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Then complained about the one right down the pipe...and swung at ball 4 over his eyes. Unreal

Why is Gennett swinging at pop-up inducing pitches on 2-0?

THAT. CANT. HAPPEN

The cherry has been popped, we may now dig into the sundae!

I'm going to respectfully disagree with all of this. I absolutely love instant replay and how it's been handled. #1 - While there may be a perception that umpires are old men, this has not been trending true over the past few years. Performance, health, physical fitness, and other reasons are why younger men are getting a chance to umpire in MLB without "paying their dues" and struggling to get into what used to be a good ol' boy system. This year, the ages of the umpires that were added to the 72-man exclusive fraternity were ages 29, 32, 32, 32, 36, 37, 37. I don't know the median age of umpires, but I do know that it has been decreasing for a number of years. #2 - Why is a replay umpire a real umpire? In what sport isn't the replay official, NOT an official? Is that a serious question? Maybe we should just put hand buzzers in every seat and let the fans vote on the replay as if they are sitting in on an America's Funniest Videos episode? I personally don't see any bias in favor of the field umpire simply because it's another umpire making the ruling from New York. I have seen plenty of calls that appear close to my naked eye getting overturned on replay. Questioning the integrity of that system just seems too conspiracy theory for me to take seriously. Additionally, views that you may have seen on your local tv feed might not have been feeds available to the official in New York making the call, so something that might seem obvious to you, might not been what the replay official was privy to seeing. #3 - How do we know that the replay ump NEEDS to know the ruling on the field. Maybe he is saying into the headset, "I can't tell, play stands as called", with the on field umpire signaling/confirming what the original call was?

In the looking too far ahead column, this is why "series that matter" scare me. Other teams #1 vs our #1.

Shutout at home on national television. Why am I not surprised?

Yadier Molina Encarnacion If you got this without cheating, hats off. If you just looked it up that's not really point as I assume anyone can do that Have them both in my fantasy team as keepers. We get a point per base and -1 for strikeouts.

Yadier Molina Encarnacion

ESPN broadcasting our game on National Television. That always ends well.

Sometimes a signing is more significant than just the numbers a player produces over the term of the contract, as evidenced in the story from Tracy Ringolsby: "The Brewers are legitimate contenders, writes MLB.com’s Tracy Ringolsby, and their confidence was bolstered by the offseason free agent signing of Matt Garza. “When we signed Garza, I think that’s when we started to feel something could happen,” Jonathan Lucroy told Ringolsby. Added Ryan Braun, “It showed the front office and ownership felt we were a good team.“" Even if Garza puts up pedestrian numbers, it meant something to other men in that clubhouse and their performance due to that subsequent attitude can't be measured, but certainly has value.

This! The hand-wringing over his health is getting a little nauseating. Agreed. Due to the steroid thing, everything Braun does now is going to be over-analyzed to scrutinous degrees. Reminds me of my Dad when he would have a fit if the greyhound he bet on didn't "do his business" right before the race. Over-scrutinizing small samples. If Braun hits .235 over 162 games with 5 HR's, then I'll start to worry.

Is that exhausting in constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop? If the shoe does drop, does that make his first 3 months any less valuable that we must lament over what we expect to come instead of enjoying the success in the present? That outlook just seems miserable.

This! The hand-wringing over his health is getting a little nauseating.

Woohoo! Another seperate Cardinals thread... All teams deal with injuries and much like the Wild Card thread that was started, I believe every race will be a dog-fight until the final week of September. The Cardinals injuries don't make me run to my bookie and hedge my bets. The Brewers will have somebody go down. The Cardinals (already dominating in payroll spending) could certainly go out and buy David Price if they really wanted to. The Brewers cannot and likely don't have the human capital to either. Every win this team can get now is huge. Somebody is going to make a run and I don't see these Cardinals injuries as handicapping them one bit in being a team that can make that run.

And how many of those 2 have resulted in losses?

Perception not meeting expectations. There are folks out there hand-wringing over Ryan Braun hitting .280

Anybody know the odds for the US advancing at this point? I can't see Portugal making up 4 goals on the US. I suppose Ghana could make up 2 goals vs the US. USA just needs to come out and not lose by more than 1. Is there any collusion that Germany/USA could essentially do to play for a draw and both advance? Does that happen at any level of soccer, let alone international competition?

Thanks Dickerson. Your run was worthless.

That's a bit dramatic. Brewers have a decent record without Braun. He is but 1 man.

Overbay being Overbay

Remember game started a little later with the rain delay. Ask and you shall receive: http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Average-time-of-9inning-games-at-ballparks-50977923 Miller Park equal with Coors Field, but yes, at the top of the list.

Somebody tell me how gameday scored that play? "On a wild pitch...." If I wouldn't have seen it on tv and only gameday, i'd be scratching my head trying to picture it. But it sure was funny! :Cue to circus music:

I will be watching Jimmy Nelson here at home in Salt Lake tomorrow night (6/21). I'll be sure to hollar to him that it's his final game as a Sound!