Brewers Obtain Durham from Giants

The Brewers have obtained switch-hitting 2nd baseman Ray Durham from the San Francisco Giants. The Giants got Class A outfielder Darren Ford and Triple A left-hander Steve Hammond. Rickie Weeks will continue to be the starting 2nd baseman, Ned Yost plans to play Durham a couple times a week and see how it goes.
"We are trying to get as many good players as we can," said Milwaukee General Manager Doug Melvin, "We're trying to win this thing."
Durham stated that it was a "weird feeling" watching the finally of the Brewers 3 game series on Sunday and then packing up to fly with the Brewers to St. Loise where he will be wearing the #5 uniform tonight.
Durham will be valuable for his nearly equal stats. As a left-handed hitter against right-handed pitchers he has a .279 average with .354 on-base percentage. And vice versa he has a .277 average with a .344 on-base percentage.

Team In Training Honored at Mallards Game

On Sunday, July 27th, Team In Training will be the honored non-profit at the Madison Mallard's Game. Our honored teammate, 11 year old cancer survivor Caela, will be throwing the opening pitch. A portion of ticket sales will go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

More Favre Headlines!

Over the weekend the Packers reinstated Favre following much drama after his decision to come out of retirement. The Packers didn't have much choice. They could either release him, trade him, or reinstate him. There was a huge fan gather at Lambeau over the weekend asking the Packers to let Favre come back. Personally I think this whole thing is very messy and there are many rumors still floating around. The Packers say Favre said he wanted to come back months ago. they were prepared to let him back, when he changed his mine. I also hear that Favre was forced to retire. It is hard to say what happened and even harder to predict what the final outcome will be. Favre was reinstated (still needs to ask the NFL to come back from retired status), but he will have to compete for the role of starting QB with the Pack...

Favre Comeback???

It is hard not to hear about this story. Turn on ESPN and it's there; turn on the local news, and yup, it's there too! Right now there are so many rumors I don't know if it pays to think too much about it until there is something solid. Supposedly Favre sent a text message to Ted Thompson that he wants to come back but Thompson is on vacation and won't answer right now. Local reports claim that is not something Thompson would do. There is a lot of talk about what will happen if the Packers don't take him back, could he be wearing a Vikings jersey come fall?
There is also a lot of discussion about the options for the Packers. You have to think that the only reason they wouldn't take him back is if he won't give them the best shot to go to the super bowl. And if you don't think he will come back and be really good you wouldn't be worried if he went to another team. I guess we will have to wait and see what pans out on this one. It is definitely the news story right now!

Braun and Sheets to Play in All-Star Game

Ryan Braun and Ben Sheets have been selected to start in the 2008 All-Star Game, the last to be played at Yankee Stadium on July 15th. Braun is the first Brewer's outfielder to start in the All-Star game since 1999! Please vote for Corey Hart to join them.
Braun has also joined the home run derby next week at Yankee Stadium. Braun currently leads the Brewers with 22 home runs.

Brewers Sign CC Sabathia

Yesterday at 11am the Brewers announced that they traded 4 prospects (most notable is Matt LaPorta) for Cleveland pitcher (and AL Cy Young Award Winner) CC Sabathia to make a run for the play offs. Sabathia made his first start with the Brewers last night in game 2 of their series against the Colorado Rockies. In this opening game the Brewers beat the Rockies 7 to 3 with a 3 run home run by Ryan Braun!
It has been 26 years since the Brewers were able to celebrate a playoff berth. Hopefully Sheets and Sabathia prove to be the duo the Brewers need pitching for them to make it possible in '08.