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I need one too if anyone is looking to sell one. I have some extras from this year and last year if you'd prefer a trade for any of those.

We did have a guy in our group that couldn't swim. There really wasn't all that much swimming involved. There is one part where you had to jump off a 15 foot ledge and swim about 15 yards to some floating tubes, then go underneath them. Once you made it to the tubes, you were fine, as you could almost reach from one to the next. There were a couple of other very small parts (see photo above) where you could walk most of the water and had a few small sections over your head. Obviously that would be up to you if you felt safe doing those or not. They specifically tell you that if you have a heart condition to absolutely NOT do the electroshock at the end. Nobody would think any less of you, it wasn't really like that. It's all about if you feel you completed the course.

It's pretty clearly NOT going to happen at this point. Maybe in September, but it's not going to happen now. The window has been there with Casey sucking all year and then the Weeks injury, but they filled those spots already. He most definitely deserves a roster spot over Counsell at this point, but they won't do that either. The only chance of seeing him this year is with a September callup. I completely disagree with that, but that almost certainly seems to be the direction they are going, for whatever reason.

You can avoid obstacles if you choose (though I didn't see a single person do this anywhere on the course). I did see people try and fail at obstacles several times before finally succeeding or having other people on the course help them. The event is timed, but there are no prizes, it's not a race. You take an oath at the start that helping your fellow Tough Mudders and finishing the course is more important than your actual completion time. You did pay money to do this, so I think everyone pretty much did everything. I did see 1-2 older people bypass the electric shock at the end, probably a smart move if they have any sort of heart issue or whatever, but otherwise nothing else.

I agree with this 100%. The last couple of years the quality has really dropped. They've started making them super cheap and super generic. The McGehee bobblehead looks nothing like him and most of the bobbles are virtually identical, just with a "similar" face of the player it's supposed to be. I know they won't do this, but I would much rather get 2-3 higher quality, creative bobbleheads rather than 5-6 crappy ones.

Whats the record? 46 or something like that?

Ferris may not be here yet in time for the game, but it's asinine to me that Counsell gets to play over Wilson. Counsell looked absolutely terrible in his 3 at bats last night, pushing his hitless streak to 38. I can't remember even one hard out in that streak either. Ferris could at least play excellent defense and needs to play if he's here. If not, it should be Wilson over Counsell, hands down.

I think I finally got the photos figured out. I'm the one with the mohawk. Did that just for the weekend, though I do think it looked kinda cool. First thing you see upon getting near the course: http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l511/brwrsfan/Tough%20Mudder/deathwaiversign.jpg Before: http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l511/brwrsfan/Tough%20Mudder/before.jpg Crawling under wire about 8-10 inches off the ground: http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l511/brwrsfan/Tough%20Mudder/eatingdirt.jpg One of the four 12 foot walls we had to go over: http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l511/brwrsfan/Tough%20Mudder/jeffwall.jpg http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l511/brwrsfan/Tough%20Mudder/jefflogjumping.jpg http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l511/brwrsfan/Tough%20Mudder/jeffswimmingincrap1.jpg Run up the halfpipe: http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l511/brwrsfan/Tough%20Mudder/jeffhalfpipe.jpg Balance beam (I fell about 5 feet from the end, royally upset me) http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l511/brwrsfan/Tough%20Mudder/jeffbalancebeam.jpg After some obstacle we conquered: http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l511/brwrsfan/Tough%20Mudder/aftermudslide.jpg Just finished: http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l511/brwrsfan/Tough%20Mudder/finished.jpg After: http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l511/brwrsfan/Tough%20Mudder/after.jpg

Well it certainly didn't feel good. It wasn't quite as bad as I expected but it still pretty much sucked. 10,000 volts is about 1/5 of a taser, so it's enough to sting and can potentially knock you down but not enough to really have any lasting effects more than a second or two. I got shocked 3 seperate times on the way through. The worst parts for me was that you really have no way of preparing yourself for that and you have no idea when the shock is coming (only some wires had voltage on them) so that certainly made it interesting and crappy all at the same time. I guess the way I looked at it was.....this was literally 50 yards or less from the finish line. You could see the end through the wires. I'm standing there thinking "I've just gone through 10 miles and 24 obstacles and this is the only thing preventing me from finishing". So you just put your head down and went. It hurt and wasn't overly fun but it just adds to the story at this point I guess.

