Roller Coaster Brew Crew

There are those bandwagon homer fans who will tell you that this is more like the Brewers they know "and love". I'm not one of those fans.

Let's get something straight here. This Brewers team didn't crack .500 last year. Adding one very expensive pitcher in the off-season doesn't take you from sub-par to spectacular in the matter of a few months.

It's completely unreasonable to expect the Crew to win 120 games this season. It was never going to happen. And the thing is, they don't have to. With a mediocre division at best, the Brewers only need to win 90 or so games to win their division.

The season is only a quarter over, so everyone just needs to take a few deep breaths and settle in for awhile. In some ways the homers are right, same old Brewers. They haven't had a metamorphosis in the off-season. They haven't changed that much from year's past and therefore we're going to see signs of the fact that this is a young team. It's always been a streaky team.

I'm not trying to explain anything away. I'll be the first to admit the past week has been ugly. Last night was the first time in something like 5 games that we scored on something other than a home run. That's not going to win you games and it's totally getting away from what was working so well for the team through April.

That being said, J.J. Hardy and Prince Fielder are on top of the league leader board for HR and without them, this week would have been even more bleak.

I was at the game yesterday afternoon and I saw a bit more of the spark that seemed to have been missing this past week. We were down by 4 runs and we rallied. Every player did a part. Congratulations to Geoff Jenkins on his 200th career home run. This team was not an April flash in the pan. But I warn you, there will be more down times. However, I think that this team is absolutely going to prove to be worth the ride this season.

Strap in and enjoy it!