CIN, HOU, MIL, PIT, CHC all pisspoor in 2009.

[PenFoe]

Major League Baseball has decided not to suspend Prince Fielder for his actions following Tuesday's game against the Dodgers.
In a surprising twist, everyone was pardoned from suspension: Fielder for trying to get into the Dodger clubhouse to confront Guillermo Mota; Mota for intentionally drilling Fielder in the ninth inning of a blowout; Dodgers manager Joe Torre for ordering the plunking. Fielder and Mota will pay undisclosed fines. Maybe MLB discipline czar Bob Watson is going soft. Regardless, this is good fantasy news for all involved.

Shocking, Selig didn't suspend the Brewers' second best player.

And if it had been a Cub, he'd be gone for a month.

Fuck Bud Selig with Bea Arthur's dead dick.

People don't truly believe this, right?

It's just some internet Cubs fan parody hoax, I assume?

Whatever "anti-Cubs bias" one thinks Selig has, his primary agenda is to make as much money for baseball as possible.
There would be probably no better marketing and revenue opportunity for baseball than to have the Cubs in the World Series.

[Ghost of Dave Rosello]

Major League Baseball has decided not to suspend Prince Fielder for his actions following Tuesday's game against the Dodgers.
In a surprising twist, everyone was pardoned from suspension: Fielder for trying to get into the Dodger clubhouse to confront Guillermo Mota; Mota for intentionally drilling Fielder in the ninth inning of a blowout; Dodgers manager Joe Torre for ordering the plunking. Fielder and Mota will pay undisclosed fines. Maybe MLB discipline czar Bob Watson is going soft. Regardless, this is good fantasy news for all involved.

Shocking, Selig didn't suspend the Brewers' second best player.

And if it had been a Cub, he'd be gone for a month.

Fuck Bud Selig with Bea Arthur's dead dick.

People don't truly believe this, right?

It's just some internet Cubs fan parody hoax, I assume?

Whatever "anti-Cubs bias" one thinks Selig has, his primary agenda is to make as much money for baseball as possible.
There would be probably no better marketing and revenue opportunity for baseball than to have the Cubs in the World Series.

No. I just like busting on Bud and Team Cheesecurd.

I do find it hard to believe a player can skate without a suspension for something like that. Does smack of favoritism when the Brewers are involved.

[Brownie]

The fact that Cecil did not get into the Dodgers' clubhouse is what spared him. He had to be restrained, but ultimately, nothing happened.

[Saul Goodman]

Major League Baseball has decided not to suspend Prince Fielder for his actions following Tuesday's game against the Dodgers.
In a surprising twist, everyone was pardoned from suspension: Fielder for trying to get into the Dodger clubhouse to confront Guillermo Mota; Mota for intentionally drilling Fielder in the ninth inning of a blowout; Dodgers manager Joe Torre for ordering the plunking. Fielder and Mota will pay undisclosed fines. Maybe MLB discipline czar Bob Watson is going soft. Regardless, this is good fantasy news for all involved.

Shocking, Selig didn't suspend the Brewers' second best player.

And if it had been a Cub, he'd be gone for a month.

Fuck Bud Selig with Bea Arthur's dead dick.

People don't truly believe this, right?

It's just some internet Cubs fan parody hoax, I assume?

Whatever "anti-Cubs bias" one thinks Selig has, his primary agenda is to make as much money for baseball as possible.
There would be probably no better marketing and revenue opportunity for baseball than to have the Cubs in the World Series.

No, Cubs fans don't believe this.  A month?  Come on.  Let's get serious.  I think we all know that is a crazy notion, especially since no one can deny that Milton would have been executed by lethal injection for this because BUD HATES US.  :(

[Ghost of Dave Rosello]

Major League Baseball has decided not to suspend Prince Fielder for his actions following Tuesday's game against the Dodgers.
In a surprising twist, everyone was pardoned from suspension: Fielder for trying to get into the Dodger clubhouse to confront Guillermo Mota; Mota for intentionally drilling Fielder in the ninth inning of a blowout; Dodgers manager Joe Torre for ordering the plunking. Fielder and Mota will pay undisclosed fines. Maybe MLB discipline czar Bob Watson is going soft. Regardless, this is good fantasy news for all involved.

