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  1. mothershipconnection
    UWEC did textbook rental - you paid nothing for books unless you damaged them. Once I got to grad school, I wanted to keep my books because they relate to my profession and I sometimes use them as a reference, but nobody wants a $200 undergrad statistics manual.
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    I'd be happy to take a gamble on Carmona if he were a bargain bin FA, but I'd honestly rather stick with Looper when you consider that they'll cost the same.
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    If anyone actually thinks the Brewers can make the playoffs with the same starting rotation they had this season ... I envy your naivety. Not a chance. Let's tone it down and stay on the topic of the roster move/Yo skipping a start.
  4. mothershipconnection
    He just spontaneously thanks God every time he hits a homer? It's not God he's thanking, it's Babe Ruth for inventing the home run. No thanks needs to be given for other kinds of hits because they were around before him.
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    My games have gone stale and I need something new and exciting. I'm not really into sports or racing games. I'm more of an action or first-person shooter kind of guy. I live in TX, so I obviously can't do a face-to-face exchange and would have to do pay pal. If anyone has games to sell, PM me or post here with your price. I do have the following games that I'm willing to trade: Resident Evil 5 Ratchet and Clank Future Tools of Destruction Battlefield: Bad Company If necessary to even out a trade, I'm kind of in the market for for a PS3 DVD remote.
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    "I definitely feel like I was being punished." It's only punishment if it functions as punishment. If the future probability of JJ playing like a AAAA garbageman decreases, then it was punishment. I understand baseball is different from real life, but I'd be fired if I performed as bad at work as Hardy did at the plate. I'm paid to be above-average at what I do, if I performed at a "75 OPS+ level" for about 2/3 of a year, I wouldn't be around unless I had a good reason.
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    Anyone else ever seriously thought about dream analysis? Go ahead and do it yourself as a fun hobby, but please don't pay someone money for that. May as well have a friend take a blind stab in the dark over a few beers.
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    In selling high, we have to remember the group here that got up in arms in hindsight when Fielder "got fat and would never be anywhere near the player he was in '07". We have descriptive ability, but very little predictive ability when talking about peaks and selling high. The times you know a player will fall apart after a fluke season are the times every scout and GM will as well.
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    Parra should have been traded when his value was at his peak. Despite 'hitting the wall' last year, he could have been a big piece in a deal for an established pitcher (Peavy for example). What about Braun, Gallardo, and Fielder? When should they have been traded away at their peak for an established player? You can't go back and look at every young player who tanks and say you should have traded them away, because then you also have to do that for the good players. Tell me about how we should have traded Prince away. We should invoke something about having and eating cake here.
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    Suppan is a sunk cost at this point, being replacement level at best. Bradley for 2 years and only $4.5 million would be a steal While he is a sunk cost, he's still probably worth $4MM of that. If he were a free agent, that's the most I'd be OK with the Brewers paying him to be a #5, and that's what they may need to pay to replace him this winter if he were traded. As Suppan is owed $12.5MM and a $2MM buyout, I'd say there's $10.5MM of wasted money there. Bradley is owed $9MM in '10 and $12MM in '11, so if we deduct the "wasted" money for Suppan, that'd be $11MM for two years of Bradley. In a vacuum, I'd be glad to pay this for his performance level, but we have to consider his injury risk and propensity to create chaos wherever he goes. If we got the 2008 Bradley, that a good move. If we get the 75, 96, or 61 games he managed to play the previous 3 years, he doesn't look so attractive.
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    As of 8/29, Lopez is a Type A free agent. That sucks, because it makes him way less likely to turn down arbitration knowing that teams are gonna shy way away from him knowing that he'll cost a pick. The only teams that'd be after him then will be teams that have already signed higher ranked players and forfeited a higher pick or two.
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    The Brewers could replace Braun easier than Prince. The fans would revolt, but that's a risk when you think outside the box. I would demand that the trade stipulate that the Brewers replace the two Braun jerseys I own. Yes, Prince may be harder to replace, but the problem is that we soon HAVE to replace him, which we don't with Braun. I'd rather just roll the dice once instead of twice.
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    Well there goes another pitcher that Melvin failed to acquire. I think its becoming painfully obvious that we need a GM that knows how to acquire real pitching. Alright Eeyore, you tell me what GM's are out there regularly acquiring pitching in inexpensive deals that the Brewers could pull off. We could keep saying "Hart and Hardy could/should have been traded for young pitching" and "if they could get him for that package, we could have gotten him for our 10th and 25th best prospects", but there's no way to validate any of this. It's also possible that Kazmir was the asset that was held onto for too long. He's had a bit of trouble staying healthy, and has come undone this season. (That said, I still like him, just as I still like Hardy).
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    I have it on good authority that Bob thinks the mustard tastes "so-so". What he really likes is how effective the horseradish mustard, diluted in a spray bottle of miller high life works as a non-lethal stalker deterrent.
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    Also, Kennedy is a sitting senator -- consequently, his death is more newsworthy, as MA will have to replace him in the senate. If he had been retired, there would be no impact to our current government. I'm pretty sure that's what is making all of the difference here. Plus, it marks the end of the Kennedy brothers in politics, who all seemed destined for things bigger than they were able to accomplish due to assassinations and Ted's mess-ups. Being a sitting senator with that many years in office and a member of the Kennedy family are pretty big things that make the amount of coverage seem to be about what you'd expect, helped by there being no other new big stories.
