1992casey

Craig and Davey were downplaying the injury and were indicating that Ben could be fine. The team will know more after his next scheduled throwing session. To read a lot of discussion about Yo's innings, check out this thread: Gallardo and limiting his innings

I really don't like the message board vs. message board thing because each forum ought to be able to fill a niche. And to be fair, there is good discussion over there along with good long-time posters. But you have to wade through stuff about Prince being fat or stereotype posts about the commissioner's religion to find it. The problem seems to be that mlb.com doesn't seem to have any real vision as to what it's boards should be 'about'. There's a picky cuss filter that's largely ignored by the moderators, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to what gets deleted and what's allowed to stay. You'll scratch your head because a thread is deleted, yet another thread with a big fat all-caps cuss word in the title is allowed to sit for days. If they did this right, mlb.com could brag up the fact that its format is unique to the message board community. Instead of Brewers discussion on the Brewers board and Pirates discussion on the Pirates board, it's Brewer fans talking baseball, Pirates fans talking baseball, etc. There's a lot of potential to be able to talk baseball from the points of view of 30 different 'communities'. I see Brian gets over there for a few posts every week. I'd jump in a little more often, but it's gotten to the point where their login takes 4 minutes on a dial-up account. Here's to hoping that mlb.com gets its act together. There's a lot of potential. Right now, it's an embarrassment to Major League Baseball and its teams. I know that if I were a Brewer employee rather than a peon participant, I'd be embarrassed. I guess I should now take a minute to see what Brian had to say. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

Yeah, I ran across that an hour ago. Our About Us page was being admired. No comment on my pic or hawing's pic, though. This should probably be in Off Topic or Issues. I think I'll flip a coin. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

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I'm going to hold you to each and every one of those predictions. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

bucksman, I'd go with a combination of both physical or mental, with one weighing more than the other, depending on the time frame you're looking at. Jim Skaalen's comments last night seemed to indicate that Rickie's wrist wasn't hurting currently, but that his approach screwed up during the time it was actually sore.

Wow, wannabe, Miller hitting 5th didn't even jump out at me. Well, I guess he did win somebody's player of the week award a few days ago.

¡Viven los Cerveceros!

Good to see Sixto Lezcano hanging out in the dugout.

It'll be interesting to see what the bullpen options are today. Since she's at the game and can't say it herself, I'm going to quote hawing's post from last night's game thread:

mothership, I think I actually do better with 80s players than 90s players. We had quite a crowd coming through during the 90s. I remember D'Amico for more than just his injuries and subsequent quest for the ERA title. On day of the final game of the 1999 season, he single-handedly moved a line of autograph seekers out of the rain?something the ushers should have done in the first place.

As it's 'directly' circumventing the cuss filter, there's an issue with "s--t", too. The only circumventing Brewerfan allows is when a word contains "apple.t" (as in "Apple.ton); that's an ezBoard bug. Let me suggest re-reading the Three Strikes sticky at the top of this forum. I do agree that Zambrano is not a nice word.

I don't like assigning different 'levels' of fandom, either. As an example, we frequently see the term 'casual' fan assigned to people who aren't familiar with sabermetric stats. I'd submit that the 90 year old woman who listens to Bob Uecker every day is not a 'casual' fan, even though she's likely not into sabermetrics. Heck, she's probably even very familiar with Gorman Thomas. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif dannyjnoonan, if you feel 'colorful' language coming on when you post, it's your responsibility to preview your message to make sure everything flies with the cuss filter. Posts with "@#%$" violate site guidelines. Note that 'damn' was fine. The 'other' word you used wasn't.

I have mixed feelings on that Rah Rah. On one hand, messing with Rickie's confidence needs to be considered. On the other hand, Rickie is a professional who we have to assume would understand the move. In this case, making contact?even if the contact wasn't all that solid?was what was necessary. Graffy was probably the better option in this type of situation at this particular time. phandog, site rules prohibit circumventing the cuss filter, even with @@@@.

This page offers information on dealing with restoring the computer to a previous configuration: How to restore the operating system to a previous state in Windows XP Those directions seem to make the process a whole lot more complicated than it actually is. If I had Windows in front of me, I could simplify the directions. The process is pretty self-explanatory once you get the Restore thinger opened up. Depending on how far back you go, if you've installed software recently, that software may break. That's because that software's registry entries would become unavailable. If that happens, simply reinstall that piece of software. Note that restoring the system to a previous configuration doesn't remove undesirable software; it simply makes it non-functional. In addition to Search & Destroy, you can install and run this: Ad-Aware 2007 Free. I haven't tried this personally, but SpywareBlaster prevents malware installation without running processes in the background. It disables entries in the Registry that allow junk to be installed. Chances are you're already covered with this, but it's also a good idea to not use Internet Explorer. It's just not safe unless you have a good understanding of anti-virus software, anti-spyware software, and various controls scattered around the Windows operating system. Firefox and Opera are excellent browser alternatives. Additionally, Apple has released a Safari beta for Windows. Another very good idea is to run Windows as a Limited User rather than as an an Administrative User. (I even do that on OS X.) If you're running as a Limited User, malware will find it much tougher to install itself.

Yeah, a tally at the top would be a definite usability need. I see a legitimate concern that something could cause an 'unpleasant' exchange. Any suggestions regarding how to ensure that things are kept civil?

Yeah, as much as I really don't like a 13 man staff, this is probably exactly the time to have one. I suppose the day game and flight availability might get into the way, though. On the subject of Sheets, one of today's Rick Braun Journal Sentinel articles sounded cautiously optimistic.

bb4l is right. It would have needed thread title change, anyway, and I can't see how it could be framed without it being focused on just one game.

This is a good topic, But it's in-game thread material. It's also appropriate for the current Rickie thread.. Feel free to copy/paste your posts.

If you can't appreciate George Scott and Johnny Briggs, you're not a true fan. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

You'll catch the story if you go to that forum and look at the thread that actually has "WOAH SOLVDD" in its title. It had to do with "Lou Palsmo" and the fact that the team's catching "WOAH" would be "SOLVDD". Some of the goofier stuff we've seen has been archived over there. Sometimes, useful threads are 'stashed' there to save the bother of creating another archive forum.

This would be one of those decisions that I'd find tough to argue. But if it were me, I'd choose Yo if this injury looked to be short-term and Villanueva if it dragged out a while.

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The issue appears to be for DirecTV (and maybe DISH?) customers outside Milwaukee but still in WI. hawing reports the game is on FSN on Madison cable.

This isn't in my DirecTV program guide. Anyone else having issues?