Patrick425

Talk about something getting blown way out of proportion. It's not like this is the first time this has happened, but I think it the first time in a while that there have been rain problems with the WS. Now people are grumbling that they should play it at a neuteral site? No way. To me that is part of what makes the Super Bowl somewhat anti-climatic.

I spoke with my ticket rep yesterday. He mentioned I should get my renewal package within the next couple of days.

Well, Wikipedia states that Macha is the Brewers manager...so it HAS to be true. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Macha

I'm not sure I'm understanding the connection between becoming an English major and your epiphany in regards to the quality of horror movies?

I'm not sure how often this is done, but there are HS games that get played at Miller Park: http://www.prepsonthenet....sreader.aspx?article=1567 http://www.gazetteextra.com/millerpark051107.asp http://www.madison.com/tct/blogs/prepwork/300555

I would assume that most teams would give the Phillies one day to bask in the spotlight before making any major announcements of their own. Something tomorrow or Saturday would probably be more likely.

I expected the booing of Selig regardless of what city it was. In many peoples eyes he can do no good, no matter what he does. The booing of TB was not very tactful to say the least. Not sure if that was a sarcastic comment, in jest to what the Brewers do. However, with the make up and age of the TB team, I think they will have sucess over the next 3 or 4 years. Obviously, their biggest hurdle is the division they are in. If TB does not make it to the playoffs again for 25 years, I'm not sure there will be a TB team in existance to honor the 2008 team in 2033. I don't think there will be a TB team in 2018 if they don't continue to build on their success and start drawing some more fans.

I tried to catch as much of the playoffs as possible. There are 2 shows I watch every week with my wife ("House" and "The Office" - and SNL Thursdays when it aired), so I tended to not watch the playoffs when those shows were on. I get up at 5:30 every morning, so I find myself getting pretty drowsy around 10:30. I wish they would change the start time for the games. I don't know how the east coasters do it. I tend to watch baseball more than any other sport. I never watch an NBA game, but will catch the occasional college hoops game. I watch the Packers and other NFL games but hardly ever from beginning to end (even Packer games) unless the weather is really crappy and I have nothing else to do. Danzig, like you, I tended to watch just about every baseball game (Brewers or non-Brewers) that was on TV when I was a kid. There were several reasons for that. It was pre-cable. There were 3 channels and UHF. The Brewers broadcasted about 20 of their games and then there was "The game of the Week" and about 12 "Monday Night Baseball" airings. There was not the saturation of sports on TV that there is today. So, my thirst for seeing baseball was that much greater. I also could name the lineups of most teams every year. Now, with all the money and player changing teams all the time, it's not the same. I still very much enjoy the game and enjoy watching it, but it doesn't hold the same magic it did when I was a kid.

Stoutdude, not saying this is what you saw. However, we had a similar thing happen to us. A couple of months ago my family was in the living room looking out the window at our cat who was chasing a chipmunk. Suddenly there was a huge flash that lit up the whole sky (no clouds or storms any where near). It was really freaky. We watched the 9pm new to see if there was any explanation or if anyone else saw it. They didn't say anything, but then later they mentioned several thousand Waukesha residents being without power because a transformer (or something) blew. We then realized that is probably what we saw.

My son is Elwood Blues this year. We found most of the clothes at Goodwill. Only thing is, he's 10 and none of his friends get it...his teachers got it though. His friends think he's supposed to be some sort of spy or double agent. This is the first year since he was 5 or 6 (Buzz Lightyear) that he didn't go as a baseball player.

I'm in a 11 team, NL only keeper league. The league first formed in 1984 after some of us were gathered around a table in our high school library reading a small article about something called "Rotiseree Baseball" formed by some guys in New York. It sounded like fun, so we started our own league. Little did we know at the time that fantasy sports would explode into such a hugh phenomina. We started out as an AL only league with 6 owners. We switched over to the NL when the Brewer's changed leagues. Three or the six original owners (including me) are still in the league. Many of the other owners have been around for 10+ years. When we first started, we did all our stats by hand using the USA today (which would publish MLB stats once a week). The standings would get mailed (yes, mailed, not emailed) out once a month if we were lucky. Eventually we switched to some fantasy baseball software (There use to be tons of ads for this type of software in "Baseball Weekly") and then to an internet based provider. We have been using CBS Sportsline for the last 10+ (?) years. The biggest problem I have with most fanstasy web sites and pre season fantasy magazines is that they are geared towards mixed, non-keeper leagues with not as many owners. The dollar values they give for players at times are laughable. We tend to spend much more on big name players at the draft. Several reasons for this. The main one being that in a keeper league, players get picked up during the season that get $5 contracts and end up becoming bargins. So, now you have teams that have "extra" money to spend because they have 4 or 5 "bargain" players on their team that they are keeping. In addition, what some of these sites label as sleepers, do not even come close to it in our league. When you have a 11 teams with 23 players per team and are only using one league, you end up with guys like Brad Ausmus and Craig Counsell on rosters. The "sleepers" are long gone.

