Will Brewers fans give Willy Adames the same treatment as are the Yankees fans giving Juan Soto when he comes back to his former home?

[treego14]

If not, why not?

Are Brewers fans too soft and sentimental?

I think the Brewers fans by and large will be too soft and sentimental. 

Treat him like a traitor, I say! 

Give him the Craig Counsell treatment when he came back to Milwaukee as a Cub!

Give him the Juan Soto treatment they are giving him when he came back to Yankee Stadium!

 

[yfinn6]

No. 

He should and will get a nice reception. 

[Brian]

Why should he get booed? He signed a 7 year, $182,000,000 contract with the San Francisco Giants, including $22,000,000 signing bonus, $182,000,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $26,000,000. The Milwaukee Brewers offered Willy Adames a $21.05 million for 1 year. 

[liveforoctober]

31 minutes ago, treego14 said:

If not, why not?

Are Brewers fans too soft and sentimental?

I think the Brewers fans by and large will be too soft and sentimental. 

Treat him like a traitor, I say! 

Give him the Craig Counsell treatment when he came back to Milwaukee as a Cub!

Give him the Juan Soto treatment they are giving him when he came back to Yankee Stadium!

 

He will be cheered by 95%+ of the crowd as he should be. Whatever you are suggesting he did wrong is, in fact, wrong. Comparing him to Craig is absolutely unfair to Adames. 

Adames has far more right to boo us/the front office than we have to boo him.

[Outlander]

Of course he won't be treated like that. They recently gave Josh Hader a standing ovation. This isn't Jesse Winker here 

[BrewerFan]

57 minutes ago, treego14 said:

If not, why not?

Are Brewers fans too soft and sentimental?

I think the Brewers fans by and large will be too soft and sentimental. 

Treat him like a traitor, I say! 

Give him the Craig Counsell treatment when he came back to Milwaukee as a Cub!

Give him the Juan Soto treatment they are giving him when he came back to Yankee Stadium!

 

Sometimes it's so thick people don't put it in blue...but IS this sarcasm?

Soto turned down a similar amount of money from the Yankees. Not the same, but similar. 

Adames said he'd take less, but it was never feasible. Why would I boo a guy who loved Milwaukee, Milwaukee loved him and we just didn't have the resources to sign? 

 

Nah, I'll be cheering him(I won't literally be as I'm probably not going, but...I would be...though obviously not rooting for him). 

[markedman5]

One of the most popular Brewers in the last 20 years or so……..he couldn’t turn down his one chance for generational wealth and he will get the standing ovation he deserves.

[Austin Tatious]

Love Willy and he didn’t do anything wrong toward Milwaukee.  He got an offer elsewhere that was way beyond anything Milwaukee has the wherewithal to do.  That’s not his fault.  

[wallus]

My only regret is only being able to downvote this once.

[markedman5]

Very few former players have been booed………fans seem to have saved up the boos for Counsell…….which seems to be a good use of anger management.

[treego14]

If we shouldn't boo Adames, why do we boo Counsell?

[BrewerFan]

51 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

Very few former players have been booed………fans seem to have saved up the boos for Counsell…….which seems to be a good use of anger management.

Well, that Suma%#$% definitely deserved it with that #$%$#$ move to those #$%$ Cubs.

 

I'm not mad though...we got Murph! I'm...slightly less convinced about that than I was last year. 

[BrewerFan]

8 minutes ago, treego14 said:

If we shouldn't boo Adames, why do we boo Counsell?

1-Adames had ONE window to make his money.
Counsell has a 20-30 year window(edit--a 20-30 year window on TOP of his MLB career).

2-The Brewers DID make a competitive offer to Counsell(5.5M) and he DID NOT LET THEM MATCH, instead claiming he "wanted a new professional challenge."
He choose the Brewers most hated Rivals(well, not hated so much as pretentious). 

3-Willy didn't grow up in Milwaukee, he wasn't raised in the Brewers clubhouse, he didn't present himself as the hometown boy who exceeded all expectations and came back to manage the team his dad worked for...only to leave to the highest bidder under the absurd premise of doing it...not for himself, but for every other one of those poor managers out there, managing Baseball games for less than 7 million a year!

Righting such a grievous inequity that only our hero CC could do(though in fighting for managers, he was willing to screw a couple others over in the process...). 

 

Or...I could just as easily go with the fourth reasons;

4-Because I want to, I like Wily, but I don't like chicken little. 

