Upon a closer look, the numbers can be deceiving...

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 :)

Steven Jackson and the Rams are next

This Sunday the 1-10 St. Louis Rams come to Soldier Field to take on the Bears and normally I would feel pretty confident that this would be an easy win. Well, given the way the Bears have been playing of late, I'm not exactly sure how this game will shake out.
The Bears defense is dinged up and it appears likely Lance Briggs will not be suiting up for this one with a knee injury. That means the defense is going to be essentially a "B" Team at most positions. Yeah, it's not looking pretty.
The way Steven Jackson runs the ball (brutally) I'm not too confident he won't just go of against this defense and tear the Bears apart on the newly installed Soldier Field turf.
If that happens, I might have to jump on the "Fire Lovie" bandwagon. The defense is his baby and that is something that needs to be worked on over these final five games.
And I know someone is coming up with the idea to lose out and better the draft position of the team. Well, that would be OK, but the team traded away its first round pick in the Jay Cutler deal and its second round pick for Gaines Adams earlier in the season. Yeah, totally not cool.
So, essentially, losing is not beneficial in any light right about now and winning is the only thing that can make this team much of anything.
First, it can save Lovie's job and second, it can get Jay Cutler the confidence he needs to be the quarterback us fans want him to be next year when Jerry Angelo gives him the weapons needed to be the great quarterback they thought he would be.
My prediction for this one: Bears 27, Rams 17. But that won't get done until late in the game.



Allen Iverson rejoined the 76ers yesterday and it was pretty emotional. I don't know about you, but when I see one of the sports stars I look up to or admire, it makes it pretty hard for even me to keep from getting a little misty eyed.
He is going back to the place where it all started and I'm saying the return back to Philly will be good for him as a place to finish his career on a positive note.
He is one of the best guards to play the game and for a guy under 6 feet tall it is just amazing that he is able to do what he can with the ball in his hands. I've always been amazed by him and hope to see him end his career on a positive note.



I'm not normally a shoe freak, but thought these shoes, shown on Maxim.com today were pretty interesting. No, I won't be buying them, but take a look at the others, not just the "Skywalkers." I'm pretty impressed with Adidas and their idea to work with Star Wars here. It's a great idea and I thought they pulled it off quote well. Take a look at the link.

Alright, a bit quick through the blog today, but I will not disappoint with the Nussie Hunter, I promise. Today I'm introducing the world to Gemma Lee Ferrall. She's an Australian model who is now in the US. She was recently in Curves Magazine and I must say the pictorial is amazing. Take a look at this AND her best side...