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  1. RockCoCougars
    He looks like David Weathers. Judging from all the stains on the banana, it looks like he may have been on a sugar high from eating one of those big hot fudge Sundaes or waffle cones.
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    If the Brewers are unwilling to commit that much money to Greinke, where should they utilize it? It's not like they have a ton of non locked in pre arby/arby guys, and let's face it, the farm system is pretty barren at the high end. Though there are some pitchers with promise, none of those guys will be expensive until a Greinke deal would be almost over. If you are not going to spend money on your own young talent, then you are left with a few scenarios, which you could mix and match..... overpay Marcum as the consolation prize and/or throw smaller 8 figure deals at the Wolf/Ramirez of the world and/or work from the Sal Bando school of quantity over quality and sign several $3-$6 million guys every off-season. In my view, you don' let a legit ace Cy Young caliber pitcher walk because you are concerned about tying up payroll. Actually, I think that the most likely scenario if the Brewers let Greinke walk, is that the team suffers, attendance drops and payroll is rolled back a bit.
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    Thanks for the list. I completely blanked on Grimes. Kind of surprising that Wisconsin hasn't developed even one HOF player in the past century. I have to think that puts us in pretty select company.
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    He was certainly better than Ginter and Franklin- another one of Taylor's horrible moves. Back in the day, I considered him to be pretty much on par with Vina. I don't think either of those guys was as good as Cirillo. Looking at his stats, he was another guy who got better when he was traded from the Brewers. Taylor always had a knack for trading guys just at the right time....
  5. RockCoCougars
    The way these offenses look, this may go half the night. I've set a midnight curfew for myself.
  6. RockCoCougars
    Addie Joss was from Wisconsin as well. I believe that these are the only two HOF pitchers from Wisconsin to this day.
  7. RockCoCougars
    OK, Rickie has actually hit the ball hard a few times and I haven't had to endure a 'Miller 64' commercial.....I'm feeling better than I should about a two run deficit in the 8th.
  8. RockCoCougars
    Tejada was worse than Betancourt defensively at SS last year when he played at SS for the Giants that is. Right, but I'd rather have him at this point than Renteria. I'd rather have Yuni back than either of them.
  9. RockCoCougars
    It looks like they will be turning the side of the arena into a billboard, so there's that. They will also get endless plugs in the media coverage of the games held there. Not sure if that's worth $18 million, but I'll take it. Perhaps they are grooming them as the 'namor' of a new arena. If that's the case, hopefully they reap some benefits.
  10. RockCoCougars
    Loved Rickey, but I'm going to think outside the box a bit on this one. What about The Ignitor to DH and bat leadoff? I think that you'd be hard pressed to find a better hybrid pure hitter/leadoff hitter/ability to DH/base stealing threat/smart baserunner in baseball history. Molitor was a better pure hitter than Rickey, and without all the injuries in his prime, he'd probably be at least Top 3 all time in hits. I also believe that he could have stolen many more bases had the Brewer philosophy been different during the late 70's/early 80's. I've certainly never seen a better base runner.
  11. RockCoCougars
    The Sonny Crockett look is cool in more ways than one (see below left). http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FURMC7f5NmI/Th9JcGrj66I/AAAAAAAAHsM/RWNWKxiiJPQ/s320/Miami+vice12.jpg
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    I'd rather have Tejada than Renteria, so I googled to check his status. Wouldn't you know that the Orioles have snapped him up as well? I was on the Barmes train as well. Seems like a bullet was dodged there....not sure that I'd take on that contract at this point. Not trading for Furcal seems like a real miss in hindsight, but I wonder if the Brewers would have given him the contract to retain him. The bottom line is that Melvin and Co. are going to have to work something at SS if they want to contend this year. Izturis/Maysonet likely isn't going to get the job done down the stretch.
  13. RockCoCougars
    The ballpark is pretty much like any other public place. 99% of people are respectful, and there are 1% knuckleheads. Add drinking to the mix and you get more knuckleheads. The problem at a ballgame is that you can't simply move to get away from these people, you are at the mercy of the luck of your seating assignment. I think that Brewer games have always skewed young, but it seems that back in the County Stadium days, outside of Opening Day, most of the young 'boisterous' folks sat in the bleachers. These days, it seems- at least to me, that they are scattered about the stadium. To me, most of them are harmless, even the drunks. I don't appreciate profanity in front of my kids, but I've accepted that their ears won't melt, and it's pretty much par for the course at a ballgame..... I know that I picked up some new terms way back when at County Stadium. The only major problem that I've noticed that has seemed to ramp up a bit are what I would term, 'small packs of young punk males'. These guys tend to travel in small groups without respect for seating assignments. Often, they don't even appear to be drinking, but they seem to be more interested in stirring things up as opposed to watching a ballgame. I run into these packs a few times a year.
