Pity Bill Castro?

Bill Castro was one of the casualties of Doug Melvin's murderin' spree yesterday. He was canned after 18 years on the team. I'm not saying Bill Castro is a good pitching coach. I'm not saying that a pitching coach does or doesn't affect the results that a pitching staff puts up. I'm just saying that he had Jeff Suppan, Braden Looper, Mike Burns, Carlos Villanueva and Seth McClung starting games for him this year. And he was the one that took the bullet instead of any one of these pieces of shit. Oh, and hopefully they weren't comparing this year's results with last year's. Because last year we had Ben Sheets and CC mutherfucking Sabathia. Being a pitching coach (like any coach) and having any success, depends alot on what you have to work with. And the cupboard was pretty bare at starter this year, due to injuries and general shittyness. Firing Bill Castro is like firing a writer for not finishing a book on time, when you took away his laptop and replaced it with a calligraphy pen. Or letting a WR go when he didn't produce like last year, because he lost a fucking leg in the offseason.

But life's a bitch, and I'll get over it.

Weekend reflection

I've been slacking as of late in keeping up with this blog. The only real sports news going on right now is Brewers stuff and I never feel the need to regurgitate the same stuff being said by Juice or other sports writers out there. We looked ok this weekend, we got two wins and Sheets lost, so that's somewhat comforting. It's probably about time we addressed the Gagne issue. I've been in his corner up until the last week or so, the main reason is because regardless of what everyone thinks or says about a closer, it takes a special player to get it done and I don't think we have anyone of that caliber in our bullpen right now. That being said, the best situation with Gagne unable to get it done is what we are doing right now, closer by committee, maybe someone steps up in the next few weeks, probably not though.

It was good to see Braun get some hits, however it's a little dis-heartening that he's not getting them in clutch situations. I just hope that he doesn't turn into Carlos Lee Jr. Mr I can hit over 30 dingers in a year but not top 100 RBI's. He should be fine, it's just always been a concern for me since that stupid fat fucker was hanging around.


P.S. I'm totally fine with us trading away our current fat fucker for as much as we can get for him while his stock is still high. This is my first post announcing my hate for Prince Fielder...