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I'm amazed at how many people still use paper checks on a regular basis. I don't know if it's because they are unaware that their bank probably offers free bill pay (also, most vendors offer easy ways to pay bills online) or that they just don't trust the internet? My favorite part of online banking is being able to use my phone to deposit that random paper check I get once in a while. I pretty much never go to the bank any more. -
Nooooo!!!!!!! I'm going to continue to let the forecast maps from the National Weather Service Web site give me some sliver of hope!
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Ha, my son and I were pretty much saying the exact same thing last night when we were watching the game.
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Seems like most of the criticism is regards to the pitching change he made. I agree with that, probably was not a good decision. However, no one seems to be talking about the gutsy steal of 3rd in the 9th inning. Yes, that could have been disastrous, but it turned out to be necessary to score the tying run. I'm not some huge Yost fan. I have just always found the amount of venom directed towards coaches and managers in general, in all of sports to be very interesting. If you listen to all the arm chair QBs out there, for every coach/manager that is good, there are 5 that are horrible at what they do. They led the league in stolen bases and were 4th in steal percentage. That steal was a no brainer move to make in that situation. When you have 3 amazing relievers and you choose not to use one of them in the biggest situation of a one game playoff, because they are the "7th inning guy" and you decide, instead, to bring in a pitcher who walks a lot of guys, who also threw 75 pitches two days earlier.... well... yeah.... that's a horribly idiotic decision. Regardless of where they rank in stealing percentage Baldkin, stealing a base is never a sure thing. Especially 3rd base. It was by no means a "no brainer". If Dyson got thrown out there when he was already in scoring position, I am sure everyone would have been up in arms about that as well.
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Seems like most of the criticism is regards to the pitching change he made. I agree with that, probably was not a good decision. However, no one seems to be talking about the gutsy steal of 3rd in the 9th inning. Yes, that could have been disastrous, but it turned out to be necessary to score the tying run. I'm not some huge Yost fan. I have just always found the amount of venom directed towards coaches and managers in general, in all of sports to be very interesting. If you listen to all the arm chair QBs out there, for every coach/manager that is good, there are 5 that are horrible at what they do.
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Are you talking about in the general media, or on this board? Milwaukee fans tend to be a bit hyper-critical of Yost (or basically anyone who ever manages or managed the Brewers). You know, just like they are of the Cardinals.
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Hey Ned, keep that barrel above the handle. Great game. Unfortunately, I get up at 6 every morning and just did not have the stamina to watch the extra innings. I tried, but I kept dozing off. Woke up right after the winning run scored (must have been the excitement of the announcers that woke me). Not sure if it was a smart call, but I thought it was pretty gutsy to steal 3rd base in the 9th.
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I don't remember many, if any, members of the media hinting at PEDs at the time. I don't remember any fans talking about it. Everyone was cheering on Sosa and McGwire..no one was saying anything about steroids, and believe it or not, I don't think it was even on most people's minds. When you mentioned steroids in that period, most people thought of German gymnasts and competitive body builders, not baseball players.
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I understand, but I guess I still thought that meant that 50 was retired. Again, completely ignoring the fact that Fiers (and probably others in the 7 or 8 years prior to Fiers) were wearing 50.
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Personally I think we all "looked the other way" during the steroid era, and not sure what you are referring to when you say "countless distasteful things"? Countless? Are you referring to the tied All-Star game?...it was an exhibition game. I'm a little more upset that he gave into all the uproar regarding that tie and decided to tie the home field advantage of the WS to it. Are you referring to the 1994 cancelled post season? Imho, there were two parties guilty in that situation..the players and the owners.
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Not sure if there is anyone out there that has some expertise in this area, but I thought I would give it a try... So, our company currently has an ancient analog phone system. We are looking into getting a Voip system and our outside IT provider is assisting us with this. However, our main concern with VOIP is losing phone service whenever our internet goes down. To avoid this, our IT people are suggesting a redundant internet line. We currently have internet through TWC. Our IT guys a quote from a Ethernet/Fiber dedicated line company. They stated it would defeat the purpose to get another cable redundant line (from comcast or someone) because they would both be on the same backbone and would probably both fail at the same time. At the speed they are suggesting, this redundant line quote they got would cost more than 3 times what we are currently paying (so we would be paying 4 times as much per month - 1 for the original internet and 3 for the redundant internet). Does anyone with any experience with this have any input? Our IT guys stated that the dedicated line will cost a lot more because it's "dedicated" and not shared like cable. When they say you are getting 10Mbps you are getting 10 Mbps. We currently have 35up and 5down (or vice-versa?) and they are saying that's the top speed, not the "all-the-time" speed.
