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  1. RockCoCougars
    Agreed. He's getting pretty underrated around here. I'm sure i'm in the extreme minority, but for $1 mil, I definitely would've brought him back. At the end of the day, he's a lefty with nasty stuff and has shown he's useful out of the bullpen. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if he has a good year with Cincy. I've felt that Parra was extremely overrated/overhyped by a big chunk of the fanbase since he came to Milwaukee. Simply put, the guy is lefty and throws hard- that's it. He always looked like a poor man's DeLaRosa to me. Now, he has lots of haters due to those expectations that weren't very realistic in the first place. All that said, I wouldn't be surprised if he is able to put together a decent season out of the pen. He's one of those guys who seems to have a fragile mindset that may be improved by a change of scenery. All that I can say is thank goodness he didn't go to the Cardinals... he'd probably have been starting the All-Star game this summer.
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    I thought that you had to be in the hall of fame to make the 'ring'. Something similar to the names at Miller Park.
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    I can't stand the East Coast media. Do they honestly think that the Red Sox are one pitcher away? That team is a mess and clearly is the worst in their division. As for the Brewers, if you trade Gallardo, you may as well trade Braun too.
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    I'd be in favor of bringing Carlos Lee back, but like others, I don't see him doing so for a few million tops. I'm also intrigued somewhat by Aubrey Huff, who'd probably be available as a NRI.
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    Nice move. I like how Melvin has learned from last year that you have to have some quality depth. I wouldn't mind if they picked up one more vet with some pop for the bench.
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    I couldn't care less whether Jennings makes the all star team, but there has been a ton of buzz about him and other snubs. Say what you want about the NBA, but they do generate a good deal of interest in their all star game...they are a distant third in the big three pro sports, but may have the most talked about ASG- even though the Slam Dunk contest has stunk for roughly 20 years.
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    If the Brewers sign more of the Cardinals garbage, my head will explode. There is a reason these guys turn to crap when they leave St. Louis... the same reason that the Cardinals have no interest in re-signing them. As for Overbay, I'd be OK with it, but I'd prefer El Caballo or even Huff at this point.
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    But if the MLBPA is in favor of it, it must be in the best interests of the game, correct?...
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    Too bad, so sad for yet another Boras client. Are you watching Carlos Gomez?
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    As a kid in the 80'sI watched the Bucks and I watched the NBA. I can even remember listening to Bucks games on the radio in the car with my Dad. Even in college during the 90's I watched the NBA with Jordan even though the Bucks weren't good. Along the way my interest in the NBA in general waned. I can definitely see where you are coming from and I think that you are in the same boat with a lot of guys from their late 30's to the 50's in this state. It may seem hard to believe these days, but there was a stretch in the 70's and well into the 80's where the Bucks were very popular statewide. Obviously, the losing hasn't helped, but I think that the surge in popularity of the NCAA (more specifically the Badgers) has also played a huge role. During the 70's/80's Badger basketball was pretty much a train wreck year in, year out. They didn't really have a good/exciting team until about '93, which was about when that of the Bucks seemed to start dipping. Though I personally think Badger basketball has been about as exciting to watch as paint dry since Dick Bennett took over, I can't deny that this is definitely a college basketball state now As for Kohl, I really think that he has put forth an effort to win, but he made two fatal flaws. The first was butting heads with Nelson, and the second was letting George Karl basically act like an inmate running the asylum during the last few years he was here.
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    I think the handwringing around here about trading Lawrie is a bit over the top at times. I say that even though I feel that the Brewers likely would have made it just as far in '11 without Marcum. Obviously, it's going to go down as a bad deal on paper, but I'm not going to fault the Brewers much in hindsight for making a bold move to go for it. I don't remember a lot of people complaining about giving up Kevin Bass (and two decent pitching prospects) for roughly two years of Don Sutton back in the day, and Bass had a pretty good career for the Astros.
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    I think it all depends on what he got, but I really have the hunch that the Brewers have grave concerns about the condition of his elbow. I wouldn't be surprised if he had a nice year, but I also wouldn't be surprised if the duct tape holding his arm together came off.
