1992casey

I think there are differing views here of what a "lowball" offer is. Some consider "lowball" an unrealistically low, just for appearances offer. Others, like me, consider a "lowball" offer a reasonable one, yet not necessarily the absolute highest a team might go. Exactly. It's just like using terms like "injury prone" or "underrated"/"overrated." We all have our own definitions, and those hot-button terms can frequently get in the way of objectivity in a message board discussion. I think the bottom line is that it isn't fair to equate an initial offer to a "token" offer. It's only a token offer if a team doesn't continue negotiating.

This news was buried somewhere on the web a couple of months ago in a manner similar to the way it's buried in the chat you've linked to. I'm surprised there wasn't a formal announcement or a press release.

In my reply above, I made it a point to choose to say we'd be listening to Trenni on the MLB Network rather than watching her. "Woman reporter" is irrelevant. She is good, period. Trenni is one who makes the people around her better. Besides those on the FSN team, what really impressed me was that when she did post-game stuff on WTMJ, she made the WTMJ loudmouth more listenable. Yes, commentators come and go. But replacing this one with another of equal quality--male or female--is going to be tough.

The big thing about gmail is the web interface. Everyone I've talked to who uses it tells me that it's the best hands down. I was disappointed that I couldn't get it to download into external software faster on dialup. If you e-mail more than just a little bit, the use of external software is absolutely imperative on dialup. With a web interface, you waste too much time on click-throughs. Had it not been for the speed issue, my friend would be on gmail right now. I decided to recommend that he set up an address through his provider. The web interface is extremely simple, making it fast enough for dialup. The fact that it's the "shortest distance between two points" has to help with speed, too. The downside to relying on one's provider, of course, is that switching providers means switching e-mail addresses. But this person doesn't really e-mail all that much. And switching providers isn't likely for him. Since I played with gmail a couple months ago, broadband has arrived in our area. That may offset the dialup speed issues. I don't like the fact that they log and read mail--I did notice that before Katuluu mentioned it here. But I like the fact that it can pull POP from other accounts and bring it in seamlessly. I think it's worth another look.

Not at all, ewizabeff. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Thanks for the clarification, though. Now that I look at it, I think I may not have been clear. To thoroughly confuse everyone, odd numbered replies are actually even numbered posts. Yuck. The lead should be white, the next post (reply #1) should be gray, reply #2 should be white, reply #3 should be gray, etc. I'll try to clarify the lead. I'm seeing some odd stuff when previewing. For me, when previewing a lead, it's always white. When previewing a reply, it's always gray. I wonder what the "expected" behavior is actually supposed to be. By the way, ewizabeff, I didn't edit anything on your post above, I was playing with the preview thing and hit "edit" by mistake.

I liked Trenni, but IMO she got overrated by some because she replaced that hag who had the job prior to Trenni. Actually, Trenni replaced Craig Coshun on the sideline, and Craig replaced the hag. I think the majority of us felt she was interesting and well prepared. I believe it's possible to argue that she was the best one on the broadcast team. The silver lining in all this is that there'll be someone worth listening to on the MLB Network. Hopefully, the other hires will bring along the quality that she brings.

I've been paying $20 annually for Yahoo! Mail Plus for several years. It gets me easy pop access (others offer pop for free). What I really like, though, is the availability of 500 disposable addresses that share the same account. Having those takes the fear out of giving out my e-mail address. I checked out gmail recently when I was helping a friend choose a mail provider. While it seemed nice, it was way too slow on dialup.

Five points from me. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

Good call, Diskono. I clicked through on the Brew Crew Ball link, which led me to Al's entry. But I didn't click through on the link in Al's entry. As you say, that's changed since he posted it (and since it was posted here). Trenni's name isn't in it. Also, look at the Wikipedia sources. None of the announcers' names are documented.

Then you're in the backwards crowd with me, Sam. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif ewizabeff's report is one I didn't expect to see. I should float through some of my test profiles (I have a bunch) to see if I can find one that does that.

They're Asian Beetles. Lady Bugs would be insulted to be confused with them.

paul253, as a whole, strikeouts will increase as OBP and SLG increase. Note that I'm not implying that increased strikeouts cause increased OBP and SLG. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif The problem is that being too anxious to put the ball in play will result in too much weak contact. Making solid contact is likely to involve waiting for the right pitch. Waiting for the right pitch will mean some called strikes, and called strikes will certainly result in strikeouts. valpo, with P/PA, we need to look at the big picture. As a whole, a higher P/PA is more likely to get a hitter on base than a low one will. Certainly, however, a batter should swing at the first pitch if it's the right one. Adding to what Ennder says, we don't really use P/PA to tell us a player's value; other stats do that better. We use P/PA to tell us what a player's habits are and to describe the type of hitter he is.

As far as 100 k's meaning one negative run, or whatever that stat is. I don't see how you can make that statistic. It's all strikeouts combined vs. all other outs combined. Individual game situations show noticeable variation, including situations where a K is more desirable than contact outs.

They should be gone now.

