tristarscoop

Bought tickets for the Gold Cup final in Chicago today in the AO supporters section. Should be a lot of fun Now what are the odds the US team even makes it...

I'm aware that most folks that post on here have each of these, but I thought I'd take a chance that someone else checks it out. I have a duplicate of every SGA bobble from the past 6+ years and I'm looking to pare down the collection. Thanks!

I went to college in NOLA and lived there for 6 years. No one above has steered you wrong. I'd especially second Cochon Butcher. For me, that's a must. Green Goddess in the Quarter is one of the best new restaurants. Its a little hidden on a pedestrian alley - but its awesome. Whenever I had out of towners in, I took them to Court of Two Sisters for brunch because I think its a great way to sample a lot of different New Orleans and Creole flavors and dishes. Its also something of an insitution, usually has jazz playing and is just a really good meal. Champagne Brunch at The Columns on St. Charles Avenue is a great, somewhat upscale way to start a Sunday. Even if you don't have a destination in mind, spend an hour or two riding the St. Charles streetcar. You'll really see some different parts of the city - incredibly different from the Quarter. You'll see the universities and all the gorgeous mansions along St. Charles. It may be too late for this, but you know if you stayed Friday and Saturday that you'd get to experience some early Mardi Gras parades, right? Parades are so much fun and, to me, the entire point of MG. I promise its not the drunken madness you have in your head and because its so early in parade season, its all about the locals. If there's anyway to cheaply and easily change your plans, I'd absolutely stay Friday and go see the 2 Orleans Parish parades that day/night.

I'd definitely rent a car and travel about a bit. We went up into Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park for a day, via Estes Park and loved it. Plenty of short little hikes to do - go around Bear Lake, its a short but gorgeous walk. We also took another short hike in that same area that was more elevation and when up a small waterfall. You can drive a bit in the park there - we saw an elk and some birds - it was totally worth it. I'd second going to Boulder. Its a cool, walkable town. We also went to Bookcliff Winery and did a tasting and really liked that. In re-telling, I guess we spent very little time in Denver proper. There's just too much cool stuff around there to stay still. We went to three games at Coors, so we ate in that area a lot. There are a couple of breweries and we especially liked Wyncoop's food. There was a asiago dip appetizer that I still think about, it was so good.

I work in Marketing/PR for a non-profit and we don't use the AP and we don't have our own stylebook and it drives me nuts. There is no standardization in the large amount of printed materials we produce. I have no idea how they've gone this long without it. I've used the AP so long that most things I don't have to check on, but it's still sitting on my shelf for reference. It's kind of impossible to move away from it at this point and I find myself using it even on my blog, which is probably pretty ridiculous of me. I had a teacher in college that actually made us "memorize" and take quizzes on individual letters in the stylebook - which was so strange. It's a reference book, dammit. Why the hell would you force a kid to try to memorize it? Can't believe I paid a few grand for those credits. My apologies for my typo. Killing me to not go fix it.

I really, really hated those yellow jerseys and just assumed the masses felt the same way, so I'm surprised so many of you want them back. Best color I can think of to describe that particular shade was "urine." That shade was just plain awful. Besides, this isn't the University of Oregon - how many specialty/alternate jerseys do we need? The stupid extra hats the MLB mandates every season are bad enough, IMO

Canceled is the AP Stylebook correct spelling. Too many years as a journo student mean that's the only source I trust on spelling. I was always told its GrAy in America and GrEy in England and that's who you remember it.

Really upset I missed this and Rebirth Brass Band this year. We don't get them through here that often and I really miss getting to see them often. Lived in New Orleans for 6 years and saw some amazing music, so I really miss it at times up here.

Craigslist has a whole Part Time Job category. I've yet to run into something that wasn't legit - as long as you use you're head, they're just folks looking for help that aren't wanting to spend money on advertising.

