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Yeah these are not $80 jerseys for $20. These are $200+ jerseys. The tags on my M&N Yount & Molitor jerseys say $520. That's probably wrong cuz the M&N website lists at $250. However, like I said, I can't tell any difference with the throwback jerseys. Mine look exactly like the pictures and they even have the Cooperstown tag as well as the M&N neck label. The only differences that noticeable are with the new baseball jerseys. For $20 each ($40 for hockey), I think it's a great deal. http://www.mitchellandness.com///images/products/medium/BE82H19_W.jpg http://www.mitchellandness.com//images/products/MEDIUM/7229_4AC_82PMOLI_1_M.jpg

I think the problem with that is the roster is too big. Mid-carders like Ziggler, Morrison, Swagger, Bryan, Sheamus, etc. have had a hard enough time getting face-time as it is now (though Morrison and Bryan seem to be getting a bit of a push now). And it took about half the year to finally get Zack Ryder some air-time. I fear that if they scrapped the brands, it would just be the Cena/Punk/Orton/Christian shows. All the big name guys, while talented, would be the primary focus. I think splitting the roster up at least gives the mid-carders more of a chance. Hopefully with HHH taking over, he realizes that these are legitimate talents and they get more air-time (and better storylines). I wouldn't mind if they just went to one WWE Championship and had the champ compete on both brands. But I would definitely keep both secondary championships. I think fans (at least adult ones) realize that the storylines are more important than who's the World/WWE Champ. If you have great storytelling (like the whole CM Punk angle), people will watch. Sure that involved the championship but it was great storytelling nonetheless. And some guys just shouldn't be the champ as much anymore (Cena/Orton). These guys already have their millions of fans and don't need to be champion to be popular. They should be using the championships to elevate the younger talents IMO.

I've gotten 4 football and 2 hockey jerseys and they've all looked great. I've also gotten 6 baseball jerseys (2 of the same, 5 throwbacks) which have all looked great except for the new white Braun jersey. The "Brewers" script on the front looks smaller than what it should and the alignment looks a little off too. So I would say that for the most part, the jerseys look great (especially football, hockey, and soccer that friends have ordered). Throwback baseball ones (Mitchell & Ness) look good too but the newer baseball ones are where the problems come in. Also, the sizes on the baseball ones seem to be one size smaller than what they actually are (XL fits like an L, XXL fits like an XL, etc.). My football and hockey ones were XXL and fit great (hockey even a little loose) but I couldn't even pull the baseball ones over my body. Luckily I've lost about 50 pounds so I can finally fit those baseball ones.

The Miz doesn't have a belt now. He was the WWE Champion until Cena beat him a few months ago. Because there are two shows (Raw and Smackdown), there are belts for each brand. Raw has the WWE Championship (CM Punk/Cena) and the US Championship (Dolph Ziggler). Smackdown has the World Heavyweight Championship (Christian) and the Intercontinental Championship (Cody Rhodes). Both the WWE and World Heavyweight Championships are the "top" belts for each brand. The history of the belts makes it even more confusing. The WWE Championship is a combination of the old WWF Championship and WCW World Heavyweight Championship (represented by the Big Gold Belt). The titles were unified after the acquisition of WCW. The World Heavyweight Championship was then created in 2002 and took over the Big Gold Belt design to give each brand its own title. Basically all the WWE cares about now are the two "top" belts. I think it sucks because the Intercontinental Championship used to actually mean something (and so did the US to a lesser extent). And they hardly even mention the Tag Team Championship (of which there is one after the WWE and World Tag Team Championships were unified). As good as WWE has been in recent months, I still think they have a long way to go to get back to pre-2000 levels. First I would put more emphasis on the tag teams. Second, I would push the "younger" talent more (or not bury them after initial pushes like happened with Swagger, Morrison, etc.). Third, I would stop cycling out the same champions over and over again (Cena, Orton, Mysterio, Edge before retirement, HHH/Undertaker prior to this year). Finally, I would scrap the whole PG thing. I'm not saying it needs to be Attitude Era 2.0 but at least TV-14. TV PG insults all the intelligent adult fans IMO. I think TV-14 could give both kids and adults a great product to enjoy.

Can't be Braddock since he pitched for the Brewers after the trade (rule that PTBNL can't play in same league from time trade is announced until it is completed). Also probably not Rogers because I would assume he is still considered a "top prospect" by Melvin, despite his injuries.I'd actually prefer seeing Rodgers included in the trade than someone like say Kintzler as another poster brought up. K-Rod, Hawkins, and Saito likely will be gone next year, so we'll need to fill some spots in the pen. Kintzler really impressed me before getting hurt and i could envision him becoming a key cog in the pen next year, while i've reached a point with Rodgers where it's hard to see him ever staying healthy enough to be a big league pitcher, much less staying healthy and being effective in the bigs. Well FWIW Rogers is 2 years younger than Kintzler, who just turned 27. And I would think that Rogers would still have enough value to some team where we could get someone better than Kintzler (if we wanted to trade him).

