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Who is this guy hitting after Yuni?!

Blackburn is getting hammered.

Our 5 hole hitter just picked up an RBI! Matty Ice!

I love Plush.

Yuni hurt himself?

That was a shot. Thanks CarGo.

Thornburg was pulled after 6 innings with a 2-0 lead. 1 hit, 4 walks, and 10 strikeouts. ERA in high A now down to .82. Awesome.

I might disagree with this though. Last year his split against lefties was .357/.438/.690... albeit in only 42 at bats. In '09 it was .271/.420/.534. I agree the health is the main concern, if he can't get back from his recent run of injuries then this discussion is unnecessary. But if all he needs is to sit through the all star break and give his body a 3 week vacation... he could be an asset. It's worth looking into imho.

People in the know ... we would have to pick up his salary? Fill in the blanks... Cameron has as much veteran leadership as _____. Cameron has more power off the bench than _____. Cameron plays better defense than _____. Can this work? http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110630&content_id=21207390&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb

Adam Everett was just DFA'd by Cleveland. All of you people who know things ... talk to me.

Just to update... after Narveson's win today Brewer starters are on pace for about 72 wins combined. Nice.

what did Nyjer do after the game last night that BA referenced?

He is probably more valuable to us than anything we would get in return... still interesting though.

Just got home .. did my fan duty of voting for Rickie a pile of times... and saw Narvy vs. Niemann. With Hellickson/Price waiting for us the next two days ... tonight is a good one to get. Come on Chris!

I love that guy. Ok... Yo, give us a zero!

46 pitches? yuck. We need Yo to get through 4.

Yo .. please get Ellsbury here. We can't afford to be down 6 to start. You have to give us at least 4 innings. Thanks.

Ugh. I watched Rickie's at bat and I'm already annoyed with the 65 mph pitches ... this may be a day for me to flip on the radio.

Weeks, Hart, Braun, Morgan, Gomez ..... against a knuckleballer. I'm requesting 12 stolen bases today.

Without looking and after your Greinke hint I would assume it is Nieves' batting average lined up with all of our starting pitcher's batting averages.

Of course... but the whole thought process here is that Prince has his mind set in one of two ways ... the first being "I'm out of here after this year. There is too much money I would be leaving on the table if I stayed." ... if that is how he is thinking, this process has no effect. The other option is that he is on the fence "I love it here. My friends are here. We are good... but there is a lot of money out there for me." ... If he is at all on the fence and needs a little persuasion one way or the other ... I think a million dollar "gift" from the people of Wisconsin is a gesture that could make him give serious consideration to giving in to the "discount" idea to playing out his career here. Of course he knows that Brewer fans support him ... but something tangible like this would be powerful IMO.

Here is my "Save Prince Fielder!!" campaign idea. I spent well over 15 minutes thinking about and researching this idea... so you all need to at least take the time to read it and make a comment (good or bad) to make me feel better about myself http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Culvers (while expanding out of) is a Wisconsin restaurant chain. I propose that we write up a proposal to Craig Culver, a UW-Oshkosh alumni (and I hope Brewer fan), asking him to create two new menu items. One being the "Brewer burger"... and one being some kind of healthy equivalent for those who want to support but don't want to overly clog their hearts. Make these two items available in all 119 Wisconsin locations ... and sell them with a portion of the price being donated directly to a fund which will be given to the Brewers at the end of the season to make Culvers a major sponsor of Brewer's baseball. The reason for the fund, obviously, would be to enhance any kind of offer we can to Prince. Hopefully the "love" that is shown in our state's interest and support of Prince will make him punch Scott Boras in the face and give us a little discount to stay in our state. For a rough (see: awful) estimation at what could be raised... (I'm making these numbers up) if the burger(s) sold for say $3.50 .. and we could get $.75 per sandwich donated to the fund.. let's estimate 100 sandwiches per day, that is $75 per day for each store. Multiply that by the 119 Culvers Wisconsin restaurants, and we get $8,925 a day raised by Culvers. If we could kick off this promotion on July 1st ... between then and December 1st is approx. 150 days (winter meetings slated for the first week of December)... that is ~$1.34 million that the fans and Culvers could collectively give as a "thank you" to Prince. Obviously I have no idea if that 100 sandwich idea is a high or low estimate... many people surely won't want to deviate from their standard Culver's sandwiches (which are good to begin with). I'd assume those numbers could go way up with a little help from the Brewers and Culvers marketing teams. With that said, Culver's would benefit exponentially from this idea .. as patronage to their stores would skyrocket. (my current visitation to the local Culvers, which is 3 minutes from my house... is probably twice/year. If this happened.. it would be twice/week) ... plus they would get a lot of 2012 advertising for becoming a new sponsor for the Brewers. The Brewers obviously benefit in the addition of a very healthy sponsor purchase for the 2012 season, and we fans benefit because we get to have a little say in helping keep Mr Fielder around. I think if Prince is on the fence even a little bit .. the gesture by Culvers/the state and the effort that would be put forth would be a giant marble on the scale of the good side. This is a win/win/win for the 3 player's involved (Brewers/Culvers/fans) ... even if the end result is Prince leaving anyway. Let me hear it.

What are the rules with outside donations? If some guy decided to give the Brewers $3 million dollars to boost their payroll... are there rules against it?

Congrats man! Good luck on the weekend... If you have a son, I'll chip in $10 if you name him Yuniesky http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

I think we are going to have a good duel tonight.