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My wife and I just put in an offer on a house. I'm so excited!

I heard on the radio that Villar just snapped a 7 or 8 game hitting streak and Hill is working on a pretty lengthy hitting streak himself.

HBP totals mean nothing really. There's no reason for a batter to crowd the plate if he's not comfortable there. I just remember a time not that long ago that we were leading in the HBPs

Whereas the Brewers are among the top walkers in the NL, they are tied for the fewest HBP. Does that mean we are as a team not trying to crowd the plate or are we still in sample sample territory?

This is a win that a team builds on I think. Instead of rolling over when they were down, they fought back with some bombs. Granted we could have used the insurance runs but our pitching/defense held.

That is a very touching way to honor one's father. Let's hope our bats can get alive before the 9th inning today!

You should check out this hilarious gem. http://a.espncdn.com/mlb/columns/morgan_joe/1433286.html So Sheeters was mediocre because he was "outpitched" losing 2 to 1 or 1 to 0? Hilarious indeed!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the approach to CF this year was the spaghetti test. Let's throw a few people against the proverbial wall and see who sticks. Unless Broxton can hit lights out, I'm guessing somebody else will get a trial run down the road, especially when down the road there will be injuries somewhere.

File this under take it how you want, but from 2013-2015 April has been Braun's highest Slugging month. If Braun keeps this up, I would think the trend continues

Scooter is tied for 6th in walks so far in MLB

I hope we can *ahem* steal one from Leake and the Cards

With no/little expectations compared to the last couple of years, it frees my mindset going from worrying about losses to enjoying wins. Also, I think the Brewers are going to surprise alot of people and win more than the other teams think.

Record: 72 and 90 Team MVP Santana Home Runs: Santana 30 Wins: Wily Peralta 14 Bold Prediction: The 2nd half OPS for the infield is top 10 once things settle out in the first half

House Buying Update. Good news is that we got preapproved and got about what we expected. Unfortunately, our original realtor fell off the planet so we found another (hadn't signed the agreement with the first realtor thankfully). This new one is 100 times better and we love her so far. Now, time to look at alot of houses this week.

That lineup is hilarious! I would love to see what a stat comparison would be of the original Brew Crew vs the original Yanks.

That is a surpise. I figured he'd take the Wainwright stance. Does McCann have kids?

Oh wow, wasn't expecting quite the response! Thanks all. My wife and I are amassing all the necessary documents for preapproval while looking at the different banks/lenders out there. I'm an engineer by trade and a son of an accountant, so wading through all of the numbers has been pretty good so far. My wife works in downtown Milwaukee and I work in Racine with a possibility of shifting somewhere in Milwaukee County at a later date. We had lived in an apartment in Oak Creek and we do like the area. The taxes for being Milwaukee County actually isn't bad compared to other cities in Mil county. Otherwise we are looking at the Greenfield/Stallis area but so far the taxes and housing market sucks from what I've seen. We know about how much we will get and we know we are looking for a 3bedroom place. We also have seen a handful of houses and will be full blown house hunting mode once we get the preapproval.

First time home buying. This could go in either topic, sadly. I'm really stoked though.

I'm on my phone so I can't link but reports are that Chapman will be suspended 30 games for his misconduct

Can Bill Hall announce?

What's bugging me is feeling helpless waiting on the news if I was hired or not for a job. At least they said they would call me no matter what, but I still have to endure the waiting process. I'm a very patient person and this is killing me.

I've seen the Machete both including and excluding Phantom Menace. I guess I wanted to include parallels between Kylo and Luke and Anakin

So I've been mulling over something for a while. Before Ep 7, there was discussion of the "proper" order to watch the movies. Whether it's in episode order, movie chronological order, or the trendy Machete order (4 5 1 2 3 6). Since Ep 7 came out I thought about a cool way to go watch the 3 triolgies. Obviously without knowing what will happen in 8 and 9 its difficult to predict where they should go, but I would like to assume it answers some questions like: I also want to preface this with I'm not an extreme Star Wars fanatic so some of my info may be wrong. So here is my thinking: 7 4 1 2 3 5 6 with 8 and 9 probably either in the middle or at the end. What information do we know from 7 itself. To my knowledge Leia never referred to Luke as her brother in Ep 7 so that secret is safe for Star Wars Newbies aka kids 10 years from now. Now onto a New Hope. We meet young Luke and old Ben Kenobi as they cross paths with Solo and eventually Leia. Darth Vader is a Dark lord who apparently killed Luke's father. New audiences would know they have a kid together from the first movie and they might glean that Darth Vader is Kylo's grandfather but that's not confirmed (I think) Now on to the PreTrilogy. We see Anakin grow up with new audiences still not knowing Vader is Anakin and Luke and Leia are brother and sister. With the big reveal to the audiences in Ep 3 when the emperor dubs Anakin as Darth Vader and then when Padme ends up with twins, Luke and Leia. *potential mental explosion* Now we flash forward to Ep 5 where this info is revealed to the characters. Lastly ending with Ep 6 with a bunch of furry Ewoks dancing. Thoughts?

I live in the rural part of Racine county and the road with the ice, sleet, and snow are just horrendous.

The question I have is that does dumping Garza even for half the contract meaning that savings could go towards FA talent when we are competing? I know it's upto MA how much he's willing to spring for but if he is willing to pay 400 (made up number) million over the next 4 years, could we allocate Garza's 2016 allotment to 2018?