Oh pretendastronaut, I'm jealous. I'd love to eat at Alinea - much less for New Years. I imagine that cost a pretty penny, but what an experience. That's the sort of thing we try to find here in Milwaukee, but nothing comes close to what Alinea is doing. I'm retroactively, gastronomically jealous.

For the uninitiated, ROMLB is Rawlings Official Major League Baseball

Did anyone ever have success with Prince TTM? I have an old ESPN magazine I tried to get signed many times over the years but was never successful. I'd really like to have a sig on it to hang in our Wo"man" cave. If I send it with a SASE and ask him to send it back even if he doesn't choose to sign it, what are my chances of actually getting it back? I realize this may all be dependent on where he ends up...

As of 3 pm tomorrow, I'm free of work or school for 13 whole days.

For Sale: 2 tickets to Jerrod Niemann at Turner Hall Ballroom Milwaukee Sunday night. $25 for the pair OBO (face is $35). General admission, but bc I bought during the pre-sale, you can get in 30 mins earlier than general public. jerrodniemann2011

Have a cousin's name in the Christmas exchange and don't know what to get him. He's a big fan and has all the tees and bobbles a guy could want. I have to spend about $15 or $20 and I was hoping someone on here might have an idea or suggestion for an usual Brewers gift.

It's a convoluted story, but we drove from Milwaukee to LA and then flew home. I did not find traffic issues at all while driving. I was expecting awful traffic in and around LA, but never ran into it. We were in Santa Monica, near Hollywood and Highland and in Pasadena. We went to the Rose Parade and straight to the game and tailgated. We did wait a while to get into the parking area (I purposely did not use Lot. You park on a golf course and there is little to no signage. It took us awhile to find our car after the game) Did you look into flying out of Chicago? We found cheaper flights out of there. I actually won tickets on Twitter last year. Quite a few folks give sets away, if you're on Twitter and want to look around. I found out at least 2 weeks beforehand that I had won, and they overnight FedEx'd them to me. We also got our tickets from UW employees. I'm not sure that prices will decrease as the game approaches. Don't forget that Oregon is much closer. I would guess their fans are going to snatch up every available ticket. My suggestions: Go to the pep rally. Make sure you get the band/school schedule. The Band ended up playing on the plaza outside either the Coliseum or Staples Center (can't remember) and had a huge long concert. Found out about it on Twitter as it was happening. Wish we'd known ahead of time so we could have gone. They make floats for the cheer squads of each team and finish them in the days before the game/parade. You can go help construct the float. I'm sad we did not get to do this. I know its part of the experience and I might be sacrilegious for saying this - but I would not go back to the parade if I went back out there. We actually had an "in" to park nearby and we were able to get in and out without much hassle, but I heard from others that it can be super busy and congested. And frankly, I just wasn't impressed. The street is wide and therefore you don't even get that close to the floats, so you can't really appreciate the detail. And that's about all you do - you stand there and watch the floats go by. And its really, really early. It might be better this year since it's not New Year's Day, but we ended up going to bed before New Year's and got up super early for the parade and it was just A LOT. The time change messes with you. I will quantify it that I lived in New Orleans for six years, so I am probably a bit of a parade snob. I didn't expect it to be Mardi Gras or anything, but the complete lack of interaction took a lot of fun out of it for me. Feel free to message me if you have more questions.

You can find odd job stuff on Craigslist. On the bottom of the right-hand column is an area called Gigs and that has some sub categories. I've done everything from clean a house to rake leaves to write for websites. I mean, you have to be smart and analyze what you're seeing, but in that particular area of the site, I don't often find the "work from home" scams. One thing I do to pick up extra cash is deal blackjack at events - like company Christmas parties and the like. They play for chips that they trade in for raffle tickets. Its pretty low key and they basically send you an email a month telling you what events are available on what days. I actually do this for 3 different companies in the area. I can pick and choose which dates I want and it's $50-$75 for 3-4 hours. I found all of them on Craigslist and I've been doing if for about 3 years.

