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RoseBowl, are those rankings even current? I seem to recall Mike Piazza tying and eventually breaking Johnny Bench's catching home run record at Miller Park. My brother caught the ball and has the autographed bat from Piazza to prove it.

It seems like yuku has a lot of inconsistencies with font faces, column titles, etc. I too noticed the IGT's with the url as the title and not the date of the game. Sometimes the font faces look big and then a few moments later it changes. The titles in the message board forums also seem to change whenever it feels like it. Sometimes it shows the last poster and sometimes it shows the thread author.

Hey Mass, nice question you asked JimP. I really think Doug Melvin will try to do something with the left field position in the winter time. I just doubt they will stick with the same platoon next year.

I remember when the Yankees released Aaron Boone when he injured himself playing basketball. The injury and subsequent release of Boone from the Yankees paved the way for the A-Rod trade.

I wonder if the Vince Coleman tarp incident is somewhere on youtube. I never saw it... That link is hilarious. John Smoltz tried ironing his shirt while he was wearing it? I am laughing at that one. The visual just seems hilarious.

How about Jeff Kent's motorcycle-gate? He said he injured himself washing his truck, but actually violated terms of his contract by hurting himself while motorcycling around town.

I just posted two questions in the chat. I will be staying with the chat for an hour or so. Thanks for heads up Mass. I asked Powell if the Brewers could be exploring a waiver wire claim of a utility infielder or will search in-house for Graffy's replacement.

rwa, what do you have against Billy Ray Cyrus' daughter? Although this girl is 14 years old, she seems like the kind of girl who could turn into something big when she turns 18. (hears sirens going off since I am 24). Now regrets saying this. I had to be forced to watch Hannah Montana since my cousin's daughter likes the show. The show is absolutely annoying though and I hate most of the characters.

I was reading through some old archives online and came across an injury that happened to Glenallen Hill. Hill had a dream spiders were attacking him and he crashed into a glass coffee table and cut himself to the point where had to be DLed for awhile. I also remember when Brewers' Steve Sparks got placed on the DL after attempting to rip a phone book in half when a motivational speaker came into the Brewers' clubhouse to motivate the team to win. And wasn't it Sammy Sosa who got injured while sneezing? Didn't Ricky Bones get hurt while sitting on a chair in the locker room? And when a player is out of the game for "flu-like symptons" it is mostly because the player is hung over from the night before?

Homer pretending to be Mr. Burns: Sideshow Bob vs. Rakes: Botched Prank Call to Moe's:

Lisa: Mr. Hutz why are you burning all of your documents? Lionel Hutz: As of now, Lionel Hutz does not exist. Say hello to Miguel Sanchez --------------------- Homeless man: I just burned a building downtown and I am afraid I am going to do it again. Chief Wiggum: Yeah right, let me just type it into my imaginery typewriter. ------------------ Chief Wiggum: Sideshow Bob has no decency, he called me Chief Piggum (court laughs) Chief Wiggum: Ah, now I get it. -------------------- Red Hot Chili Peppers: I thought you said there would 50,000 people here? Moe: They were here last night, now get on stage the audience is getting restless. Barney: We want Chili Willie, we want Chili Willie (lights lighter) Bart: You guys want to be in the Krusty Comeback Special? Chili Peppers: Sure, if you can get us out of here. Bart: Hey Moe, look over there. Moe: What? What am I looking at? What is that? Homer enters Homer: Can I get a Duff. Moe: That'll cost ya Homer: My wallets in the car! Moe: Stupid.... now back to the wall.

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When I interned in Lake County, Ill. there was a seatbelt patrol in Buffalo Grove where cops would seriously use binoculars to look for motorists who don't have their seatbelts on and they would instantly pull them over.

burnie, one of the reasons I have myspace is that it gives me the chance to kind of reunite with some of my former high school classmates I haven't seen in like 6 years. It is a little better than facebook when it comes to social networking because facebook started out as a college-only website unlike myspace where everyone can join so it has a mix of everything. By the way, I have been dressing up my myspace profile so feel free to look at mine: www.myspace.com/jaybirduww

The way I see the above myspace profiles, it seems like only Weeks and Braun's myspace profiles are the non-legit ones. Jeremy Jeffress is never used and it does state his place of birth or hometown as South Boston, VA. Palmisano does have a pic of him that never seemed to be made public on his homepage. Salome the same.

