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  1. TooLiveBrew
    Maybe no one else will find this interesting, but I couldn't find a thread to post in without feeling like a hijacker. It'd be interesting to see if Brewerfan can track defensive performance on a 'what we saw' basis. Since there really isn't a way (yet) to measure defensive performance, I believe that the eyes should be trusted a great deal. Observations like how Hall has a weakness for playing balls to his side, and then I'd imagine there'd be more keen ones (reads off the bat, positioning of players on the field by coaches, arm angles on throws, etc.). Of course, this would be the 'web gems' thread too... that is, if it's interesting to more than just me. My entry: Adrian Beltre will probably always be my personal 3B-playing metric. I can only truly compare players against those I've seen play, even though I'm sure Beltre isn't the greatest to ever field at thrid. The guy is, though, flat-out amazing with the leather, and to be honest, the reason for this thread tonight. He makes the routine plays (easily), and makes plays you just shouldn't be able to make at 3B. Tonight he fielded a chopper literally 2/3 of the way towards 2B (no dive), spun counter-clockwise (slowly, but controlled as opposed to just 'slow'), and gunned down the runner at 1st. It looked like he had to hustle, but not like he could barely made the play.
  2. TooLiveBrew
    There are plenty of black NFL athletes, Footballers, and NCAA college hoops athletes... those 'sell' pretty well to predominantly white audiences. "It's a league of mostly black players marketing itself to a mostly white audience and a mostly white media." Imho, this is an incredibly weak argument. Unless the NBA's 'blackiness-osity' is magnified by the power of 18 suns, I don't see how black men playing basketball is any different from black men playing any other sport. What about the NHL? Is their problem that they're marketing a predominantly white sport to a predominantly white audience? The idea that since the most common skin color that you see in the NBA is dark, and that somehow leads to problems selling the product, is frustrating and laughable to me. What about when David Stern was the marketing genius & the NBA would never ever see a downturn in popularity? It's not like the league wasn't overwhelmingly comprised of dark-skinned men then (late '90s, early '00s).
  3. TooLiveBrew
    My folks (both huge Crew fans in the 80s) always taught me that it's "Seh-sill" Off to start my trwi-imposed week-long ban
  4. TooLiveBrew
    There are many problems with the NBA, some have to do with much of the league being black... Wow.
  5. TooLiveBrew
    Big Puma... I'm speechless. What does Berkman not do well?
  6. TooLiveBrew
    Nice D there!
  7. TooLiveBrew
    This guy definitely wears something like Aqua 3 TO: http://static.flickr.com/64/175996463_46a5d3495b_o.jpg
  8. TooLiveBrew
    Ok, BA keeps calling COOOOP "See-sil". It's pronounced "Seh-sill", right?
  9. TooLiveBrew
    Nevermind, it's not Ryan's fault anymore... it's an inner ear infection, clearly he caught it retroactively from Ben Sheets in 2006. Everything is now Ben's fault!
  10. TooLiveBrew
    So Brian can only be as high up as the 2nd disciple. Still pretty good.
  11. TooLiveBrew
    "We're just looking to have a good time & raise some money for a good foundation... JDRF" -- Rickie Weeks Very admirable, Rickie.
  12. TooLiveBrew
    Definitely let Villy go out there for the 8th, Ned... please!
  13. TooLiveBrew
    What's the deal with Fielder and the ear plugs? BA mentioned something about a cold going around the clubhouse. Prince wanted to block out the noise. Braun was the Brewer to pass the cold around first. Everything this season is Ryan's fault!
  14. TooLiveBrew
    Because Branyan can't be cloned. His mother was the first and last woman to have the experimental iron womb implanted after her hysterectomy. Without that device, the potential mother would die from the trauma of the fetal Branyan hitting 500 ft bombs while in utero. I bow to your knowledge.
  15. TooLiveBrew
    There's your answer, jjfan. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Newsflash -- JOE DILLON to PH v. a righty... not Counsell
  16. TooLiveBrew
    WOW that was a terrible swing from J.J.
  17. TooLiveBrew
    Gabe Kapler ftw. Good stuff. Looked really strained. I thought Ted was gonna walk away there for a second. He pretty much did... sorta said something as he walked away. Left Ned muttering something (looked like) frustratedly.
  18. TooLiveBrew
    I thought he absolutely mashed that ball to get it to go out to RF. Wasn't the pitch an outer-half breaking ball?
  19. TooLiveBrew
    Man, that was one impressive 'strong man' HR. Really took some muscle to hit that pitch out to RF. Did anyone else just notice how akward that exchange was btw. Simba & Ned?
  20. TooLiveBrew
    No no -- it's their fundamentals. See, not having tatoos = playing fundamentally sound basketball. Whitlock has taken it upon himself to be the Black sports columnist that denigrates Black athletes. He really does seem to go out of his way to do so. Like a character straight outta Boondocks.
  21. TooLiveBrew
    PRINCE IS SKINNY AGAIN!!!!!
  22. TooLiveBrew
    Wow, I am very much digging the HP umpire not calling the low strike. Iirc Backe killed us last time with that call.
  23. TooLiveBrew
    What? Berkman is up Ned and he's almost hitting .400. Intentionally walk him! BF.net tells me that the Astros are too good, & Manny Parra is too bad. What's going on?
  24. TooLiveBrew
    I agree that JJ is the solid yet unspectacular SS. His arm is well above-avg. I'd hesitate to even call it above-avg. His hands are good, & he gets good jumps/reads. He just lacks the explosiveness to get to as much as some SS do. I'm with hauser in that I prefer the guy that makes the plays he should. On balance, I think of him as above-avg. defensively, fwiw.
  25. TooLiveBrew
    Badger Boys State is an awesome experience -- enjoy yourself! Is it still at Ripon? You will never think of the phrase 'milkmaids' without chuckling afterwards. Utilize any and all resources while there, even the ones that you're not certain will be of use to you... you never know. Talk to as many of the UW-system reps as you realistically can; they can probably answer most of the questions you have about the differences in the system schools.
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