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I used to like the Demon as a kid, but i now usually don't even go on it when i attend six flags. My current favorite rides in order are now 1. Vertical Velocity-- Love the instant speed 2. Raging Bull 3. Batman 4. Giant Drop 5. Viper 6. Eagle 7. Superman Those are usually the only rides i go on when i attend Great America. I'm glad an amusement park is only a little more than an hour away from Milwaukee because i still love going on roller coasters, but it's disappointing that Great America IMO hasn't added a high quality coaster since they added Vertical Velocity and Raging Bull around ten years ago. I guess Superman is decent and that was added in 2003 or 2004. A lot of big amusement parks though add a new quality roller coaster every year or two, but Great America only added Dark Night in 2008 and that coaster sucks. Ragin Cajun is weak also. There was a very good coaster they built around 2005 that i went on once and it was outstanding, but the thing was usually not running and thus they tore it down maybe two years ago, i forget the name of it though? It was blue and had an odd name i remember. If Great America did a better job of adding more really high quality roller coasters, i'd attend more often than usually once a year with my daughter and a few other people. One of these years i'm going to drive down to Ohio and spend a weekend at Cedar Point. I've seen shows on TV showing all the crazy fun looking coasters at Cedar Point and i get envious, my kid really wants to go also.

I know not all dogs are the same and my situation involved a pet bearded dragon instead of a baby, but i worried how my then puppy would react around the bearded dragon that i already had and would let run around the house out of it's tank. This worry was heightened because the breed of my dog is a hunter of small game. Well, from the day we got Tyson as a puppy, my daughter and i both would tell him no if he went anywhere near the bearded dragon. We'd put the dragon on the floor and sometimes let the puppy smell it, but if he went near the lizard with us not be right there, we'd yell no and he just walked away. Not long afterward, Tyson stopped showing any interest in the bearded dragon and he never once has tried to bite it or anything harmful. I'm no dog trainer, but once you have your baby, i'd carefully let Jack smell the child while also firmly letting him know that any time he goes near the baby without your approval that this isn't acceptable.

I don't do the thing of making my dog wait for me to go through the door first, but the advice from Caesar about how to walk a dog properly has helped immensely. I used to just always let Tyson walk way ahead of me and pull me towards any direction he wanted to walk. Back then he'd almost never listened to me if he was off leash. Then i saw episodes of Dog Whisper where Caesar would force the dog to walk next to him and not go forward until the dog listened to him. It took patience and my dog wouldn't listen initially, but after awhile he got the point that he wouldn't be able to go forward until i allowed him to and if he didn't come back to me after i commanded him to, the walk came to a stand still. Even though i have a 30 foot leash, now my dog usually stays next to me during a walk unless i say go ahead, which then he'll go sniffing around some bushes. The other thing i learned from Caesar and i'm sure it's the same with any dog trainer is that when trying to change some behavioral issues, it often can take time, patience, and consistency, dogs usually won't instantly change a bad behavioral issue overnight like many dog owners want and like i wanted when first getting him.

Besides learning tips to help with behavioral issues of my dog, two other things about Caesar and his show that i think is valuable or should be valuable to many dog owners is that i think a lot of dog owners simply don't realize that they themselves are a big reason for behavioral issues with their dogs and that to many owners don't take into account enough the breed of their dog along with then the needs a dog of certain breeds have to be happy/stable, especially pure breeds. Before watching the show i understood to a degree that various breed types can often have different behaviors or needs, but i never considered the importance of this enough initially in retrospect and i think many dog owners don't take this into consideration enough either when they have problems with their dog. A lot of dogs out there were bred for specific reasons and those genes are deeply ingrained. Their instincts don't simply vanish just because you bring them into your home and often if they aren't allowed to do some of the things that their genetics tell them to do, they can get frustrated. My dog when i walk him loves looking inside bushes or under foliage for rabbits and squirrels, few things seem to make him happier besides maybe a steak bone with some meat left on it from me. It's amazing how good his instincts, sense of smell, and hearing allows him to track down where small game is hiding. I have a 30 foot leash which allows him to do this stuff, but also pull him away if he actually finds say a rabbit before he kills it. This does though allow him to be who his breed is for at least awhile each day. My daughter flipped out on Tyson a few months ago when he found a buried rabbit den and killed one baby rabbit, but i had to tell her that he's simply doing what he's bred to do and not to yell at him for this. I do feel bad though for some dogs who rarely get walked by their owners like my [expletive deleted] step-uncle doesn't do enough of it and let a dog be outside being a dog exploring, yet then the owner will constantly scream at the frustrated dog for not behaving how the owner wants. Just letting a dog go outside in the same yard everyday to take a leak/crap and maybe a short walk once a week isn't enough mental stimulation that dogs need, especially younger ones, so they start acting out and the dumb owners blame the dog often followed by screaming at the dog and in some cases hitting it. (edit: language --1992)

