Milwaukee's "House of Horrors" continues as Jose Castillo hits his 4th homer in 3 games against Milwaukee. Since PNC opened the Brewers have routinely gone to Pittsburgh and not just lost. They have been HAMMERED. And this season, with better talent then the previous years, the losses have been even WORSE. 14-3 on Monday. 12-1 last night.

Look, Milwaukee isn't THAT much better then Pittsburgh right now. But to get absolutely DESTROYED like this? Don't give me the sample size nonsense. This is a VERY troubling sign no matter what folks say about the state of the pitching staff.

Brewres swept their first series against the Pirates, didn't they?

Even if you do lose every game against the Pirates, winning every game against the Phillies makes up for it.

This team is absolutely at the nadir. Bases loaded so of course it's the pitcher batting who pops up. Then Brady Clark, the one guy swinging bat well coming into the game, pops up on a TERRIBLE pitch.

I have to confess I had real hopes for the team this season. Not contention mind you but 85 wins even with Mr. Happy Pants calling the shots as manager. I even discounted Ben for half the season. I figured Davis, Capuano, Ohka would be average as a group. If Bush could build off last season who knows?

Instead, Davis collapes, Ohka gets hurt, and David Bush REFUSES, and I do mean REFUSES, to throw anything but 86 mph fastballs down the middle of the plate as a first pitch. And seems surprised when bad things happen.

I am glad for Mike and Vlad because it has already been a long season for them. But as a selfish Brewer fan seeing your team just get CREAMED by a below average major league team is disheartening.

Rats................

And the fun continues as Sean Casey and Jason Bay go back to back. Capuano is at 101 pitches through five innings.

Yost is so disgusted with the bullpen, which is in tatters thanks to his stupidity, he might over extend Chris and risk injury. That would just be the TOPPER to the whole ugly situation as this is the FIRST game all season where Capuano hasn't thrown a quality start.

Spread the word folks. Whatever the Cubs had is catching.............

Thankfully Ned removes Chris after 109 pitches.

The one saving grace in all this is that maybe, just maybe, Doug Melvin will take a hard look at what led to this moment. Or maybe he gets all Jim Hendry and holds the manager blameless.

I must confess to wonder what Mike Maddux is doing or not doing. Up until this year he seemingly was able to turn motor oil into wine. Not so this now. Doug Davis left his control in Spring Training and leads the NL in walks. Nobody can get David Bush to change his pitching pattern. Dane Eveland gets lazy every 10th pitch and watches it sail into the great beyond.

The bullpen has been even worse with the SOLE exception of Matt Wise.

Sigh........................

Don't look now, but the Pirates' record becomes more misleading by the day. Their Pythag record is 25-28, and the discrepancy with the actual is virtually all explained by the dismal performance in 1 run games. Yes, much of the improvement has come courtesy of the Brew Crew this week, but we could actually be in a place very soon where the Pirates' RS > RA. Just imagine what it would look like if the SS Bucco wasn't a ship of fool captained by a moron.