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I don't think I blew a circuit You haven't checked to make sure? Once you get this worked, out you should map out all your circuits for future reference.

Minor point but 58.3 is ThisTV not MeTV. Here's the 58 press release. I've noticed 58.3 is also pretty crappy even for SD so there may be something to this. There have been a few times where I've started out watching the alternate game but then they switch 58.3 to the same game as 58.1 for extended periods or the rest of the way which sucks.

Good it's not my TV. I'm on charter but thursday night I switched to OTA and it was the same, grainy with motion, on replays etc. Last night when they were switching between UW, Ohio St and Cleve St it seemed the UW broadcast was the best and Cleve St. the worst. Haven't had any problems with football or previous bb telecasts.

Salaries at my company are frozen for an indeterminate period as are level promotions as in I to II to III to senior etc. It would seem in your scenario you may not know if you're saving your, a friends or a strangers job. In any case, my answers are yes, yes, yes.

Yahoo has been having problems but I just got in to make some tweaks.

For anyone interested, channel 10 in Milwaukee will be showing Bill Povletich's film on the Braves twice in the next couple weeks: 3/22 at 3pm and 3/26 at 9pm. http://www.jsonline.com/sports/brewers/41268962.html

Anthems of the bubblegum genre for those that missed that glorious period.

Put me in for the JJ...for my wife...really. Thanks!!

I guess I just consider a guy like Manny to be a little bonus. He was drafted in the 26th round if I remember. Manny was a draft and follow, drafted low to attempt to be signed before the next draft. He was given high round, don't recall if it was 1st round, money to sign so not really that much of a bonus.

You can read a little about him in the description paragraph here. He was a loud, colorful, boastful kind of guy but it was all done in a jovial manner that the Brewers really needed in those bland early expansion years. Given that it was just shortly after the civil rights period of the 60s his personality did rub some the wrong way but screw them.

Their Human Resources director is out of the office till March 9. I don't get it. HR people can't take a weeks vacation or go for a weeks training or whatever?

Some stations that went through with the transition on 2/17, like channel 18 in Milwaukee, changed frequencies at that time. Rescanning should have taken care of that though. Where are you located? You can try and see if this site gives you any additional info that could help.

Amended returns can only be filed via paper.

If a product is listed as a 'special buy' it's likely different from generally available models.

Hank's statistical record has been pretty thoroughly discussed in this thread. Brewerfan doesn't have polls and doesn't like one line posts but as someone who grew up following and even idolizing Hank in my younger years, I'd be interested in knowing what others think the probability is that Hank used PEDs. We already have an over 50%. I'll say 5%. If the mods want to nix this idea, that's fine.

You can check that by going to the manufacturer's website. If it's the same model number, it's the same tv.

I bought a 46" Sony before Christmas. That's when the deals were the best. Just bought a Canon camcorder. Got both from the Walmart site. I checked Newegg, Tigerdirect, Bestbuy and others but found Walmart at least as good pricewise and better at the time I bought these two items. The thing I liked is shipping to your local store is free for many if not most items(it takes a bit longer but expensive things won't be sitting on your porch or you don't have to arrange to be home at delivery time) and you can return it to your local store if there's a problem. They do charge sales tax though because they have a local presence. But then again, you're supposed to report non-taxed internet purchases. I have bought from Newegg for other things and been happy. There are a lot of items at the Walmart site that aren't carried in stores. Both Walmart and Newegg normally have lots of buyer reviews on the products that help a lot.

