C.C. Sabathia was the ultimate hired gun for the Brewers, and although they really did try to bring him back, the Yanks gave him 161 million reasons to bolt. Spring Training is underway and we’ll have actual boxscores to peruse come Wednesday! How sweet is that? With that in mind, we push forward ...

For the most part, MLB teams are entering Spring Training with their third base position set. There are a few battles going on; Buscher versus Harris in Minnesota, Blum vesus Boone in Houston (yuck) and McPherson versus Helms in Florida. When those teams make decisions regarding the hot corner, I...

Ben Sheets had a season high 11 strikeouts against the Rockies on Wednesday night but it wasn’t enough in an 8-3 Brewers’ loss. Sheets went six innings and gave up three runs to go along with all the strikeouts. Bill Hall got the lead early for the Crew with a second inning home run. Aft...

The Brewers offense provided a ton of fireworks in a 9-1 win over the Pirates on Friday. The bats are on fire and it appears the talk of acquiring CC Sabathia has sparked the team. Ben Sheets pitched 5 2/3 innings and only gave up one run to pick up his tenth win of the season. His record improved t...

MVN’s Cleveland Indians’ writer, James Pete, in Tribe Report wrote about it first (well, okay, it was the first I had read about it). Then I read JSOnline.com’s Tom Haudricourt’s blog on it. Even the Heller & Murphy show on Madison’s ESPN1070 affiliate devoted the b...

Sunday was a day that nothing went right for the Brewers in a 5-0 loss to the Twins. Ben Sheets got rocked for five runs in seven innings pitched. All of the runs the Twins scored came with two out, never a good sign for a pitcher that he’s unable to finish an inning. Sheets struck out seven b...

I waited to talk about yesterday’s game because I was hoping the sickening feeling I had watching it would have gone away by now, but time has still not healed that wound. I shouldn’t have been surprised because it seems like the Twins always spank the Brewers when they come to Miller Pa...

The Brewers got off to a fast start in Colorado on Friday night and it appeared that the Crew’s win streak was going to be extended to seven games. It seemed like the win was all locked up until Guillermo Mota entered the game in the eighth inning. Mota did not record an out but gave up four r...

Sigh. While reading Tom Haudricourt’s JSOnline.com blog on Bill Hall’s request to be traded–and a number of the fans’ responses–I realized that Brewers’ fans have been especially harsh on a number of Brewers’ players this season, at least as far as replies...

Dave Bush had his best outing of the season last night against the Atlanta Braves. Unfortunately, the bats didn’t wake up until after he had left the game, so Bush got a no decision. Bush pitched seven innnings while only giving up two solo home runs. The first came in the first inning by Kel...