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Kudos to Wilson for getting to the century mark and leading the organization with 100 RBI! Farris finishing strong at .293 after his awful start. Gindl is really starting to turn some heads at only 20, and the comparisons to Brian Giles are starting to become legit. Also going unnoticed is how much Omar Aguilar settled down - in his last 10 games he has a 0.60 ERA with 4 H, 4 BB, and 21 K in 15 innings. Not sure if he is eligible for Rule 5 draft, but if he is he needs to be protected.

Despite his early season struggles, it should be noted that Eric Farris finished with a .291 BA. That coupled with Haydel, Gindl, Fryer, and Wilson gave WV a lot of offense this year. Nice to see Gillespie get out of his slump and hit his first home run in what seems like forever, and nice to see Errecart come up with the GWRBI after struggling so much after coming back from injury. It was clear that Errecart was not 100% this last month and was gutting it out. With virtually nobody worthy of promotion from BC (except Green and Lucroy) you have to wonder what they will do with their AA roster. Do you jump the young guys from A-ball (Haydel, Gindl)? Certainly Farris, Fryer, and Wilson due to age could jump to AA but might require position changes if neither Green nor Lucroy gets selected by Cleveland (which is looking unlikely that it is neither of them). If it is not Green, then Wilson could really be blocked as Green could be the 3B, Farris could be the 2B, and Errecart could be the 1B. Nice to see Kjeldgaard with 2 BB and no K. If he can learn some plate discipline he could be a legitimate power prospect.

I guess I am really wondering other then the expierence why all these guys come up. Gord Ash was on 540 the last week or two and said that they didn't want the Brewers getting into a situation where they ran out of players because they didn't bring up enough players. The Brewers don't want to miss the playoffs by one game because they only brought up a few players when the rules will allow you to have 40. Yeah, I've said this about three times in this thread. It is to avoid getting caught short-handed in an extra-inning game, as well as pinch-running and additional double-switch opportunities. Also, like in today's game, if it is a blowout they can give the starters an extra inning or two of rest.

Considering that he didn't join the team until almost two months into 2007, this is an incredible feat. If you discount the 18 games McGwire was up in 1986, he technically hit 81 his first two seasons.

I was saving this for another thread, but with Salome at AA and Palmisano injured this year it is likely that next year will be the same catching situation (Kendall/Rivera), and thus 2010 would have both catchers (Salome and Palmisano at this point) as rookies, and I don't like that. I would be all in favor of Salome making the jump next year as the #2 catcher behind Kendall so he can learn from him for a year (even if it means Salome only plays one out of every four or five games). I don't want to go into a season with the #1 catcher a rookie, and with Kendall's contract expiring after 2009 it appears that may be the case. Bring Salome up and have him watch Kendall and sit between Yost and Simmons on the bench. There is no downside to that.

and pull all the 220 volt copper wire from the entire plant. This went un-noticed for 2 weeks. By the time someone went to check on the plant, they removed $180,000 worth of scrap metal and copper wire. There you go. Copper is very valuable these days. Just ask anyone who owns a factory/plant or construction site. Copper is so valuable that they are considering doing away with the penny. It actually costs more than what a penny is worth to make it, and I am all for eliminating the penny and rounding up or down to the nearest 5 cents. They do it in Australia, and it works just fine.

Take the I-90/39 bypass south to the beltline (12/18) west to Fish Hatchery Rd north and duck into the side streets south of the stadium and pay someone $10 to park on their lawn.

Yo, Parra, Suppan, Bush, McClung... well, you can take McClung out of there because one of Sheets or Sabathia will be back. Sheets, Gagne, Capuano, and Mota combined to make $28M this year - they can afford one of Sheets or Sabathia. Sheets/Sabathia, Yo, Parra, Bush (in case no one has noticed, now has a 4.12 ERA, 1.12 WHIP), and Suppan is what they started this year with. In case of injury they will have McClung, DiFelice (who is better than most people give him credit for), Villanueva, and Narron. No reason they can't contend next year. And like someone else pointed out, that rotation is just as good as the Cubs rotation. The Cubs have generated 100 more runs than the Brewers this year due to higher BA and OBP. The deal I make is Weeks plus prospects to Baltimore for Brian Roberts and cash (to bring that $7M salary down).

This year Sheets, Gagne, Mota, and Capuano combined to make roughly $28M. The thought that they can afford neither Sheets nor Sabathia is ludicrous. One will be back. And I wouldn't be surprised if it is not Sheets. 6/$120 plus a team option is a good starting point for CC, and I think he likes it here enough that he will take the Brewers deal even if it isn't the biggest one offered (as long as it is close to the biggest one offered). If you think that's crazy... I'll answer with this: Fielder, Weeks, Hall, Cameron, TGJ. Players of similar cultures/ethnicities group together, especially "minorities". Milwaukee is a place that a lot of African American ballplayers feel comfortable playing right now.

