Long time no good baseball

I haven't posted for a few days, so here's an update: We stink.

Man are we bad. I'll be happy to take 1 of 3 from the Nationals this week.

And then we head to New York to play the Yankees, featuring the debut of Roger Clemens. If ever there was an opportunity to get the Yankees on the right track, this is it!

Brace yourself for the unwarrented Clemens love fest after he does a good job against the Pirates. We are terrible, so 10ks and 1 ER over 6 innings is no big deal.

The fun part of following the Pirates is being in the NL Central. We are still in fourth place, and are only a game out of second place... that being the St. Louis Cardinals. Amazing.

The NL Central is 51-86 against the rest of the NL. Yes, this is real.

The Brewers are 17-9 against the rest of the Central but are 14-15 against the NL East and West. Think about that. The Brewers have managed to find a level of bad baseball that is inferior to the rest of the NL but that is unquestionably better than the rest of the NL Central. So here's the pecking order in the NL:

The NL East and West
The Brewers
The rest of the NL Central

And so, despite recent struggles, the Brewers will win the NL Central. Yes, they had a bad stretch between May 11 and June 3, but none of those games were against NL Central teams. Look for the Brewers to be continually questioned as they fail against the NL and then watch as the "rebound" as NL Central teams work their way back into the schedule.