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Since the Brewers finished its season today, I was wondering when they plan on making their annual "end of season conference" with reporters? Will they have one? When will the organizational meetings begin?

If I had a choice of forming a coaching staff, here is who I would want on the coaching staff and why. Manager: Mike Hargrove, he seems to be the type of Manager that expects a lot out of his players and can be kind of militaristic with his Managerial approach. 1st Base Coach: Gary Pettis, has experience as a base coach and could help assist the hitters in getting their OBP high and had a history as a player of being a base stealer, which could help the younger guys with proper base stealing technique and timing. 3rd Base Coach: Kremblas, knows the players very well because he has been coaching the young players since they began their minor league career. Bench Coach: Ed Sedar, a very observational coach that could be a good set of backup eyes for Hargrove Pitching Coach: Orel Hershiser, experienced in baseball and will be able to notice slight mechanical problems in pitchers in order to prevent any further injury (see: Ben Sheets) Hitting Coach: Tony Diggs, like Kremblas, he has seen the younger players through their developmental stages and knows what makes them tick.

This whole entire stretch run has become sickening to me. I am utterly speechless as to why things have turned out the way they turned out. We once had a 24-10 record and now we are clinging to whatever glimmer of hope is left to make the post-season. I would anticipate something being done on Oct. 1 when we sink to a 25 year low without a post-season appearance. Doesn't the front office usually have an "end of the season press report?" And when Mark A. was questioned about Ned's job security, he gave him a "vote of confidence." This is a total kiss of death right there. That statement essentially means, "We will examine this in the offseason and if he doesn't help the team get into the playoffs, you can consider him fired." This series really ticked me off. To have a total power struggle between LaRussa and Yost about retaliation against each others' players, it became a total mess. LaRussa knew the Brewers weren't going to charge the mound because of the implications involved, so he basically continued to beat up the Brewers because of our playoff chances. The Cardinals have nothing to play for, so they can do whatever they want. To top it off, it was Prince as the target of the Cardinals staff. This was an absolutely atrocious series and an atrocious way of managing by both teams.

Ugh, Glamour magazines. I shared an apartment with a girl back in college and all she had were Cosmo and Allure magazines, so I ended up reading them when I got bored.

Maybe I should hang out in the produce section instead of the meat section at grocery stores now. I could act dumb in the produce section and ask a hot woman how to find the best tomato and such.

CrazyK, you are right on the money with that post. I do work a ton on weekends. I work Friday third shifts (11pm-7am) and then am forced to sleep at work due to transportation issues and then have to start up a double shift at the same place 3pm til 8am that day until Sunday morning. Then I gotta work 11pm Sunday night until 3pm Monday afternoon. I slept for nearly 18 hours yesterday until 2pm today and I woke up with a feeling of a hangover even though I didn't even drink yesterday or last night. If I had a choice of a older "girl" it would be Brooke Langton caliber: http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/26/92/0000002692_20060919192755.jpg

haha casey. I will be 25 on Monday the 1st. I am trying to find a mature woman between the ages of 28-35 right now. I find women younger than me to be very repulsive in the personality department.

Grocery store? The only ladies I ever see in the grocery store are old ladies pushing their shopping carts so slow it impedes traffic in the aisles. The library? I see hippie or goth chicks there.

pitchleague, we could go into the negatives.

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Again, I am going to start a total Granderson love fest now. I would basically party on the roof of my parents house if the Brewers ever got Curtis Granderson. He is the most underrated centerfielder in the league. I want him on the Brewers and he has a very smart baseball mind. I know it has nothing to do with the thread at hand, but he is the guy I want the most of any position player right now (except ARod).

Pretty much all of my friends are out of town for family stuff the next couple weeks and I realized I have nothing to do until my birthday next Monday (I will be 25) and I am getting bored and am kinda broke in the money department. Any ideas on what to do that doesn't involve spending money? I just got done working a hell weekend and all I want to do is sit at home and putz around for a few days but I tend to get bored easily. Any ideas?

It seems like every time the Yankees and Red Sox face each other, there is absolutely NO COVERAGE of any other matchups during Baseball Tonight. They dedicate 20 minutes of coverage to this "rivalry" while every other team suffers. No wonder why "Joe Casual" from Fargo, ND who watches ESPN doesn't know anything about other teams. I am a journalism student and it seems like ESPN's "Agenda Setting Theory" (definition: any news outlet splurges about a specific issue so people can "talk about it") is that they simply don't want the midwest and west coast fans to care about ANY teams. ESPN is so biased when it comes to this. They have nothing but baseball analysts who are either a) from a former team located on the east coast or b) is sensational enough to bring a crowd of hearsayers. Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter and the network themselves have gone downhill. I remember 10 years ago when they actually were informative about things, now it is just crap and "fluff" news stories. I seriously think we as brewerfan.netters, and the rest of the "blogger" community in the sports midwest community should just barrage ESPN with questions of why they continually alienate the rest of the country with ignorant analysts in all sports and stuff. This could actually be the first time we could work with Cubs fans about this issue.

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Brian, since we are talking about creepy web sites... there is one out there that when I have a preteen/new teen, I would ban her from registering on... it is buddypic.com. WTMJ in Milwaukee did a feature story on it once saying that it is a hunting ground for "creepy people"

Remember when CNN and Sports Illustrated got together to form CNNSI? It was a decent network, with some ok personalities. But I think the reason they failed is they were more about being "informative" than "entertaining," which means "boring" to some casual fans of sports. But I like FSN's Final Score because it is very quick and to the point with everything. I seem to remember surfing the ins and outs of ESPN.com and they actually have an ESPN Ombudsman where fans can e-mail and complain to her.

