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  1. brewers4eric
    I can recall that Uecker had asked Dalton about the trade after Moose started out hot in Oakland. Dalton's comment via Uecker went something like, "Moose could go 10 - 0 and it would still be a good trade". I thought that Kiefer had some potential. He made the club out of spring training one year but left the team after some health problems in his family. I believe he had a daughter that was born prematurely, but my memory is foggy on the subject.
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    Based on his performance last year, it seems like a reasonable contract. As others have pointed out, however, it will be interesting if he repeats his stats over the course of 4 years. Personally, I think he'll sprain his wrist repeating that strange glove twisting action that he does during his delivery. Has anyone else noticed that?
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    Thanks for posting the interview, it was an excellent read. I seem to remember Karl getting off to a slow start one year and was pitching so poorly that there were rumors he would get demoted. He turned things around and pitched really well down the stretch.
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    Twins over White Sox Rays over Twins in 3 Red Sox over Angels in 5 Dodgers over Cubs in 3 Cubs fans in left field clamor for a fly ball along the foul line during the eighth inning of game 1. Soriano looks like he has a play but the railing breaks and five of the Bartman clones trying for the souvenir spill over the railing and onto the field and crush Soriano, ending his career. The demoralized Cubs fold like origami and start their next century of futility. Brewers over Phillies in 4 Stetter enters game one to face Ryan Howard and beans him on the helmet, putting him in a coma. Utley, Rollins, and Werth are suspended for 4 games after leaving the dugout and battering Stetter. Mysteriously, none of the Brewers get involved in the fight other than Tony Gwynn Jr. Brewers scratch out enough offense against the Phillies second string to take the series. Rays over Red Sox in 6 Brewers over Dodgers in 5 Jeff Kent grows a Kirk Gibson like mustache and stubble and hobbles out of the dugout to hit a dramatic home run off of Eric Gagne in extra innings during game 4. None of the Dodger youngsters greets Kent at home plate and he proceeds to start a melee with Matt Kemp, Russell Martin, and Andre Ethier in the dugout. The ensuing injuries force the Dodgers to start Juan Pierre each game. Rays over Brewers in 5 God is a Rays fan after they took the word "Devil" off of their logo.
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    For the team that truly lives or dies on the home run: Braun Cameron Fielder Hart Hardy Rivera Weeks Gamel Pitcher This is totally based on what I perceive the slugging percentages are, from highest to lowest, without looking at Baseball Reference.com. I am basing my lineup on the all star game where Bo Jackson led off with a home run followed by another shot from Wade Boggs. The AL manager wanted to put as much pressure on the NL as he could right off the bat.
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    "Serenity Now..." I think we've all been there at one time or another. I took my time off from the Brewers and baseball altogether after each of the strike seasons. The time off helps you to appreciate the sport even more when you eventually do come back.
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    If you like the series, I think you might also like the book "Under and Alone". It was written by an ATF undercover agent that infiltrated a biker gang. There are rumors flying around that it is currently being developed as a movie starring Mel Gibson. It was a great read, I couldn't put the book down and read it in one night.
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    I was also going to mention Macha before I was beaten to the post. Didn't Brewer management actually offer him the job at the time?
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    I watch this show mainly because I have a friend that puts about 40,000 miles on his Harley annually and he is really annoyed by all of the traditional biker stereotypes that are portrayed in this series and that I bring up in conversation at work after each episode.
  10. brewers4eric
    Sad circumstances, but I agree with the decision. I'll take anything that will get the team motivated for a 12 game run that will get them to the playoffs. After all, the 2002 Brewers won their first four games after Jerry Royster was installed as manager (never mind the next 143 games). If Sveum loses the first game, fire him too and repeat the process until they either make the playoffs or are eliminated. Hopefully the team is in Chicago right now sitting in the Cubs home dugout after an extended session of batting and fielding practice at Wrigley.
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    I would make a case for the biggest series since 1992. I needed some help from Baseball Reference.com, but I could recall the three game set against the Yankees followed by the four game series against the Blue Jays from August 24 through August 30, 1992. The usually reliable bullpen blew the opener against the Yankees and a poor Yankee team swept the three game set. The split with the Blue Jays featured a 22 run shellacking on Jimmy Key, but the 2-5 road trip left the Brewers 4 and a half games behind and we never closed the gap despite a great finish. The 1992 team was one of my favorites. While there were plenty of other losses, I've always felt that the sweep by the Yankees (and the deep pockets of Blue Jay management) cost us a shot at the playoffs.
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    If we collapse this year and miss the playoffs, I'll be right back again next year. After all, I drove three hours to watch Ruben Quevado pitch against Bartolo Colon back in 2002. The true masochists among the three million will be waking up to smell the tailgate again in 2009.
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    the Replacements - All for Nothing glad to see the Travelling Wilburys mentioned
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    Pigs grow to around 240 pounds before they head to market. Up until that time, they will eat anything. When I was little, my brother gave me a farm safety demonstration by throwing an empty paper feed bag into a pen of 20 pound piglets. They shredded it like it was a roast in a shark tank. He told me to never lose my footing around pigs, if you were on the ground, you were basically food to them. Four hundred pound sows are very protective of their piglets. My sophomore year of high school, I was transferring pigs from a nursery area to a feeder pen when a sow smashed her way out of a cast iron farrowing crate and pinned me against a wall. I escaped by climbing into another empty crate. I was a mass of bruises from my lower back to my ankles, and I could barely walk for a week. Hogs are as close to a land shark as you will find anywhere.
