RonnieWooWooSanto

Who is he? rangers announcer, he's obcessed with the cubs because he used to announce for them but i guess he got canned I'm not sure he was canned. He left for the Tigers job. I think.

Who is he? Rangers pbp guy. Former Cubs pbp guy.

That was a blast.

that's interesting that a Rangers announcer is talking about winning... anything at all Lewin might hold a bit of a grudge against the Cubs considering his short time as Cubs announcer was rather tumultous. :?: Lewin became the Cubs announcer and was the radio announcer and TV announcer when Harry went to the radio for the middle innings. Harry was upset because Chip turned down the job (the first time he was offered the job) and Harry took it out on Josh Lewin. I don;t really knnow if he has bad feeling toward the Cubs, but then again I guess he might.

that's interesting that a Rangers announcer is talking about winning... anything at all Lewin might hold a bit of a grudge against the Cubs considering his short time as Cubs announcer was rather tumultous.

Yep

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Do the Rangers have someone to replace Texiera at 1b? If not, I think I would try to get James Loney from the Dodgers.

Wasn't that essentially Abreu's call due tho his no trade clause?

I have no grudge against Sammy, but I really don't want to see him hit it against the Cubs. I guess if the Cubs are blowing the Rangers out then I it wouldn't bother me. But, that seems unlikely with this team. Vance, Where are your seats?

On the broadcast today, they mentioned that 10 players on the team are from their own system. and the Cubs have 8 or 9 EDIT: 10 actually, assuming none of these guys came over in a trade that I don't remember: Gallagher Hill Marmol Marshall Ohman Wuertz Zambrano K Hill Theriot Pie Interesting that most of our homegrown players are pitchers, while a majority of the Brewers are positional players. I heard Andy MacPhail say many times that his organizational philosphy was to emphasis pitching. He wanted to develop pitching for the big club but he had little interest in developing position players, as a whole. The farmsystem was supposed to be used to acquire position players... The first part of his plan worked until Wood and Prior got hurt (when we had an entirely homegrown rotation). On the topic of the Brewers, I really don't care about that team at all except when they stand in the way of the Cubs. However, their fans tend to be very hateful toward us (Cubs fans). I've visited a number of Brewers fan sites and the level of vitriol for the Cubs and Cubs fans is through the roof! I'd like to see that team fail if for no other reason than to shut up their fandom. I think it is because they get tired of all the Cub fans at County Stadium/Miller Park. Those Cubs fans help pay that team's bills. They should have welcomed the sell outs. Actually, it's a win-win proposition because both teams benefit from the attendance. However, Brewers fans can't blame Cubs fans for the direct marketing that the Brewers organization has done in Chicago over the last 10+ years It's fashionable now to say "take back Miller Park" but for years the Brewers sent mail to Cubs fans extolling the benefits of Miller Park (price, availability of tickets, and relative closeness of the faculty). If they think that Cubs fans are going to suddenly stop going, they are sadly mistaken. The disturbing thing is, I've read many Brewers fans refuse to go to Miller Park when the Cubs are in town yet, they bemoan the numbers of Cubs fans in attendance. That's just ridiculous. If they sold out their own stadium there would be little room for outside fans. I agree with what you're saying. The Brewer organization was smart to solicit to Cub fans because overall it did/does help them from a financial standpoint. And it is smart to then turn around and devise a promotion/slogan such as "take back Miller Park". It adds fuel to the rivalry atleast from a Milwaukee standpoint. The thing is they created a rivalry of sorts atleast a rivalry for them, but as long as the Cardinals are around the Cubs will never view it as a "true rivalry". Note: I have no idea what is going on with the font size in my previous posts.

On the broadcast today, they mentioned that 10 players on the team are from their own system. and the Cubs have 8 or 9 EDIT: 10 actually, assuming none of these guys came over in a trade that I don't remember: Gallagher Hill Marmol Marshall Ohman Wuertz Zambrano K Hill Theriot Pie Interesting that most of our homegrown players are pitchers, while a majority of the Brewers are positional players. I heard Andy MacPhail say many times that his organizational philosphy was to emphasis pitching. He wanted to develop pitching for the big club but he had little interest in developing position players, as a whole. The farmsystem was supposed to be used to acquire position players... The first part of his plan worked until Wood and Prior got hurt (when we had an entirely homegrown rotation). On the topic of the Brewers, I really don't care about that team at all except when they stand in the way of the Cubs. However, their fans tend to be very hateful toward us (Cubs fans). I've visited a number of Brewers fan sites and the level of vitriol for the Cubs and Cubs fans is through the roof! I'd like to see that team fail if for no other reason than to shut up their fandom. I think it is because they get tired of all the Cub fans at County Stadium/Miller Park.

This is nothing. Sit in the bleachers at Wrigley. :D

I'm intrigued by this. When you called Salisbury what did you say to him? How did he react? How did you get the number?

Maybe Peavy was drunk. :wink: http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j163/Niner74/Peavy.jpg

On the broadcast today, they mentioned that 10 players on the team are from their own system.

I think a lot of people here on the board would be in agreement with you. I see very little Brewer hate here.

Meh.... Brew Crew wins.

Que? Coach_C said the Royals won. The Royals won.

You must have missed his, "Im Jake Peavy, do you know who I am"? I cant remember the rest of what happened but I know Raisin does. Oh, that was the situation this past off season at an airport (I believe in Alabama). He had his car parked in a no parking zone and a cop approached him and told him to move it and I think that is when he uttered that line. Atleast, I think was how the situation played out. Well, needless to say the cop was none too happy.

That's a better angle. You can clearly read Young say some real inflammatory stuff. why must you love Rick Astley so much? He looks like Conan O'Brien. I thought it was Jake Peavy.

regla cinco

I was actually expecting a couple more. I was thinking along the lines of 8 and he would appeal and probably get it down to 6 or 5.

I predicted the Brewers would win the division before the season started actually. And everyone laughed at me. What's with the "woe is me" routine? Quite a few people picked the Brewers. I doubt everybody laughed at you if you did pick them. my dad did, but then my mom was all like "what about if they stay healthy and stuff?" and then my dad was all like "but they're young or something" and then my moms was all "but all the other teams in the division suck" :lol: I picked the Brewers to win the division before the season started, but now I'm changing my position........GO PIRATES!

Where's Cal Ripken to the rescue when you need him? :D