You could always just order water...pretty much the same thing. While we are on the topic of failed expectations from the Miller/Coors merger, Molson Ice is my favorite beer. I could always get it when I went to school in upstate NY for 2 years. Moving back to the midwest it is almost impossible to find. I will ocasionally see Molson Golden, but its not the same. I wish the distributors would get their act togeather with Molson around here. I will also add that the "new" old Schlitz on tap is a nice touch for any bar in the area. Two thoughts from your post 1. Obviously everyone is free to like any beer of their choosing, but i agree with you that beers like Miller Light, Bud Light, and Coors Light are terrible and i might quit drinking beer if they were the only beers left being made. When i go to family gatherings on my mothers side, often Miller Light is the only beer they have and i had one last year at a gathering, it tasted like beer flavored water. I think i could drink a case of that and not catch a buzz. 2. I see your a Molson Ice fan. While i wouldn't call it my favorite beer, it used to be my beer of choice if say i was going to tailgait or a picnic, planned to drink plenty of beers, catch a good buzz, and didn't have to drive home. It's a nice tasting beer that packs a punch, but isn't overly heavy like other beers that i prefer somewhat taste wise. Those kind of heavier beers though aren't something i generally like to pound 7-8-9 of at a gathering. I've found like you though that Molson Ice isn't easy to find around me and i pretty much stopped looking for it. Thanks for bringing it up because i kinda forgot about that beer, i'm going to call around and grab me some. 3. This summer i've been on a Mike's Hard Lemonade kick, it's very refreshing on hot days. The Black Cherry, Pomegranate Punch, and Lime flavors are delicious and pack a decent 5.5 percent alcohol punch. In fact, i'm drinking a Pomegranate Punch one right now, this stuff is yummy.

I absolutely love rum and think Barcardi is one of the worst tasting rums out there. Barcardi not only tastes like crap IMO, it's overpriced, there are a couple of low priced rums like San Juan for example which tastes way better.

I have a question about cats. I'm not a big fan of cats, but my best friend has one that's 13 years old i believe and he's had the cat for about 10 of those years. It's not fixed either. Well a few days ago my buddy called me all stressed out because his cat bolted out his apartment patio door when he went to start his gas grill and he couldn't find the cat anywhere for over two days. He thought odds were high his cat would be dead from either getting hit by a car or getting attacked by a coyote since he hears them howl sometimes in a patch of woods. Plus, my buddy never kept a collar on the cat with tags on it and his phone number in case someone found his lost cat. I felt bad for my friend because he was stressed by having no idea what happened to his long time pet. Lucky for him, he called me earlier today and said his cat showed up outside his patio door. One thing i've long wondered about the vast majority of cat owners is why don't they ever walk their cats like dog owners do? Wouldn't cats enjoy a walk outside as dogs love so much? Wouldn't that maybe also make a cat less interested in bolting out a door when a chance arrived since their curiosity about the outdoors should be less since they were outside a lot?

