Jim Goulart

For our newcomers, particular from Nashville, Charleston and Melbourne / Viera, we invite you to check out the "Archived Link Report" Forum, where we save about-to-expire Link Reports from extinction. You'll get a nice sense of what this aspect of Brewerfan is all about. Each daily trip around the Brewers farm system includes broadcast links, starting pitcher assignments, and then post-game (by next morning), box scores and links to online media coverage. We're waiting to see what other goodies (game logs, live gamecast screens, etc.), the new stats service of MLBAM (MLB Advanced Media) provides us in 2005. We do know that Nashville archives its audio game highlights and player & coach interviews with Sounds play-by-play announcer Chuck Valenches -- cool! We've asked the friendly folks in Huntsville for something similar, and we're crossing our fingers on that... We must remind everyone that while you're invited to add worthwhile commentary to the Link Reports, this is not a game thread, or in today's case, four game threads, as you would see on the Major League Forum. While an occasional in-game update may be made on most nights, with scores from all available sources, we do invite as many as wish to jump in on the discussion in the Brewerfan chat room for in-game chatting. With the Brewers idle Thursday, we imagine the chat room might just be jumping Thursday evening. We've received enough feedback to know how much you folks appreciate the daily Link Reports. It's a labor of love for us, and we want to thank up front all the broadcasters, print reporters, and others (like David Weiser in Huntsville) who are the real secondary stars of the reports (the players being the primary stars, of course!) Here's to an awesome, fun, entertaining, healthy and fruitful minor league season! Batter up!

Play ball! How convenient of the big league Brewers to give the spotlight to all the kids tonight! Who's going to listen to four games at once? We are! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/tongue.gif This is a rare occurrance; there's no home web audio for Brevard County or West Virginia, and opponent's audio, particularly in the Florida State League, is infrequent to rare. By the way, so long, MassBrew! New Brewer owner, new Link Report season, new handle! The MassBrew moniker served me well for 3+ years, since Brewerfan's inception. Obviously, not a big change, but I pay respect to my favorite Brewer pitcher growing up -- any dude named Moose who was barely 6'0" feet tall has to be cool: www.baseball-reference.co...mo01.shtml Thursday's Daily Menu: All times Central; pitchers subject to change Nashville: RHP Jose Capellan at home vs. New Orleans (Nationals), 6:30 PM pre-game, 7:00 gametime Audio link: www.nashvillesounds.com/listenlive/ Huntsville: LHP Dana Eveland at Carolina (Marlins), 6:00 PM pre-game, 6:15 gametime; we welcome new Stars' broadcaster Brett Pollock Audio link: www.espn1450.com/ Brevard County: RHP Luis Pena at home vs. Daytona Beach (Cubs), 6:00 PM Audio link (opponent's feed): stream.netro.ca/wele West Virginia: RHP Mark Rogers at Hagerstown (Mets), 5:35 PM; RHP Josh Wahpepah will follow Rogers Audio link (opponent's feed): streaming0.ctinetworks.co...uns-wa.pls If you have trouble with any of these audio feeds, you can find the game you seek here and try from this page: www.oursportscentral.com/..._year=2005

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