Shocking, Selig didn't suspend the Brewers' second best player.

And if it had been a Cub, he'd be gone for a month.

Fuck Bud Selig with Bea Arthur's dead dick.

People don't truly believe this, right?

It's just some internet Cubs fan parody hoax, I assume?

Whatever "anti-Cubs bias" one thinks Selig has, his primary agenda is to make as much money for baseball as possible.
There would be probably no better marketing and revenue opportunity for baseball than to have the Cubs in the World Series.

No, Cubs fans don't believe this.  A month?  Come on.  Let's get serious.  I think we all know that is a crazy notion, especially since no one can deny that Milton would have been executed by lethal injection for this because BUD HATES US.  :(

C'mon, the lethal injection thing is a little over the top.

They'd feed him to a pack of rabid ferrets.

[Weebs]

Major League Baseball has decided not to suspend Prince Fielder for his actions following Tuesday's game against the Dodgers.
In a surprising twist, everyone was pardoned from suspension: Fielder for trying to get into the Dodger clubhouse to confront Guillermo Mota; Mota for intentionally drilling Fielder in the ninth inning of a blowout; Dodgers manager Joe Torre for ordering the plunking. Fielder and Mota will pay undisclosed fines. Maybe MLB discipline czar Bob Watson is going soft. Regardless, this is good fantasy news for all involved.

Shocking, Selig didn't suspend the Brewers' second best player.

He didn't suspend Mota either.  Stop acting like BC.

Well of course he didn't.  If he suspended Mota, he would have had to suspend Prince.  Players very often get suspended for at least a game when they intentionally hit a batter.

[Shooter]

Major League Baseball has decided not to suspend Prince Fielder for his actions following Tuesday's game against the Dodgers.
In a surprising twist, everyone was pardoned from suspension: Fielder for trying to get into the Dodger clubhouse to confront Guillermo Mota; Mota for intentionally drilling Fielder in the ninth inning of a blowout; Dodgers manager Joe Torre for ordering the plunking. Fielder and Mota will pay undisclosed fines. Maybe MLB discipline czar Bob Watson is going soft. Regardless, this is good fantasy news for all involved.

Shocking, Selig didn't suspend the Brewers' second best player.

He didn't suspend Mota either.  Stop acting like BC.

Well of course he didn't.  If he suspended Mota, he would have had to suspend Prince.  Players very often get suspended for at least a game when they intentionally hit a batter.

Matt Garza didn't, and he admitted he plunked Mark Teixeira on purpose a couple weeks ago.

[Shooter]

Major League Baseball has decided not to suspend Prince Fielder for his actions following Tuesday's game against the Dodgers.
In a surprising twist, everyone was pardoned from suspension: Fielder for trying to get into the Dodger clubhouse to confront Guillermo Mota; Mota for intentionally drilling Fielder in the ninth inning of a blowout; Dodgers manager Joe Torre for ordering the plunking. Fielder and Mota will pay undisclosed fines. Maybe MLB discipline czar Bob Watson is going soft. Regardless, this is good fantasy news for all involved.

Shocking, Selig didn't suspend the Brewers' second best player.

And if it had been a Cub, he'd be gone for a month.

Fuck Bud Selig with Bea Arthur's dead dick.

People don't truly believe this, right?

It's just some internet Cubs fan parody hoax, I assume?

Whatever "anti-Cubs bias" one thinks Selig has, his primary agenda is to make as much money for baseball as possible.
There would be probably no better marketing and revenue opportunity for baseball than to have the Cubs in the World Series.

No, Cubs fans don't believe this.  A month?  Come on.  Let's get serious.  I think we all know that is a crazy notion, especially since no one can deny that Milton would have been executed by lethal injection for this because BUD HATES US.  :(

Intrepid reader: LaTroy Hawkins

Not as much as he hates the Astros.

[Brownie]

Fortunately, Al's counterparts in Houston have the proper T-shirts already made.

[BH]

Anyone else see Howry try to hit a guy 3-4 times before he actually hit him this week?

[Kermit, B.]

