Go Milwaukee!!!

Today was a good day for the city of Milwaukee sports teams. Both The Brewers and Admirals won their games tonight.
The Milwaukee Admirals were on the brink of elimination in the 7 game series against the Chicago Wolves. Down 3 games to 1 this was a must win game for the Admirals. Things weren't looking good for them after the first period going down 2 goals and being out shot 11 to 7. But things turned around for them in the second period as they out scored the Wolves 3-2 to come within 1 goal. It doesn't hurt that they out shot Chicago 20 to 13 in the period. At the end of 2 the score was 4-3 Chicago, but the Ad's had the momentum scoring late in the period. They carried that momentum into the third where they shutout Chicago, while getting out shot 7 to 5 but scoring on 2 of those 5 shots. The game winning goal was a power play goal and scored with less than 2 minutes to go in the game. They now come home to the Bradley Center and play on Friday night in another must win game.
The Brewers looked impressive in their win tonight against the Pittsburgh Pirates tonight. Good pitching by Gallardo, who only pitched 5 innings with 103 pitches, and good hitting overall by the Brewers especially Braun (3 for 4 with a HR) and Escobar (2 for 5 with 2 triples). Even though they won, I am still concerned with the amount of pitches it took Gallardo to get through 5 innings. I know that when you have 10 strikeouts you are going to throw a lot of pitches, but that is far too many pitches to throw in 5 innings. But it was still a good win. They are now 7-7 and looking to go for the sweep tomorrow with Randy Wolf pitching.
I find it funny that the day after I said that Gallardo needed to get things rolling he did. Now hopefully Prince can get out of the slump he is in. He was 1 for 4 tonight and his batting average is at .226, which is pretty bad. The past three years he has gotten off to slow starts in April, so this is nothing new, but its not a good thing, and he needs to get it together, maybe the contract talks are getting to him, maybe hes pressing a little bit, but whatever it is the switch needs to flip. He's gotta get it going.
Ryan Braun, Rickie Weeks, and Casey McGehee are all tearing the cover off the ball, and its particularly impressive to me that Weeks is doing this well. He is picking up right where he left off last year before he got injured. If he continues to go this way, he will be an ALLSTAR along with Braun. He has all the talent and he is on a mission this year to prove the naysayers wrong. A healthy Weeks means a winning Brewers team.

Dave Bush

WOW... I am not surprised to see Bushy pitching so well, but a lot of people are. He was thought to be the 5th starter coming into the season, maybe even slated for a bullpen spot. That is definitely not the case though. He has pitched well in all 3 of his starts, finally coming away with a win tonight. In his first two starts he was jipped out of wins by the bullpen. If he continues to pith this way, minus the walks he issued (4) he should be on track to win somewhere in the area of 12-15 wins. Right now he is the best pitcher on the staff, but tomorrow Yo Go should come around and pitch well against this Pirates team who does not have a very good offense or defense.
13 games through the season the Brewers are 6-7 and Prince Fielder and Yovanni Gallardo have yet to show their normal selves. If and when they turn things around this team will be a team to reckon with. So things aren't looking bad, but i stick to my statement yesterday... If the pitching staff is in the bottom third of the league again at the end of the year Doug Melvin MUST go!

Brewers

So the Brewers have started off pretty bad this season. Whats up with that? Most fans had high hopes of a decent pitching staff and a great offense but have gotten neither one. I mean i know its only 12 games in, and there are 150 games left, so its a small sample, but our bullpen has more wins than our starting pitchers do. And our bullpen has been pretty bad too, LaTroy Hawkins has blown leads in his last 2 games, the pitching staff has given up more homeruns than any other pitching staff in the majors.
I know its early, but in my opinion Doug Melvin has to go... He's a good GM if the team has a pitching staff... But then again he's never had a good pitching staff... Look at when he was the GM back for the Texas Rangers. Did you know that Doug Melvin was a Minor League pitcher for the Pirates and Yankees in 1972–78? So wouldn't you think he would know what good pitching is? Then again he never made it to the majors so maybe not. In the years that DM was the GM for the Rangers (1994-2001) the Rangers pitching staff never finished higher than 13th in the league. (15th, 17th, 13th, 23rd, 27th, 23rd, 30th (last), and 30th (last)). In his 7 years with the Brewers the pitching staff has finished 25th, 12th, 10th, 25th, 15th, 4th (CC Sabathia, 2008)and 26th. Forgive me if I am wrong but I think that this year the pitching staff is in the bottom 6 or 7 in the Majors. yes, like I have said earlier, its early in the year, but thing are not looking good at all so far.
So they need to do something about it, and I think that if the pitching staff finishes in the bottom third of the league again, that Doug Melvin should be fired.

Intro

This blog is going to be about me, my likes, dislikes, daily life, job, sports... etc.
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I'm 27, male, I have an amazing girlfriend, and I like the Brewers, Packers, Blackhawks, Badgers.
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