I heart baseball

So glad that it's baseball season finally.  Not just for the game - also for the wonderful announcers.
Tonight's gem:

He's gonna nonchalant a ground ball.

 Ahhhh.  I love baseball.

20-0?!?!?!?

I'm glad baseball season is here. I was a little down that the Brew Crew got off to a kind of slow start but things didn't really look bad watching them ... pitching wasn't quite working but they've got better talent this year, for example. I was too busy to check the day game score against Pittsburgh today and just saw what had to be a typo:

Brewers 20, Pirates 0.

That is not a typo but a blow out. Details here.

Bob Uecker

Well, Milwaukee Brewers radio announcer Bob Uecker just asked bloggers to blog him. I was out of the room and didn't hear why, but sometimes you don't need to know.

Here you go, Bob, again. Any time you need to be blogged, just say the word.

Baseball changes too; I look forward to reveling in that

Last night after dinner, I thought I'd catch a few minutes of the Brewers against St. Louis on TV before getting back to work. But the channel that usually runs them didn't have the game on. It was at home, so Miller Park's retractable roof means no rain-out. I checked the internet, and the game was on, Milwaukee leading. Only in the TV listing did I see that they were on another channel, which didn't make sense at all. Then I realized: It was ESPN. The Brewers are leading the division and playing the champion Cardinals, with former St. Louis pitcher Jeff Suppan pitching for Milwaukee. That makes a reasonable choice for network broadcast. It's time to adjust to the thought that the Brew Crew is a team that could occasionally make ESPN games.

If you follow baseball at all, you know it was a sad night: St. Louis reliever Josh Hancock was killed in an automobile accident late Sunday night. Only a few years ago, the Cards lost another pitcher, Darryl Kile, to heart problems.

Suppan, of course a former teammate of Hancock's, pitched a complete game and the Brewers won, 7-1. I hope next time it'll be a game where winning at baseball is the sole focus. It's a long season, but they are 16-9, 8-5 on the road, and leading their division by 3.5 games; it'd sure be nice to revel in Brewer success after years of struggle.