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I don't think that MLB or an arbitrator will announce anything at all. As far as public consumption goes, this hearing wouldn't have existed. My best guess is that the press will probably have something to say based on what it hears from "sources." Along with that, Braun will probably feel compelled to issue some kind of public statement.

And, the Colts name and logo should have stayed in Baltimore, the same way Cleveland kept the Browns name and colors. Of course, the Colts' move preceded the Browns-Raven's transfer by 13 years, and nobody had thought of the concept at the time. Of course, the Colts' move was by far the sneakiest move to date, meaning that there weren't a lot of options as far as opening up any discussion. I'm surprised that Houston didn't insist on something similar to the Browns-Ravens deal, though. The Browns-Ravens situation did set some precedent, although few situations actually replicate it. The one that seems to come the closest is the move of the MLS San Jose Earthquakes to Houston. San Jose got to keep the Earthquake's name and history, and the team returned to MLS after three years. In the NBA, when the Supersonics became the Oklahoma City Thunder, Seattle kept the rights to the nickname. However, if a new Supersonics team emerges, both franchises would share the old Supersonics' history.

Part of the confusion exists because there's been no copy of the CBA to inspect at this point. All we've really seen is a summary.

I don't like singular team names, at least in the traditional sports. And baseball's about as traditional as it gets.

Molitor leaving was a shock. At the time, the Brewers had previously kept everyone they wanted to keep. This was totally expected.

This looks good to me as a separate topic. http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif The big Braun thread focuses on the PED aspect, the predictions thread is more general conversation, and the lineup thread focuses on batting order. Two things you have to consider: 1. The difference between Braun and his replacement rather the difference between Braun and having nobody at all. 2. The fact that 25 or 50 games isn't the same as losing a player for a full season. If suspended, he'd still provide a lot of value in the games that he'd be still able to play.

…why don't the Rockets change their name also For what it's worth, the Rockets had their nickname before they moved to Houston.

I don't think anything should be mandatory. Each situation is a little bit different, and common sense should prevail. Having said that, common sense hasn't always prevailed. "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim" sucks. Utah Jazz makes no sense. While Los Angeles Lakers doesn't make a lot of sense, the alliteration is nice and it's now too tradition-laden to change. The Cleveland Browns situation is totally unique. Technically, the Ravens were an expansion team who kept the Browns' personnel. The "new" Browns were an existing franchise that took a hiatus. Colt .45s was a nickname worth changing. I believe that they usually ended up being referred to as the Houston Colts. People who didn't know better were likely to think that the nickname had to do with horses rather than a gun.

I intended to post this in the first bunch of videos, but I couldn't find the code that worked here.

The job description of "Special Assistant to the General Manager" would vary from position to position and person to person. In Craig's case, Adam McCalvy says:

He's wanted to be a GM since he was 19 years old. Counsell excited about new role in front office

Thanks for the informative update. I'm glad to see things like "Rick chuckled" and "Rick had a funny line." Dealing with the negative has not always been one of his strengths.

(someone please correct my spelling) Done. You were one letter off (Schlesinger rather than Schlessinger). That's better than I usually do. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

I took a peek at the video of the Betty White show and the beginning reminded me of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood... I believe that hokey and corny were "in" back in the 1950s, and based on the episode posted above, it appears that the 1954 Betty White Show certainly qualifies. This was a "Wish Day" episode, where near the end of the show, a bunch of gifts were given to a 10 year old girl. At the end of the gift-giving, everyone sang "Happy Wish Day to You" to the tune of Happy Birthday. I got a kick out of Betty's Catherine Piper character on Boston Legal. She played an employee of the law firm who happened to commit a homicide and a couple of convenience store holdups during her personal time.

"Special assistant to the general manager" is what you do when you know you want a guy on your administrative team. The actual job description often develops as time goes on.

For those who can't view the blog entry, CBS News has reported that Craig will retire as a player and take a front office job with the Brewers.