Major League Baseball has decided not to suspend Prince Fielder for his actions following Tuesday's game against the Dodgers.
In a surprising twist, everyone was pardoned from suspension: Fielder for trying to get into the Dodger clubhouse to confront Guillermo Mota; Mota for intentionally drilling Fielder in the ninth inning of a blowout; Dodgers manager Joe Torre for ordering the plunking. Fielder and Mota will pay undisclosed fines. Maybe MLB discipline czar Bob Watson is going soft. Regardless, this is good fantasy news for all involved.

Shocking, Selig didn't suspend the Brewers' second best player.

He didn't suspend FORMER BREWER Mota either.  Stop acting like BC.

Conspiracy!'ed.

[Weebs]

Major League Baseball has decided not to suspend Prince Fielder for his actions following Tuesday's game against the Dodgers.
In a surprising twist, everyone was pardoned from suspension: Fielder for trying to get into the Dodger clubhouse to confront Guillermo Mota; Mota for intentionally drilling Fielder in the ninth inning of a blowout; Dodgers manager Joe Torre for ordering the plunking. Fielder and Mota will pay undisclosed fines. Maybe MLB discipline czar Bob Watson is going soft. Regardless, this is good fantasy news for all involved.

Shocking, Selig didn't suspend the Brewers' second best player.

He didn't suspend FORMER BREWER Mota either.  Stop acting like BC.

Conspiracy!'ed.

Brad Thompson has been suspended three games and fined an undisclosed amount for throwing at David Wright's head Wednesday.
Thompson has filed an appeal, and denied there was intent behind the pitch in a post-game interview on Wednesday. "You throw a ball like at somebody's head, especially after something happened earlier, and you expect a warning," said the reliever. "I'm not going to try to hit David Wright in the head. I'm not going to hit anybody in the head." The Mets, and the home plate umpire, saw the up-and-in fastball as retaliation for the beaning of Albert Pujols one inning earlier.

Bring on the "but it's different when you throw at a player's head" comments.  Selig is a manipulative chodestain.

[CT III]

Major League Baseball has decided not to suspend Prince Fielder for his actions following Tuesday's game against the Dodgers.
In a surprising twist, everyone was pardoned from suspension: Fielder for trying to get into the Dodger clubhouse to confront Guillermo Mota; Mota for intentionally drilling Fielder in the ninth inning of a blowout; Dodgers manager Joe Torre for ordering the plunking. Fielder and Mota will pay undisclosed fines. Maybe MLB discipline czar Bob Watson is going soft. Regardless, this is good fantasy news for all involved.

Shocking, Selig didn't suspend the Brewers' second best player.

He didn't suspend FORMER BREWER Mota either.  Stop acting like BC.

Conspiracy!'ed.

EVERYONE'S AGAINST US!

[Kermit, B.]

Major League Baseball has decided not to suspend Prince Fielder for his actions following Tuesday's game against the Dodgers.
In a surprising twist, everyone was pardoned from suspension: Fielder for trying to get into the Dodger clubhouse to confront Guillermo Mota; Mota for intentionally drilling Fielder in the ninth inning of a blowout; Dodgers manager Joe Torre for ordering the plunking. Fielder and Mota will pay undisclosed fines. Maybe MLB discipline czar Bob Watson is going soft. Regardless, this is good fantasy news for all involved.

Shocking, Selig didn't suspend the Brewers' second best player.

He didn't suspend FORMER BREWER Mota either.  Stop acting like BC.

Conspiracy!'ed.

EVERYONE'S AGAINST US!

I'm fir us!

[*In a Nutsack]

In Cheese Land:

Brewers designated third baseman Bill Hall for assignment.

The Brewers are really cleaning house this afternoon. Hall had an awful .201/.265/.341 batting line in 211 at-bats with the Crew this season and hasn't posted solid all-around numbers since 2006. Perhaps a change of scenery will help the 29-year-old figure it out offensively.

...and...

Brewers optioned shortstop J.J. Hardy to Triple-A Nashville.

Alcides Escobar was recalled to take his spot on the roster and on the field. Hardy has posted a disappointing .229/.300/.367 batting line in 371 at-bats this season with 11 home runs and 45 RBI, and the Brewers want to see what they have in Escobar, a 22-year-old shortstop.

I guess McGehee and/or Matt Gamel will take over 3B and Alcides Escobar to take over SS.