For myself at least, the Dog Whisperer show was a big help with my learning some ways to get my dog to behave better. I'm thankful for Caesar for that help, plus the show is entertaining to watch IMO. I got a dog as a gift to my daughter about three years ago and it was my first dog. Not only was it my first dog, i never had a dog as a pet while growing up. So when i got Tyson as a puppy, i really didn't know what the hell i was doing. I got some help from my mom with the potty training, but behavioral wise, all i knew what to do when he didn't listen was to yell at him. Well, in retrospect i now know why that often doesn't work that well. A few months have getting Tyson i saw the Dog Whisper show on TV and started watching it. From watching the show i picked up a fair amount of tips that has worked on my dog like how to quickly take away his food aggressiveness with stuff like bones especially, how to walk a dog properly, and just basically how to make a dog understand that i'm the boss of the house without having to hit him or scream constantly. The one thing though that i couldn't get Tyson to do no matter what i tried was to not run away from me when outside if he wasn't on a leash. An episode of Dog Whisperer came on about that very problem and after being patient with what i saw on that episode, my dog now won't go far away from me if off leash or if i'm not holding the leash. Once in awhile he'll stray to far away and now he listens to my commands of come here. The only thing that makes him loose all sense of listening is if he sees a rabbit, squirrel, or chipmunk which there are many of by where i live and walk him. I don't get mad about that though because it's simply deeply ingrained in the genes of Toy Fox Terriers which were bred to hunt down small game like rabbits and squirrels.

Man Sosa is disturbing looking

Why? What has he ever done that would be considered a negative to his Dallas Mavericks franchise or the city of Dallas? Cuban took over a badly run Dallas Mavericks franchise and turned them into a consistent winner while spending a lot of his own personal money, something not all owners are willing to do. He treats his players in top of the line fashion compared to other basketball owners and is very well liked by the people in the Dallas area. Yea Cuban is an outspoken type of owner, is very visible at Mavericks games, and overall obviously just isn't a behind the scenes type of professional sports owner than many are. So what though? He's not slimy type of guy and Cuban has proven that he's extremely committed to consistently putting a winning product on the floor of the basketball team he owns even if it means not making a profit or losing money, so what possibly would make you say to this degree, "I sure as heck would not want to see him the owner of the Brewers"?

Yea, Venters got his suspension dropped entirely even though he threw a pitch over Fielders head and the next one drilled him in the back. Great job by the league in rewarding Macha for supposedly taking the high road in that situation.

Yea i'm getting sick of hearing how much Weeks crowds the plate and thus that's the reason he gets hit so much. Watch Weeks close in the batters box, is he really so abnormally hanging over the plate? I'm not seeing it. Weeks might be a bit closer to the plate than the average hitter, but hardly some situation were Rickie is standing right on the inside stripe of the batters box as implied by some who consistently talk about Weeks crowding the plate so much.

My problem with your argument is that given the huge distortion of power numbers by hitters during the steroid era compared to past history and now what we are seeing today since drug testing, obviously the steroid usage benefited hitters more statistically. Hitting 50 home runs in a season had been a pretty rare occurrence pre-roids, but once hitters left and right were juicing, home runs were flying out of the park constantly and in the process, historical power records were getting obliterated by hulking batters juiced to the hilt with steroids, ARod among them. It's kinda as if you're saying guys like Brady Anderson and Brett Boone hulking up via steroids and their power numbers obviously shooting way up as a result, that well the steroid use can't be credited for being the main reason because many pitchers were likely also on roids. Thus it was a wash and those hitters like so many others weren't really benefiting much statistically at all because some of the pitchers were juiced up also. Can you really look at the numbers of the steroid era and believe that? So i personally can't share your beliefs because i simply don't believe for a second that we'd even be talking about Alex hitting his 600th home run at this time if he hadn't used steroids to increase his performance. Where he'd be home run totals wise right now is impossible to know for a variety of reasons, but it certainly wouldn't be 600.

Yea i'd have loved it if he had bought the Brewers

I hear this a lot and i wonder based on what? Watch Weeks tonight, he stands almost in the middle of the batters box, just a shade closer to the plate in the box compared to to outside of the box.

They'd dig up the remains and say can we get a decoder here? What's this foreign language of capitalized abbreviations OPS, WHIP,WAR, ERA+, FIB, FIBx, UZR, BABIP, DER, DIPS, ISO, RAR, WS, WARP, VORP, EqA that they argued so much about?

Braun isn't that far off this year in how he's hit righthanders through his career, it's his baffling .664 OPS vs lefties that is killing his numbers. Keep in mind that Braun has a 1.036 OPS vs lefties over his career so far which makes his numbers so hard to figure out when facing lefties this season, but that does only cover 113 at bats.

Who are these pitchers being called up from A ball? I'm not saying you are lying, but i haven't been following baseball outside of the Brewers super closely and if this is happening frequently, i missed it. Certainly teams sometimes do call up guys performing very well in AA and have for a long time, but i just don't recall this trend of calling up players from A ball, that's a huge jump unless it's say a college pitcher who was drafted high.

