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Can we leave Corey Hart off the post season roster? Is there anyway to do that at all?

probably boo him when he comes back in another teams uniform. stupid brewer fans.

Love Wes Helms!

Cameron has more power, obp skills and plays better defense than Hart. The difference is price and the question of what happens in 2010.

I dont believe I ever said he would be, in fact, I said a few times that he is awful, but that he wouldnt be much of a downgrade.

Trading Hardy for Cain is overpaying. If you trade Prince for Cain should get you fired as a GM for even thinking that. Anything less than a Lincecum or Kershaw for Fielder wouldn't be acceptable.A fat 1b who is really bad at fielding and is only going to get fatter and more expensive for a pitcher of Matt Cain's talent level, age, price tag, isnt overpaying - or if it is, it isnt by a whole lot. Besides, I never said it would be a 1 for 1 deal, only that Prince could be used to upgrade the rotation. I wasnt talking about trading Prince for Giambi. Rather trading Fielder for someone (say Grienke) and replacing his production with Giambi. Essentially it would be Grienke and Giambi in and Fielder out. Perhaps we could snag David Dejesus in a Grienke deal as well.

Good thing the new Mets stadium has a retractable roof. Oh, wait......check that, they didnt build a retractable roof.

Signing Giambi would allow us to move Prince to upgrade to roation (Cain?). If we just trade Prince and try to replace him with Nelson or some other stop gap, the offense could get even uglier.

Both players will be free agents next year and neither should be offered arbitration due to their huge salaries in 2008. Both are long in the tooth, I know, but lets look at who they would replace and how they could help. The offense has two problems as I see. Too many right handed hitters, not enough walks. Jason Giambi: Giambi would be signed, most likely to a Cameron or Kendall type deal, one year guaranteed with a team option for a second. He will be 38 next year and probably wasnt good at fielding when he was 28, but lets look at who he would be replacing. He would be replacing Fielder should Prince be traded for a top flight pitcher and I thought I read on this very forum that with defense taken into account Prince was actually a negative overall value to the team. Let's compare their numbers this year: Giambi: .252/.379/.512/ = .893 OPS with 32 HRs Fielder: ..274/.372/.508 = .880 OPS with 33 HRs I would have to say the in 2009 Fielder is likely to be a better bet to approach a .900 OPS, but I dont think Giambi will far off that, probably somewhere in the .860-.875 range. Giambi has started at 1b in 110 games so far this year and I cant imagine he is worse than Prince. The best part about Giambi is that he is likely to be able to be had for something in the neighborhood of 2 yrs/16 million, or 1 year at 10 million with a team 10 million dollar option. Key: He bats left handed and would replace Fielder in the middle of our lineup. Also he is a walk machine and even if he comes in and bats .245 he is likely to lead the team in OBP somewhere in the neighborhood of .370. Bobby Abreu: The Brewers only need to focus on filling two outfield spots for the next 7 years with Braun signed longterm. Milwaukee has a couple of top notch minor league OFs that look to contribute by 2010 in Michael Brantly and Cole Gillespie (assuming Brantly doesnt go in the Sabathia deal). Abreu figues to be strictly a right fielder which leaves them with two choices. The first is that they could not pick up Cameron's option and move Corey Hart to CF. I am not a fan of Hart in CF, especialy if Fielder and Weeks still in the infield. I think defense is important. But it is an option. The other thing they could do is extend Hardy and trade Corey Hart in a deal for pitching. Remember, Hart has already rebuffed one offer to sign an extension and he might be worth more than he really is after making the All Star team and then going MIA in the second half. Milwaukee would surely have to pick up Cam's option, but then we have another LF bat in the lineup behind Fielder. Lets compare the numbers of Cameron, Hart and Abreu Cameron .326/.480 = .806 OPS, 25 Hrs, great defense. Hart: .306(yes that is his OBP, not average)/.470 = .776 OPS, 20/20 player, average d Abreu: .374/.475 = 849 OPS. 20/20 player, average d I would not expect the Brewers to make both of these moves, however potential lineups next year could be: 1. Weeks 2. Hardy 3. Braun 4. Giambi 5. Hart 6. Free agent 3b 7. Cameron 8. Kendall or 1. Weeks 2. Abreu 3. Braun 4. Fielder 5. Hardy 6. Cameron 7. New 3b 8. Kendall

I live in Oshkosh and havent been to a T-Rats game in about 10 years. That will change next season. I cant wait to take my entire family, should be loads of fun!