It was the case in some instances, you did tend to get a bit bunched up at a few of the obstacles (though certainly not all). I think on 3-4 of them we probably stood around in line for maybe 3-5 minutes. The rest of them were really only a minute or two. There were lines but they moved pretty fast and there really wasn't a ton of waiting around. Though I did it on Sunday and there were less people on the course than Saturday, plus we were in an early wave so I'm not sure if it got worse later in they day or not. So to answer your question, yes, there was some time to catch your breathe but not a ton. Though you could walk or stop on your own at any point in time. As far as the obstacles being spread out. There were some that were relatively close to each other, like say 1/4 to a 1/2 mile or even closer in a few instances. There was also some that were probably a mile to a mile and a half apart and at least 1 stretch that was close to 2 miles. Those stretches were pretty rough. The toughest part was the first half, which was all up and through several different ski hills. There were a few obstalces in here but it was just hill climb after hill climb, and that got rough pretty fast.

I could not possibly agree any more. Counsell has no business being on the roster, Age has clearly finally caught up to him. It's not just that he's in an 0-35 slump....he's been pretty much useless all year as his .158 average would indicate. He also has zero power of any kind to speak of, so it's not like you can live with his super low average. His defense is OK, but we already have that utility guy in Wilson. He is a real hinderance to the roster at this point and he's really hurting the team. I like him and it's a good story and all, but enough is enough. Fake an injury until September if you have to but he can't really be used in the majors at this point. Green, Gamel or Gindl would all be much better bench options at this point. The worst of it is that RR still continues to use him as the first PH off the bench. He should be the last player used at this point, he hasn't hit a ball hard in 2 months.

I haven't read through this entire thread, but I just fail to see how trading for Beltran makes any sense whatsoever, unless we're trading Hart in another move. 1 - Hart can NOT play CF. He tried this before and was brutal at it and he's older and much slower now. 2 - Anyone else in CF moves Morgan to the bench. Morgan has the highest average on the team and plays good defense. Yes, he can't play against lefties, but a majority of pitchers are right handed anyway. So where exactly is Beltran going to play? Outside of trading Hart (or moving him to the bench, which would be a complete disaster) or putting Braun back at third (please no)....I just don't see it at all. Not to mention that we don't really have a great prospect to trade for 2 months of Beltran.

Yeah, the lowly Cubs...of course, they took 3 of 4 from us about a month ago in Chicago. It's also Dempster, who has flat out owned the Brewers in his career. I like that we're at home, but we always struggle with the Cubs and especially with Dempster. Hopefully we can reverse both of those trends.

This is the course if anyone is curious what we're talking about: http://toughmudder.com/ev...ils-hea-course-map-2011/

I have pictures but I can't figure out how to upload them. I have them in my profile for yuku and I see them when I click on insert photos but it doesn't seem to load. Just a big red x comes up. Can anyone help me with this?

