Ron, Bryan and Chad discuss Jerry Kill, the recent Brewers struggles and revisit our preseason predictions. Ron gives out his new Miller Lite "un-manly" commercial idea involving a bear attack.

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Ron, Bryan and Andy discuss September callups, postseason rosters and magic numbers. We discuss the rest of the season and briefly talk about the Badgers stomping of UNLV and the Packers signing Sitton to an extension.

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Ronald

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Ron and Chad come back after a couple of months off and discuss Tony La Russa's claims of the Crew cheating. We also talk trade deadlines, Randy Moss retiring, summer movies and have a few chuckles. Enjoy.

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The Brewers are obviously bad on the road and pretty amazing at home, we have seen this and heard about it all year. It's getting old, but until they can consistently win on the road, we'll hear about it over and over. Aside from a complete lack of offense and abysmal starting pitching we aren't all that bad away from home. I got bored and looked back at all of our series' so far and here is who we have won and lost them against.

Series wins
Braves
Cubs
Pirates
Phillies
Astros
Padres
Pirates
Rockies
Giants
Nationals
Marlins
Cards
Twins

Series Losses
Reds
Nationals
Reds
Braves
Cards
Reds
Mets
Cubs
Red Sox
Rays
Yankees

What does this mean? We are very streaky. We all know this and looking at the list it is very apparent we don't have any clue what the team will do on any given series. We have beaten some great teams and got spanked by some bad ones. We also split a two game series with the Dodgers and Padres.

I was hoping to record a podcast prior to the Twins series this weekend but it's been 60 days since we last recorded and who knows if it will happen any time soon. Keep your fingers crossed, I have been cooking up some good games to play during the pods. It's just a matter of getting the time to do them. We will be at the Friday night game and Saturday night game, we will record and review our time over there.

Ronald

First off, let me apologize for the lack of new posts. Baseball is a lot easier to write about in the offseason when there is no baseball to watch. The Brewers have been playing pretty good lately, aside from the abortion in Chicago. They went into today tied for first place with the Cards, but Zack wasn't Zack and they lost. Another reason I haven't been posting is all the movie watching I've been doing thanks to Netflix. Plus the work, family and nice weather have kept me plenty busy. Here are some quick reviews of movies I've watched lately, including a quick summery (without spoilers) and my take on it.

Killers (starring Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl, Tom Selleck) C-
It's about a guy who falls in love with a girl. They get married and he gets sucked back into his old life, he thought he had abandoned. It was pretty bad, but did have some kinda funny parts. It was a bad version of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Neither "stars" were very good, but Tom Selleck's mustache made it worth watching.

Scorched (starring Alicia Silverstone, Woody Harrelson) D
A bunch of people work in a bank and it gets robbed. It becomes a "who dunnit" type of comedy. Calling it a comedy is kind of an insult to comedies. Silverstone was slightly better as Batgirl, if anybody gets the reference and I've finally seen a Harrelson movie I'd like to forget.

Naked Ambition (starring a bunch of porn stars) DD
A celebrity photographer, Michael Grecco goes to Vegas to take pictures and make a documentary about the Adult Video Awards. Not a very good doc, and nothing to spank it too.

Sunshine Cleaning (starring Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn) B-
Strapped for cash a maid starts cleaning up murder and suicide scenes with her sister, and her crazy family is never out of the picture. Pretty good movie, funny stuff and a good story. I'd check it out, gets sappy towards the end, but it's kinda a chick flick.

Howard the Duck (starring a guy in a duck costume, Lea Thompson, Tim Robbins) C
Howard the Duck is taken from his duck planet and brought to earth, watch as he tries to figure out how and why is on Earth. I'm a sucker for comic book movies, especially Marvel movies. This is a campy movie from the 80s, which is also a plus. The only reason I'm giving it a decent grade is because of the duck boobs in the first five minutes or so.

Predators (starring Adrian Brody, Topher Grace, Danny Trejo) C
A bunch of people are taken from Earth and released on a planet where they are the game and the Predators are the hunters. If you go into it thinking it's going to be cheesy and gory. You won't be disappointed, it was a bad movie but entertaining off and on. The action was good but the story was lacking. Go figure. I liked it more than I let on to the wife, who hated it. She called it unrealistic, mainly because the Predators bled green ooze.

That's all for now, hope that helped you decide to watch or avoid that cluster of movies. I am now going to update my queue and watch Resident Evil Apocalypse. Wish me luck.

Ronald

It's been a week since we were in Milwaukee to watch the Brewers sweep the Rockies, and as fun as it was I'm glad to be back home with the family. One weekend a summer I make my way down to Brew City to get away from everyday life and take in three games with the guys. This year was no different and we planned on making our biggest weekend yet, nine guys and a chick.