Didn't Tom Wopat (Lodi, WI) sing the national anthem at a Brewers game once?

The BoDeans? Although, I would not classify them as "big hair, overproduced".

Yes, and it would have been all Bud Selig's fault.

I'm not sure that you can take the actions of some of the Philly and Chicago fans and attribute it to the whole fan base. I know several long time cub fans (including my dad) that are not obnoxious. They are just long time fans that desperately want to see their team win like a long time fan of any other team. I think there are lots of Cubs fans out there who are very deserving of seeing their team win a WS pennant. I'm not sure I get the "Rays fans deserve it more merely by generally not turning out in droves for a horrific product for ten years" argument. So, do you mean because I attended faithfully attended Brewer games when they had one of the lowest payrolls in the league and were losing around 100 games a year that I'm somehow less of a fan?? I would tend to argue just the opposite. The Ray's fans were very slow to catch on that something special was happening in TB this year. Now they attend the playoffs because it's "the thing to do". I doubt that they will draw more than 30K/game next year and attendance will fall off dramatically if their on field performance slides. I don't see the majority of current TB fans as being very loyal.

I didn't realize that you couldn't argue a balk. Maddon made a statement in his post game conference that you can't argue a balk and can get thrown out for doing so. I thought the audio was interesting for the in between innings discussion between Maddon and the umpire regarding the non-balk call. Maddon kept stating that Hamels was not a "reader". Joe Buck asked McCarver what he meant by that and McCarver answered by talking about the direction his landing foot went. I don't think this had anything to do with Buck's question. I'm assuming that Maddon was referring to the way Hamels takes signals from the catcher and that the fact that we was looking at 1st the entire time should not have been a factor in the balk call or no-call.

Sorry, I just thought it was obvious enough that I was joking (I thought the Booze Bros. reference would have given it away)...so the blue wasn't necessary . I was just trying to re-live some of the good ol' yesteryears.http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

I two people on seperate occasions tell me that they heard we were going to get more snow this year than last year. I had to remind them that it was pretty unlikely since last year was the 2nd highest snow fall total on record in Milwaukee. So, if we do get more snow than last year, you can blame me.

I was wondering when someone would bring this topic up. I've been thinking about this since they won the Wild Card. If it's something that other teams do, then why not? On the subject of the term "champion". My dad got all upset back when the Packer's won the Super Bowl in 1997 and everyone was walking around with "Super Bowl Champions" hats and t-shirts. He claimed you can't be a champion of a game. It was ok to call them NFL Champions, but not Super Bowl champions. They are Super Bowl winners. To this day, I'm still not sure if I agree with him, but he still always brings it up. edit: Wild Card "Champions" seems completely wrong to me.

Really? edit: Blue Suede Shoes is a strip club now as well (Over the Border - unless that's gone now too.)

Looks like this is becoming popular again. Not sure I understand the concept. Why not just save up the money yourself to purchase the product instead of paying a fee to the store to do it for you? Someone mentioned to me that the product may not be available by the time you "save" the money. What are people putting on lay-a-way? One of a kind pieces of art? I also heard the argument that people will spend the money if they don't give it to someone else to hold. This explains a lot about the current state of the economy.

Hey, next time your in town you might want to try some of these places: Park Avenue Papagaio's Attic West Tropicana Billy's Old Mill - I think the Booze Brothers are playing there this weekend! Blue Suede Shoes Tequilla Willys I know I've always had a lot of fun at these places. Of course that was 20 years ago, so they may have changed a little bit since then.

I got a 3.97 (would have been better, but was interrupted on the last one.....stupid work). Have to stop anyways. My eyes are going batty and I'm getting nauseous.

I did horrible as well. Although, there were a few things I didn't understand at first. I didn't know that you had to make the line straight first before you found the middle of the line segment (duh), and I read the middle of the triangle wrong. I was trying to find the equal distance between the points and not the edges. The second time I did better - 5.38, but not nearly as good as others. I think this is more about testing how good you are at art (free drawing) than geometry. I was never good at art.

I'm not a big believer in conspiracy theories either. Especially one's that involve many people...as most of them do. I believe in life somewhere else, but not visitors to this planet. Loch Ness? Big Foot? The Easter Bunny?...No. If I could know the truth about one event? Babe Ruth's called shot in the WS at Wrigley. Well, first I might want to find out about the meaning of life, how earth was created, how life began on earth, and all that other junk.