it's about that time

Time to move operations to WWW.BREWCREW365.COM check out all the new posts there. Tyler and Joe are on board and Bryan will be too. Hope to see ya over there.

Ronald

I got stomped.

Wow, the poll has ended and I got stomped worse than Arizona was by Louisville.
I got beat worse than Ike beat Tina. I got beat worse than the Cubs in the playoffs the last 3 years. Ouch, low blow to Scrubbie nation.

I mean come on, the beard wasn't that bad. Was it?
Ronald

We are this close...

The site should be up within the next couple of days. Check back often to see what it's all about.

www.brewcrew365.com

This is the new shit.

Michigan State is holding my chances with the office pool on by a thread. I should've went with my first instincts on the bracket I had 'Nova in my original final game against Michigan State. Oh well. My other three teams got beat(Memphis, Gonzaga and Pitt) too.

Oh, by the way. My boy Tiger is back for all you haters. Watch out in Augusta, GA. He is coming strong.

Ronald

bracket madness/fantasy baseball

Ten votes and only 2 of which are in favor of my beard. I am shocked, I didn't see this coming. I have shaved it off as of Thursday. And coinincidently my NCAA bracket went to hell with the shave. I knew I should have kept it going. Memphis and Gonzaga both lost in the sweet 16 round and I had them in the final four. I'm hosed if Michigain State doesn't win it all.

I did my fantasy baseball draft on Thursday night too. Here is my team. I think I did pretty good for a twelve person league. I had the 4 spot of 12.

C- Jorge Posada - Yankees
1st- Lance Berkman - Astros
2nd- Kelly Johnson - Braves
SS- JJ Hardy - Brewers
3rd- Chipper Jones - Braves
OF- Ryan Braun - Brewers
OF- Jay Bruce - Reds
OF- Rick Ankiel - Cards
util- Denard Span - Twins
bench- Alexi Casilla - Twins
bench- Brad Nelson - Brewers

SP- CC Sabathia - Yankees
SP- Cole Hamels - Phillies
RP- Carlos Marmol - Cubs
RP- Matt Lindstrom - Marlins
P- Fransico Liriano - Twins
P- Ervin Santana - Angels
P- Zach Grieke - Royals
bench- Manny Parra - Brewers
bench- Kevin Gregg - Cubs
bench- Hideki Okijima - Red Sox

Ronald

1-2-3 Eat Kids

Hell yeah. The women's Maryland Basketball team's rally cry is "Eat Kids." This is awesome, what a bunch of bad asses. I just saw this and heard about it on JRIB(Jim Rome is Burning). How much tougher can they be? What would scare the other team more than this, you could go with "Kill Puppies", "Burn Bibles" or even "Steal from the Blind". All of which will get you funny looks but none of which will scare them as much.

Trot Nixon was released yesterday. Big woop. See ya, you had ok career. Brad Nelson here we come. I can't wait to see this guy in the bigs.

In the other headlines of the last couple days. We had some reports that were so obvious they weren't worth the time it took to type it up. Included are Cutler doesn't talk to his coach, T.O. to skip voluntary workouts and Plex doesn't want to go to jail. Really? In other news; grass is green, the sky is blue and water is wet.

NCAA tourney resumes tonight. I wish they could start the games a little earlier though. Doesn't the NCAA know that tonight is poker night at my neighbor's house. I also have a fantasy baseball draft tonight.

The website is starting to be developed tonight. It's coming soon.
Ronald

Monday

Does anybody have a case of the Monday's? Another lovely day in the office. But this isn't about work it's about sports.


I'm reading the Brewers message board and come across this gem. Dave Bush sporting, well a bush on his face. I like Bush but this beard is really kinda creepy. It makes my March Madness rally face growth look cool. I'll let you compare and we'll put up a poll on the topic.

Now here is my beard.

In other sports news. The Packers open up the season at home against the Bears on Sunday Sept. 13 on NBC's night game. They also play Detroit on Thanksgiving this year.

Jeff Suppan is the opening day pitcher for the Crew against the Giants. Then it's Yo and Manny in the next two starts with Looper pitching the home opener against the Cubs and Bush having the last start in the rotation. Hoff will probably start the season on the DL, that isn't the best news but McClung should be a good fill in if Carlos isn't up to it.

Wisconsin and Marquette were both eliminated from the NCAA tournament. They won a game each which is more than most people expected. Congrats to both of them, see ya next year. Both teams will lose key players and new guys will come up and take over in their places.

