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  1. TooLiveBrew
    Cabrera is what he is -- good/stellar D with avg. (or so) offense. If he could draw some more BBs, his value would go way up imho. It's kinda easy to forget that 2008 is only his age-23 season.
  2. TooLiveBrew
    Personal attacks and name-calling towards other posters are not allowed at Brewerfan. I think he was referring to my usage of the words "moron" & "blowhard", fwiw
  3. TooLiveBrew
    Nobody complaining about taking a guy out who struck out the side on 10 pitches, and bringing in a guy who pitched 2 innings the night before. Oh, that's right. It worked this time. If it had not worked, people would have been all over Yost on here. I know I'm a day late, but this exact thought crept into my head when it became clear that Ned would once again not deviate from what his 'guys are'. It was too bad that a fresh, fully rested, & sharp-looking Mota was left to sit on the bench while a guy that could/should have gotten a day off (Torres) came in to pitch. It doesn't have anything to do with second-guessing for most of the sane Yost critics with whom I'm familiar here. I can comfortably say that I was disappointed to not see Mota back out there yesterday, but it's not due to his results... it's that his results matched up with his performance. I really think there are a lot more people in the middle when it comes to Yost than most give credit for. I don't think it's nearly as polarized as last season, though that could just be a case of the 'seems likes' & my general avoidance of the Yost thread in the ML forum.
  4. TooLiveBrew
    Glad for the feedback, nate & Sbryl. I hadn't thought the 'challenges' idea through very well (clearly!); I just like that it would make the managers place some form of value on arguing/debating a call. I think the/nate's idea of making it like NCAA rules is probably the better approach, even though that does make you wonder about how lengthy the process might get. That said, I really think it's a kind of straw-man argument to say, 'Hey! That takes longer!' when discussing the strengths & weaknesses of instant replay. I don't know why people get so hung up on that -- the NFL & NCAA certainly haven't had any outrageously lengthy games due to instant replay, and given how relatively infrequently MLB would use IR, I can't see the extra time it'd tack on outweighing the good it can do.
  5. TooLiveBrew
    You have proven you can't keep an open mind with your moron and blowhard comments above and the fact you immediately dismiss it because no one on this board reported it first. Silliness. I find it confusing that you jump into the conversation on p.6 & start telling me what I'm thinking & saying... yet not getting any of it right. It's pretty clear that you haven't taken the time to read the entire discussion, so I'm going to take the time to stop reading your posts in it.
  6. TooLiveBrew
    I really like the idea of having instant replay started under a 'challenge' basis, similar to the NFL rules. Make grounds for calls that cannot be challenged, and then give each team (for example's sake) 2 challenges per game. You could award one challenge per team (as long as the team(s) had 0 remaining) if a game goes extra innings.
  7. TooLiveBrew
    Beltre looked kind of interesting but according to BP his defensive statistics have been below average the last two years. Not horribly so, but not the defensive whiz he was earlier in his career. And a decline in defense starts much earlier than offensive decline. That's interesting -- I hadn't checked the defensive #s just yet. I can say (from watching M's games -- they're my 'market' where I live) that I would have to disagree with any metric that has Beltre as below-avg. right now. That's not because I'm as smart as or smarter than whoever is putting the time into the BP metrics -- it's just because Beltre is still an elite defender at 3B. I geniunely don't think of that as just my opinion... it looks pretty clear-cut every time I watch a Mariners game. And a decline in defense starts much earlier than offensive decline. I'll definitely try to watch with a more critical eye than I have been. Beltre is admittedly just fun to watch field. I agree that SEA should be a target for anyone looking at a prospects-for-stud trade. I'd have to guess that Beltre, Bedard, and many others are available. Maybe Balentien, Ichiro, & Clement (Hernandez?) are off-limits in terms of names that people know. This will be interesting to see how the Mariners change things in the F.O.
  8. TooLiveBrew
    Beltre has a 737 OPS and is making 13.4 mil this year. He does play some decent D though. I'm going to stick up for Beltre here, and will admit a bias -- I think he's the best all-around 3B in MLB not named "Rodriguez" or "Jones". That OPS is heavily skewed by playing at Safeco Park (2008 Road OPS of .791 so far; road OPS of .805 or better each season in SEA save the disastrous 2005). Also, I know Sam was going for understatement, but Beltre's D at 3B is as good as you could imagine. The guy is an absolute wizard with the leather. They certainly overpaid for him at the time, but he was hitting his prime after a monster season & plays/ed impeccably good D. On the FA market, you pay through the orifices for that.
  9. TooLiveBrew
    And TooLive, if you can't keep an open mind when someone says something instead of drinking the koolaid, that's ok, that's the way you choose to look at things. Drinking the kool-aid? I just don't like drinking whatever it is that Justice drinks. Keeping an open mind would be not just accepting being spoon-fed by an attention-hound like RJ.
  10. TooLiveBrew
    Why do you mention Beltre -- just that he was at the time overpaid?
  11. TooLiveBrew
    Hey, come on now... Maclaren likes to argue with umpires -- that counts for like 15 wins alone
  12. TooLiveBrew
    If his main agenda was to get a TV job, he wouldn't go after the Milwaukee Brewers. It's like picking on the fat, uncoordinated kid in school. You seem to have made a joke here As for your points on Olsen, yes, he does have sources, but if you listen to him long enough, you can see where his loyalties lie. Ok, thanks. I will never question anything a reporter says again, as long as it's critical of the Brewers. Because that kind of reporter doesn't have any agendas about getting on TV, since he'd rather pick on fat kids.
