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  1. DHonks
    FVBrewerFan, just curious if any of the issues regarding Wardle's allegations have been in the news this season. He was a favorite at Marquette. Besides Novak, he's the best shooter Marquette has had in my 20 years as a fan.
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    well, I like seeing the Badgers do well, but as a Marquette fan (among other schools) I enjoy seeing them lose, too. Thanks to two underdogs on Saturday (Indiana St and Ohio St) I made some nice money in Vegas on sports. Now that I'm not in Vegas, the Badgers should do fine (I bet on the Michigan and Ohio St losses and won both)
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    One thing is for sure, I'll be taking the Ohio St moneyline on Saturday in Vegas. Really good weekend for games. Should be a good one. I'll be happy for all of you if Wisconsin wins, but the last time I bet against them (vs Michigan) I won. Maybe I'll jinx their opponent!
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    Garza has to profile at least as good as Yo and Lohse. I also think Peralta will make a jump forward. It's amazing how many websites are treating him as a marginal starter and ignoring his stuff, age, and 2nd half.
  5. DHonks
    wouldn't it be frustrating to see Mark Rogers get a hold and Wilhelmsen get the save?
  6. DHonks
    wouldn't it be frustrating to see Mark Rogers get a hold and Wilhelmsen get the save?
  7. DHonks
    Green has had 1 1/2 good seasons in the minors in how many years? The guy needs to play every day at 3b in AAA. If he performs well, he will be in the bigs before long.
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    also, I should mention I was frustrated to break even on Marquette in Vegas last weekend (won 1st half bet, lost game). I did win nicely on the Wisconsin game, which was like a +220 line or so. I had a great parlay...until Creighton laid an egg. I won on 6 of 7 bets. It would have won $2300 had Creighton merely won...so it was frustrating to see them play so well last night.
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    Marquette looked solid last night. Many of us have clamored for Dawson....he pushes the ball better and can shoot outside. Derek Wilson is really a 10-15 minute per game backup. We need to limit the Otule-Gardner lineup to roughly 5 minutes per game. Our half-court game isn't great, so perhaps defense and running will be key. Dawson has the ability to push the ball. Thomas can start, but he also should be limited to around 10-15 min/game. Mayo deserves to play more, Burton deserves minutes, if Taylor is healthy he needs to play (he was a force last night...so energetic), and Johnson deserves time, too. I've never drank the Jamil Wilson kool-aid. I've viewed him as Tim Thomas 2.0...tall and super athletic, but rarely takes the correct shot or plays to his athletic ability.
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    As others said, don't buy office. I tell my students this each semester before finals. Unless a power Excel user, OpenOffice is much better (and free). It has a cleaner look as it never went to the annoying ribbon bars. Of course I've become a Mac guy after the iPhone and iPad roped me into the iCloud ecosystem. I love using numbers and pages, and how they instantly sync to the other devices. Edit: since most of my students want to buy Macs (~80%) I tailor my info to them. I recommend a MacBook Air and ipad mini (to take to class) running around $1150-1200 total rather than the $2000 Micron I had in college. That had a 900 MHz processor I think! I always recommend buying through online outlets (all companies have them) or their education stores (10% off macs, similar elsewhere)
  11. DHonks
    turbo, I would imagine he'll get about $2-3.5 million for making the team. Seeing as there's really no power on the market this year, that's not a bad bargain
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    owbc, I didn't look at the rates, but I assumed it was a "better" K rate for Reynolds over Francisco. Additionally, his walk rate is very good. Even the year he hit .198, he had a .320 OBP (25 pts higher than Francisco last year and 10 points higher than Hunter Morris in AAA) brewtank, I'm upset that they gave Hart such a cheap offer. But Francisco/Reynolds--or even just Reynolds--has a legit chance of outproducing Hart or Ike Davis at a fraction of the cost. cheap productivity is good. That's why platoons can be a good value
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    Pogo, I'm with you. Basically he's a better OBP version of Francisco. Reynolds' star has fallen the last few years. Sometimes players have a revival. Playing in Miller Park and--hopefully--batting 7th will give him the chance to really shine. Based on past numbers, we can project roughly a .230 avg, .315-.320 obp, and lots of homers and K's. Just like with Branyan or Francisco, we can focus on positive contributions if he hits 7th or 8th, whereas hitting 4th or 5th we'll get frustrated. The lineup below would have a very strong 2-6, with nice power potential at the bottom. Not a great OBP team, but a decent SLG team. While no regulars are lefty, we'd have at least 4 lefties that could be rotated into the lineup and produce.