From a business point of view, it would make a lot of sense for Rickie to choose Boras. He's nearing his first shot at free agency and any contract the Brewers would offer would probably be able to be met by several teams on the open market. I hope he doesn't choose Boras, but I could definitely see him doing so. Plus, don't forget that Prince and Rickie are best buddies, that could influence Weeks to choose Boras.

I agree that defensive metrics are still fairly crude in relation to offensive ones, but it's not like when anyone watches Hart in the outfield that the naked eye would make you question his ugly rankings in the defensive metrics. Corey routinely misjudges fly balls and his arm is extremely inaccurate. The frustrating thing for me is as a rookie i thought he showed potential to develop into a quality defensive outfielder. Instead of developing defensively, he immediately plateaued and maybe even regressed defensively. Between him and Braun, our corner OF defense is atrocious.

If Hart doesn't get traded and Gamel shows something in the outfield, Braun to first base might be the best situation because he still looks terrible in the outfield. It's frustrating that the Brewers seem unable to find guys in the draft who can both hit/be good defensively and here our arguably two best hitting prospects in the minor also don't have a set position yet. Hart isn't as bad defensively as Braun, but he often misreads balls off the bat and his arm is incredibly inaccurate. The infield defense is bad also. Whatever the everyday lineup ends up being next season, i sure hope it's not filled up with mostly bad to mediocre defensive players again because teams with subpar pitching and bad defense don't make the post season regardless if the offense is in the upper tier of their league. Whether Doug doesn't take defense serious enough or circumstances have just worked out how they have, this year was like last year with subpar pitching talent that was compounded on by bad defense behind them. I hope it's not the same story next year.

I really wanted the Brewers to be sellers, but if the only trade offers out there are hey we'll bend you over the sink and you have to thank us afterward, we may as well have just stood pat. I would though like to see Gomez sent down for Cain.

If anyone is a Pink Floyd fan and wants to see a good show for cheap, Think Floyd is playing on the 7th at State Fair. I've seen them twice and for a cover band, they were very good both times i saw them. BTW, did anyone here go to the Dead Weather show a few days ago at the Pabst Theater? I really wanted to go but couldn't make it.

They don't have to overpay, they choose to overpay. That's a huge difference. The Yankees and Red Sox could likely afford to and still win after paying about 37-38 million this year for Suppan, Wolf, Riske, Hawkins, and Hoffman, the Brewers can't. Yea that's a big advantage for the GM's of rich teams, but if you have a payroll limit around 80 million and nearly half of it is being spent on older pitchers who are doing terrible, you can't win even if the offense is very good. That doesn't account for the money the Brewers are paying for Bill Hall either. That's over half the payroll on guys who are hurting the team more than helping. Smaller market GM's have to be better than average for that team to compete for playoff berths and Melvin hasn't been. His mistakes have been very costly at a time that some very good young position players have been cheap. That chance doesn't come around that often.

As i've got older, i simply don't get that emotionally attached to players anymore except in fairly rare cases. Sports are now more just a game to me and i don't get nearly as bent out of shape over wins/losses or a guy leaving a team i like. I've had and seen personally to many harsh things in my life for me to live and die by how sports teams i like are doing. Obviously i still care or i wouldn't watch, but i now put sports in a proper perspective, it's entertainment like other forms of entertainment. The only area i think that so much player movement hurts a bit is kids who really love their local sports teams. In my youth i absolutely loved baseball and the Brewers, Robin Yount was my idol. In little league, i copied his batting stance nearly to a tee. Back then, top players way more often stayed with their original teams for a whole career or at least a large part of it. I think it would have stung big time in my youth if Yount had bolted for more cash in say NY. Now it's much more uncommon for elite athletes to stay long term in smaller market cities and i do feel bad for kids in those markets that see their idols bail on a regular basis for a more glitzy city with more cash because kids get so emotionally attached to players on their favorite local teams, but i don't feel the same sympathy for adults who should get over it much easier. If you're in your 30's or 40's and get depressed instead of just temporarily angry because an athlete leaves for another team, IMO you need to evaluate your priorities in life.