Oh Hawing, if I'd have seen a Piraten jersey, I'd have probably had a hard time not buying it. I don't know why, but I frickin' loved the whole Piraten thing. We called them Piraten for the rest of the season and I'm sure that will continue next season. I'm seriously a bit heartbroken I never saw that. Any idea how much they were selling for?

There's a curtain in the back corner that cuts off the walkway up to the field and they stage things back there. There are racks of clothes waiting to go out. Also, the stuffed Racing Sausages were in big supply during the preview and the staff just kept bringing boxes of them from somewhere. They weren't even making it in the door before people were emptying them of what they were carrying. It was nuts.

I went Thursday night for the SSH preview. My ticket said 5:00, but apparently the higher up holders were able to get in at 4:00. I got there about 4 and got in line with the 5:00 people- I was about 10 back. They actually let us down about 4:30. We walked right into the clubhouse and there were a few people in there, but it was relatively uncrowded. That changed fairly quickly. I'd estimate there were 75 people in line to pay and up to 400 people in line to enter the clubhouse as I left at about 5:15. The line reached from inside the clubhouse all the way back to the elevator and the clubhouse itself was so stuffed with people you could barely move. I was hoping to find some of the Banner 47 gear that always priced over $100 in the team store during the season. There was no much of it and what they had was pretty much only size S or M. The game-used stuff was incredibly pricey. The scorecards dated back to 2008 and when the Brewers Charities sold them at their table during the season they were $20. At the Clubhouse Sale they were $35. Empty champagne bottles were $250. A worn Jeff Suppan and a worn Felipe Lopez jersey were $250 each. Replica Trevor Hoffman jerseys were $50-$75. What I bought: The five plush Racing Sausages - they're bigger than 24" and they were $10 each (for my nephew) 2 women's hats - $10 each Slightly dinged garbage can - $5 Hard plastic Jody Gerut nameplate - $5 (I have a game worn Gerut jersey and hope to make a locker) Laminated nameplates $1 - Bill Hall, Ronnie Belliard, Dave Krynzel, Curtis Leskanic 2 of the above-mentioned records - $1 each 2011 Yearbook - $1 They were also selling some old concession stand ephemera and I bought a 24x36 sign that has the Racing Sausages on it and says "When you run out of Klements, you run out of taste" and some single line slides that say Klements brat, italian, hot dog, chorizo and polish. I paid $1 for the lot. http://s1-01.twitpicproxy...otos/large/461552364.jpg As the team's gotten better/more popular, the fun of the sale has gone down.

Yeah, you can't order the prints from Walgreens/Target/etc... You have to do it yourself. I've never done big orders, but I've printed one or two here or there by just walking up, plugging in my flash drive and doing the print. He's right that they're protected and you're breaking the law. So you have to be more subtle about it than that. I've not done it much and I don't sell them or anything, so I haven't worried too much about it. They're for my own use. I printed one of CC's first start and had him sign it at a Block Party. He didn't say anything about it and that's for my own wall.

Here's a slightly bigger version that's save-able. http://mcenter.slideshowp..._1_50_50.sJPG?1322689845

Yeah - I'm not sure. There's a link on top that says "buy this print" but it takes you to another site that says its not available. My best suggestion would be to contact AP Images. That's the first time I've seen that picture and its very cool. Hopefully you do find a better size/res pic. I'm not going to say I've ever done this, but most Walgreens/Targets/etc.. have machines where you can print pictures, if you're totally desperate. Edit: I was hoping to find it in the archives on SBNation - at Brew Crew Ball we have access to a photo library, but it looks like its only Getty Images. Sorry.

I got full season privileges with 20 pack of 4 Field Infield tickets.I had a 20-pack of 2 terrace reserved and got the email

I usually have to wait to get there til Saturday, but get to go Friday for the first time this year. Folks that get there to be there when the doors open - when do you usually get there?