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Status Check: Milwaukee Brewers

Status Check is FanHouse's conversation with fans from the rest of the blogosphere. Today, we talk with David Hannes from Brewers Bar, ESK from The Wisconsin Sports Bar, and Brad and Matt from Chuckie Hacks. The Brewers are certainly primed for success over the next several years here with their young core of players. At...

Things Are Getting Ugly in Milwaukee

For the past month or so, the Brewers have been trying not to panic with their NL Central lead disappearing fast. They've been doing a decent job of it (they are still in first place, afterall), but I think it's going to get much tougher to do in a very short order. First there was the Ben Sheets injury. That wouldn't be...

The Brewers Scuffle Becomes Clearer

Usually a clubhouse shoving match like the one seen in Milwaukee today is met with a whole bunch of "we're going to keep this in-house" quotes, with variations like "we'll handle this internally". And initially, after the Johnny Estrada/Ned Yost public argument, that's exactly what we got.But to Yost's credit, he clarified...

Rickie Weeks Demoted

With their lead in the NL Central shrinking, it looks like the Brewers have finally had enough of Rickie Weeks' year-long rehab at second base. Weeks had his 2006 season ended by a wrist injury and he's spent some time on the DL this year trying to nurse it back to health. Unfortunately, he's never been able to get his bat...

The Brewers Are Slumping

It's been a while since all of the "The Brewers Are the Best Team in Baseball" talk. There is good reason for that. The Brewers have now lost seven of their past ten games and are 1-7 in their past eight games not started by Ben Sheets. They're not hitting, they're not pitching, they're not really doing much of anything...