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    The Bucks take a lot of heat, some warranted, some not. This is likely because a good deal of the fanbase has only seen one really good season in their lifetimes. That said, I'm finding the team pretty entertaining to watch this season, and I'd rather watch that than a bad team going through the motions in the hopes of landing that franchise player (who if they panned out by the way, would leave Milwaukee to join their friends in another market at the first possible opportunity). I just don't get all the hate on the Bucks, while most are still on the Badger basketball bandwagon. Frankly, neither has any realistic shot at winning a championship. Vegas has both at about the same odds. I think that the best path this team could take is to build around some of the promising young guys, hope a couple of players fall into their laps and build a team like Detroit had at the turn of the century. I think that winning a first round series would be an outstanding and fairly realistic first step.
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    Though I have my doubts that Corey would be doing this due diligence if it wasn't a contract year, it's tough to blame him.
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    Look around the league. There are probably at least 10 teams in tank/rebuild mode. Throw the lottery in the mix, and you can tank for years without getting a number one overall... then when you get it, you could end up with a Bogut draft. I get that tanking is the in thing to do, but with so many horrible teams is it really worth it? I say no, I'd rather watch competitive basketball for the winter and maybe even win another playoff series. Do the Bucks have a legit chance at winning a title as things stand? No, but I'd rather be watching them right now than a garbage team like Washington, who have been tanking rather successfully for years, but are no better now than when they started.
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    Melvin really likes to reach on his non roster invites... as in pulling guys out of retirement... I'm still not completely ruling out a Dave Nilsson comeback. I can't complain though, he's scored on a few of them, and they are very low risk.
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    It's certainly now or never as far as he's concerned with the Brewers. With the way a lot of people are talking on talk radio, etc., Gamel stunk the joint up last year.... I actually thought he was pretty good with the bat, I checked his stats and they weren't as good as I expected them to be.... I think people are too reliant on that.
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    Barring future injury issues, I think that Braun is on a HOF pace. He needs 8-10 more productive seasons to get in the 500 homer/3,000 hit range, but I wouldn't sell him short.
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    What a great manager and a colorful character. With his 'wait for the three-run homer' approach, he was a forefather of the modern school of baseball strategy. Hard to believe that it was over 30 years ago when he first retired from the Orioles after the game 162 against the Brewers. He was only 52 at the time, but seemed a lot older to me for whatever reason. Baseball lost a lot of history in the past 24 hours.
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    Wow. Very sad day for baseball. As much as I've grown to despise the Cardinals, I think Musial was one of the more underrated players in baseball history because he often doesn't come up in the greatest of all time debates. His stats were amazing. From all accounts, a great guy as well.
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    I'm normally a cynic, but I see lots of silver linings here. Better now than in March, hopefully Gamel gets another chance at some semi-extended playing time, etc.
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    The rule that every team must be represented probably hurt him in some years too. This is probably true. Yount didn't even make the AS team the year of his second MVP. That in of itself has to be pretty rare, but I just checked the AS roster for that season and was stunned to see that Jeff Leonard made it that season as the M's rep... this was post his horrible Brewers stint. I'm stunned that he made an AS team after that run, as I thought he was completely out of baseball soon after leaving Milwaukee.
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    Yount didn't really get 'good' until about '79 or so. Once he was an established star, he had the shoulder issues and Ripken had became the flavor of the week. I don't put too much stock into the whole small market deal early on because Molitor was voted into the game at least once around '80 or '81. Later in his career, the balloting probably played a larger role with the Pucketts, Cansecos and Bo Jacksons of the world. Heck, Robin probably didn't even become the most popular Brewer until '82 ....he was definitely behind Molitor and perhaps Gorman and Cooper in that aspect. From what I remember, Bucky Dent was voted in at AL SS at least a few times pre-Ripken.... has anyone outside perhaps Mazeroski parlayed a single home run into more?
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    I was going to say Bret Boone, but he didn't quite get to 40. He did get pretty close though.
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    There is very little evidence that steroids give you a significant advantage. The magical effects of steroids have turned into a giant myth. I strongly disagree. Ask anyone who has done them and will discuss their effects candidly. To explain Barry Bonds's stats it is just as credible to think that at the tail end of his career his unparalleled batting eye just made him a more effective/consistent power hitter. His BB% and AVG also spiked in the same years. Is that because of steroids? Or was he just hitting more HR because he was seeing the ball so amazingly well? If you only swing at fat pitches you are going to hit a lot of HR. Steroids are taken to improve 'twitch' muscle reaction, and in turn, bat speed. Think about it, if roids increased Bonds' bat speed by even 5 percent, he'd be able to wait an extra few feet/microseconds to make his decision whether to swing at a given pitch. To me, that should improve both contact rate and batting 'eye'.
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