Poor Gamel. McGehee's had a couple of high profile errors and Gamel still gets pulled with him as the defensive replacement.

Oh Frank. We just remembered that freakin Air Supply sings that song. Prince gives you noogies for that, doesnt he?

Diggin Mike Burns AB music - old school Offspring "Nitro"

To the people with kids in sec 433 row 18, you are great. You offered to switch seats with the folks next to you bc you knew your kids would be up and down.

Frank hits home runs?

Oh Frank Catalanotto, is your at bat music really "I Don't Want To Lose Your Love. Toni-ight!"

Awesome! MP sound guy on the ball with the Mike Burns\Mr Burns "Excellent" sound e ffect.

All Star Game, the weekend and gratitude

Watching the Home Run Derby? How about the All Star Game? Make sure you check in with me and the rest of the Ladies… on both Monday and Tuesday for fun, snark, drinking and live blogging.

Our blog host doesn’t allow for the software, so we’ll be using CoverIt Live and we’ll set up a link each night which we’ll post at ladiesdotdotdot.wordpress.com, so come join us. You’ll be able to join the conversation, make fun of us and generally enjoy our sparkling personalities! Sounds like good times!

Plus, you’ll be able to make fun of me all night on Tuesday for spending my birthday live blogging. Because I’m a NERD!

Have a safe, happy weekend everyone. If you’re in Milwaukee, go have some crepes and wine at Bastille Days and make sure you pet some Basset Hounds at the Basset Buddies tent.

If you’re in the Appleton area tonight, Dave Bush is making a rehab start with the TimberRattlers.

I highly recommend attending a TRats game, no matter where you are in the state. We’ve driven up twice from Milwaukee and it couldn’t have gone smoother. The stadium is beautiful, and it’s an all around great experience, especially if you have kids.

I had a death in the family over the last weekend and the funeral on Wednesday, so I’m sorry for the blackout this week, but we had other priorities. Thanks for being patient.

On hold

I've got a lot of things going on in my personal life, so posting is going to be scarce this week.

I'm fairly certain I haven't posted this before, but any time I post on Brew Crew Ball, it is linked on my Twitter.

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There will be some new content from there this week, but otherwise, give me til the weekend to get back on my feet. Thanks

The bf and I totally have a crush on Mike Marseco. We're calling it now. He's our next Cousell!

Cain with a single. He's 1-3.

With great relief pitching from Almonte and 2 runs scored in each the 2nd, 4th and 5th, the TRats have made a game of this. 9-6 at the end of the 5th.

I DID NOT KNOW THAT: Brett Lawrie took second in the Midwest League ASG Home Run Derby. Sad for him it was to a guy named Rebel.

Also, Cain's at bat music is somewhat obscure New Orleans rap.

2nd inning still on, TRats already down 9-0. Swear xe saw an inside the park HR, though the hometown scorer gave an error.

Surprise! Lorenzo Cain playing CF tonight. There was no news on this last night. Must have just happened.

What the hell is Lorenzo Cain doing playing for the TRats?

Have to say well done to the TRats - we got here two hours before gametime and the game was already sold out to grass seats.

Way to go, YoGa!

Seven K's through the first four innings, a career-high 12 K's through seven innings.

Spectacular pitching.

Brewers ranked seventh of 122 professional franchises

The annual ESPN the Magazine survey that ranks professional sports franchises on their fan-friendly-ness.

According to the MLB.com story, the ESPN release said they studied the franchises in terms of "Paying fans back for their investment of time, money and passion."

The rankings have been released every year since 2003 and use research and fan feedback to rank in eight categories - affordability, coaching, fan relations, ownership, players, stadium experience, winning and winning over the past three seasons.

The LA Angels of Anaheim are the number one overall team, but the Brewers are the only other MLB team in the top ten. The Tampa Bay Rays come in ranked at No. 16 and top the list in affordability.

Craig Counsell, motivational speaker

Nicolet ballplayers get pep talk from Counsell, then beat Whitefish Bay
July 1, 2009 12:31 p.m. | Prior to Monday night's high school baseball game between Nicolet and Whitefish Bay, Brewers infielder Craig Counsell gave some of the players a bit of a pre-game pep talk.

Surprisingly, though, the 1988 graduate of Whitefish Bay High School, didn't chat with players from his alma mater. Instead, he provided words of encouragement to conference rival Nicolet.

"Everyone really appreciated it," said Nicolet coach Dick Sykes. "There were no autographs. Just a real nice talk from a great guy."

Whatever Counsell said to the team appears to have worked - Nicolet handily defeated Bay by a 12-2 score.

Congrats to Mike Cameron

For having SportsCenter's top play of June.

The list included a double eagle in golf, the great comeback by Texas in the CWS, LSU's Mikey Mahtook's diving catch in the CWS, Lucas Glover's birdie on 18 to win the US Open and the diving, last second save by Marc-Andre Fleury in the final game of the Stanley Cup Finals.

More reasons to love Casey McGehee

As though his legitimate candidacy for ROY, his crazy good BA, and the grand slam weren't enough, check out one of Tom H's twitters from tonight:

Haudricourt Watching McGehee scream into his helmet after grand slam was priceless. He was still upset about his error. Said he'll apologize to helmet.

Awesome. Love it.

I've always worn #14 and I loved that 3TO was #14, but Casey McGehee is quickly becoming my favorite #14 and favorite Brewer.

Sweet Mother of God this bad!

I'm in the middle of writing the post-game thread for Brew Crew Ball, so I'm not going to take the time to embed this, but you MUST click here and hear a song about Ryan Braun called "Going, Going, Braun."

If you've been to Miller Park lately, you've heard this song, which was apparently made just for Prince



And while I've thought that's a little hokey, the Braun song is absolutely atrocious.