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  1. 1992casey
    Will homeowner's insurance help you out? The plumbing leading to my dad's washing machine leaked a couple of years ago. While the damage was confined to a relatively small area, the floors in three rooms had to be totally replaced to make everything match. He actually used this as an opportunity to upgrade. He did four rooms with improved flooring. Insurance covered $9,000 of the $13,000 bill. Insurance paid for the full cost of the large foyer, my dad paid the difference between vinyl and porcelain/wood in the laundry room and kitchen, and footed the entire cost to replace the den carpet (which wasn't damaged but needed replacing) with wood and an area rug.
  2. 1992casey
    A few days ago, my dad told me that the NFL Network would be showing up. He couldn't find it at that point, though.
  3. 1992casey
    You'd think that a wheelchair or something similar would work better than a car, but to each her own. It might be a nice gesture on the part of the neighbors to offer to pick up her mail and bring it to her door. The ideal situation would be able to be able to afford to live out one's life at home with frequent or even live-in assistance. Convincing someone that it's time for help is another story, though.
  4. 1992casey
    Mike Adams was undrafted, and all Latin American players except for those from Puerto Rico are undrafted. I don't see where draft status applies. In the arby guidelines posted, the top 17% is now the top 22%. We should probably start a CBA topic. There's lots of interesting stuff in there.
  5. 1992casey
    Dude, is your caps button on perma-lock? Caps and excessive punctuation rules are suspended for this topic. We're still asking members to respect the cuss filter, though.
  6. 1992casey
    Thanks, Nate. This is the only language I can find that's applicable (Article XX, Reserve System, p. 86): This is on page 1: I'm not finding anything specific to international signings. Given that, for now, I'm assuming that early free agency would be negotiated as a "special covenant" providing an "additional benefit." I may have missed something, of course.
  7. 1992casey
    Yeah, we need a copy of the new CBA. I haven't found one yet. The previous CBA would probably suffice. If nothing's mentioned about international free agents, the standard rules would apply.
  8. 1992casey
    Maybe someone can PM you the e-mail address of their rep. Don't post any addresses in this thread. E-mail addresses on public web pages can cause these people to be spammed.
  9. 1992casey
    Dude just did it again… "That'll do it for Jerry and I."
  10. 1992casey
    The Brewers just made a deal yesterday. The restriction is that September acquisitions can't be used on the post-season roster. All trades past the July 31 deadline require that players pass through waivers.
  11. 1992casey
    Depends. Cespedes will be a free agent when his contract is up because that's what he wanted in his contract. I don't know about Aoki.Good find. Here's an article on Cespedes' contract: Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes, Oakland agree on contract This implies that unless a provision is made in the player's contract, international signings are subject to the normal procedures outlined in the CBA. I think we have to assume that Aoki's contract lacks such a provision unless we hear otherwise.
  12. 1992casey
    Doug would tell you that he stands by the Greinke trade. He might or might not say something different to Gord Ash or Mark Attanasio.
  13. 1992casey
    Are you sure on this? I thought it was different for international free agents. I can't say I'm 100% sure, but I can say that I've never seen anything suggesting that anyone's granted an exception to the arbitration and free agency procedures outlined in the CBA.
  14. 1992casey
    Given that this is Aoki's first big league season, he should be under Milwaukee's control, contract or not, for six years.
  15. 1992casey
    The problem is that Japanese players are very difficult to project. There simply isn't enough statistical information to work with. We know who the players are, but we don't know what they'll do as major leaguers. When making the decision whether or not to sign a Japanese player, it's necessary to rely on good scouting. The Brewers deserve credit for deciding that Nori was worth signing.
  16. 1992casey
    After years of mispronouncing it, I think Craig finally got Paul Maholm's name right. He still doesn't say "Lucroy" right. Gallardo was a double-whammy. Craig was mispronouncing both "Yovani" and "Gallardo." It took him about three years to correct that. There's no room for negotiation with Ramírez. It's pronounced the same in both English and Spanish. Craig also has his own unique pronunciation for "Aramis." He pronounces the second syllable as "ram" as in St. Louis Rams. The name Aramis is an interesting case, though. Over the years, I always thought that the pronunciation we usually hear (ah-RAH-mis) didn't seem "Spanish-like." About a year ago, I bought something from a sales person who had Aramis on his name tag. I asked him how to pronounce his name. He said it was "AIR-uh-mus" in English and "ah-rah-MEESE" in Spanish. For Aramis the baseball player, I'm fine with "ah-RAH-mis." It's generally agreed upon, it gets the second-syllable vowel right, and maybe that's his preferred pronunciation.
