Sunday, May 27, 2007

Comedy Central

The name seems appropriate. Why? Well let's look at what's been going on lately...


The Brewers still lead the division, but have now lost 11 of their last 15 games and are in danger of hanging another one in the L column against Jake Peavy today. Any reason? Well....

During this 15 game schneid, the Brewers have (obviously) made three full turns through the rotation. During that time, Ben Sheets is 2-1 with a 3.15 ERA, a 0.75 WHIP, and 20K's to 4 BB's in 20 innings. The rest of Milwaukee's rotation is 1-8 with a 7.17 ERA, a 1.68 WHIP, and only 35 strikeouts to go with 23 walks in 65 1/3 innings.

That looks like Brewer rotations past, no?


The Reds? Well...we're finding out that their bullpen is still not very good, their offense is still too all-or-nothing (HR's and K's)...and Arroyo is still a douche.

The Cubbies....Friday night said it all. After five innings, the usually reliable Ted Lilly had surrendered five runs, and the Cubs trailed 5-1 with nine outs left. They then came out a-balsting, scoring seven runs in the seventh to take an 8-5 lead.....only to wind up losing 9-8, because Bob Howry and Wil Ohman combined to face four batters and get none of them out.


The Astros...have lost nine of their last ten games and been outscored 68-19 (!!!) in the process, including 58-12 during their six game losing streak.

The Cardinals managed to not blow a seven run lead against the nationals, and havent really beaten anybody except us lately.

Sure looks like a wide open division to me, eh? Let's see if we can find a way to win another one today.

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