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Best record in baseball - are you kidding me??? While I don't think their.700 pace will continue, I do think the Brew Crew are for real & will win the weak NL Central. The respect has been slow to come, but they're now at the top of the ESPN Power Rankings.

While I've been an on-and-off Bucks & Packer fan, I've been a consistant Brewer supporter my whole life. And trust me, that's a tough hobby! They're the ultimate underdog unable to compete in a flawed MLB system where only the large market teams can compete. But they've done it the only way a small market team can by bringing up young studs from the farm system & signing/trading for undervalued players. Now Prince, JJ, Weeks & Sheets are all entering their prime while Suppan, Capuano, Vargas & Estrada are potential All-Stars. And it's great to see Jenkins having his best year (too bad we'll be trading him in a couple months).

But Brewer fans have been here before & remain skeptical whether we can resign these young studs once their contracts expire. But this time the empty pockets of the Selig family no longer remain. Attanasio, the new owner, has raised the payroll from just $27 million to $70 in just 3 years!

We went to the Brewer game last weekend against the Pirates. This time we actually got in the stadium before the 7th inning stretch! The Crew won 6-3 with Suppan winning his 5th straight game & JJ hitting his 10th home run. I believe it was a sellout with 41,000 fans.

Afterwards we went to the only bar in Milwaukee that was showing the De La Hoya/Mayweather fight. I was stunned that it was a split decision! Mayweather was just toying with Oscar the entire fight.