sit there and don't move

i forget what asian religion encourages stillness
so as to not kill any living thing including centipedes and ants.
that kind of seems impossible
unless you had someone to be at your service night and day.
because everyone has to go to the grocery store and hunt for some food.

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the brewers almost did nothing this off season.
they had one pressing need-fix the bullpen.
so they added starter/reliever gorzelanny,
reliever badenhopp,
and reliever mike gonzalez.

the trio replaces loe, rodriguez, and parra.
i have been forced to trust murphy's law
and believe that my current slip into a dull brain will pass
and one day i will be sizzling with ideas once again.

maybe the brewers pathetic relief experience last year was last year
and 2013 would have reverted to the norm.
mike gonzalez worries me.
badenhopp doesn't impress me.
gorzelanny is good enough.

all in all, change is good
and all three changes are very low risk in terms of money and length of contract.
the brewers have been criticized more than once for bad player development,
especially when it comes to pitchers.
other than ben sheets and yovani gallardo,
no brewers draft picks have matured into above average big league starters.
this year may be different.
mark rogers and willy peralta and mike fiers will all be given a chance.
fiers has already proven he is marcum worthy.
tyler thornburg may be given a chance as well.

i don't know if this is strictly a money decision
or the reality of the free agent crop not being that good,
or a new emphasis on home grown pitchers,
or a mixture of all three reasons.

whatever the reason,
it smells better than 3 year contracts of 14 million
to pitchers who know very little about the brewers.

i'm assuming there is a continuity in being on a particular team
with pitching drills and exercises and techniques and philosophies
the same from rookie ball to AAA to miller park
or maybe i'm living in a karate world
where there is a slow progression to higher levels,
but the essence of the master is present from a-z.

if i were a pitcher and was 22 and still hadn't established myself,
i wouldn't want to be shipped all over the place
with new pitching coaches and new expectations and new rules.
i'd want some kind of anchor and commitment
so i could develop at the normal pace and
not be all screwed up every year with new arm angles, new release points.

2013 looks to be safe for the brewers.
if the pitching flops, it'll be the typical pot holes for a young staff,
but i it works, the brewer's farm system won't be so easily mocked.