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Uke doesn't have a number retired. Oh..I guess I should have realized that since Mike Fiers wears 50. I've never been good at remembering uniform numbers unless the player has been on the team for several years. As was mentioned by Casey, seems like they are going to have to amend that sign for Uecker.
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I believe this is the first time since 1993 that both the Red Sox and the Yankees failed to make the playoffs. Predictions: AL KC over Oak KC over LAA Balt over Det KC over Balt NL Pitt over SF Pitt over Wash LAD over StL Pitt over LAD WS KC over Pitt Ok...I admit, those are not predictions, they are wishes. As Owbc stated, it's probably inevitable that St. Louis and LAA will be in the WS..*sigh*
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Yeah, I'm not sure I get the whole retiring numbers thing for guys like Uecker and Selig. Put their names along side the other retired numbers, but not sure why there is a need to assign a random retired number to each of them.
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Sounds like no decision to be made this week: http://www.jsonline.com/sports/brewers/no-decision-coming-this-week-on-brewers-manager-b99361252z1-277470021.html To me this is seeming more and more like Roenicke will be sticking around, but I find the whole way that the Brewers are handling this to be a little odd. A lot of candid comments from Attanasio and Melvin which I don't mind, but it's not the usual way that teams tend to approach these matters.
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You and I are on the same page sheetskout. Cold front coming through this afternoon. Tomorrow is supposed to be gray, cold, and windy.
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Question about tax deducted from paycheck
Patrick425 replied to jerichoholicninja's topic in Off-Topic Forum
So I know you didn't post this to get a lecture or advice on this but I'm going to give it anyways because what you are doing drives me nuts!!! At least you don't take your windfall and use it on a big purchase. I will give you credit for that. However, if you are using it to pay down your mortgage or car loan, why not do that earlier. If you pay more every month during the year rather than a one time bigger additional payment at tax time, you will pay off the mortgage or other loan sooner and you will spend less money over the life of the loan. Or, if your work has a defined contribution retirement plan that allows employee contributions, you would be sooooo much better off in the long run putting an extra percentage or two into that every year. Anything but letting the government sit on that money all year! Ughhh!! Edit: Not to belabor the point, but if your mortgage company or car loan company told you that they wanted you to pay X amount of $ every month over and above what you already owe, but that they were not going to apply it to your principal balance until the end of the year, would you do it? That's basically what you are doing by purposely paying the government more than you owe them each month. -
As my avatar would suggest, I couldn't agree more. Goes without saying, but without the man, this site and the reason for this site does not exist.
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How do we turn this sad franchise around?
Patrick425 replied to The stache's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
As Reilly pointed out, Braun definitely gets paid more than $15m a year eventually, significantly more (every year from 2016-2020). What I'm having trouble figuring out is Broxton's situation. It says there is a team option to pay him $9M next year, but most of what I have seen shows that he is inked in on the Brewer's next year for $9M. Did the Brewers exercise that option at some point?..was it part of the deal when they aquired him? -
How do we turn this sad franchise around?
Patrick425 replied to The stache's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Have not really looked at this thread a whole lot up until today. A few thoughts. - One of the posts suggested off season changes that would bring the total payroll to $121M. The current payroll is at about $103M. I can't see any scenario where Attanasio signs off on a $15-$20M payroll increase next year especially since I'm guessing ticket sales will be down or flat going into the season. - I think they may have enough core pieces and payroll flexibility to contend next year, but I'm concerned about the following years when the escalation in Braun's contract really kicks in and possibly handcuffs their payroll flexibility. - Would not mind if they put Gallardo on the market to see what they could get. -
Personally, I'm somewhat indifferent to firing Roenicke, but I would understand it if they did. I'm against firing Melvin.
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1 GDPpg is probably a lot, but it seems like the Brewers have had 3 per game over the last month or so.
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Wow...5 pitch inning. Is Holmberg pitching for Cincy or Seaver?
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Yeah, I was kinda thinking the same thing. If still have a shot on the 2nd last day of the season (I guess technically it would be 3rd last if there is a tiebreaker), then there is some excitement.
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See Hawing's post 2 above yours. Probably an MLB mandate. Got my tix today too. Yes, the beauty of them only adds to the misery.
