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I switched to Hulu from Charter about 2 months ago and am loving it so far. About 1/3rd the cost and by and large I have every channel I want. It occasionally is glitchy but not very often. For me it is worth putting up with that for the price. Key is having a good internet connection and I bought the best ROKU player out there. Very happy so far
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And apparently another round of snow of TBD magnitude on Sunday night and Monday. Sounds like it could be some decent accumulations. The forecast for next Wednesday is a HIGH of -9 and LOW of -21. That might be cancel school territory. Kids can't walk to school with those kind of temperatures.
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I agree on the hotel. Yes the occupancy would be pretty weak in the offseason but they could probably sell out a 100 room hotel for 81 games a year plus there will be some other events that will draw people in as well. Obviously though if the Brewers or a Developer thought it made financial sense this would have already gotten done in the last 17 years.
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For me it is 60. While I like my job we are only on this planet once and I want to make the most of it. Travel, grandkid stuff, etc I have a decent 401K account going and still have a long ways to go; the biggest question is how to bridge the health insurance gap between retiring and losing the company health insurance and then eventually signing up for Medicare. I imagine private health insurance for a 60 year old won't exactly be cheap when that time comes. -
Tonight is why Game 163 was so important, I would feel so different if this was on the road. I think the offense keeps going and we get at least 3 homers
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I fell into the rabbit hole of YouTube Brewer highlights from 2008, 2011, and 2018 and UW Basketball highlights from the Final 4. Just so excited for tonight. I just have that feeling that not only are they going to win that it isn't going to be stressful. 8-3 or something like that
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Can you really expect Kershaw to pitch at all? He would be on 2 days rest tomorrow. I guess maybe for an inning but I don't know why Roberts would go that route with as good as the Dodgers bullpen has been. Maybe he could bring him in as a LOOGY but that is about it.
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I more confident than I probably should be. Dodgers haven't been able to hit Miley all year.
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1. The Brewers have the 2 starters they want going 2. Hader, Jeffress, and Knebel will be full go for both games without a doubt 3. No Kershaw 4. At Home 5. The Top 6 in the order have no where to go but up If the Crew can win Friday I think they win the series. Obviously the key is the offense and getting into a more hitter friendly environment helps. Brewers probably had 3 more home runs and win one more game if those games were at Miller park (Aguilar, Shaw, and Granderson comes to mind).
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I feel like I just shouldn't watch the game tonight. I have neglected the kids over the last couple weeks and last night was just to much. I will just check my phone every once in a while and hopefully I won't get to high or to low. Maybe I will turn it on late if the Crew is playing well.
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Without a doubt that was torture last night. Neither team basically did anything for the last 5 innings of the game until the Dodgers won, staying up for that junk cost be probably 4 hours of sleep.
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It would be nice if the Top 6 guys outside of Braun remembered how to hit again. Yesterday's offense was just about as inept as I can ever remember, I had no hope that anyone was going to come up with the big hit. The closest ones were probably the deep flies by Shaw and Granderson buts its not like those were even up against the wall. So tired this morning.
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Well he is certainly due for a plate appearance so he is kinda sort of due. Many unexpected contributions so far this postseason; it won't surprise me the least if it is Schoop's turn. He will probably be lucky to get 2 AB's; I don't think Craig will let him hit against a righty and would certainly pinch hit Shaw.
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Can we really even ask Peralta to pitch anymore unless it is an extra inning game? He hasn't pitched in forever and then we ask him to go into a high stress situation. I don't think he pitches unless there is a blowout or extra innings. Same for Guerra probably.
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The Future of Pitching
fondybrewfan replied to True Blue Brew Crew's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Bullpenning has obviously gone well this year for us but you also have to have the horses to do it. Bullpens tend to be a crapshoot from one year to the next so it is certainly not a given that the bullpen can repeat this. You are still better off having at least 2 or 3 starters you know can repeatedly go 5-6 innings a start. The only reason this working is because we have a lot of talent in the bullpen; that won't be the case for the Brewers every year. -
The post game on Fox was just brutal. They just had to criticize every move. First it was pitching Hader at all (Hello it was only a 4 run game) and 2nd it was not throwing him out there in the 9th (Thus preserving him for today or tomorrow). I get that what Counsell is doing is not conventional and the talking heads aren't used to it but you at least have to give him some credit. It is basically all hands on deck today.
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I don't care if we win tonight or tomorrow but we need to win one of them. I know we just roughed up Kershaw pretty good but I have no interest in having to win a Game #5 against him in Dodger Stadium to get back to Milwaukee.
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I got to the point on Saturday that I just had to turn the game off and take a break for a bit. I was getting way to worked up over a sporting event.
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I am obviously more nervous about this series than the last one but the Dodgers aren't some unbeatable juggernaut. Last time I checked the Brewers won more game and more or less split with the Dodgers. Both teams should be confident after dispatching their NLDS opponents fairly easily. I understand why the media is picking the Dodgers to win as they have the big flashy pitching, I guess we will just who fares better. The Dodgers starting pitching or the Brewers bullpen. I think one is more dominant than the other and one is likely to pitch more innings than the other. No one pitches 7 innings in the playoffs anymore it seems.
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Attanasio: my kids can take this over some day
fondybrewfan replied to homer's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Any billionaire with any common sense pays lawyers and accountants a lot of money to avoid estate taxes as much as possible. That might including gifting a portion of the ownership to his kids prior to death among a myriad of other options that normal poor schmucks like us can't do because we can afford the lawyers and accountants to do it. Take the recent death of Spanos for the SD Chargers that recently past away. It sounds like the team was passed down to the kids and they owe nothing or next to nothing in taxes. -
Who would the Dodgers pitch in Wednesday? It would be Ryu or Kershaw and Ryu did start game #1 and looked great.
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I want no part of that Astros pitching staff; give me Cleveland, NY, or Boston over Houston for sure.
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Sorry if I missed it but what is the expected start time on Friday. With it being the only game that day I was hoping it wouldn't be any earlier than 6. I am going on Friday; really excited. First time I have been able to make a game in a couple years and it is game 1 of the NLCS. Everyone bring your jackets and hats for tailgating, it going to be cold.
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Rockies Series - Keys / Observations
fondybrewfan replied to fondybrewfan's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Everyone can thank me for calling it. -
I keep promising myself I will not panic if they lose today but then I start thinking Freeland starts tomorrow and anything can happen in a Game 5. I would really like to finish them off today. Brewers will not win with 2-1 type score today; would love to put up a crooked number early. Cain and Aguilar really need to get it together; they struggled the last couple of days.
