Paul77

I thought the report of the "rolled up $20 bill" was dismissed soon after it was first reported? It was. A $20 bill was found near his bed. It was tested for drug residue and came back clean.

" THE BAT IS BROKEN BUT WAS GLUED BACK TOGETHER WITH NO PIECES MISSING" Thats like saying - "Ball Signed By Chris Bosio. Signature faded but I traced it back using a blue ball point pen. Good as new!"

Big thanks to B19 for the upload. I'm cleaning my basement today and this+ipod will make it that much easier.

Sure, glad to help.

I wanna say...3 years or so. Can't remember exactly when he began.

Closest I could find. GREEN BAY PACKERS RELAXED FIT STRAP BACK REEBOK HAT

Glenn Braggs also spent some time as a male model (in Japan of all places) after his playing days.

Cable outage? I thought that only happened to those unlucky sapps with a *yuck* Dish. Seriously though, I'm not sure how that is. I looked on google for a few minutes for help, but came up with nothing. Sorry.

After the fact but maybe useful...Firefox has a free plug in that allows you to open IE as a tab inside of Firefox. It's called "IE Tab". You'll never - ever - have to open IE again.

Thats what we did. Our biggest scores were on the boy bands of the time. $750 return on $150 investment. We got burned badly by the Dixie Chicks. Everything pointed to them having a monster tour. We got tickets to sold out shows in a few cities, mainly in the south east. Then a few days later the big Chicks/George Bush controversy erupted and the secondary market fell apart. I tried for months to at least break even. I eventually sold most of them for under face value.

Well, I use ebay as a supplementary source of income off and on. Last month I was able to bring in $1,100 which helped tremendously for Christmas. Back in 2002 a friend and I each invested a few grand and started buying up concert tickets. We really did our research too. They was more work to it that just buying tickets aimlessly. We always tried to stay ahead of the curve, planning ahead - blah blah blah.... In the beginning it was awesome. But over time, it became harder and harder to get the "good seats", then the "good shows", then the "good markets". As profits shrunk, we began to take risks - buying smaller market shows, lesser artists... We started to have more misses than hits and eventually found ourselves spinning our wheels. I eventually went back to work full time and ebay became a hobby once again. And that's my ebay story.

No. Give it to Menotti. (Seriously).

Just thought I'd follow up with the latest. No illegal drugs were found in his apartment. All the pills found were in prescription bottles - not strewn about. The rolled up $20 bill had no drug residue on it. It seems like this is shaping up to be an accidental overdose of some kind as opposed to a suicide. On another note, his next character was to be the Joker in the new Batman film. This Joker is supposed to be dark, evil even and just blow people away (and from what I've seen so far, it looked fantastic). WB has had a massive, ongoing viral marketing campaign for months now focusing exclusively on the Joker and death and what a sick twisted person he is. I wonder how well WB is going to reposition their marketing of "The Dark Knight".

I bought video cameras for all the grandparents this past Christmas and signed everyone up for a Skype account. The idea was to give everyone an affordable video phone. My dad said he was afraid of the computer and took it back. The other grandparents love it.

As small a feature as it sounds, I really like it. 2K7 on 360 has real managers already and it does up the level of enjoyment for me. Hearing Jon Miller say, "And Ned Yost has just been tossed from this ballgame" makes it that much more "real".

Ever wonder why there is a Brewers logo on the Admirals jerseys? Or why Ben Sheets has a bobble head in a Admirals jersey?

Awhile back I read that before filming for the new Batman movie began that he locked himself in a motel room for a few months to "get into character". He said he would stay up all night trying to think of things that the Joker would find funny (AIDS topped his list). The said he averaged 2 hours sleep a night - trying to run his body down like he imagined the Joker might feel. Anyhow, after filming wrapped he said he had a very hard time getting back into a normal routine and began using sleeping pills which he said "failed to work". I wonder if the drug in this case was simply something stronger he hoped would help him sleep better.

Silver is a no-no for that color bat. I learned that the hard way last season. Silver might work on the wrist bands though. Buy a cheap pair of black wrist bands from the store and practice on them.

