Brewers meltdown

We're at the rare juncture in the season where shit isn't working out for us. If the pitching is good the hitting is garbage. If the starting pitching is good, the bullpen will undoubtedly fuck it up. Carlos Villanueva cannot be trusted in close game situations. He's great when you're up or down 3 runs during trash time, but the man loathes any kind of pressure. He crumbles like bleu cheese when pressured. Why not use Stetter, DiFelice, Coffee, or even stretch Hoffman to two innings, the All-Star break is coming up. Bottom line: FUCK.

I'm on the fence over Ryan Bruan calling out the pitching staff. It's one thing to complain if you're losing by 5 runs a game, but coming off losing 1-0 and 2-1 in extra innings probably isn't a good time to throw the pitching staff under the bus. Braun may have elevated himself to team leader, or just thrown himself into clubhouse dunce status, we'll only know after awhile. It'd help a shitload if he started hitting home runs again, minor detail.

I really think a big trade needs to be pulled possibly sending JJ someplace else. It only makes sense in small-market economics to bring up Escobar a little early. His defense is already among the best in the league despite the fact he's never been in the bigs yet and his batting is probably close to on-par with Hardy right now. Hardy will cost more to keep around then Escobar. Hart is another possibility knowing that replacing a .240 hitting right fielder is not too rough. Bill Hall can be sold for a silo of Skoal as far as I'm concerned. Maybe with Bush coming off the DL soon and Parra apparently back to something decent, we don't need anything crazy, but if there is some kind of offer that can be put together for a Jake Peavy or Roy Hallady I think it needs to get done.

The Cubs are only going to get healthier and therefore better and the Cards aren't really showing any signs of slowing down, unless someone has the stones to earhole Pujols with a fastball. I don't think it's that drastic to think that trading a few players that will probably end up being expendable really soon for a very good pitcher is not a crazy thought. There's no way Hardy and Escobar will play on the same team for very long, because one of them will NOT be happy. Get something for Hardy before it becomes apparent that he needs to be moved to make room for Escobar, apparently the next Ozzie Smith.