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I watched the whole time! I saw Sam snag Ryan for a high five and thought "Yeah!" And watching your son and wife's reactions as J.J. was announced brought a big smile to my face. I would absolutely have wanted to jump up and down if I'd been in their shoes. I'm happy for your family, and grateful for the good fortune they obviously brought today. Who knows, maybe even the pen left on the field will help. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Man, I have got to start entering my nephew in this.

This was the first game we attended since before all the May crap the Brewers have experienced. Psychologically, it felt like much more than 16 days had passed. However, I am satisfied with the end result. The Brewers are 4-2 on the hawing ticket now, which looks a lot better than 3-3 would have. It was important because I've got to think that the Bush/Wainwright matchup does not favor the Brewers. I'm inclined to agree - though I had the same thought prior to the Bush/Hamels matchup vs. PHI, and while Dave did not come away with a W, the Brewers did.

On Sunday, they played the beginning of Baba O'Riley by The Who (better recognized as Teenage Wasteland). That was also Jeff Suppan's walkup music, so I assume that's why they played it as he warmed up today; however, I thought it was a good choice. For the April games we attended, they played something else before the top of the first - something recorded after the 1980s, which drastically reduces the chance that I will recognize it.

While I'm not particularly glad that greeg35 also has tornado dreams, I take some comfort in not being the only one with them. Just before one of the cats woke me up today, I was dreaming that our staff training session at work was interrupted by a tornado warning and we all had to go to the basement of the building we were in. Unfortunately, it had a huge skylight window; but fortunately, I woke up before seeing any funnel clouds this time. I wonder if it was this thread that prompted my mind to combine two of my big three recurring dream themes.

Dear Brewers: Please keep playing better. Thanks. Sincerely, hawing

I don't have the dark image of "16-146" hanging over my head anymore. I know 17-145 is still a possibility, but I was really getting tired of 16-146.

http://itc.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/celebration6_2.jpg Let's celebrate while we can. And do not underestimate the power of THE RALLY CAPS, or BOLD RALLY CAPS, or even BOLD UNDERLINED RALLY CAPS. Even italics can help.

Gah, just like Robin19 predicted in one of those Ned threads earlier today!

Oooh, Robin19 has a point there, especially the "evil enough to pull that off" part. STL would have ample time to make up any ground lost in the process. How many people will be suprised if Attanasio or Melvin publicly back Nedly this weekend? I'm predicting it. This is also plausible (and could coexist with the TLR scheme proposed by Robin19). On the other hand, if Doug begins any Yost-supportive message with the phrase "I'm not motivated...", couldn't it be the kiss of death? The speculation is interesting. I'd enjoy it more if I weren't craving a Brewers win so.

Librarian. At home, 24/7 servant to two cats. And like pitchleague, a Brewer fan, which currently feels like a job.

With respect to the Yost hatred that continues to grow on this forum, he doesn't touch Davey Lopes for me. I didn't like Rene Lachemann either.

We, too, have a code, in case there turns out to be a logjam of fans who want to go to a midweek game next week. Just let me know.

If you have your eye on the Dodgers series now, brewdude, you may want to buy from the Brewers utilizing the buy one game, get another free promotion offered elsewhere in this thread. You'd then get tickets to your choice of games in the Arizona series in early June. Since your plans for the Cardinals series appear to have changed, and in case you prefer to look for Dodgers tickets from a poster instead of the Brewers, I'll edit your thread topic accordingly.

I'm wondering how the home fans will react when the starting lineups are announced this weekend, including those guys at the end of the starting lineup who don't play.

Please, make it stop! This feels like a month-long streak.

Over time, I've had three types of recurring dreams, none of them particularly happy. 1. The tornado dream: I'm caught somewhere that I perceive to be unsafe (often outdoors), it's looking stormy, then the sirens go off and oh no! Tornado! Or sometimes multiple vortex tornadoes. I never reach the point where a storm actually hits me, but I wake up with heart a-pounding. This has recurred for me since about age 10 (a good 30+ years). 2. The elevator dream. I get in an elevator and one way or another, it doesn't do what I want. It goes up when I want to go down or vice versa; or it malfunctions by getting stuck or going sideways. Yeah, sideways. Oddly, my dream elevators don't tend to plummet. My workplace has somewhat intimidating elevators - mostly due to their extreme age. Strangely, although I never had elevator dreams before I started at this workplace, my elevator dreams never take place in the workplace elevators. Instead, I cover the workplace in... 3. The workplace dream. I've been at the same workplace (a library) for 21 of the last 23 years, and my workplace dreams follow one script: It's late in the workday, almost closing time, there are a ton of visitors and all my coworkers are gone. I'm the only one left to help them. I try to close and there are too many visitors - I can't get them to leave. I even dreamt once that we had a special late night session where we stayed open until 2:00 AM. A group of old ladies showed up at 2:00 AM saying they wanted to just check on a few things. (We have a major genealogy collection, so we see a lot of elderly visitors.) I mentioned this to my supervisor once and he said "Ah, an anxiety dream!" I thought about saying "well, duh" but thought better of it. This dream doesn't scare me, but I wake up kind of mad because I feel like I let work get to me again. Oddly, I have hardly ever had the "late in the semester" dream cited by dadofandrew - although it's a classic, and I was certainly in school long enough to qualify for it.

Pedro, I think that particular development would get its own thread.

I don't want to rain on the Dippin' Dots parade (The Onion didn't), but Miller Park now sells Ittibitz, which is either a Dippin' Dots knockoff or a far superior product, probably depending on whether you work for Kemps. Moving back toward the original topic...get some of those 20-sided dice, and roll them to determine batting order, rotation, everything strategic. Could the results be worse? A bit more seriously, I'd look at moving Corey to leadoff, at least temporarily. And hypnosis for every player. "You can throw strikes....You can last through six innings effectively...You can hit for average, yes, even with RISP."

Yeah, as long as they don't give it away to the St. Louis Androids.

Wow - imagine being named Sarah Marshall (or Sara H. Marshall) and seeing those billboards. That'll make a bad day worse.

I'm a "writer-outer" too. Somehow I was able to visualize my notes enough of the time to be successful. Everyone's got a best way for them to remember things; RoCo just has to find his way. Jazzy's is especially interesting.

I don't know whether to be depressed, or amazed that anyone at ESPN spent this much time thinking about the Brewers.

Burke Badenhop is a pretty decent baseball name. It's probably but a matter of time before Uecker says something like, "That ball took a badenhop and sailed right over Rickie's head." Please, Brewers, get past 16!

Seconded. I always took the approach that if I had a clearer and less sleep deprived mind, I'd have a better chance of remembering details and/or putting them together. My undergrad GPA was 3.8 (not to brag, only to point out that my methods brought results). Good luck.

I think the key question is whether "Big" Wes Helms remains in the starting lineup.