It seems that most of the pundits were wrong. Including me. I thought for sure the Brewers would make a move in the free agent pitching market to shore up the starting rotation. But it appears that David Stearns will roll the dice with what he has. With two and a half weeks until Opening Day it appears that the starting rotation will consist of Chase Anderson (Opening Day starter), Zach Davies, Jhouleys Chacin, Brett Suter and Wade Miley. Both Suter and Miley have been impressive this spring and have earned spots in the rotation. If they can continue that in the regular season remains to be seen. It appears at this point that Junior Guerra will start the season at AAA and Yovanni Gallardo will head to the bullpen although what they see in Gallardo remains baffling. He hasnt been effective in some time and hasn't done anything this spring to change my opinion. Jimmy Nelson is expected to re-join the rotation in a couple of months. Can the Brewers compete until then? You would hate to see them improve the offense and defense like they did and fall short because they refused to get better on the mound. What it does do is put alot of pressure on the bullpen which was great last year and seemed to get better in the off-season. The pen should be strong again and they may need to be. Opening Day is March 29th in San Diego.
Could the Bucks have found the spark plug they need for the stretch run? Brandon Jennings was excellent off the bench last night with 16 points, 12 assists and eight rebounds in just 24 minutes of action. Considering how far he had fallen to contribute like that in his first game back in the league is spectacular. This would surprise alot of people if he can sustain it. And the Bucks need him to. They are in Orlando on Wednesday
The Packers are bringing back three players that were exclusive rights free agents. WR Michael Clark who opened some eyes when he got into games will be back along with guard Justin McCray and cornerback Donatello Brown.
Congrats to some area girls basketball players who were named All-State by the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association. They include Maggie Negaard of Stevens Point and Taylor Petit of DC Everest in D-1…Katelyn Schmidt of Marathon in D-4 and Signe Fronek of Wausau Newman in D-5. Maddie Schires of Wausau West, Reanne Kietlinski of Bowler and Jessica Slowik of Elcho received honorable mention.
High school baseball practice officially starts on March 17th but the WIAA is allowing “pitchers and catcher” to begin a week early (today). What do you bet that every player on every team will suddenly become a “pitcher or catcher”?
My blogs will be hit or miss for the next couple of weeks. I'll be doing double duty filling in for folks on vacation. I hope to have time to write a bit but should be back full steam daily on March 28th
Elections have consequences….The Republican led House Intelligence Committee is closing down its Russia investigation saying there is no evidence of Russia interference or collusion in our electoral process. This before all testimony has been taken and coming to a conclusion that is the exact opposite of the intelligence community. It's clear that this committee's actions are nothing but partisan hypocrisy and totally expected under the leadership of the clearly compromised Devin Nunes. If Paul Ryan had any balls at all he would have replaced Nunes long ago but of course Ryan and the other congressional Republicans are not interested in the truth. If this was Obama we were talking about articles of impeachment would have been drawn up a long time ago……………….as Jim Sciutto reports former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called this an example of people 'living in their own reality bubbles..when we can't agree on basic facts”. He stands by the 2017 intelligence community assessment which he said was based on “highly classified” information………….The Brits say its clear that the Russians used a biological weapon to try and kill one of their former spies on the streets of London. Sarah Huckabee Sanders would not join the Brits and many others among our allies in calling out Putin for this seeming “act of war”. Why do you think that is? Even Rex Tillerson was willing to come out yesterday and say we are outraged that Russia engaged in such bevavior. So, once again Tillerson tries to say the right thing from a State Department that is constantly undermined by the White House. It's clear that his days are numbered at State and yesterday they seemed to float the “health” card for him…….
Quotes of The Day
“I had not seen a TV interview so cringe-inducing since Sarah Palin saw Russia from her backyard.”- Ana Navarro ( on the DeVos 60 Minutes interview)
Betsy DeVos is the human version of when you didn't do the reading but you get called on”-Bess Kalb
“Police officers accurately shoot moving targets about 18% of the time. The idea that we're going to turn volunteer teachers into sharpshooters is absurd. The answer is disarming dangerous people-not arming teachers”- Shannon Watts
“You can like that or not like that, cut that's the fact of what happened. That's exactly what happened”-Shepard Smith (on Trump caving on gun rules after meeting with NRA)
“Simply put politicians do not care about our generation because young people 18-29 don't vote and thats a huge reason why we have the student debt problem, environmental problems and gun violence because we show our ploitical leaders they can get away with what they want. No More”-David Hogg
Songs Of The Day—today in 1971 one of the finest live LPs ever was recorded…”The Allman Brothers Live At The Fillmore”…