A lack of funds and a renewed interest in custom figures has slowed down my collection adding habits lately but I've been able at add the following... Autographed poster. Awesome. I also finally framed and matted the large jersey swatch (center of photo) signed by Jenkins. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v454/ilookback/34Bsized.jpg The Weeks, the Sheets and the Gagne are new. Missing from the picture are a new Manny Parra and Ted Simmons. I'm working on a new Bill Hall at the moment. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v454/ilookback/customROW1.jpg I also got a 1982 "Sportrait" of the Milwaukee Brewers that is really nice as well. I was able to just add a bunch more vintage Brewer Starting lineup figures at Christmas time. I hate posting "in progress" pic's of these because I'm so critical of my own work, but here's a sneak preview of the Ted Simmons figure I'm working on. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v454/ilookback/sim1.jpg A LOT of work has gone into this one so far, more so than any other one I've done. The face, neck, cheeks, hair, legs and waist had to be re-sculpted, something I had never done before. A bunch of the catchers gear had to be removed and trimmed. I had to remove portions of each leg.... I'm not done yet, lots of work/touch ups left to do yet. I don't think it's great by any means but I certainly feel like I've learned a bunch by doing it. I consider this one a "practice" figure. I think the next Simmons will be much better.

Were you ever able to figure out where Stocker used that bat at?

Oh where to begin. I can charge whatever I want when I own the jerseys, First, you seem to be confused. You see, I never said you couldn't sell your wares for whatever price you choose. I simply said that I did not think $5,000 was a good price. And seeing as how it didn't sell for that, I guess the market agreed with me. This is America. In your America it's okay to over reach on your asking price but not for me to to say I think it's to high? If you are worried about paying $5.90 to list the jersey and another $238 to sell it, this business is over your head. I was actually responding to someone else's inquiry about how much the listing fee's would be. I really wasn't worried about it (don't worry - I didn't lose any sleep over it). The "ouch" remark is called commentary, as in, "ouch, paypal fee's suck". I can see by your post that you are not in business to make money. I can tell by your post that your not in the customer relations business. You see, whether you choose to believe it or not I AM a potential customer of yours. My collection reaches far beyond bobbles and giveaways. For me you inventory my collection of game used memorabilia would be like bragging, not to mention unnecessary. Your posts have contributed nothing to the conversation other than to let us know that what kind of salesman you are. The next time I'm in the market for a GU jersey (always) or the next time I'm asked to refer people to a good dealer through my website, I'll be sure to send them your way. All I said was - as a seller you might want to protect your reputation. You may not have protected it, but you certainly reinforced it. Should I use the "I" word again? Depends, are you standing near a mirror?

Just a bit of friendly advice, I'd suggest that as a seller you might want to protect your reputation by not coming here and calling people ignorant. This is a very strong and close Brewers community, some of us are very deep into our collections. Some of us may very well be a potential customer one day. I myself can't begin to count the many thousands of dollars I invest in Brewers merchandise/memorabilia every year - and I know for a fact there are others on this board that do the same thing.

I understand your outlook. There is no dancing around the issue - the Brewers failed miserably last season with crowd control around the autograph sessions. I did see some marked improvement towards the end so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that they've learned their lesson. This year's warm up is being done with wristbands, thats a start. At least you'll know right away if your going to be shut out. It also means the chances for getting through both sessions has been greatly reduced. Oh well. If they can figure out a way to get people in and out without fistfights breaking out I can live without the extra sigs.

I've been worried about the bench all off season. I'd like to see at least one upgrade there. I was realllllly hoping Mark Loretta would find his way back to Milwaukee this off season. As much as I'd love to see Cirillo back, I'm not sure he's a big upgrade over the cheaper Dillon (in terms of what his final line will be). If it comes down to $300k for Dillion or $750K for Cirillo, I'd still take Cirillo even if their productivity ends up being similar just "because". If this really is the year we finally make our move into the post season I'd love JC to be apart of it. I'm afraid Doug & Co. are focused on the bullpen and the 3b/LF hole (rightfully so) and overlooking the bench. I haven't heard a single peep from the Brewers about upgrading the bench this off season. As things stand right now it looks like our achilles heel. I'm not even sure who is out there for us to be looking at. Counsell and Gross are probably the two top bench players. Both have shown they can do that job alright if given the proper amount of playing time. After that you're talking about players who will only get playing time if they actually show they deserve it. The problem is after those two were left with precious little choice when we need pinch hitters, when someones gets hurt, when we play extra innings... regardless if they deserve it or not there will be times when we have to run guys out there in situations that will make Brewers Nation cringe.

My brother showed up at Target (124th & Capitol) Sunday morning at 7:45 and got a ticket to purchase a Wii. He said that the ticket was unnecessary as only about 8 people were there (before the store opened). Like last year it seems pretty hit or miss.