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Brewers and Badgers victories would be excellent bookends for the day. Along those lines, if you're in the Madison area, the radio broadcast is on 1070 AM, since WIBA will presumably want to start hockey programming early (it being the national championship and all).

Get back on the bike, Brewers.

Jr., who looked to be in his early to mid teens, must have been a Brewers fan, based at least on how he threw his empty soda bottle down so hard onto the seat next to him (in front of me) that it bounced toward me and landed at our feet. Sr and Jr both were wearing navy (but not specifically Brewers navy), but Sr clapped at enough conflicting times that I could not tell for sure. They both really seemed to like Trevor Hoffman and not Albert Pujols, but those preferences alone don't prove Brewer fandom. I really hope they are one-and-done in our section and not new Sunday Plus customers. Actually, I was surprised to see fewer familiar faces in our Sunday Plus section last night, and hope that doesn't mean there was a ton of turnover.

Yeah, Sunday's fans will see Carpenter v. Wolf. I'm hoping that matchup, combined with Friday's result, isn't the baseball gods' way of saying, "We hate Sunday Plus fans," as they seemed to do for much of 2009. This game did nothing to reduce my hatred of STL, but nothing really to increase it either. The STL fans sitting in our vicinity were easier to take than the hothead duo right in front of us (Hothead Sr. and Jr., who appears to be following in dad's footsteps). I admit that I completely forgot until we were out of the stadium that Big Roid was back with the club. I did think to ask Matt Holliday how his fielding percentage this week compared with the same in October 2009, but he apparently wasn't listening to fans in the loge. It was weird: while I stayed hopeful, I just didn't have a feeling of impending success when Trevor came out. Dude's human. It was a bummer in that this felt like the most winnable game of the series. I've been proven wrong before, though. I haven't visited the field level fan stores yet, but I hope they printed some Hawkins shirts to sell while he's still pitching this well. 34018 paid to see it, and this crowd seemed to more accurately represent the "in the house" attendance than Tuesday's. Ah well, in 13 hours there'll be another chance.

I'm simply mystified by the oversaturation coverage for Tiger, on "regular" (define that how you will) news channels, not just sports media.

I am also bugged by a STL fan I know who won't stop with the snark about Jeff Suppan and his pillow woes. Classy.

That's awful, bbrauch. In Principessa's defense, I think she is hoping it doesn't have to come down to pepper spraying anyone. Some pet stories are truly sad, especially for the pet.

Dollar for dollar, I suppose you could argue that this is more lame than Matt Wise's salad tongs incident.

No lunch until 2:00 because my 11-2 student called in sick.

In recent months I've had a hard time finding a bed pillow that does not leave my neck and shoulders stiff in the morning. Thus I have a degree of empathy for Jeff. However, I lack the eight-figure salary that would allow me to try lots of pillows; and the timing of this revelation just invites ridicule. It would have been better for him to say nothing.

I would absolutely contact police, describe the situation and ask what options exist. (This is especially easy for me to say because one of my relatives is an officer, so I can bring it up in casual conversation.) Don't wait for the next incident and call 911; call the non-emergency number or a community/neighborhood officer if your municipality has one. If this dog has no problem running up to and intimidating another dog, what might it do to a little kid? Before you contact police, write or type out a rough timeline of your observations, especially the bit where you asked her to control her dog and she refused/told you to walk your dog somewhere else, then you stated your intent to carry pepper spray. Document, document, document, because your neighbor sounds like the type who will deny, deny, deny (and perhaps sue, sue, sue if it does come to your having to use pepper spray on the dog, in defense of yourself or your dog). If for some reason you don't get a cooperative response from police (which I hope is unlikely), reiterate that this person told you to walk your dog somewhere else, and calmly ask what is reasonable about that. Get the name of everyone you talk to so you can follow up if needed. Walk your dog somewhere else? That is seriously outrageous. Take this action not only for yourself, your dog, and anyone else in your neighborhood who might be threatened by this dog, but for your neighbor (whom you might save from a lawsuit) and the troubled dog itself. Maybe the best case scenario is the neighbor loses the dog and the dog gets a new lease on life with an owner who actually has a conscience. Good luck, and let us know how it plays out. Obviously this has my dander up.

During the 2nd intermission of UW-RIT hockey, ESPN2 just advertised Sunday's Game of the Week: Mets vs. Cardinals. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/mad.gif

Nice. Now I can leave for home (and TV) with a degree of confidence!

How does one mispronounce Craig Murphy? I don't have access to audio/video so I didn't hear that for myself. Anyway, nice looking first period for UW. Keep it up!

Yeah, I found a video for Yeehaw and while it sounds very much like it's right in Corey's wheelhouse, I don't think it's what was playing Tuesday. The lyrics to Hillbilly Bone match the snippets I figured out Tuesday night.

Just bringing some mojo.?? One, TWO, we want more!

It's a little weird to have someone repping the (albeit) recent past on the schedule magnet who didn't retire as a Brewer. But the situation would be similar, had Ben Sheets been the 2000s representative. Aaron, Coop and Yount have a lengthy shared history with Milwaukee/the Brewers (as well as at least one special moment each), and CC has just "the moment." I'd say both are valid ways to commemorate history. According to my employer, history is all about people's stories, and the story of Sabathia in Milwaukee is certainly an interesting one. When I think of CC swooping in to save the day, for some reason I've always thought of the Simpsons' Senor Ding Dong: http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100405003626/simpsons/images/e/ee/Senor_Ding_Dong.jpg Also, on a largely unrelated note, I'm slightly disappointed to see the schedule magnet oriented vertically. Horizontally oriented magnets of that size fit much better on my steel desk at work. Oh well.

Per Adam McCalvy, the Brewers have scheduled a 3:00 PM CDT press conference. Adam seems to think it may be to announce a Gallardo deal.

I hate to have to break the news, but you're limited to six characters on the Brewers plates.

Is a photo of the bobblehead available? I confess to not following the NBA much, but I have always thought Bango is a top-shelf mascot. (edit: and we are attending Sunday's game and should have an extra Bernie bobble)

Yep. I fished out my 1990 championship pin (my sister went as a member of the band) to wear to work tomorrow and as a nice bonus found a little generic Bucky pin I'd forgotten I had. Let's go, Badgers!

Agreed. It's hard to imagine that MENCH would already be taken, though. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

For those who could not see this game today, the FSWisconsin replay appears to be at noon CDT Thursday (Brewers Live pregame at 11:30). Edit: it seems to be only until 2:00, so expect those annoying "Due to time constraints..." skip-ahead messages. Here's hoping they don't skip over the best parts.

phxMILWfan and I are happy to jointly take one for the team.

It's a temptation more often than I'd like, but as a fan I try to resist counting on the long ball.