Brewers Close to Signing Looper?

Reports are coming out that the Brewers are close to a deal with pitcher Braden Looper.  While not a “wow” signing if it happens it does add some depth I guess and the adds to the number of St. Louis Cardinal cast offs in the rotation.  Also furthers my theory of keeping Seth McClung in the bullpen and specifically as the closer for 2009.

It also gives me the opportunity to throw out this Caddyshack Quote:

So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald… striking. So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one – big hitter, the Lama – long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga… gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the 18th and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, “Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.” And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.” So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.

Tags: Free Agency, Major League Baseball, Milwaukee Brewers