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I think this is basically a paid internship. He'll do whatever odd jobs Melvin asks of him, and he'll get to hover around DM and learn the business. This will also get him experience for when he applies for a vacant GM job.

I've had steroids once. Doctor induced into the bloodstream every day for 5 days and then pills to slowly cycle off of them. They made my metabolism shoot through the roof. I felt like I could run a marathon. If I was able to lift weights at that time (I had to stop while dealing with the medical condition), I would have put on tons of muscle. It doesn't put muscle on, but it will enable you to work out more and that causes muscle growth.

On Brewers.com it mentions that he was offered the first base coaching job from Sveum. Thank you Craig for staying home and not joining the dark side.

During the Brewers mid-week trip the prices drop to $230. And these prices are for the "City View" rooms. There aren't many "River View" rooms that are available for the extra $100. But it does look beautiful in the pictures.

I'd like a power threat off the bench, and most of the names Briggs mentioned would fit that niche. Kind of weird that after 2011 we are worried about not having enough RH bats in the lineup.

Right now the Renaissance is going for $269/night the weekend the Brewers are in town. That's about $100 more than I wanted to spend. Maybe I should take a mid-week trip to PNC.

say what you want, he did stump the journal sentinel beat reporters and the news stations, and the soda contract is worth millions of dollars a year i would guess, so its a big deal. probably the second biggest one behind miller. According to Forbes, PepsiCo is the largest corporate sponsor of the Brewers. I would say that the end of the contract of the largest sponsor would count as "huge". This is probably the second largest contract (in dollars and importance) behind Miller. Forbes probably counts PepsiCo as the largest because most of the Miller deal is the naming rights.

I am shocked they don't sell Baja MD on the street. They have 50 flavors of Dew anyway.

Noooo! I like my free DD Pepsi. JaDerHeyski will be happy that it's a coke.

There are a lot of people that are astounded that I like baseball better than football. The most common complaint is that baseball is too boring with no action. I also hear flak about the NHL not having enough scoring. I decided to crunch some numbers. NFL 2011 season Each team scored an average of 2.36 TD a game. I combined field goals, safeties, and two point conversions. Each team averaged 1.63 of these per game. It comes out to 3.99 scores per game per team. If you count extra points as "separate scores", it drives this average up to 6.24. MLB 2011 season Each team scored an average of 4.28 runs per game. I wanted to count only run scoring plays, but I couldn't find that information anywhere without going down to a player by player basis. NHL 2010-2011 season Each team scored an average of 2.73 goals per game. The average NFL game is 3:00-3:10. The average MLB game is 2:50-3:00. So baseball has about the same amount of scores as football in the same amount of time. Unless you want to count extra points as "exciting scoring plays". I do admit that baseball doesn't have such exciting plays as running out the clock or taking a knee.

I met Cryme Tyme once. It wasn't a gimmick, that was how they acted in normal society.

Patrick425 wrote:They seem to like words with X's in them. I heard this from a marketer/saleswoman a number of years ago. Always try to include the following letters, for people always associate good things with them. X, S, and E. And the letter L goes with all 3. I'll let you figure out why those are "preferred" letters. Don't believe me? Check out car models and look at the letters that follow them.

Do the Brewers keep that money, or does it get paid like a fine and go into the MLB charities?

Here's what I think happened with the stadium. Selig knew he was going to be commissioner and needed to sell the team. If he sold the team in the mid 90's, you were pretty much guaranteeing the new owner would push to move the team. He needed a new stadium to lock the next owner to the city. I don't know enough about the Brewers finances to know whether they could have gotten a loan for a new stadium. It's possible that banks weren't willing to lend money to such a small market team that didn't show signs of turning profits. It's also harder to sell an entity that has massive debt. This led him to realize he needed the city/county/state to pay for the stadium. We also have a history of building stadiums. County Stadium was built before we had assurances we would have a team to play there. The only questionable part of the deal is why it is not the county's property. Once the stadium was built he wanted to increase the value. His daughter tried to build a winner, but she failed horribly. They then realized they can increase value by lowering the debt. The easiest way to lower debt was to not have any player contracts on the books. I think Payne resigned because he found out about this plan. Our payroll in 04 was practically nothing. This meant the new owner could come in to a team friendly stadium deal and build the team the way he wanted. This made it far easier to find a potential buyer. And Selig would be guaranteed that the Brewers would continue to play in Milwaukee. I'll admit that one of the underlying threads this whole process is that Selig wanted to make as much money as possible from the sale. If you want to hate him for doing this, I can't stop you. But he could have made a back room deal that would have been worse. He could have found a buyer in the 90s and increased the sale price by using his position as commissioner to allow a move before the sale. He wanted to make money (like you, me, Fielder, or everyone else in the world) but he also cared about the city and keeping it a Major League city.

