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Since he has acquired zero MLB service time since 2012 it makes no difference at what age he "retires". This is just really weird that a player of his caliber gets a retirement ceremony 7 years since he last played. If this is a marketing ploy by the team, they could have picked a more well-known player. I highly doubt people were rushing to buy tickets to the game now that Bill Hall will be there. Heck, I bet half of the fans in the stadium have only been fans for a few years and will have no idea who he even is. Are you saying this because you have knowledge of how the MLB players pension works, or are you just making assumptions? My wife has the rare fortune of having a pension plan (defined benefit -entirely employer funded). She grandfathered into it before the company discontinued it for new employees. I know that for her plan if she quits at 62, but waits until 65 to start collecting, she gets more than if she collected right away at 62.

Looks like he last played in the minors in 2013 for the Angels AAA team. I wonder why he waited until now to retire? Perhaps his player pension package is bigger if he waited until he was 40 (he turns 40 in December)?

So, what is your alternative solution? I'll agree that it assumes that "nearly every single driver is a good driver and thinks logically" and that is why it doesn't work. It doesn't mean it's one of the dumbest things ever just because some people can't understand the logic behind it. I think most ideas, laws, ordinances, etc that are put in place assume this. It's unfortunate that this is not reality.

By rule, pitchers are supposed to come to a set position before every pitch, correct? Seems like Miller balks on every pitch. Grandal!!

Looking at the radar, rain pretty much came out of nowhere.

I'm envisioning a lot of "Relax Roxane" signs at Miller Park. I'm sure some entrepreneurial minded person is already working on a T-shirt.

Yes, thank you! It's maddening to me to watch players (mostly lefties) go up to the plate with basically no one on the left side of the infield and just go about their AB like business as usual. Learn to bunt!! Learn to hit the other way! Change your approach! When I see those shifts, I imagine me going to a game in the 80's and Ben Oglivie comes to the plate and the other team does this wild shift (like they do now). The announcers are puzzled, the crowd is puzzled, Ben Oglivie is puzzled....really, your going to just not have anyone on the left side of the infield? Ok? I'll bunt.

Dakota Hudson has a no-hitter. No one has gotten a hit off him so far. He's pitching a no-hitter.

Based on what happened with zippering in Milwaukee when the zoo interchange work was being done, zippering doesn't occur 100 yards before the lane closure. I get really frustrated when I properly zipper with ample time and people either try to zoom in at the last 100 yards, or go into the distress lane (rush hour) to sneak in. While the guy probably shouldn't have gone 1/2 way into the lane, he was probably preventing the situation that I see daily. That bugs me... Actually, 100 yards is a long distance when traffic is moving slowly. Many times there are signs that say "Merge here" and they are usually at the very end of where the lane ends (within 50 yards of where the lane ends). At some point there needs to be a merge and it makes the most sense to merge/zipper towards the very end of the zone (especially when traffic is moving slowly) in order to cause the least number of backups. On most days on my way home from work I enter the freeway going westbound on 94 at the Clybourn on ramp at 6th street. On occasion, there are backups on the freeway which causes traffic on the ramp to back up. The majority of people I see try to merge WAY too early instead of using the entire length of the ramp and merging at the end of the ramp where there are arrows on the pavement. Merging that early causes bigger backups on the on ramp that will sometimes spill into the intersection. I do notice that when I go to the end of the ramp in those situations, I get looks like I'm the one being rude when in actuality they are the ones that are not understanding the concept. They extended the ramp that far for a reason. They want you to use the entire ramp during backups.

While techically true, we are 3-1 vs ARI, 5-4 vs CHI, 5-1 vs NYM, 4-3 vs PHI & 3-0 vs WAS, so we really haven't played losing baseball against everyone else. Why didn't you frame it by saying we are 10 games over .500 against everyone except the Padres & Angels? That is just as much of a fact. Arguments like this really makes me second guess if the internet is something society really needed. Why? Because it makes it easier to search for data? What Sveumrules pointed out were factual records vs. various teams other than the Pirates. I also wonder if the internet has done more harm than good, but for much different reasons than someone using actual facts to express a point of view.

Maybe? Black is 29. If he has that much potential, what is taking him so long to stick bigs?

