GAME05

A lifetime of watching sports: 10: Maybe one day I'll be able to do that 20: I betcha I could do that 30: Sure not the crazy stuff, but I could totally do the basics 40: I sure can't do that anymore 50: Who am I kidding, I could never have done that 60: Sure they're good, but not compared to the ones in my day 70: They're superhuman these days, we were never doing stuff like that

I don't like that joke any one bit! :)

We struck gold with Chourio and Made and can't realistically expect to keep doing that. Sure we could flip a lot of the prospects we've got, but I'd rather be a good team for the next ten years than add another 20% to our WS odds for one year. And it's not like the CBA will set a cap at $150m. More like $250m and the Brewers will be operating the same as now. You know the Commissioner would be thrilled at a Dodgers/Yankees WS every single year.

Also an advantage at the deadline. Dodgers can load up or cover for in-season injuries because a lost prospect is replaced with a free agent. Of the two, the Brewers would be the only ones having to trade away future wins. Our prospects are inherently more valuable than the Dodgers' prospects. My vision is a guaranteed minimal income for owners (since their value is the great investment of owning a team) with financial incentives related to attendance. Full revenue sharing, cap and floor, with some guaranteed % going to players with a semi-regular League financial audit done and something done with any unspent cap money going to the players. Added early-side year or two of arbitration with any unspent player money pooled and distributed and a cap-incentive when re-signing players to promote more "one team for life" players. I would be happy if there were some flexibility for teams to spend more/less on Intl and development projects.

I know which possibility Ohtani's translator will be rooting for. But really it's all up to FanDuel to decide what will happen.

So I guess this means Tyler Glasnow will probably be the odd man out come October and no longer good enough to make the postseason starting rotation. What a bum.

The Players Union will love it, too.

I'm not sure it's really the pre-injury Skubal the Dodgers traded for.

Gabe Gross. Remember how upset we all were that he was traded and that the return for him was terrible considering his upside?

I rate the trade a "whatever". We get ourselves a backup catcher for next year if needs be for two AAAA guys who were only going to see the Majors in a break-glass emergency, anyway. Sure Yoho could be great, but we can say that about pretty well every young player, just as we can say that about Naylor if we can manage to tweak whatever needs tweaking. Or he's AAA depth. Either way, whatever.

If you tell your kids about how great the 80s were, it's the same as your grandparents telling you about the 1940s.

If they've re-opened any hiking trails through the burnt-out areas, definitely go hiking. It's so strange walking through right after a fire, like you're walking through a world in the 1940 before color was invented.

Boy the amount of flopping and crying that's going to come from one single team next year...

Even though they're probably going to have a pretty bad team, I think I'm more excited for this season than the past many. I don't know much about the non-Herro guys we got and I can't remember when I've been this anxious to see a draft pick play. Oh my goodness I had to look it up and the last particularly exciting draft pick was Thon Maker a decade ago. I really liked that guy even though he was the worst rebounder I've ever seen. But it does feel like we have the makings, even if it's not a complete team yet. Like we've just completely restocked our role-player squad. Now all we need is to trade for that guy Giannis in Miami and we'll be set!

Just watched the trailer because of these comments. Normally talking animals is an immediate no from me, but it looks like I'd be in the wrong to not see it. So the shepherd dying doesn't put a pall over the rest of what's clearly supposed to be a feel-good movie?