I'm in the process of starting up a website. I'm going to try get it going within the next month. It will be more of what I write in the blog. I will also have a couple my cousins writing on the new site with me. My cousins; Tyler and Bryan will be on board. Tyler had a blog last summer, here is a link to see a sample of his writing. http://www.brewersrant.blogspot.com/. More info to come soon.

Ronald

Going Mental

Wow. Badgers win in OT after coming from behind. Does this sound like a dream? It kinda is, afterall they were terrible at coming back in the regular season. I guess they did it when it counted. Go Red. Nothing bad to say this time. Except this, Could you please win by a healthy margin Sunday? My ticker can't take it anymore. We were watching as I was bartending, Todd and myself. Todd O. is a big time Wisconsin fan and my uncle. Todd already has a sketchy ticker and mine won't be far behind if you keep this up. Yowzers. Remember the Shaq rap to Kobe a year or so ago? I'm going to have to get him to dis the Gophers who were stomped in the first round. "Hey Tubby, tell me how the loss tastes." The other games that had good endings were Marquette, Tennessee and Sienna over Ohio State. Marquette won and I was pulling for them even though I had them losing in my bracket. Big Ten is doing alright too. Wins by Michigain, Michigain State, Wisconsin and Perdue gave us some cred.

Brewers bats are tearing it up in spring training too. Hardy, Hart, McGehe and Weeks are hitting well. I know I typed Weeks, it is a suprise to me too. Keep it up boys, opener is only 3 weeks away. The USA team is in the final rounds of the WBC, take home a title(meaningless as it might be). You kept it interesting with the comeback win against Puerto Rico.

Gotta get some sleep.
Ronald

March Madness

I just saw a commercial for B-Dubs(Buffalo Wild Wings). Where the customers don't want a game to end so they page a photographer to keep the game going. He uses a giant flash bulb to blind a player and then does the same to a mascot with a t-shirt cannon who blasts it into a players nut sack. Not sure what it is about a good nut sack shot that makes me chuckle. Shouldn't I be growing out of this in my old age(I'm 26.5 yrs old)? It isn't going to happen any time soon though.

It is about 3:30 on Friday afternoon and I'm watching the "big dance" aka the NCAA final four tourney. I don't know why the call it the "big dance", but I've never been a fan of the nickname. I've still never seen anybody dance, even the cheerleaders just sit on their ass at the end of the court. Right now they are showing a game between Dayton and WVU at the Metrodome. And I have to say that this is what the crowds at a Vikings game would look like if Fox didn't buy tickets every home game. There have been some good games so far. The Marquette game had a good finish, I was pulling for them even though I had them loosing in my bracket. The end of the Tennessee game was even better. I've only picked three games wrong so far, not too bad. None of them have effected the next round so far. My wrong picks so far were Marquette, Texas A&M, and Western Kentucky. I have Mich. State, Memphis, Gonzaga and Pitt in my final four with Mich. State over Pitt for my champ.

Here is a pic I found looking for a hot UW chick for good luck tonight.

Come down to the Friendly Bar and Grill in Star Prairie tonight. There is the excellent fish fry as always on Friday night and we have 2$ margaritas, summer hummers and fuzzy navels from 4 to 6 today as a Spring Fling to celebrate the end of this miserable winter. I have also dubbed this blog the Official blog of the Friendly Bar. I be working from 5-Close. We have a DJ/karaoke tomorrow night too. I'll be there working from 5-11 or so.

Ronald

definition of a cubs fan

this explains it all.

Tuesday night

Twitter? Not sure what the hell Twittering is. I think it involves mass text messaging people what you are up to. I think it is like updating your facebook profile every ten minutes like some creeps do. If I twittered or tweeted or whatever it is called. It would go like this:

Alex Rodriguez was once A-Rod then he juiced and he was dubbed A-Roid now he did a ultra creepy magazine photo shoot and he is now Gay-Rod. (I think he is kissing the mirror)


And this pic was on the Deadspin site, classic. I hate the Yankees for taking Texiera and sticking us with a second round pick, which is actually a third round pic, due to the sandwich pick. Here is the douchebag Cashman with a Sox fan I would guess.
Brad Nelson is the man. End of Story. No gimmicks or fluff to this post. Keep it real Rad Brad.
Ronald

blah blah blah

It's nice outside. I should be outside doing something, but I'm too lazy tonight. Instead, I'll just watch some television and do some laundry. Possibly the dishes, if I get a wild hair up my ass. And yes, if you're wondering, I do know how to do the dishes. You just let the dog lick them clean, right?

