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Gamel looked better with the long hair. -
Grrr, events like this make me wish I still lived in Wisconsin. The key to going from no running training to a half-marathon is to avoid injuries. Get your running form right first and then add miles later. You only have to get up to about 9 in training to finish 13 on race day.
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A-Gone. Nice line drive HR. Edit: back to back!
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Finally I have a few free minutes to watch some Brewers baseball and they don't show up. At this pace I'm never going to watch a game this year.
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For out of market fans, this is the MLB.tv free game tonight. Edit: did not realize this is a national TV broadcast as well. So hopefully the Brewers can start 2-0 on national/regional TV.
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Got to see the Panthers clinching game in person on Saturday. Great atmosphere and should be a close 1st round matchup with NJ. I think people are too high on New Jersey, the Panthers have home-ice advantage and a roster with more playoff experience. The most likely 1st round upset is probably Blackhawks over Coyotes. I agree that the Sharks will be a tough out also, but they are not as strong as past years and will fall to the Blues. Pittsburgh over Vancouver is my cup prediction.
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Looks like I picked a good year to skip Opening Day. Blacked out tomorrow so I probably won't even see them until sometime in the middle of next week. Just reminding myself that they started 0-4 last year.
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Looks like I picked a good year to skip Opening Day. Blacked out tomorrow so I probably won't even see them until sometime in the middle of next week. Just reminding myself that they started 0-4 last year.
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I'm taking this opening day off for the first time in about a decade, spending it at the beach with my visiting family instead. Might catch some of the game later this afternoon, but if not, Go Brewers and make this another special year!
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I'm taking this opening day off for the first time in about a decade, spending it at the beach with my visiting family instead. Might catch some of the game later this afternoon, but if not, Go Brewers and make this another special year!
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Now that Citi Field moved in the fences, Marlins Park is looking like the #2 pitchers park in the NL (behind San Diego). I know it's early, but those power alleys are deep and that drive by Stanton wasn't even close.
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Matt Cain signs extension - 6 years / $127.5 million
owbc replied to Matt Breen's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
This is an extension, so Cain is signed for 6/$127.5 guaranteed, with a player option to make it 7 years/$141 million. Largest ever deal for a RH pitcher. -
The Marlins are putting on a clinic for how not to treat your neighbors if you want to gain respect in the community. LINK
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Are you Ned Yost in disguise? Just because Fielder is gone doesn't mean that the team chemistry is going to disappear. Any player that gets big hits is going to create "energy". And the clubhouse still has plenty of characters. I think that lineup protection is overrated. Fielder had nobody behind him last year and it didn't stop him from having an excellent season. Braun has a good eye and he will take the walks when they are given. Yes, he will probably lose some hits and RBI. But a walk is still a valuable contribution.
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I'm not buying the hype yet. It takes time for an ownership group to get established. They have to be willing to change the culture. They also aren't the only big market that is going to be shopping in the next few years--the Mets and Cubs come to mind, and the Yankees and Red Sox will not stay quiet forever. Overall it is good to have some positive buzz in LA, but it's far too early to tell if this will lead to a period of success. At least it can't possibly get any worse.
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I'm not convinced that it is finished in those tests. This was supposed to be a crazy exploding extravaganza. No lights on the dolphins? No fireworks or lasers? I don't think the slot machine is finished yet.
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SI was wrong on 6 out of its 8 playoff predictions last year. The Boston Red Sox, Minnesota Twins, Oakland A's, San Francisco Giants, Colorado Rockies, and Cincinnati Reds were all forecasted to make the playoffs. Out of ESPN's 50 or so baseball writers (there are too many on the page to count), not a single one had either the Cardinals or the Rangers in the World Series. The "experts" are going to take the safe pick almost every time. The Brewers are somewhat of a bold choice, the small market stigma doesn't disappear overnight and they did lose a future Hall of Famer. But besides Kotsay, it will hurt to lose Prince also. The Cardinals are getting the irrational defending champs bump--I personally think they will finish 4th or lower. The Reds had a down year in 2011 and are a sexy pick for a rebound. The Brewers' 96 win season was not overachieving in my opinion. If they didn't have a tough interleague schedule or a disaster on the left side of the infield, they would have won 100. Of course, it really all came together late in the season and a number of players had excellent or career seasons. You can't always expect that. But I think most people who closely follow the Brewers would consider 84-86 wins to be an underachievement this year. A modest regression is more likely--but far from certain. Also--the most important factor--it is hard to anticipate deadline deals--and the K-Rod pickup was an important addition since the bullpen was having problems blowing games. Furcal made a huge difference for the Cardinals as well in 2011.
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Who's on first, What's on second, and Minor League Guy is on third.
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Buzz should stay put this year and wait for a better job to open up. Pure speculation, but maybe Texas in a year or two if they remain mediocre? I guess Martin might leave K-State eventually so that could be another option if he wants to go back to the Big 12. But Marquette has a good reputation and I think it would take a huge opening (like Crean to Indiana) to move him.
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Yawwwwn. What a boring final four. The usual suspects again. Definitely not making any plans to watch those games.
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Watched plenty of Badger games over the years but never a heartbreaker like that.
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Apparently it was a 1.5 magnitude quake, but it wasn't noticed because the USGS doesn't have very much instrumentation in Wisconsin. They went back and reanalyzed the data and found the quake. One issue is that they do not know how shallow the quake is and whether it is related to human activity or not.
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No hope of winning without the big men. Bo needs to put them on the floor and trust them to stay out of foul trouble. This one got out of hand too quickly. Edit...well, only 6 at halftime. Still anyone's game.
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I'm going to start posting all my commentary in this thread, we had a nice discussion in the winter thread about the how climate change may be relating to the recent warming. I'll pick that up here since it is officially spring now. I highly recommend the latest blog post by Dr. Jeff Masters which places some context on the heat wave. In particular: -The southern Lake Michigan surface temperature is similar to what is usually observed in late May/early June. -Chicago's March is so warm that it would rank as the 7th warmest April. -The most amazing record of all was from Pellston, MI. Yesterday's high of 84 broke the previous record high by 29 degrees and was 44 degrees above the 30-year average. -For yesterday in particular, the temperature southern WI was around 4 standard deviations above normal. An individual day like that occurs once every 43 years (using the 1979-2010 mean climate). For parts of lower Michigan, an anomalous day like yesterday may occur as rarely as once every 4,800 years. -If the last 100 years of data were used instead of 30, yesterday's temperature anomaly would be much more rare statistically. Without global warming, it would be very difficult to explain. Basically, this heat wave is completely unprecedented and is unlikely to be matched again in our lifetimes.
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Very odd. When I lived in Madison I experienced a strange flash/boom that turned out to be a meteor exploding over western WI. But there is clearly something else going on here. This is different. The sounds have continued for multiple nights and appear to be coming from the ground. This isn't the first incident, they have been documented all over the place for decades. I can't even speculate on the cause, I honestly have no idea and many of the online theories do not seem plausible. If past cases are any guide, the booming will go away after a day or two and there will never be a good explanation.
