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My all-time favorite hotel (of the admittedly lowish number I've stayed at) was the Renaissance in Pittsburgh. It's on the other side of the Clemente Bridge and is visible in most "skyline as seen from PNC" photos (the building with the center arch): http://www.visitpittsburgh.com/photocontest/photos/091650153.jpg We were there in 2002, so I couldn't tell you how its price nowadays compares to the Sheraton or Westin, but getting a room with a ballpark view is pretty awesome. During our trip we parked in the ramp across the street (short, dark gray with a weird window pattern, just to the right of the Renaissance in the photo above) and mostly walked to downtown attractions. We enjoyed the Andy Warhol museum (and I can't say I'm deeply into art myself); the Heinz History Center - which now includes a Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum, something I don't remember being there in 2002; Point State Park and the Fort Pitt Museum...and I'd have to think back to what else. The Duquesne and/or Monongahela Inclines (link) are fun to ride. We also checked out the Carnegie Science Center, which was well done but how much you'll like it depends on how you tolerate kids running around everywhere. I like Pittsburgh as a place to visit and am confident you'll find that the good things you've heard about PNC are on target. -
I wonder if she has considered being buried with Allen Ludden. That could make Mineral Point pretty popular. (I feel I should make clear that I am in no hurry to find out how that will go.)
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Not to be all downer, but Zack wasn't expected to be in all or nearly all of the Brewers' first 50 games. Still, you can never rule out a problematic absence for any player, so even if a full season for Ryan hadn't been called into question the way it has been, something else could have messed him or any other player up. OK, sorry, I guess that was all downer. Well, imagine being an STL fan last winter and seeing Adam Wainwright counted out for the whole season. Still not the ideal example for this site, but teams can overcome bad stuff.
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Imagine the special soda flavor possibilities: brat, krisp kraut, cactus league nachos, beer n brat mustard, secret stadium sauce...
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Ah, I don't know. A $250 gift card for Canada Dry would not be very appealing for the Canada Dry Family Section Family of the Game "winners."
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Excellent question. My first thought, the Mello Yello Bordello, does not convey the family-friendly vibe for which MP probably aims (though maybe on Singles Nights...). Here's where we can put Brewerfan's collective creativity to work: Alphabetic list of Coca-Cola products. Go! Fruitopia Utopia? Barq's in the Park? The Nestea COOL Zone? Powerade Platform? TAB Slab? Vanilla Coke Zero Vantage Point? That link above has a long list of product names.
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Vengeance shall be yours!
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So this RUMOR! boils down to Coke, not Pepsi? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif If the fans looking to get free designated-driver sodas are any indication, there is plenty of soda served at MP. Plus you've got that roving vendor Pat ready to give away prizes or whatever they put him on the videoboard for.
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What a great way to look at it. When I think about the Brewers' mid-80s to mid-2000s, and the Badgers' general non-hockey/non-cross country athletic performance when I was a UW student, it's still sometimes hard to believe how far both organizations have come. I share thumperden's hope that the Brewers' relevance continues. After years of being regarded as the sports weirdo at my workplace because I follow the Brewers instead of the Packers (never mind that the Packers had their own fairly recent decades of suck, yet those who hung on their every action weren't regarded as weird at all), it's so much more pleasant to be one of multiple Brewers fans (and, I dare say, something of a go-to fan in terms of insight). It's uncomfortable sometimes to ponder how the Brewers will do without Ryan for as many as 50 games, but he or any other Brewer could just as easily miss that kind of time due to injury (on-field or freak). The loss of Prince won't sink in for me 100% until he's actually donning someone else's jersey at a presser. But a completely straightforward and predictable MLB season is hard to come by. I know I first regarded the Morgan-for-Dykstra trade last March as barely noteworthy, and maybe a bad idea if Nyjer was still Angry Nyjer. Then he had a pretty good season, and an unforgettably good role on October 7. That was a good lesson for me in keeping an open mind. Also (not that anyone asked, but it's glacially slow at the library today), I'm generally OK with the four seasons, but I was oddly not missing the snow at all before yesterday's storm.
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I'm not sure if I can help. My general take is I'm happier when I have baseball games to follow and attend. So I've been focusing on that instead of the dramas involving individual players. Though there aren't many Brewer nemeses left on the plausible list for Prince...are there? At least there's that.
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Gah, these last few posts (except for Robin19's, which was interesting) are making me that much more apprehensive about switching to a smartphone - which the hawing household is finally starting to contemplate. I'd have most of my remote data needs met if Miller Park wouldn't restrict wifi to TWC customers...but they still do. Though X seems more like a mystery letter to me. Maybe consumers like intrigue?
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Aw, I do this too. Maybe it's our similar mid-60s birthdates that lead us to this behavior. At the library we allow borrowers with fines to appeal, and I keep those responses for the folks who tell us in, say, October that "I didn't know that was your policy"...and say essentially the same thing a few months later.
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This is a valid topic. So valid, in fact, that there's been a thread discussing this in the Trading Post since summer 2011. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
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There could be a poll for each nominee.