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    I'd like to remind everyone to take any political statements, or opinions on what kind of person you think he is to the politics board.
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    I also tried to do a bit of research today on the generic versus store brand issue, to see how much of it is really the same product with a different label. I know this is a prevailing belief in our society by many, but I was hoping to find something to bear it out more. So far almost everything I've seen online states the same thoughts that are in this thread, but without anything to actually support that notion, it's just a statement. Most of it is anecdotal: and if the belief is true, it's easy to understand why brand names want to keep it a secret. I do know people who've worked in plants that would shut the line down and then start it up to pump the same product into a different container, but it was vegetables and maybe soup or something else canned, so I don't know how wide-spread it is.
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    To me, it is way too highly correlated with bases on balls. Which scores runs. It's also correlated with hitting your way on base and slg, which is based on hitting, and doing it for extra bases. In my mind, drawing walks isn't very indicative of a hitter's offensive prowess. I say this because the pitcher is more attributable to the walk than the hitter. Simply put, the pitcher is not doing their job. Granted, walks can also be indicative of being 'pitched around'. I would say drawing walks is more dependent on situation/luck than actual skill. Huh? Since 2000, your top 2 in walks are: NL Bonds/Giles Bonds/Sosa Bonds/Giles Bonds/Helton Bonds/Berkman/Abreu/Helton Giles/Abreu Bonds/Dunn Bonds/Helton Dunn/Pujols Dunn/Pujols AL Giambi/Delgado Giambi/Delgado Thome/Giambi Giambi/Delgado Chavez/Sheffield Giambi/Ortiz Cust/Markakis Pena/Bay Ortiz/Giambi Ortiz/Cust Pena/Bay I'm just not seeing any indication of luck here. Where are all the jokers who lucked into high walk totals? Where are the crappy all-glove stop-gaps that can be had for league minimum; the guys who will never sniff an all-star game? You should see a few Alex Sanchez's and a Mouton or two tossed in if it's random noise, but the data don't look that way.
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    Manny Parra looks like a disaster to me. I mean, he's a 26th round pick, but I don't think he's anything remotely close to what the Brewers hoped. They definitely had high hopes at the time he signed, as they gave him a $1.55MM bonus as a big-time dfe prospect.
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    He went on to say that some people want to replace all their silver fillings with composite because they match the color of teeth. He only recommends composite in places that really show, like on front teeth. At least they're replacing them out of vanity and not pseudoscience. A parent of an autistic former client of mine wanted to have his amalgam fillings yanked because they "caused his autism".
  21. mothershipconnection
    Eating cheap and eating healthy are nearly mutually exclusive. Anything at all that comes in a box or a can is just loaded down with sodium, even the 'low sodium alternative!'(s) Asians have it figured out. We tend to eat a lot of Korean stuff that m'lady spins in a Japanese way because we have a fantastic Korean market but crap for Japanese around here. Since she does most of the meal planning, we maybe spend $150 a month for the two of us, but we still eat very healthy (just too much in my case). We eat a ton of rice/rice noodles, nappa cabbage, and other cheap vegetable filler. There's enough meat, but it's all $2.99/lb sliced ribeye or lean pork belly that's almost constantly on sale where we shop. It's all about cheap, healthy herbs and seasonings that make dull vegetables taste good without butter and fat. I eat ramen as much as 3/4 nights a week, but it's the relatively healthy non-fried Korean variety (1g fat, 220 cal) that I put an egg, pressed garlic clove, cilantro, hoisin sauce, and sriracha in. Total cost is about $1.20, but you really don't even think of it as eating ramen noodles.
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    Tonight I went to the Korean area in Dallas and ate at a place called "Number 1 Plus Chicken". I laughed when I saw the sign, and admit that the ridiculousness of the name is the only reason I went there. After having spicy soy sauce fried chicken with mochi, the name makes absolute sense. You've been put on notice America, foreign cooks have one-upped you on fried chicken. We have nothing left to cling to when asserting our superiority, other than Weird Al and Joey Chestnut.
  23. mothershipconnection
    If you're thinking of gold, you may as well invest in foreign markets and currencies, as both present the biggest payoff if your economy and currency completely tank (so long as you don't invest in a dependent economy). There, you have the added bonus of that economy potentially taking off, which you don't have with gold, unless we find a groundbreaking new use for it.
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    When Scott Boras allows him to, which is a quarter past never. Yet another reason, this time in our own selfish interests, to be sad about what happened to Cecil. If things hadn't fallen apart, leading to Prince getting rid of him, we'd likely have Prince locked up for a couple years beyond his 6th season.
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    I'm having trouble understanding that. Why would the Brewers pay the $400k minimum for Hall in 2011? Yeah, I'm not sure how that works. I'd assume you only get relief from salary, and not buyouts (e.g. the Brewers would not save an amount equal to league minimum from Hall's buyout since he's not being paid $500K to play, but to terminate a contract).
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