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Michelobe Golden Light is brewed in STL and only found in the MN, WI, the Dakotas and Iowa. It was developed specifically to compete with Miller Lite in this region and has been MN's number one seller a number of times. I'm more a Premium guy myself.

Has anyone else had trouble with the "At the Ballpark" app? I have it for Android os and have never been able to "check in" when at various parks I've been to and wasn't able to download the app to my ipad mini last month. I'm not very tech savvy so I might be overlooking something basic but any thoughts would be nice.

Absolutely it has, as one would expect due to the specialization of relief pitching. I'm all for looking at and maybe changing how mound visits can be done. But does that third or fourth pitching change make up the additional 29 minutes over the past 10 years the article mentions? Get rid of "God Bless America", mascot races, foundation recognitions and the rest of the between inning stuff and see where we're at. Add a little hustling on and off the field and you will have a pace that resembles a college baseball game, and thats with pitches and defensive positioning being called from the dugout. Once you have 2.5 minutes between innings though commercials won't be done before action resumes.

For 100 years warm up pitches, mound visits, and pick off attempts were not a problem. Now all of the sudden they are? This is a problem of MLBs making by trying to squeeze every lost dollar out of advertising by lengthening breaks for commercials and by adding between inning pomp and circumstance. Now they are trying to fix something they broke by changing the way the game is played so they can keep their dollars. If you have to do it by not shortening inning breaks, fine. I'd like to see how a pitch clock works with runners on base because I don't think it will. If a pitcher takes too long automatic ball. If a batter takes too long to get in the box, automatic strike. It shouldn't have to be that way but I guess it is. I think it will take out a lot of interplay between the pitcher, batter, and catcher that has always been there since forever without hampering pace. This should be as easy as umpires controlling the game, keeping the pace moving and Joe Torre controlling his umpires. Organizations and managers may have to deal with player entitlement to do whatever the hell they want but umpires certainly do not. Sure Angel Hernandes will push the boundaries of what is reasonable but players and managers to that too. Just look at how long a replay takes. It's not the umpires who hold that process up. I think ultimately if umpires could stick to their guns and a slow pace starts costing balls and strikes and outs the players will get on board real fast.

Should: Platoon Hicks and Schafer. Will: Acia hits 15 day DL with a stiff back. Rosario gets called up and moves to center when Arcia comes back. Hicks or Schafer gets sent to Rochester.

I never liked the 1st round Levi Michael pick. I felt he had far more in common with Matt Tolbert, a career backup, than a starting middle infielder. Plus I would have expected a 20 year old D1 first round pick to be more polished and move through the system faster. I could have just been bitter about not drafting high end pitching that year. Like every year prior to Stewart.

I will see you at the game! I love skipping work for day games.