Big Reed

my point is the fact that they didn't take the wait and see approach or wait another 50 games to see if they'd turn it around. the players weren't producing and their GM took swift action to cut them loose. I'd like to see more GM's take the swift approach to cutting deadweight.

I hit a squirrel yesterday. I thought about trying to avoid it, but i kept being reminded of those two squirrels giving each other the high five after the motorist crashes.

is there a cars.com or progressive insurance type of site to compare the prices of different moving van companies? a lot of moving companies in their advertisements will say they offer free quotations. but i would hate to tell one moving van after he came 60-75 miles to our house, that i'm going to ask another company for their free quote as well. it's not like we live in a city. we live in the country in the middle of nowhere. i was just wondering if there was a site that compared Allied to United or mayflower and the rest? We have about 25,000 lbs of furniture and stuff. A U haul is not going to do the job. and my back doesn't want to do it either. This will be our first move where we will have to pay for the move and select the mover. In the past, the governement did all of it for us for free. We were spoiled. Anybody know how much packing and moving 25,000 pounds across the state of illinois is going to cost us? aprox 280 miles.

We have insurance. My son thought he broke his foot twice in the last year playing basketball. he was in extreme pain. the hospital took xrays and all he had was a sprain both times. The cost for each visit was $1200. We paid about $10 out of our pocket and the insurance covered the rest. I thought I had a heart attack last year mowing my 2 acres with a push mower. I went to the hospital and stayed there for awhile. my stay in the emergency room cost about $2500. I paid about $35. hospital costs, even for routine visits to the emergency room are expensive. I highly recomend for the active man to buy health insurance. if you don't have insurance, you could be like a friend of mine and be in debt for life.

I'm a writer. I write short fantasy stories for internet sports fans. fortunately, my wife has a job.

the question is if you dropped them, what's the likelyhood you could reclaim them or somebody even better in the off season? I'm in a similar situation with gallardo on my keeper team. My keeper team has a farm of 4 players I can place on it who are either in the minors or have played less than a certain amount of games. Right now i have C teagarden, pirates 1b Pearce, OF laporta and Indians Sp Miller on my farm team. I also have Colorado's 3b stewart and gallardo. I could place gallard o or stewart on my farm eam, but I'd have to drop one of the other 4 players. Gallardo is deadweight to me this year. So I ask myself, do I think he'll be better than the 4 I have on my farm team? Will he be better than Miller? or should i risk dropping him and allowing some either team to pick him and allow him to be his deadweight? the question you should be asking about Olsen and Volquez is if you think they'll be a star next year. because, in reality, keeper leagues typically last only 2-4 years before you start over. In a keeper league, you should worry about this year and next year. To answer your question, I don't see olsen or Volquez being an ace this year or next. i see them as being a good value pitcher, but not one worth keeping. if you dropped them, i'm quite ertain you'll be able to reclaim them at the start of next year. and if you can reclaim them in next year's draft, why keep them as part of your protected players? I'm not saying to drop either pitcher. i just don't think they are worthy of being considered protectable players. if you have a good offer, i'd sell high.

rather than over or under -reacting, I'd just like to see the brewers do something. people say we should wait and we need more time, and teams will not trade with us until the deadline. while melvin is applying his stand pat, wait and see approach and do nothing until the trade deadline, other GM's are taking action, cutting deadweight and making trades today. Are these GMs over reacting? or are they taking appropriate action? jacque jones and edmunds were cut this week. Seattle brought up Clement and balantien and released Wilkerson and nelson. Cleveland traded Michaels to pittsburg. other teams seem to think 30 games is long enough to wait before taking corrective action. it was nice to see turnbow released. I would have preferred to see him traded in the offseason when other teams were inquiring about him and he actually had trade value. once again, we waited too long before taking action. yes, we the fans panic and over-react. I think it would be refreshing if GM's would over react or at least not stand pat.

the problem in waiting and hoping for a cardinal collapse is that they have several players they can add to their team down the stretch, and the brewers have "virtually" none. the cardinals have Carpenter and Mulder to add to their pitching staff in August. they also have a guy named rasmus they could bring up or use as trade bait. They also have money they could spend to acquire a veteran who may have a big salary. The biggest thing I fear about the Cubs is not thier players, but their financial backing. if the Cubs wanted to or saw the need, they could open their purse even larger and acquire several more veteran players if an injury arises. if the Cubs needed another ace starter, they could afford to acquire one. if lee goes down, teh Cubs could afford to acquire another quality veteran to replace him. the Cubs have the financial backing to buy a championship. if fielder or sheets goes down for the brewers, it's the season's over.

the dodgers' de Witt. he plays third base, you heard it here first. acquire him now.

