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  1. TooLiveBrew
    RBM, come on. Don't try to paint such a polarizing picture of the RBI debate. To say, "RBI are more a product of your teammates' OBP and situational hitting" is simply not akin to saying, 'Prince is better than Holliday even though he has less RBI.' The Rockies led the NL in OBP this season. Look across their roster. They have guys with high RBI totals. No surprise. EDIT: before you make a claim like above (re. the HR behind Prince/Holliday), who are the other Rockies to hit behind Holliday? What are their HR totals in that slot?
  2. TooLiveBrew
    No, and he presents great value long-term - whether it be playing a different position or bringing in more via trade.
  3. TooLiveBrew
    My preference would be to do away with the DH. However, as mentioned, that ain't happenin'. So the next option is to add it in the NL. No thanks - I like the strategic differences, and the value that a P that can hit, etc., brings. While I'd like to see uniformity, I don't want to see it at the expense of making the NL as bland as the AL. If it were adopted, I guess I really wouldn't care too much, but what if there were a sort of reward system for batting your pitcher in lieu of a DH? I don't really know where I'm going with that, but think of it like this - you can DH the P spot, but if you prefer to instead let your P hit (as in, days that YoGa starts), you can PR for him w/o removing him from the game (or burning the PR as a sub) - courtesy runner!
  4. TooLiveBrew
    Utley isn't young enough for ya? He's my hands-down, obvious choice. Weeks will likely be close by the ASB next year, though. That wrist being clean should be scaring opposing pitchers. EDIT: Be careful on the OBP consideration with Cano. His has tended to be pretty hollow to this point in his career. But who knows - his 39 BBs in '07 were a career high at any level.
  5. TooLiveBrew
    Melvin's job was to bring in the talent. It's the job of the coaching staff -- major and minor league -- to develop that talent unless now for some reason it falls on the GM to straighten out a guy's mechanics. Who has the ultimate decision-making power on coaching staffs, though?
  6. TooLiveBrew
    Estrada + Bush for Abreu + 5million? Yes. That's an awful trade for us. Why would you give up so much for what you call "an older, overpaid outfielder"? Will that $5 mil. magically help us create a C out of the clear blue sky?
  7. TooLiveBrew
    But he did bail on teams as well. Just one. And at that point, coming off winning the WS just two years prior, I don't blame Leyland for not wanting any part of the Rox. Could he have tried to wait until this current crop of talent blossomed? Sure - but how likely is it that he would've lasted that long through the bad teams Colorado trotted out there?
  8. TooLiveBrew
    Didn't Jim Leyland bail on the Rockies after like one year because they sucked too much? I'm certainly no insider, but Leyland left Co. after the 1999 campaign saw them finish 70-92. This was his only year managing the Rox. He'd gone straight from Florida in 1998. After his "tenure" with the Rockies, he didn't return to managing until '06, when he took over Detroit.
  9. TooLiveBrew
    Buc, my guess is that Homer was referring more to Leyland's tenure in Pitt., plus his WS-champ Fla. team (the one that got all fire-sale-dy) than his crew in Det. Plus, the Tigers pre-2006 were also pre-Verlander/Zumaya/full-time Granderson. It's not like there was one group of talent that didn't get upgraded before Leyland's arrival.
  10. TooLiveBrew
    was he on our list? His price is leagues beyond our payroll http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif
  11. TooLiveBrew
    I'll echo the support for what Money'd bring beyond literally coaching 3B. Any help for our INF D is good, and when you can get a two-fer package, I'd like to think Ned and/or Doug would jump at the chance.
  12. TooLiveBrew
    It'd be interesting to see some kind of 'OOZ while fielding a throw to 1B' stat. That'a very, very rough way of phrasing it, and the problem that imho will always exist with defensive ratings is the subjectivity to it all.
  13. TooLiveBrew
    "Mein Kompf" (sp?) Mein Kampf which means, quite literally, "My struggle." Hitler was more than just cruel and obsessed with power. He was deeply troubled, mentally... borderline insane. To be fair, perhaps the latter led to the former(s). Sam, I'd recommend Stephen Ambrose for some historical texts. Serious Wisco tie, too - he received his PhD from UW, and was raised (though not born) in Whitewater, WI. And since the text Jungle was mentioned... if you haven't already, The Jungle (Sinclair) straddles the fiction/non-fiction divide beautifully. After all, Sinclair wrote the book while/after he examined the Chicago meat-packing industry for his work as a journalist. I know it's in the American canon (whatever that phrase really means anymore), and thus many HS's & colleges, but if you haven't read it - read it. Power on every page.
  14. TooLiveBrew
    I worry 2007-08 will be unkind to UW. I just hope we can beat Marquette. [checks recruiting}
  15. TooLiveBrew
    Joe Buck is pretty good. *soul has a seizure*
  16. TooLiveBrew
    Personally I still play wii sports more than anything else (followed closely by Super Monkey Ball). Super...Monkey...Ball....RULES!
  17. TooLiveBrew
    Would you rather: Watch a game entirely narrated by Scooter, the talking baseball. - or - Watch a game with Tim McCarver (and Joe Buck) providing commentary. I honestly don't know, which tells you how bad the humans in question are.
  18. TooLiveBrew
    example of said pet peeve, conveniently provided by Joe Suck: "That's 19 double plays that the Red Sox have grounded into." The English language needs counseling. No other way to cope with all the abuse it takes.
  19. TooLiveBrew
    One thing I have to admit about McCarver (oh, how I loathe him) is that his grammar is usually really good. He actually cares about one of my biggest pet peeves from announcers/broadcasters - ending a sentence with a preposition.
  20. TooLiveBrew
    Is it bad that I read that post using Dane Cook's voice in my head? No, it's awesome.
  21. TooLiveBrew
    Eric Karros must be disappointed in Sizemore. He didn't "change the momentum" like Karros demanded.
  22. TooLiveBrew
    Eric Karros demands a lead-off HR from Sizemore.
  23. TooLiveBrew
    Wow! Curt Schilling had a bloody sock tonight, too! Oh wait... that was just Joe Suck reliving history all night. Gawd he suckz. Seriously, we can't get Joe Morgan in that broadcasting booth? All-time records would be shattered...
  24. TooLiveBrew
    they have made a habit of performing well in critical situations Check the history on that one, not just one or two situations involving extreme luck (and, yes, some good play, too). Heck, they could go out tomorrow and lose or win - tonight wasn't game 7.
  25. TooLiveBrew
    right, cbc, coupled with incredible luck. (See, Youkilis, K. for an example)
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