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.

The Surplus, CC and The Bloody Bengal Tigers

I had a funny thought yesterday. Someone called into the local sports talk radio and asked if Ted Thompson gets to keep what the Packers don't spend from their salary cap. That in and of itself is sort of hilarious, but what was funny was that on "The Office" this week, the same thing happened. There was a budget surplus, and Michael got to keep a percentage as a bonus if it wasn't spent. I wonder what Thompson's cut of the $20mil or so is? I'm definitely not a Thompson basher, and would probably lean more towards apologist land. However, clearly a smartly selected veteran or two from the free agent pool couldn't have hurt. Sitting on the money is stupid, but equally stupid would be to blow it like it grows on trees, like most would have him do. I think the Packers as an organization are kind of similar to the Brewers in that they can't afford to make tragic and expensive mistakes on high priced free agents, and need to be someone selective. That being said, I can't imagine there wasn't one or two guys out there that wouldn't have broken the bank, and would've been more helpful than most of the draft picks this year were.

Speaking of the Brewers, I guess CC isn't coming after all. I'm not going to believe he actually signed until I see him in pinstripes, because there have been incorrect stories all off season about when he was signing and with who. Yesterday there was a story blowing around that CC outright told the Yankees to get bent and the Brewers were the front runners. The whole hot stove rumor thing is rather ridiculous. But at least we got Mike Lamb and Todd Coffee!

Bucky BARELY held on last night in a snooze-fest against Idaho St. I say snooze-fest because I kept dozing off to the dulcet tones of Craig Coshoun, and bricks being laid by the Badgers. Any time a Big Sky team comes into Madison and has a last second shot to win, that doesn't bode well for your tourney chances. But historically, Bucky plays down to its competition, and will probably rattle off 10 or 11 Big Ten wins, which will put them in the hunt for a 6 seed or so. If UWGB (who has been borderline great since getting blown out by a D-II team) knocks them off Saturday, we may have a problem. Marcus Landry would be only about the 4th best player on alot of other Big Ten teams, and he is relied on to be our main man, which might not be good. Also, he is probably the only non-gangster/Mormon to have two kids in college.

Big game tonight in the Big O. I'll leave most of the good analysis to the great Kyle Whelliston at Mid-Majority.com. I think Dayton is probably a better team at this point. But both CU loses came on the road, both big Dayton wins were at home, Dana has kicked his team in the ass, and CU rarely loses at the Qwest. I can only hope that finals don't lower the crowd number. CU 65, Dayton 63

Big Baby lives up to his namesake

There's really nothing like having the nickname big baby and then being cussed out by another grown man on live TV, throwing a tantrum and then crying about it. Glen Davis, I salute you.





Also in case anyone happened to miss this, which I doubt because it's been absolutely plastered all over deadspin and PFT, but Visanthe Shiancoe is now a huge star.

Kevin Mchale is approximately 63 games from being forever cut from the T-Wolves franchise like the cancerous tumor that he is. At least Minnesota fans will have another high lottery pick chance to look forward to when they get their new coach and now Mchale won't be there to trade the right pick for their team away anymore!

Should be less than two weeks now until Sabathia is a Yankee, I've come to terms with this.

I'm a little concerned with Doug Melvin being 100% dead set against trading any of his young current major leaguers. Why is he so against this? Of course maybe he is and he's just playing the politics game, Melvin's response to 95% of trade rumors is "We've never had any discussion about this player, EVER"

Why the fuck is Peavy so interested in going to the Cubs but tells the Brewers to 100% fuck off? I hope you end up in Chicago and lose for the rest of your life you fucking prick.

The Yankees and Mets, after already get a billion and a half dollars from the city of New York, are asking for another half billion dollars. Stay classy New York.

In one fell swoop I managed to "blow" a 40 point lead coming into Monday night of fantasy football with about 60 stagnant points on my bench, and tie in my first round playoff game of another league with roughly 40 points on that bench, of course I wasn't even close to competing in the tie breaker, weak. That's alright though, I'm winning money in Juice's league

Derrick Rose apparantely cut himself while eating in apple in bed earlier this week. I can't say too much, I prefer to eat apples with a knife myself, the real kicker here is that the report says he cut himself on his arm. Wtf, was he using his arm as a cutting board? How do you even do that? He's not expected to miss any playing time at least, so it won't go into one of those, pitcher dislocates his shoulder while putting kid to bed, freak injury columns that writers put together once a month. We get it, athletes get hurt like normal people too.

During the post game analysis of MNF last night Steve Young looks like he got douched in the face with an empty beer cup. Judging from the direction of where the cup was coming from, I can't entirely rule out Emmitt. I will say this though, Young kept his cool and didn't skip a beat in his report.



So this turned into some random thoughts for the day...

I couldn't have said it any better...

Even though we are on the verge of getting swept out of the first play off series we've been in for over the last 26 years, CC can still give me a spot of brightness in my day, even if it was unintended humor. If the guy doesn't pitch for us ever again, I give him my kudos for doing everything in his power just to get us to this point, here's hoping to him getting a shot at redemption come Game 5!

Illegitimate Thoughts

-Weeks watch:
Weeks: 6/13, HR, 5RBI, BB, 0SB
Durham: 0/1

So far, not a really fair fight, since Weeks has been busy "achieving" at the major league level. He has been great this week though.

I am still cleaning up semen from CC's game last night. Easily the best stretch for a Brewer starter in my lifetime. Hopefully Benny can sweep the Cards tonight.

What if the Crew actually pulled off a trade for Houston Street? Not the greatest closer, but would dominate as a setup man. THEN maybe we could get rid of Mota.

-Orenthal James Simpson Football Association Update:

The following three guys were kept by the O.G. Team from Stoughton, WI: LDT, A-Peter, Carson Palmer. WOW. Are you fucking kidding me? Cobra, you are fucked in the ass when you play him.

Right now I would have to say that team and Bear's team are the odds on favorites.

I just bought a fantasy magazine and am in the process of putting together a master(bater) list.

The Weeks Watch is ON!

C'mon Neddy. Really? I mean, even Bear's boy Hardicourt couldn't come up with anything good to say about Weeks, and he sucks whomever's dick the manager and GM tell him to. An average of .216 is horrible for any regular starter, much less the fucking leadoff guy. And it is late July now. It would be hard for Neddy to claim he is suddenly going to turn things around. You gotta think in the very near future that Neddy is going to start feeling pressure to leave Ray Durham in after he gets two or three hits the first few times he plays. My favorite comment from Yost: "For me, he has never underachieved because he never achieved up here. How can you say he has underachieved?" I mean, that is classic Neddy. Just a dick whenever he wants to be. Contradicting himself at every turn. First getting offended at the mere notion that he would take out long dong Weeks, and then saying he has been a piece of shit for the last three years to claim he isn't an underachiever. Whatever. From now on I am going to waste time chronicling how shitty Weeks is compared to Durham, until I get lazy and forget about it.

We are mere minutes away from a HUGE series in fucking July for the Crew. Gotta believe they are guaranteed to win at least one of the CC (I can't call him BF anymore, he is too good) Big Ben back-to-back, meaning they really only need one of the first two to declare the series a moderate success. I would be happy with a road split, although a series win would be as gigantic as it could be in July.