You HAVE to go to Church Street in Downtown Orlando. It's definitely not Disney. here's a listing with people's reviews on some of the more popular nightclubs and restaurants. I like to go to sites that offer people's opinions rather than what AAA and the orlando tourist bureau want you to know. http://orlando.nightguide.com/nl1dt.htm

I felt bad last year winning one of the brewerfan baseball leagues and not being able to go to a brewerfan and proclaim my championship. think about it. if you were to win a brewerfan fantasy championship, where would you post it on brewerfan? inside that one fantasy thread that's 20 pages long? no thanks. in the major league board? in the softball forums? if i win a brewerfan fantasy league i want all of brewerfan to know, not just the people who were in my league. I want all the stats geeks and old timer posters and mods to know I won. I want to be a bit boastful and melodramatic! and what better place to do so than a fantasy forum?

so if I called the views and actions of the moderators conservative? Would you thank me? and say yes this is a very conservative site and to be a moderator, you must first be conservative. Thanks Team Canada for proving my point in a different thread. I guess you felt necessary to remove that other "odd word" just as I predicted you would. I guess I can't call myself gay and odd in the same sentence? Who was I offending by calling myself gay and odd? Me? it should be obvious I'm a part of that liberal community. If I called myself black and odd would you have deleted the word Black? calling myself odd was more derogatory than calling myself gay- at least in my opinion. What would happen if a very open and honest gay person started posting here? Like time Tim Rock and Eddie Murphy and the Black community do, the Gay community uses a lot of words in their common everyday language not to be derogatory but their language may be offensive to others who are just not familier with their meaning and context of the words and their lifestyle. Saying gay and #!%++ are very common words in the gay community. They are very open about what and who they are. What happens if somebody comes out on the off topic forum and says I'm gay and a crossdressor and just told my wife and she kicked me out of the house, what should I do? Will that thread be deleted in its entirety? Will it be treated as if it was political or religious? what happens to the thread gbpacker started about being evicted from his home if he had prefaced it by saying he was evicted because he was gay? would that thread be locked ? would that thread be allowed for discussion? Can we not talk about gays or being gay without offending a moderator? maybe I want to know where the gay bars in Milwaukee are. Would that be considered ok? or would that be considered gay? I've been to Orlando many times. I lived in Tampa for 4 years. Would anybody be offended if I recommended to Rocobrewfan some of the gay bars in orlando to go to? They are a lot more festive than the usual tourist places. Rather than just going bar hopping, if he really wants to have fun, he should go gay bar hopping. I'm not dissing gay bars. Anyone that's been to one knows I'm right. they are a fun place. A dictionary is not really a book that defines words. People and society define words. A dictionary just lists the many meanings people have given to words. The words irregardless and ain't are now included in most dictionaries. Why? because the makers of dictionaries decided enough people use those two words, so they included the meanings of how the words were used. The word gay has many meanings and uses. it can be a noun, verb or adjective. If I say something is gay, surely my meaning for the word is totally different than Team Canada's. he doesn't understand the majority of my posts. Very few people do. if I wanted to be derogatory to team Canada, I wouldn't choose obvious words. I would speak in tangents that some posters would understand while others would have no clue. Al knew where I was coming from and what I meant. he can read through the tangents because he's read enough of my previous posts. but if I used the words I really wanted to use, I'd be banned in a second. So what's wrong with calling something or yourself gay or #!%++? before deciding if a term is derogatory, I'd like to hear the opinion from somebody who is gay or odd or #!%++. I believe you are trying to protect a culture that doesn't need protecting. and therein is my point. I think you are trying too hard to decide what is right and what is derogatory without ever asking somebody from the gay community what is really offensive to them. You are making decisions about gays based on your own lifestyle without input from the other side. I think the phrase " walk a mile in my shoes" is appropriate.

it's sad when a starting pitcher can't go at least 7 innings per game. This means we are either babying our pitchers too much or we have a bunch of mediocre pitchers. Can somebody tell me why the pitchers of the 60's and 70's could pitch 250-300 innings for te n consecutive years and never have ar m problems? and today's pitchers can't even go 200 innings in consecutive years without having problems? have steriods and other enhancing drugs ruined today's pitchers? one would think in today's ages where everyone is bigger and stronger that basbeall pitchers would also be bigger and stronger. what happened? Where have you gone Jim kaat, Gaylord Perry, Bert Blyleven and Phil Niekro?

I think we have discovered the problem. We need to bring the dip n dots back. I believe the problem first started when ittibits was introduced to miller park. now all the hitters want itibitty batting averages to go with their itty bits.

Gaudin is the odd man out and headed to a relief role. would the brewers have an interest in Gaudin? To be successful, the brewers need all of their starters to be able to pitch 6-8 innings every time out. these 5 inning performances by parra, Villenueva and bush are killing us. you can't win a division if three of your 5 starters can't pitch pas t the the 5th inning. if you think our relievers are overworked now, just wait another two months.