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  1. GAME05
    i liked the optimism better, despite the odds. it's refreshing.
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    i'm gonna steal that line for the future. i recently learned that trick with my bank. for two weeks i wasn't aware that i'd been overdrafting my account, so i had quite a few $2 charges that had a $35 fee attached to them. whoops. but i called and the bank put it through some formula and canceled 40% of my fees. interesting fact about the available credit percentage, thanks. i just finished two years of school, so i'd only guess my credit is in the single digits. guess i'll have to hold off on that house:)
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    I'll echo what an earlier poster said...for me, any good bar should have some sort of food. If there's no grill or menu, that's fine, but at least have popcorn or peanuts or something small. Makes the whole experience better for me. certainly i wouldn't do it for bars that serve food, but for ones that don't, i've regularly ordered food and had it delivered to the bar. another benefit of non-food bars is that you can bring your own food in and they won't mind. makes it cheaper when i can bring in my own food, too.
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    i'm 0-11 on this thread not getting me to that blank screen. stupid baseball leads me to nowhere.
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    being a general manager must have been the easiest job in the world. archaeologists will probably assume there's a golden statue of Russell Branyan buried somewhere. they will also wonder how it was possible to both love and hate Manny Parra at the same time.
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    yeah, no disrespect intended. i was a couple PBRs in as it was. and since when did PBR become the hipster beer of choice? in Winston-Salem, it's the most popular beer. $2 a glass. one of my bars even has it on tap. i've been thinking about all this "every good bar should have..." stuff. and when it comes down to it, the bars i go back to aren't necessarily the ones with good drink choices, but the ones with the best bartenders. it's not uncommon for a bartender to only acknowledge your existance at the point you need another drink, and that's sad. it doesn't even matter to me if the bartender is a guy or a pretty girl, but a simple "how are you today?" or a "What have you been up to?" really goes a long way for me. there was a bar in Winston where i could genuinely call every bartender there a friend of mine. i never met a single girl there, but that was the bar i always went to. it's such a nice feeling when people know you by name. the #1 way i judge the skill of a bartender: they ask you if you want another drink when you have an inch left of your beer, and not when the glass is already empty.
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    thanks for some great research in those posts, guys. despite numbers contradicting me, i'm still more old-school in thinking that having running threats on base is still an advantage. it seems like an opposing pitcher would feel a lot more free to throw changeups and curveballs when the guy on first likely isn't going to steal. if we stole more bases, wouldn't an opposing pitcher be forced to throw a lot more fastballs to get the ball to the plate sooner? suddenly the pitcher would become a lot more predictable, not to mention distracted by a guy leading off too far. and certainly we've got a lot of good fastball hitters on this team. this is the biggest reason why i dislike Macha, because he is going to manage whatever team he's with according to his set style and not adjust his approach to suit a team's strength, which in our case is speed.
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    i don't get the impression that Cuban is any richer than the typical ML owner, so i'm not so positive that he would have created the next Yankees team of all superstars. but whether he would have sided with big-market spending or an even playing field, he would have been outspoken, which would have raised more needed debate. certainly would have been a lot more refreshing than the Selig Administration's philosophy of "Ignore the Man Behind the Curtain--there are no problems in baseball."
  10. GAME05
    Why isn't HBP a part of 3TO? is it because it's independent of even the batter?
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    i also drink only one or two beers at a sitting. guess i incorrectly referred to that habit as "responsible drinking." i also like my beer in a glass because it opens up the flavour and the aroma.
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    am i wrong, but isn't this the first time someone has hit 600 or even 500 HRs AFTER he'd admitted to steroid use? knowing that beforehand sure takes all the joy out of it for me. it has all the excitement of an intentional walk.
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    i went to a Mallards game with someone recently. into the first inning, he commented that it didn't feel nearly as hot outside as the outfield thermometer was saying it was. a few pitches later and there was something wrong with the thermometer because it kept fluctuating.
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    future anthropologists will probably see the Trading Post and wonder if we used bobbleheads as currency.
