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  1. Bring Back the Stein
    Bless you Mr. Pavano, for giving me hope.
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    Well, my night just opened up.
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    Dave Bush qua Dave Bush.
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    I'm embarrassed. I thought ESPN had Mat Gamel's name wrong. I need my eyes checked anyway.
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    I'll try not to be redundant here, but for New Sox Park all you'll have to do is walk up to State and Randolph and hop on the Red Line. Nothing really great around the park bar-wise, but someone already cited Jimbo's, which is good for local flavor. Or walk across Armour Square Park to some other of the local dives. Chinatown stop just north of Sox park can yield you some great dim sum, including Potsticker House, at 30th and Halsted. If you're not afraid of cities, I recommend the Negro League Cafe over on 43rd, a short cab ride from the park. Great soul food and really nice family atmosphere. Your best dining options downtown include my favorite, Frontera Grill/Topolobampo, which is at the corner of Clark and Hubbard. You're spitting distance from The Goat, Billy Goat's Tavern on Lower Mich., the basis for the absurd goat curse thing which, absurd as it is, still brings me great joy.
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    The Brewers are a big tent team. People rocking Remetee t-shirts and those who still have a windbreaker from Gimbel's, like me. Them that shower using body washes marketed to prepubescent boys and those that consider Irish Spring too exotic. Even vegetarians must be welcomed.
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    I suspect the target market for these tees are young guys, who tend to have more...vinegar...than people like me. Was a time not too long ago when the stands were only filled with old dead-enders. Like me. With the success has come a broadening of the demographic, to include, say, people who favor emo metal and wear the Axe line of body sprays. It's all good news.
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    Against whom did Sandy Koufax get his only career home run? (Pause.) Warren Spahn. At County on a 1-2 count. My uncle was at the game and in later years, through circumstances too complicated to recount here, became friends with Koufax. He repeated the above fact to him and Koufax shrugged and said, "Oh, really?"
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    This is a great development. I want the people who buy and wear those tees to come to the games and spend money. And be the ones, instead of me, arrested for assault and battery during the Cubs series.
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    I'd like to, but am too tired to, make Soto jokes right here. Have to get up at 5 a.m. and just can't pull any complete shoulder reconstruction references out of thin air.
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    They speak of the "awe" Brewers fans feel for the St. Louis franchise. I have never felt awe for any team that's come to County Stadium or Miller Park. But to be specific, I have actual "contempt" for the La Russa Cardinals teams and the free pass they've gotten with bad off-the-field behavior and with performance-enhancing drugs. It's the elephant in the room that no one talks about because, gosh, their fans are so knowledgeable and La Russa is so otherworldly. Feh. I know a racketeering influenced corrupt organization when I see one.
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    What was wonderful about the "Untuck'em On Legs" today was that the coaches got involved too, the fastest they've run since probably the "McGyver" era. By the way, I thought Cameron was trying to set a land speed record the way he booked it to the clubhouse. I hope they keep coming up with novel ways to celebrate victories over the Cardinals. Maybe something involving a fifth of Old Granddad, an effigy of Stan Musial and a full urostomy bag. (Oh, wait. Now THAT wasn't classy.)
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    Tony La Russa is a combination of Miller Huggins, Casey Stengel, Rasputin, Pope Innocent II and Adam Weishaupt. How could any club possibly outsmart Him? Especially one which has apparently burned the True Cross by pulling out its shirttails. Or had a young leftfielder in his ascendance who lingered on a jonrun. Or who managed to make it through a year without (edited because it would have been edited otherwise) or (also edited, since I like this Web site). The Brewers should have been on their plane the time many read this, but La Russa, the Sun King, opted otherwise, in a move so calibrated to his classiness that one could have set the Nuclear Clock to its shabbiness. And so, as I rarely appeal to the Baseball Gods, let Him have His meat. Let him be served a choking mouthful of a dish He has been cooking since he entered the bigs. Beat Him where He stands. I pray to you, Warren Spahn, my Intercessor.
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    I hope his unwillingness to talk at any length was due to something like an abundance of caution. But with the luck this kid has, I fear the worst. A wrist with his swing, we have found, is so serious. I'd give up the win to have him healthy.
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    La Russa rermained silent while steroids flooded his clubhouses, assailing some of the most sacred records of the game. He's either a genius, so knew what was going on, or a fraud, but in either case, what he did - and didn't do - did more to hurt the game than a bunch of 20- and 30-somethings having a lark with their shirttails. In any case, once their managers can successfully say the alphabet backward and keep cisterns of performance-enhancing drugs out of their clubhouse, I will submit to the sanctimony of the odious "Birdos."
