Enough time has passed

So I have determined enough time has passed, so I can resume posting stuff on the blog. During the off period, I have made the following observations:

-The Giants appeared to have won this Superbowl thing, according to egan321
-The Brewers have started Spring Training and are heating up
-Ted Thompson fired the Packers Salary Cap guy
-I have viewed a few other blogs, and noted that they contained pictures of hot chicks (not nude or anything, just random postings of really hot chicks spread in between their ranting about sports) vs pics of Brett Favre
-I got a new TV
-I realized while complaining about Trek to Tim that my beef with Trek was not with Trek but with Wheel and Sprocket (they actually sold me the bike and then broke it while fixing, which is why I got the Cannondale since I had to go to a non-Wheel and Sprocket and the place did not sell Trek), so sorry Tim for the rant a few weeks ago
-The Office has not been new
-I started watching Arrested Development on HDnet, its pretty awesome (I never saw any episodes of this show)
-I purchased season 6 of Curb, its pretty funny so far
-And when I hear the term Three Time MVP, my brain processes the words "Brett Favre"

So now we begin Brewers chatter.

2B - Weeks
CF - Gross then Cameron?; Hardy?; Kendall?; Hart?
LF - Braun
1B - Fielder
RF - Hart
3B - Hall
C - Kendall
SS - Hardy
P - Sheets (with two months of DL), Suppan, Gallardo, Villanueva, Cappy or Bush?

Did you guys know that Cameron co-wrote a book for kids?

Lazy Days

If you have not already received my e-mail. In the past few weeks I was approached by two of my former supervisors about a position at M&I in their Corporate Accounting Department to be the lead stock option accountant. Since the position I was posting for had been open for three months and the employee I am replacing is retiring. I put a salary request that was pretty high, 20% increase from my current salary, and they gave it to me.

So I quit my job this past Monday and my boss told me they have this policy where people with access to sensitive information have to leave the company the day they announce. The company also has a policy that you must give two-weeks notice when you terminate your employment with the company. So, what ended up happening is I left the day I announced my resignation and the company has to pay me for two more weeks.

Ergo - I have a two-week paid vacation from an employer I no longer work for. I imagine this is Pelsi's dream to get paid for doing nothing!

June => More posts

Descending post totals every month of the blog.

I'll take some blame.

I Know Its Been a While Since I Rapped With You All

Hola Amigos! I know it has been a long time since I rapped with you all, but I have been really busy lately. I thought I would publish my thoughts on various topics over the past few weeks onto the Blog for further discussion.

• This Tuesday, May 22nd, is the NBA Draft Lottery, in which the Milwaukee Bucks have a 15.6% chance of winning one of the top three picks in the Greg Oden-Kevin Durant-Al Horford-Corey Brewer-Joakim Noah draft. I have a strong feeling that the Bucks will retain the #3 spot in this draft and have a difficult decision to make as to whom to select. Part of me believes it will be Al Horford, but I would really like either Corey Brewer or Mike Conley, Jr. I just hope the team can improve and be better in the 2007-08 campaign.
• The Brewers are having a fantastic start to the season, but as of late they are having a hard time winning some games against the better teams in baseball. I definitely believe they are going to have their first season over .500 since 1992 this season, but I doubt they will make much of an impact in the MLB playoffs due to there youth and inexperience in playing meaningful games after Labor Day this millennium. Your thoughts?
• What is the deal with the NFL Rookies having a photo shoot this weekend and the Packers going ahead and having a mini-camp scheduled which also coincides with this event. Then the NFL players association not allowing Brandon Jackson to attend the Packers mini-camp and saying either stay home or go to Los Angeles for the photo shoot. Crazy? Right?
• The Office aired its season finale this past week and it was a great episode in my mind. When Kevin was talking with Jim about creating a comparison list of who is hotter, Pam or Karen, I thought that was hilarious. I really can not wait for the next season to start to see how Michael reacts to Ryan Howard being his new boss. Did you guys watch the season finale?

The 16

Not sweet, the Badgers aren't in it. Sorry not being funny, either. Mostly bitter.

