Jim Santora

And so soon after the last one? Okay. Of course, when the season's already been lost, the Brewers manage to come alive like they couldn't before. So to recap. The Brewers began the second half with two straight series wins. Then I went 3-9 over my next 4 series, and now I've won two straight series' again. I have no idea how this has happened. I also don't know how this has happened against two good teams, the Diamondbacks and the Padres. As you'll find in this writeup, Andy's Padres [not...

We're rounding the turn into the home stretch, and these series have real drama. The Nats came to town, and played a series where no game was ever "put away", 6 runs would always be enough, and bizarre things happened! Here we go: GAME 1 Nationals - 6 Rockies - 4 The start was promising, as the Rocks smacked 5 hits and plated 3 runs in the 2nd to go up 3-0. But ex-Rockies Edmundo Sosa would kill that buzz when he hit a 2-out grand slam the very next inning! Ouch. The game would stay...

Real talk: the sweep by the Phillies was a pretty embarrassing thing to happen to the Brewers. Not because the Phillies are bad or anything: they're not. They're well-managed and have some great pieces. The embarrassing part was that I gave it my all but got none of the rolls, even on two different sets of dice. It got to the point where before the series last night at Steve's [punctuated by some phenomenal charcoal-grilled burgers c/o Steve], Sam asked me if he could use my dice, as they'd...