Lohan may be messed up, but she actually was a solid child actress before she succumbed to alcohol abuse. She was in the Parent Trap as someone mentioned before and she actually played a dual role quite well for a preteen/early teen. She also co-starred with Jamie Lee Curtis in the remake of Freaky Friday, which isn't exactly Oscar material, but I can give her credit for that. Lohan can be a good actress if she would stop talking to her parents and her "entourage" of yes-men. If she could get some better people around her, she could become a productive person again. The only reason people are annoyed by her is the media makes such a big deal about it when there are probably hundreds of people the same age as her with the same problems as her in America, only difference is that she is famous. Drug and alcohol abuse can happen to anyone, famous and rich or not. But anyway, here are my top five instead of top four... 1. Nancy Grace (CNN) - She has the most annoying show and it gets on my nerves when they make the most mundane news stories appear to be sensationalistic by putting a simple exclamation point at the end of the sentence on the bottom of the screen. Plus, she talks about news that doesn't even matter to American people. 2. Paris Hilton - Unlike Lohan, she has absolutely no use in society. She is a spoiled person who believes she is always right about things (see her recent arrest and crying escapade). She just will never get it and it was reflected on her Simple Life show when she is like "What is Wal Mart? A place that sells walls?" She has done nothing to warrant her celebrity stature. She does stupid things to put attention to herself and the only reason she is "famous" is that she happens to be an heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune and semi-hot (she actually isn't hot, she looks anorexic and is blonde). 3. Britney Spears - It is pretty sad when her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, seems like the sane one in the after-relationship. Spears has jumped the shark so fast that her teen years when she was hot seems like a total blur. She has gone over the deep end so bad that even Federline won't touch her with a ten foot pole. tie4. Madonna and Angelina Jolie - They think they are saving the world by adopting Ethiopian kids, etc. when our country could use help in adopting at-risk youth. Those two are either completely oblivious to the fact that millions of children in our country are without adequate healthcare and they chose to bring attention to themselves by being deemed "humanitarian" through adopting kids from oversees. It is like those kids are an accessory to them instead of human beings.

I am bored so I decided to do some myspace searches of minor league Brewer players. Angel Salome's profile pic is hilarious and his pics are just as funny. Angel Salome: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=42109925 Lou Palmisano: http://www.myspace.com/loupalmisano Jeremy Jeffress' myspace is not even being used apparently: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=112204975 Ryan Braun: http://www.myspace.com/hebrew_hammer12 Rickie Weeks: http://www.myspace.com/rickieweeks

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Now that Bonds has the record, you think its time that Selig and steroid investigator George Mitchell call a press conference for a bombshell of information? Somewhere down the line, does one believe that it will be a record with an asterisk if or when Bonds' real steroid info comes out?

I tried logging into the in-game chat and it keeps on saying the connection has failed. This is after a "security" prompt comes up stating it is trying to connecting through a csc1.yuku server. I click on allow the connection, but it fails to get me into chat. Edit: Yuku staff have restarted the server and I am back in. Sorry for the delay. - hawing

Don't most public places have "family restroom's" now? I seem to recall that every new public place such as public libraries, shopping malls, etc. have family bathrooms where parents can bring their kids into the bathroom (boy or girl). Or maybe find a men's restroom that has the closest toilet stall and camp out outside the door and give her a code word to tell you when she is finished. dogger does have good ideas though, I would go to the designated area where lost children and ask them to either a) watch your daughter or b) ask for suggestions as to what to do in order to make you and your daughter comfortable. I am sure this isn't the first time it has happened.

JoeHova, the Fan Fair at Southridge is selling Carlos Lee Brewers' jersey's for the "clearance" price of $55. They also were selling Brady Clark Brewers' jerseys for the same "clearance" price. I don't know whether people are stupid enough to buy Lee jerseys when he was traded LAST year or if Fan Fair among others are stupid enough to continue attempting to sell the jerseys. Selling those jerseys for that obscene price is like a used car salesman trying to sell their car even though it hasn't had an oil change in 30,000 miles or hasn't gotten new tires after 100,000 miles. Heck when I was in Cleveland a few years ago, they were selling Tim Couch jerseys even after he was released from the team for a clearance price of 10 bucks, which seemed more reasonable than the price of Fan Fair's jerseys. I also remember seeing at the Southridge JC Penney's that they were selling Corey Koskie for the full sale price.

