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  1. hawing
    At least Carne represents how far the Brewers have come since 2007. Nieves represents how far the Brewers have come since, what, June? July?
  2. hawing
    Rollie had his ten minutes in the sun. It's OK.
  3. hawing
    http://cdn.sportsmemorabilia.com/sports-product-image/70-t874661-500.jpg I was confident enough to have Li'l Wes cued up. It's been that kind of stretch. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Let's leave Wil Nieves out of this happy thread. Edit: Dang it! But seriously, if we must revisit crappy catchers of the past, let's aim for Carne Estrada instead.
  4. hawing
    Pirates 5, Cardinals 4, 11 innings, on a Garrett Jones blast to the Allegheny River. So... http://www.powerplaysportscards.com/photos/fingers2.jpg May 34's reign be brief, in this case.
  5. hawing
    Pirates 5, Cardinals 4 / 11 innings, on a Garrett Jones walkoff HR. Let's go Bucs!
  6. hawing
    I've seen them on kids, adults, and even one grandma-looking type. She sits in the front of our loge section and we've taken to (secretly) calling her Grandma Plush. My apologies if she is in fact the grandma of one of you bf.netters.
  7. hawing
    Our more detailed invoice has arrived. The whole ball of wax - not including parking - is $5645! That's about 2 1/2 seasons' worth of our regular two 20-packs. I'm trying to ease the sticker shock by remembering that the invoice reflects the maximum possible expenditure: home field advantage throughout the postseason + a 5-game NLDS + 7-game NLCS + 7-game WS. I'm no rluzinski, but I think the odds of that particular scenario playing out aren't so great. (Though if it does, the Brewers had better win the last game.) I also keep in mind that the hawing household has two members, four tickets are available to us, and we're not going to use the other two seats as coat chairs. Favors considered, though whoever we sell our other tickets to has to sit with us. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif For what it's worth, though, if we divided correctly, WS tickets in the loge level are $225 - same as in 2008. Whadda bargain!
  8. hawing
    Wow, is everyone at the game tonight? I'd invite you into the chat room if the software would allow me to enter.
  9. hawing
    I'm not at home yet to see if our 2011 packet arrived in the mail yet, but I agree that MLB sets the prices of at least the WS tickets. I would have thought they'd also set the prices for earlier rounds, not unlike the NCAA does for NCAA tournament activities. If we're charged for the whole thing and the Brewers actually play the maximum number of games, we might have to consider scaling back for 2012 as well. On the up side, we'll have seen a World Series. That's what I'm telling myself. If there is no Brewers World Series, the refund will probably cover much if not most of our 2012 expenditure.
  10. hawing
    Invader3K is correct. On 9/28/2008, the Brewers were (for once) WTMJ's higher priority, and the Packers were moved to the alternate station. Since I was in Milwaukee that day, I don't know if the rest of the Brewers Radio Network followed suit. I believe TMJ had the NLDS games, too, leaving football (since NLDS 3 coincided with a Badger game) for the alternate. Again, I don't know if Madison and other areas did the same. What I don't know, but is interesting if premature to ponder, is if the Brewers Radio Network can cover all Brewers postseason games, or if after a certain point FOX or ESPN or Westwood One radio takes over (as it did for the Super Bowl outside of Milwaukee). For any games I can't attend, you bet I'm going to mute the FOX dudes and listen to Bob and Cory if at all possible. I don't know that I even care about the syncing. I like Bob and Cory that much, and I dislike Joe Buck and Tim McCarver that much. Man, talk about your first-world problems. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
  11. hawing
    I expect this thread to get so long Google decides to only search this thread when looking for pictures.I think Robin19's reply above exemplifies what it means to be a Brewerfan poster. Highfive. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
  12. hawing
    Then Plush might have a chance to be a pinch-hit hero. (That's my positive spin on Sunday lineups.)
  13. hawing
    I'm pretty sure in 2008 our terrace WS tickets were $175 and the loge tickets $225. Add three years of "appreciation" to that. So I think your estimate is low. If we're charged for them and don't get to the WS, that sum will cover quite a few 2012 tickets. If the Brewers play that many games, we've seen a World Series, which is not the worst problem to have.
  14. hawing
    You guys are going to ruin that lens with all your drooling. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif
  15. hawing
    Duh, of course. Well, that will make my September 12 workday a little easier.