I voted at 10:19 AM and was the 73rd person to vote. There were three people ahead of me, and the wait was probably about 5-7 minutes. Now that we have a touch screen, only one person can vote at a time. I like voting absentee, although I prefer to do it in person rather than via the mail. A couple of times, I've voted in the houses of whoever was in charge of balloting at those times. When I voted absentee in this year's Wisconsin primary, I voted at one of the banks.

During the 1982 World Series, after every game, Wisconsin Avenue was a crowded, drunken gathering place from Marquette to east of the Milwaukee River. Cars were backed up, partly because a lot of them were parked in the middle of the street while drivers milled around with the crowd. People drank openly in both in the vehicles and in the street. College students were giving swigs of champaign to drivers. Beers were passed between vehicles. There weren't fires, though.

Could someone post his ZiPS projection? Cameron: .246/.333/.446... 475 AB ... 1 K / 3.6 AB Kapler: .276/.327/.432 ... 192 AB ... 1 K / 6.0 AB

Weird odd/even class switcheroo On Yuku pages here on Brewerfan, when colors alternate, odd numbered boxes are supposed to be white and even numbered boxes are supposed to be gray. I'm seeing the opposite in two profiles. Two other profiles I've checked are fine. This isn't happening on the main board page, but it's happening on forum pages and within threads. The first thread/post should be white, the second thread/post should be gray, the third should be white, etc. [in other words, within a thread, the lead should be white, the next post (reply #1) should be gray, reply #2 should be white, reply #3 should be gray, etc.] Visually, this isn't a big deal. However, when HTML starts changing like this, it could be a sign of a bigger issue that could cause trouble down the road. Could members please let me know what you're seeing on the forum and thread pages? Knowing whether you're viewing pages either correctly or incorrectly would be a huge help. I'll report results back to Yuku by linking to this thread. Thanks!

Cameron has played RF before. I seem to recall him saying that he wasn't really comfortable there. I don't know how stats might back that up, though.

Add Sears Optical to that list. I bought a pair of glasses in August, 2007. They weren't right, and they were sent back to the lab in September. I had to delay sending them back for a week because the manager was on vacation. Nobody is authorized to handle warranty work except for her. New ones were delivered in October, 2007. When the employee took the glasses out of the envelope, one of the lenses flew across the room. He worked for half an hour to put it in the way it should be. In the process, he stabbed himself and drew blood. The lens still wasn't in right. After a couple months of the lens falling out, Sears finally hacked in a solution which detracted from the look of the frames. Also, the finish was rubbing off of the frames: they were changing color. Because I finally convinced them that giving up eyewear for several weeks was out of the question, instead of sending my glasses in to the lab, they sent new frames to Sears. In the process of waiting for them to decide to do that, there was another week's delay because the manager was filling in for a vacancy in Dallas. Again, nobody was authorized to handle warranty work. By the time the frames arrived, it was spring. The woman in the store tried to put my lenses into the frames. She ran into the same problem as the previous guy. The difference was that it took her over two hours to get the lens into the frames. As I watched her, she almost stabbed herself like the previous guy. The best part was when she brought over the photographer from across the way, who had previously worked at LensCrafters, to give it a try. The photographer had to give up when a customer complained, "We've been waiting 20 minutes to have our pictures taken!" I left with the same ugly hack on these frames as I had on my previous pair, but at least the frames were the right color. By June, the manager said she could order me new glasses and that I could keep the old pair while new ones were ordered. That was an improvement. Again, a week of vacation on the manager's part came into play. This pair arrived in September. The lenses weren't polished as ordered, so I refused to take delivery. That's where we sit right now. The manager says she has to work with the division manager. During some of this, Sears changed division managers, and the new one didn't want to honor the decision of the previous person. According to the new DM, I'm out of the warranty period. Out of warranty? The glasses have never, ever been right. In the meantime, I bought a pair of glasses from another vender, so now it's just the issue of getting my money's worth or my money back. I'm going to have to tell them that if I were to take them to court over a few hundred dollars, a judge would think they're looking awfully silly for simply not making things right.

I've edited some messages above to pare back quotes. Please keep board quote guidelines in mind. Also keep in mind that if the message you're responding to is directly above yours, there is often little need to quote at all. If a post lands between your message and the one you're responding to, you can always drop in a short quote via an edit.

http://www.frontrowking.com/images/MIL_1172.gif I thought they had used the brick red color elsewhere, but I'm not finding it now. Maybe there've been changes since 2000. I do remember the Brewers announcing the color and calling it "brick red" at the time. Note that it's all over Brewerfan, most notably as the background in the main menu and in the Yuku links.

We need a full list broken down by position. I'm betting one will be out in the next few days and that someone will provide a link.

The blue is navy. The red is brick red. I don't know what they call the gold. Maybe it's simply called gold.

Its going to be hard to go to the bathroom with all the drinking though as the zipper runs down the back. It could be worse. A guy I know once came to a party in a coffin with holes for his head, arms, and legs. Since he's a carpenter, this thing was, of course, a heavy duty plywood project. I'd guess it was very much like the proverbial pine box people used over a century ago. The kicker was that he had someone nail him in. Why he didn't do something with hooks and hinges, with the hooks preferably on the inside, was beyond me. When he finally couldn't go any longer without relieving himself, he had to be pried out.