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Thanks for all the warm wishes everybody. Congrats on yours as well Ryan.

Update; Rookie rebuffs agent; Will Sign When Ready AP ~ Waukesha, WI Apparently the rookie will sign when ready, according to the General MoManger. Team staff and physicians are unconcerned over the contract not being signed yet this morning, though the parental press and others are getting nervous about the rookie's arrival at the ballpark before dinner time. Apparently, in the suite, a Brewer game is supposed to take place around that time on the television as well, making concentration by the bench coach limited in nature. "Sometimes these things are painfully slow, but we're sure we'll make a breakthrough today." The apparent hangup appears to be the hangar doors at the airfield aren't yet equipped to allow the plane access to drop off the rookie. Once the rookie arrives, signs said contract, gets in a pregame meal and photographs, she'll be made available for autographs.

Pro-health out of Waukesha Memorial is reporting that the LCBJ68C roster is expected to sign a new rookie to the squad probably sometime this evening. Not much is known about the acquistion, but early computer models suggest a 8lb slugger"ette" with a good arm and quick legs. The General Momanger is reportedly excited about the overall health of the rookie and the ballclub. The bench coach is ready to groom the rookie into quite a ballplayer. More updates to follow when they become available.

I'll plan on running the team as of now. All I know is the Milwaukee #2 and Kenny is running things fine. I'm an easy coach to play for, but am extremely over-organized per say. For example, my team in Florida that I ran for 4 years had a website, with season and career stats, up-to-date standings, etc. The lineups were on an ultra-spiffy magnet board, etc. Just very first class. I'll obviously never be a pro-athlete, so game days for me and my team, I try to be top-notch. It doesn't turn me into a must-win dictator, just as first-class experience as amatuer athletics can be. Hope that makes sense.

I'm sure it's mine. Bring it Friday or earlier if you want to get together and hit around. That goes for anybody on the hit around.

Everything's so black and white, didn't you know?

I'm estatic he only gave up two runs when forced to get 5 outs.

The home plate umpire is one that has reputation of getting excited along with the emotion of the crowd. In my umpiring circles, it's well known that he plays for the dramatics (ie, wishing for a tie ballgame, a rally, etc.)

I'm not gonna disagree with you, but where were you from the 4th to the 9th inning when we were failing to do anything offensively? I agree that Gagne needs to step it up, but so does this entire baseball team right now, outside of Ben Sheets. And even Ben gave up 4 runs in under 7 innings today.

I agree Tristar. Not having Gagne as the closer doesn't put runs on the board, or wins in the scorebook to make the difference between 16-14 and 20-10

I have a sneaking suspicion we will be under .500 come Thursday morning

I envy that you have some left in Gagne. It's not so much confidence, but I think he is the only one with closer "stuff" and closer "mentality"

I dont have confidence in anybody else closing for this team.

Yeah, but we have Rickie Weeks to take walks. Apparently he gets enough for the whole team?

Weeks ago, I noticed myself and several other Brewers employees and office stations were loaded down with these new bottle openers with the phrase "go find the key". Lately, I've seen several billboards w/ that marketing also "don't look here for the key," or something to that effect. It's basically a gold key on a black background. www.gofindthekey.com doesn't provide much answers, as it just gives locations and dates for you to go pick up said key. In doing a little bit of research, it appears as if the website gofindthekey.com uses the same ip address as those of the Potowatomi casino. That doesn't surprise me that the Brewers are working closely with Potowatomi on some sort of marketing project. Maybe something to do with the grand opening perhaps? I'm a little surprised at the grand scale effort of marketing for the casino however. It always seems packed, they're never enough tables. The poker room I love, but they only offer limit action tables, no tournaments. If anybody with a Potowatomi connection has the scope on the deal, let me in, I'm curious.

I believe you have likely offered a trade to someone. You need to cancel the trade to make the switch.

