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Haudricort and Witrado are busy covering a Brewers game...wait a second. By the way, McCalvey (the story appearing on Astros official site) is pretty much a Brewers source.

Ding, Ding, Ding. I just switched for the same exact reason. Long story short around the time of my Dad's death, I had a renewal policy on my Florida automobile insurance. We had just finished switching over new plates/insurance, etc and told the insurance company that I would not be renewing, and alas COULD NOT BE ELIGIBLE for renewal because I no longer was in Florida. Amongst large payments for funeral services, small bills, small transactions, the insurance company went ahead and renewed my policy anyways and hit my checking account for the 6mo policy, around 720 or so. It sent my account into a tailspin and of course the bank claimed we take out the larger amounts first to do you a favor in not having to bounce something BIG AND IMPORTANT LIKE A MORTGAGE PAYMENT. Whatever!!! I complained to the insurance company and they immediately refunded the money, showing my bank that it was a mistake withdrawal. Associated Bank still refused to credit back the 14 items the mistake had caused to bounce. $448 dollars total. I promptly closed my account, leaving that exact amount as a negative balance (14 x $32). They still send me letters weekly announcing some type of action to collect. They can take it and shove it where the sun dont shine. I've had student loan accounts and car loan with Wells Fargo, it just made sense to add my checking/savings there.

Ha, Nice. My integrity is taking a hit. I apologize to all, I made it up out of thin air. I had nothing better to do. Brewers discussion is boring with the rainout and all and I wanted to watch a real playoff contender in Milwaukee this weekend. Mr. Briggs, I'm sorry I wasted the time you took to read this thread. Please don't come back tomorrow with a different tune and offer any insight as to the series being moved, what you think it offers to MLB or the clubs in particular, or the fans of these teams and baseball. Just stick with the one-liners about what you believe/doubt about me and my integrity, because it was obvious it greatly contributed to the content here at Brewerfan.net. In the mean time, I'll go ahead and add another dimension to the conversation that I am interested in how this also affects the pitching matchups for the Brewers/Cubs for next week. I haven't yet heard if they are just playing two and will wait and schedule the 3rd game for Sept. 29th should it be neccessary, or whether we will see a doubleheader? If so, 3 games in two days with no off day makes the starting pitching quite a mess and an overhaul from what they might have been planing to throw against the Brewers.

Micah Owings sent as PTBNL. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/a...ws_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

The absence of a roof plus 3 days of non-stop rain might have something to do with it

I would have to agree with that. Any predictions on whether the rooting interest will help the series exceed the turnstill numbers produced by Cleveland fans last year?

Sunday & Monday. Makes sense, though these are now home games for the Cubs. Can the Brewers get any more breaks? You know if Selig had a hand in this, the playoffs could be tainted in some way, in the minds of some? Come out and cheer the Cubs? Not sure how ticket sales or anything is being handled, but the games will be played at Miller Park. (edit: updated title --1992)

According to Ken Rosenthal, you start packing your bags if your hitters can't turn it around. http://msn.foxsports.com/...-if-Brewers-miss-playoffs

Cutler and Rodgers. Rodgers indoors w/ a healthy James Jones plus Greg Jennings and Donald Driver. The Dolphins arent much to sniff at, but you how that Kurt Warner goes. A bad defense doesnt proclude him from being average or laying a dud every now and again.

LOL, I paid $4.03 today. My family in Palestine is very worried, as they are going to be on the dirty side.

I dont listen to the doctor when it comes to constipation. I want it out and I want it out now. I'll take 3x the dosage on the back, which is usually 3 pills instead of 1.

I'm not calling you out, but the second sentence is totally incorrect. Cause: The traffic volume in and around the city will be severly increased, due to people & vehicles moving inland towards Houston. Effect: Getting umpires, players, coaches, clubhouse staff, parking attendents, concession employees, cleaning employees to the stadium will be extremely comprimised. Cause: The devotion of resources, the availabilty military personnel, police personnel, and medical personnel will be stretched thin Effect: Minute Maid Park hires local law enforcement, nurses, first aid staff, ambulances, and doctors for fans, players, umpires, coaches for things that happen during the game. The numbers available will be extremely limited because I'd like to think that a natural disaster takes precedent over a three hour baseball game. Cause: Power outages and flooded streets make going anywhere a beast. Effect: Again, it's more than just three hours of baseball, it's making it to the stadium from the hotel and back again, repeat 3 times. There are more examples of why this isn't much to do about nothing. In fact, it's the grand scheme of concerns rather than a 3 hour baseball game that makes it important to be cautious. Perhaps you've never been in a Cat 3 hurricane, but a simple tropical storm can do enough damage to render a city's emergency response pretty inoperable. As a former law enforcement officer in Florida who had to mobilize and plan many a times for hurricane season and went through a few myself, I'm glad they are taking the "cautious approach" rather than the many time seen approach of "Oh, it's just a baby hurricane, lets go to "X" or lets go see "Y".