Saw Jeffery Hammonds mentioned a few times. I'm not sure why anyone had any great expectations regarding him. I remember that signing pretty clearly and how excited people were about it. I just didn't get it. I think people were excited because it was arguably the Brewers first big splash into the FA market. The gave him a $23M/3 year contract which at the time was pretty big for a team like the Brewers. He was coming off a career year. However, it was his only year in Colorado and just about every year up to that point he had experienced lost time due to injuries. Also, other than that one year in Colorado, his numbers were not that impressive. The Brewers were trying to create a buzz heading into their new stadium and, in my opinion, had spent way too much on the wrong guy.

It will probably impact women more than men...but it's not accurate to say it is unfair to women. The new policy applies to men and women equally. Men generally don't purchase and carry purses, so........

This will affect us as we always bring in a tote that has multiple compartments (just purchased a nice Brewer one online about 1 year ago). However, I understand the need for it. I do feel like the Brewers were told my MLB that they need to tighten up their screening practice. Prior to this year they barely checked the bags. This year they are pretty thorough. Here are some of the reasons we bring in a tote (for people who don't understand the need). 1) One of the season seat holder awards we always choose is the $2 refillable beverage cup. I don't want to carry those around. 2) I don't want to carry around any handout they may be giving out at a game I'm going to. 3) Even with the roof the temperature during a game can change as the game goes on (especially early and late in the year). Sometimes we like to throw a light jacket or pullover into the bag. Again, I completely understand the policy in this day and age. We will just have to go out and find a tote bag without compartments. I do feel it is a bit unfair to women though as it seems like most purses have multiple compartments.

Well, again, that is really what I'm trying to explain with my previous posts. People that don't like to use credit cards usually feel that way because they are worried that they will not have self control and when the time of the month comes to pay the bill they don't have it (they spent more than the took in). So, they use cash or a debit card so that they always know how much money they really have and are not surprised with a sudden credit card bill. If you use a credit card and pay it every day, it's the same thing as using cash and or a debit card and you will not be "surprised" every month with a credit card bill you can't pay....AND..you get rewards! Like free airfare!! Probably could do the same thing paying it every other day or every 3rd day. As far as it being "too much work". Again, I'll repeat what I stated in a previous post. Seems like a large portion of the population spends a good chunk of their time staring at there phones each day anyways (many time while they are driving ). Is it really that much work to click on your bank app and make a payment? It's probably less "key strokes" than the average text. Takes less than 2 minutes. Could have done it 3 or 4 times in the same time it took me to type out this reply.

Ok, not sure if you understood my post. If you log in every day and pay off what you spent the day before it's basically just like using cash or a debit card. Should really be the same discipline. Since many people spend a lot of time looking at their phone anyways, really does not take that much effort to login in to their credit card and make a payment on a daily basis. Don't have to change your spending habits at all to also receive free flights, gift cards, etc. To me that's the same or worse than people who don't contribute to a 401(k) plan where the employer matches because they "can't afford it". Your employer is saying, "Hey, here is some money" and you are responding with "No thanks" (not to mention the tax deferral benefits). I definitely applaud the wanting to stay away from credit card debt mentality. However, really hard for me to understand turning down rewards because you can't exercise a small amount of self discipline.

Other than in these situations (which I don't see that often), I have a hard time understanding why everyone does not use credit cards almost exclusively. My wife and I put everything on the credit card and we fly at least one place for free every year (domestic flight), sometimes 2. You could also choose cash back or other rewards. Why would you not take advantage of that? I basically use the credit card like its a debit card and pay it off every day, so I never pay interest and always know what my cash situation is. At some point several years ago, when I realized I could make a payment towards my credit card on a daily basis, it was a no brainier to switch from using an debit card that had little or no rewards. Takes me about 2 minutes every day to go in and make the payment towards my cc.

Woah... I believe eventually they would choose one city. The one will to build a new stadium.

