OPS against is .676 vs. .782 respectively.

So who's cheating at home against us? First I looked at batting average on balls in play against for the different ballparks. i only concerned myself with the NL central, record is included.

3-3 wrigley, .352
2-4 riverfront, .357
2-1 enron, .329
1-3 pnc, .272
2-4 busch, .364

Woah! In the NL central this year teams hit better at home, in '07 so far home team as a BABIP of .299 and away is .295

I'm looking at BABIP because what i'm looking for is something that would show up as good luck, and that is stealing signs. You are going to hit the ball harder, and more balls in play will fall in for hits if you know the pitch coming, and in the NL central this year, nearly everyone is doing much better against the brewers than would be expected. particularly st. louis, cincinatti, and chicago.

To find out if I'm on to something i look at home & away splits for each of these teams. If they are stealing signs at home it should show up in the splits. In the NL this year teams are +.024 OPS and +.004 BABIP at home. Here's how the NL Central stacks up:

cubs @ wrigley OPS +.016, BABIP +.004
reds @ riverfront OPS +.086, BABIP +.008
astros @ enron OPS +.032, BABIP +.011
pirates @ pnc OPS +.020, BABIP +.019
cardinals @ busch OPS +.009, BABIP +.015

aside from the reds @ home (nearly double their HR rate at home versus the road!) everything looks pretty acceptable.

if teams are stealing signs, it's not against everyone, or not showing up here in the stats i'm looking at.

I looked at one more thing, the late & close split, but the samples get muddied and small enough to have too much noise, interestingly though the cardinals and the cubs both had significantly more "luck" (their highest babip) late & close than the other NL central teams.

21 G
17 IP
18 H
16 R, 16 ER
10 BB
24 K
3 HR
1 HBP
8.47 ERA
4.61 FIP

Days when Turnbow is facing a team for the first time in a series:

31 G
29 IP
17 H
6 R, 6 ER
12 BB
34 K
1 HR
1 HBP
1.86 ERA
2.65 FIP

Part of that goes hand in hand with the days rest split, though, too. Six times this year he's faced a team for the second (or third) time in a series with a day's rest under his belt and he's put up a 5 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 7 K, 1 HBP, 3.60 ERA line, which kind of splits the difference. Of course, six games isn't very much in the grand scheme of things.