This is considered the steroid era, but in the 70's and 80's it was considered the amphetamines and hallucinogenic era (case in point: Doc Ellis' LSD no-hitter, Keith Hernandez's lifetime probation from Bowie Kuhn, etc.) Were there any Brewer players who were scrutinized as being a "greenie popper" back in the day? I am also wondering if amphetamine use was either as widespread as people believe it was back in the 70's and 80's. I also read in Hank Aaron's book, "I had a Hammer," that in the 50's, there was a thing called "red juice." In Jim Bouton's book, "Ball Four," he discusses it candidly about the exchange of greenies. Does anyone believe that greenies still exist in today's game? And were amphetamine use under intense wraps by players back in the prior era's? I just found this on a google search, apparently Phil Garner tried amphetamines during his playing days: Thursday, January 12, 2006 Updated: January 17, 12:46 PM ET Kicking amphetamines By Jerry CrasnickESPN Insider Here's one potentially positive byproduct of Major League Baseball's new amphetamine crackdown: Hitting the cutoff man actually might become fashionable again. While purists attribute the current barrage of airmailed throws and baserunning gaffes to a lack of fundamentals, there's a different, more cynical read in some baseball clubhouses. When a player gets thrown out by 15 feet trying to stretch a single into a double, it's not uncommon for someone in the dugout to joke, "The greenies must have lied to him." Thirty-six years before Jose Canseco introduced America to the goings-on in clubhouse bathroom stalls, Jim Bouton provided a more enlightened, well-written and entertaining look at baseball's frat-house culture in "Ball Four." Among other things, Bouton detailed the use of amphetamines -- or "greenies" -- as an antidote for everything from hangovers to garden-variety fatigue. Bouton's revelations prompted former commissioner Bowie Kuhn to go ballistic, but for many ballplayers, he was simply stating the obvious. During the Pittsburgh drug trials in the mid-1980s, outfielder John Milner testified that Willie Mays introduced him to a liquid amphetamine known as "red juice." More than a decade later, Tony Gwynn spoke of rampant amphetamine use in the game, and David Wells referred to greenies in his book, "Perfect I'm Not: Boomer on Beer, Brawls, Backaches, and Baseball." Amphetamines have become as much a part of the clubhouse scene as card games and hot feet. In a Kansas City Star story last year, former Royals outfielder Brian McRae recalled how there were always two pots of coffee brewing in the clubhouse -- one conventional and the other laced with stimulants. "I had to make sure I got the unleaded," McRae said. While some medical professionals have observed that amphetamines might heighten an athlete's senses or quicken reaction time, the more commonly held view is that stimulants are performance "enablers" rather than performance "enhancers." The baseball season is a marathon in every sense, with seven weeks of spring training followed by 162 games in six months, interspersed with rain delays, cross-country flights and constant scrutiny to perform. Sometimes players need a kick-start just to roll off the clubhouse sofa and up the dugout stairs. While steroids might help a hitter add muscle or allow a relief pitcher to recover so he can take the mound for three or four straight days, ballplayers use stimulants for the same reason as college students cramming for exams or truckers on long-distance hauls. "It's a get-you-out-there issue more than anything else," said one management official. Amid the furor over steroids, the combination of residual public pressure and well-documented health risks prompted Major League Baseball and the Players Association to address stimulants in the game's new drug agreement. The fallout from amphetamine use can range from nausea and headaches in the short-term to gastrointestinal problems, heart disease and liver or kidney damage over the long haul. How prevalent are amphetamines in baseball? When the Associated Press surveyed 50 major leaguers last year, estimates of usage ranged from less than 10 percent to more than 75 percent. A player agent and a big-league coach, both speaking to ESPN Insider on the condition of anonymity, said stimulants are pervasive in the game. "Typically, a veteran player finds a way to get them and he supplies them to the other guys," the coach said. "In the old days, a player might pop one to get up for a day game after a night game. Now guys use them more and more. They're passed out like candy in the clubhouse." Yet for every player who comes to rely on stimulants and develop a dependence on them, there's a corresponding skeptic. Bouton once ingested a "little red heart" to get up for a game and found the experience so unpleasant that he never did it again. "I was wired, jittery and jumpy," Bouton said. "I hated it. I don't think I pitched well at all. I was so up for the game already, I didn't need any stimulants. I was overstimulated." Houston Astros manager Phil Garner, who played 16 seasons in the majors, briefly tried Dexedrine, a stimulant prescribed for narcolepsy and attention deficit disorder. He took one five milligram tablet before each game as a pick-me-up, but soon found that it disrupted his sleeping and eating patterns and was generally counterproductive. "It becomes a psychological addiction and a crutch," Garner said. "Some guys get on amphetamines and think they can't play without them. But it's just a false sense of security. If you educate yourself and really see what's happening, you find it's a dead-end street." So what will the stimulant ban mean for the product on the field? According to one popular theory, the "iron man" will become obsolete and bench players will assume a more important role. A total of 19 major-leaguers appeared in 160 or more games last season, and 45 players topped 155. Those who derived a lift from their neighborhood pharmacist will have to do it sans help in 2006. Baseball Prospectus writer Will Carroll, an authority on injuries, also points out that fatigue is a contributing factor when players get hurt. So it might be worth checking the disabled lists this season to gauge if there's an impact. The noncynical view is that professional pride should be enough of an incentive for players to take the field. And for the major-leaguer who lacks motivation, the lure of a $10 million-a-year free-agent deal should suffice. Rockies outfielder Matt Holliday told the Denver Post that the amphetamine ban might prompt players to focus more on diet, rest and better conditioning. Bouton, for one, thinks it's a good thing if the new drug agreement makes players reconfigure their lifestyles. "If you need a pep pill because you're living large, maybe you'll cut that back," Bouton said. "Maybe guys will drink less and go to bed earlier. Mix in a salad." Garner is convinced that's already the case. He believes that reports of rampant amphetamine use are overblown and that modern-day players have already become more health-conscious and discerning about what they put in their bodies. "One reason people think it's rampant is that guys who don't use amphetamines haven't stood up and said it," Garner said. "That's sort of been out of vogue. Now it's starting to come into vogue." Under baseball's new drug policy, a positive test result for amphetamine use will result in mandatory additional testing. A second offense triggers a 25-game suspension, and the punishment increases to 80 games for a third failed test. Since amphetamine users aren't likely to encounter the same negative stigma as steroid takers, some players might continue to push the envelope. And if the old high-test solutions are deemed too risky, they'll tinker with alternatives. Maybe there'll be a run on energy drinks such as "Red Bull" or over-the-counter stimulants or coffee. The new drug policy makes no mention of caffeine. Regardless, it's hard to find someone who believes the game will be markedly different in 2006 because amphetamines are forbidden. Purists might actually revel in seeing fewer boneheaded baserunning mistakes or reckless throws from outfielders who are listening to their racing hearts rather than their baseball instincts. "If amphetamines are widespread enough, this is going to affect everybody proportionately," Bouton said. "A fan in the stands isn't going to say, 'Wow, look at these guys without amphetamines -- it looks like a high school game.' That's not going to happen." Jerry Crasnick covers baseball for ESPN Insider. His book "License To Deal" has been published by Rodale. Click here to order a copy. Jerry can be reached via e-mail. (consolidated tags --1992)

