Columbus downtown - 82% Occupancy

WELL - Yelich going down makes me MUCH sadder then when Rodgers went down the last 2 years. sigh. Hurts in the real world AND my little fantasy world of Strat-o-Matic. I'll will feel this pain NEXT year also!

Its the same injury I sustained when we were building this house. DJ, I ( me?) and Kevin the builder were on the hill in early spring in the snow looking at the house and deciding we wanted another 10x10 deck. I slipped and fell on my knee on ice fracturing my knee cap.

 As soon as I saw what happened to Yelich I knew he was done - been there , done that! sigh!

 BTW - my SOM team is 2-10 this month - we shall not speak of this

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In the age of fake news and alternate facts I keep hearing that the Columbus downtown is empty. SO! I decided to actually find out and walked the 8 blocks that we have and here are some ACTUAL facts. I stopped in front of the police station and the very first thing that happens is a guy turns around and says "Are you Rod Melotte?" WELL - THAT IS NEVER GOOD if you are in front of a police station.

I contemplate my answer as it could be important for the rest of my life but he is with a beautiful woman who has a nice smile (he's not bad himself but ....) so I say . . . . "yes"?  

"I read your blog all the time, we are vising from Austin Texas". Oh yea - that happens all the time. Seems they lived in Columbus during Public Enemies. ANYWAY - OH OH - he asked if I could see where people were from that read the blog. I had not looked for a while - Who the hell lives in Mountain view CA so so many visits - thank you . . . . I think. Is that you Michael Mann? ANYWAY!
Little Columbus WI USA ( for the readers in Dublin) has an 82% Occupancy Rate which might surprise some people - HOWEVER that number goes down to 67% if you count 10 retail establishments which include 4 Antique stores that were closed at 2:00 on Tuesday. People complain we have too many antique stores (5) when only ONE is actually open. To many CLOSED antique stores. I would argue that it is better to have a closed antique store with full windows that is still paying taxes then an empty building. Columbus has 7 Hair/Beauty establishments downtown so at least we are lookin' good. We have 7 businesses that deal with insurance/wealth/land. 5 places to eat including Pizza/ Thai and Chinese So lets stop the talk of an "empty" downtown. The city has very few things at it's disposal that can draw a business to open stores except making sure the downtown is clean and inviting and friendly to pedestrians. Trees, banners, hanging baskets of flowers does not seem to be much but it shows that we care. *********************

Brewers oddities from 4 days ago!! yea yea a little late. Check this out. After last Fridays game the Brewers were

5-5 the last 10
10-10 the last 20
15-15 the last 30
20-20 the last 40
25-25 the last 50
and 30-30 the last 60

Statistically Lorenzo Cain took over the most unluckiest player in baseball. Last year Braun hit the most
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Anybody watch Young Sheldon? The FCC fined the show $272,000 for a fake tornado warning! The FCC gets pretty ticked off on such things! Jimmy Kimmel was fined $395,000 over an emergency tone last month. And don't get me started on Trump drawing a boob on Hurricane Dorian. The guy only has one thing on his mind it seems.

Side note - why is it that according to The Mad King we now have the greatest economy EVER (we don't) so let's lower interest rates to ZERO! Does that even make sense? ummmm no.

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A study found that "contrary to expectations, the results indicated that individuals with alcohol use disorder  were more likely to decrease, rather than increase, their alcohol use when they reduced their marijuana use."

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Another study of 450,000 Europeans who drank diet soda over a 16 year period says that they are  26% more likely to die prematurely.  Those who drank regular soda were only 8% more likely to die prematurely.  However - it is unknown if the diet soda drinkers also ate 4 cheese dogs before the diet soda . . . if you get my drift.

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Instagram has 95 million FAKE followers. For pretty cheap you can buy 30,000 hits at 50 hits a day and thus gain revenue because you have so many followers.  Obviously my 124 followers are not reaping me any financial rewards.

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I entered my Fandule Golf contest which will be  . . . interesting.

Kokrak
An
Scheffler
Streelman
Varner III
Jones

who are these guys LOL   The price was right!

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Japan is the #3 golfing country in the world behind America and Canada.  In 1992 there were 14.7 million rounds of golf in Japan, last year 6.7 million.

In 2002 there where 2,460 courses and in 2017, 2,257.  Most of the use to be golf courses were converted into solar farms which is the worst place to hit a golf ball.

The good news is golf is cheaper and you can actually golf without needing 3 friends to go with you.

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