My dad passed away in May of 2018. For the last few months of his life, he had in-home care from Comfort Keepers. Some of the care was deemed medical, but a lot of it was more personal care stuff. He was healthy enough to stay in his home, but not healthy enough to be totally on his own. Comfort Keepers caregivers turned in timesheets that he signed, and a chart of checkbox items that they helped with each day. He signed the documents every week and was billed according to time spent and their hourly rate. Not sure if your situation calls for that, but it doesn't seem unreasonable. After he died, I found an expired insurance policy that included a Long Term Care provision that extended coverage even after the Life Insurance portion had ended. I submitted claims based on those timesheets and bills and his estate received a portion of those expenses back. Maybe something for you to check. It's funny you should mention comfort keepers. We had to get them for my Mom, even though she is already in assisted living, while my dad was in rehab for his hip. My Mom does not have the capacity to sign anything regarding hours. I'm not sure if my sister signed an hours sheet, but they sent me the billing information and all the hours were detailed on the bill. It's a little different in that we requested certain hours for comfort care to be there (like 7pm to 9am for example) and there was a comfort keepers care giver physically in the assisted living apartment during those hours. With the care provided by the assisted level staff, they come at certain times of the day to assist with tasks like using the bathroom. That may take 10-15 minutes each time they come in, but it's been indicated to me that none of that is recorded. The hours they charge are for are based solely on how many hours a computer program states that type of care should take. This facility has many residents and the people who run it have many facilities. So, I would have a hard time believing that what they are doing is illegal and no one has ever called them on it. I've researched average cost of assisted living on various web site. Seems like the overall costs for my Mom and Dad are in line with the averages for Wisconsin. It's just frustrating to me and I wish they would bill in some other manner, like for care service provided or by care level, and not hourly....because the amount of hours is not correct. Also, while we need to keep the facility accountable, it's a tricky situation. They are providing care for my parents and it seems that all elderly care facilities are currently struggling to find quality care givers that they can employ. If we have an issue with care and complain and word gets back to the actual care giver....does that fix the situation, or just makes the care that much worse for my parents. Unless we are willing to uproot my parents and move them because we believe the grass is greener somewhere else (and that is probably not true), then it's hard to do too much complaining or to threaten any type of legal action. Overall, I feel where my parents are is probably better than many other places. The state of elderly care in the country is just really bad.

My Mom and Dad moved into assisted living about 14 months ago. It was really my Mom that needed the care (diagnosed with Alsheimers, but sister and I disagree with each other regarding that diagnosis, there was a medication issue that happened that put my Mom into her current "state", but that's a long story). My Dad just went because he did not want her to be there alone. A little over 2 weeks ago, my Dad fell and broke his hip. He is now out of the hospital and out of rehab and back at the assisted living place with my Mom. So, now my Dad needs extra care and there was a meeting to discuss that and how the costs would change while he needed this extra care. At this meeting it showed that my Mom currently gets 21 hours of care and my Dad will now require 25 hours of care. They don't make a record of the actual hours of care that each receives, they just bill based on what a computer program spits out after they enter what care is required (showering, bathroom, brushing teeth and assistance with dentures, administering medicine, etc). The problem is that it is clear that neither one of them are getting anywhere close to this number of hours of care a week. My Mom is probably getting about half of that amount. When you bring this up they just basically state "Well, sorry, that is what the computer is spitting out". They act like we are being unreasonable in questioning this and that we just didn't understand how the program works. I used with the analogy with them of an Electrician coming to their house and them giving the electrician a list of items they wanted done and the electrician then plugged that into their program and having it spit out 5 hours of work. Then, the electrician completes the work in 2 hours and hands them a bill for 5 hours of work. Would they object to that or would they just pay it? In the end I really think that it's just a poor way of billing. If they just had a flat fee for each service or level of care rather than an hourly rate that has nothing to do with actual hours of care actually provided it would probably be a bit more palatable to hear. The hourly bs is just causes confusion and anger.

This pretty much sums up 99% of what bugs me. Most of it while driving (please put your phones down people!!), but also just other general, every day, contact with other people. Pedestrian traffic can be just as annoying. Example one: I'm waking down the sidewalk, a group of 2 -4 people walking abreast are walking towards me filling up the entire sidewalk. Somethings gotta give. Many times there is absolutely no effort at all to make room on their part. So, what I do sometimes is just stop in my tracks and make them go around me. Example two: Walking down the sidewalk, and an individual or group of people exit a building without looking to see if someone is about to pass by (me). They just saunter out slowly completely unaware of other human beings. The George Castanza inside of me is screaming "We are living in a society here people!".

3 teams (including the Brewers) on pace to break the MLB season HR total for a team. 13 HRs in the AZ/Philly game last night. Hmmmm...

You don't actually have to have an Instagram account to view Dillard's page. I don't have a twitter account buy was able to view his twitter page because it was public (same with Instagram).

I saw an article about this. He said that Twitter makes it very hard to find out why your account is suspended, but he believes it may be some sort of copyright issue because of all the movie and song dubs that he does. People are now following him on Instagram (where he already has several videos parodying his anguish from being banned from twitter).