Because this is the second year in a row that the Brewers/Cubs series has had more games played in Chicago than Milwaukee. Last year it was six in Milwaukee, and nine in Chicago. I wouldn't mind it if the split actually did go in the other direction the next year, but it didn't. These two teams are competing for the playoffs and two years in a row they play more games in Chicago than Milwaukee. That makes five more in Chicago in two years, so next year they need to play five more in Milwaukee to balance it out.

Sounds a lot like Verizon FiOS, which I have had for a while now. I get the triple freedom package in which you get fiber optic internet (4x faster than DSL, even faster if you upgade; I have the base and I can download at over 600KB/sec where with DSL/internet cable it was 150KB/sec), fiber optic TV, and a home telephone line (not VoIP - a regular telephone line, my home office line for work; includes voice mail, call ID, and call waiting) for $99.95/month. With everything (four set-top boxes, distinctive ring for my fax, HBO, taxes & fees) the total is $160/month. I also get local weather and traffic with the service. If you don't need all of that you can probably get something cheaper, but I need all three services and for all three it is a pretty good deal. They have a lot of HD channels but I don't watch much TV and none of us owns a HDTV. The HD receivers would cost more, and we did not go with a DVR (but we do have HBO On-Demand so we can watch just about anything on HBO at any time). I will say this - because the internet is 4x faster than DSL it will save you a lot of time downloading files and webpages. If you download a lot of music, video, large files, etc., the time it will save you is worth it.

Two other relievers, Brandon Rapoza and Adam Arnold, are having very good seasons in Helena. Small samples, and Rapoza's K:BB ratio is not that exciting but his GA/AO ratio and BAA are. David Welch very disappointed with the rainout... so far in two previous doubleheaders he has pitched 14 innings and given up one hit. Hopefully better weather and another doubleheader tomorrow.

What's up with McClendon being used in short outings out of the pen? He was pretty much used exclusively as a starter last year and was fairly highly regarded on this board, and had decent numbers in WV.

Hey, I got one of the two moves right! But if Wilson is injured (and Green is named the PTBNL) then that throws a wrench in the other half of the prediction.

My guess is Green off the DL to Huntsville to replace Gamel, and Wilson to Brevard to replace Green. Makes too much sense. In Nashville my guess is one of Chavez/Woodward gets sent to AA, with Heether playing mostly at SS now.

I never understood calling it "Golden". If there's a color to describe it, I think it would be brown.

Today's Woot is priceless - "Mediocre 6-Piece Luggage Set - $39.99". This is the blue mediocre luggage; click to see the other mediocre colors. Awesome.

