That should do it

Today's loss, the nail in the coffin. Good night Brewers. When this torturous month comes to a close, and the Brewers miss the playoffs by a game (improvement from last year -- 2 games -- yah!), which loss will be tougher to swallow?

A. Leading the Diamondbacks 5-0 in the bottom of the 9th and surrendering 6 runs to the home team without even recording an out.

OR

B. Today's game, two outs and nobody on base, leading the Cubs 6-2 and surrendering 4 runs before losing in 12 innings?

C. They both hurt more than a swift kick to the nuts.

This team has shown a resiliency after tough losses throughout the entire season, but not in this type of situation. Here's the cold, hard truth at the moment. The Brewers are not a good baseball team. If axing Yost when they did for Sveum was a good move or not is yet to be determined. The team was sinking faster than the Bismarck when he was let go, so I see no harm in it. But who would have thought that replacing Sveum at third base would be so difficult? Garth Iorg looks clueless. It takes time to gauge what kind of baserunner each player is and Iorg has no idea what he's doing out there. "J.J. Hardy is our starting shortstop and is thin. He must be lightening fast!"

The sad reality is, two out of three in Cincinnati might not be enough any longer. A full game and a half behind the NY Mets, a sweep in desperately needed, but won't be in the cards. They showed signs of life in the game one loss to the Cubs, won game two and totally blew game three. This team is like K-Mart, trying desperately to keep pace with the juggernauts Wal-Mart and Target while failing miserably.