My Thoughts and Sports Bottle's Prayers...

-Go out to Minnesota Twins fans everywhere. Believe me when I say that Joe Nathan's arm falling off hurts me more than it hurts you.

-Go out to our fellow Milwaukee Brewer fans. If yesterday is any indication (3IP, 6H, 3ER), we may have to endure a season without Jeff Suppan and his 5.68 ERA in our starting rotation, it is going to be extremely tough on me personally because I always bet the over when he pitches...

-Go out to people trying to ignore the NBA. The Bucks have won 10 of 11, and aren't going to let you.

-"Lost" fans. Clearly all of your questions have already been answered after last night. You might as well quit watching.

SDBCH #6

I'm gonna move in step with Juice and join this Brewer semi-daily rant. Having caught most of the action thus far in this new season I have a couple Brewer thoughts.

• I can't bitch about this enough - Jeff Suppan is the most ridiculous #1 starter ever. At best, he was a decent pitcher awhile ago. And he had a great postseason when the Cardinals won the World Series. But he's older now. How the fuck did Macha choose him for opening day over Yo? I really haven't formed an opinion about Macha yet (early inclinations are mildly positive) but that was fucking stupid.
• Three straight games with clutch bottom of the 9th at bats. Two strikeouts and a ground out. What irritates me is our guys absolutely cannot hit a pitch that's thrown down the middle. For fuck's sake, Marmol hung two beautiful off speed pitches to Braun on Saturday night. I mean, those two pitches were laid on a silver platter and he didn't even make contact. Has he hit one solid ball yet this year?
• It was nice to see Kendall remove the big goose egg from his batting stats. But, seriously, he's getting old too. He provides no pop at the plate whatsoever.
• My opinion has not changed about Rickie Weeks. It will take a full mildly decent season for my opinion to change.
• I'm almost certain that all the Brewers predictions I've read are wrong. All of them I've seen have the Brewers finishing over .500. I would guess about 76 wins.
• Although I was quick to pick up Villanueva as a closer, he is not a closer. We need Grandpa Hoffman as soon as possible.
• Corey Hart appears he may have a great first half of the season. Where have I seen that before?
• The Brewers have the feeling of a makeshift team to me. The pitching staff definitely feels that way.
• That Reed Johnson catch was amazing. I heard it but didn't get to see it til much later. Uecker did not describe how great it was.
• Fuck Reed Johnson by the way.