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Come on, Brewers. Make us happy.

The NFL Network not being on regular expanded basic cable. With all due respect to the broad interest many of you have in the NFL, I'm bugged by the NFL Network's advertising blitz this fall. "You won't see the Vikings-Packers game in December! unless your evil cable provider relents and makes a deal with the NFL Network!" The ads are on TV, websites, and (maybe worst of all) those little post-it style ads that now appear far too often on the front pages of newspapers. Guys: anyone who cares GETS THE MESSAGE by now. Oh, I'm also bugged by those little post-it style ads that now appear far too often on the front pages of newspapers. You can't remove them without taking off some newsprint ink. They'll rue the day that they splatter a post-it ad on the front page of a newspaper I want to save for posterity. Finally, I'm probably bugging pogokat by repeating myself. But those newspaper post-its really bug me.

C'mon, you guys can't seriously be watching your fantasy pre-season hockey team a;ready. Not me! I was at Miller Park, scoring my T-shirt, magnet schedule, and ticket that'll get me into a free game next year. And a Chris Capuano collector's pin, because we donated a gently worn coat. Of course, I was robbed on the "shirt off their backs" drawing. If anyone knows who was sitting in section 209/row 4/seat 4, and you think they might be willing to trade their Doug Davis jersey...let me know. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif It was redeeming to see two good, or at least winning, games to end our season. (The hawing ticket package was 14-8, a .636 winning pct. They could at least give me a jersey for the good fortune I bring...) If our last game had been that crapfest on Tuesday vs. STL, the off-season would certainly have been more sour for me. I missed out on the thrown merchandise from the dugout (we stayed upstairs long enough to say 'bye' to the terrace area employees who have become friends); but thanks to a kind gesture from a bf.net poster who gave me an item he caught last year, I'm set. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif (But I hope you got something more this year.)

Haha I was there. You were not. Hahaha, Jamie. I was there for the whole game. You were not. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Since we offered to monitor Jamie and Mary's stubs for the rest of the night after they had to leave, I can verify (and break the news) that there were no prize winners in the brewerjamie15 and hawing parties. Robbed, once again. Do they still do the old drum and pick out ticket stubs to win prizes... I wish. "The drum" had but a prerecorded cameo appearance on the videoboard before the game started. They announced winning seat locations between half innings - based on the scanned barcodes of tickets used that night. All computers, and I'm guessing no paper trail. I understand why people don't want to stay 30-60 minutes beyond the end of a game (especially when they're as long as Saturday night's) just to find that they didn't win the car. But it was much more suspenseful when they drew ticket stubs from the drum after the game. "The next winner comes...from...the BLEACHERS!" (cue wild cheering from the bleacher fans) You could see the winners and cheer them on as they jumped up excitedly, maybe high fived their seatmates, then began to hustle down to the field level. (Don't forget the obligatory "Jump!" chant whenever someone from the upper deck was a winner.) It was more fun then. Of course, it might be more fun overall if we ever actually won a fabulous prize.

(I am glad I taped it) You might be the luckiest Brewer fan tonight, AJAY. You can fast forward when you really need to. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif Keep it up, Brewers; I'll be at the next two games!

This kind of game is best forgotton. True. But that screed post of TauPentaRei's is memorable enough for WOAH SOLVDD. I suppose you can't move just one post, though.

So, anyone else think we should just resign Ohka and try to deal Davis? No? (just staying true to the avatar...or trying to)

"tied" Hank Aaron's record? The tie is for NL career homeruns.

Well, here are the lineups again (courtesy of trwi7). Go home team, and avatar guy. Giants: 1. Winn CF 2. Vizquel SS 3. Hillenbrand 1B 4. Bonds LF 5. Durham 2B 6. Alou RF 7. Feliz 3B 8. Alfonzo C 9. Sanchez P Brewers: 1. Hart CF 2. Graffanino 2B 3. Fielder 1B 4. Hall SS 5. Jenkins RF 6. Mench LF 7. Bell 3B 8. Rivera C 9. Davis P

I'm liking tomwopat as the IGT starter. With that avatar, you really should start the Saturday IGT, too, as it will be the 8th (8th!) anniversary of that glorious game.

Anyone else think David Bell looks like Kurt Russell? There is a little something there. Edit: Besides the stubble, that is. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

Yep, Doug's now 31. Over the hill!

Hey, it's my avatar guy's birthday today.

Gerald from Kaukana could win $1400 tonight. Even more if they bat around to Bill Hall and he goes yard.

Is the chat room operating? I just tried to enter and got a bunch of whacked out "null" lines. EDIT: Go Jamey! Go Jamey! Go Jamey! Go Jamey!

Jamey, Jamey, Jamey. Thanks, pal. Maybe you'll be the ex-Brewer who actually sucks vs. Milwaukee.

Wow, Drew Anderson has a boyish looking face, yet the hairline of someone a bunch older.

My friend's pet raccoon who jumps me from behind and chews on my head. I call the big one Bitey. (I know, that quote's about possums. It's just the first thing I thought of. The second thing I thought was 'ouch.')

Well, I still think the Brewers could have bothered to not suck Tuesday night when I was at the park, but I will take a series win. Hail to Mr. Meaningless September. The Cardinals are still on 80 wins. Wouldn't it be sweet (in a way) if they lost out and finished below .500?

http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/glasses.gif Never surrender, indeed.

Like always, I'll hope for the best. Or at least less bad than last night. And for anyone who's going, I hope the "climate control" system actually puts out heated air for you (unlike in the terrace level Tuesday night).

You know those saying that go something like: "A bad day at (In this case the ballpark) is better than a good day at work"? I suppose that's true. But this game was vile. My rage began when Ronnie Belliard scored the first two STL runs. Ronnie Belliard! For whatever reason, nothing in this season has irritated me more than seeing ex-Brewers (who sucked when we parted ways with them) come back to bite Milwaukee in the rear. Except maybe the current Brewers bullpen. For some goofball reason I'm still not raging at Turnbow (though had I been Ned, I wouldn't have left him to twist in the wind so long, or better yet wouldn't have put him in to begin with). But my Kolb rage is sky high, as is my rage against the Cardinal franchise as a whole. I very much want them to be shamed in the playoffs. I was feeling the Schadenfreude when Pujols was holding his wrist. Had I known where you guys were, AJAY and Sgt, I would have sought you out just for commiseration purposes. As it was, this couple who were scoring the game sat down behind us just as the lineup changes really started to pile up, for both teams. (I imagine that La Russa told his players, score 12 runs tonight and EVERYONE plays! except the starting pitchers) That game became a scorecard nightmare pretty quickly. They were pretty funny, though, which made the whole experience sting less. If the Brewers play like this on Saturday and Sunday I'll actually be ready for a break, instead of down about the season ending. Finally: If Kolb can't get guys out either, are we going to go to Mike DeJean? Don't even hint at that, tomwopat. If the Brewers ever acquire mustard man again, I will walk out of any game I'm at in which he appears. Ugh.

Tonight, it's the Cardinals. The whole franchise, basically. And to a bit lesser extent, a few of Milwaukee's bullpen "veterans."

Go home team. We'll be hitting the road soon. If you're at the park tonight and happen past TB 417, say hey.

Your 2006 Brewers fans: Living in the Moment.