  13. TooLiveBrew
    I'm not sure what your point is. All I can tell is you A) Missed entirely that the explicitly-mentioned agenda for Justice is to get attention & get on TV. I did not introduce this notion, nor is it without substance B) Have some misplaced venom for FJM, a site I never mentioned, and a site that actually does a far better job of being an objective watchdog than the hot-air sports 'writers' they cover C) Have never witnessed a BF.net thread report info before the MSM did (really I have no idea how you can ask so instigatingly, "Tell me what breaking Brewers news has ever come out of here? Tell me any insider information that has ever been reported here?" -- ??). To me this exposes a plain fact that you just don't come here very often, or if you do, don't really pay very close attention. D) Are warping me saying that. if the clubhouse is so bad, and we heard so from a reporter that has more to do with the Brewers than Richard Justice, I'd take it seriously (I picked Olson, TH & AW -- and yes, I would trust Olson more than Justice, bc to think that Drew has no more sources in the clubhouse... or that his aren't more reliable than Justice is silly imo)
  14. TooLiveBrew
    Based on what? His experience? He has roughly 1,900 professional AB's. Weeks has roughly 2,100. Braun has around 1,500. His age? Jose Reyes was barely 20 when he first came up. That he's never played above AA? Well neither did Hanley Ramirez, whose AA numbers at age 21 were pedestrian compared to Escobar's. What do these other guys have to do with Escobar? He's a different player. He's not MLB-ready, or he'd have been called up ahead of Iribarren. I don't know why his most recent 270 AB are supposed to be trusted moreso than his previous work... oh wait, yes I do -- it's happened more recently, therefore, it is his talent level. Nevermind the fact that Escobar has basically the same BA-reliant OBP as he always has, and would not be able to hit the .325+ he'd need to keep his OBP at or over .350 at MLB. Also, we could overlook the .373 BABIP for Alcides, but that doesn't seem very wise to me. Escobar's defense is great, but it doesn't mean he's MLB-ready because he's hit .333 against AA pitching (with an obscene BABIP). Heck, Ramirez is a perfect example of that. His last season in the minors, the aforementioned AA-stint, he put up .271/.335/.385/.720. The next season his MLB line was .292/.353/.480/.833. Maybe just maybe the scouting can tell us some things the numbers don't.
  15. TooLiveBrew
    some other managers abuse or misuse their best releivers every bit as much as Ned gets accused of it. In that aspect one of the higest paid managers with a pretty good reputation in the league is no better, perhaps even worse, than Ned. Yeah, I think Piniella is vastly overrated in general. I certainly don't regard him as being better than Ned.
  16. TooLiveBrew
    You know the inner workings of a major league clubhouse? You go down there on a daily basis? You've been a respected journalist for 20 years? This site is such a better Brewers resource than Richard Justice it hardly warrants comparison. Where did I thump my chest? I will take the whispers & talk around here 1,000 times before I take something that guy wants to write. He's got an agenda, to turn out an article & 'generate interest'... aka say something absurd after the Brewers were swept that the clubhouse being bad after a sweep tells us 'they're done!'. If you enjoy the 'entertainment' segment of what some reporters are asked to or feel compelled to do, that's fine by me. Just don't come calling at me like I don't have every right (& evidence, given his track record) to be 100% skeptical of what an outsider like Justice has to say about the Brewers. Look at it this way -- if Trenni did some post-game interview & was in or near the Cubs' clubhouse after the Brewers had beaten them in a draining game, and she said something as silly as, 'Boy these Cubs are going nowhere -- their clubhouse is so down!', would you do any more than just let it slide as a bit of 'infotainment'... which is her job, and if Justice is as ambitious to get on TV, he probably feels it's his job too. Now if someone like Olson or TH or AW wrote about how troubling the mood in the clubhouse has been for 'X' weeks, that's a different story.
  17. TooLiveBrew
    you know the difference between me and Yost? Yost took a team from the bottom of baseball to a winning season and another 500 season. Why do you still do this? Yost didn't turn the team around -- the team actually got some talented players. W-L record is a terrible way to gauge a mgr. But you already know that. Also, I would never compare anyone in a MLB job like Mgr. or GM to 'the layman' in order to determine if he's good at his job or not. You have to compare with other managers, but all that seems to 'do it' for many people is a manager's teams' W-L record, so I'll bow back out before that even starts. I am still waiting for the bottom to drop out. I'm not necessarily waiting for the bottom to fall out, but at this point I am expecting Seth to start pitching a bit more like the rest of his career. I think he'll probably continue to have success, but I think the BBs are going to start accumulating. Once again, I hope I am wrong.
  18. TooLiveBrew
    From my Milwaukee's Best Ice can, "Snappy Comebacks" from World Series Poker & a picture of Phil Hellmuth! "Maybe you should try playing darts instead" "A BEST hand beats a Royal Flush anytime" (GET IT?!?! Because it's MILWAUKEE'S BEST!!) "You'd only make the first round of drinks at the WSOP" (BUUURRRRRNNNN!)
  19. TooLiveBrew
    Yeah, that was pretty bad from Prince. He means well, therefore I love him. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
  20. TooLiveBrew
    Wow, where was Hall on that? Just too far to go, huh
  21. TooLiveBrew
    Craig Counsell: proof that not just anybody can go yoke up on 'roids & go be a star (no, that's not calling him a 'roider)
  22. TooLiveBrew
    logan, that 'zone of their own' article was a great find.
  23. TooLiveBrew
    DH, give Prince rest. He'd really make a lot of sense to have up over Iribarren.
  24. TooLiveBrew
    If it makes you feel more confident, the third time through a lineup is where most SP suffer in terms of #s
  25. TooLiveBrew
    Nice to hear that the boos have gone away for Billy. That makes me happy.
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