I appreciate Braun's abilities on the field and as a Brewer fan I appreciate that he signed on long term with the Brewers. I hope we never have to hear him complain about how unfair his contract is. I get the feeling we won't. However, sometimes the comments he makes causes me to cringe. A couple of weeks ago he was calling out the pitchers to step up and pull their weight, now this. This comment is kind of directed at the pitchers as well in that he expects them to retaliate on his behalf. I don't know, I guess I'm a little older than many of the posters on this site. I grew up watching guys like Yount, Brett, Gwynn, etc. I thought all these guys were very classy in the way they conducted themselves on and off the field. I can't see any of them ever having made comments like the ones Braun has made over the last 2 or 3 weeks. It's not so much whether I feel that retaliating is right or wrong, but if you are going to do it, then just do it. Don't give the other team all sorts of bulletin board material by shooting your mouth off to the media.