Dodger Stadium isnt exactly a hitters paradise either.

I wonder if Nashville could still be fooled by a War of The Worlds type radio show. The city running out of gas? They thought it was true?

chase it is then!

So would I. See about a 4 year, 50 million dollar deal. Even at 185 innings a year, he would be worth that.

So I need to open some accounts for my new business in downtown Oshkosh. My choices are US Bank, M&I, Chase, and Anchor Bank. Which should I go with? I need to open a client trust account, a business account and then may transfer my personal checking and savings there as well for convenience.

Id like to see the CHargers defensive players send emails to their fans apologizing for the rest of the game. They looked pathetic.

Hawing, your new avatar should be the screen shot of your current avatar on TV. That would be trippy.

Any word what it might be?

Awesome, thanks. I'll be in the 1st National building, downtown (where they shot the movie) Suite 812.

I quit my job and my last day was Friday. My first day as an "unemployed" lawyer was Monday. The law firm I left was in MILWAUKEE, the name of the firm was/is YOST & Baill. Just a coincidence then that Ned YOST, manager of the baseball team in MILWAUKEE also was put out of work at the exact same time? Probably, but still... With that, I have moved to Oshkosh full time and am, as they say, Setting up my own shingle, that is, opening my own practice. I have office space all picked out and a general idea of how to do this lawyer thing, all I need now - or one of the many things I need now, are business cards and letterhead. Anyone have any experience with or know of/have any programs that could help me out in designing somehing???

So from talk of Manager of the Year in late August to fired on September 15th. Wow. I never liked Ned's persona, but I thought he was doing a pretty good job this year. It isnt like he has been not playing the good players, some of the players just stink. Weeks, Kendall, Counsell, Hall, even Corey Hart since about the All Star break. Who was he supposed to start playing. tony Gwynn, Laynce Nix and Mike Lamb? While I never liked Ned, I love Doug Melvin, and it pains me to say it but I think he is equally to blame of the type of player that he has put on this team.

Goodbye Yost, Goodbye Melvin. Hello someone with a clue. I really like Melvin a lot, I think he is a good GM, but his philosophy on players has not been all that great. He has drafted a TON of DHs and he is basically throwing darts at bullpen arms. I cant stand the make-up of this lineup with these bozos with NO plate discipline and quite frankly, outside of the power, they cant hit at all.

Oh this is just too perfect. Banks Use Overdraft Fees to Fleece Customers

Yes, and as posted above this one, they NEVER reject a payment, while telling me that they do the largest ones first so they dont have to reject them. I called them out on it and said, fine, I want you to start paying all my small ones first, and if you want to send back the large one, that is fine, I will deal with it. Well, they still paid it and charged me for one overdraft. They told me the same story jazzy (although it sounds like you work for a bank, maybe even associated). "We base it on what comes in first, only in my instance, I have NEVER had a small one come first, always the large ones. Sounds pretty convenient to me. Then they tell me they do checks, phone checks and auto debits first, then regular transactions, until I had to write a $6.00 check for some subscription or something, it comes in with some gas purchases and a few other large items that were regular debits...guess which one was bringing up the rear? Yep, the $6.00 check, this was just a month after they justfied paying a larger check first in order to screw me. Associated Banke = evil.

Whatever you do, dont go to Associated Bank. They are terrible. I have them and I am considering switching. For example: If I have $100.00 in my checking account and I fill up for gasoline for $50.00, buy two coffees for $2.00 each on seperate days, lunch at Subway for $6.00 and then I forget I had a scheduled cable bill due to come out for $100 and all 5 transactions come through on the same night, I get hit with 4 over draft fees because they go: 100 -100 - 50 (OD fee $34) - 6 (OD fee $34) -2 (OD fee $34) -2 (OD fee $34) They claim they do it so "they dont have to return a large ticket item as NSF" and it is therefore their policy to pay ;argest first. I called them out on that and said [expletive deleted], it is so you can clean out my account the quickest to get overdraft fees. The customer service rep did not refute that. I hate my bank. (edit: language --1992)