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Ohhh, I want a player sighting of my own. Also, way to be prepared, tristarscoop!

Yeah, makes you wonder what Anthony was in such a hurry to get to last night. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/eyes.gif

Just peeking at said Mariners Blog makes me wish the Journal Sentinel had a blogger like that (Geoff Baker). Edit: Here is the blog entry that mentions the pieces cited by dadofandrew above.

So...it sounds at least like you don't have a strong gut feeling of Brewers doom for tomorrow. I'll take that.

Keeping the opponent completely off the board and playing good all-around fundamental baseball pretty much matches right up with what I envisioned going in. Nice work, Brewer Fever. How are you feeling about Sunday's game? Stop the madness! Win a series!

Yeah, though as a slight silver lining the Brewers don't see him as much as a Brave.

Welcome, stalton. At this point, I almost don't care how the Brewers score runs, as long as they score more. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif More on the unis: The Official Negro Leagues Baseball Shop sells a jersey that resembles tonight's jersey, only without the insane bulk. http://www.negroleagueshop.com/prod_images_large/milwjer_large.jpg

Excellent, Jimbo. Though you'd think as an age group winner, you'd get a Bratwurst (#1).

Not sure. This is the only image on the Wikipedia page for the Bears, and it's listed as "a recreation of the only known logo." http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/48/Milwaukeebears.png/180px-Milwaukeebears.png I have to admit (displaying my ignorance) that if the Bears were only in existence in 1923, it would make me wonder if both uniform styles they've worn to date (tonight's wonders and the previous black pinstripe) could be authentic.

Are you posting from the game, Invader? I thought you were going tonight.

Well, good. That Friday game was a kick to the groin (or, if you're Brian Anderson, gro-an) to my Brewers spirit, and I could use some positive thinking. Chat's available, if anyone wants to help talk me off the Brewers ledge. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

If you used this word on purpose, you are very cool.Kind of. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif After I wrote it, but before I hit POST, I thought about Corey's previously sore foot. However, I didn't catch the whole pre-game show. Did they confirm that his foot is still dinged up? I did hear Ken Macha say that a DL stint for McClung is likely.

So, is Frankie in so that women throughout Brewers Nation (myself included) can sing along with The Outfield every time he comes up to bat?...or is something afoot with Corey? I guess all we can do is tune in to find out.

No offense to wOOgiE22, 1992casey or pretendastronaut, but I'm not confident in my ability to adequately manage the IGT graphics. If anyone else wants to post the graphics properly, go for it and we'll be just a bit out of order for one night. TV viewers: please note that tonight's game is a WMLW telecast. Brewers' starting lineup, per Witrado: 2B Felipe Lopez 3B Craig Counsell LF Ryan Braun 1B Prince Fielder CF Mike Cameron RF Frank Catalanotto SS JJ Hardy C Jason Kendall RHP Yovani Gallardo Yovani: we need you now tonight. And we need you more than ever. Please?

This makes me think of Barney Gumble: http://www.rob-clarkson.com/duff-brewery/barney/08.jpg "Natural light! Get it off me! Get it off me!"

They'd want him so the Yankees couldn't get him.

So who's in charge of polishing the division title and shipping it directly to STL?

Actually, it was the Bratwurst who took the header. That was dramatic. A few miscellaneous thoughts: I wouldn't have minded seeing the Parra-Rivera battery again. It might not have changed the outcome, but it seemed to work OK the last two Parra starts (maybe better than Kendall leading off). From our loge seats, I had the opportunity to look at Jim Powell in the visitors' radio booth. During the pregame mini-ceremony honoring Prince's HR Derby win, I believe Jim looked a little wistful. Did anyone else at the game notice Manny angrily flinging his glove into the dugout at the end of the 4th inning? I'll bet the videoboard people wish they could take that shot back. And Seth's elbow. That's not good. (link from McCalvy) I can't add too much more, other than to agree that Friday's game was just extra dispiriting. As a fan, I need something to change...not sure what. (Edited to add link about Seth's elbow, as I later realized it hadn't been posted elsewhere yet)

Come on, Manny. And position players, back him up. We're driving through thunderstorms to see you. Also, should he be peeking: Welcome back to Jim Powell (even if in the wrong booth).

Yeah, no offense, sage, but I'll lock this thread in favor of the longer one.

I'll admit, the S.O. and I (we're off work this week) watched the catch live and were shouting along with Hawk.

Since Toby's Brewerfan Political Scene is a separate forum, we can't just move this thread there. So I'll lock it and if people want to recreate their posts over there...feel free to cut and paste.

Nottso, that photo is terrific. That would make a good avatar - just saying.

Now that the transaction is more than a rumor, I'll lock this in favor of the thread in Major Leagues.

Poor Tyson! That is a heck of a string of bad luck. As for how I'd answer your question, I guess it depends. We don't have children, so while I would stop short of calling our cats our children, we take their companionship and care pretty seriously. (Not implying that those of you with both children and pets do not.) In about 16 years of pet companionship, we've been fortunate to only have the type of dilemma you describe once. Our first cat developed a limp seemingly overnight. We had her looked at the next weekday, and after some ordinary treatments failed, it turned out she had an invasive tumor on her shoulder blade. The options were to amputate (not only the affected front leg but also part of the shoulder blade) or to dull the pain for however long she lasted with meds. She was 10 years old then, so neither a young punk nor really elderly. Knowing what we did about her personality and temperament, our gut reaction was that the proposed operation was too invasive - so we chose the latter course. We did not get too much into what the amputation would have cost. We had incurred a moderate cost (I'd have to look it up but probably in the mid-three-figures) just to figure out that it was cancer, but that was not beyond our means. Our current kitty duo is a heavily bonded pair and I'm not sure how either would cope without the other - so that's a factor I'd want to consider if a big health problem develops with either of them (along with the obvious factors: age, type of problem, prognosis with/without treatment, and cost). There are pet health insurance programs, not without cost but with young(ish) Tyson seemingly being prone to "incidents", maybe that would be worth looking into? Google "pet health insurance" and you will find a wealth (pun unintended) of options. Good luck to you and Tyson.