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The cubs fans weren't smiling last night....BBWWAAAHHAAAHAAA

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I think it's still too early to say for both. St. Louis is still on top, but they played 21 games at home, compared to 17 home games for the Cubs and only 11 home games for the Brewers so far. There is something to be said for home field advantage - not just atmosphere, but all that traveling can take its toll both physically and mentally. The Brewers bullpen is worrying, and my stomach tightens up every time Gagne goes in, but I think they'll pull through. It's still a long season yet. If things are like this at the break, then I'll say it's over.

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Sorry - that should be 13 home games for the Brewers - my mistake.

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I think the Cubs will win the division because the Cubs will do what it takes at trade time. The Cubs pitching is better than ST.Louis and Milwaukee by far. Their hitting is better than ST. Louis as well and Milwaukee and the Cubs hitting may be close.

Joel from Chicago

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The Brewers do well until later in the game or in extra innings. When the starting pitcher starts to tire, I wish Yost would send in a reliever who just MIGHT be better than the starting pitcher

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The team hitting slump is still a major issue, this baseball team was designed around a pitching staff that was fair to middling, while the hitting was supposed to win games 6-5, 7-4, and the like.

The difficulty with this recipe is there is little to no margin for error, as evidenced by the latest 4 game slide. Sure the Brewers could improve the team pitching, and Gallardo's injury is a huge cause for concern, but they still needed a hitting boost to which Mike Cameron is simply not the solution. Fielder and Braun are under too much pressure to produce with the rest of the lineup average at best.

Also, the Brewers simply cannot win on the road, where they have been awful the last two seasons and also cost themselves the division last year.

Yost and Management need to find a way to create more chemistry and juggle a tenuous lineup into some wins soon. Making a big free agent splash is really the only other option.

The problems are deep, but I'm trying to stay optimistic, they can be overcome. If they don't however this is another .500 Brewers team. And like the rest of the True Blue Brew Crew, we just simply aren't going to accept another season of mediocrity. I urge all the fans to hit blogs, talk radio sport shows, any outlet we have to get something going again in Milwaukee. Although Wisconsin sports fans are a patient breed, we need to know when to say enough is enough. The team is closer than it has been in the past, but there needs to be a catalyst brought in from the outside, if there isn't one to be found internally.

And I for one am sick of the excuses this ballclub has had for the last 25 years. I'm tired of waiting for the farm system, the salary-luxury tax, Bud Selig to hit the road, the like, we were promised a team that could compete all decade, and now we are stuck with one that may not even limp out of May,5 games back of the Cardinals.

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CM2775: I agree with everything you wrote. I was 15 years old when the Braves beat the Yankees 4 games to 3 in the '57 World Series.

The Brewers blew the '58 & '82 World Series, probably planned.

In Florida, Bill and Brian didn't comment on the small 'crowd.' If Milwaukee doesn't come out in full force I wouldn't be surprised if Atanasio moved the team; and, the fans will not attend games if the team doesn't play up to its' potential. Lou Perini did it in '65.

I cannot believe how a team that gets such good crowds cannot win. But, in Miami, the home team attendance could be counted on ten fingers and toes and they're winning. If Milwaukee fans stayed away like that, Mark would move the team. This team better start winning, and I mean, ten, twenty games in a row or I won't drive 85 miles to watch them.

As for the commentators, they suck! They never criticize the Brewer players. The only one who does is Bob Uecker and I commend him for that.

Fielder doesn't like his contract. He'll fail this year but he'll tell his agent, 'I'll be a star again if you get me traded to the Yankees.'

Lastly, what happened to guys who pitched 20 complete games? My neighbor says it's because they throw harder now. The more accurate reason is, there are too many teams and the quality is lacking. There are no Warren Spahn's, Lew Burdette's, Don Drysdales, Sandy Koufax's, Whitey Ford's, Don Newcombe's.

Today's players are pussy's and the Brewers lead the majors.

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I agree with CM2775; must be a long time Milwaukee fan.

You don't yank Ben Sheets in 6 1/3 innings and four runs allowed. My neighbor, who is much younger than me, says it's because pitchers throw so hard they have to be on a pitch count. What about Don Drysdale and Don Newcombe? What about Warren Spahn and Lew Burdette? They didn't all throw hard but they completed 20 games most years.

This pitch count thing could be eradicated by one manager, and the one who does it will take his team to the World Series.

As for the Brewers five game losing streak (thru 5/7) even the '57 Milwaukee Braves went through that.

But, baseball becomes less exciting when a pitcher is removed while throwing a good game, just because of pitch count.

Maybe if a pitcher completes 20 games and wins twenty they'll ask for a big raise and management wants a more even salary range.

I'll bet, if the Brewers fall flat and attendance falls, Atanasio will move them, just like Perrini did with the Braves. The Marlins get almost zero attendance and they're in first place. But, you notice, Bill and Brian (TV commentators) never mentioned the meager attendance in
Miami.

If you can't win on the road with 1,000 (max.) people in the stands you won't win anywhere.

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