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I have read a lot of the dynasties written here and other sites and I have the itch to try one myself. So without further ado, I would like to bring you the 2006 Milwaukee Brewers.

The Brewers have been a franchise that has not seen much success since the glory days of Harvey's Wall Bangers. Whether it is do cheap ownership (yes that means you Mr. Selig) or mismanagement, this team and the city of Milwaukee has suffered since. My goal will to be return this franchise to its glory days (alright no world series victories, but that would be my goal).

I am not a gm that intends to do this through multiple trades, but by building through the draft and adding the right mixture of veterans where needed. I don't expect to win overnight, but I do expect to build this team for lasting success.

Lets meet the Brewers:

Pitching

Starting Rotation:

RP David Bush
LP Chris Capuano
RP Ben Sheets
LP Doug Davis
RP Tomo Ohka

Bullpen:

RP Matt Wise
RP Jose Capellan
RP Danny Kolb
RP Carlos Villanueva
LP Brian Shouse

CL Derrick Turnbow

Starters:

1B Prince Fielder
2B Tony Graffanino
SS Bill Hall
3B Corey Koskie
C Damian Miller
LF Carlos Lee
CF Brady Clark
RF Geoff Jenkins

Bench

IF J.J. Hardy
IF Jeff Cirillo
IF Richie Weeks
C Chad Moeller
OF Laynce Nix
OF Corey Hart


We open the season with a three game series against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The season started off today with only one game:

Seattle Mariners 2 at Cleveland Indians 3 

Starters:  Jared Washburn (0-0, 0.00) v C.C. Sabathia (0-0, 0.00)
W: Rafael Betancourt (1-0, 0.00)  L: Jake Woods (0-1, 4.50)
HR: SEA - A. Beltre (1)  CLE - Travis Hafner (1)

Good luck to the Brewers, taz! Look forward to your reports.

Pittsburgh Pirates 11 at Milwaukee Brewers 4
 
Starters:  Zach Duke (0-0, 0.00) v David Bush (0-0, 0.00)
W: Zach Duke (1-0, 6.00) L: David Bush (0-1, 14.73) S: Matt Capps (1)
HR: Pit - Jose Bautista (1), Jose Castillo (1), Craig Wilson (1) Mil - None
 
What can I say about our first game of the season.  We did not show up, as Pittsburgh scored in every inning but fifth and ninth.  If we have many more games like this one, I will be sent to an early grave.  What went wrong?  David  Bush was awful.  He struggled to get hitters out only going 3.2 innings and giving up all three home runs, plus nine hits.  He wasn't the only one though as the pitching staff as a whole gave up twenty two hits, walking four and only striking out two.  Our offense wasn't much better Corey Koskie doing anything at the plate, going 3-4.  The player of the game had to be Craig Wilson of the Pirates who went 4-6 with a Home Run and five RBIs.
 
Thankfully we have tomorrow off to rest our bullpen and try to get our offense going. 
 
The rest of the days action:
 
New York Mets 3 at San Diego Padres 1
W: Tom Glavine (1-0, 0.00) L: Jake Peavy (0-1, 2.70) S: Billy Wagner (1)
HR: NYM - Carlos Delgado (1) SD - Mike Piazza (1)
 
Los Angeles Dodgers 1 at Arizona Diamondbacks 2
W: Jose Valverde (1-0, 0.00) L: Hong-Chih Kuo (0-1, 27.00)
HR: LAD - None ARI - None
 
Chicago Cubs 2 at San Francisco 0
W: Greg Maddux (1-0, 0.00) L: Jason Schmidt (0-1, 2.57) S: Will Ohman (1)
HR: CHI - Jacque Jones (1) SF - None
 
Cincinnati Reds 3 at Atlanta Braves 6
W: John Smoltz (1-0, 3.38) L: Bronson Arroyo (0-1, 10.80) S: Chad Paronto (1)
HR: CIN - Ken Griffey (1) ATL - Brian McCann (1)
 
