What's Making Me Talk: Milton Bradley, Ya Goin' Down! You're a Loose Cannon!

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You can say what you want, but...

You can say what you want about Texas pitching as a whole in the past, but Kevin Millwood is really getting the job done. He's got a 2.64 ERA so far this year and it looks like Mike Maddux has at least had a big enough impact on the rest of the staff to have them contending.

Notebook Scribbles

Here are my thoughts that aren't long enough to drag out or just too stupid for someone to even think of. They are randomly scribbled notes in my notebook, duh.

—The Mets lineup on Monday was pretty crazy. Alex Cora hitting leadoff and Fernando Tatis in the clean-up spot? Fearsome!

—Matt Palmer lost his first game of the season. He lost two games in three starts last year with the Giants. Speaking of the Giants, Jonathan Sanchez lost his eighth start.

—Nyjer Morgan made one of the hardest catches for an outfielder and made it look rather routine. There is no link to the specific highlight, but it's hard to find an outfielder that can take a smart route and utilize his speed like Morgan does. I'd take him on my team anytime.

—President Obama will be throwing out the first pitch at the All-Star Game. Just in case you missed it.

—You might have not missed Joel Pineiro throwing a two-hitter, but you might have not known he did it with a 52 minute rain delay thrown in the middle of it.

—Troy Tulowitzki hit two home runs on Tuesday and I'm sure you saw Andre Ethier hit three on Friday. Vlad Guerrero and Pat Burrell hit their second home runs of the year on Wednesday.

—I have Tim Lincecum down for 12 strikeouts. I have it listed as "Timmy 12 K." Why is this note important? Hindsight, I don't know.

—Hey, Justin Upton is having quite the season. Why is this important? He's only 21 and he's getting on base at a .399 clip with 14 long balls and 45 RBI. Too bad his team sucks.

—The San Diego and Seattle game on Tuesday had 14 scoring plays. That's a lot.

—How about the Yankees getting held hitless for five innings, then going out and scoring eight runs in the final four innings?

—So every time I look at a boxscore for the Reds and notice Micah Owings is pitching, I immediately look for his hitting line. I did that this past week and well, the Reds were playing in an AL park, therefore he wasn't hitting. Sad face.

—Franklin Gutierrez homered off former Indian teammate Edwin Mujica.

—At this point, my pen started to show signs of running out of ink.

—Rest in Piece to the 21 game hit-streak of Derrek Lee.

—I like looking at the headline pitching matchups of the week, especially after they've happened. Johan Santana got the best of Chris Carpenter this past week. I didn't write down any other one though, shame on me.

—The Phillies got the best of the Rays in the rematch of last year's World Series, winning two out of three games. All of them had the winner scoring a lot of runs, though.

—John Smoltz's Red Sox debut was five innings long, but he gave up five runs off seven hits. I guess it isn't all that bad for his first start in a long time.

—Did anyone notice that Cliff Lee is carrying a 2.92 ERA? He may not have the wins he had last year, but Lee is pitching just as well as he was in 2008.

—Chris Davis had a four-hit game on Thursday and only managed to boost his average up to .209. He's got some work to do.

—Brewers Minor Leaguer Jeremy Jeffress was suspended 100 games for failing a drug-test. It was substance abuse though, not steroids, so he's getting suspended for being a very stupid not once, but twice.

—This notebook scribble thing always points out really silly things, like Franklin Gutierrez homering off Edwin Mujica, but I can make it useful as well.

Pirates’ fill-in catcher Jason Jaramillo loves PNC Park. He's got three home runs, 13 RBIs, and a .323 average in 62 at-bats. Away from home, he's got zero home runs, just five RBIs, and a .235 average in 68 at-bats.

—Jason Bartlett had a 19 game hit streak come to an end and I said I'd never mention a hit streak unless it surpassed 20 games. Well this is an exception because Bartlett spanned his over a disabled list stint. Bartlett also manufactured the game-winner on Saturday all by himself.

—The Angels scored eight runs in the second inning on Friday and also hit for the cycle as a team. That was one eventful inning.

—Jason Hammel loves June with his 4-0 record and 3.70 ERA. Before June, he was 1-3.

—Braves relief pitcher Jeff Bennett broke a bone in his hand while punching a door. When will athletes ever learn?—especially ones who use their hands for a living.

—ESPN had a nice stat on Tim Redding's start the other day. He allowed two hits on his first 98 pitches and then four hits on pitches 99 through 102. Yes, that's four hits off four pitches.

—Remember what I said last week about Albert Pujols not being allowed to knock in six runs? Albert Pujols should also never hit two home runs in a game, ever. Especially with people on base for both of them.

—Whenever someone pitches a good game, like a complete game shutout, I feel the need to make sure people know it. Congrats to J.A. Happ for doing it on Saturday.

—Jayson Werth hit a fifth deck home run in Toronto. That's special.

—I love a good old fashioned pitchers duel between Atlanta and Boston. One total run, 10 total hits and it’s just well played baseball when that type of stuff happens.

—Erick Aybar reached base on a bunt single, advanced on a wild throw all the way to third, and ended up scoring on a wild Justin Upton throw. That's why the Diamondbacks suck.

—Felix Hernandez is very good. How is he allowed to be this good at this age?

—Tommy Hanson has started his career 4-0. Matt Palmer, eat your heart out.

—Zack Greinke has reached 10 wins, the third AL pitcher to do so. You would have thought he'd been there first the way he started.

—Milestones of the week include two guys doing the same thing. Both David Ortiz and Lance Berkman knocked in their 1,000th RBI of their careers.

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