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Brewers sign Seth McClung to minor league deal
hawing replied to PrinceEatMeat's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
/high fiving Rev. SeriesFinale, whose $5 McClung shirsey, along with mine, regains some relevance/ When I think of Big Seth, the other thing I think of (besides the $5 shirsey) is his baller performance on 9/26/2008 vs. the Cubs. When he got the final strikeout to end the game, I jumped and whooped in our living room enough to send the cats running. -
Dang. He'd better have self-funded the renovation of his (someday) UW-Madison office. I know the history department doesn't have that kind of coin.
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Sabathia and Hoffman don't have a chance unless the rules are changed, as inductees have to have been with the club at least three seasons to be eligible. Also, I second/third Baldkin's idea. The portfolio could be started most anytime.
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I guess it's analogous to Favre in the sense of "I'm done." "No, I'm not." At least there isn't (likely to be) a hated rival baseball league to which Bud switches, thus permanently antagonizing half of his fan base.
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Oh, I'm glad to see someone else feel this way about movies. I cannot say I've never watched a movie, of course, nor can I say I've never enjoyed a movie I've watched; but I'm just not into movies like so many people I know are. I've long preferred nonfiction to fiction reading; maybe it's the same with video content.
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Aww. For what it's worth, I'm frankly a bit surprised that the JS feels it can afford to deliver to our 'hood, given how all the newspapers are going broke or whatever. It would not have seemed a possibility to me if we didn't see it delivered to our neighbor's house.
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I was going to say I can't believe they are charging people to read garbage like any of Hunt's columns, but then I read today's. Wow. Ah, but if it's one of the first 20 you read this month, it's free to you. Another update that no one requested: I never got a confirmation from the JS on my subscription attempt which didn't seem to be accepted, or a reply to my email inquiry sent on Monday 1/2, but we did get a Sunday paper delivered this morning. Go figure. So I went to jsonline to sign up and immediately got a "you have reached your 20 article limit" screen - which makes no sense, as I've made a point of not visiting the site since the paywall was established on January 4. I subscribed myself for JS Everywhere and now I can view content. Of course, today's content is mostly stuff I just read in the print edition this morning. And yeah, I allowed myself an eyeroll when I saw the Michael Hunt column (which, for those of you bypassing the content, encourages Prince to stay just one more year). But I got way more out of the coupon section than I'd gotten from the State Journal's coupons in months and months; and it was nice to have some newsprint in the house again. Plus the print edition has none of those horrible hateful comments that now dog too many corners of the internets.
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Random MLB News And Discussion 2012
hawing replied to RightFieldCoder's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
We got a similar mailing yesterday, for "planning your group outing." The S.O. noticed that same "super value" April series with Houston. If we could only get his family to meet up that week, we could be lounging in the club for like $7 per person (except we'd never meet the 50 group member minimum). But I imagine they'll want to go on an all-fan giveaway Sunday instead, so it will cost more. Incidentally, the Marquee/Blue/Gold/Value/SuperValue price chart for group sales is available at this link on the Brewers' website. -
Hey, we used to live around the corner from the Mason Lounge. I'm pretty sure it was Bennett's (the "porn in the morn" place) when we were in that 'hood. If Falbo Bros. is still on that block as well, there's a pizza option. I don't know if Mason itself has off-street parking. Maybe jjkoestler knows. When we lived nearby, street parking on and to the west of Park St. wasn't impossible to come by. (Important qualifier: Street parking would be a much steeper challenge if we picked a night when a Kohl Center event is underway. This would include the weekends of 2/24-25, 3/2-3, 3/16-17, and 3/23-24 for WIAA tournament events alone.) Originally I came to post that the fair thing would probably be to alternate between Madison and Milwaukee, which would make 2012 a Milwaukee year...but I won't lie - I like jjkoestler's suggestion. That said, I'd be equally at ease with a Milwaukee-area location. Again, I'll point out that Fourth Base on National was very accommodating, and has off-street parking.
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Aw, I'll have my fingers crossed for you all (when I'm not typing, of course). In case a real-life story of things turning out better than expected would help...last month we had our boy cats in for their annual checkup. Nate, our black kitty, needed a few teeth extracted and while they were doing a blood test on him, the vet discovered a growth by one of his nostrils. She came right out and said, "this looks bad" in a way that made me suspect she was trying to prepare us for bad news. So they did a biopsy while he was already out for the dental work and we were trying to be ready for the worst - but the lab declared it benign. When I talked to the vet about the results, she said she'd completely expected it to be squamous cell carcinoma. Just saying, there are cases where the worst does not come to pass, and I'll hope the same for Cleo. Then I'll go knock on wood for all our beloved animal companions.
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fondybrewfan, for what it's worth, you can use Twitter on devices other than phones. Even I use it (on PC and occasionally on an iPod) and I definitely bring up the average age on Brewerfan. I took my time in deciding to start with Twitter, but if you choose your follows carefully, it's a nice format for access to information that interests you. More related to the topic at hand (and still related to ancientness), like JimH5 and Patrick425, I'm a fan of having a physical paper to read. It's partly a habit, and partly my personal preference for how to pick and choose what I want to read. I was a State Journal subscriber for more than 25 years until this summer and am not yet completely over the lack of newsprint in our house, especially on Sundays - hence my interest in trying the JS for Sundays. Even more related to the topic at hand, I am now in day 3 of waiting for a response from the Journal Sentinel that they said would come in 48 hours. I realize I could call them but I'd like to have this correspondence "in writing."