sbrylski's chart could use some adjustments but it would be difficult to do and I don't know how to do it accurately. 1) We know that Barry was intentionally walked and pitched around to an unprecedented extent. While Hank was intentionally walked and likely pitched around to some extent, nothing has ever been done before to the extent it was for Barry. Adjusting Barry's PAs from age 36 on for the reduced number of PAs where he actually had a chance to HR would raise his curve, I would guess significantly over the corresponding raise in Hank's. 2) Barry's margin over league HRs/PA came while playing half his games in a HR unfriendly park. A better way to assess pitcher's vs. hitter's parks than citing park dimensions and guessing at how the ball carried may be to use park factors. ESPN has HR park factors for ATT/Pac Bell that rank it near the bottom. 3) I haven't been able to find historical HR park factors, maybe someone else can help. At the bottom of the page here you can click on 5 year run park factors for what you think they're worth. You can read about the methodology. The 5 year park factors for Atlanta were: 1966: 101 1967: 101 1968: 101 1969: 103 1970: 103 1971: 107 1972: 107 1973: 106 1974: 106 1975: 108 1976: 107 1977: 109 1978: 110 I'm not a stat guru but as I understand it, averaging park factors over 5 years helps with the small sample of one year but also takes 5 years to get more to the true nature of the park. I'm showing past when Hank left to show the trend of the numbers. Per sybrl's chart, '71 and '73 are the real anomalies in Hank's HR/PA. Beyond the numbers, Altanta Fulton County had a reputation as a launching pad. You can google atlanta fulton county launching pad and get hits to read about it. Hank played in a hitter's park and his line would be lower if adjusted for park factor. Some anecdotal points: 1) Killebrew and McCovey were different body types than Hank, the kind that generally don't age as well and Willie had major knee problems. 2) Hank has said and observers noted that he changed from an all fields hitter to a dead pull hitter as he aged and adapted to that park. I think the drop in Hank's doubles over this period might be indicative of this. 3) As you can see from sybrl's chart, Hank didn't keep getting better at hitting homers as you said, it went up and down like all players. 4) If you look at the park factors, Robinson played in much more pitcher friendly parks at those ages. Candlestick was mostly neutral when Willie Mays was finishing up. 5) In 1973 when Hank hit 40 HR, Davey Johnson hit 43 and Darryl Evans hit 41 for Atlanta. It was quite unusual in that day and age. Perhaps you think they all juiced together but that would lessen the secrecy aspect. Perhaps you think they all juiced independently, but just for one year. Davey never came close to that number before or after. Neither did Evans until 1985 in Detroit which had a short RF overhang. Or maybe part of it was just how the park played that year. 6) Hank never was known for long, towering HRs, just a lot of them, mostly of the line drive type. It was said his power was in his wrists. He and Barry were quite similiar in build as young players, skinny. Hank developed something of a paunch in his final years and was quite heavy with the Brewers but never underwent the changes that have been quite noticeable with Barry and many other juicers.

Most fans are variable speed so will speed up with processor activity though loading a page isn't very intense. If you don't want to try disconnecting things one at a time, you could try opening the case, power up and put an empty paper towel roll to your ear blocking around your ear with your hand and try to isolate where in the case the sound is coming from. Could be a video card fan too if you have one.

Being a Braves fan is nowhere near being a Cubs fan. It's like the Seinfeld episode where he couldn't get the stink out of his car. There's no way to get the stink out of a Cub's fan. I'm not speaking for the majority of radio listeners, just myself.

TMJ already sucks so it doesn't surprise me they made a sucky decision with this. As said, working previously for the Cubs wouldn't be a problem if he was just an import, being a life long Cubs fan is a problem. I only listened to games on the radio while in the car so it won't be a big deal to not listen at all anymore. Uke has become mostly unlistenable anyway.

Are you just choosing to ignore the reasons that make Hank's later year stats less of an anomaly than you state? 1) that County Stadium was a pitcher's park, Fulton County was a big hitter's park so his HRs were suppressed somewhat from age 20 - 31. 2) that the '60s were a big pitcher's period. The league ERA in '68 was 2.99. 3) that the rules were changed after '68 to favor offense. 4) that expansion in '69 diluted pitching I don't think you can find another HR hitter to match all those circumstances at the same stage of their career. Guilty by association, House being on the same team, went out with Salem and McCarthyism. If they had been buds, trained together etc. it may carry some weight. I don't think it's impossible that Hank used performance enhancers but putting the odds over 50%? Hopefully you'll never serve jury duty. I've seen reports from other players about Willie Mays always having 'red juice' by his locker. Never seen any simliar reports about Hank about juice, greenies etc. You'd think someone might want to get their name in the papers doing so.

Most likely a fan or the hard drives, not the processor. I'd open it up and clean it out first. Dust on the fan blades could be throwing it off a tad. If it's still doing it disconnect the fans and hard drives one by one powering off and on in between to see what makes the noise stop. You can run it briefly with the case open without the fans. Power supplies can whistle too when going bad.

Nobody else finds it weird that Hank's best 5 yr home run hitting stretch came from ages 35-39 You need to factor in that the mound was lowered 5" after the '68 season as a response to the biggest pitcher's era since the deadball era.

It doesnt matter who is up, if they are the first hitter on an inning they should act like a "leadoff hitter" and take pitches and try to have a high OBP I think Rickie does a good job of this except for one thing which is the reason i think he struggles, he does not change his approach with 2 strikes. I think you over estimate the ability of hitters including many good ones to adjust their approach AB by AB or pitch by pitch. Players get to the majors having developed the ability to do something well enough to be promoted and be valuable, some combination of OBP and SLG. Some achieve this by being able to alter their approach but I think most do so by taking the same approach consistently and achieving overall results. We see one player who can make adjustments and wonder why all players don't do it. I don't think they can. Asking Prince, Ryan, JJ or Rickie to just try to get on will just result in more weak grounders, pop-up and K outs imo. The good hitters get their walks regardless of their approach.