before the first 2 ABs but the crowd was so small (16K) they were pretty much neutralized by the Brewer fans, especially where we were a few rows behind the Brewer dugout. Before the 3d AB a guy behind us started a staaaair-roid cheer but nobody joined and then Braun hit the 3d deck in left and the guy was quiet the rest of the way. Pads fans got chippy again when Braun came up in the 7th and weren't happy that Frieri didn't work around him. Guzman Kd twice in row on 6 pitches and was a foul tip away from 3 Ks on 9. Going back on Wednesday.

To answer GH from yesterday, yes Petco is a nice park. Summer weather can be a problem: early sunsets and marine layer.

Heading to Petco in about half an hour. I have my homework assignment from hawing and will post the report late tonight. Anyone else going? If so look for us in section 108, near HP towards the Brewer dugout (I have a '72 Brewer jersey; my daughter has #10 in honor of, oh well). There were lots of Brewer fans in that area last year so hope that's the case again.

From the Cards point of view, they really messed up the the 5th too when they could have put it away. From my point of view, credit to Grienke and Ax. They are pretty fair players. As Ueck says, a lot happier trip to San Diego for the club today And a lot happier trip for me to Petco tomorrow.

Good thing Grienke was "running out of gas" that inning.

Tuesday Gameday Scout opines that Norris "still has plenty left in the tank" and he finishes the inning giving up 5 runs. Today 1 pitch before A-Ram's hit, Scout opines that Garcia "still has plenty left in the tank." Although GormanHarvey's beer is an alternate explanation.

This year 2-7 D, 7-3 N Last year 31-21 D, 65-45 N

I think from Braun's point of view, he won, MLB is not appealing the decision (at least in a fair way; they were certainly willing to squawk extralegally about how unhappy they were), they admit they have to change how they are doing things, and they don't want the decision public. That's about as good as it can be for Braun, especially since there is no reason other than one admittedly flawed test to think he ever juiced. He can either leave it the way it is or help feed another cycle of news stories where there's no upside unless MLB admits they were wrong and apologizes, which will never happen. And sure the opposing fans will boo. My sense listening to the broadcasts was it got louder as the game wore on and the fans got drunker. After the first visits it will die down a lot. If he has a good year this year it will be over.

All part of the plan. Sedar says you go if it's anywhere in the OF and I'll hold my hands up to deke the D.

So in the 9th tonight Lucroy homers and Kottaras Ks again. Just sayin'.

Still booing Braun in the 9th. Ueck: "The fans here -- they love him! Hard to believe they're cheering that hard for someone who isn't on their team." Closes with thanks for the condolences for his son.

Cold rain and some hail all weekend in San Diego. Two more hours til spring and then maybe our long nightmare will be over . . .

Time to switch over from CBS

4/5 game in the BTT that was like a 4/5 in the NCAAs. Loved to see Wilson cap it off with that last 3. There was 1 guy on ESPN following enough to recognize that he'd been playing well and this game didn't come out of nowhere.

"I wasn't aware of what your view was on this issue, and I certainly had no intent to insult anyone's point of view. Nowhere in my post did I indicate I believe anyone who disagrees with my point of view is either dumb or irrational." Agreed, I think gregmag is addressing homer ("we're trying our best to make facts fit the version of the story we want to be true. Square peg, round hole") not you. Those comments are condescending and insulting. I don't think yours are. For what it's worth I don't think Braun has any explaining to do. There are many reasons to think he wasn't juicing (summarized at least several times above) and only a strange invalid test on the other side. Braun's got no more reason to prove a negative than anyone else who's never had a positive test.

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My sense is yes on the first question (if for no other reason than to impress on the parties and witnesses that it's serious business) and no on the second, unless the particular statute involved extends to arbitration proceedings and the arbitrator has been given the authority to issue oaths within the meaning of the statute.

...let the people hear the truth. Should get interesting. #exonerated #shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 2 part tweet, just finishing it up.