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    My wife has the "jimmy" arms and legs that flail around in the middle of the night and she gets up numerous times to head to the bathroom. I just snore loudly, plus I grew up on a dairy farm, so I'm wide awake by 5:30 am. Our daughter will wake up screaming once in awhile, it takes one of us sleeping next to her to get her to calm down. Our son has been addicted to body contact since he was born, he needs to snuggle to fall asleep and both of us are currently too tired at night to try and break his habit. We'll probably be on an episode of "Super Nanny" sometime soon. I don't think that we've slept together in at least 5 months. My advice is to keep your options open. Get the king size bed for the master bedroom and at least full sized sets for your kids. Find couches that recline or pull out so you can sleep comfortably on them. Make the necessary desk adjustments at work like George Costanza. I usually rotate between three beds and two couches in our house. I may be relegated to the old easy chair in the basement if we have any more kids.
  16. brewers4eric
    Prince's defense is lousy. I don't see him getting much better with the glove in the short or long term. I groan as loudly as anyone when he botches a play, but the Brewers live and die by the offense that he generates. In recent years, with Prince, Overbay, and Sexson, we've had a good series of run producing first baseman. Prior to Richie, however, the position was an offensive black hole filled by guys like Kevin Barker and Charlie Hayes. I'm not ready to go back to those days. For the time being, I'll trade 15 errors for 30 home runs and 100 rbis. The comparison to Ryan Howard is interesting, as I agree that they are both destined for a DH role in the American League. The question in the back of my mind is whether you want an average fielding first baseman with good offensive skills (someone like Lyle Overbay), or the big stick with the hands of stone. The Brewer brain trust showed which way they wanted to go when they pulled the trade with Toronto. I just wonder if they truly felt that Prince's defense would be this bad after a few years in the majors.
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    MFL High School, Monona, Iowa. Class of 1986 Colors were blue and gold Mascot = Bulldogs Most famous alumni is Raef LaFrentz. Being an Iowa State alumni, I used to hate it when bus loads of Monona residents would head to Ames to cheer for Raef and Kansas whenever they played Iowa State. LaFrentz's dad was our industrial arts and PE teacher. The guy was ultra competitive at everything. He could never beat me in table tennis despite his worst efforts, which included cheating, calling me every swear word in the book, and shattering a paddle against a wall. By the time he was in the second grade, everyone in town knew that Raef would be playing college ball somewhere.
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    This is a quote from my buddy at Monday's game. Bush had nailed National's pitcher Garritt Mock to load the bases with no outs, but got out of it with no runs. Steve says, "it must be especially gratifying to pitch out of a bases loaded situation and not give up any runs, and nail the opposing pitcher near the ******** in the process".
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    Is anyone else reminded of the cheese sandwich game?
  20. brewers4eric
    Here are my choices. Based on what I've read on the board over the years, I'm sure I would have plenty of competition in these categories: Caddyshack Dialogue World War II Seinfeld Clint Eastwood Movies Tillage Equipment Nachos
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    I grew up on a dairy farm. Most of you that have seen the movie "City Slickers" will recall the scene where Billy Crystal helps to deliver a calf. I've done that quite a few times. It is actually a fairly accurate depiction of the process. There are plenty of good smells on the farm. My favorite is a fresh cut alfalfa field. Sometimes you'll grind feed and the mixer mill will smell like a bowl of warm cereal. However, one of the worst is still burned in my mind and it occurred 17 years ago. My brother and I assisted with a delivery and the calf was dead. It had been dead for quite some time. It was so bad that the hog confinement two miles west of us closed down. I couldn't get the smell off my hands for a week.
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    Jill Hennessey When I was single I kept a picture of her in a frame on my desk. At the time, none of my coworkers recognized her from Law & Order. My sister did the same thing with a picture of Mel Gibson.
  23. brewers4eric
    I attended my first game at County Stadium in 1978. Up until that point, my team was the Cinncinnati Reds and my favorite player was Johnny Bench. I had jumped on the Reds bandwagon when I was in 2nd grade and they had swept the Yankees in the World Series. My only association with the Reds, however, was built upon pouring through the box scores in the paper and catching an occasional game on television. Seeing a game in person changed my perspective. The sweet smell of a summer tailgate wafted through the parking lot. Mike Caldwell was on the mound in route to another complete game. The announcer really let it rip when Sixto Lezcano came to the plate. The lady and her grandkids that sat behind us cheered hard whenever Don Money came up to bat. I had caught Brewer fever, and the alliance with the Reds was quickly forgotten. There was a rookie at the top of the order that wore the number 4. Johnny Bench became an afterthought. Maybe if the Tigers had won that day I would be posting on tigerfan.net under the username "tigers(john wokenfuss' number)eric"
  24. brewers4eric
    Personally, I'm not going to make any judgements on the shove until I see how the team reacts in the coming weeks. If it serves as a wakeup call and they go on a roll and make the playoffs, I'll be in favor of signing Milton Bradley and Jeff Kent in the offseason.
  25. brewers4eric
    Ben's velocity on his fastball has varied since the all star break, and it seems like he has had some difficulty locating it over his last few starts. Teams that have faced him a number of times usually have a decent approach, they'll lay off his curve and hope for a mistake with his fastball. Through all the injuries and bad Brewer teams I've loved the guy, but it almost seems like he is cursed to never win more than a dozen games in a Brewer uniform. Hopefully he'll break the curse this season.
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