[adambr2]

No. I’m totally good with booing Jesse Winker, though. He sucks.

[treego14]

15 minutes ago, BrewerFan said:

Because I want to, I like Wily, but I don't like chicken little. 

[markedman5]

34 minutes ago, BrewerFan said:

1-Adames had ONE window to make his money.
Counsell has a 20-30 year window(edit--a 20-30 year window on TOP of his MLB career).

2-The Brewers DID make a competitive offer to Counsell(5.5M) and he DID NOT LET THEM MATCH, instead claiming he "wanted a new professional challenge."
He choose the Brewers most hated Rivals(well, not hated so much as pretentious). 

3-Willy didn't grow up in Milwaukee, he wasn't raised in the Brewers clubhouse, he didn't present himself as the hometown boy who exceeded all expectations and came back to manage the team his dad worked for...only to leave to the highest bidder under the absurd premise of doing it...not for himself, but for every other one of those poor managers out there, managing Baseball games for less than 7 million a year!

Righting such a grievous inequity that only our hero CC could do(though in fighting for managers, he was willing to screw a couple others over in the process...). 

 

Or...I could just as easily go with the fourth reasons;

4-Because I want to, I like Wily, but I don't like chicken little. 

Well done sir……that about covers it…..lol

[RightFieldCoder]

1 hour ago, adambr2 said:

No. I’m totally good with booing Jesse Winker, though. He sucks.

This, over and over again.

[Playing Catch]

Counsell would get a standing ovation had he signed with the Giants.

[treego14]

2 hours ago, Playing Catch said:

Counsell would get a standing ovation had he signed with the Giants.

I'm thinking about that ... not so sure about that.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Given that the Brewers didn't actually make a competitive bid for Adames (and I was okay with that, really), it's hard to fault Willy for leaving.

[Frisbee Slider]

The abrupt manner Counsell left us plus leaving for the Cubs are both important.

Counsell wanted to leave. Adames didn’t. That said, Adames is not worth nine figures in his 30’s.

[treego14]

1 hour ago, Frisbee Slider said:

The abrupt manner Counsell left us plus leaving for the Cubs are both important.

Counsell wanted to leave. Adames didn’t. That said, Adames is not worth nine figures in his 30’s.

Nah, Adames wanted to leave ... that's why he left.

[BeerSlide]

I think he'll almost universally be cheered and rightfully so. There's no way anyone should blame him for for taking that kind of money for his final payday. The way I look at it is that I get embarrassed for the guy sitting back booing Adames for not taking an offer from the Brewers and then turning around and complaining about how ownership doesn't spend the requisite amount of money on payroll to be competitive. You either understand the situation or you don't.

 

[liveforoctober]

1 hour ago, treego14 said:

Nah, Adames wanted to leave ... that's why he left.

I genuinely don't know if you are doing this whole thread/opinion as a rib to all of us or if this is how you truly have interpreted the situation.

[Samurai Bucky]

16 hours ago, BrewerFan said:

1-Adames had ONE window to make his money.
Counsell has a 20-30 year window(edit--a 20-30 year window on TOP of his MLB career).

2-The Brewers DID make a competitive offer to Counsell(5.5M) and he DID NOT LET THEM MATCH, instead claiming he "wanted a new professional challenge."
He choose the Brewers most hated Rivals(well, not hated so much as pretentious). 

3-Willy didn't grow up in Milwaukee, he wasn't raised in the Brewers clubhouse, he didn't present himself as the hometown boy who exceeded all expectations and came back to manage the team his dad worked for...only to leave to the highest bidder under the absurd premise of doing it...not for himself, but for every other one of those poor managers out there, managing Baseball games for less than 7 million a year!

Righting such a grievous inequity that only our hero CC could do(though in fighting for managers, he was willing to screw a couple others over in the process...). 

 

Or...I could just as easily go with the fourth reasons;

4-Because I want to, I like Wily, but I don't like chicken little. 

Let's not forget that he made the decision after Stephen Vogt was hired by Cleveland.  Vogt would have fit in well in Milwaukee and Counsell dragged his feet just enough.  Maybe it was to make sure Murphy got the job... I don't know.

He strung the club along... along with the fan base.  I could understand why he did it.  If he wouldn't have been a dick about it and didn't go to the Cubs, I wouldn't have as much animosity.