Well, at least the players are sticking together. I would actually give some credit to Estrada and Graffanino for sticking their necks out and defending their teammates. I don't know if the recent slide directly correlates with the managing style of Yost, but this skirmish obviously does give us a school of thought about what the clubhouse is dealing with right now. Since this skirmish was caught on camera, I wonder what is really going on in the locker room after games in which the Brewers should have won, but blown. The fact is, we don't really know for certain if players have called a player-only meeting to discuss the recent shortcomings of the team. I just think it is time that a couple veterans stood up and motivated the team on the field and in the clubhouse. Although many people believe Estrada is a clubhouse, but Estrada has been on winning teams before and the same with Graffanino (both ironically with the Braves.) In another dose of irony is that Graffanino and Yost were together in Atlanta, which people haven't mentioned yet. I am not sure about their relationship in Atlanta, but it does speak volumes that Graffanino would speak up against his former bench coach from the Braves. Another interesting thing is that Ben Sheets assisted in breaking up the argument, which does speak a lot of veteran example and does have a high symbolic value since Sheets sacrificed himself since he is on the DL for the good of team chemistry. But there are players who do get mad when they don't do well. There were countless times where I saw Prince Fielder swear at himself for not doing well at the plate. If this reflects the team's attitude about manager Ned Yost's handling of the team down this stretch, this does represent a valid argument of whether the team should change managers for 2008. If I am not mistaken, Yost's last year of his contract is in 2008 so maybe this does leave a door open to a new manager next season. But this team doesn't compare to what went on in the clubhouse during the Alex Sanchez-Ruben Quevedo days. I remember when Izzy Alcantara dogged a fly ball to right field and later him and Sanchez were laughing it off, the next day Alcantara was waived.