I’ve bitched in the past about the quality of their journalism, but the effusive praise in this blurb makes me want to take it all back. Wow. That’s all I can say. Wow.

Update: The fine folks at Gapers Block Transmission put me in their rotation. Woohoo!

Week in Review: As I alluded to last week, life on the road seems a bit harder for MLB teams. I definitely think the outlaw of ‘greenies’ has much to do with that. The Crew won two out of three against Atlanta, lost two out of three in Minnesota and lost last night to an Arizona team who came back from a tough road trip. That makes for a 3-4 road trip so far. Not bad, but not good. Considering that Friday night’s game was very winnable it seems that we can expect a struggle to finish every road trip at .500. Keeping pace with the Cubs is nice, but the Brewers will have to make a move in the standings eventually.

What Opposing Telecasts Tell Me: Arizona supports the troops and Minnesota loves Kent Hrbek Outdoors. I missed the Atlanta telecasts but man…Chipper Jones is aging terribly despite being able to hit almost .400 on one leg.

Good Week: JJ Hardy is on a tear right now while he’s in the middle of a 12-game-hitting streak. This would be great news but the big hitters behind him aren’t pulling their weight.

Scufflers: Going back to last Monday, Prince Fielder is 2 for 27 with only 1 RBIs. That’s not the best way to go about improving arbitration dollars (arbys). The over-analyzers at BF.Net are up in arms, but let’s just call it one rough week during a long season. The lack of production is usually covered by Ryan Braun, but his contribution of 3 RBI’s and no HR’s during the same span doesn’t exactly help things either. If the 3 and 4 spots don’t produce, it’s tough to win games.

The Week Ahead: Three more against the D-backs before finally heading home to beat up on the bottom feeding Pirates. A four game set against Colorado follows. My realistic prediction is that they split the Arizona series and sweep the pirates for a 5-2 week.

…and finally.

Sox and Cubs fans unite to beat up a guy who refused to return money that fell out of a woman’s purse. The video perpetuates the negative characterization of Sox fans, but I’d like to say the guy’s issues extend beyond that of his sports allegiance.

DSL - The early returns are not so good as I had intermittent service on Saturday. Drops every five minutes made my quest for DR. Mario online supremacy frustrating.  After a few calls and some investigation, I have a weak DSL line and in order to stabilize my signal I had to decrease my stream speeds.  Is the inconvenience worth the savings?  We’ll see.

Epic Walks - Saturday mid-day was spent walking from my apartment to the lake and back.   The fine folks at Gmaps Pedometer tell me we covered over six miles.  The reward was terrible service and brown lettuce from the Salt and Pepper Diner.  The folks at Yelp are sure going to hear about it.

Watermelon - Purchased a few weeks ago for a picnic by the lake, we never got around to cutting it open.  Then we went to a picnic AND a dinner with hopes to cut/slice.  Nope.   The next best chance to eat the watermelon before I go on vacation will be this weekend.  I put the odds of it actually getting eaten at 3:1.  For now, it has it’s own chair in my kitchen.

Jasmine Rice - Lighter and fluffier than Milagrosa rice and much easier to digest to Brown rice.  Jasmine rice is….well…it’s rice.

Radio Interviews - I’m sort of socially awkward as it is, but put me in front of a microphone and I’ll make sure to find the stupidest things to say; especially when they throw a quick-fire at you with lame questions like: “waffles or pancakes” and “SNL or Mad TV?”  The irony is that I have said more to media outlets in the last few months than to my bosses at work.  All I need is practice, I guess.

You might know that I fancy myself a serious Brewers fan…enough to purchase a pay-per-view cable package (3 seasons and counting) where I can watch Brewers games throughout the season. Aside from two years in high school when my circle of friends considered following sports “uncool” (stupid me followed along until I discovered independent thought), following the Brewers is a summer tradition dating back to my childhood years. Much thanks goes out to my understanding girlfriend who does her best to tolerate my preferred means of television entertainment.

Anyway, most of my friends in the area don’t follow the Brewers, so I think it might be fun to kick off a weekly update on what’s going on up there (the more you know, y’know?). Tuesdays usually mark the beginning of the week for MLB teams, so this is a good place to start. Ready for some nonsense? Yes!

Week in review: A sweep of the Blue Jays showed us that Dave Bush can pitch if he keeps the ball down…and that the bullpen can blow a big lead at home if you give them the chance. The Baltimore Orioles spent the weekend in Milwaukee and came away with only one victory. I watched 20 out of the 27 total innings of the Baltimore Series on my couch and learned one thing: Jerry Garcia sure knows how to use a grill. Last night the Crew kicked off a series in Atlanta. Ben Sheets went the distance while I was at the Y trying not to bump into other meat heads.

What Opposing Telecasts Taught Me: Toronto: Viagra commercials with Canadian accents? Hilariously endearing. Baltimore: They refer to Camden Yards as “Birdland.” Also: Jim Palmer? Still handsome.

Who Had a Good Week? The entire offense. Scoring 5.5 runs a game thanks to 17 Home Runs…that’s an Average of 2.4 Home Runs a game! Sheesh. Hopefully they don’t forget to do the little things like get on base, swing at strikes, and keep playing defense.

Who “Scuffled”? Dave “landing strip” Riske. He’s coming back from injury and can’t find the strike zone. Hold on to your hats.

The Week Ahead: Two more in Atlanta, Three in Minneapolis, and another series in Arizona. A meager 16-21 road record is somehow sixth best in the league. Still, plenty of room for improvement there. With the way everybody is playing at home this season, a winning road record will earn a spot in the playoffs.

Miscellaneous Nugget of Information:

When you run out of Klement’s, you run out of taste.