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Is this a trick question?

With a lot of games against the NL central coming up... no.

OK, this was moderately funny from the cards forum... "If Betancourt hits a walk-off, I expect every Brewers fan who was here earlier today to come apologize and admit that yes, the Brewers are cheating."

So do we cheer for Fielder to get fewer RBIs?

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Mine was actually with Joe Crawford, who wasn't on the roster but was the video coordinator and was always in uniform during batting practice. It was at Maryville during spring training and me and a friend were in the lawn seats shagging some batting practice. There is a guy there with a baby in a stroller standing near the wall that was also trying to get balls. Anyways, there is a shot that was heading to my right and I started going after it, but I saw the stroller and stopped because I didn't want to run over a baby. To my horror, the ball is heading right at the stroller. The guy with the stroller completely misjudged the ball and was running backwards away from the stroller (ended up about 15 feet away from the baby). I went into a state of shock because this ball was going strait for the baby. Luckily the ball hits the top of the fence and bounces right over the baby (two inches higher and the baby would have been hit directly). Meanwhile, the dad is running after the ball as it came pretty close to him after the bounce. He ended up not getting it, but Joe Crawford grabs a ball, throws it to the guy, and yells at him something like, "Here's your damn ball, now get out of here." The guy leaves with the stroller and Joe proceeds to talk with us about how the guy was an idiot and almost got the baby killed. Also, not with a player per se, but on Memorial day in 2006 I was at a game with my dad and brother in Pittsburgh. The ticket vender was awesome because they were giving away two tickets per military ID that day, but when I showed him mine he gave us three tickets for free that were first row along the first base side. Then, during the game, I forgot who was doing the sideline reporting, but he comes over and interviews me for about 5 minutes during the second inning. I remember Doug Davis was getting destroyed during the interview and in the in game thread here everyone was complaining that the interview with me was causing the bad luck (tongue in cheek obviously). Also, during that same road trip, before a game in Philadelphia Matt Wise comes up to me and my brother during batting practice (we were along the outfield wall) and throws us a ball saying how wearing a Brewers jersey in the bleachers at Philly takes guts and we deserve the ball. All of these stories are 2006 where I managed to go to 29 games (most of them on the road) and the Brewers went 3-26 in those games. I think I kept them out of the playoffs single handedly.

DFA Hart

Sorry, but Matt Kemp is the leader. More home runs, more runs, same RBIs, lower OPS, but very close.

Almost everyone is in agreement that the longer we wait, the more the price goes up. Isn't it obvious that we shouldn't wait that long?

If it's the Brewers, yes it is an overpay. It's the Red Sox though. Does it make their team better for the next 4 years? Yes.

It was only 18 strikeouts, but yes I agree; that was an epic game. Oops. Don't know what I was thinking.

I fear if we don't extend Fielder then we won't be in the Twins league as far as wins and postseason appearances, IMO.

I think Ben Sheets 20K game should have made the top moments list.

It's up but not on the site linked earlier. Can't link directly to it, but it's the third video on the bottom. http://mlbnetwork.mlb.com...7203595&topic_id=8187248

Just from personal experience, I'd say I'm pretty sure that warming up reduces the risk to injury. I destroyed my shoulder the one time I decided to throw a few fastballs without warming up and the pain lasted the better part of 5 years.