I'd say that's more of a typo as tristarscoop would have known exactly what she intended to type. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif The Chicago Manual of Style is big too. Style manuals can get us over humps in situations where dictionaries are somewhat permissive. The real value is when multiple people contribute to the same publication. You want grammar and spelling to be consistent from author to author.

One TV channel kept putting on teasers for the 10:00 news suggesting we needed to tune in to find out if the Packers won or not.

Betty White turns 90 on Tuesday. Obviously, she's best known for her roles as "terminally naive" Rose Nyland (The Golden Girls) and "nymphomaniac" Sue Ann Nivens (The Mary Tyler Moore Show). But she made her first TV appearance in 1939 and has been ubiquitous in the medium since around 1950. Among other things… She's been on at least four programs titled The Betty White Show, three in the 1950s and one in the 1970s.Her first significant TV job was as co-host with Al Jarvis on a local Los Angeles program called Hollywood on Television. This show was on for 5½ hours a day, six days a week. When Jarvis burned out, he was replaced by Eddie Albert. When Albert burned out, Betty took over the show herself.She hosted the Rose Parade for about two decades on NBC-TV, usually with Lorne Greene.She was a frequent sidekick of Jack Paar on Tonight Starring Jack Paar. Because she had such a close identification with Paar, it'd be a number of years before she appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. In the 1970s and 80s, she appeared in several classic sketches, including roles as a female reporter interviewing Johnny the locker room, as Eve opposite Johnny's Adam, and as Jane opposite Johnny's Tarzan.She was close friends with John Steinbeck.She played numerous TV game shows. She met her husband, Allen Ludden (who was from Mineral Point), while a celebrity panelist on his show, Password.She was the first woman to have complete creative control over a TV show, the first female TV talk show host, and the first female TV game show host.She turned down the Today Show hosting gig that ended up going to Barbara Walters. She and Ludden "discovered" David Letterman.Here's some video. Since it's a good day for Betty White, here she is singing It's A Good Day. Here's an "incident" from Life With Elizabeth. Here's a full episode of the half hour network version of The Betty White Show in 1954. Betty as Senator Bessie Adams in the 1962 film, Advise and Consent. Here she is on Password in May, 1965. At about the 2:15 point, she promotes a June, 1965, Milwaukee appearance in the play, South Pacific. Even though she's "only" 43 at the time, she implies that she's old. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Betty and Johnny Carson, 1978.

Well, it doesn't sound like fun at all, so it must be less fun than that.

A gigabyte could be reported as either 1000 megabytes or as 1024 megabytes. Is it possible that that's coming into play?

You have to look in another place to see how much memory is installed and recognized. Click the Start button, right-click on Computer, and choose Properties. Find out how much RAM your computer has I'm not up on the nitty-gritty of exactly how Windows reports its memory usage, but as giffted1 says, memory actively being used doesn't appear to be directly accounted for by the Task Manager. Behind the Windows 7 memory usage scaremongering

I looked around for information on canceled vs. cancelled, and there appears to be a leaning toward "canceled" in the US and "cancelled" in Britain, with both variants being pretty acceptable in both places. I think a good rule of thumb for words like this is that the US likes single consonants and Britain likes double. There seems to be a definite preference for "judgment" in the US and "judgement" in Britain, although it appears that US dictionaries list both spellings (with "judgment" coming first). For what it's worth, I don't place 100% trust in Firefox's spellchecker. It seemed to take a nosedive in the transition from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3. I place greater trust in OS X's dictionary simply because it doesn't raise my eyebrows anywhere near as often. I'll generally let dictionary.com mediate if I see a spellcheck result that looks fishy.

It's spelled with the "e" in other countries.

Jim, are you actually disinterested, or are you more uninterested? Or are you a little bit of both? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif From what I hear, LTE is a big battery hog right now. Future iterations of the technology should address that. Unfortunately, you don't want to shut that off unless you're within reach of WiFi. Also, the Galaxy Nexus uses a full GB of RAM. RAM is great for performance, but it eats battery life. Also, from what I understand, the last major improvement in battery technology occurred in the 1990s. It's been tweaked and improved, but something new is going to have to come along for us to see any great leaps.