Cue the Aflac living under a rock commercial.

Can't be Braddock since he pitched for the Brewers after the trade (rule that PTBNL can't play in same league from time trade is announced until it is completed). Also probably not Rogers because I would assume he is still considered a "top prospect" by Melvin, despite his injuries.

Great bunt, hopefully Braun and Prince have a better game than last night.

Wow, nice save by Lucroy.

Ok yeah that was not a strike.

Just an awful night overall for Braun. He's looked lost all night.

Or just field it and throw to 1st Schroeder. Forget the tag.

Well it's still a tie game and we still have at least 3 more innings. That could be a good or a bad thing...

Why was no one covering second? I don't buy Schroeder's explanation that there was no time, it was a slow chopper to 3rd.

Braun's defense is a joke. At least Marcum can field his position.

And the two guys who thanked that guy for saying what happens every play. And the one guy who just compared Marcum to Suppan. Except Marcum has been good his entire career.

I believe someone does that on the Cubs board, too. I also find it extremely annoying.Agreed. Why wouldn't you just edit one post so everyone had a place to go to find it.Then it'd be almost impossible to get to 25,000 posts.

I'm following the Redbirds IGT too and there's a guy there that posts the result of every at-bat. Really glad we don't have that kind of stuff here or threads would be 100 pages long (even though there is the occasional score update from ilovebeer). edit: and as soon as I type that, someone over there posts about how much they love that the guy does that. I just think it's annoying and if someone wanted that info, they could just follow gameday or yahoo or whatever.

Shut up Schroeder, why don't you mention that an average SS gets to that ball.

Alderson said that the Mets were going to get someone with MLB experience, and some success there. Not many other healthy players who fit that bill beside McClendon.Yeah I'd be mildly surprised if McClendon wasn't one of the players. I'd almost guarantee either McClendon or Kintzler is one of the players included.

This post definitely just caused me to laugh out loud. Awesome. Please don't let me be that guy in 25 years. If you had that stache, you would never have had to start this thread.Or if you were Daniel Craig. Yes, that is James Bond.

Good guess. That's the lineup.

I don't mean to hijack the topic, so I won't go on after this, but I don't buy the argument that Green is a PTBNL or not in the organization's plans. If fact, I think it's just the opposite. He looked like a real prospect in '07 and '08, then had a couple tough seasons and now appears again like a good prospect. Looks to me like the organization has little interest in bringing up a rookie in the year they are "going for it" and would rather not rush him. Let him play a full year at AAA and maintain his success. Next year, when Prince is gone, the climate will be more accepting to giving him a shot at 3B.I know, that's why I was saying that if he truly wasn't in their plans, he probably would've been traded. I guess I'm just frustrated by how the organization handles prospects in general. They seem to take forever to promote guys, even when they dominate certain leagues. I understand they don't want to rush anyone to the bigs like they used to but other organizations seem to be a little more willing to take risks in counting on rookies during a pennant chase. I know Buster Posey has more talent and is a bigger name than Green but he is an example. I just wish they were a little more aggressive with their prospect approach and would at least give the kid a chance for a few weeks to see what he has.

Maybe I'm wrong, but when I lived in Wisconsin and people met transplants from out-of-state, we didn't ridicule them for not abandoning their hometown allegiances for the Packers. Living in St. Louis for the last five years, people are beside themselves when they find out I'm still a Brewers fan. That's the difference. There's this expectation that you'll just fall in love with the Cardinal nation because they are the Cardinal nation. They're more like the baseball equivalent of the Cowboys. I have always been ridiculed for not cheering the team on the other side of the state. Despite the fact that I've always lived closer to Chicago than Green Bay. The Cowboys are more like the Yankees if MLB ever had full profit sharing and a salary cap. You wouldn't think the Cards would tolerate throwing at people or watching home runs. But they do when it's their own team. The Packers can't stand excessive celebrations, except when they do the Leap or the Title Belt. The Packers tolerated and excused Farve for all of those years, just like the Cards tolerated McGuire all of those years. The Packers play football the "Correct Way". This is a Brewers forum and therefore, should probably stick to baseball. That being said, I don't see the Packers as "keepers of the game" like the Cardinals come off as. So maybe you should just stop with the Packer talk before you start to piss people off. And yes I'm being serious. edit: And I mean piss off not because you are criticizing the Packers but because I think you are doing so unfairly. They are nothing close to the Cardinals (other than being a historic franchise) and I take offense to them even being mentioned in the same breath.

That would be nice for next season, but I think they may value McGehee more than you think. Well, you are probably correct. 3B will no doubt start as a platoon that Green will have win to become everyday starter. But I think eventually he will win the job.I really hope Green wins the job but honestly, I don't know if the organization has him in their plans. I guess you could argue that if that was the case, he would've been traded (or on the PTBNL list) for a useful piece this year. But I think if they truly thought highly of him, he would've been up when McGehee was struggling and for sure when Weeks went down. But I hope I'm wrong and he wins the job next spring.