Friday morning came and we left my place in Baldwin at around 10 A.M. and  made the long drive down I94. This was the first year we had to take two vehicles. A member our our crew decided to start drinking at nine in the morning so we made three more stops than usual as his small bladder couldn't contain itself. The drinking came back to haunt him and another guy in the form of a 200.50 dollar open container ticket after being pulled over for speeding. At least the driver wasn't drinking and got away with speeding. After the forty five minute delay from being pulled over, the two vehicles were back on track and almost to Milwaukee. We arrived at the same Super 8 (Wauwatosa) that we always stay at, checked in and headed to the stadium for some tailgating. The first night we packed 10 people into the mini van and headed to the game. The game started at seven and we got to the general parking lot at four when it opened. We always park in general parking, fuck preferred. I look at preferred parking as the lot for the yuppies, pussies and families. Grilling up 20+ brats on a small travel grill takes some talent and patience. They were tasty as were the Busch Lights. You can't go wrong with 30 beers for 15 dollars. The bean bags were tossed, most guys went in around a hour early. Four of us sat by the van and pounded a few more beers and headed in just in time to see the first pitch. What a hell of a first game for the weekend too, 14 inning game won by a Fielder walk off home run. Each time we got down, we would hit a homer to tie it up. First was McGehee, the Bet in the thirteenth, followed by Prince's game ending dinger. The only downfall to such a great game to be there for was the stopping of beer sales after the seventh inning.  I was sober by the twelfth inning. The crowd wasn't real big to begin with and had really emptied out around the twelfth inning too. Bryan and myself decided to go down and get a better view on the rail, and heckle Davey Nelson. We were giving Davey and Craig shit about being up past their bedtime and other forgettable obscenities as the pre and post game show is taped right under our section in right field. The Prince Fielder bomb in the 14th inning went sailing over our heads and we were on Sportscenter's top plays dancing like idiots. After the game, we went back to the parking lot, re-heated a few brats, had a few beers and headed back to the hotel. Some of the guys stayed up and drank and hit a Perkins, but not this guy.

Saturday came and started with a slight hangover. Not being able to sleep in, I was sure that my room mates wouldn't either. Seven o'clock rolled around and I woke Chad up looking for the tv remote, soon enough Bryan and Andy were up in the other rooms and looking for breakfast. We got almost everybody together and headed to the same Perkins some guys were at around five hours before. After a delicious breakfast we headed to the Brookfield mall. I didn't find anything I needed, but they did have some cool shit. We headed back to the hotel to figure out the rest of the day, but it started raining and put a damper on walking around down town and going to a brewery tour. We also decided against going to Braun's restaurant as we heard it was overpriced and not that great of food. I would still like to try it, I heard the same about Brett Favre's Steakhouse and I liked thought it was good food and decent prices. Maybe next year for Graffito, if it's still there. It was getting close to tailgating time and was still pouring so we decided on Hooters for lunch instead of grilling. Boobs, ass, wings, drinks and fish tacos hit the spot. Then it hit me, the food and drinks from the night before were bubbling up and ready to make a hasty exit. I tried my damdest to finish my last three wings before I went to shit my brains out, but could only get one of the three down. I cleared out my system in a timely fashion and went back out to finish my wings. We then headed to the parking lot to start drinking again and the sun came out. We didn't get rained on and met up with some chicks from our hometown that were down on a girls weekend. We had a few with them and headed into the game. We sat under Bernie's slide in left field in the "splash zone" and got sprayed a couple times.  Another good game to watch, I'm glad we got to see Greinke and Marcum pitch. After the game we drank in the lot until it cleared out, we then headed back to the hotel to meet up and hit the bars. After a long drawn out ride and a driver in the women's car that couldn't keep up, the women ended up going back to their hotel and we went to the bar without their lame asses. It's too bad, they would've been fun to drink with but their driver ruined it. Oh, well. We walking down to Kips. It was surprisingly a full house. We hit up Kips every year, it's a great hole in the wall dive bar with cheap beer. Can't beat it if you don't want to shake your ass in the club. I got bored and went back to the hotel, Bryan came with and I ordered pizza and cheesy bread from Toppers. I don't know why, I ended up falling asleep twice before it showed up. I ate the cheesy bread, which was delicious and one piece of pizza before I passed out.

Sunday came and it was time to pack up the vehicles and get ready to go to the park. And what would a Sunday in Milwaukee be without some van troubles. Last year it was a flat tire, this year it was a dead battery, which we also had after the Friday night game. Friday night we traded a jump in the parking lot for a third of a bottle of Jack. The sun was out Sunday and I got toasted. We grilled up a bunch of burgers and headed into the game. We sat in the front row in right center field in the loge bleachers, right next to the Tundra Territory. It was another great game to watch as Wolf looked really good. We took our McGehee bobbleheads and headed out after the game was done. I always say I would never leave a game early, but after sitting in the worst parking lot traffic I've encountered Sunday, I can see why people do. We sat there for at least an hour before making our way to horrible traffic on I94. Traffic had just started clearing when an old lady in front of me locked up her brakes and I rear ended her. I was a couple of car lengths back and the ol' mini van just couldn't make the stop. At the last second I realized I was going to crush her, and avoided doing so by turning into the concrete barrier. I barely hit her and her car only had a small scratch and a loose bumper, but the van had a dented bumper, broken headlight cover, dented hood, quarter panel and my dignity. After filling out paperwork for forty five minutes, we were on our way again. A long drive home through the rain and we arrived back in Baldwin, safe-ish and ready to sleep in my own bed.

