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Parra is a joy to watch pitch,no nibbling at all,just attack the strike zone with stuff he believes in.I'm getting really excited about his future.

Having bad acid reflux and being a Brewer fan is not a good mix,that game had me eating Tums like they were Cheetos.

I did it over 10 years ago,money well spent.I'm trying to get my daughter to try it so we could go together,but so far she's unsure if she wants to. Glider rides look to be great fun,but are pricey and don't know anyone who has gone yet to give me an idea if it's worth the cost.

Boston still has their MLE to use to add depth if the owner is willing to pay the luxury tax.Add a guy like maybe Brevin Knight for some veteran stability at PG and maybe one of Eddie Jones/Posey/Ruben Patterson for bench depth,they will be very tough to beat.A few additions like that won't lock up the East,but should give them as good a chance as anyone else.

Good to see you got your money Al,for the most part i had real doubts i'd ever get that money back.I was irritated at myself because i had taken out roughly 2 grand too buy some stuff i wanted,but left in the 2 grand.Almost like finding free money when i saw this thread.

My sister filed bankruptcy and Best Buy had a company call her and they either wanted her 6 month old 37' Westinghouse LCD paid off or they were going to come and take the TV.I had the TV at the time because my 36' Trinitron took a dump on me and i was going to buy her LCD before the phone call came.Anyways i bargained with them and got a good deal,so i kept the TV.I've had it for a about a month and a half,but just found out Netteller is finally releasing about 2000 dollars of past poker winnings,i'm gonna buy a 50' plasma. I'm going to sell the LCD for 500 dollars.There isn't a scratch on it and it really wasn't used much because my sister doesn't watch much TV,she bought it to watch DVD's and because she liked how it looks.My buddy has first dibs on it,but when i found out about my poker money and called him today,he said he's broke and will let me know by friday if he's gonna buy it. If interested,send me a PM.I'm on the southwest side of Milwaukee,so if someone is interested,you could come to my place and check the TV out.This is the model www.jr.com/JRProductPage....tTabPhotos

I bought my sisters 6 month old 37' Westingnhouse LCD after she filed for bankruptcy,i got a sweet deal on it from the company that was going to repo it a little over a month ago. As with most HDTV's,the standard channels have a decent picture depending on the feed of the station,the HD picture is amazing.The bad part once you watch stuff in HD is it makes the standard channel picture seem so much lesser. If anyone is interested,i might be selling the TV pretty soon for 500 dollars.Looks brand new,not a scratch on it and wasn't used much because my sister doesn't watch much TV.I had a 36' Trinitron that took a dump on me right around when my sister filed bankruptcy,i bought her LCD since i got a bargain.I was intending to buy a 50' plasma though and now that Netteller is finally releasing 2000 dollars of past poker winnings,i'm gonna use it to buy my big plasma.A buddy of mine has first dibs on the TV,but if he can't come up with the cash soon,i'll sell it elsewhere if anyone is interested.This is the TV and i'm in the Milwaukee area. www.jr.com/JRProductPage....tTabPhotos

I would love to see a dotel for z-jack! Doubt the Royals would

If you want some reviews of certain TV's,this is a great site reviews.cnet.com/Televisi...tag=img.tv

I like Gerald Green and I think he has the chance to become a special player with the Wolves. I don't The times i've seen Green play,he looks like nothing more than a great athlete with a low basketball IQ.Yet another example of a kid who should have went to college and learned how to play basketball. Jefferson is an outstanding young player though and if Garnett was going to bolt after this season,he's a nice young piece to get along with a first rounder.The downside there is the Celtics should be a good team and the draft pick won't be overly valuable. As for the Celtics,nice trade if they can get Garnett to sign an extension which i think he would because they will have his Bird rights.In a weak East,Garnett/Pierce/Allen should be a core that can hang with anyone.

