Most notably the downfall of Gagne, and rise of Torres who has performed way above my expectations for him. And the fact that we got the best Free Agent out their at the deadline, something the Brewers have never been able to do!

Obviously the organization’s statement that they are not behaving like the Brewers we used to know, but became big time buyers with the acquistion of CC and also were very smart with the long term commitment to Ryan Braun.

But the true story in my mind has been the performance of the starting pitching following Gallardo’s freak injury. McClung, Bush, Sheets, Parra and Suppan have all performed extremely well and very healthy compared to years past. And of course Sabathia has been a beast. But the production from the bottom part of the rotation has been stellar and way above my expectations.

And in terms of topics of conversation… last year a lot, especially near the end of the year, the topics was often calling for Yost’s head and second guessing every move, this year, that hasn’t seemed to have been an issue, more just making fun of the fact that we have no concept. GRIT is the most discussion topic of conversation this year in my opinion.

FUentes
morineko’s grandma
kirbir’s Braunophilia

What are others? We really should get started on that wiki.

And our 9 Laportas Gamels.

And the fact that baseball will never be the same.