  16. hawing
    Is this real life? I'm serious. Please don't let up, Brewers. What I liked the most about the triple play was Kottaras' reaction: got up and trotted to the dugout. Inning over. Nothing to see here. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
  17. hawing
    And the Maddux magic number lasted maybe half an hour. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slideshows/368/slideshow_36898/display_image.jpg?x=991654
  18. hawing
    Pirates 6, Cardinals 2. You know what that means... http://www.halloffamememorabilia.com/images/products/p-536155-tony-fossas-autographed-hand-signed-mlb-baseball-card-milwaukee-brewers-1990-score-5-aw-47557.jpg That's right. The Mechanic! http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0epsguE1MQ823/340x.jpg Or the Mad Dog if you prefer. Yeah, Soup, your magic number only lasted about 28 hours.
  19. hawing
    thablingster, I thought your 20 pack was in the terrace box.
  20. hawing
    Similarly, it occurred to me that the Sunday 9/11 game could theoretically be picked up by ESPN (depending on what NYY, BOS and STL are doing that weekend). We could do it, though it wouldn't be handy because I can't really take much Monday time off so early in the school year.
  21. hawing
    As of Monday morning, our "My Brewers Tickets" online account has postseason information in it for the NLDS and NLCS. If you are a season ticket holder and don't regularly use My Brewers Tickets, the username is your account number and the password should be on a previous printed invoice. The hawing party has two 20-packs, one in TB and one in the loge. The Brewers have surprised me by combining the two pairs into a block of four seats in section 222. I know what location I'll be checking out at our next game. The online account includes no breakdown of per-game ticket prices, only a NLDS/NLCS total. For us that is $1955. Payment is due by September 6. Paying in full by that date authorizes the Brewers to charge your credit card for the World Series on September 30 (should the Brewers still be playing by then). This means the print invoices should arrive this week, and they'll probably be more detailed. So...I'm excited now. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
  22. hawing
    August 3rd vs. the Cards may have been a marquee game.The August 1-3 series appears as regular home-game blue on the schedule card I keep by my computer. Only the June weekend series with STL had marquee status. This Thursday's game (which we happen to be attending with a 60+ guest) is the last 1:10 weekday start game at MP this year. Thursday, September 1 is a 3:10 start. The rest (outside of Sundays) are night games - barring any national broadcast pickups.
  23. hawing
    but TTTTTTTTT sounds nothing like "booooooooo"! i was so puzzled as i walked out because i know i heard boooooo. maybe the acoustics distorted it or something. I agree that it sounded like some kind of "ooooooooo," but it was synced up with Nyjer throwing up the T, so that's got to be it. Something I forgot to mention last night: I think a German Heritage Day was a fine idea, but it seemed to me the Brewers were scraping the bottom of the barrel to find appropriate between-innings music. 99 Luftballons - OK, that's German (and they actually used the auf-Deutsch version). Da Da Da and Boom Boom - OK, Trio is from Germany. Rock You Like A Hurricane? I know, the Scorpions are German, but really? I guess I was expecting more oompah music. It's not like the Brewers didn't know this was their promotion months in advance. And that one Brew Crew couple in German garb were EVERYWHERE yesterday - from the parking lots honoring the free oil change car to our section tossing out T-shirts to Bernie's Dugout.
  24. hawing
    I didn't realize how nervous I'd become during that game until we left the park and I could feel how many muscles I had been tensing. I know the season probably didn't come down to today's game, but I really wanted the W. Way to essentially fail your way to victory, Nyjer, and possibly crush whatever was left of the Pirates' spirit. A few chat room regulars will recall that before Mark Kotsay's walkoff hit in that Friday night July game, I vowed to buy a Kotsay shirt if he came through. He did, I did, and the S.O. wore the shirt to today's game. We were walking from the Molitor Lot to the park, I was counting Counsell shirts/jerseys (more about that in a moment) and had just mentioned the utter unlikelihood of anyone else at MP (or maybe on earth) having a Kotsay shirt - when of course we saw someone else, in the Braves lot, with a Kotsay shirt. That was special. It didn't take long for me to lose count of the many, many fans wearing Counsell gear today. Let me make clear that I'm not a hater, and I joined in on the first at-bat standing ovation - but wow, is he the belovedest .140 hitter on earth or what? I know fans don't have to be rational, but it's a sight to see. (Psst, Cardinal Nation: if the Brewers were cheating, Craiggers would be hitting at least at the Uecker line.) I think Casey is the blue-collar-hero heir apparent, too. The Brewers got through that 18-game NL Central stretch with a 16-2 record. I know, not the roughest division in baseball, but that's still quite an accomplishment. Don't let up, Brewers. I want a good reason to commit large $ toward postseason tickets.
  25. hawing
    Kind of like that "Brewers Extra Innings" show where I feel more knowledgable about the Brewers than either of the TMJ dudes? A 45-year-old woman? That's right.
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