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the thing that bugs me the most about this whole thing is that the Brewers play in Arizona at the end of May and we're heading down to celebrate school getting out (our last day is the day before the series starts.) Of course, that would be games #45-48 of the suspension, if it occurs. Grrrrrrrrrr.

he seems like a Greg Brock-type to me. He'll be serviceable but not even close to even halving Prince's numbers. I hope I am wrong. I'm all for minor league numbers showing you the way to a point but I don't see it happening from him. My nightmare is that he'll be Billy Joe Robidoux part two.

It only took me 3 re-reads of this post to figure it out after wondering why meeting Whitey Herzog should be in the DVD thread and not in the MLB forum. Man, my eyes are tired.

the Houston Humidity (goes along with other weather phenomena nicknames out there. and it's true.)

another word about Estes Park . . . with your trip being in early March there is a VERY good chance that Rocky Mountain National Park will be closed to traffic. The trip up through the Big Thompson Canyon on the way to Estes Park, though, is beautiful and should be open. And Estes Park, itself, will be there to do stuff. You will likely see animals and wildlife around the town at that time of year; no reason to go into the National park.

the zoo was pretty good. Not sure what it'll be like in March, of course. I just about had heat stroke in July when we were there. A day trip to Estes Park is kind of nice, too.

I cracked on Wednesday night and played some MLB2k11 for the first time since October.

This is a sorta computer question, sorta electrical question: For the past 2 years, I have run a powerline adapter from my computer room to the main router without a hitch but on Thursday, I lost internet access completely after my computer had a kernal-power issue (event ID 41, task category 63) that has spontaneously shutdown the computer about once every day or so for the last couple of weeks (no blue screen of death, no warning--everything completely shuts down instantly.) I've researched a solution to that for weeks and have found no solution, short of reformatting, which many people have said is a band-aid as the problem resurfaces within days. But that's not what my question is about (although I'll take any help/advice on that issue if you've got it!) After farting around (i.e. wasting the whole day) on Thursday trying to re-establish the internet, I cried uncle and called the ISP and had a tech come out this morning. He was able to clean up the signal-to-noise ratio on the line but was unable to establish connectivity for me. He was as stumped as I was. After much moving of the modem around the house, including directly to my computer, we discovered that the powerline adapter was the fault. So he left and I was almost resigned to buying a new set of adapters. But since we have several around the house, I tried swapping them out to see if they truly were the problem. Every one of them that I plugged into the outlet that I've used would light up and "find" the network but be unable to connect to and/or hold that connection to the internet--almost like something was "blocking" the transmission. Then, I had an epiphany. I plugged the powerline adapter into a different outlet in the room. Didn't work. Then another. Didn't work. But the third one? That one connected instantly! (I feel like the swamp king in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up.") Anyway, crisis averted. But I can't figure out why three outlets in one room (2 on the same wall while the third is on an adjoining wall) would not work suddenly for the powerline to send/receive intenet but still have power to them for televisions, clocks, etc. Or why another outlet in the room (on an opposite wall) would be able to do it? I'm not an electrician by any means so I'm perplexed that this simple problem was the cause of pain and stress for the last 48 hours. How could this happen and is it fixable? Is this something a voltimeter would tell me? I don't own one so I couldn't do it on my own anyway. Well, thanks for reading this soliloquy of my internet issues for the last couple of days. If you can offer any advice/knowledge on this topic I'd be much appreciative.

This is probably a question that the "older than me" set can answer. I can remember when MTV started out and played music videos. But what was done with music videos before MTV existed? What made the MTV people decide they needed a channel to show videos? Were videos being made before MTV existed? (Obviously, yes, since MTV played many different videos when it first started.) So, before MTV were videos shown somewhere? In disco halls? At concerts? Where?

I talked to my ticket rep about this last year when it was all over and he said the majority of the "winners" were corporate season ticket holders. We didn't go into if it just happened to work out that way or if they "planned" it that way. Either way, I'm not optimistic one bit so I'm not even going to look at the posted list of prizes.

only if they rename the ballpark to WauwaTOSTITOS Stadium

I'm kind of like this with The Old Republic. It's my first MMO and it's my first game that I paid retail price before release to play. I'm loving every minute of it but it consumes my life.

my wife and I have a tradition of just staying home and avoiding any drunk drivers. We watch a couple of movies, enjoy a couple of bottles of bubbly, and have some snacks (wings, crackers and cheese, etc.) to munch on. I know that we're kind of a 9 on the lameness scale but what can I say? The Y2K scare kept us indoors 12 years ago and we haven't gone back! Seriously, though, please be careful if you go out and DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE! I have 2 friends who have been in serious car accidents when hit by a NYE drunk driver. They've had 5+ years of physical therapy not to mention surgeries up the wazoo just to have a somewhat normal life again while the drunk guy walked out of the hospital with some scratches and hasn't been seen since!

Happy Holidays, indeed! The wife and I will be heading to the Vegas airport in a few hours to catch our red-eye back to God's Country. Looking forward to seeing family and friends and going to the Packer game! Merry Christmas everybody!

Don't worry, I'm sure ESPN will leak this information out any day now . . . . http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/eyes.gif

it's a shame. It's my generation's "Say it ain't so, Joe" moment. . . . . "Say you're not lyin', Ryan!"

I've never held a real gun let alone, shot one. I've probably fired off 300,000+ imaginary shots in video games and in play as a kid, but never for real. God willing, I never will either.

no, I think he means those white bands of what looks, to me, like athletic tape that has twisted up into just a thin strip of tape encircling the arms just below the biceps. like these: http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n116/pitchleague/index.jpghttp://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n116/pitchleague/images-2.jpg and then, I found this: Why do football players wear bicep bands?

I just saw the funniest commercial ever. It was for T-Mobile with a bunch of elves loading up phones and stuff on Santa's sleigh. Anyway, the tagline was the tune of "Walking in a 4G Wonderland!" But it didn't sound like "4G" to me OR my wife. Sounded more like "Walking in a Orgy Wonderland!" I kid you not, we're still laughing.

I thought "Cracked" and "Mad Magazine" and the like were supposed to be funny? I didn't laugh at all with that article.

wait, wait, WAIT! You mean it snowed here in Kingman, AZ before it did in Wisconsin????? Maybe I should have started this thread instead last week.

That's too bad. I always enjoyed his comics, myself. RIP

hey, now I can finally start catching up to you in post counts. Seriously, I really appreciate your work. I don't post in the minor league forum often, and every year I have to New Year's resolve to read that forum more diligently (this was my best year yet!) but I truly understand the work necessary for you to have done this all these years and how hard it may be to walk away from it. Good luck in the future and, like others said, don't be a stranger around here.

I saw the thread title and thought you meant they traded FREDDY Sanchez for Cabrera. This made me wonder what the heck you guys were all smoking to think this was a good deal. But then I read some actual posts and I now get the gist of it.

I thought they were used to check if your odometer is correct