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Funny how this team has said for a few years that they'd really like to distance themselves from the 82 team and create their own identity and MLB just threw them right back together.

The beautiful, amazing, wonderful FedEx guy delivered my tickets about an hour ago! First time I've bought a full post-season set, so having them in my hands is glorious! They did come in a little FedEx van, not the usual big truck. Makes me wonder if they've got an extra guy going out just to deliver tickets.

They said in the original packet that they're charging for the WS on the final day of the regular season.

I lived in Louisiana for a few years - every SEC fan I came across called Vandy the Red-Headed Step-Child of the SEC

+1 on the Blake picture, valpocrewsader

I'd like to have the hat. Got a game-used Nashville hat at the final game of the season, so this would be cool to put with that. I only have bobbleheads for trade, but let me know if there's something else you're looking for. I'm happy to pay shipping. Let me know

Colin Fly basically said a national writer came in and re-framed the whole story. K-Rod has always said he wants to close and that isn't new news. Suddenly this guy swoops in for a day, takes one bit of info and frames K-Rod in a bad light. I wouldn't get too upset about it.

And you answer them!

As a kid I used to sing "Down in the Boombox" instead of "Down in the Boondocks"

Ya'll did see that this plane was banned from flying in Europe because it didn't meet international standards for safety? http://deadspin.com/58380...e-due-to-safety-concerns I will say that the only place I've seen the story was on Deadspin, but they did have links to safety reports. I would imagine this will continue to come out as the days pass. If it's true, that's such a damn shame. What a waste.

Maybe it's just an unflattering picture. but if #6 is Kotsay, that's quite the gut!

The BF and I keep score and we switch off half innings. Probably once a game someone asks why we keep score - except they always ask me. He's holding the book for half the game, but I'm the one that gets the third-degree.

Oh no, I'm not offended, no worries. I was just struck by how many people in the thread seem to think that women being interested in baseball was strange. Maybe I'm more attuned to it since I am a female sportswriter and got a lot a crap about it as I was going through school. I work with and am friends with a lot of female sports fans, so I'm probably insulated and am always surprised when people act like its weird. Made me feel like I belong in a zoo or something http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

It makes me a little sad that it's such a big deal that a girl/woman likes baseball and keeps score. Is that really so rare? I mean, I realize we females are rare around these parts, but that doesn't seem to be the case Brewer Nation-wide. We have five girls of a staff of 14 over at BrewCrewBall. Twitter seems to have a decent amount of female Brewers tweeters. I guess I just feel like in this day and age it shouldn't be so shocking that a girl might like and be knowledgeable about sports.

You might talk to your mechanic to see if he knows of anyone selling anything. He'll know best about what condition cars are in. I bought a truck for $1000 a few years ago. It was a junker, but it lasted me for a year and allowed me to save up some money to buy a new car. My bf's uncle has his own shop and he's constantly hooking people up with newer cars for sale. He's in a neighborhood of higher priced homes and older folks, so the cars are well taken care of and have low mileage for their age.

Apparently this quest has made it to Deadspin? http://deadspin.com/5835189/

I hope LP Steamers is as good for you as I remember. We were a bit rushed from going to Ft MHenry to getting to Camden in time for the game, but even so, it was like a pause that hour or so in there lives in my head like a perfect moment. The weather was perfect, the view was to die for, the food was mouthwatering. I'll have that place on a pedestal for a very long time.

One thing a friend pointed out is that for the most part, the cities in the South are spread out, so when a hurricane hits, it hits one area and that's it. Irene is going to hit NC, Boston, DC and New York. Irene is going to be a big deal because of the size of the population its affecting and the amount of damage it can do in a small area.

I was just watching SportsCenter and they showed some "dramatic footage" that involved a basic rainstorm and they expressed surprise that upon hitting land the hurricane had been downgraded to a Category 1. That's what hurricanes do when they hit land!

The silver paint markers can often have bumps in the flow of the ink. You don't want to give someone a paint pen that you haven't already written with a few minutes before. I have a batting helmet that I took to the first two rounds of block parties and had a bunch of guys sign it in a gold paint pen and that was a lesson learned early on. You have to shake it up, push the point in and write on something to get the flow of ink going. I like paint pens, but they also take much, much longer to dry. You have to let it be for at least a day - it can remain sticky and when you touch it to see if its dry, it'll pick up your fingerprints. Depending on what you frame it in, I could see the paint pen ink sticking to the plastic/glass.

This is a total girl answer to these questions, but I literally went to Michaels today to frame up a bunch of my Brewers stuff. Almost their entire stock of frames is 40% off. Their ad in the Sunday paper had a coupon for an extra 25% off all frame purchases (here's a linkto the online coupon) The poster frames weren't 40% off, but Michaels always has a 40% coupon in their ads (on that same link). I bought six frames of various sizes for under $45, which is super cheap. They have some unique size frames that you can't find elsewhere. We bought a lineup card at last week's Brewers Community Foundation event and I was able to buy an 11 x 17 frame for it there. I know it's a girly craft store, but don't let that keep you away. I've framed everything I have from there. Also, they have a square frame that they market as being able to hold an LP, but that I use for framing programs from various events. The hinges in back are spring loaded, so the frame adjusts to the depth of whatever you're putting in to it and holds it in place. The frame is the exact size of a scrapbooking sheet, which Michaels also sells, so you are able to buy a background color sheet that works as matting. Here's one of my programs in the frame: http://lockerz.com/s/132390364 I have a poster from the County Stadium/Miller Park switchover which has really ridiculous dimensions and I've been unable to find any frame big enough to hold it. The poster has a lot of white space around the edges. According to the girl who checked me out today, if I bring the poster in, they'll use their professional equipment to trim it from me so that it will fit in a conventional frame for just a few bucks. Since custom framing is beaucoup expensive, I'm excited to find out about this option.

We went to DC to do all the tourist stuff there and this was before Nats Park opened about 5 years ago, so we decided to just do Camden. We took a commuter train from DC to Baltimore and they offered a service where for (I think) $5 you could take a bus back into DC after the game. Found out about it directly from the Orioles. It was a nice, greyhound-style bus, not a school bus. It was awesome and totally worth it. Since it's purpose was to get you home from the game, you didn't have to worry about how long the game was or catching some mass transit to get home. We did the Harbor, Fort McHenry, ate crabs on a roof here(seriously, best meal I've ever had) and the game in less than a day and it wasn't too much. It was cool to have the day in Baltimore, but still be able to do a long weekend doing the touristy stuff in DC.

My patented Brewer tailgate taco dip!

I have two basset hounds and the older one - he's 11 - has skin problems and has broken his skin open scratching, so we've taken to putting him in a tshirt to protect his skin. He's a little boys size M, if anyone was interested. I don't take him for walks in the shirt, but he does get put out on his leash to do his business in it. I'm pretty sure I get the "Aw, mom, this thing is so embarrassing look" at least once a day. It's been a couple of weeks, so he's getting used to it. But poor guy is not a fan of being dressed up.

I had never seen them around the ticket windows before tonight, either. Wonder what changed. Went to last night's game, too, and didn't have that problem. Also, last night felt like there was no one there. There were no lines to get in, the stadium took awhile to fill in and never felt like the 37,000 they announced. Tonight, there were people everywhere, huge lines to get in and it took forever to get out of the parking lot. Wonder why a Wednesday game was so much more popular than the Tuesday game.