Yesterday I talked about how the Brewers offensive numbers were surprising and made it look like the full culprit for the 10-15 start was the pitching staff. But not so fast.
As Tom Haudricourt points out in this morning's Brewers Blog for the J-S, those offensive numbers were deceiving. The Brewers have scored 128 runs in 25 games, but half of those came in five games. That's the three game series against the Pirates when they outscored the Bucs 36-1, the 17-3 beating of the Pirates at Miller Park last week and the 11-7 victory over Washington April 18. That means the team is averaging 3.2 runs per game in the other 20 games. With a pitching staff all over the charts, that just is not going to cut it.
With even Prince Fielder struggling at the plate the offense just has not been able to get it going in the slightest. We've seen this from this team before, though. Last year they'd go through rough patches where they looked silly at the plate. To say I'm surprised, I am not. But that leads me to another point.
How many times have you seen a picture of the coaches at a random point in the dugout? I know I haven't and that lead me to believe someone, with Haudricourt or another guy close to the Brewers, might now something is up with Macha being pushed out as manager. Would that fix everything or anything? I don't know, but at this point, the window is closing and something might have to get done from Doug Melvin's position.
I'll say this, there might be a lineup move, I'd make with Rickie Weeks struggling. It's one talked about with some friends of mine at work and that is moving Alcides Escobar into the leadoff spot of the lineup. He is the better of the two to leadoff and that gives Rickie the chance to slide down to either the No. 2 slot or a role where he can be a run producer. Get Escobar on and he is an instant threat to steal bases and cause chaos on the base.
Now that the staple of Brewers talk is out there, let's get into some Web goodness that we've missed her on The Way. I missed this last night, but my "mother" Amy and "pops" Vaughan showed me this today. Let me be clear, I hate Ke$ha, but have a soft spot for Bart and Lisa. This was rather funny. And, yes I know it's flipped, thanks to Fox for killing off the regular clips.
The next item of the blog combines hot girls with the No. 1 topic nerds love. Yes, you guessed it Star Wars. What's the best part of Star Wars? Yep, Princes Leia. Even better? Leia washing cars and getting wet.
Enter G4TV and Make a Wish to make that happen for us!
Slave Leia & Sara Jean Underwood: Star Wars Charity Car Wash
Attack of the Show | MySpace Video
Did you notice a certain someone doing the awesomeness in that video? Yep, Sara Jean Underwood, who has been featured on these pages before and a former Playmate of the Year, pulls of Star Wars looks damn well. Having it be white with amazingly tight white pants makes it damn interesting too. This is just a sample. There are plenty more good ones, here! Thank me later :)
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