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You can't walk off the island, but can you walk back to Texas?
2008-02-12 20:58
by Bob Timmermann

Kevin Mench has accepted a minor league deal and a tryout to make the Texas Rangers this spring. Mench broke in with the Rangers in 2002 and was traded to the Brewers in a deal involving Carlos Lee in 2006.

Mench was known for his aversion to taking walks and he had just 16 of them in 101 games last year with the Brewers. At a game involving the Brewers and Cardinals I attended last year, a Brewers fan turned to me at one point and said, "We have a saying in Milwaukee about Kevin Mench and walks, 'Kevin Mench does not take walks.'"

Brewers fans are not ones for obtuse statements.

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2008-02-12 21:55:10
1.   Greg Brock
That's what I love about Midwesterners. Meat and potatoes, man. Meat and potatoes.

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