7 UNLV - Was very unimpressed with their play, no size, no way they get to final four.
6 Vanderbilt - My brackets last hope, go Vandy! That's how bad my picks were.
5 Butler - Can't be a Cinderella when it seems like you were just in the sweet 16
5 Tennessee - Some people would say most likely to score 100, I say most likely to give that up
5 USC - Best player is in high school, OJ Mayo, check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RKoXNToOnk what a punk
4 Southern Illinois - you're not good, when you have to always say what conference you're in.
3 Oregon - I had no interest in UW playing these guys anyway.
3 Texas A&M - am I supposed to know who Acie Law I, II, and III are/were?
3 Pittsburgh - So far they've had the easiest road, ends at UCLA.
2 Memphis - 24 wins in a row, wake me if they get to 26.
2 UCLA - Quit making Bill Walton proud.
2 Georgetown - Basketball is a lot easier when you are taller.
1 Ohio St - Did you here about their freshmen center, Greg Oden?
1 No Carolina - When Hansborough broke his nose he didn't bleed Tar Heel blue.
1 Kansas - I never understood the Rock Chalk chant, or Woo, Pig Sooey for that matter.
1 Florida - Noah, Hortford, Brewer, Green, Humphrey, I can't name 5 starters from any other team, therefore they are my pick. By the final four I plan on knowing more lineups and therefore reserve the right to change it.

Refocus our efforts

First off, thanks for changing the background Tim. And since I'm on that topic, I would at least like to post one item from my planned comment on the "How Sweet" post that never was, which I guess is still relevant: Kam Taylor is to UW Badgers as John Starks was to NY Knicks.

Anyway, now that we are done with that subject, I guess we need to decide what to focus on next. Egan has already kick started us with Packer posts (gripes) and the draft is coming up (nothing in free agency to speak off). We have all dabbled in Brewer posts (the Milwaukee Brewers, that is). Milwaukee does have a pro basketball team that pretty much started this group; yeah, I won't waste my time with them until next season and until they hire a quality coach (my pick is still Sir Sid). We could try topics like Roe 10 or I can't believe Rotz, but those are more quick hitters that in depth. The Office should be starting new episodes as well.

Anyway, those are my thoughts, and since we are down to just three anyway, I say lets just post what’s ever on our mind, and if it’s stupid, then Tim will point that out for us.

Peace.

Mostly Unoriginal Tournament thoughts

17: Florida A&M already out. Is FAMU related to FUBU in anyway?
16: Niagara only team in the tournament to play and beat Rider in back-to-back games.
16: Central Connecticut St my favorite Blue Devils in the bracket
16: Jackson St. watch out for leading scorer Trey Johnson from behind the arc
16: Eastern Kentucky is almost smack in the middle of the state.
15: Weber St has not played a game East of Colorado this year
15: Belmont alumni include country music stars: Trisha Yearwood, Brad Paisely, Josh Turner
15: North Texas Mean Green are Happy to be here.
15: Texas A&M Corpus Cristi is on it's own island. Unfortunately Wisconsin is it's own isthmus.
14: Penn these guys probably think they are the smartest team in the tournament
14: Miami (OH) we already have enough about them on this blog.
14: Wright St more like Wrong St
14: Oral Roberts pretty sure this is the only university named after a crazy televangelist
13: Davidson students take take-home self-proctored, closed book finals. On the honor system.
13: Holy Cross, picked to win it in Jesus's bracket.
13: Albany worst 13 seed in the history of the tournament, I can prove it.
13: New Mexico St Las Cruces, NM hosts the world's largest enchilada festival
12: Old Dominion will we one day be watching New Dominion?
12: Illinois too many teams get credit for most-improved, how about worst-turnaround?
12: Long Beach St Dr. Dre and TuPac backcourt
12: Arkansas team that most likely violated NCAA violations to get in the tournament .
11: George W. shortening the name to show how much I like their chances.
11: Stanford look out they've won 4 of their last 11 games and they were on the bubble anyway.
11: Virginia Commonwealth fancy name for Virginia St
11: Winthrop you don't go undefeated in the Big South by accident
10: Crieghton can't stop the funk, leading scorer Nate Funk, that is.
10: Gonzaga are they the zags or bulldogs?
10: Texas Tech thanks for playing, Bobby knight
10: Georgia Tech I haven't heard much buzz about this team.
9: Michigan St better football team than the football team.
9: Purdue a 9 seed for real?
9: Xavier there's something mysterious about the X
9: Villanova with a cool name like Nova, should be able to come up with better than Wildcats.
8: Arizona Uh with a cool name like Zona, should be able to come up with better than Wildcats.
8: Kentucky Uh, uh, Wildcats works just fine.
8: Marquette can't they come up with a better nickname, uh nevermind.
8: BYU man, there's a lot of religious schools out there.
7: UNLV what's the spread?
7: Indiana coolest warm-up pants in sports.
7: Boston College season's really turned around since a thrilling loss to Duquesne
7: Nevada Hungry like a wolf
6: Notre Dame maybe Touchdown Jesus has been signaling a 3 all this time.
6: Vanderbilt Commodores 64!
6: Louisville Conference USA pride of the Big East.
6: Duke they'll be picking high in the ACC draft.
5: Virigina Tech Fight song is the Hokie Pokey
5: Butler only Clue answer in the tournament
5: USC matched up with Arkansas to rival them for NCAA violations.
5: Tennessee now can win the big games without and with Peyton.
4: S. Illinois Saluki a dog that is accepted by Arabs, other dogs are unclean
4: Maryland will score the first points of the tournament, but nowhere near the last.
4: Texas They seem to get a disproportionate number of stars in this athletic program
4: Virginia started by Tom Jefferson when he was VP, how come Cheney's not opening schools?
3: Oregon more uniforms than games.
3: Pittsburgh is every high school in pittsburgh's colors yellow and black?
3: Washington St Dick Bennett would be proud, RIP
3: Texas A&M officially A&M mean nothing, even though they used to be Ag. and Mech.
2: UCLA pronounced "You-see-el-ay" not "you-kla" as some suggest
2: Wisconsin Many forget Bo Ryan is just one branch of the Steve Yoder coaching tree.
2: Georgetown John Thompson and Patrick Ewing the sequel
2: Memphis play in a Pyramid, maybe it's Elvis's tomb or something.
1: Kansas has only won it's conference 50 times, weak.
1: Ohio St Buckeyes are poisonous how do they travel with them, that should be a threat?
1: No. Carolina low on tradition and talent, but high on scrappiness. Hence, tar heels.
1: Florida Alligators proper name.