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    It's bugging me that Craig Cushon doesn't pronounce "Ramírez" correctly. And at least twice in the last couple of days, he's said "Jerry and I" when it should have been "Jerry and me."
  18. 1992casey
    A minus sign would be properly represented with an en dash. If you look closely, I think you'll find that the plus sign would be the same width as the en dash. Let's see: + – -
  19. 1992casey
    Hyphens are joiners. Examples of their use would be to join syllables of words at the end of a line or to combine two words into one idea. They also avoid ambiguity, e.g., resign vs. re-sign. Dashes are used to separate an abrupt change of thought within a sentence. They're also used to show a range of values (1999–2003) or to show a relationship (The Brewers won 2–1). Visually, a hyphen is the shortest character. The en dash — approximately the width of the letter n — is a little longer. The em dash — approximately the width of the letter m — is the longest. Getting the lengths right has always been easy to accomplish in handwriting. And of course, there was no problem in old fashioned typesetting. Typewriters were a pain, though. Two hyphens were used for an em dash, and one hyphen was used for either a hyphen or en dash. The key on a typewriter or a computer is a hyphen, however, computers give us the option of using proper en dashes or em dashes. When people don't know how to create dashes, they can revert to the typewriter method. I'm not sure how to do dashes in Windows, but on a Mac, it's easy: option-hyphen = en dash option-shift-hyphen = em dash It doesn't bug me when people don't get their hyphens and dashes right in their writing. It only bugs me when someone tells me to use a dash when a hyphen is called for.
  20. 1992casey
    Backslashes and dashes. Many advertisements offer web addresses that allegedly contain backslashes. No web addresses have backslashes. There's one ad like that read by Robb Edwards at almost every game. Web addresses have slashes, which can also be identified as forward slashes. If people took the ad copy literally, they could end up in trouble. Along with that, almost every time someone uses the term "dash," he or she probably means to say "hyphen." The two terms aren't interchangeable. You frequently have to assume that when someone says "dash," he or she is wrong. An e-mail address, for instance, is very likely to have a hyphen, but is very unlikely to have a dash.
  21. 1992casey
    the safety/suicide squeezes have worked at a fairly high rate In the squeeze topic, we determined that we don't have the raw data handy to determine the success rate, which is why it was suggested that we have a topic that records each success and failure next year. The statheads have told us that "fairly high" isn't good enough, though. The rate needs to be extremely high. One thing we do know is that most of the outs that end up being called productive aren't productive at all. A team is almost always worse off than it was before the out. I concur that bunting and base stealing are tools to have in the arsenal. The Brewers are stealing at an 80% rate, which puts them in the black. As implied directly above, stealing and bunting shouldn't be overly relied upon. But they do have their time and place. Attempting to steal against a team like the Pirates, who have trouble throwing out runners, would seem to be a good idea.
  22. 1992casey
    Brian and Bill reported a few days ago that Jean had adjusted his approach when he was called up and that he had recently gone back to whatever he was doing previously. That may explain the recent uptick in offense. This is the kind of information that's useful when looking at small statistical samples.
  23. 1992casey
    If Braun would just out with the "full story" as he calls it he might have a change for awards again. I think it was established that confidentiality rules could cause Ryan to face a fine or suspension if he said much more than he already has.
  24. 1992casey
    I looked the OPS+s of Hall of Fame third basemen a few years ago when Ron Santo was passed over, and Ron's 125 was in the middle of the pack. Ramírez is currently at 116; I don't know where that fits in. Santo's career was 15 years long, the same as Ramírez right now. If Ramírez can improve on his overall numbers, he's probably worthy of consideration. However, a little birdie tells me that it might be a tough row to hoe.
  25. 1992casey
    I'll merge them. The new information is useful.
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