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  1. Brian the Automator
    [ Out of surgery, no suprises,6 month rehab and if followed to expect 100% recovery ] Fantastic news! Wish him a speedy recovery from us and a quick return to the mound.
  2. Brian the Automator
    [ Brian, does it help you if we click on those Google links? Many of us would do so if it helped the site raise money. ] Part of my agreement is that I'm not allowed to say if it does or doesn't help to click on them.
  3. Brian the Automator
    Ok, i'm seeing the popup now. My guess is that it's ezBoard's way of "maximizing revenue". I would recommend using a popup blocker on those. The ads at the bottom of the page are my way of trying to earn some money. Hopefully they're not too much of an eyesore.
  4. Brian the Automator
    There shouldn't be any popups here... Is anyone else getting them?
  5. Brian the Automator
    The problem will just work itself out naturally in a few months http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif
  6. Brian the Automator
    I was a huge fan of Noochie Varner. He had the best arm of any outfielder I've ever seen.
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    POSTED: www.brewerfan.net/ViewArt...icleId=256
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    [ I'm pretty quick and have some pop from the left side and just in case they have a lefty specialist, I have pop from the right side too Sounds like Jamie LaRussa has a new toy to play with.
  9. Brian the Automator
    I'm in.
  10. Brian the Automator
    [ If we were able to play Hall at SS that would allow us to get a legitimate CF that can lead off and give us the speed that DM is looking for. ] I don't think he'll "forget" how to play SS or anything... If it turns out that there's a great CF via trade, via FA, or via the farm, I'm sure Hall would get the starting nod over Hardy at this point. But for now, we have the luxury of finding out whether JJ's going to stick or not.
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    [ What has Hardy done to "lock" up the SS position for the brewers? I believe that having a power hitting SS is a bonus rather than moving him to a power outfield position where he would be considered by some as average. Once JJ proves that he is healthy I would suggest that we make him available for trades and move Hall to the SS postion where he truly will excel. ] The whole offense per position thing certainly makes sense when you can fill the lesser of the two defensive holes with a cheaper player. However, the Brewers have a hole in CF (not really a power outfield position), and that's probably where Hall will end up. Hardy still has a ton of upside, as we saw in the 2nd half of 2005. Unless the Brewers had a logjam, I wouldn't advocate trading Hardy, especially when his value is low right now coming off injury.
  12. Brian the Automator
    [ How about a Jenkins for Taveras trade coming our way soon. I could see it happen. ] I'd rather take my chances with Jenkins, salary and all. Taveras has a completely empty batting average, ala Lenny Harris. I could see him being a nice 5th outfielder who can pinch hit when a single is what the doctor ordered, but that's about it.
  13. Brian the Automator
    [ I like koskie, but i believe if he approaches those 500 atbats, he'll be traded just like bell was traded to the brewers last year. I doubt very highly teh brewers will allow koskie to reach his option totals. ] I would doubt that would happen. Teams when making trades are fully aware of incentive clauses, and would shy away from that deal unless the Brewers picked up some money for 2008.
  14. Brian the Automator
    Classic! Welcome aboard.
  15. Brian the Automator
    I'm writing this from my Wii as well. It's pretty cumbersome. The cool thing though is that you can set up a personal media server with orb.com and stream video, audio, and photos from another PC.
  16. Brian the Automator
    The "egg nog" comment was out of line. Opinions are just that, opinions, and everyone is entitled to them without people insisting that people are medicated when they take them. Let's keep fostering a good attitude towards discussion here.
  17. Brian the Automator
    I just get my license out with my credit card to streamline the process. If I was 60 and they carded me, I wouldn't care.
  18. Brian the Automator
    [ Weeks strikes out too much to lead off as does Hall and Hart, well, I guess I'd have to believe it to see it first before actually agreeing that he'd be a good leadoff candidate. ] I guess I don't see the problem with a leadoff guy who strikes out more often, given he carries a high OBP. It's not like the leadoff guy needs to be worried about productive outs more than anyone else. [ main point that you are missing so far is that Melvin came out publically and addressed that the Brewers front office believes that one of the main things that was hampering the Crew last season was that we had NO speed to generate runs and that this was going to be one of the MAIN offseason goals to address. ] Melvin may think its a problem, but I don't. The only speed problem in my mind last year was that some players actually thought they could swipe bases, and they couldn't. Unless you have a Rickey Henderson-type who is untouchable on the basepaths, the CS to SB ratio usually works out where the total number of SB's are overblown. [ Weeks did a good job, don't get me wrong- he was in the running for a good RUNS total by the end of the year if he didn't get hurt. I just would rather see him down in the line-up a bit. ] I guess I'm cool with Rickie Weeks leading off until he develops a little more pop. The move to the leadoff spot last year actually improved his numbers a bit, including areas of plate discipline (.360 OBP at #1 vs. .339 at #6). Small sample size warning, of course, though.
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    [ If we don't address our speed problem by spring training, the brewers are going to have a REALLY big problem of scoring runs. ] The only speed problem that needs to be addressed, in my opinion, is working on smart base running. I'm not going to beat a dead horse here, but there's not speed issue that a little OBP can't cure.
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    [ Every time I go to yahoo fantasy sports, the browser will automatically go from the fantasy sports page to a page not found. I will see the page for about a second clear as day before I get the page not found error. Is this some sort of a blocking device? ] My guess is that there's a flash animation or something which the player for it isn't installed in the browser. Perhaps when the browser tries to contact the location to download the player, the YMCA has that blocked. I'm not sure of any kind of workaround off the top of my head. [ this involves posting on this site. I can post 1-3 sentence posts from the YMCA computer to this forum without any problem. however, when I try posting my usual 3-10 paragraph posts, the browser freezes up when I try to send the post. I can go back and the broswer is working fine. it just refuses to allow me to post long posts. ] Maybe they have a limit to how much data can be posted in a given web request... although, I've never heard of that before. Try posting a large post to a translation service like babelfish. That would at least prove out whether it's a problem with long posts, or just a problem with long posts at Brewerfan.
  21. Brian the Automator
    Somehow I knew approving this account was a bad idea. Well, lesson learned, I guess.
  22. Brian the Automator
    [ MS, the price thing is due to categories and subcategories, and how difficult it is to get all proper items on sale. 25% off juice, for example...does this include "juice" products with little juice, like Hi-C? Mixers? Of course, human error is the cause of a simple mistake...that and many consumers see a sign on one item and assume it applies to everything within many feet. ] While your scenarios are true, another popular one is that the people who put the sale signs on an item often forget to take some down after the sale ends, causing the confusion.
  23. Brian the Automator
    If the Brewers lose out on Suppan, I'd be fine with Villanueva. The caveat would be that I'd want the brewers to sign the best pitchers available who would be willing to take minor league deals (the Rick Helling types), throwing decent money at them or loading them up with incentive clauses. I think Villanueva could be as good as Suppan, but the addition of Suppan helps cure that whole depth problem.
  24. Brian the Automator
    [ I'm not up on Zito, he probably doesn't want to be in a hick town like MKE, anyway, but just throwing it out there. ] I think you pretty much nailed it there. Zito had some not-so-polite comments about Milwaukee during the All-Star game. I doubt signing him would even be a possibility, even if they did want to pony up the cash.
  25. Brian the Automator
    With that comment, it looks like Suppan to the Brewers is probably a 75% certainty.
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