Brewers stink on the road!! Again!! Rickie Weeks batting .187, Mike Cameron striking out every other at-bat, Ryan Braun-thank you!, Prince Fielder no longer All-Star material, Bill Hall striking out every other at bat, demoted in line-up and hitting about .100 against righties, Corey Hart consistent but nobody on base to drive in, JJ Hardy a mediocre hitter with great fielding and Jason Kendall has come back down to earth as expected.

Talk about streaky pitching. After all 5 starters posted decent outings last week, this week our sub-par rotation has been revealed on national television. Apparently, Saturday's game against the Red Sox was broadcast to 72% of the nation. People were probably wondering how a guy like Suppan could be a #2 starter! Myself included.

Alas, our once solid corps of relievers has also taken a turn down Crap Creek. Starting with the ineptitude of Gagne, the familiar collapse of Mota (ask Mets fans), the inability of Mitch Stetter to find the strike zone (7 walks against 11 batters) and subsequent demotion to AAA, the loss of David Riske with elbow problems (bet this will be a problem for him all year), the promotion of Mike DeFelice who has spent 11 years as a minor leaguer and apparently is now good enough (he did have 28 strikeouts to 3 walks at AAA Nashville. Nice!), and the promotion of Zach Jackson who was a starter and has been converted to long relief. 

Our situation is very similar to last year's already. With poor starting pitching our bullpen will be over-used and guys like McClung, Shouse and Torres will be spent and exhausted by the All-Star break. 

Sorry to be so negative but our Brewers are in last place, and the Cubs don't show any signs of slowing down. We're only 6 games back on May 18th, but as Brew Crew Hugh stated, this is NOT a playoff team