Brewers - win going away!!

THAT was close - I wrote a small blog yesterday before I took off to Milwaukee - I had made a comment about the laundromat burning down (at least that was the report I received) but now I hear a DRYER caught fire and it was extinguished with a fire extinguisher. That is MUCH different the the "laundromat is engulfed in flames".

We have a Cuisinart coffee maker which started spilling over the sides (I think I told you about this once but it's the prolog to another thought). I guess you have to soak the TOP of the carafe in warm soapy water every so often to clean it - ANYWAY before I found the simple fix we purchased an $8 drip coffee maker and while reading the instructions I was perplexed. Then I realized that THEY consider a cup of coffee to be like 6 ounces!! SIX OUNCES?? Why even bother!!
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HEY - Survivor looked pretty good but I dislike Ozzie and like Coach much better. Also notice that Jeff Probts is now the Executive Producer. Why is this a big deal you say? Because in the last two Survivor's he has been the Executive Producer and in tribal council's he is allowed to steer the tribes in a certain direction.

For instance - this week John Cochran was on the block to be kicked out and Jeff steered conversations away from him and to Semhar, who was eventually kicked out. And I was happy. I noticed this a few times in the last season. Normally Jeff was pretty fair but all of a sudden I saw a change. THEN I noticed that he had become the Executive Producer. AHH HA!
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As I said I went to Milwaukee with Jody and Karl to see their condo. I took my camera (of course) and snapped away! I've never really walked around Milwaukee that much. I mean really explore. Seriously, what a nice city, at least in the downtown district (don't go north of 30th street).

So many people smiled at me an said high. Two older woman saw me and as I passed with my camera tripod and so forth, one said "nice equipment" I said "thanks" and then a few seconds later I said "OH, you mean my camera!". They ignored me.

It was cool for sure but in the sun it felt good. HOWEVER, Columbus was very very close to frost the other night! This would ALMOST have been a record for how soon we got frost. The record was 9/13 and on 9/14 there were patches of frost but not everywhere. We got to 34 degrees.

Back in Milwaukee the condo was nice. The condo/hotel had impressionistic prints all over in muted colors so I created the below shot.  I don't know if colors in that era were muted OR they faded over time . . . whatever.

I had an hour to walk around by myself and then Jody and Karl showed me around a bunch.  Had lunch at the Water Street Brewery.  Here is the inside of the brewery.

As I said I liked downtown Milwaukee.  I'm not going to put a lot of photos here because they can be copied to easily.  If you want to see them LIKE Melotte Photo Imagery on Facebook OR email me to get on my email list as I send out photos periodically.

In baseball the GOOD news is that Detroit lost and FINALLY Jim Leyland can change his underwear!  He was not changing until they lost.  TWELVE DAYS MAN!!!

The Brewers - here is the rest of the schedule for the Brewers WITH the opposing teams winning PCT

Cinci .493
Cinci .493
Cinci .493  should win 1.73 games
Cubs  .433
Cubs  .433
Cubs  .433 should win 1.92 games
Florida .447
Florida .447
Florida .447 should win 1.88 games
Pitts  .453
Pitts  .453
Pitts  .453  should win 1.86 games

So the Brewers SHOULD win 7.39 games of their next 12 games - the Magic Number is 8

The Cards play

Philly  .655
Philly  .655
Philly  .655
Philly  .655 should win 1.22 games
NYMets  .473
NYMets  .473
NYMets  .473 should win 1.71 games
Cubs  .433
Cubs  .433
Cubs  .433 should win 1.83 games
Hou .342
Hou .342
Hou .342  should win 2.15 games


 So the cards SHOULD win 6.91 of the next 13 games

Final Standings

Brewers  95 - 67  .586   ----
Cards      88 - 74  .543     7 games behind!

BTW - K-Rod - shut the f*ck up!!  I guess you care MORE about YOU then winning!  Would you rather play on a 4th place team as a closer or a first place team as a set-up!!   DUDE - leave - you are a free agent and you just told everybody you don't care about the team - just yourself!

Rod