Sweet They still have about 2000 dollars of mine

The Cubs have a .741 OPS during their hot streak and a .685 OPS against, its mostly a product of their pitching pitching way over its head and not the offense at all. Over that same timeframe we have a .792 OPS and a .720 OPS against. We have been extremely unlucky to lose more than a game or two to them, every bounce is going their way and we are losing all the tough games. Read what you will into that but it seems highly likely that luck has had as much to do wtih things as some mystic mojo working against us. The same bad luck that saw the Cubs way underperform their expected results earlier in the year. So your belief is the Cubs aren't really playing that much better baseball than us the last month or so,it's mostly just luck that has them winning games and us losing games? I watch pretty much every Brewers games and see alot of Cubs games and do believe in general more "breaks" are going their way,but they definately are playing better than early in the year and we aren't.Besides Zambrano getting on track,late in games their bullpen guys aren't doing nearly as much dumb crap like walking guys and then hanging sliders or grooving fastballs down the middle to get hit hard which was losing them close games.Their bullpen was doing was ours is now.They were making all kinds of baserunning blunders to kill innings like early on and just not playing good fundamental baseball overall,all kinds of mistakes killing them in close games. Alot of baseball games are decided by a run or two.A raw OPS for/against stat doesn't account for whether a pitcher makes a great or bad pitch in a tie game late to get out of an inning or instead gives up a hit that swings the game the other way.Does the hitter get that big base hit to drive in a few runs instead of weakly pop out to end an inning.Right now they are doing these things better than us along with just pitching great. A change in luck will help,but it's gonna have to be more than that from what i'm seeing of both teams.In sports and baseball you can create alot of your own luck by executing.Not hanging sliders like Cordero has so bards aren't hit as hard,we won't need as much luck to hope they find a glove.Turnbow hitting the corners instead of the center of the plate,where balls are more easily centered and less likely to be just popped out or rolled over on the ground. I understand stats paint a pretty good general picture of things,but just punching in certain numbers won't ever spit out a teams record.A double with nobody on in the fifth inning of a 4 run game counts the same in a team OPS as Rolen's off Cordero,even though the impact isn't remotely close.

Looks like we are relatively close to normal on the batting splits but our pitching just falls apart on the road. Yep I think it was Al earlier in the thread who tied the losing to us being built for MP and the homers,but we have only three more home runs at home than on the road.Outside of drawing more walks at home,the offense has been fairly close to performing simular to home/road.The pitching though has been much worse on the road. Taking a quick peak,Capuano/Bush/Turnbow/Cordero all have much better home stats than road stats.Of those four,Capuano has struggled away from MP the last three years,Bush has been much better at home both years,and Turnbow has been worse on the road all three years.I'm obviously not them so i have no idea if they get rattled by crowds on the road,just like the MP mound,or what the reason is,but all three guys are pretty important to our success/failure.

Seems there should be something built into the system that takes into account legitimate use of a medication that obviously isn't a steriod.

Books by coaches of a sport are most likely going to just be a book of cliches because thats what most coaches deal in, no matter how good they are. So your theory on great coaches in sports is that they mostly deal in and believe in cliches that really that aren't relevant,but they kinda foolishly think their beliefs were actually worthwhile in the success of their teams?

By the way, ticket quotas are illegal in Wisconsin. I'm curious TracyThom,even if quotas are illegal,are police expected to produce roughly a certain number of tickets even if there is no exact set quotas? My daughters mother has 2 Milwaukee cops in her family and i used to ask them various cop questions that interested me,but that was some years ago and don't remember answers they gave fo the most part except for some crazy stuff they saw.

Talking smack among friends is over rival sports teams should be enjoyed,a great side aspect of following sports and knowing people who like your rivals.No reason for anyone to have thin skin over friendly needling. As for what to say right now,not much to say.When you're team is losing,gotta suck it up and take the jabs that are coming. When it comes to non-friends or family,i just ignore all of it.

I know i'm grasping for anything here with Rickie,but he's at least making more contact lately.The counter arguement could be he's rarely hitting the ball that hard,i'll take that though over swinging at one slider off the plate after another. I don't want him sent down,the only reason i would is MAYBE if he had some success in the minors,it would inject Rickie with more confidence.Weeks doesn't strike me as being a type to get down on himself easy,but the guy can't buy a hit right now and is slugging under .350 since April.I wonder if his head is all messed up at the plate and simply having some success,even if it's in the minors,could get him out of this deep funk.

