Braun v. Melvin: Going with Deputy Braun Here

I know I missed the Ken Macha's boat (if you dont know what I am talking about look at the Journal Sentinel picture on Tuesday) with this article but to be honest it needs to be cover in a blog that have a major focus on Wisconsin sports.

On Sunday, the first wave of shots were fired between Ryan Braun and Doug Melvin when Braunie made a comment about the starting pitching....
"Their starting pitching is a lot better than ours," Braun said. "They threw the ball a lot better than our starters did, and they swung the bats better than we did as well. Clearly, they were the better team. It's nice to get one win, but they clearly outperformed us in this series."

Speaking of the woeful series against the Chicago Cubs this weekend and Braun basically said what was on the mind of all the fans we were thinking about for the last two weeks now. I mean I could tell Braun that he needs to look at more sliders in the dirt and his batters need to deliver with guys with running in scoring position too. I have no problem with Braun saying what he did but he should have have kept it to himself.

Now what was the worst idea possible the General Manager Doug Melvin decided he needed to say something as well. Here is his quote... "It was inappropriate for him to say what he said, and I'm not happy about it," Melvin told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Monday. "To make the statements he made and also get on his teammates like that, it was irresponsible on his part. It just ticked me off."

Why even go there with Braun? I feel like Melvin needed to show off his ego and whose the boss in this franchise. Thats absolute crap, we should have learned from the Brewers beat writers that Braun/Melvin had a meeting and thats all we know. That is what should have happened instead of Melvin releasing this quote. Then Braun and him had that meeting I mentioned before after the spat now Doug is a "cool" guy.

I think the fact of the matter is Braun wants to win more than anyone not named Prince Fielder and sometimes he cant control his intensity. He is a young guy and these things will happen. Hopefully this will spark another run as most Braun rants do.

-Charlie.