Daily Brew 8/15

The Brewers finally snapped their losing streak yesterday with their 8-3 win over the Reds. The skid had reached 5 games, funny how it started at the same time as the wild card talk. The Brewers announced some interesting moves before the game. They announced that they have transfered Jeff Cirillo from the 15 day to the 60 day DL. This move probably unofficially announces the end of Jeff Cirillo's career as a Brewer. They also moved Matt Wise and Julio Santana to the 15 day DL. Hmm, the guys that Ned didn't want to, but yet he still did overuse just got placed on the DL. To fill the roster spots the Brewers recalled Kane Davis (yes the same Kane Davis who came to the Brewers in the first Richie Sexson trade), Jose Capellan and Corey Hart. Hart started yesterdays game in centerfield. I like that idea. Hart is tall and lanky, but he is surprisingly fast. He led the PCL in steals with 31 prior to his call up, and he may just have a chance of being their everyday centerfielder soon. Oh yeah, he hit a 3-run homer yesterday in their 5 run 8th. I'm really pulling for this guy, but I just have one request. Wear sunglasses to the plate and use Corey Hart's "I wear my sunglasses at night" as your music. That would be so awesome.

Ben Sheets pitches tonight at Coors field. Prediction, Sheets goes 7 scoreless and Corey Hart knocks out his second and third career home runs.

The Packers made an interesting move that really caught me by surprise yesterday. They cut Arturo Freeman. I was 110% sure he'd be one of their starting safties to open the year. The surprising thing isn't so much the fact that he's no longer on the team as much as it is they just let him go and didn't try to trade him. He signed with the Titans within four hours of his release, and his agent said 6-12 teams contacted him so there was obviously interest in him.

Seriously, why is Mark Roman still on the team? I'm going to start taking orders for the Mark Roman T-Shirt Jersey. The back will read:

Roman
20

The Front:

New Number
Same Bad Play

Just when you thought T.O. couldn't possibly tarnish his reputation anymore, he shows up to a Falcons game and sits four rows behind the bench. What a jackass. Here's a dose of reality for all the people who called him a hero for playing in the Super Bowl. Although it was gutsy, it has become painfully evident that he did it for more bargaining leverage and reasons other than winning a ring. Oh and by the way stop calling it heroic. Playing a game while 80% healthy is not a heroic effort, jackass.

Phil Mickelson just won the PGA Championship with a birdie on 18. Phil has been my favorite golfer for the last 5-6 years now, and the only thing that disappoints me about this win is that it came one year too late. Where was this last year when I was following you around your final round at the Straits Phil?

Filzen was just a bit off on his prediction of Sergio. Let's face it, he is never going to win anything and he and David Duvall will go down as the biggest disappointments of the Tiger Era.

NFL Network is carrying virtually every preseason game and replaying them for hours at a time. This is the greatest thign on tv since the OC. I literally killed an entire day watching it this weekend.

Wedding Crashers just wasn't as funny the second time around. I saw it again with someone who hadn't seen it yet, and I spent about 10 minutes talking it up. An hour into it I found myself thinking "huh, I remember this being a lot funnier." Still a good movie though.

Will Whitticker looks like he's going to open the season as the starting right guard for the Green Bay Packers. It is nothing short of amazing that the Packers found another 7th round linemen who might end up contributing in a big way (see Jim Ringo, Adam Timmerman, Mark Tauscher and possibly even Scott Wells). Whitticker is a big dude and it gets you salivating over close yardage sets where you'll have Whitticker, Tauscher and Barry all on the right side paving the way for Green. Matt O'Dwyer has remained hurt and I honestly don't see him making this team. Adrian Klemm looks like the starter on the left side at least for now, and according to Mike Sherman, he'll be backed by Scott Wells while Grey Ruegamer will move back to center behind Mike Flannigan.

Former Raider Barret Robbins was arrested on a marijuana possesion charge. Robbins you may remeber, is the Raider who went AWOL right before the Super Bowl and it turned out he spent the hours and nights leading up to the game in Mexico and San Diego Bars. Then came the incident in January where he was shot twice after allegedly fighting with Miami police who had reason to believe he was breaking and entering into someone's apartment. He was later found hiding in the Women's bathroom. He is still awaiting trial for attempted murder. This is just sad to see. Not the fact that a guy who had it all and was a professional athlete has made a mess of his life, but the fact that the guy has allowed his addictions to get the best of him. Robbins has bipolar disorder and stopped taking his medication. Football appears to be all the guy had and now he is in a sad state of depression. I can't say I'd be surprised if I read in a few months "former Raiders lineman found dead." For his sake I hope he can get the help he needs and stay clean and on his medication.

Remember last year when the Ravens were robbed of TO? A good analogy would be you buy a new Mustang, but within hours it's stolen and they guy who takes it totals the car. You get you're money back and decide "you know what, I'll just stick with the Ford Taurus." Well yeah, the Ravens lost him and only got I believe a fourth round pick out of this, but now they really could care less. I'll bet you right now, Ozzie Newsome would have taken a copy of Madden '06 for TO. God I love it. The only downside of him not going to Baltimore is missing the opportunity to see the inevitable "TO offends Ray Lews, and Ray Lewis kicks the crap out of him on the sidelines" spat. I would pay for NFL sunday ticket just to see that.

XBox live might be the single greatest video game invention of all time. I'll leave it at that.