I read the story Brian. I am just saying that when I read the story and they showed excerpts from some of the "willing buyers" it just seemed downright creepy.

This is the most creepy website and story I have read in awhile, the site is called MarryOurDaughter.com and some parents are already putting their 14-15 years olds on there. Sickening.

Like I said before, keep your partying to a bare minimum your first 2 years (at least until you are 21) because a lot of bad can happen when you party in your early years. Cops could bust a party you happen to be at and catch you and *boom* you got yourself a drinking ticket. I spent the majority of my time studying hard my freshman year and had a better GPA in college than I ever did in high school. You will have time to party later on, just spend your first two years padding your GPA a lot because it will pay off once you walk the stage. If not for my "padding" of my GPA, I'd be shown the door at UW-Whitewater after my late junior and all of senior year performances in the classroom. If you can get your cumulative up to about a 3.5 GPA, you are made in the shade your last two years. Plus, you will run into a lot harder classes within your field of study. I made a MAJOR mistake by "picking" public relations as a minor because the classes became so tough it was like trudging through thick mud trying to pass my classes. Like some new graduates say, "C's equal degrees late in your career" or if you were an extremely great student your first two years, "D's equal degrees." If you choose not to go to grad school, your GPA won't mean much. In my field of journalism, all editors look for is EXPERIENCE in the field and not GPA. I tend to believe they would rather hire a recent grad with a 2.7 GPA who has two internships more than a recent grad with a 3.5 GPA and NO internships. But whatever field you get into at UWM, find an organization that meets your needs in that field. If you are into science, there has to be some student organization that can help you. Plus, you will be able to network much more easily. I was fortunate enough to hook up with my student newspaper and it has created a whole lot of doors for me and it gave me the greatest professional and personal experiences I ever had. Plus, I had a chance to get to know a lecturer who became my career and professional mentor per se. And now him and I speak on the phone once a month to say hello and he lived in Whitewater and he always had on open door policy for me when he was at home.

I am broke right now (I get paid tomorrow and will be able to pay my bills, mind you) and I only had 4 bucks until tomorrow morning, so I decided to go to the store and bought two 4-pack cans of 16 oz Old Milwaukee. The beer will taste bad, but after the third beer, it won't even matter anymore.

I had the same reaction as adam when I started my college career at UW-W. We had Blimpie subs and salads, Burger King, some taco place (maybe Taco Bell at the time?) and they also had a place called the "Down Under." The weird thing is, I didn't really take advantage of all the places to eat on campus when I was there because I always had weird schedules where some or all were closed for the day. We got a bowling alley too, but I only went there twice in my four years living in Whitewater. I spent the majority of my time in my dorm reading books or going to bars. I see you are a "history buff." I took a few history classes, but the one history class that really ripped me apart was "History of Modern Europe." I struggled so much in the class that I resorted to using sparknotes. By the way, NEVER use sparknotes or cliffs notes for essay exams because professors can read your essay and can see that you got "help" from a mile away. He didn't punish us or anything, he just mentioned it in the beginning of the class when went over our exams. You are better off skimming and scanning a book and finding a few interesting points and then writing about it. Most of my essay exams were easy. For example: 1. Discuss the ideological differences between the Amish culture as read in class and Bhaghavad-Gita's word-view (My world of ideas class). I basically stated my "feelings" about the two. Most essay questions rely on "feelings" and "critiques" from you. Oh, and for essay exams... if a professor says certain words WAAAAY too often, use them in your essay because that would score points with them. I can't tell you how many times I used the terms, "assimilate," "statements of fact or value," and "schematize" in one essay exam.

The first ever beer I drank was Corona back in college as a freshman. I threw up after two beers because it was the first time I ever had a sip of beer in my life. But I prefer all the Miller Brewing beers. I am a general GD Lite man, sometimes even buying High Life. I also don't mind Coors Light at all. Back during my all-out third shift days, I'd go to this third-shifter bar and they always sold 16 oz Coors Light cans for 1.50 so I knew I couldn't beat that. People are right when they say beer in green bottles taste nasty and skunky. I tried Rolling Rock once and I almost choked on it, same with Heineken. The clear bottles are not bad.

Why is this even being discussed? Players are virtually on the road for nine months on the year from February (Spring Training) until possibly late October (playoffs). That gives players a three-month window to "conceive" a child. Things happen. The Yankees' rookie pitcher Ian Kennedy has a wedding Oct. 6 and if the Yanks make the playoffs, he calculated it to the point where he may have to start the game Oct. 6 and may be "forced" to change wedding plans. In the real working world, you don't see your average blue-collar manufacturing worker trying to conceive at certain points of the year because they know they have to work year-round and what not, but employers give the workers "family leave" when their wives are giving birth, etc. This is a non-issue. Players have about as much responsibility to family as us "average folks" do.

Yeah, that is a guy. He is "out" if you know what I mean and admits so, and in the terms of Jerry Seinfeld, "Not that there is anything wrong with that." He expresses his "outness" on his myspace page. That dude seriously has issues, if he cries that much over Britney Spears I would hate to see him with people closer to him.

This guy is psycho, basically crying his lights out after the Britney Spears' fiasco. It's kind of hilarious, yet scary and freaky. It does contain a couple of swear words, so don't click play if you don't want to hear it.