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You can either stop holding your breath, or prepare to hold it for 15 more days: the Brewers' deadline to make a decision on Jeff Weaver has been extended to June 15.

Apparently David Riske has no new structural damage, but is taking longer than expected to recover. That's bad news all around. Of course, Salomon Torres is pretty excited about getting to close games.

So last night the Brewers got 3 hits and won. That's a stark contrast from August 24, 2002, when they got 20 hits and lost, tying the tenth highest hit total in a nine inning loss of all time. Recondite Baseball has the full list at that link. Or, you could stay here and watch me struggle with bad segues and awkward linking.

In the fanposts yesterday, Greg8370 mentioned a report that the Brewers might be looking to move their AA team to the Eastern League, and had been mentioned as a candidate to play home games in Norwich, CT. After a brief search this morning, I found the column mentioning it. Sounds like the Defenders are having some real problems with the Giants organization, mainly tied to the fact that the Giants don't like the ballpark dimensions, and also don't like playing 30-degree home games. I think I'd stick with Huntsville. I emailed the reporter, though, to see where he got the rumor from.

UPDATE: I've been in touch with Joe Perez, the writer from the Norwich Bulletin. You can see our conversation here .

So yesterday afternoon I had a moment to kill, and I got an email from the Brewers. They really wanted me to vote (25 times) to get some Brewers in the starting lineup of the All-Star Game. They've also posted a story about how close Braun is to only being 4 spots back of the leaders. So I sat down with the stats, picked out the best candidate at each position...and didn't vote for a single Brewer. Here's the ballot I clicked and reclicked and submitted 25 times:

AL:
C: Joe Mauer
1B: Kevin Youkilis
2B: Ian Kinsler
3B: Joe Crede
SS: Michael Young
OF: Milton Bradley
OF: Josh Hamilton
OF: Magglio Ordonez
DH: David Ortiz

NL:
C: Brian McCann
1B: Lance Berkman
2B: Dan Uggla
3B: Chipper Jones
SS: Hanley Ramirez
OF: Nate McLouth
OF: Pat Burrell
OF: Adam Dunn

On injuries:

Pirates P Zach Duke will get an extra day before his next start to allow a blister to heal.
Carlos Guillen is battling some hemorrhoids his manager seems a little too eager to talk about.
Marlins P Scott Olsen still isn't getting velocity back after an exceptionally long outing against the Brewers weeks ago.
Troy Percival collapsed falling off the mound last night and has a tight hamstring. Grant Balfour may be called up in his place.
A's OF Ryan Sweeney had to be taken to the hospital for X-rays after fouling a ball off his foot.
Frank Thomas may be headed to the DL after an MRI on his strained right quad revealed major inflammation.
Blue Jays C Gregg Zaun has been placed on the DL with inflammation in his elbow.

Does the price include my computer and rent for mom's basement? The Juiced Sports Blog ranks the 100 most valuable sports blogs.

It didn't crack the top 100, but I think this post is pretty valuable: The Padres recently acquired Cha Seung Baek, and Paul DePodesta discusses the move.

Oh, and a hydrochloric acid spill is a pretty good reason to suspend a game.

Drink up.

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Interesting, but it doesn’t seem like a very complete list. Just out of curiosity I checked out brewcrewball.com’s value. If I understand the raking correctly this site should have come in 28th with a value of $202,496, just in front of Bucs Dugout.

"He's been very, very impressive," Yost said. "I mean really impressive. I mean really, really impressive."

by MadJimiBrewha on May 29, 2008 9:33 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

If anyone is interested in purchasing at that price...

please send me an email :). I’ll even round down to the nearest $100,000.

Also, cheese.

by Jeff Sackmann on May 29, 2008 9:38 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Wouldn't you just

rather have you send the money? ;-D

The Wallbangers won because they played the game like kids! Let's do that again!!!

by 80badger on May 29, 2008 9:53 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

If BCB is really worth $202k

Then I would like a raise. :-)

Derek Jeter is day to day after being hit by a pitch and being gorilla press slammed by a Bizarro Ray.

by KLSnow on May 29, 2008 9:38 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Also, if I understand correctly...

A large portion of a site’s value is derived from being linked to by other blogs…and if that’s the case, I’m probably solely valuable for tens of thousands in other blogs’ value.

Derek Jeter is day to day after being hit by a pitch and being gorilla press slammed by a Bizarro Ray.

by KLSnow on May 29, 2008 9:39 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Or solely responsible.

Still pre-coffee around here.

Derek Jeter is day to day after being hit by a pitch and being gorilla press slammed by a Bizarro Ray.

by KLSnow on May 29, 2008 9:40 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Blogging

We had the .com bubble. Now the housing bubble. Next is the sports blog bubble.

Steve
http://nohuddleoffense.blogspot.com

by stigmo on May 29, 2008 10:22 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Cardinal fan stopping by

Don’t you think that Ryan Ludwick belongs on the All-Star team? My All-Star NL outfield is McClouth, Braun, and Ludwick. I can certainly see the argument for Burrell but not so much for Dunn. Ludwick 191 OPS+, Dunn 147.

by indakind on May 29, 2008 10:43 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I struggle with how to handle Ludwick.

By raw numbers, he belongs. His OPS is high. But he also hasn’t played everyday, at least as compared to someone like Dunn. I came across the same problem earlier this week when I was working on my NL MVP ballot…a hitter like Dunn comes to the plate 4 times per game or more, and Ludwick barely scrapes over 3.

At times it can be splitting hairs, but it’s one of the factors I use when I’m evaluating players for my MVP ballots, and in this case my All-Star balloting.

Derek Jeter is day to day after being hit by a pitch and being gorilla press slammed by a Bizarro Ray.

by KLSnow on May 29, 2008 10:52 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Understand

It frustrates the hell out of me as a Cards fan that he is not in the lineup everyday. Regardless of his plate appearances his raw numbers are good enough to be All-Star worthy.

by indakind on May 29, 2008 11:09 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Comments on the Hydrochloric Acid spill
What’s the problem? They had four bases on the diamond to neutralize it.

and

Al Kaline to the rescue!

Whenever prince is at first, he should charge the mound and yell "MEAT!"

by Jordan M on May 29, 2008 3:33 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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