7-1 Loss to Chicago, 60-47, 3 Games Back
I Know there are 50+ games left, BUT....
I didn't want to listen to the game tonight. I knew what it would do to me. So I went to the gym and came back to my computer at work to check in. The headline on Brewers.com had Sheets matching Zambrano, but I saw 1st & 3rd on the current status display, and by the time on logged into hear Uke and Powell, Sheets was in the midst of one of his worst innings ever. The Cubs got seven straight hits off him, batted around, and 5 runs were hung on him in the 6th.

I don't know what these losses will do to this team, they have battled to get to this point, but I have a hard time thinking they have a chance against a team that can score at will like the Cubs, and I'm sure the Crew is thinking that too.

6-4 Loss to Chicago, 60-46, Now 2 Games Back
Wilting Under the Pressure
The atmosphere at Miller sounded like a college football rivalry game-- cheering from both sides. At first, it seemed like Sabathia and the Brewers were in shock, but things started to wake up when the Crew rallied for 3 runs in the 6th and took a 1 run lead. However, I knew the Crew couldn't sit on that, the Cubs are just too good. Alfonso Soriano put on an exhibition and had it not been for Cameron throwing out Derek Lee at the plate and Fielder making a great catch (both in the 6th) things could have been worse. As it was, the back to back home runs from Hardy and Braun that followed in the bottom of the 6th were not enough momentum to overcome a Rickie Weeks error on a DP pivot in the 7th and the Cubs took a 1 run lead. Branyan had a PH tater to tie it, but Torres walked two in the 9th which led to 2 Cub runs in what should have been a victory.

11-6 Loss to Houston, 60-45, Now 1 Game Back
Exactly How are you better than McClung?
Suppan was like one of those 65 mile an hour pitching machines that always makes you feel like Wade Boggs when you are a kid. And Geoff Blum's parents apparently bought him a fistfull of tokens to take some whacks at the Suppan Dinger-O-Matic. Seriously Soup, how do you let that guy bat .541 against you? And Yost, how do you leave Suppan in there to face a guy that owns him? Suppan had a 3 run lead, and thanks to Blum's two home runs and 4 RBI (he came into the game batting around .220) 3 of which came in a 7 run 5th, the Crew fell out of first place and let the 'Stros take 2 of 3 at Miller. Pathetic. It ruined a somewhat decent, early performance by the offense; Braun had a 2 run jack, Rivera chipped in with an RBI double. I have to wonder, if Bush starting on the road is looking better than Suppan starting anywhere? $40 million or not, I think I would rather see Suppan in the bullpen and Bush and McClung getting regular starts rather than this "home and road" platoon.