Meet the newest member of Brewers, Felipe Lopez

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With a trade by the Brewers, it's time to play meet your newest Brewer. The Crew acquired left-handed second baseman Felipe Lopez from the Arizona Diamondbacks. It is a move that, as Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel writes, helps fill the gap left by the injury to Rickie Weeks.
Somehow the fine folks at MLB.com have him already in a Brewers cap, but I know he has not put one on yet. Take a look at his player profile page, here.
The 29-year-old Puerto Rican-born Lopez is a switch hitter that is much stronger from the left side. He has played second base most of this year, but has spent time at third, short and in the outfield during his career.
I'm most impressed with his .305 batting average this season and .364 on-base percentage. It's something this team needs to do for the likes of Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder. I'd say, this helps Braun more right now who needs anything to help him get out of the biggest slump of his career, hitting 5 for 36 (.139 BA) over the last nine games.
Back to the Lopez move and how it will help the Brewers; it allowed the team to send rookie third baseman Mat Gamel back down to Triple-A Nashville and allows Craig Counsell to move around and play a little third base with Casey "Tits" McGehee and maybe some shortstop fo J.J. Hardy.
I still think the move sets the team up for another big move. Could that be Roy Halladay, assitant GM Gord Ash and the team's top scouting asst. were in Toronto to see "Doc" gun down the Red Sox Sunday so they are certinaly taking the opportunity seriously, but only time will tell.

And as I was writing this I was following the JS-Online In-game blog for the Brewers game and came across this "Ode to Gamel's return to Nashville." It was too good and clever not to mention.

Gone Back to Nashville (an ode to Gamel's stint with the crew)

You leave it over the plate, and I'll hit a liner
I maybe in AAA but nothing about me's minor
I'll improve, right my ship all the while with a dip
I'll always get my hits, I pick the right pitch
So Report this, Tom: Tomorrow I'll hit a bomb
a blast to deep center, F@^% the weather, it don't matter
I'll tell it like it is: I'm only getting better
and I may bat lefty but I can sure as hell hit stetter
(chorus)
I've gone back to nashville to work on my swing
I've gone back to nashville, bein with the crew was just a fling
now I've gone back to nashville, got to work and step up my game
I've gone back to nashville, when I'm back you'll see a change
(/chorus)
the injustice is that bill hall isn't doing anything, at all
yet he gets those huge paychecks and has a saved spot on the bench
he's always swinging for the fence and he's far worse than kevin mench
and yeah that does say quite alot, because that really should be my spot
But the fact is that it is not, so I'll call up jeffress to smoke some pot
I'm going to smoke away my sorrows and dream of major league tomorrows

I'm getting sent back down but next time I'll stick around
because I know for sure that I can play much better than most in triple A
I make errors or so that's what they say but I didn't make many anyways
But I won't let this get me down cause one day I'll win that triple crown
and I'll do it for this little town after improving myself with the sounds

Now on to other news over the weekend, the ESPYs aired last night and I most certainly did not make an effort to watch. However, I will take a chance to take a look at what the ladies were wearing. You can go here, for a link to pics. They're not today's Nussie Hunter, I have other ideas. Natalie Gulbis is just smoking, if you ask me.

Who won, I don't care. In other ESPN news, I did not partake in the Google search for the Erin Andrews hotel peephole video. That's not the way I wanted to go about seeing her naked. And she's seeking to sue and get some coin for damages and rightly so.

I was actually excited when I read in today's Hot Clicks on SI.com that FX is looking to run a sitcom based around guys in a fantasy football league. Might be a cool idea.

OK, the Brewers rain delay is almost over and I need to hit up Buffalo Wild Wings with Vaughan (his first of many shout outs in this blog I would assume) but before I go, this blog is all about meeting the new Brewer Felipe Lopez. Upon doing a Google search for him, I found more hits for his wife, Jennifer than him.
Upon a Google search I found out that while she is not the uber-famous Jennifer Lopez you were thinking of, she is a 28-year old that posed for FHM online in 2007. They met in her hometown of Hagerstown, Maryland.
That same Google search also led me to this gallery of hot baseball wives and girlfriends from SI.com.