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Wow, will Cleveland ever win another game. What do you do if you are the GM of that team. Just clear house on the bullpen and let the AAA guys have at it?

Are the Brewers gonna get a pticher DFA'd in two consecutive games?

From twitter via SI_JonHeyman rangers, brewers and cardinals joined rays, angels and yankees at pedro workout today. ownership sit. hurts cubs' chances

Jesus, who woke Derek Lee up, because I would to have a word with that person. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif Edit: At least they get out of it. I think Choo is up next. I got sick of seeing that guy against the Brewers but I'm his biggest fan right now.

Yeah, I call shenanigans too. That shadow of the bat disappears when it's spinning.

Honest question: Is the power he's displayed thus far this year sustainable? He already has almost as many HRs this season as he did in 2008 and 2007 combined. If he doesn't hit a lot of HRs, is he worth a big contract if he's going to have to move to a DH/1B role?

If you have insider at ESPN, Hollinger's draft rater article is pretty interesting. I won;t post the link or paste the full results because it's a pay site, but Ty Lawson edged out Blake Griffin as the top projected player. If the Bucks are going to go PG in the first round, I hope they are slow-playing everybody and are going to take Lawson. He just struck me as the best player in the NCAA tournament. I know people are down on his size, but he made UNC tick in the touney.

Well there goes my T-shirt idea. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Wasn't sure how to pull it off anyway without it being blatantly obscene.How about a camel foot made to look like the retro Brewers logo? (With enough alternations you're not infringing on copyright, of course,) Ha, I don't have the graphic skills, but I would buy it.

Exactly. Macha mentioned he might try Kendall at the leadoff v. LHP with Rickie gone. This just gives him a chance to see how it works. There's no excuse for this team not to rough up Huff tonight. It's not like he's testing this against Johan Santana.

LOL. If someone has a picture, please post it. Back when that was actually popular, didn't Favre and Chumra and Winters do that as a celebration.

Wait, I thought he always tried to bunt. Why else are the outfielders standing on the edge of the infield?

Anxiety is a strange bird. It can come on out of nowhere and be really crippling - and that's for people who don;t perform in front of 30,000 other people every day. I think anyone who's ever had a loved one deal with a serious mental illness issue before wouldn't call Votto a wussy. I don't think the Reds DL the best player on their team for more than two weeks unless there is something seriously wrong going on here. I hope he's working on his issues in the appropriate way and gets back on the field soon.

Series win. That feels nice to say again. Let's do it again tomorrow!

I get the feeling Mat's not gonna be wearing a Brewers uniform after this week.

Jason Kendall, clutch in the nine hole. Can we move the pitcher back up to 8?

Nice, let's get Cam back on track too!

Pretty sure David Riske makes the top 3 considering we got almost nothing from him and we are guaranteed to get almost no production on the rest of his 3 yr. $13 million.

Is it OK to feel like Hart has turned it back around now?

issue was the fact that people were criticizing the beat guys for not wanting to follow up on this and I just wanted to point out how difficult it is to serve readers and sources when you have to go on the record with most of the stuff you write. The thing that tripped by trigger was invader saying it was a valid rumor. If you don't like the way TH handles people, I completely understand that. The impression I get is that he gives readers the respect he gets. If you're sarcastic or rude, he'll return the favor. Frankly, I don't have a problem with that. If people have gone to him respectfully and gotten junk from him, that would change my view on that. But again, my main issue was the criticism in this forum of the way he handled reporting the rumor.

Look, I get your irritation with TH, but really, considering everything that he has to do, what is he supposed to say to Melvin and then report on the blog or in the paper? I'm sure these guys have off the record discussions with Doug all the time about what's going on and either there's nothing to report or they can't print it yet because things are in the works or whatever. Again, I trust that Brian was on the right track here, or that he has good sources but 50% believability is hardly a valid rumor. TH and McCalvy are really in a no-win situation.

OK, I've bit my lip on this long enough. How is it a valid rumor? There were absolutely no specifics of where the information came from or who was involved. There's only one guy in the Journal sports department who gets away with running stuff from anonymous sources and that's Bob McGinn. What is TH supposed to do? Write, "According to Brian the Automator on the Web site brewerfan.net..." He's a reliable source to people like us who frequent this site, but the general public don't know who he is. Read McCalvy's blog of the interview he did with Melvin. You can tell that Doug was really irritated - borderline pissed - to have to do that interview. Both McCalvy and TH need to talk to Doug on a regular basis to do their jobs. Asking questions and doing blog posts on every rumor distracts Melvin from the other aspects of his job. Imagine all the the phone calls he takes from ownership, other executives, other GMs, when a story like that runs. No imagine if there was nothing to the story. That really irritates guys like Melvin, and when they have to answer those kind of questions every day they just stop taking calls from all reporters. That makes it tough on a guy like TH or McCalvy because then they have a much harder time doing their job, but then they also get crap from other reporters who weren't invovled in ticking Melvin off in the first place. I've worked in newspapers on a much, much, much smaller level, and I've experienced the pressure to investigate every unfounded busienss rumor in a small town. I trust that Brian had something that was reliable, or that he thought was reliable. But even if TH talked to the same sources, unless they would go on the record, he probably couldn't print it. As far as TH being mean to readers: You don't get to see the baseless, vitrolic e-mails or hear the nasty phone calls reporters and editors get every day. I don't like the way TH treats some people and their questions, but I understand why he does it. The fact is that the anti-TH stuff on this site is just as bad as what he pulls on readers.

For those looking to procrastinate today, the full game is on ESPN 360.

Ump assumed his toe was touching the back of the bag. I don;t see how you can think he was out there. Looks pretty safe to me, if not it's inconclusive, and the ump isn't going to call that consider the second tag was haphazardly applied.

Sigh. What a night to have class and forget to DVR the game. I checked the score on my laptop when it was 12-8 after class I figured I would just spend time with my wife instead of following the end of the game. What a mistake! At least the game replays at 2 a.m.

Corey working his way back into the Harts of Brewers fans!