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    I've booed him lustily the past few days, for reasons described above. He's also a jerk on a personal level.
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    I'll agree with all of what you said but this comment. I know they probably weren't too popular, but my dad does have an autographed Helms jersey. We got it signed in 2004 before a game in Florida when Wes was still a Brewer.I won a bet where the prize was, ironically, a Wes Helms jersey. The loser looked and looked for one all that year (2004), when we both had season tickets. I stand corrected, then: As it turns out, he was so popular, his jersey was perennially sold out. And so valuable did the jersies become, that fans knew not to wear them, anticipating their future worth. Maybe tonight, now that Milwaukee is all abuzz about the Return of Wes Helms, the stands will fill up with demonstrations for Wes Helms. Anyway, Helms is a villain to me in two morality plays, one involving Bill Hall and another involving a guy I know who was once his biggest, if only, fan. And I'll agree that the poor Marlins beat writer needs to fill space, but given the really compelling stories going on with that club, him relaying an image of Wes Helms eating dairy products at will is merely disappetizing. Boo.
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    I still think it bizarre that someone cares what Wes Helms thinks about what fans in Milwaukee think about him. Someone wrote a newspaper article or something about it? Weird. It's not like A-Rod going back to Arlington for the first time, for Chrissakes. It's Wes-motherloving-Helms. They didn't make jersies for him while he was here, nor should they have. He was a guy. Albeint one who tended to stand out because he was on some lousy teams in transition to better teams. I think more about Joe Winkelsas nowadays than I do Wes Helms. A footnote to Brewers history, his most important conribution perhaps being the butt of a funny anecdote about slipping in Puerto Rico. Oh. Almost forgot. Also, I don't care about the logic. It's my right to boo this mutt.
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    Brenly's throwing idiot bread to the idiot circus. There's a reason he's not a major league manager right now in any case.
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    I'd like to do more than merely boo Sheffield.
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    Respectfully, I think in the clubhouse the dynamic may have gone the other way. Time will tell.
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    If A-Roid was a criminal defendant, he would have violated about as many dicta as a lawyer could have figured to give him. His p.r. strategy indicates a STRONG belief that both the government and MLB will do nothing in response. People paid to say things on television will rattle their sabers, fans like me will boo their lungs out, politicians will tut-tut, prosecutors will make dire pronouncements, poor Bud will frown some more, but in the end...he will fill stadia, he may (dangit) win some championships and all this will amount to the foot-stamping of Rumplestiltskin. Here's to you, you cynical, unfairly-blessed-with-talent charlatan, you've won and the Sainted Gorman Thomas, who took nothing more than Luckys, Schlitz and maybe a little blow, will need to tour suburban convention halls, signing portraits, to make his nut. Life, and baseball, is not fair.
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    You know how they claim that you can fall in love again in a marriage after the birth of a child or a new round of ED medication? Well, this has positively been Levitra for my hatred of the Yankees. I've fallen in hate all over again with them, combined with the CC thing, to levels I never thought possible. It may even surpass my tender feelings for the Cubs. Thanks A-Rod, for teaching me to properly hate the pinstripes again.
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    I don't believe any of the numbers put on the record, but just eye-balling him from Beloit to now, I'd say Prince is playing at 50 pounds lighter. And probably even more weight down from his earlier high school iteration. He put on some pounds late in the season last year, but he also had some pretty good production down the stretch. To what do you attribute that to weight gain and not the ten thousand other factors that go into a batting approach in the big leagues, I don't know. I just know that he's stayed fit, especially given his body type, and he's in a position to mash. He gets a lot of credit in my book. (5 10, 185, after my meatball sub, .000.)
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    AWESOME. Prince has done an outstanding job during his pro career keeping his weight down, especially given what he played at early on and, frankly, how much everyone is obsessed about it. His comments only reinforce the fact he's got a good attitude about it. He could take a different tack altogether and say, "You want to make veggie jokes instead of focus on my superlative early-career numbers? Okay. I'm off to Arby's." Instead, the shy guy with a chip on his shoulder, who is growing more-and-more into a leader, owns the issue in the period when it''s easiest to do something about it - the off-season. I dedicate my meatball sub to you, Prince. And maybe any negative weight comments could be tempered if the height and weight and slugging percentage of the poster were required (5 10, 180, .000).
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