Daily Brew 8/17

Sorry there was no Daily Brew yesterday, it was a hectic day at Charter Media for this production coordinator. Now then, here's some things you may have missed in the last 48 hours.

The Brewers, more importantly Victor Santos defeated the Rockies last night. Read that again. So Ben Sheets gets the loss and is socked to the count of 10 earned runs, and yet Vic picks up a W and only allows 3 to the same team? There are better odds of Sheets giving up 10 runs ANY team than Santos only allowing 3 at Coors. Ned Yost got tossed in the game in one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen at a baseball game. You could hear everything both men were saying to each other. It was great, and the Brewers TV team didn't appologize for it. As soon as he was tossed I knew the Crew was going to win, because Ned wouldn't be in there to get outmanaged in a tight game.

Speaking of the TV team, Daron Sutton was gone for a couple games this week, replaced by Craig Coshun. How is it possible that he even returned. When he was gone and replaced by a competant person, you're telling me that didn't get the wheels turning for the execs at FSN North? Hmm, so this is what a non-crappy announcer sounds like. Bill Schroeder even sounded better with Sutton gone. I can take one more sub .500 season if it means Sutton, Brainerd and possibly Schroeder (though I'm starting to believe that with the right partner he wouldn't be too bad.) Please FSN North, cut the cord on Sutton and Brainerd. I'll even contribute financially to the contract buyout.

Back to Yost for a minute, what's the Crew's record in games he's been tossed from? I'll betcha they're 4-2.

TO returned to camp today. Yippie. Seriously, how can anyone still defend this guy. Rodney Peete said it last night as well. He said when it first happened he had his side because of the whole player sticking up for a player thing, but he can't defend him anymore. Yet Michael Irvin and Drew Rosenhaus are the only ones to defend this guy. Rosenhaus even knows TO is wrong and this new contract thing is ludacris, but he also knows if he can get TO a new deal he will be the most powerful man in the NFL. Irvin is just a bitter old reciever forced to retire because of injury, sticking up for another wide reciever because "they're not paid as much as qb's." Shut up.

Barry Bonds is speaking of a September 1st return, as Nate said. Although I am a Bonds fan I have to admit, Filzen's quote of "Why September 1, do they stop testing for steroids on September 1?" was good. Damn you Nate Filzen.

Kyle Boller officially sucks on Madden 2006. I threw 5 picks with him the other night.

The Brewers had their first player busted for steroids. It was some minor leaguer in A Ball, whose name escapes me. Who cares he was playing in A ball.

Former big league manager (including the Brewers 63-65) Bobby Bragan became the oldest person to manage a baseball game last night when he skippered the Fort Worth Cats at the ripe old age of 87. The kicker, Bragan was tossed from the game in the third inning.

The NBA had their amnesty provision cuts the other day and get this, the Knicks used the "Allan Houston Rule" to cut Jerome Williams. This stuff is comedy gold, people wouldn't believe you if you made up half of these moves Isaiah does. What is David Stern thinking now? They need a New York team to do well, and Zeke is just running the Knicks into the gutter. Let's see cut Williams and save $19 in cap or cut Houston and save $40+ million. Obviously it Williams. Also don't forget Zeke threw big money at big disappointment Jerome James. I think James will be making more money in millions per season than he has averaged points in his career. Now he's going after even bigger lottery flop Dsagna Diop. This is awesome. Give this man a reality show now. Or better yet ESPN should do a new show like Teammates or Stump the Schwab and call it "What Contract Wouldn't Zeke Take On?" If you can find one, let me know. He'd resign Mike Utley if he was running the Lions. Okay that was low, sorry Mike.

Did you hear Ricky Williams petitioned the league to wear number 27 when he came back, and they turned him down because it would "cost too much" to reproduce Williams jerseys with the number 27. First of all do they realize while it would cost money, they'd also make a killing selling them to Dolphins fans and pot heads. And secondly, the reason why he wanted number 27 is such great stoner thought. He wanted it because 9 is the "perfect" number in the universe and 27 is 9 cubed. Whoa, that's like really deep brah.

The Real World picked up a little steam last night, but the show has still been disappointing since the first few episodes. It misses Danny, because more Danny means more Melinda and more Melinda means less Abe version 2.0 aka Wes.