News from Green Bay is that the situation regarding Brett Favre and his stand-off of sorts with the Packers Organization has not really progressed.  Packers’ president Mark Murphy traveled to Mississippi and spoke with the future Hall of Famer, and stated that a large amount of money has been offered to Favre to stay retired, but the man simply wants to play.  He also wants to play with the Packers, but due to the fact that Coach Mike McCarthy has already moved the team on, the team does not really want Favre back as a starter.  He still plans to attend training camp.

Oh yeah…the Brewers lost 7-2 to the Cubs today too.  Manny Parra did fairly well on the mound and very well at the plate with a double and a triple, but it didn’t really matter.  Milwaukee kept on stranding runners in scoring position and flailing like little leaguers at bad pitches.  Ryan Dempster was every bit as dominant as he should have been against a lately-anemic offense, pitching 7 innings only giving up one earned run off a wild pitch.  Parra gave up 5 earned runs in 5.1 innings, and although Carlos Villanueva and David Riske teamed up to pitch 2.2 scoreless frames, Brian Shouse continued his recent struggles and gave up a pair of runs to simply give the Cubs more bragging rights in the lopsided series.  Fielder hit a meaningless homer in the ninth.

Offensive MVP: Cubs SS Ryan Theriot (3-3/1R/0HR/3RBI/2BB/0K)

Pitching MVP: Cubs SP Ryan Dempster (7.0IP/1ER/5H/1BB/9SO/0HR)

My Take:

Things are looking very bad right now for the Brewers.  They are making the same mistakes day in and day out with no sign of improvement.  They will be very, very lucky to get out of this series with a win.