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It sounds like there are fireworks happening here in downtown Madison. What's going on? Can anyone help me out?

 

Apparently, they were for Diwali. They were rattling the windows and floor in College Library something fierce last night. The looks on everyone's faces in the quiet study room on the second floor were pretty funny.

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I saw the news that Rick Kranitz was named the new pitching coach minutes after it broke. Not knowing too much about him, I looked him up on wikipedia. It was already on there that he had been named the new pitching coach for the Brewers. Are there really people out there who see a bit of news and immediately think "I better update wikipedia"? I'd like to think that Doug Melvin is a wikipedia nerd and updates it himself.
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I did that update (honest). I have no idea why it occured to me, but I checked Wikipedia to find out about him, and then updated it. Working on my home computer has it's privileges.

Haha! Deep down I knew it had to be someone on Brewerfan. I'm glad that mystery is solved. Now my question is, why didn't you feel Narron deserved the same treatment?

 

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I'd like to think that Doug Melvin is a wikipedia nerd and updates it himself.
Statements like this, along with Invader3K taking the credit for making the Wikipedia update, are part of the reason why I love this community.

 

But really, if Doug made Wikipedia updates, he'd need an "and that" auto-editor.

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I realize this past Saturday's Badger blowout win and the Packers' bye week demand non-stop discussion. Oh yeah, the QB for the Philadelphia Eagles had a big game on Monday Night Football. These topics demand some pretty heavy dissection, this is true. Is it too much to ask for some Brewers talk on either of the two Milwaukee sports talk stations, though? I realize that's a lot to ask here in Wisconsin, I suppose.
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The Bucks are playing the world champs tonight and there was barely 6 words said about it all day.
I heard some brief Bucks talk (can't remember which station), but it was very much in passing. Homer couldn't stop going on about Bielema running up the score, and 1250 was a non-stop PackersFest (I think they were doing some kind of Packers related event broadcast). Just very predictable overall, I guess.
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I have an invitation from somebody in LinkedIn that I have no clue who she is. There's nothing in her profile that's even close to us ever crossing paths. Plus, I'm not exactly stalking material http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/laugh.gif If anything, the fastest way to connect us is via Kevin Bacon.

 

Just weird.

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During the game this weekend at Wrigley Field between Northwestern and Illinois, both offenses will be going in the same direction over safety concerns that the football field doesn't really fit.

 

Didn't they measure the field before booking the venue?

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During the game this weekend at Wrigley Field between Northwestern and Illinois, both offenses will be going in the same direction over safety concerns that the football field doesn't really fit.

 

Didn't they measure the field before booking the venue?

I'm pretty sure they did. If you look at the goal post on that side of the field, there's no room to even have it on the ground so they had to mount it to the wall. That should've given them an indication that that was not the spot to put the field.

 

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Even though it really has nothing to do with the Cubs, I am still going to consider it another one of their failures. I wasn't planning on watching this game but I might have to tune in for a while just to see how that works.
It certainly is hard to resist labeling it even an indirect Cubs failure. Of course, if you "have to tune for a while," the marketers win.
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They were smart the way they did it for the game at Yankee Stadium between Army and Notre Dame.

 

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_college/files/2010/11/yankeesstadium.jpg

 

Let's see 360 feet for a football field and we have a CF wall that stretches 408 feet. Let's put it that way so there's plenty of room past the endzones.

 

http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/01018/wrigley_1018483gm-t.jpg

 

Okay, we have 400 feet in CF, so let's put the endzone where it's only about 360 feet.

 

http://twistedsifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/guinness-brilliant.jpg

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When the Bears played there, the field was laid out from south to north. This time, it's going to be laid out from east to west. Between 1933-1973, goal posts in the NFL were on the goal line. But college football goal posts have always been on the end line (I think), and there must have been college football played there in the past. One difference, though, is that goal posts are now offset from the end line. Old style goal posts sat right on the line.

Quoth R. D. Rosen:[/url][/b]
...In the 1960s, most NFL teams still played in baseball stadiums, but in none did the gridiron have to be wedged in so tightly that a small corner of the south end zone was actually clipped off by the first-base line's brick retaining wall. At the other end, the end zone flirted dangerously with Wrigley's left-field wall. At both ends, then, Wrigley's quirks affected the game, forcing revisions of red zone pass routes. While the game of baseball has always been influenced by the dimensions and conditions of its venues (see Baseball Prospectus' "Park Effects"), the gridiron has almost always been sacrosanct. (Although let's not forget that a blizzard forced the 1932 NFL Championship Game between the Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans into Chicago Stadium, where the teams essentially played a precursor to Arena Football).

That’s the only thing Chicago’s good for: to tell people where Wisconsin is.

[align=right]-- Sigmund Snopek[/align]

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