Badgers make the big dance. Will they be one and done? No, they should beat Florida State according to some guy I saw on Sportscenter. Can't think of his name at this moment, but he is on ESPN radio occasionally too. Anyways, they play Friday night. I'll be bartending and ignoring some of the customers to watch the game. Here's to making farther than the Goofers.

Braun hurt his oblique at the WBC. Great news. The guy we need to stay healthy is hurt already. All these injuries will turn away the last six fans the WBC had away. This is why you shouldn't have four outfielders on the team and ask them to play full games when they are not in shape enough to do so. If Braun being hurt, kills our season due to some fucking exhibition games, I'll be pretty pissed.

I'm done ranting for now. I gotta go shave my beard, it's past the point of looking decent. If you grow a beard you know what I mean. It looks cool for like 3 or 4 days tops, and then it looks too long and you can never trim it the right length, so you end up shaving it and starting over. That is the point I'm at now.

Later.
Ronald

Terror level red?

Check this story out. It was on the front page of the JSonline website. Meat lovers will be saddened. http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/41199767.html

In sports we have the Badgers playing their first game of the Big10 tourney today. Go Red. I'm hoping that they can win tonight's game and give Michigain State a run for their money tomorrow. Will it happen, who knows. I'm not going to lay into the Badgers today. Not in the mood today.

Since we talked about red meat and the Badgers, we'll stick with a red theme today. The man in the backwards red Yankees hat is back. Yes, I'm talking about Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit. The original lineup is back together and recording new material and planning on touring. This is the best band I've seen live. I saw them twice, once at the Dome and once at Roy Wilkins. Neither time had Wes Borland in the band though. So far they are only planning a Euro tour, but here's hoping they come this way. Check out their website, it's got video of them playing together again, and some other cool shit. All there music videos are on there as well as them playing Boiler and Break Stuff from recent sessions. http://www.limpbizkit.com/

Gotta bartend tonight to make up for poker losses. Only 15bones, but it hurts to lose it when you were up 30-40$ at one point. Last week I won 40$ so, what comes around goes around.

Ronald

Thursday

I'm on my lunch break at work right now killing the last ten minutes I have before a customer comes in to watch their parts run. I work in a plastic factory, by the way. Not a whole lot of news today. Marquette killed St. Johns in basketball last night. While I did say in an earlier post that I'm a UW fan, I still do pull for Marquette to do well. Just not against the Badgers. Hopefully they can do well in the tourney. Tiger Woods is playing again this week, hopefully he will dominate and continue to do so in winning the Masters this year. I read that Jonny Paplebon called Manny a cancer in the Red Sox organization. No shit? Really Jon, you are about the tenth person to claim this. While it is surely true, why do you fools keep telling the media about it. Sorry the Rays beat you last year and the Yankees are in the headlines more already, but get over it. The dude ripped it up in LA last year and will most likely do the same. In Wisconsin we had a cat that left our team and not everybody threw him under the bus, you might remember him. His name is Brett something. Yeah I know, he didn't give up during games like ManRam did, but you guys are still better than half your division.

Back to work.
Ronald

Word up Wed.

LT signs with Chargers for another year. Personally, I would have let them release me and went to play for the Saints. Back with the QB the Chargers should have never let go of. That would be an even sicker offensive team.

Canada and Dominican Republic ousted from WBC. Both of these teams were favored to make it farther into the tournament. This is good for the USA, as both of these teams were stacked. Canada came close to beating the US in game 1, and it's good we don't play them again.

Clemens tied to McNemee's drug items. Yawn, this is such old news I don't know why I'm even commenting on it. I didn't even read the story, just the headline. Fuck the Rocket.

Big Ten B-Ball tourney starts tonight. Here's to a good run by the Badgers, they play tomorrow against Ohio State. With a win they could be in the dance. If they beat the Buckeyes they would play the winner of the Gopher/?/Michigain State game. Which we would have a tough time doing. Down with the Goophers.