Well here's how it went down for me. Back in high school/college I was a decent athlete, played sports and so forth. Since then, that had started to slip as my drinking/eating sort of went up. I'm 29 years old now, with an eleven month old daugter. I was looking at pictures of myself with her and I was sort of embarassed. I wasn't really what I wanted my daughter to see when she got older. My friends (most of which do triathalons and/or half marathons together) had signed up for this thing back in March. In Mid-May, I approached them about possibly doing it with them. Most of them laughed at me but a couple took me seriously, especially after I signed up and paid the registration fee. I think most of my friends thought I wasn't going to show up or that I wouldn't take it seriously. Which was fine, they can think whatever they want. But I knew that if this couldn't get me motivated to lose some weight and stop being lazy, I didn't know what else would. I didn't want to embarass myself and I certainly didn't want to fail, I don't handle failure very well. Plus it was for a good cause, so why not. From Mid-May up until yesterday, I worked harder than I ever have in my entire life. I purchased the Insanity DVD workout, did that every day, as well as ran 2-3 miles afterwards. Also cut way back on any junk food, ate healthy lunches, etc. Also stopped drinking soda/booze for the last month. All with 2 goals in mind: 1 - get healthier to set an example for my daughter 2 - cross the finish line I honestly had no idea if I could do it or not, and I was somewhat nervous about it but I had myself 100% convinced in my mind that no matter what, come hell or high water, that I was making it to that finish line. So I stepped up to the starting line yesterday (25 lbs lighter than when I started training 3 months earlier). I had forgotten the rush of adrenaline you get from the national anthem when you're actually in the event. The gun went off and away we went. for those of you that did it, we were wearing shirts about the "donkey show", several comments were made about the shirts so maybe you saw us out there. I won't bore everyone with the blow by blow breakdown of the event itself. As I said, my friends were pretty much all in better shape than me and I had told them prior to the start that I couldn't keep up with them and that if they wanted to go on without me they should, because it wasn't about the time for me, it was about finishing. I didn't know what they were going to do but it became clear after the first mile or two (up and over multiple ski hills) that they weren't going to let me down. We all helped each other, we were all there for each other. Not just my group, but every person on the course. There was no hard feelings, there was no ill words or thoughts to people going slower, it was one, giant group effort to finish. Some guys sat at the top of some obstacles way longer than they needed to, just to help other people get through it. A couple of times when I got really tired, I could hear the Rocky theme playing in my head (this was my personal theme song) and I could also hear Shawn T (if you do insanity, you know who he is) yelling at me "you can do it" "push through it" "go go go" over and over and over again. There was one obstalce (of the 25) that was relatively easy but hard for me. I have a bit of a problem with heights and one of them was to climb up and jump off a plank into water (probably 15-18 feet up). Not overly high but I was pretty terrified. I got to the top and froze. I stood there for a good 30 seconds, I start to go and stopped 3 times. Finally, I just threw myself off of it. Swam under the barriors, made it to the shore. Later on, my friends would tell me that it was at that moment they could see something change in my eyes. Sheer determination was there and I think they finally believed what I did....that nothing was stopping me from crossing that finish line. And that while I thought it the whole time, I finally believed it was going to happen. We got to the very last obstacle, the electric shock therapy. And we went through that as a team as well, absorbing three seperate shocks of 10,000 volts. Went another 50 yards and crossed the finish line and it was one of the greatest feelings I've ever had. I can't accurately describe it but it was awesome. I rank yesterday as the third most satisifying, happiest days of my life (right behind getting married and the birth of my daughter). It was definitely fun and hard and exciting all at the same time. I probably wasn't strong enough or in good enough shape but I knew I could do it and I did - despite what everyone else though. I told my wife last night that while I probably didn't physically measure up to the task, that you can't measure a person's heart or willpower or just pure determination to succeed. I apologize that this got more sappy and preachy than I wanted. Just wanted to share my story I guess. That I used this as motivation to get back in shape but also to show to my daughter later in life. That just because people tell you that you can't do something, doesn't mean it's true and that with hard work and determination, you can really accomplish a lot of things. For everyone that finished it yesterday, congratulations. Enjoy your headband, it was certainly well earned. For anyone considering doing it or thinks it looks cool, it's coming back here in October, 2012. I very well might do that one too. If I can figure out how when I get home, I'll post some pictures my wife took of us out there on the course.

Anyone else dumb enough to go through this over the weekend? I did it yesterday with a group of 9 other guys....it was painful and I'm super sore but we made it across the finish line, and that was awesome.

That was super confusing on the main angle. Right after that they showed the side angle it was much, much clearer. Still pretty strange.

Maybe this will be the Cy Young version of Greinke shows up, or at least a version close to that one. I hope so at least. It would be very nice to win this game, then just try to snag one against the Giants and we'll have a 6-5 West Coast swing before coming home against the Cubs and Astros. That sounds nice.

It does feel like if we make a move it will be more for a bench guy, not someone to play regularily at 3b/ss. Maybe Casey and Yuni prove that to be a wise move, I'm having serious doubts though. Casey has actually looked somewhat competent at the plate the last couple games. Actually hit a few balls hard, which he hadn't done consistently since April. Yuni too....so maybe. Still wish we had another option though.

I'm not overly worried about his walks. He's hitting second in the lineup, directly in front of Braun and Fielder. That's going to give him a lot of pitches to hit, teams don't want to put a baserunner (especially a fast one) on base in front of those two via the walk. He's getting pitches to hit and to his credit, he's hitting them.

It would seem to make way, way more sense to bat Morgan leadoff and Hart second. Otherwise it's alright. Weeks should have been out of the leadoff spot a long time ago.

Continues to let Loe pitch against power lefties with the game on the line and continues to get burned. I don't care if we won the game, letting Loe pitch to Helton with the game on the line was inexcusable. Loe has proven multiple times that he just simply is not very good against left handed hitters. Everyone gets this expect our manager. Continues to make it as difficult as possible for us to win games.

I really don't see what difference it makes if they bring Green up here and he flops. He'll just be duplicating what Casey is ALREADY doing and has been doing for MONTHS. If someone is going to suck at third base, you might as well give Green a shot. It's hard to imagine him being any worse.

I hate the fact that if we fall behind, at all, at any point in time in a game on the road that my first instinct is to think that we've lost and to turn the game off. It's really gotten to the point that I don't even want to watch this horrible baseball on the road any more.