No Brewers tonight, so listen to (or watch) a minor league game instead.

Follow the link above for the BF.net Link Report today, which has links to audio for all the following:

Jeff Suppan and Nashville taking on Sacramento at 7.
Mark Holliman and Huntsville taking on West Tennessee at 7.
Brevard County at Daytona at 6.
R.J. Seidel and the Timber Rattlers taking on Cedar Rapids at 7.
Adrian Rosario and Helena taking on Orem at 8.

Additionally, if you have Time Warner Cable, tonight's Timber Rattlers game will be on Channel 32 at 7.

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from Tom:

@Haudricourt Suppan’s minor league outing tonite with AAA Nashville: 3.2 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 0 BB, 3 K. Supposed to be his last step.

"I'll be glad to have Ryan help if he wants to. I'll give him a badge and he can be my deputy."
-Sheriff Melvin

by sowingwildoats on Aug 20, 2009 9:55 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Yikes

by Zorakathura on Aug 20, 2009 11:10 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs

can he come down with dessinitis

so we can keep him on the DL for longer?

by PagsBrewCrew on Aug 21, 2009 2:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You beat me to it... I was just about to post Soup's stat line.

Kind of warms the heart to know that Suppan’s ineffectiveness wasn’t related to his “injury”. Anyone know if the Brewers could simply have Suppan do all rehab starts between now and the end of the season? He could keep Hardy company.

by sjlee on Aug 20, 2009 10:05 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

my question is, if suppan continues to be ineffective, is there any recourse for the club other than sacking up and paying the man?

i mean, in theory is there any possibility of some kind of “breach of contract” that the FO could file, or arbitration to not have to pay him again?

again i sincerely doubt this, but i wasn’t sure if there was any kind of precedent on contract arbitration.

"I'll be glad to have Ryan help if he wants to. I'll give him a badge and he can be my deputy."
-Sheriff Melvin

by sowingwildoats on Aug 20, 2009 10:27 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not really...

MLB contracts are guaranteed. Even if he were to have some career ending injury, they’d still be on the hook (ala Teddy Higuera).

Basically, they are stuck with his contract unless they can somehow find a team willing to take him.

Arbitration really only works in favor of the player… in order to keep teams from underpaying players who are not yet eligible for free agency.

by sjlee on Aug 20, 2009 10:45 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

They could keep him active and never play him in hopes he retires and gives up the contract

That didn’t work when they tried to weasel out of Cecil Cooper’s deal though.

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by TheJay on Aug 21, 2009 7:22 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

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