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It's in Seattle's backyard but Seattle splits broadcast rights with Toronto in Vancouver so I don't think it would be a huge deal and Seattle has the rest of Washington and Oregon as Mariners territory. Toronto would probably be okay with it too. As mentioned earlier their metro area is huge. They have two cities less than an hour away from Toronto that have at least 500,000 people. Mississauga, which is bigger than Milwaukee and Hamilton which has a population just over 500,000. Plus they have the rest of the Eastern part of Canada though some parts are for the Red Sox.

Is it really impressive to have to come back from 16 down to South Florida?

I think a team in North Carolina (most likely Charlotte) makes too much sense. Fast growing city, other good sized cities in the state for additional support, etc. I think Vancouver would get a team over any other Canadian city. The majority of their players come from British Columbia due to the best climate for baseball. They have a temporary place to play until a new stadium is built (BC Place) and I can't imagine there would be a ton of anger by the Mariners because even though Mariners games are broadcast on Rogers Sportsnet Pacific, they also broadcast Blue Jays games and Seattle still has the rest of Washington and Oregon and probably parts of Idaho and Nevada as well for fans.

If you just tell him that you can fight in the pros but not in your league, I'd imagine he'd be fine.

I still don't think that it would be especially fair. You need to move two teams to the West so Texas doesn't have a two hour time difference for their divisional games. One I can understand, but a team from Dallas should not be in the West.

There's a lot of things in hockey that you can get away with though. Little hacks with the stick when the ref isn't looking, a scrum by the boards for a puck as long as it's not blatant you can get away with stuff down there. It builds up and if a team keeps doing it you either let them keep doing it or you fight to get them to stop. Fighting in hockey is really weird since there aren't many punches that land. You're trying to grab a hold of the guy so he can't get away and he's trying to do the same and then when you punch you slide on your skates so it's harder to land. Let's just say that fighting in hockey, especially like that is rare. Maybe one or two a game at most. Last night was an exception. Here's a good article on the pros and cons of fighting. http://sports.espn.go.com...ccigross_john&id=2724254 People bring up the Olympics and how nobody fights and it's extremely popular, but they don't mention that those are the best players in the world. The skill level is amazing and no team in the NHL has the kind of skill. I don't mind fighting. I'd prefer to not have fighting like in the game last night, especially in the last few minutes when the game was decided. It should've been over about 20 minutes earlier, but the fans loved it. Maybe if I was a Bruins or Habs fan I would've enjoyed it a little more (maybe not so much as a Habs fan since they lost but you get the idea.) Like I said, it's a way of policing the game. There's only four refs and they don't see everything. Sometimes there's something that happens behind the play that no ref sees, fighting controls dirty play that refs don't see. Like I said, fighting doesn't happen in youth leagues or college or anything like that. If your kids go to the pros or CHL, it might and probably will happen at some point, but should you really be that upset if it does? If your kid is in the pros they have an amazing skill that less than 1% of the population has. If they decide to go to the CHL, they also have amazing skill and have a pretty good chance at a pro career. That's not the worst thing in the world and no one says your kid has to fight.

I'll let Brian Gionta do the talking. I don't know if there was dirty play in the last meeting so that could be part of it as well. I thought I heard them say that there was. Plus, this is the best rivalry in hockey. Emotions are always high in a game between those two teams. And yeah, just tell your wife that the only fighting in North America is in the CHL and the professional leagues, so unless your kids go pro or go to Canada to play junior hockey, she won't have to worry about it. Plus, they wear facemasks, so it's all good. If I was a parent and my kid was in the CHL I'd be more worried about them taking a puck off the face than I would be about a fight.

I would prefer the Miller Park with the other roof. Even when the roof is open at Miller Park it still sort of feels like you're in a dome. That San Francisco Dome is funny. You put it in a great spot right along the water and then you make it a dome so nobody can get a view.

Former Admiral Hugh Jessiman was also in that trade. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

I'm not sure how good another team in Quebec will work. I don't know much about the attendance of the Nordiques, but the Canadiens have so much history in Quebec and Quebec City only has a metro area of 3/4 of a million. I'm not sure if there's going to be enough of a fan base to support them.

Monty Python sucks.

It didn't even have to be Edmonds. Guarantee Gabe Gross a major league deal and he's a better option than Kotsay.

I don't really have a problem cheering during the national anthem. Watch video. Really amazing.

That Jim Cantore video is classic. He wanted to swear about 5 times.

Quite Frankly, this thread needs more Cheese Doodles.

If we're just going by wife I'd rather have signed Podsednik. And as long as we're on the subject, we need to find some way to trade for Ricky Romero. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

Kotsay gets $800K plus a $100K roster bonus and $350K in performance bonuses according to Jon Heyman. Inglett probably would've made around that and is younger, better and more versatile. I hate this deal.

Who was he going to play over? The only option was 3rd and they found McGehee. If they didn't find him, he would probably be in his 2nd full year in the majors. 1st and the corner outfield spots were taken. Don't blame him for being old for a hitting prospect when there's no room for him at his position.

Are you serious? I'm pretty sure Gamel could put up a .629 OPS in the majors.

Rosiak is the Marquette writer for the JS, I don't really read a lot of Marquette stuff, but from what I have read, I like him. TH said in his chat today that they would fill the position from inside the JS, so Rosiak makes sense. Plus, Rosiak already did some blog posts for the Brewers after the Greinke trade. Here's one.

BTW, Joe Inglett >>>>>> Mark Kotsay and would cost the same. So why did we go with Kotsay over Inglett?

I think they should probably draw thundersnow as something other than lightning so it doesn't confuse people. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

These are the uniforms the Admirals will be wearing Friday night. http://www.milwaukeeadmirals.com/dms/pink/geoffrion/geoffrion.jpg http://oi52.tinypic.com/2ebhoj9.jpg

Are you sure? From the Edmonds thread. That's not even the whole thread and I don't feel like digging up the Kapler thread, but there were quite a few who supported the Edmonds signing. My problem with Kotsay is he can't play defense and his bat sucks too, so why exactly did we give him a major league deal?

Why does the thunder snow look like lightning?