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Did someone say they wanted that line-up tonight? If so, I don't see it.

lol It was my pleasure!

Man, what a difference it makes when you have a catcher than can hit. Plus, he isn't nearly as slow as your average catcher. Night and day difference to what has been at that position the past couple of years. Now, if only CC can figure out that it's ok for Contreras to DH once in a while when he isn't catching.

Brosseau is a roller coaster ride at 3B. I'd like to get to a place with our OF that Anderson can just take over full time at 3B and be done with it. Get Tyrone back into the fold, and hopefully we won't need Anderson in RF very much.

Voit may have just saved the game right there!

I guess he made up for it! :)

REALLY stupid throw Adames. Geez.

This STILL pisses me off!

I picked Miley up in a fantasy league for pitching depth, and because he's a Brewer having a good year, just sitting on the waiver wire. If I start him, he probably gets shelled. If I bench him, he probably continues his dominance. I left him on the bench, taking one for the team.

They have spelled Garcia wrong the last two nights now. lol Anyone know anything about Eric Brown Jr? He hasn't played since getting hit it the face Wednesday, even though the reports were good, no fractures, no concussion...

I truly have no idea what that even means, but with a jump like that, I wouldn't be surprised.

Yup, he has thought of that too. He has some feelers out there. 🙂

#1 is low income, he doesn't qualify #2 he contacted, waiting for reply #3 he contacted, waiting for reply #4 are all $1100 ish. There is one available in that complex for $950 but that was a termination lease, so in August, it will go up to match the others in price. #5 is also low income. Thanks for looking around though, like I said, he has searched high and low, as have I. lol

What are the odds? Even if it did happen, it's one game, or just a part of a game you'd have to deal with it. DHing Contreras far outweighs that risk.

He already switched car insurance. Best deal he could find still cost him $100 more, but that is better than $200. He was no longer under my policy, so that didn't have anything to do with it. I haven't come across anything in that price range, and he has looked high and low. He doesn't qualify for low-income housing either. He did find a place that did 2.5 rather than triple the cost of the rent, so he might try that place. Biggest issue is that his choices are severely limited, he is stuck with basically no choices and will have to take whatever he can get.

Related to the housing stuff in the "pointless" thread, but this is about the renting world, not housing sales. My son just got his first real job, straight out of grad school. His job is in Missoula Montana. Before asking why Montana, it's a simple answer really, he loves it out there and the area provides all he NEEDS for his adventurous spirit. This is a kid who has completed the Appalachian Trail (took him about 5 months) and the Pacific Rim trail (also about 5 months), so a state like Montana provides him with what he needs to be happy in life. lol He is temporarily staying with an acquaintance (who is charging him $800 a month for a bedroom in the basement) in a nearby town to Missoula, and looking for an apartment. The location isn't ideal, and he really wants to be in Missoula, rather than the 30 minute commute to and from work. What is bugging me is the fact that all these places renting apartments require proof that you make triple the cost of rent before they will even look at your application. I'm talking about triple your take home pay, not your your gross pay. He is taking home about 3,000 per month (just under 50K Net per year), so any apartment that is over $1000 per month is out of his reach. I'm not even complaining about the actual rent cost, which is out of control, but just the fact that the poor kid can't even apply to rent anywhere because he doesn't make enough money , and almost everywhere he has found is $1200 or above. I'm not even complaining about his sucky payscale, but that can and will improve in time. Just doesn't seem right. Also, he has to pay between $30-$40 to submit an application to every place he applies for. These places are making a mint on application fees alone. It's just gross. Even worse, he can't fill out the applications anyway because he doesn't meet the first requirement of triple your take home pay. On top of all that, when submitting an application, they also require a deposit of $500 or more. So if someone is applying at 3 different places, they are on the hook for $1500, and they might not be accepted in any of those places. Yes, if they aren't accepted, they get the deposit back, but not the $30-$40 application fees. That deposit is a lot of money to pay out even if you get it back, for someone starting out. Geez, these kids do the right thing, get an education, then meet nothing but roadblocks when they finally get a job. Not to mention, he has to wait 90 days for his insurance with his employment to kick in, but I won't get into that. Also, his car insurance jumped about $200 every 6 months just by moving states... It's all pretty deflating.

Leadership comes with maturity, so maybe Gray is finally just "getting it." He was such an unwarranted prima donna last season. He just oozed of overconfidence and never backed any of it up on the field. He's also the guy who would be on his phone texting, or whatever, during auto Sundays, while people were waiting for him to sign. Always one of the first to get up and leave too, while others would stay until the last fan got their stuff signed. Lazar didn't start today, he came on in the 5th inning and pitched great for 4 innings. Acosta is definitely a spark plug, love watching guys like this play, just a different gear than most others. The others could learn a lot just watching him go about his business. I didn't follow them on their road trip, so I was a little shocked to see Moore hitting .190 and Brown at .137. Moore especially was on fire the first home stand. He hits the ball with a lot of wood and great sound!!! He seems to be struggling a bit now. Gray was down in the .260's, so I hope his hot start continues and he beefs that up a bit in the coming weeks.

YES! Such great news. He's a really friendly kid towards fans, seems like a genuinely great guy!

I was at T-Rats game today. It didn't appear in either case like batters were being thrown at. Just playing the game. Brown's HBP looked pretty bad, but it looked to me like the pitch went off the brim of his helmet before hitting him in the face. That is how it sounded too. I could be wrong, but I had a pretty good view of the play. He was able to make it mostly to 1B after being hit before taking a knee, then he got up and touched 1B and was lead off the field. Let's hope it looked a lot worse than it was. I didn't see Brown again after he got hit, and did look for him in the dug out a few times. I could have missed it though. Acosta came in for him and had a triple, double and single, so that was pretty cool. I like seeing Joe Gray do well. That guy needs to take the next step and get out of Appleton. Lazar looked pretty sharp today as well. He's another one I am rooting for so he can move up the ladder.

I simply can't read or take anything seriously that a Cubs fan writes about the Brewers. I just can't...

I'm just not a fan of benching all 3 of Yelich, Rowdy and Winker on the same night. Yeah, I get it, lefty vs lefty and all that crap, but taking all that offense and benching them at the same time doesn't seem like a great idea to me. Especially when you are now fielding the old school Sunday line-up.

Except we have actually scored 2 runs so far. This game isn't over by any means, we just need to pitch better...

ho hum. It might be a long couple of months until Woody gets back. We are going to have to out hit teams for wins, and that scares me a bit.

No Yelich, Winker and Rowdy tonight... Turang at SS.

Refresh me please, who did we trade for Guerra?