I miss you Milwaukee, but you are a mistress I can only handle once (maybe twice) a year.

Top Things I learned this year in Milwaukee.
1. No chicks allowed, sorry bro but won't happen again. I think it was Beyonce that said it best, " I don't want no drama, no no no drama." 
2. Hooters is a great alternative to grilling out.
3. Kips never fails.
4. Planning a trip this big is a fucking headache.
5. Four dudes in one hotel room makes it impossible to find time to spank the monkey.

Ronald

Ron and Chad discuss the first month of season for Milwuakee. It's the first time we go an entire episode without cussing (I think). Listen to Chad's heart break when Ron tries to bring up the Vikings draft flub.

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Ron gives his reactions of the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft, recorded while watching it, only saving you the bore he endured to save your pain.

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Not a bad weekend for the Crew. Friday started the series against the Astros with a win. The Brewers looked pretty great offensively with 17 hits including three homeruns. Braun, who coming off his big extension, knocked out a three run shot, Gallardo hit his ninth career home run and Gomez aka the Scarecrow hit his second of the year. Yo looked rough again, getting knocked around for eight hits, a walk and four runs. He got the win due to a big night at the plate. Sean Green pitched one inning and gave up three hits and two runs. I don't have a lot of confidence in Green, there is something about a side arm righty that isn't right. When it's a lefty I expect it, but not from a right handed pitcher. He didn't manage to calm my fears Saturday night either.

Saturday's game was watched late at night due to coloring eggs. I started watching pretty late and didn't get done with it till midnight. And by done, I mean the ninth inning when my pile of shit cable box stopped recording. Watching the Astros on defense is almost as bad as watching Titanic 2. Thank you Netflix for this abortion of a movie. As long as we're talking defense, can we stop mentioning how the Brewers are best in the NL in errors. They never mention how all seven of them have seamed to make us lose a game. Such a bullshit stat. Now back to the game. Marcum pitched slightly better than Yo the night before, giving up seven hits, a walk and four runs. Sean Green was the pitching goat though, in extra innings he gave up three runs in two thirds of an inning. Bye bye Sean. It was a tough game to watch. Fifteen hits, three walks but only scored six runs. Axford looked good too, can't forget his performance in the ninth. The baserunning error to end the eighth inning was enough to drive a man to re-watch Titanic 2. I can't blame Bet for going home, but what the hell was Lucroy doing? And Almonte should have been out at first, if not for a horrible throw. Braun and Fielder performed in the ninth, but we couldn't get any more out of it. Either could my cable dvr, so I flipped the channel to ESPN News and saw we lost 9-6. What a lackluster way to find out the score after an exciting ninth.

I still haven't watched all of Sunday's game, but I made it through four innings before we put Shrek in for the tenth time. Wolf looked good again, I hope he can keep it up. We got to Wandy a little bit, and that doesn't happen very often. He was 2-0 against us last year. I enjoyed watching the hawk (the bird not Hawkins) take out a pigeon mid flight. At times it felt like I was watching the Discovery Channel though. Weeks hits a home run and they cut to the bird for his reaction shot instead of a replay of the home run. Awesome. It didn't take long and there was a twitter user with the name MillerParkHawk. Go figure. Axford got the save and the weekend ends with the Crew half game behind St. Louis. Our record going into a series at home against the Reds is 11-10.

Now, I have to go feed the baby chickens my brother gave to my kids as an Easter present. I can't wait to get revenge for this one.

Go Crew.
Ronald

The Brewers have basically owned the Pirates the last couple of years. The record against the Bucs was 13-5 last year, 9-5 in 2009, and 14-1 in 2008. There are fewer things that will help turn things around like a series against the Pirates. Whenever I watch the Crew tear apart Pittsburgh, I am reminded of some other lopsided matchups throughout history. Here are a few that come to mind.

Every team in the NBA vs the Bucks.
The Cubs at Miller Park. (last week being the exception)
My domination at all incarnations of Mario Kart.
Nancy Kerrigan's domination over Tonya Harding on the ice.
Tonya Hardings domination over Nancy off the ice.
Ben Sheets domination of the Disabled List.
My remote's power button when NASCAR comes on.
My mother's domination over us kids in cribbage.
My ability to avoid having watched The Notebook, Dirty Dancing and Grease so far in life.
Pitchers facing the Brewers batters with runners in scoring position.
Me having never went to a baby shower, wedding shower or any other kind of gift giving shower.
The Yankees over the Twins in the playoffs.
Postseason play eluding most Minnesota sports teams, most years.
Our podcast being more entertaining than all other Brewers podcasts and lasting longer.

Update: I forgot one that a reader mentioned on Facebook.
Nate's ability to suck out each week we played poker.

There are plenty more examples, but now I have to finish watching the Crew beat the Bucs. Yes, I am so sure we will beat them, I am posting this before the game is over.

Ronald