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Or, you know, show some discipline to lay off rather than swing. I get you don't like him, but credit where its due there, surely?

This is motoring along at a nice brisk pace. C'mon, Crew - tack on another few runs so we can enjoy the rest of the weekend!

It would take a lot for me to slide into someone's spit. Even Gallagher couldn't make that entertaining!

Are you watching the games? They've fallen behind by 4 runs or more in 4 straight games. Their closer is headed to the DL, possibly for the season and they are back to their old ways of boneheaded play and not making contact. The manager is way too lax. The hitting coach should have been fired a long time ago. In short this kind of play is unacceptable. Period. Good news is there's time to make changes before it's a total loss. No, I don't watch the games I just comment on Twitter posts. *sigh* Way to cherry-pick though.You mention boneheaded plays this game when other games of the SEVEN so far have been a fielding clinic. We haven't made contact these last couple games but were crushing the ball early in the week. Two huge come from behind wins is also pretty clutch, I'd say. All I'm asking for is a tiny bit of perspective.

LOL, the game threads may not be the place for you then. I get that the negatives posts are tiring, but in the last 27 hours at least, they have been completely warranted. Also, it isn't like these games count any less than those in September. No, but we're also guaranteed to lose 60+ games. That's a given. There are absolutely gonna be spells of losing just as there are gonna be spells of winning consecutive games. The fact that we were shut out in two of seven games causes this overreaction is ridiculous.

OK, that's enough. They were just shut out in back-to-back games by the Cards and Cubs, and lost their All-Star closer. Be quiet. And? The Dodgers were shut out in back to back games and have Jansen playing like crap. The point is the same. It's two games, in the FIRST week of the season. Are we really going to live and die on EVERY pitch? It's just so damn tiring with the negative posts.

We've played SEVEN games and the Chicken Little "sky is falling" posts have started already. That's gotta be a record for Brewerfan, no?

Okay - inspirational speech by CC "do it for Corey, fellas" and let's get 9. Yeah, no idea how to make that blue!

And the hits just keep on comin'...

The offense has had a couple bad games, the starting pitching has had one good game. It's still opening week, yeah? Small sample size alert.

I lol'ed!

My take on the whole "Braun lied/didn't lie" situation is this. Regardless of EXACTLY what went down, and only one person knows that, MLB still controls who gets to play. Nobody has a RIGHT to play major league baseball - it's their ball, they let you play with it. The HUGE black eye that MLB suffered as a result of procedural errors and/or loopholes that they hadn't ensured would be watertight, meant that someone had to pay. Had Braun ever seen the inside of a court room, as others have alluded to, good legal defense could have gotten him off on a technicality, or planted enough seeds of doubt as to whether he actually had taken PEDs. Maybe he's lying when he said he never took PEDs, or maybe he's lying when he said he had, because the alternative was being told that his career was over. Ultimately, MLB still has the final say on who gets to play, a la Shoeless Joe. Marge Schott, who also brought the game into disrepute - she faced a ban. I have no doubt that the witch hunt against Braun - in particular given Selig's need to show he wasn't biased towards the Brewers, would have dragged on. Braun, not wanting to risk his career ending there and then, fell on his sword, either because he knew he was guilty, or actually WAS innocent, but didn't want to lose a charge of being, in Landis's words, “no longer a fit companion for other ballplayers.” It reminds me of the scene in A Few Good Men where the Marines are exonerated of the crime they are accused of, but still don't get to be Marines anymore. Either way, the hatred for Braun would have been far less had he been a "cheeky chappy" like Manny being Manny, or a club icon like Pete Rose.

Others I can't stand. 1. Complaints about teams taking advantage of pitchers tipping their pitch. So I SHOULDN'T use the poker player's "tell" to my advantage to beat him? Got it. 2. Easing off while ahead by a (perceived) large lead. Unless the other side says "no mas" and walks off in submission, play like you would at 0-0. We've seen 6, 7, 8 run leads evaporate over the years, so this imaginary mercy rule is dumb, IMO. 3. Fans booing throws to first to keep a runner close. Wut? This is just dumb.

Can I still hate Gary Sheffield more? Asking for a friend.

Exactly - especially since they, to some, might be perceived as disrespecting the game by an extreme shift in the 9th, up 7 against a rookie CATCHER, for pete's sake. Last time I checked, your best form of defense is offense. They give you a base runner, take it and see if you can get him home.

Yeah, I fully expect this to be the only decision this year that the Brewers have to reflect upon...

Gonna be fun when we get back to Miller Park!

I think a couple of the Santana pitches may have been sympathy calls!

Remember that Murderer's Row that the Cards used to trot out with Pujols, Rolen, Edmonds, Walker et al? Man, this top of the order has the potential to inspire the same kind of fear if they can keep this up.

Small sample size notwithstanding, but these first two games feel very like 2 we would have lost in the last few years. You can't win 162, without going 2-0!

What does that have to do with his negative comment towards me? I don't know about topper, but I'm a grown man. I don't need facetious comments about my "bed time" Then don't say "goodnight", like the game's over with 3 innings left, like a child would do, and there won't be confusion. I'm just saying.

Isn't it past your bedtime? Certainly wished everyone a goodnight twice.

You were saying...

The season's early but the ignore feature is already being thanked by my blood pressure.

Brent says "hold my beer"!