While I realize the spring / summer season has just begun, I had such a horrible first winter back that I am already regretting this coming winter. Since I'm used to playing ball year-around, I am almost certainly going to be playing somewhere this Fall. However, in doing a research of past brewerfan.net teams, I see that they do not typically play a fall season? Feel free to correct me if I am wrong. That said, I really have enjoyed the demeanor and drive of the guys I have met and played with so far on the Milwaukee #2 team. If there is no objection, I would like to get started in the planning phases of anticipating having a team this fall. If Kenny doesn't plan on picking up and running with it, I certainly will. If Brian doesn't approve of using his naming rights, we can certainly get something else worked out. I need to know who might be interested in playing ball this fall and have three structured questions to answer if you are. 1) What night(s) work best for you? A few leagues do play a longer season of playing two nights a week. Are you interested in two games a week, can your body handle it? 2) Do you have an alligance to Milwaukee Rec Leagues or are you willing to travel within reason to a different suburb, (ie, Franklin, Greenfield, etc.) 3) Do you have any recommendations or suggestions to share that might make this happen smoothly for me and the team? Thanks, Luke Feel free to IM also if you want.

Not sure if we discussed this between us before or not, but where were you? I was in Sarasota/Bradenton from 1998 to 2007.

$6.00 nets you $18.60

If I'm that derby winning owner, I go lay those bed of roses on that Eight Belles immediately. I'm not going to go over the top and suggest an end to horse racing, but I'm speechless as to an answer to the problem, seemingly a horse dying during the race needs to be addressed?

Wow, Big Brown won. But my god, I may never watch horse racing again. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive to the situation, but after hearing they had to kill that horse (Eight Belles) due to two broken ankles, I was absolutely dismayed and heart broken. That horse woke up this morning, was pushed to run and on the final stretch breaks both of it's front ankles, and continues to run to a second place finish. I asked my wife, how did the horse continue to run to a 2nd place finish on two broken ankles, to which she replied, "it's getting it ass beaten, you'd run too", to which I absoultely felt even worse about the "sport of it".

I didn't put down a dime, but on a whim I'll go Big Brown Pyro Gayego

I can only speak from personal observation, day in and day out for the past six years. While the examples you sighted above are correct, the notion that the technology can pinpoint the house number or building number occurred in 4 of 519 911 hangup calls that I responded to. Yes, I researched them all. Often times, the computers and GPS "think" they have an address narrowed down as 123 Flickaflacka Lane, only to respond and find out that there is a 121 Flickaflacka Lane and a 125 Flickaflacka lane. Now what? Go pounding on all the doors of the neighborhood? No, that doesn't happen. Again, the Madison Police Department's policy was to NOT SEND a police officer to a 911 hangup call from a cell phone unless it could be absolutely verified that an emergency was occurring. Even further, we don't know the exact detail of coordinates given, and as detailed above, near 95% of the time, it can not even be wittled down to within a 4 block radius, a true needle in a haystack. Emergency services call takers and dispatchers are required to make critical judgments under very tight timelines for the purpose of quickly determining whether a particular situation requires a response and if so, the nature and the necessary personnel and equipment. The commitment of emergency services resources in situations that do not warrant them can diminish the availability of these resources for other emergency needs. It seems the dispatcher WAS PRUDENT in utilizing her professional judgment and training in an effort to ascertain what would be an appropriate response. In that response, she had to answer other 911 calls and placed the task in a queue, in a prudent manner to call back at a later time when available to do so. Whether a computer system error deleted the task from a queue, she never got around to it, shift change, or a variety of reasons why a call back was never attempted has yet to be determined. However, I can say with a great deal of certainty that a lawsuit will not be successful and will be quite frivilous.

Nice start guys, gonna love that 10-0 lead when we pick this thing back up in the top of the 2nd in August. By the way, I forgot some of you were using my blue / silver Easton Synergy bat and I forgot to look for it in my hasty run for the car. If anybody picked it up, please give me some peace of mind. I left a glove also, but I'm not worried about that old thing, but the bat was $180.00 value. Thanks guys. Here's hoping for no rain next week.

You can't be serious. Any situation involving Ned Yost results in controversy. Every freakin situation. I overheard the players in the locker room last week and they immediately turned the finger on Ned Yost about who left the dookie stain in the clubhouse toilet. Ned Yost's wife even blames him for burning the post game meal when he returns from the ballpark, and he wasn't even home.