Wednesday Hnarrative

Well it doesn't get much more depressing than this. Brewers got swept by the Pirates putting us behind the Cards by 9 and a half games now. Who by the way those Cardinals just picked up a Hall of Fame arm in Jon Smoltz. We have now dropped to four games below .500 and I have officially lost all hope for this season. Maybe it doesn't help that I'm listening to "Hurt" by Johnny Cash and the only two distractions I've had in the sports world in the past week have been Vick not signing with the Packers and Brett Favre signing with the Packers. I have less hatred towards Ted Thompson now though since the news has broken that McNabb has taken Vick under his wing. It seems as though the Eagles were just so determined to pick up Vick that T squared had no chance, at least that's what I'm telling myself. As for Favre, we all saw it coming and nobody can very surprised at all. The only thing I hope for more than a Packers' Superbowl victory this year is for the Vikings to pull a 2009 Detroit Lions this year.

Can you tell I'm putting off talking about the Brewers? It feels like the lowest point all season to me and for the first time I have zero hope of us making the playoffs. We're just way too far out of any the races and we still don't have any starting pitching to help us make a tremendous run. As I mentioned above, the already stocked Cardinals added Smoltz to apparently bolster their bullpen or make starts, I have no clue. All I know is if they can get anything out of them it's going to help them a lot. The self-proclaimed "best baseball fans" who live in St. Louis have a lot to look forward to this October it seems.

The wildcard which the Brewers enjoyed last year is out of reach as well. We're eight and a half games behind the leading Rockies for that spot and an additional four teams are above us as well. It is going to take a lot of solo Prince Fielder home runs for us to surmount a comeback that great. I say solo because bug-eyed Braun gets picked off every third time he's on the basepaths. How has noone in the dugout told him to just stand right on the bag from now on while Prince is hitting? I feel bad for Prince. He is a much better player than what he is getting right now from the rest of the team. I don't expect us to trade him next year unless we throw in the towel extremely soon. He will however be traded before his contract runs out because I would be extremely surprised if Attanasio if willing to pay him what he wants and deserves. Assuming that to be the case we need to get some quality value for him from another team.

There was one bright spot over the last few days. The Mariners picked up Bill Hall because of their own injuries at third in exchange for a minor leauge pitcher. It's funny to see how much the Mariners have turned into the Brewers of a couple years ago because of Zduriencik being the new GM there. Of course there's a downside to this deal and that's that the Crew agreed to pay nearly the rest of Hall's $10.5 million salary that is still owed to him.

So that's where the Brewers stand, rebuilding once again. Hopefully the rest of the season will be entertaining to at least watch how some of those younger faces perform. If not it's less than four weeks away from football season to distract me from my Brewers blues.