2007 Big Ten Payback Tournament

The pairings were recently announced for the 2007 Big Ten Tournament and for the Wisconsin Badgers to win this year’s tournament; they will most likely have to play all three teams that defeated them on the road during the Big Ten regular season. In order to win the Big Ten Tournament, I believe Wisconsin (2-seed) will have to beat Michigan State (7-seed) on March 9th, Indiana (3-seed) on March 10th and Ohio State (1-seed) on March 11th. Winning the tournament would really solidify the potential for Wisconsin to be a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, but a lot could happen between now and then. Regardless of how the Badgers do in these two tournaments, it was awesome to see them play that well during the regular season and win a record 27 games. Go BADGERS!

Brewers Win

Their first intrasquad game!

I'm just gonna keep blogging with the hope that one day you guys will find the 1-minute it takes to write a sentence.

In other news the Packers signed Jenkins to a 4-year contract extension. Now that's a platoon, take that Kevin Mench!

He's not part of our family.

Do you think there is more to Michael not liking Toby than just Toby runining his fun?

My opinion is, yes there is, I look forward to someday getting more of the story.

This post was mostly meant to see if I could get Cheek inspired to write his own posts more often. Maybe one more Office post or reference is all that's needed to put him over the edge. We don't want to lose him, that's not the idea. His insight to the Brewers/Badgers/Packer discussions is valuable and missing. His Taco Bell/Olive Garden post was the most creative in the history of the blog.

Getting back on track, Toby in real life is a writer for the show, and tonight is one of his episodes.

Blog - Day 74

By my count, its been 74 days since we started the blog.

Facts:

He cannot view the website at work
He has internet at home
He started at a new job recently
He is married and has a live in brother
He is coaching some type of sport (I assume)
He played fantasy football
He has a dog that is just a few years old
He was watching every episode of 24 last time I saw him

So based on the above, does Rotz really have an excuse? Using math and assuming Rotz goes to one website per 10 days, I think its safe to say Rotz has snubbed the blog over seven times.

Supp-er Signing?

Sorry, that is cheesy. So the Brewers make Suppan the highest paid free agent in Brewer history. I'm okay with the signing, but the real question is will he or Sheets get hurt first? The Brewers website has the starting rotation as 1. Capuano 2. Sheets 3. Suppan 4. Bush 5. Vargas. Is this correct? I think it is but my Dad says Sheets is still #1 and Suppan is now #2?

Things to do before 2006 ends:

Rotz - Read the Blog and make a post
Tim - See Rocky 6
Pelsi - Bowl a 200
Cheek - Acquire Salmonella
Egan - Get Internet

Vacation

I'm off to Florida tomorrow night. This will be a true test on whether this blog can work, as I won't be contributing until next week. It may have to be sold to the highest bidder who will surely relocate it.

Replacements?

At what point do we start to look for replacements for Rotz, Cheek, and Matt on the blog? Do you think Randy could fill in for any of the above. Not that he's the best option, but maybe he would jump at the chance of being in the group. Let me know if I should start an exploratory committee.

Reasons for non participation

As far as I can tell, here are the reasons why only Tim and I participate:

Rotz - Site is blocked by employer
Tim - N/A The Founder
Pelsi - N/A The First Contributor
Cheek -Too busy with work transition
Matt (no last name) - Site is blocked by employer

Man it felt good to put items in a list format, just like old times.