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Me: Elsewhere.

I am doing some writing elsewhere along with the double or maybe even triple the size of a Bill Simmons column sized sidewinder. I will link to two spots where my text was elsewhere.

For Simon on Sports? I answered 10 to 11 questions for Simon in regards to the Brewers. I do kvetch about J.J. Hardy.

For SEC Football Blogger? Why the Volunteers armed robbery is so hilarious?

250 teams are down...

97 teams in 11 conferences are to go. Two good days or five decent days will get me there. It's a post that you've always wanted for this season.

An excerpt?

Ben Smith is a fine scorer without a fun name. It's not his fault. He just doesn't have a name nearly as fun as their All-Conference power forward. His name? Lehmon Colbert. CAN HE GIVE THE FIGHTING ARTIS GILMORE'S THE COLBERT BUMP TO THE BIG DANCE? Yes!

Intrigue?

Okay...

I've vented my spleen on the tweeter. I've unfollowed some people who just had to be hilarious. And that's fine. But here's the deal. That loss will be the tipping point. The schedule gets a lot tougher from here on out.

This loss will be much like Navy to Notre Dame. An unsurvivable loss. Mike McCarthy allowed this team to hang around and give a rookie quarterback the time he needs to find his confidence. He's gone. And if Mike McCarthy goes? It goes without saying that Dom Capers may follow. And as much as Ted Thompson can cull some diamonds in the rough? His inability to find an offensive lineman will be his doom.

(And don't get me started on the fact that Daryn Colledge is fine with this loss. If he had heart? He wouldn't have been made to do a Sasha Pavlocic impression when he got bullrushed.)

And I have been a staunch Aaron Rodgers defender. No matter how badly it's broken? I've said Rodgers was the right call. But the man is scared under center. He's holding the ball like he's Tim Tebow and getting sacked like he's David Carr. Of course, redemption is only three fights away, but this is me at my lowest, darkest, and if you follow my twitter feed, craziest point.

Of course? They have eight games left. But here's the second half schedule.

Dallas
San Fransisco
@ Detroit (Thanksgiving)
Baltimore
@ Chicago
@ Pittsburgh
Seattle
@ Arizona

It's not impossible that McCarthy can go back to the spread and shred 4 wide sets that allowed Favre to get off to such a good start in 2007. But here's the deal. 6-10 looks like it's fated.

And I'm kind of sad about it, you know?

The Obligatory Doug Melvin is doing it wrong post...

There will be a post upcoming on another site, where I made mention of several things I expected the Brewers to do and things I thought they should do. One of the things I thought was fated would be the fact that J.J. Hardy will get dealt. And it turns out? I was more right than I ever thought.

And yet? This deal is so so wrong. Why? Because I've called Carlos Gomez a Juan Pierre without all that incessant singles hitting. More of you follow my twitter. You know this.

J.J. Hardy is a shortstop that legitimately can hit .280 with 25 homers. I know, he's injury prone. But there have been three halfs of his career where the man was above .830 OPS as a shortstop. There's a real chance that he'll take out a .290/30/100, and it's not going to be for the Brewers.

The problem with Carlos Gomez? There's multiple problems to be perfectly honest. Age isn't one of them. He's still 24. But the power that was supposed to come? It has not. The approach at the plate? Still as raw as it was when Baseball America deigned him to be the Mets #3 prospect. Yeah, it's safe to say that Ken Macha may kill him in cold blood if he has to give him 500 at bats.

I know it's sort of unfair to blame Melvin for this. Hardy's trade value is at its worst. But this reeks of a panic trade. There had to be a Glen Perkins or Phillip Humber they could have got. HE HAS THE THIRD BEST UZR OF THE DECADE, AND HAS ONLY PLAYED IN ROUGHLY HALF OF IT!

I don't know what that is, but it's worth more than Carlos Flipping Gomez.

I promise you...I am doing a big blog post.

And it will be like 33 little posts in one. But until then? You just have to take my word on that.

I'm kind of annoyed by sports anyway. I hate sports, I hate fantasy football. I hate Dick Jauron. I hate Urban Meyer. I hate the Yankees.

I really hate the Yankees.