TheEndless7

So is Counsell.

The .210/.290/.339 he has put up isn't much better. His 1-16 May was nice too. He also hasn't played anything but first base since he was with us in 2008. There's been complaints about lack of versatility on the bench, and Branyan certainly wouldn't help that.

Loved the two episode finale. But that may just be because I can't get the image of Ron in that desk constantly turning away from the citizen out of my head. That and it was a nice touch to see just how well he knew his employees.

Agreed. The Pirates one doesn't look so bad though.

Haha woops. Fixed that. I didn't even notice it was him at the time, so yea fairly small role. I'm not sure it was ever released widely, I'd heard of it a while back, but hadn't seen it. I just stumbled upon it on Netflix instant streaming the other night, and about halfway through did a search here to see if anyone had commented on it. The stories that others tell the brothers about Clemente were my favorite part.

This is actually available on Netflix instant right now. I'm watching it as I type this. So far it seems pretty good. Not sure if it's 'Field of Dreams' good, but the two brothers just had a 'stats' vs 'heart' debate about baseball that made me think of bfan.net. Edit: Just finished. Enjoyed it. Like Sugar it was more of a life movie, with Baseball involved, than a Baseball movie. But I suppose all the good ones are. It relies heavily on the mythic stature of Clemente and just how awesome he was. Of course, you can count me in the camp that believes that if 42 is retired by MLB there's absolutely no reason 21 shouldn't be. It also struck me, about halfway through, of just how good of friends Ayrton Senna and Roberto Clemente could have been had they lived in the same time and known each other. Of course, that's mostly because of the anniversary of the Imolia incident being a week ago, and because I'm a racing geek. Coupled with having spent the better part of the last two months trying to find the Senna movie to review it. Still, It's about two brothers, one with a disability, that grow up in Pitt and are forced to move to Cali. They eventually decide to take a road trip to attempt to see the 3000th hit. The majority of the film is the bonding of the two brothers as they attempt the 2600 mile journey. It's touching and a good family film, or a good film for anyone who wants to think back on the last week of the 1972 season. But still, at it's core, it's about the effect that one ballplayer could have on a group of people. I wasn't alive in 1972, but my father has always told me that, "I always argued Hank Arron was the best outfielder ever, but my friend always said Roberto Clemente, and I think he was right." I'll be sharing the film with him. And since it wasn't posted in the thread a trailer can be found here

Count me in the camp that doesn't really care for Will Farrell on the office. I don't remember much of last week's episode. I think I laughed once at Kevin with his hole 'inner circle that doesn't exist' thing. And while I've always felt they'd be best just ending the series after Michael left, am I the only one that thinks Darryl would be an interesting replacement?

Just saw the worst baserunners interference call I've ever seen in like the top of the 13th in the Jays/Angels game. In other news, Dan Haren in to pitch now for the Angels. Long games can really kill your bullpen.

A double, a strike out, and a walk and the bases are loaded...not often ya hear that. Thankfully he got out of it. Scoring question, since the strike out would have been the third out, are any runs then unearned?

If WMLW is too awful the MLB package is free for a week with cable, so you should be able to find it there. It's the reds feed but the picture quality is good.

I think in the end, I really just expected more from Black Swan. I found myself thinking it was a tad too much like The Wrestler on the first watch. I'd been looking forward to it for ages, so it may have just been something that never lived up to my expectations. I'm also usually lukewarm on Natalie Portman. I did wind up seeing it twice with two different groups of friends, and the second time was considerably more enjoyable. It probably would have been my pick before I saw The King's Speech. I was skeptical on The Fighter and ended up going to it exactly a week after seeing The King's Speech. I thought the middle got a tad long, but I'm not sure much of it could have been cut. The mother was excellent, although I may have wanted to strangle her on occasion. I found I rather enjoyed it. But, I went in not particularly having high hopes for it, and came out rather enjoying it, so it may be the exact opposite of my Black Swan experience.

I've seen all of the best picture nominees except for 127 hours and Winter's Bone. Of all of them I have to say I thought The King's Speech was considerably better than the rest. My biggest criticism this year was that I thought a lot of stuff was 'good' and not 'great'. I also found The Social Network to be tedious and rather annoying, and I'm 22, so it is mostly my generation. I'll probably be rooting against this one, mostly. I'm also slightly annoyed that the Ayrton Senna documentary didn't warrant a 2010 American film release. Of course, right now I'd settle for a release at a theater I live near...

I know for the last couple of years the service fee on tickets on phone and internet orders has been depending upon the price of the ticket. So I don't think that's anything new.