Archery tonight.
Ronald

Quicky

T.O. signs with the Bills for one year. I don't get it. Why the Bills? I'm glad he didn't go to the Packers, because he is a cancer for any team he signs with. But the Bills, huh, really? I guess it was down to them and the Raiders. I guess Al Davis isn't crazy after all. Hey Buffalo, You do know T.O. is crazy, right? You do know that T.O. will call out your QB if Lee Evens gets more passes than him, right? You do know he blew up his own sick QB in a superbowl and called another one gay, right? Ok, just checkin. Good luck, in Buffalo.

Eric Gagne is released from the Brewers. Tough luck. Too bad to see ya go, I was hoping to get some of that ten million dollars back, by using you for cheap this year.

Ronald

what, come again?

This was one of the dumbest comments I've heard in awhile. Karl Ravech on ESPN's Baseball Tonight, said "I could see some teams making moves around the all star break, if they are down in the standings to make a move at the playoffs, teams such as the Yankee, Red Sox, Cubs or Brewers." Now I'm just paraphrasing, but you get the point. How the hell are we even in the same category on spending as these three teams. Just because we got Sabathia last year, doesn't mean we are going to do this every year.

Bill Hall to the Yankees? Could happen now with A-roid hurt. We are reportedly looking around for some much needed OF help. Could the trade be back on? I hope not yet, I'd like to see how Billy does with the new Lasik surgery.

OF needs. We are looking around at potential backups, some of the guys names tossed around are Dave Roberts, Jim Edmonds, Jay Payton, Luis Gonzalez. I'm not too stoked on this list, but with Gwynn out, what can you do? I'm hoping Brad Nelson is a backup out there.

Have a nice weekend everybody.
Ronald

Thursday morning

Matt Birk signs with the Ravens. Awesome news, he is a good player that I'm glad to see leave MN. Too bad we won't get to hear him on the radio weekly though.

T.O. cut by the Cowboys. Finally this franchise does something right for the first time in thirteen years. Here's to a possible playoff win.

Ray Lewis signs with the Ravens. Not a real big surpise, glad to see a guy stick with his team. I'm sure they paid him nicely, and he deserved it. Note to the Queens, this is what you do with a team leader (ex. Matt Birk).

Well, my son is feeling better, but my wife is sick now and I'm feeling it a little bit too.
Ronald

New Post

Here are some quick sports news updates.



Manny signs with the Dodgers for 2years and 45million. About time. We all knew this would happen and it finally has. He didn't want the deferred money, but it turns out he got it anyways. . I think he just wanted to sit out of spring training for a couple weeks.



Barry Bonds wants to play this year. Yeah, and I wanna hump Marisa Millers leg like a horny dog, but it isn't going to happen.

Kurt Warner signs back on with the Cardinals. I guess we'll see if this was a one year fluke or not. It will be hard to get back there with out Boldin though.

Braun scored a run in the WBC scrimmage against the Yankees today, not too sure what to make of the WBC. Maybe it should be played at a different time of the year so all the best players don't back out of the tourney.

That is about all I have for today, gotta go check on my napping sick son.

Ronald

NFL free agency

Sitting at my computer on the intranets. Thank you Al Gore. Just chillin, listening to some P.O.S.(local rapper from the cities, not too bad) and playing some free poker on Full Tilt.

Free Agency has begun in the NFL and some crazy shit has happened already.
The Vikings are reportedly tried to go after TJ Housh., and the Queens fans at work were already about to order thier superbowl replica rings already. Suckers, it turns out he decided to pick the Seahawks instead. As it turns out he wanted to play for a team with a good QB, and the Vikings have failed to aqcuire a good QB for a number of years. Rumors are floating around that the Vikes are looking into Jay Cutler. I hope not, he is one guy I always root for and he is a fantasy football favorite of mine, don't do it Jay, it's not worth it.

Cassel to the Chiefs was a great move on the Chiefs part, not sure if New England didn't want to pay him the 14.5 million they owed him or what was going on. They will be hurting if Tom Brady goes down and don't have a decent backup. Fat Albert Haynesworth signed a fat paycheck, and I'm stunned they would commit this much money to a defensive lineman. He is a great player, but damn. He doesn't touch the ball every play or every other play like a QB or even a running back would. Fred Taylor signed with New England, good for Taylor and so so for New England. Do they really need another aging RB?

We ordered our tickets to go to Milwaukee on Saturday, there are 8 of us going to see the Braves series at the end of July. Should be a blast.

That is all I have for today. I have a sick kid to take care of, he is puking and shitting everywhere.

Ronald