madcrewfan

Well, the cubs are in the NL Central. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/roll.gif

Our parent company recently instituted a block on certain websites at work in "an effort to protect our network from viruses obtained via the internet." http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/eyes.gif Is there any way to get around this? I thought I'd ask the smart people on this site since it hasn't been blocked (yet anyway). http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

Yes. I am one of probably five people under age 30 who does not own an ipod. Never have either. I don't listen to enough music "on the go" to justify buying an ipod. When I got a new phone, I got one with an mp3 player (Cingular's Sync) to replace my ancient mp3 player that only held about 20 or so songs. I figure since I needed a new phone, might as well get one that plays mp3s too. Killed two birds with one stone. It holds way more music than I could ever listen to at one time, which works just fine for running or lifting. The iphone looks cool and all, but I could never justify spending that much money on it. If you need a phone that does all that stuff (and can afford), I'm sure it's awesome, but I'm not drooling over the thing and waiting in line outside Best Buy for five days for one.

You will have to find a place that will let you have a satellite dish first. A lot of rental places downtown won't let you. Charter might have something to do with that too. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/mad.gif

I love me a good Charter bashing thread. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/happy.gif I have had Charter for seven years now and absolutely hate them. When I lived in downtown Madison, I had numerous problems with them every year. Our service constantly went out, sometimes for half a day or more. One year when we moved, I called up to have the service transferred and set up a day and time to have it installed. One roommate took off work to wait for the guy. He never showed. I called and complained. Gave me the spiel about how the tech was there and no one answered, which is BS, because my roommate was there the whole time, even checked the doorbell and everything. Got my appointment rescheduled. Another roommate took off of work. Second time, same thing happens. The guy never showed up. I was livid by this point. I called up and complained to about three different people (being transferred around) before I finally got an answer. They told me to go down to Laundry 101 where Charter has a booth at the beginning of every school year and it would result in a much faster hookup time. A guy came that night and finally hooked up our cable, after weeks of getting the runaround from them. I also cannot stand their constant mailings and tv commercials to try to get me to upgrade to their "bundle" or buy a more expensive cable package I don't need. I might watch about an hour of tv a day. I can't even catch a whole Brewers game most of the time. I've been tempted to cancel my cable altogether (since I don't use it very much), mostly to spite my roommate (which is an entirely different story). I can't wait to move out of the place I'm in and hopefully get something different.

Thanks for posting that info. If had found that though, there is no way I would post it anywhere. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/laugh.gif My calendar will be clear for that day...

It's called the Homestead Credit. Your income had to be less than $24,500 in 2006 to qualify for it though.

Another thing you have to think about is the condo market in Milwaukee - how saturated is it? Will your place hold its value and will you be able to get your money back when you sell? I live in Madison and I feel that the condo market here is getting flooded. New condo buildings are popping up everywhere. I just wonder if people in Madison that buy one will be stuck with it if it isn't on the square downtown or on one of the lakes. Even one of the newer downtown condo buildings on the lake is only 70% full. There is an extremely nice condo place on the near west side with absolutely beautiful condos and it's only about 25-30% full right now.

Just bad luck. That's what I'm going to vent about. No one can really blame Yost or Cordero in this situation. If you're Yost, your closer has the game down to practically the last pitch, so you have to stick with the best closer in baseball. Cordero was bound to blow a save eventually. It's not like he was going to go 65/65 on save opps this season. The Rangers hit good pitches, so you have to give them credit. It absolutely sucks, and happened at a bad time for this team, given the recent stretch they've had, but I think every other team in the Central lost today if I remember correctly, so not like it hurt us that much. Hopefully they will rebound.

Those are great traits in my opinion. Probably because they apply to me too. I love sarcastic people. (Notice this is not in blue font). I love those type of posts. When someone posts a dumb question like that, I just put a link to google in my response. Hopefully they get the point.

Are we talking about one-liners or one line posts? There is a difference. I think a good point can be made with a one line post, and I do that myself quite a bit on this site. Some of my favorite posts are only one line because they are generally a very witty and relevant response to the topic at hand. One-liners that have no point and are just trying to zing someone tend to be worthless though. I do agree that those who are just trying to build massive post counts (clearly this is not me http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif ) should be discouraged from doing so through one line posts though. And to those who don't like the "elitist" atmosphere of this site, there are other sites out there that appeal to the masses with their trash talking, flaming, AOL language, etc. I like this site because it pretty much weeds out the riff raff. Some of the other sports sites I belong or have belonged to...not so much. I like that Brian tries to keep this site clean and have it maintain a high level of discourse.

I don't mind losing a game or two, but Boof Bonzer and Scott Baker (who?)? I would think this was a sick joke if I didn't see it happen. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif

The Badgers are not major in your opinion?

I wish I could afford that. Even if I could, I don't see any reason to spend that much money on a pair of pants. Such a waste.

Sorry. I forgot "and blow right past the motorized cart for the disabled (since they are not disabled) in a mad rush to buy what they need and get out of there as fast as possible" on the end of my statement. I really was not trying to make a blanket statement with my post. I just hate the people who have no disabilities who try to do things that those who are actually disabled should be allowed to do without receiving dirty looks. I worked at a grocery store in high school, so I know all about the problems of people parking in handicapped spaces when they are not really handicapped. I have helped out people who need to use the motorized carts because they actually do have a problem walking. I've seen people park in the fire lane in front of the store and hurry inside to get some groceries and rush out again simply because they are in a hurry, not because they are handicapped.