It's Pennant Fever

I have heard that the NY Mets are suspending the pennant race and are calling on the Milwaukee Brewers to follow in their footsteps.

The reason for the Mets want to suspend the race is they looked at the PECOTA standings and and it seems the Brewers now have a 47% to 39% chance to win the Wild Card (Phillies have thh otehr 12%).

PECOTA takes runs for and against, looks at opponents to be played and all sorts of other predictors and crunches some numbers.

The Mets are at home vs. Florida and the Brewers are at home vs. the Cubs. The Cubs are resting some players and just taking it easy. Florida is playing out their schedule.

Here are the probeble pitching match-ups for the Brewers

9/24: Sake Duke, LHP (5-14, 4.96) vs. Yovanni Gallardo (0-0, 1.80)
9/26: Ryan Dempster, RHP (16-6, 3.02) vs. Ben Sheets or Jeff Suppan
9/27: Ted Lilly, LHP (16-9, 4.17) vs. Ben Sheets or Dave Bush
9/28: Jason Marquis, RHP (10-9, 4.39) vs. CC Sabathia, LHP (9-2, 1.81)

Something I like has been occurring in the Dale Sveum era of managing. The Brewers are playing small ball. Instead of waiting for the Home Run they are creating good outs and moving the runners up. This is counterproductive when the Brewers were hitting two HR's a game. But when the team starts to wear down as a youthful team does this time of year you have to start being creative and Yost was not into "creative".

When the team is not hitting you MUST find ways to scrap out a run here and there.
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Check out this 30 second video of the dumbest woman ever on the highway LOL

It reminds me of when my buddy Elweed and I were on a vacation in Colorado. He was asleep in a stoned out slumber and I was driving on the highway when when we came to a scene like this. Being somewhat evil I got close to the truck and Yelled "Watch out" and put on the breaks.

Elweed jerks awake and almost pee's his pants as he see's the truck about to hit us head-on.

I think I had to pull off the road I was laughing so hard.

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While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year old Texas rancher whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Sarah Palin and her bid to be a heartbeat away from being President.

The old rancher said, "Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle."

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.

The old rancher said, "When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle.You know she didn't get up there by herself, she doesn't belong up there, she doesn't know what to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put her up there to begin with."

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There have been some talk of a brewery in Columbus and of course I poo poo the idea. Seriously, a person making 5 gallon batches of beer (seven so far) and then thinking brewery or brewpub in the future is crazy talk.

I'm now reading a book called "Brewing up a Business - Adventures in Entrepreneurship from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery" by Sam Calagione.

It's crazy talk I tell ya.

Rod