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I know we have an illness in the BrewCrewBall family, but I need to see something up before the early game with a collection of links, so here is my attempt at it!

Fangraphs

BR boxscore

BDD Recaps

The Brewers continue to win, and although the Cubs keep winning, Yost in this article has the right attitude . You can't worry about how other teams are doing, just win your games. Last year the team was often caught watching the scoreboard, hopefully not this year!

Hope everyone gets to check out a preview of pitching prospects done by BrewersNation . Great work, looking forward to the mock draft coming up. Another draft related post here.

Baseball America lists Gamel as the #2 prospect behind only Jay Bruce who is lighting up the majors. I guess the question is, is it possible for a call up this year? I didn't think so, but you never know with Hall struggling. Also LaPorta is #11, so despite all of the recently promoted players, the Brewers are the only team with two in the top 11.

Despite my initial prediction that Cameron might be on this list with his high strikeout numbers, no Brewers make it. But if you look at the comment section below, Kapler is one of the free swingers (largest difference between swinging outside the zone vs inside the zone).

Right Field Bleachers  does it's own version of the Frosty Mug, which has plenty of links if these don't do.

Saw this video a few weeks ago on Youtube, and thought everyone would appreciate it, nothing to do with baseball, but it is incredible.

Finally, nothing like a good old fashioned brawl . This one started out different than most I would say!

Great article  on perhaps the future of how fans may think or talk about baseball.

The PitchFX data system provides an incredible wealth of information and quite a lot of disect. I think it will be especially valuable for teams in scouting of pitching and hitting tendencies.

Dixieflatline has done an great job breaking down from the data in the last year and a half, but we are just at the beginning. When you can track every pitcher over the course of his career, you will have a plethora of data on all these players. This may make the careers of pitchers even shorter. If hitters know what is coming before the pitch is thrown, and approximately what part of the plate the pitcher targets in that situation, it may be a huge advantage to the hitter. Of course it works both ways, and maybe some batters would be overthinking of exactly what the next pitch will be, instead of just swinging.

Although the article says it is the end of the box score, I don't think this will catch on to be in the average baseball fans vocabulary in the next 20 years. Maybe I am just too old fashioned, but I think with the incredible amount of data is very interesting, but does not appeal to a wide audience. That being said, it will change the game, whether fans understand it or not.