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    The rumor last year had them moving near where the rattlesnake is in the upper right. That's 10 minutes from where I work, and slightly out of the way on my drive home.
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    invader, not to be picky but the Brewers have always been a small market team. I would assume that we're a low-revenue team, thanks to the big deals for media rights that others are negotiating. MLB needs to include that in revenue sharing
  16. DHonks
    If you have a child, remember you can get a decent discount by saying you are buying it for him/her. As a teacher, I use my savings to upgrade my RAM and processor. I get it shipped to our family condo in Montana with no sales tax to avoid the 9% I would otherwise pay in Arizona.
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    jjfanec, I assume Marquette will win a couple solid games. Butler (2), G'Town (2), Nova (2), Xavier (1), and Creighton (1) are still left. I think back to last year when Wisconsin was 14-7 and fans were saying they'd be lucky to sneak into the tournament. Then they got very hot and played into a decent seed. Or when Butler followed up it's 2010 runner-up by sneaking into the tournament by winning their conference tournament. They were a team that had no chance as their bubble had burst in early February, yet they wound up reaching the finals again. They were 14-9 in early February. My bigger concern is that Buzz needs to learn to use the redshirt. It was upsetting that he allowed Cadougan to waste this year. Really, Marquette should be a top 10 team this year with a backcourt of Cadougan and Blue. After reading some websites about redshirting, it would seem that if Marquette doesn't play Steve Taylor, jr again, and they play in 37 games, then there's a good chance he'll be allowed to redshirt. That would give MU three years of Taylor and Fischer upfront together. To reach 37 games, Marquette needs 6 post-season games (conf tourney and one of NCAA, NIT, CBI, etc). Of course, the NCAA seems to make these decisions arbitrarily, so who knows.
  18. DHonks
    Owbc, Sheets is arguably the best pitcher in Brewers' history. My biggest busts are JM Gold, Nick Neugebauer, Mike Jones, Mark Rogers, Josh Wapepah, Josh. Baker, Jason Belcher, Kade Johnson, Evan Frederickson, and other top picks that flopped.
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    It's also rather annoying seeing the racist statue.
  20. DHonks
    1992casey, yes on the web, but she liked the program. I tried unsuccessfully to shift her to gmail. That's also the reason that the teachers at my school didn't switch to chrome books. We couldn't run our current grade programs--even web-based ones--or test generating software. We showed lots of video clips and found they didn't load as reliably on them as well. The one benefit is our district's email is through gmail.
  21. DHonks
    Fondy, I'm not worried about that. 9-7, but not a single bad loss. The problem is that they have no good wins. If they can go 11-6, that puts them at 20 wins with a fairly decent schedule. There's been years where Big East, Big Ten, SEC, ACC, Big-12 and Pac-12 teams have gotten in with barely .500 records. They won't be better than a 12-seed, but there's a legit chance they can get in.
  22. DHonks
    have you tried renegotiating with Directv? There are lots of good articles about this on the web. You might be able to get it for $45/month
  23. DHonks
    Invader, not offering advice, but just saying that this is the first time I've heard a positive comment about a Chromebook. My school has had them for 2 years and students complain about them and swear they would never want a Chromebook unless it was free. I thought about one for my mom before she passed away, but I realized I never could have gotten her off AOL mail. Good luck with your search...lots of decent options out there. I love cnet and notebookreview.com
  24. DHonks
    Monty and WT, I've been saying that as well. Apparently since Braun isn't a criminal, people feel they must be angry. But when a person is a criminal, they feel the person has paid their punishment. Don't forget that Yo's DUI was ridiculously off the charts.
  25. DHonks
    Buzz is still learning his lineups. I still think Jamil Wilson is very over-rated. But I say that and then he has a great game. Derek Wilson is a solid 10-minute per game backup, nothing more. It's been nice to see Buzz experiment lately with Jamil Wilson and even Mayo running the point. It's really a tough team this year as Mayo is the only guard capable of creating a shot--either for himself or others. I really was expecting more of Anderson this year. I figured that he'd have a more prominent role, given that he was a top 100 recruit. But he still has the deer-in-the headlights look out there. Johnson looks talented and athletic, but I see why people critiqued his ugly shooting form.
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