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That is pretty sweet, except for the "Jeff Suppan getting torched" part.

That's just what I said when I walked into the living room late in the game. I'll take a .500 win percentage for the night. (I was following women's USA hockey as well.)

Update: The S.O. returned the favor and got me a "downflap" cap for my birthday. Only in the intervening month we discovered they sell the cap in both the modern-M and ball-glove logo styles. How pretty is this? http://mlb.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pMLB2-6882844dt.jpg http://mlb.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pMLB2-6882844_alternate2_dt.jpg Only the ball-glove version doesn't say "Brewers" in the back, but the 1980s-style "Milwaukee." The button atop the cap is also gold instead of blue. Besides being pretty (to my eye at least), it's also fleece lined on the inside. So I'm wearing this to work starting Friday!

Our pair of opening day tickets arrived today...section 437, row 14, not so unlike ewizabeff's partial-season-ticket location for April 5.

zachlaka is probably there already.

The "future of cable" thread that arose here earlier this winter helped me realize that there's not that much TV I watch regularly, as in 'strive not to miss'. Ours is not a kill-your-television household by any means, but I don't find myself sitting in front of it as much as I used to (not when I can sit in front of the computer, of course). I still try not to miss The Simpsons. If I'm in the living room when Modern Family or Parks and Recreation come on, I'll watch. Credit Brewerfan.net for alerting me to those. I'll watch select sporting events (Brewers, UW basketball and UW hockey) but I often prefer listening to each of those on the radio while I do other things. It's not like we have ESPN on all the time. Betraying my age group a bit, I like some of the retro programming on TV Land and WGN. For example, Barney Miller was a little beyond me when it was first aired, but now I enjoy. As soon as TV Land switches to its "original" programming, though, I stop watching. Tonight I'll happily settle in for women's Olympic hockey to UW basketball, maybe fitting in Parks and Rec. Happy birthday to me. Edit: We also started watching more of the Wisconsin Channel (part of Wisconsin Public Television). Sometimes it's soothing to just look at old barns or rustic roads for 30 to 60 minutes. Plus some Wisconsin Historical Society programming is included.

Cut her some slack, Sgt. Unless you want to call me an idiot too, because I (having no idea what Scott Schoeneweis looks like) thought that was Gamel tossing to Randy Wolf. Before you call me an idiot, remember that I have banhammer access. Note the restraint I showed by waiting this long to comment on seeing the Sharpie back in the navy, white and gold. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

Good idea, Principessa21. Is that yet another new mural on Corey's arm, or did I lose count?

Yeah, Madison won't get lake effect snow, but we did have a surprisingly robust snow shower about an hour ago; more like flurries by now. I looked out the window at one point and exclaimed aloud.

Perhaps you wrote the subject line the way you did to generate interest...but the fan was injured by a hot dog launched via air gun by Royals mascot Sluggerrr - painful, but a bit less lurid than the mental picture painted by "mascot's wiener pokes fan." http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Link with a bit more information Frankly, I wouldn't have been surprised if the fan asked for much more than $25K. bb4life's link in the lead post includes this as well: One of my favorite components of the 2002 all-star festivities was seeing most if not all of the MLB mascots. Somewhere at home I have a pretty good photo of the S.O. posing with Sluggerrr. I'd be mildly disappointed if the Royals replaced him.

That will be our first game (April 6), so I won't notice. But thank goodness I won't have to worry about being shown on TV.

Back to the TV schedule: FSWisconsin Brewers broadcast schedule (3 spring training games, 136 regular season games)

Besides the HD news, the link in sheethead's lead post includes a link to the FSWisconsin Brewers broadcast schedule for spring training and the 2010 regular season (3 spring training games, 136 regular season).

Just to contribute one woman's opinion, if someone used a phrase like "Holden Caulfield fantasy" in reference to me, I'd feel kind of threatened. The outfit (as linked to above) was actually less bad than I'd expected...except for the boots. Ouch.

It might be those slimming gold panels on the sides of the spring training uniform shirts. And maybe Ken Macha is practicing his role in an upcoming musical. "Don't cry for me, Wauwatosa..." Either that or he's trying to HEAL someone.

I also think this is the case. I had to subscribe last spring because it was my first go-round with MLB audio. Also, Brian Otten, thanks for the link to the photos. It looks like this one could inspire a caption contest: http://cmsimg.wausaudailyherald.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?NewTbl=1&Site=U0&Date=20100222&Category=GPG01&ArtNo=2220814&Ref=PH&Item=1&Maxw=542&Maxh=352&q=60

Oh, yeah, you've got to remember not to do that. Though in my mind, they are TYME machines forever.