JaDerHeyski and I both used Braun's bat during a BP session last year. I usually use a metal 28oz bat for softball. Braun's bat was like swinging a boat anchor. People also don't think about how different it is to swing with a heavy one-flap helmet on the head. (BTW, I was able to get several nice singles the opposite way on the 20-30mph pitcher thank you) I think steroids should not be in the HOF decision. Every generation had their version of cheating. It becomes too hard to make decisions on who or when they were cheating. I think they should just be judged on how they performed compared to their contemporaries. It isn't the Hall of Awesome Human Beings, it is the Hall of Fame. You can be the worst human being (cough Bonds) and still have a lot of Fame (cough Cobb).

Another stupid CEO making more than his employees. It's outrageous that he runs a billions dollar operation, pulls down that salary, and pays his employees minimum wage. When are any of the players in MLB ever going to make more than $20M a year? We really need to go back to the more fair even/odd year to designate home field. Except for his cowering before Joe Torre and Bob Brenly, I think he's done a great job. He got a $4M raise, which is deserved the way baseball has grown. It's also nice that he cares about the game as a whole. I can guarantee that the next comish will favor the east coast the way ESPN fans want.

Castro was a Brewer employee for a long time. He should get votes for the same reason as Schroeder. Jenkins should be a lock for this. If he had been with us during one of our 2 good runs, he would already be in. I'm not shocked Wes Obermueller got a vote. I'm shocked he was even on the ballet. Where did Ruben Quevedo place? Jose Hernandez should get votes before him.

They just figure since more and more people are buying their own modems, they might as well be the ones to sell them to you.

I just can't get into it. It seems more boring than golf to me. Indoor soccer can be fun to watch. I'm not trying to pick a fight or blast fans of soccer, I'm just interested in what makes it fun to watch to the fans.

I got a mailing yesterday to purchase a Gehl Club package. I already threw it away, but I realized I should have taken a picture of it for everyone. There are Blue, Gold, and Marquee dates. There was also Value (80's uniform blue) and Super Value (80's uniform gold) dates. The schedule looked crazy all colored up like it was. The only Super Value dates were the April visit by the Astros for a Mon-Wed series. What makes them think nobody wants to go see the 'Stros one last time?

What if you don't know any little kids? I doubt they'd let my 250lb body into one of those mini sausages. I'm also scared of heights so the roof tour and Bernie's slide wouldn't be that exciting of prizes for me. Neither would the pizza or sausages.

WAR is good to use for comparisons of different players. It is not literal. Playing Braun last year did not net us 7.8 wins more than an average MiLB LFer. I don't know if it's possible to prove it one way or the other. But we can say that he was about 50 runs (5 "wins") better than Alcides Escobar. WAR makes it easier to compare players at different positions in different leagues. It takes offense, defense, and baserunning into account. It is like OPS, not something you should cling to as the be all end all of ability but something quick to look up to make a rough judgement. Also remember that WAR is a counting stat. Someone who plays 150 games should have twice the WAR as the same ability player who only played 75 games.

Yes and yes. I hope we don't sign guys with last names like Gonzalez or Izturis to play short. I hope we don't replace white boy McGehee with someone named Ramirez. I was upset when we traded for a pitcher named Rodriguez last year. He did nothing for us. We embraced JJ because of the shortstop(s) that came before him. Like the white Counsell. We were coming off more than a decade of losing seasons, so we weren't going to be more upset with players who had upsides.Escobar was replacing an offensively struggling All Star SS, yet had shown nothing in his career that he'd be anything besides a defense only SS. We were expecting to compete for the playoffs every year when this happened. This is why some wanted to stay with JJ longer, or at least not trade him when his value was at an all time low.

Is it the cause of the Orange Bowl or the Computer Pick Bowl? Imagine the outrage if the Badgers made the championship game the year it was the Rose Bowl.

Schlitz001 wrote:I've been an XM subscriber since about '05. I was pretty annoyed by this change also, but I use it enough to pay the extra. The online charge didn't start until after the "merge", I want to say in '09.I've never had either, but here's my guess. Sirius has charged for online since '04. After the merger in '08 XM started charging also. So the lady at the chat is correct from a Sirius point of view and it had been free until '09 from the XM point of view. After some research:XM Radio Wikipedia Page: Prior to March 11, 2009, XMRO was included with XM Radio subscriptions. The Sirius Radio Wikipedia Page simply states that online listening requires an extra fee. This might imply it was never offered in the normal subscription deal.