Team Salaries: Brewers 25th (out of 30) and leading the NL

I just wrote a whole blog on NFL players and pension issues and deleted the entire thing. I couldn't make any clear concise points on the matter. Basically I side with both the players and the NFL.
I am busy packing to leave the district. I will miss the place and enjoyed the time I had here. It's off to a new adventure now. A month off, a job in NYC, studying for the GRE's. SIGH
I have to say that the Chi-Sox are really quite embarrasing right now. I am not a fan (Cubbies 2nd Brewers first) but the team was looking a little droopy over the weekend vs. the Cubs (I LOVE getting WGN out here on the east coast).

Another random thing...Why should I cheer for the Yankees? Page 2 recently did an article on why the Yankees are the underdogs. What? Yes, perhaps the underdogs to Boston but look at how much their payroll is vs the Brewers (198,662,180 vs. 50,540,000). Jim Caple believes people are, and I quote, "spreading the myth that "small market" teams are at a disadvantage." Umm yep they are, at a disadvantage not a myth. The Brewers have been called on occasion "the farming team for the Yankees." Perhaps he should explain why the Brewers haven't HAD a post season since 1982 and the Yankees haven't MISSED a post season since 1995. But of course those "small market" teams are at no disadvantage.

So you are probably saying why are the Brewers leading the NL if they are at such a disadvantage? A young team with a few high paid players and a few of which we won't be able to afford after this season? J.J. Hardy played some high school baseball and came back from multiple injuries to have a great season thus far, we've known (in Milwaukee at least) that Prince Fielder would emerge to be good, Corey Hart? who knew?. Our biggest money? Ben Sheets and Geoff Jenkins. It has only been in the past two years or so that we have really been spending money. So I have a hard time believeing that this "small market" team is a myth, I really do.

Weapons

A glance at the title and you may think this blog will be about North Korea or Iran creating nuclear weapons or you may think it is about Russia and the new "cold war" possibility or you may even consider this blog to be about Iran supplying weapons to Al Qaeda to help fight our troops. It's not. It's about strollers.

How are strollers weapons? Well, let me tell you, since you asked. If you go out to a crowded park, tourist site, sidewalk or ambulatory area you will see adults pushing strollers. Look a little closer and you will see adults using a weapon. Just like many people use a huge SUV in traffic as a weapon, people use strollers as weapons. It generally doesn't matter if there are small children, big children, multiple children or babies riding inside, it still is a weapon. It can be empty and be a weapon although less formidable but no less destructive.

I often find myself in crowd of people either trying to get to a destination or trying to see some wonderful site. In this mass of people are the few slamming around with a stroller. They want to get where they want to go or see what they want to see and they will shove their way through it all. Heaven forbid your ankles, feet, heels or even body be in the way of this barreling childmobile. Those parents, grandparents, nannies or friends will jam their way through you without a second glance. Childrens heads rolling side to side, foreward and back they clamp onto the bar in front of them and thank their lucky stars ma and pa put clipped them in with their seatbelts. A very short and rude "Excuse me" is spit out as these adults disbelieve I didn't leap out of their way as if they were a car careening out of control. If you want to walk without a limp the next day, I would suggest you move. Now you must note these "strollers" are just as dangerous next to you as they are coming towards you. These drivers also swing these weapons from side to side if need be. they take out hips, shoulder bags, lunch coolers, thighs and arms. Note: bruising is not unusual. So next time you are in a crowd don't tell me I didn't warn you. I really hate when people use strollers as weapons, or to cut in the deli meat line, or to hog the gigantic sidewalk, or to gain the right of way. I think I need to get me one of those.....