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    Jeff Suppan is the cause of all our problems. Samson:long hair::Doug Melvin:moustache
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    if they're on the 40-man already and can be called up for late-season roster expansion, then sure. otherwise i agree with Baldkin. i wouldn't be surprised to see someone like Jeffress up for late-season callups because he's on our 40-man already, and if i'm not mistaken, it won't count against his service time if he's called up then (unless i'm wrong). the minor-league guys are on stricter innings limits than ML guys are and would start to go over that if they were playing an extra month of ball for the big-league club. asking an A-ball guy to throw 40 innings more than he normally would is a good way to permanently injure his arm (aka Dusty Bakering).
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    Bill Hall can pitch.
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    we've got three rookies in the pen pitching out of their minds this season. if "nothing" was the return we would have gotten from Hoffman (and it probably was), then i'm glad we kept him to stick around as player/coach.
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    $14M for Kazmir isn't even "buy-low" for the Yankees. Kazmir sure had a lot of promise, but has peaked ability-wise because of injury. at his best he's a #4, but then you're also assured of having injury issues during the season. i'd welcome Kazmir here at the point that we'd only have to pay him about $6M for the year and not have to give up anything to get him. but really, i think i'd be more comfortable letting Bill Hall pitch.
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    W/L and RBI are equally meaningless stats.
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    what i don't get is why not wait until near the end of the season to see if he has a second-half slump again? i don't mean that not in terms of not extending him, but because another second-half slump might turn him from a $9M/per guy to a $7M/per guy and we can save a little on the contract. it's hard to complain about that length of a contract, though. for all the troubles the Brewers apparently had with Hart's agent, agreeing to 3 years seems pretty friendly to me. if i put a GM hat on, i can see this extension as somewhat necessary. if you'd have traded Prince in the offseason plus having Hart and Weeks in their last years, you'd have a fan base really scared that the stars are going to all be sold off or just gone after 2011. but extending Hart and Weeks beforehand, you can say to the fans that moving Prince was tactical to get some pitching and fans won't freak out as much. plus i think of not resigning Molitor for $4M, which was a reasonable asking price then. if fans see Hart signing somewhere in 2012 for $9, the Brewers just end up looking cheap.
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    it's an interesting thought. if i were JZ i'd probably make the trade, even though that would leave them with nothing for pitchers. but even if you figure in that Prince isn't traded and we take the Comp picks, that's giving up four first-rounders. with the real risk that any pitcher gets some injury or just falls off a cliff ability-wise, four first-rounders is sure a lot.
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    i'm not a fan of dessert wines, either. New Glarus makes some of their seasonal fruit beers (like the Cherry or Raspberry) that i think actually taste somewhat similar. the dessert wines are fermented with grapes that have been allowed to ripen a lot longer and even dry out for just a little bit. the extra time lets the grapes add more sugar in growing, plus some of the water is out of them. it's of course an exaggeration, but it's like making wine out of raisins. i don't know enough to say whether they use a sweeter variety of grapes or anything, though.
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    thanks, Blancofan. i'll take you up on that. i'll add the explanation to my cover letter, too, add that i have a place to live already and whatnot. been debating with the father. he thinks i should apply for decent jobs in the middle of nowhere. i get a year or so of relevant experience but accept that i'll dislike living there and move yet again. i'm a little more inclined to move to the place i'd like to stay at, take a poor job and wait out a better one to eventually open up. if i were 23 i think he'd be right, but at 33 i dread moving to a place i'd dislike and accepting that i'd have to move yet again in a few years.
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    i agree in principal that trying to get rid of dead money is a good idea, but i think it'd be a bad move for the Brewers if we did that. we wouldn't have much of an addition by subtraction because then what do we do about finding another starter? we'd be replacing Wolf with essentially Wolf, only cheaper. and what do we do with all this salary we save? fielding a cheap team that loses 90 games (figuring we lose good players like Prince and don't get much in return) brings back too many bad memories. no, with all that budget room, the fans would demand we sign somebody big like a Cliff Lee. and if we did and Cliff Lee turned out to be a Randy Wolf, then we've just put ourselves in the same bad situation but worse. you'd probably get Melvin to agree that you can't build a winning team through free agency. so where does that leave us if we're selling Fielder for a nothing prospect just to get rid of Wolf?
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