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I sit behind Hart. He has no arm strength, but it is usually on a line with where he want to throw it. Hart also makes sure to keep it low for the cut off man. Braun has a stronger arm, but likes to show it off by chucking the ball high in the air in the vicinity of the infield.

Lawrie was expendable because we had locked up Weeks. It was Toronto that wanted to move him back to 3B. The Brewers didn't think he would be good enough defensively at 3B.

Any word on why they picked Chinooks? The fish are from the Pacific Ocean (which makes the Lakeshore Chinooks name look kind of funny) and the people lived on the west coast.

The Gold Gloves are voted on by the managers. MVP is voted on by the BBWAA. Two different set of voters that can come up with two drastically different winners.

hawing wrote:I also wonder how common it will be going forward for teams to have the same announcer for a long time. It's certainly no longer the norm for players to stick with one franchise, or (more broadly) most anyone to stay with the same employer of any sort for a whole career anymore. It could be once we're past the generation of Uecker and his contemporaries, everyone will switch often. Sigh.I think it has more to do with the fact that Uecker (and to some extent Schroeder) are the #1 guys. Our #2 guys leave to go become #1 guys elsewhere. We get new #2 guys until they get #1 jobs elsewhere.

Bleachers went up to $17. That's a 70% increase from when I became a ticket holder 10 years ago. This is the first year I'm going to have to think about it.

So the champs can celebrate, and a lot of moves that were decided (options, etc) during October are going to be released.

They release one award a day. That way the winners have time to soak in their victory. 11/14 - ROY, both leagues 11/15 - Cy Young, AL 11/16 - Managers of the Year, both leagues 11/17 - Cy Young, NL 11/21 - AL MVP 11/22 - NL MVP

I would love it if the NFL dropped the salary cap and let the Cowboys get better players. It would make Sundays so much more enjoyable for me. Maybe we should organize a OWM* to demand full salary cap and revenue sharing in baseball to help out the little guys. *Occupy the Winter Meetings

I just meant that paying him $13M next year (like Polish suggested) meant paying the $4M buyout (that you pointed out is actually coming from the Mets) plus $13M out of our pocket.

I think we have to pay K-Rod the $4M plus what he might get in arbitration. It carries a small risk to offer arbitration, but one I think we should take. Having a lock down bullpen all year (remember all the games we had to use Loe early in the year?) should make 2012 a fun one.

Even if you don't want to give them a chance, sign and trade them.

From the articleOthers in the bullpen offered a different version of events [than those offered by LaRussa] of the phone calls and instructions, so who really knows what happened? I would love to hear from the bullpen about what LaDrunk was really doing.

We wouldn't have to unload Wolf or Marcum if we sign Oswalt. We could say (and do if no good offer came) move Narveson back to the pen. Remember that DM was able to claim he was going to keep 2 1B all year for the 06 season. I'm sure he could convince everyone he would keep all of his pitchers.

In a hospital?

McGehee and Counsell only OBP .010 better than Betancourt. We need to upgrade those position's OBP also.

After having some days off, I went back to thinking about this. I am still upset about how the season ended. But not as upset as I was. Here are some thoughts causing me to calm down. Braves fans are notorious for not supporting their team because they didn't win many World Series despite being a dominating team for a decade and a half. We should learn from this and appreciate the great season the Brewers had. If someone had told you after the '02 season that the Brewers would lose the NLCS 2-4 to the Cardinals within 10 years, would you have said, "Wow, what a horrible season that must be"?

http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/9678/tonylarussaeye.jpgI can't stand him to the point where I can't watch the world series. THE WORLD SERIES. *I'm not making fun of you. I understand the McCarver pain. The only good thing about this post season is that I won't have to listen to him this year.

Right now I'm working on custom in-house software to be used on forklifts. The old way of doing things was for an office worker to print out a list of what product needed to be loaded on trucks. The forklift driver had to find pallets in the warehouse to fill the order and put them in the truck. The driver had to remove a sticker from every pallet and put it on the paper list. When it was filled, he took the paper back to the office where the worker had to type in all of the pallet numbers. This was the only way to know exactly which pallets went on which trucks. We bought 10" mounted XP computers and put them on the forklifts. I wrote a program in WPF C# to run on the computers. This is in combination to a new warehouse management system that was installed. Now conveyors and machinery automatically store pallets in racks. The office worker "ships" an order. The system automatically picks the correct pallets and sends them down conveyors to within 15 yards of the truck doors. My software connects to a web service using a proxy. The web service (also in C#) interfaces with several databases to pull the relevant information. It will show the forklift driver which conveyor to pick up pallets and which door to take it to. They then use a barcode scanner to scan each pallet and the door they take it to. They no longer have to use paperwork and the office workers don't have to spend so much time printing out paperwork and typing in pallet numbers. The office workers don't like it because they are now in charge of the warehouse management system, so they have as much work as they did before. I'm currently working on stage two of my project. The warehouse system also stores raw finished goods. After waiting several days (for QA testing) they are called out of the system. A forklift driver then takes them to a line that labels, boxes, and makes pallets of finished product. The driver then takes the pallet back to the system. Right now they need to take the peel off sticker from the raw product pallets and the finished goods pallet. Then someone needs to type those numbers into our ERP system. Only when someone hand enters them (which sometimes takes a couple of days before they get to it, and human error causes some to never be entered) does the ERP system know that the finished goods exist. I'm adding on to the forklift software to have them use the barcode scanner for all of this. Then they aren't worried about stickers, and the ERP gets updated instantly. I work at a factory (obviously) where my title is "IT". We all share hats around here, so I'm also responsible for pallet printers, phones, vendor laptop problems, terminating ends, etc. I am the only person hired as a programmer who is learning networking on the fly. Everyone else are networking people who learned programming on the fly. I'm the only one working on the forklift project. That suits me, because the other IT "programmers" had no idea what I was talking about when I mentioned break points and stepping through code. They write to the event logs to debug their software. What about you, why do you stare at VS every day?

Stupid site (and stupid Brewers seating assignments). I'm maybe 5-10 seats off the edge of each picture.

That is exactly why I haven't gotten into game programming much. As much as I like programming, I need a break from it when I get home at night. I like XNA. It just took a bit to get the mental hurdle going from WinForm's event driven programming to XNA's Update/Draw cycle style of programming. Once that was done, it's just like any other C# I've done.

I'm a software developer that has dabbled in game programming. I have done some C++ in the past, but it would take some practice to get me proficient again. Working in C#/WPF for the past year, I've been studying XNA. I won the 2nd XNA Challange at DreamInCode.net. Of course, I was the only one to complete and submit a game in time. If anyone wants help in their projects, let me know. I've wanted to get involved with something but haven't found anything I'm interested in yet.

The Truth wrote:making the All-Star game decide home field in the World Series and all sorts of other annoyances and idiociesYes, it was much better when the All-Star visitor always had World Series home field. I think people who hate the AS deciding home field think the best record used to have WS home field, which isn't true.

They wait until they send the season ticket info for next year. You have the option of using the money for next year, so they won't issue a refund until you send in your 2012 ticket payment sheet with the appropriate check box marked.

Suppan played OK in the second half and had a great postseason. We decided he was good. Betancourt had a OK second half and a good postseason. Do we think the hot streak or his career is more indicative of future performance.