It's amazing how much my emotions change depending if we are at home or on the road. At home,i pretty much expect Cordero to strand the guy at third by throwing a perfect slider for a K,on the road i dread he'll hang th slider and to often he does. At home i have some confidence the leadoff walk will get handled,on the road my heart sinks after the leadoff walk in the close game and their crowd starts roaring.Can just feel the next base hit followed by crushed meatball pitch coming after our pitcher fell behind in the count 3-1. At home after the bloop single drops in on us,i'm not as scared the next hitter will get a hung slider or curve.On the road,it feels like nearl every error allowed or bloop single/double rattles our pitcher and the next batter gets either walked/hit or is grooved some bad pitch that leads me to think,here we go again. I simply expect us to lose on the road and they usually find a way to do so.At home,i expect them to win and they usually do.

I refuse to buy that there's just some bad mojo surrounding the team on the road, nor do I think Ned's got some weird road-managing scheme vs. home-managing scheme. Either: a) The team is _somehow_ constructed to be better at Miller Park b) Balls have fallen the team's way at home, and not fallen the team's way on the road for the past couple of years I don't think it's either A or B,i have no explanation for it honestly.While i'm no big fan of Yost and wouldn't mind him being replaced,i can't fault him that key cogs in our pitching staff are much worse on the road.We also draw more walks at home and it's a solid part of why our home OBP is .337 and .321 on the road.Last year we drew 273 walks at home and only 229 on the road.Why do guys hack more on the road?Rattled by crowds and get more impatient? Now i might be 100 percent wrong about this and i'm not sure how to look it up,but it seems on the road our pitchers are more prone to giving up big innings.Instead of stringing out more often say 9-10 hits over many innings at home,on the road we get more of these innings where mini or fullblown pitching meltdowns happen.

To me, it's pretty simple. The team's built to play in Miller Park. Fly ball hitters and a home run friendly park... That's just the way it's going to be. The team's going to go gangbusters on home, and do less well on the road. I don't buy it,Miller Park isn't some ultra tiny bandbox.We went to play the Reds in that homerville park and got spanked.We scored enough to easily win 3-4 from the Cardinals and the pitching staff gagged it away.The Nationals are garbage,ballpark is no reason for the losing.You can look at so many of the road losses and the team just finds ways to gag away road games in fashions they don't do at home. The pitching staff in particular is much worse away from home and if Miller Park is so hitter friendly,then the pitchers should pitch better on the road,instead they fall apart.Nearly all teams play better at home,but the incredible disperity on the road is mind boggling and much more than us missing out on a few homers when we play in a bigger park.In fact,we have 73 homers at home and 70 on the road,that's not an explanation for being atrocious on the road.

4-2 home stand followed by 2-4 road trip

I had todays game on my DVR and once we got to the 7th inning,i just fastforwarded through Linebrink's bases loaded situation and he got out of the inning.So when Turnbow got in a jam,i figured i'd try it again,so much for superstition.Then again,i did save myself the torture of watching that 8th inning debacle pitch by pitch,this seemed to make it sting less.Wish i had done the same during the Cordero meltdown,that was brutal and not good for my acid reflux.

Exactly. He's been doing it solely for attention and selfish reasons, but he's also been right on the money it would seem. Yep I remember alot of people lashing out at Canseco saying he was lying to sell a book and that he'd get sued,non of which happened.I have no idea if ARod was a juicer also and has benefited by posting some phony padded stats,but i do have zero sympathy for the guys who did juice and are now getting exposed. If a player did their thing with the help of a chemist to inflate their production,it's only the truth coming to light.I can't see any innocent prominent player getting accused in a book where profit is made,then sitting back and not suing for libel. I'm not a big fan of Schilling,but like he said on Costas,innocent players won't just sit back and say no comment and let someone drag their name through the dirt.

For the most part,the youth on the team is still getting the job done outside of Weeks and Hardy to a lesser degree. It's guys like Suppan/Capuano/Turnbow/Cordero on the pitching staff that has struggled in the team sliding and Jenkins/Estrada/Mench in the lineup.Hall has been hurt so i didn't include him,but overall his season has been somewhat dissapointing. We are a team for quite awhile that has largely been kept afloat by the kids on the roster,the vets are gonna have to play much better for things to turn around. I'm not worried so much about the lack of experience,i'm more worried about the lack of productive experienced players on the team.