Houston Astros 7 at Washington Nationals 3
W: Roy Oswalt (1-0, 3.00) L: Livan Hernandez (0-1, 7.50)
HR: HOU - Lance Berkman 2 (2) WASH - Ryan Zimmerman (1)
 
Tampa Bay Devil Rays 3 at Oakland A's 1
W: Jae Weong Seo (1-0, 1.13) L: Danny Haren (0-1, 3.00) S: Dan Miceli (1)
HR: TB - None OAK - Milton Bradley (1)
 
Los Angeles Angels 4 at Boston Red Sox 7
W: Curt Schilling (1-0, 3.24) L: John Lackey (0-1, 8.10)
HR: LAA - Juan Rivera (1) BOS - Manny Ramirez (1)
 
New York Yankees 2 at Kansas City 6
W: Mark Redman (1-0, 2.16) L: Kyle Farnsworth (0-1, 0.00)
HR: NYY - None KC - None
 
Chicago White Sox 3 at Detroit Tigers 6
W: Kenny Rogers (1-0, 3.68) L: Javier Vasquez (0-1, 8.53) S: Joel Zumaya (1)
HR: CWS - Jermaine Dye (1) DET - Ivan Rodriguez (1), Craig Monroe (1), Chris Shelton (1), Brandon Inge (1)

It was a nice day off for us, but there were some other games being played today and here are the results:
 
San Diego Padres 2 at Colorado Rockies 4
W: Jeff Francis (1-0, 3.00) L: Chris Young (0-1, 3.00) S: Brian Fuentes (1)
HR: SD - None COL - Brad Hawpe (1)
 
Los Angeles Dodgers 4 at Arizona Diamondbacks 5 (10 innings)
W: Brandon Medders (1-0, 0.00) L: Joe Beimel (0-1, 13.50)
HR: LAD - None ARI - Chad Tracy (1), Jeff Davanon (1)
 
New York Mets 6 at Florida Marlins 1
W: Armando Ramos (1-0, 0.00) L: Dontrelle Willis (0-1, 6.75)
HR: NYM - Cliff Floyd (1) FLA - None
 
Philadelphia Phillies 2 at Atlanta Braves 5
W: Tim Hudson (1-0, 2.57) L: Brett Myers (0-1, 7.20) S: Chad Paronto (2)
HR: PHI - Ryan Howard (1) ATL - Andruw Jones (1), Chipper Jones (1), Jeff Francoeur (1)
 
Cincinnati Reds 5 at St. Louis Cardinals 1
W: Chris Hammond (1-0, 0.00) L: Chris Carpenter (0-1, 2.25)
HR: CIN - None STL - None
 
Texas Rangers 8 at Seattle Mariners 5
W: Kevin Millwood (1-0, 2.25) L: Jamier Moyer (0-1, 5.79)
HR: TEX - Rod Barajas (1) SEA - Adrian Beltre (2), Kenji Johjima (1)
 
Toronto Blue Jays 6 at Baltimore Orioles 3
W: Roy Halloday (1-0, 3.38) L: Erik Bedard (0-1, 7.04) S: BJ Ryan (1)
HR: TOR - Bengie Molina (1)  BAL - None
 
Cleveland Indians 5 at Minnesota Twins 0
W: Cliff Lee (1-0, 0.00) L: Johan Santana (0-1, 5.87)
HR: CLE - Travis Hafner (2), Jason Michaels (1) MIN - None
 
Chicago White Sox 5 at Detriot Tigers 0
W: Freddy Garcia (1-0, 0.00) L: Nate Robertson (0-1, 5.68)
HR: CWS - Scott Podsednik (1) DET - None

Thank you KG. My reports will probably change from time to time, but I am trying to make the updates fun and not a lot of work.

Well some bad news.

I was showing a nephew of mine this game, as he is a big baseball fan. I let him play while I took my family out on an extended weekend only to come home to find my association dead. It turns out that he started one of his one, only to decide to delete it. The only problem was that the one he deleted was mine.

Oh well the good thing was that I had not gotten too far into it.

With that said, I am going to try again but I am going to change teams.

Thanks,