Is it possible to screw up a coin toss? Oh yes, just ask Phil Luckett and Jerome Bettis. I was looking for video from the infamous Steelers/Lions Thanksgiving Coin Flip debacle, but couldn't find out. Here is an interesting article from that day however. http://www.referee.com/sa...tails/headstailstext.html

I started for the first three days, then I got tired of cutting the coupon out every day and making a trip to Pick & Save. I think I'll just starting cutting out Saturday's mega coupon and getting them then.

Too bad he couldn't do the same for the signings of David Riske and Eric Gagne. We get to choose in the flips for teams with worse winning percentages, which is everybody but the Cubs. Majority rules; Cast your vote at Brewers.com

Move up Friday's game, and play a doubleheader on the off day on Monday.

No, I already got those fixed. Maybe I'm just too picky and analytical to see what all the fuss is about. The final score is the same, the experience is the same. Maybe it's the fact that it is a projection screen and not plasma or whatever I am seeing in the stores.

Damn dish installer. I'd better have somebody look at the connections. Blue into Blue, Green into Green...seemed pretty dummy proof.

Hey, who can hook us up with a battery powered radio for the game tonight? If I get no responses, I'll stop at Walgreens for a cheapie.

There's a method to the madness. I like to go Speed, Avg, Power, Power Speed, Avg, Power, Power, Avg, Avg, So some guys with pop end up hitting 7th & 8th when they could easily be hitting 3rd or 4th. Brent asked to be moved down and it was between You, Matt, or Myself for the 2hole. Over his last 5 games between the two teams, Matt Rink is 9 for 13 (.692) w/ 4 doubles. Just taking some pressure off, your liners will start falling soon. See you at the cage at 3?

I have an HD tv and this just doesn't bother me for some reason. Often times I forgot to even look. After getting HD, I have yet to see what all the fuss is about. Maybe I need plasma or LCD to realize what I am missing.

Rays & RSox working on trying to make it a marathon on getaway day. Soon to be 14th inning. The teams are a combined 1-26 with RISP. Go Rays!

This has to be the biggest series since 1982 for the Crew. So, let's hear your predictions. ESPN has it all screwed up. http://sports.espn.go.com...b/teams/schedule?team=phi I reckon it is Moyer/Sheets, Parra/Hamels, Bush/Blanton, and Kendrick/Suppan. I'll say the Brewers split with wins coming on Thursday, Friday. Blowout on national tv on Saturday and no run support on Sunday. Either way with the Cubs/Astros winners, we should pick up a game on 1 of them and head to Chicago.

Ding Ding Ding! Thank goodness they don't give away post-season awards for what your players and teams do only from August 1st to the end of the season. 6.1 runs per game could make Dave Bush 8-1 as well, that's just simply the law of averages running its course where normal ball games is runs scored 5 vs runs given up 5. You push it to 6 and what does that say about your win expectancy. TLB was right on with his assessment and Ed Wade for GM of the Year is laughable.

Note: Brent is a game time decision. Projected Lineups W/ Brent 1) Chris Becker RF 2) Matt Rink MI 3) Josh Houle SS 4) Dan Russell 3B 5) Josh Hayes P 6) Tim Russell C 7) Luke Barritt 2B 8) Nick Yohanek CF 9) Justin Gumtow 1B 10) Brent Grinsteiner LF 11) Erin Koth DH W/O Brent we will go to 4 OF's 1) Chris Becker LF 2) Matt Rink 2B 3) Josh Houle SS 4) Dan Russell 3B 5) Josh Hayes RC 6) Tim Russell C 7) Luke Barritt P 8) Justin Gumtow 1B 9) Nick Yohanek LC 10) Erin Koth RF