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I honestly think anything could happen. It's hard to predict, but here goes: Brewers 3-1 over Arizona Philly 3-0 over St. Louis Rays 3-2 over Rangers Yankees 3-2 over Tigers Brewers 4-3 over Philly Rays 4-2 over Yankees Brewers 4-2 over Rays

It seems like we are 90%+ sure that the times are as follows: (All times CDT) Saturday: 11:00 AM Sunday: 8:30 PM Tuesday: 9:30 PM Wednesday (if necessary): 8:30 PM I live on the east coast, so I better go apologize to my neighbors in advance.

The Sox just ran into another out, unbelievable!!!!

I figured they would be the 11 AM game. I would have preferred 2:30 but now there will be a break between the Brewers and Badgers.

I can't imagine he will be back for the 6th, especially if the Brewers put a few more on the board. Meanwhile, Boston is still trying to sabotage their season--Ortiz just got thrown out at 2nd trying to extend a double--with a runner heading to 3rd at the time.

Wow, nice to see Gomez contributing. Keep it going guys, hit another 2-run bomb and avoid a 6-1 lead, I want nothing to do with that.

It is interesting that this documentary came out now--it had been rumored for awhile and I was excited at first because I figured they finally had secured a Bartman interview and he was going to break his silence. But...two hours later, nothing. Two hours with nothing new except a new camera angle. It was entertaining, and scary with the Brewers headed to October, but nothing new. The Buckner perspective was much more interesting--although once again, old news. Especially intriguing was Buckner's comment that he needed to forgive the media in order to move on with his life. Then, at the end of the film, ESPN basically made a personal plea to Steve Bartman to grant them an interview. From my perspective, the theme of the film was a glorified interview request. First, they reminded Bartman that he is well aware of his position in history--and right now, it isn't good. Buckner represents the parallel universe, and the story with Buckner ends up happy, he comes out of hiding, everyone forgives, and people move on. The whole theme of the thing was to get the audience to sympathize with Bartman--or in my view, for ESPN, as representation of the media, to appear sorry and sympathetic. The other prevailing theme was that sports culture is still extremely enthralled with Bartman. ESPN clearly put quite a bit of money and effort into this film because they knew it would draw ratings. And they are right, the "mystery" of Bartman's legacy still pervades Chicago. Especially Chicago sports writers. And they all believe that Bartman is going to talk eventually and its going to be a huge story. Bartman's not interested in money, and I'm sure ESPN has repeatedly offered him cash to talk. But since Bartman isn't interested, ESPN decided to spend the cash to appeal to Bartman's inner feelings, his supposed desire to return his life to normal, to be forgiven. In the end, the film admits that Bartman will probably not talk until the Cubs break the curse. But if he ever decides to, he knows who to call first.

Well, tough luck with the batting title, but the bigger story is we are up 2-0 and our potential opponent may be stuck with an extra game tomorrow. I'm liking this.

Game #162! It doesn't feel like it at all. What happened to the 2 months where I stop caring about baseball because the Brewers are 15 games back?

That was the least classy celebration in history. Full jersey off before reaching home plate? But considering it was the highest possible +WPA for a single at-bat, I guess they deserve it. Brewers--the D'Backs look like a team of destiny, and you need to make sure they fulfill their destiny against the Phillies.

The strike zone is microscopic!

Uggggggggggghhhhhhhh. Painful. Hopefully that won't be the difference between home field advantage and going to Philly.

That's what is so frustrating about him. He has 4 RBI tonight and then he has an AB like that. You just have to wonder what he was thinking going up there...or if he was thinking at all.

Nice K, MacDougal.

I still think the Brewers have a > 50% chance of winning tonight. Hart and Morgan still get to bat again, 2 on and Fielder gets up there again.

I would be harder on Yuni but he had a few nice hits a few hours ago.

Ok, if everyone understands that wasn't necessary, lets move on.

Yuni, really? REALLY?

Still have Fielder and Braun coming up in the 8th.

No way Gomez gets that either. But it would have been closer. The Brewers are playing better from behind tonight anyway.

As a South Florida resident I am quite thrilled with this move. This will be excellent for the franchise, since he's not going to put up with any garbage from the ownership. I can see why they went for this move though. The Marlins are moving from the suburbs to Little Havana, and they are changing their target audience to focus on the Spanish-speaking majority. They have some money to spend and they need to make a splash. Ultimately, we all know how this is going to end, but it will be a fun ride to see how long Loria can tolerate him.

So the Marlins just acquired Ozzie Guillen? I can't wait to hear his thoughts on Marlins' ownership when things go sour.

STL. So the playoff would be in St. Louis on Thursday.

This is shaping up to be one of the most entertaining games of the year. The offense has awakened at the right time.

Just not high enough. Plenty hard enough. MVP.