- 10:25 PM
- 11/21/09
Was what Kelvin Sampson did that much worse?
posted by drezdn at 03:48 PM on August 20
Also, from a fan's perspective, this trade is a huge sea change for the Brewers, who were on the seller end for nearly 25 years. (Hopefully this will work out better than the Linebrink trade though).
posted by drezdn at 12:42 PM on July 07
As of yesterday evening, Green's Agent* wasn't sure if he was included. LaPorta is probably going to be a monster offensively, but unless if he moved back to first, he wouldn't fit with Brewers for a few years.
posted by drezdn at 12:38 PM on July 07
When someone gives you odds like that you've got to take them. That's why if John Melloncamp ever becomes president, I'll be a millionaire.
posted by drezdn at 10:27 AM on February 06
This is really cool. For me though, The baseball card set was the Topps set from (I think) '87. The one with the "wooden" background.
posted by drezdn at 09:41 AM on January 16
Most of the baseball games I went to last year (Miller Park) were fine, but sometimes (especially in the bleachers) you'd get a group of drunks together who decided it was a crime to not do the wave or hilarious to start swearing at the mom with her kids. Fortunately, there are sections of the stadium that don't allow drinking.
posted by drezdn at 09:49 PM on December 22
The punishment seems weak compared to the offense.
posted by drezdn at 08:47 AM on September 12
Braun is now up to 82 RBIs. He definitely isn't a very good third baseman (yet), but on the other hand, he's helped the Brewers win far more games than he's lost them. Apparently, part of the problem was that he was moved to third from short (which currently has an entrenched player). I love Braun, but if Pence hadn't been injured he probably would have been my first choice.
posted by drezdn at 08:44 AM on September 12
Maybe Ray Allen was right.
posted by drezdn at 10:38 AM on July 25
Holden: For me, right now it's Cappy, followed closely by Vargas.
posted by drezdn at 02:38 PM on July 14
Athletes today may make huge sums of money, but many of the players from "back in the day" didn't.
posted by drezdn at 10:25 AM on July 03
See, this is why I always get express written consent.
posted by drezdn at 07:16 PM on May 31
There's the chance it could work. There are plenty of people who enjoy football that might not mind getting behind another team. As far as the level of talent, but between arena football, the USFL and xfl, haven't there been players from each that have went on to fame in the NFL? There's a good chance that with some careful scouting, they could find the players who've been overlooked by the NFL. The main thing to making it work will be sticking it out for years as a laughing stock, until it builds up a bit of history. Part of the reason fans may have not committed to the new leagues in the past is that they figured they would be gone in a year or two. There is inertia that any new sport needs to work against though, fans tend to have grown up as fans of their favorite MLB, NFL, or NBA team. Until you have a history of heartbreak with a team, it's hard to be really committed to them. Than again, I'm secretly waiting for the Milwaukee Beers.
posted by drezdn at 11:13 AM on May 31
After watching holden's link I am envious of anyone who's NES is still working and has Tecmo Superbowl. It's a shame that Tecmo superbowl couldn't let you build your team, because the QB Eagles/Bo Jackson combo would be unstoppable. And I always just thought my brother was better than me at video games.
posted by drezdn at 09:53 AM on May 31
If they were really serious about it, they would have it removed with lasers or something.
posted by drezdn at 01:53 PM on May 18
Dyams, it was a bit more of my brother's thing (5'8"), but he could hit balls a block over when we played baseball. I think Henderson's cockiness appealed to him. He also loved Ozzie Smith.
posted by drezdn at 01:03 PM on May 18
It does slow down the game, but as a fan, it's always thrilling to see one of your guys successfully steal a base. Maybe what the game needs is a new stolen base star? When I was a kid we all wanted to be Ricky Henderson.
posted by drezdn at 09:48 AM on May 18
I'm tempted to go for the sheer strangeness of it all.
posted by drezdn at 01:35 PM on April 09
My band is playing a reasonably big show that night, I'm kind of curious as to how this will affect turnout.
posted by drezdn at 12:34 PM on December 28
drezdn, learn the rules before you challenge lance. I'm not challenging Lance. In several books on the Tour, I've seen mentions of the fact that samples are saved to test for drugs that might not be detected at the time. Michael Barry's book would be one such example.
posted by drezdn at 12:06 PM on August 26
substances can be banned but undetectable? how does that work? has anyone ever been convicted of using one of these substances? how would they prove it? In Cycling, testable material is stored to test for untestable drugs at a later date.
posted by drezdn at 10:22 AM on August 24
FYI, it's UWM, or University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, never UW-M. Not that it matters now.
posted by drezdn at 02:11 PM on March 27
Dodgers Sweep Cardinals, Advance to NLCS
If Saint Louis really had the best fans in baseball, the Browns would have never left town.