Might be a little advanced but I'd suggest Coraline or The Graveyard Book both by Neil Gaiman. Graveyard book won the Newberry in 2009, and Coraline was made into a pretty good animated film a year or two ago. When You Reach Me by uhm...I want to say Rebecca Stead isn't bad, either, but my skew a bit more to a female audience. It's kinda like a more modern Wrinkle in Time. I think it won the Newberry in 2010. Holes by Louis Sachar may be pretty interesting too, it's about a kid sent to a juvinile detention camp for a crime he didn't actually commit. The Giver is a staple, but I think it's taught in a lot of Freshman English classes in high school anymore. Neil Schusterman's The Schwa Was Here may also be something that may interest him. Really, it'll be hard to go wrong with anything that won the Newberry, althogh some titles may skew a bit younger. As he gets a few years older, too, anything that won or was nominated for hte National Book Award in young people literature, or the Printz award will be a good bet. Although some of the Printz ones lately have been a tad confusing ((Punkzilla standing out in 2010)) and they are starting to skew a bit more from the 14-18 crowd to an 18+ crowd. Of the ones above, The Graveyard Book is probably the best of the bunch. And Neil Gaiman is by far the best author mentioned above. No offense to the others, he's just in a league of his own. The biggest issue with literature for this age group from around 11-18 is that most of it skews very heavily toward a female audience. It's hard to find many quality things that are engaging to boys. Again, as he gets a tad older it becomes easier, when things like Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game are more at the age level, but that's probably closer to 13-14.

Clever, but considering 1 USD = .995ish CAD I don't think it matters http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif Also, it appears the Jays are getting Juan Rivera as well and while I'm not sure of his contract I think it's around 5 mil. Deal seems pretty good for the Jays.

EA Sports NHL games are usually fantastic. They tend to totally blow away the competition. I'm actually of the opinion that the NHL games are by far the best sports game EA makes.

On a slightly unrelated note, but in reply to Al's first post. Didn't the Pettit's build the Bradley Center because they thought they were going to get a NHL team?

I had this exact same issue with my laptop, except mine was about eight months old at the time. I called Dell and they said it was actually a motherboard issue and shipped the part to a Dell representative in the area, who came to my house and fixed it. Took him maybe 30 minutes, haven't had an issue since. They also didn't charge me but I think I was still under warranty.

There's a lot wrong with CoD MW2 online, you get use to it. I picked up a copy of F1 2010 the other day (Being a huge open wheel racing fan) and was surprised at how much I'm enjoying it. Any racing fans around may want to give it a shot, I think it'll tide ya over well until the next gran turismo game. Side note though, it is surprisingly difficult.

I agree, his number shouldn't be retired. That said, I think I'd be somewhat disappointed if they didn't put up something in the concourse somewhere about his career and his 600th save being here. Like one of those plaque's and small exhibits. Because while he will always be a Padre, he did reach a rather huge milestone as a Brewer, and I think we should honor that somehow.

Yea, if you think WMLW is bad without having HD, you should try from going to a game on ESPNHD or FSNHD to it. It's almost unwatchable at times. It is good to hear though, I believe that the non HD quality will improve tremendously by the upgrade, but I'm not positive on that.

I highly recommend the Art Institute, which has quite a few famous paintings you'd recognize, as well as a cool room in the basement with all sorts of minature house things from history, and even wall paintings from Pompeii (..I'm a classical civ major so..). The new Modern Wing is also pretty cool, although I'll confess that I don't quite 'get' all 'Modern Art'. The AIC is interesting because its huge, and you can kill 3-4 hours easy just walking through and looking at thigns for a couple of seconds. My favorite museum in the city. And ,the Architectural River tour is a pretty cool tour. I forgot how much it cost, but remember it being worth it (I am a sucker for architecture tho). For shopping, just walk up and down Michigan Ave from the river (south end) about eight-ten blocks to the Bloomingdales mall (north). For Pizza, there is a little place called Pizano's, I think it's much better than the Giordano's and Gino's East, at about State and Delaware that I think has the best pizza in the city.

The penalty, while a brutal call for Dustin Johnson, is actually the correct ruling and officials did warn all of the golfers about grounding and bunkers earlier in the tournament. They even talked about it on TNT on both Thursday and Friday, citing how, essentially, if it looks at all like a bunker, despite being trampled, stood in, or driven over, it's still a bunker. And you can't ground your club in a bunker. ((I have no idea why, but I've golfed for ten years and it was one of the first things I was taught about bunker play, I never really questioned it)). It's a brutal call for Dustin, and probably the sport, but it is the correct call in the case

I'd be interested in like Eric Wedge. At least more so than Valentine, but I've just never liked Valentine, and not for any particular reason.

While I can't find any stats. I highly doubt that the Cardinals (whom I like about as much as everyone else on this thread) account for 50% of baseball's hit batters and brawls.. In fact, they average 18th in the league in hit batters, averaging 0.35 batters hit per game. We're 14th with 0.32. Texas is the worst with 0.43. I'm not sure how good the source is, but it's the best I could find. Also, if STL would be an ideal AAA market I hate to think of what kind of market Milwaukee is. Sure, the city of Milwaukee is twice the size of St. Louis ((roughly 300k vs 600k)) population, but the metropolitan area of STL is 2.8 million (good for 18th in the country) and Milwaukee's is 1.7 million. They've also drawn better, and for longer, than we have. So calling St. Louis a AAA market is just...off base. I don't like the Cardinals. I'm intersted in seeing how much TLR is responsible for the attitude around the Cardinals, and I want to give Brandon Phillips some sort of medal, but they're about the league average in hitting batters (couldn't find any brawl stats) and STL certainly isn't an AAA market. If it is, Milwaukee is lucky to be an AA market.