  14. RockCoCougars
    I hate naming rights, but I love the money that they bring in. If possible, I refer to the facility under it's non corporate name, so I'll continue to do so with the Bradley Center.
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    What is the deal with all the torn ACL's in baseball this year? This year, guys are going down like NFL running backs. Obviously the Brewers have been hit hard, but I can't remember more than a few others in the past. Seems like a fluky spike or something. As for the Cardinals, it appears that maybe their run of luck that started last August is turning a bit. They have been pretty bad for the past week plus. As bad as the Brewers have been, they are only 5 games out, so they are pretty lucky. If they were in a division of good teams, this poor play could have buried them already. If only the Brewers could put together a solid two week stretch of baseball, they'd be right back in the mix. I still think that the Reds are the team to beat, and they are starting to heat up a bit.
  16. RockCoCougars
    Personally I think that the ability to draw walks is somewhat overblown, but Carlos looks like Frank Thomas compared to Taylor Green at this point in his career. The guy has 1 career walk. I didn't want to send this thread completely careening off the OT cliff, but I saw this stat today for the first time and it blew me away.
  17. RockCoCougars
    This is one of the worst Brewer lineups that I can remember seeing since the beginning of the Yost era. I get the 'Sunday rest' concept, but why do you sit Ramirez after the HR yesterday?
  18. RockCoCougars
    Yes because the jsonline is a bastion of truth, have you read any of their stuff? Mench was not a key part of that trade, it was never suggest that he was by anyone on the team and he wasn't slotted for full time play even right after the trade. This is the Jsonline making stuff up at random like they always do. From what I remember, I have to disagree. The Brewers definitely tried to sell Mench as the key piece, from quoting his homer numbers in previous seasons to televising his 'arrival' at Miller Park. It may have been 1A and 1B, but they definitely tried to create some buzz around Mench.
  19. RockCoCougars
    My reverse jinx strikes again!
  20. RockCoCougars
    This spot is where Prince is missed big time.
  21. RockCoCougars
    Macha is great on paper. Similar to managers I've seen in the workplace with a great resume. The problem was in practice Macha's personality didn't lend itself to a leadership role. I've personally seen this before several times, the manager may be smart as a whip, but shoddy people skills cause most of their employees to not buy into the program. If people don't buy into the program, communication suffers, goals aren't met and there are personnel issues galore until the whole department is overhauled, with the manager usually the first out the door. From my experience in the workplace a 50/50 mix of smarts and personality seems to work in management. My guess is that in baseball, things swing way towards the personality end, because let's face it, managing a ball game is not rocket science.
  22. RockCoCougars
    And this is the rub right here. Because Cordero turned things around, on the face of it, the main pieces of the deal look OK in hindsight. Unfortunately, this little transaction within a transaction makes this one of the worst trades in Brewer history. If you take Melvin for what he said, at the least, you have to believe that Texas thought Cruz was a much better prospect than Nix. Personally, I'm not buying what Melvin said, because I think that he was enamored with Nix (he drafted him, didn't he?). I remember reading somewhere at the time of the trade a source that was quoted as saying that Melvin insisted on Nix being included in the deal. Thanks for the recap.
  23. RockCoCougars
    If the bats are ever going to break out it should be today. Pavano is basically an Italian Suppan at this point of his career. I'm going out on a limb and predicting one of those mirage-type games that comes every week or so.... just enough to keep the talking heads going about how the Brewers 'are still in the top half of the NL in (blank offensive category)'.
  24. RockCoCougars
    Here is a story from the jsonline the off-season after the deal. To quote from the article, "Considered at the time to be the key to the Carlos Lee trade with Texas at the end of July, Mench played horribly for the Brewers, batting .230 with one homer and 18 RBI in 40 games." http://www.jsonline.com/sports/brewers/29180994.html In hindsight, I can see how it would be easy to finger Cordero as the key to the trade, because he ended up being so good and Mench was so bad. However, some quick Googling also reminded me of the fact that Cordero had a hefty option for the next season that the Brewers probably wouldn't have even picked up had he not been gangbusters after the trade.
  25. RockCoCougars
    Unless my memory is shot, actually revisionism is claiming that Cordero was the main piece. I'm almost positive that Mench was sold to the fans as the key piece in that deal. Cordero had been brutal in Texas and lost his job as closer. His success in Milwaukee was pretty unexpected. It's also nonsense to claim that no one was upset about Cruz being included in the deal. I remember quite a few people posting on the boards about this. I wish that we could resurrect that thread from the dead. I'm going to do some checking later on articles from the time of the deal.
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