Link The .300 Metavante NYCE Stadium Club (a result of Fidelity National Information Services' acquisition of Metavante) will be rebranded and resignaged in time for the season opener. (Hat tip to Brew Crew Ball for the info.) Rather than wait for someone else to make the first joke, I'll do it. NYCE. Real nyce. Unless it's intended to be pronounced like "niece," or spelled out (enn-why-cee-eee)

Indeed, that is the case. I was just struck by the sheer volume of entries on the Astros' list of promotions. The Pirates are giving away a catcher's backpack too. Does one wear them on the front?

The Nationals are giving away a Nyjer Morgan bobblehead on July 31 this year. According to the Pirates' promotional schedule, Pittsburgh is pinning a lot of hopes on Andrew McCutchen (photo wrap, kids' replica jersey, and the only Pirate bobblehead of the season). The Reds' promotions include not one, but two "Bark in the Park" nights, the first of which features a giveaway of 5,000 Reds-branded pet waste bag dispensers: http://mlb.mlb.com/cin/images/schedule/y2010/waste_dispenser_180x150.jpg The Reds are also having a Joey Votto Action Figure giveaway. The Astros have some type of promotion or giveaway on 66 of their 81 home dates. And I'm a little surprised that the Classies stoop to promotions and giveaways at all. Yet they offer a "Sluggie": http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/stl/images/promotions/sluggie180x150.jpg

Maybe on WTMJ. Last spring it seemed to be like pulling teeth to get Madison radio (where at least three stations have at least some sports programming) to air games. That is what finally drove me to subscribe to MLB audio.

Every time I look at the subject line for this thread, I want to post the suggestion that you not go camping in February. Sorry. I just had to get that out. Carry on.

I worked at UWGB from 1990-1992, so I was on campus there for the Phoenix's first trip to the dance (when they were robbed - robbed! - by Michigan State in the first round). From the day the Phoenix Bookstore began selling NCAA tourney t-shirts to the day I left Green Bay (a year-plus later), I swear I saw someone wearing one of those shirts daily. The S.O. took one of Dick Bennett's classes as an undergrad at UWSP back in the day; but even my household in sum hasn't tracked coach Bennett quite like bjkrautk. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

See, now, that's the part I just couldn't figure out. Did they even look at tape of UW/Arizona? or did they just think "yeah, but that won't happen to us"? It has always seemed kind of 'fool me twice, shame on me.'

Although this is a college basketball topic, since it concerns the past it didn't seem a fit for the existing hoops thread. At the UW/Northwestern game today, Wisconsin welcomed back some of the Badgers from the 2000 Final Four appearance. I would have liked to see this, but the State Journal helped make up for it with some retrospective coverage: Celebrating a season to remember Catching up with the Final Four team (from Mike Kelley to Dave Mader and everyone in between) I've been fortunate to have some pretty good fan experiences in the time I've followed my sports of choice, but nothing (to date) has been as flat-out, absolutely crazy as observing that Final Four run. It was just so improbable. I remember thinking, "oh, nice" when UW beat Fresno State, and I remember thinking that if they had to face a 1 seed in the second round, Arizona was probably the best of those teams for them to face. So when they beat Arizona I somehow wasn't that surprised. I didn't really start to think about what they were accomplishing until they also beat LSU - at which point I realized, geez, all they have to do is beat Purdue. I'd seen them beat Purdue that season and knew it could happen. So the game with Purdue ended and the S.O. and I just sat in stunned silence for a moment. Then the guy who splits his season tickets with us called to celebrate, and while he and the S.O. talked I stepped outside the house (at the time we lived just south of Meriter Hospital). I heard happy screams and whoops from every direction, and I saw a helicopter hovering to our north, I guessed over Regent Street. Madison doesn't have traffic helicopters (and it was a Saturday anyway) so I figured it was stationed to watch fans celebrate. The best time I've ever had in Camp Randall Stadium was welcoming the team back from Albuquerque at 12:30 that night. It was an all-ages crowd - lots of students, but also families with little kids and the red-sweater-crowd (the "old people," like in the chant, only everyone was standing the whole time). Most of the east side of the stadium (pre-luxury boxes) was filled by the time the team arrived. Everyone was so happy. It was a great night. The only bummer was that the Badger hockey team was eliminated from its postseason that night. Anyway, that's now almost a decade-old event. Sigh.