After reading this thread and what happened to my dad last summer(he's okay now), I get the feeling that ER doctors are not real good at diagnosing things. First, my condolences to those who have experienced medical issues that have had negative outcomes. I am going to pre-apologize because I'm probably going to say some things that you might not want to hear and may upset you. ER doctors are generally trained to handle emergencies - myocardial infarctions/cardiac arrest, wounds, trauma, life support, etc. Their specialty is dealing with the obvious and the immediate, and not necessarily diagnosis of something you can't see or feel. Like someone said earlier, they get a lot of people coming off the street for stuff that they should be seeing a regular primary care doctor about. A big part of the issue too is the patient being able to verbalize and communicate accurately what they are feeling, which is the key to diagnosis of anything they can't see. If the patient says they "feel funny"... what's a doctor supposed to do then? If someone comes in with "arm pain and jaw pain", that might not be high on the list of symptoms of arterial blockage and may be higher on a list of symptoms of something else. My condolences to you and your family, but arterial blockage is something that occurs over time and is something that regular visits to a primary care doctor or cardiologist would be better at diagnosing than an ER doctor. The key is a doctor's "specialty". What is it that they are trained specifically to do? Every "doctor" does not know everything about everything. Go to a specialist in the general field of what the issue is, not the ER. If that doesn't yield the best result, do some research to find out what the top clinics/centers/doctors in the nation are in that field and go there. Brian, my best advice to you to help your wife's condition is to look outside of Milwaukee. Milwaukee is not a mecca for the cutting edge of medicine and research. The money it will cost you to fly somewhere and stay for a week/month/whatever to see the top specialist in that field would probably be a lot less than what you have spent so far based on what you have said. A quick story about someone I know. This person had numbness in their leg and foot for some time, and no diagnosis after several tests. He, being in the medical field, went to the top specialist at Keck-USC and found out he had a tumor on his spinal column. Extremely difficult surgery with a high probability of paralysis or death. When he went back to schedule the surgery he found out the doctor was gone and they wouldn't tell him where he went. He spoke to the doctor's former nurse, and she called him privately to tell him the doctor moved to Miami to work at the best spinal surgery institute in the nation, training under the doctor who, IIRC, did Christopher Reeve's surgery. So he flew to Miami to have the surgery done, and not only did that doctor do the surgery but the head of the institute who did Reeve's surgery assisted with it. He stayed in Miami for nine months pre-and-post-op. After being told that paralysis would likely be the best outcome, almost a year later he is walking around and back to work part-time. Not 100% yet, but the outcome was so good that the doctors who did the surgery asked him if he would agree to become part of a case study for publishing in medical journals and conventions and would give him free follow-up care for life if he consented. I have many stories like that, including an aunt who lives in Arizona who has an experimental cardiac procedure that needs to be done that can only be done at the Cleveland Clinic or at the Mayo Clinic. Brian, I implore you to do more research and find who and where in the country is known as the best for her condition and see them. When you say you are seeing "the best in the area" and you are still in Milwaukee... you need to expand your "area". One thing you are all correct in is that not all doctors are created equal; some have more expertise than others. And for God's sake, don't get an HMO that restricts who and when you can be seen for what. And if you do it is worth the additional out-of-pocket expense to go out-of-network to see the best specialist and pay for it because HMOs do not give you the best care, they give you the cheapest care and hope that it works. Hope that helps, and I hope you can find someone somewhere who can bring her back to normal.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/a...mp;fext=.jsp&c_id=mil "Ash said there would be at least one surprise, a la Stocker, a Minor League veteran who was promoted all the way from Double-A Huntsville last September mostly to provide speed off the bench." They mention some possibilities, and my dark horse all along has been a third lefty, be it Narron, Choate, or Ramirez. Ramirez has had a decent season. There are rumors about Bateman, but I'm sticking to a third lefty in the pen to be a LOOGY. Could also be referring to Stocker again, as I find it hard to believe that he would go to Brevard if there wasn't a wink and a nudge about a September callup if he took one for the organization.

Right now, I'm in Asia, and would only be able to utilize the service online. Like others have said, there are limited channels on-line and usually do not include the games. That being said, with Sirius you can get an on-line only subscription with CD-quality sound for $2.99/month. (I don't know if you have to have a regular subscription and that is an add-on, but I think you can get on-line only for $2.99/month.) I have the lifetime Sirius for $500. One of the best investments I've ever made.

The very only reason two reasons I can see that we wouldn't pick up Cam's option is if: -We trade for another CF that can put up close to the production in '09 and beyond, or; -We sign Sheets or Sabathia to such a deal that we can't afford him. 'Zactly. The issue is not whether or not Cameron is worth $10M; the issue is that is it better to have Cameron at $10M and one of Sheets/Sabathia, or is it better to have Kapler at $3M and both of Sheets/Sabathia. Oh, and Fielder, Hardy, and Hart (plus Bush and Weeks) are arby-eligible next year too. It may come down to Cameron vs. the raise due Fielder/Hardy/Hart/Bush. (And if Kapler's coming back it won't be for $800K - someone is going to offer a lot more than that.)

one of the big things I'll take out of the 2008 minor league season was that pitching was poor to at best mediocre up and down the chain all season. And that doesn't really surprise me, given how few of their top picks they have spent on pitching recently. 2007 - none of their top 5 picks were pitchers. 2006 - two of their top five, the aforementioned Anundsen and Jeffress. 2005 - only one in the top four rounds and he was traded (Inman). If you want to go further than that, 2004 - all top four rounds, with three busts and one gold strike who is already in the majors (Gallardo). 2003 - none of the top five rounds. Hard to expect greatness in pitching when so few top picks are spent there. Like the 'kow said, Odorizzi, Frederickson, Lintz, Adams, Romanski, Lasker, and Bowman should help boost the pitching in the next few years.

Another source for house/condo rentals - http://www.vrbo.com. Vacation Rentals By Owner - you can select all the way down to the neighborhood and see all of the amenities, and most listings have a calendar for availability. I will be going to ST this year, since I have missed it all three years I have been in CA because of work or other vacations planned. I will probably be spending most of my time though in Tucson since my aunt and uncle live there. You have a good idea; considering a decent hotel will run at least $150/night, if you can get 4-5 people in a condo for $600/week it is worth it. I would be up for sharing the condo, but would only be in there for a night or two.

from the University of San Francisco that unexpectedly starting bringing it the high 90s Is BALCO still in business?

On right now. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/tongue.gif And yes, now that I have more lyrics (thank you Goldwave) I will email PVD.