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  1. GAME05
    definitely agree, Casey. no suprise that i left editorial work because of too few jobs--clearly, nobody uses editors anymore. another one that bugs me is 'over' and 'under,' as in "It's under $20." over and under are geographic. really should be "It's less than $20."
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    What I'm not really willing to cut the writers, editors and managers at MJS much slack on any more is the overall lack of creativity in their Brewer's coverage. can't deny that at all, though i wonder how much of that has to do with universal cuts in journalism staffs. although i'd be more satisfied if they just used a wire recap of the game and had AW writing different articles. i like what they have Haudricourt doing with his blogs and articles.
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    Lee is on the cusp of becoming a Type A. even if he stays a B, it sounds like i'd rather have the sandwich pick than these three prospects. it probably means nothing, but i wonder if this is an indication that Chicago isn't going to try hard to resign Lee next year. i was hoping they would, not just because he's a declining player, but because Chicago resigning him ups Fielder's market.
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    http://upload.wikimedia.o.../MLB_HR_and_SB_rates.png i'll post this as a picture instead of link when i have a better chance, but this is a good depiction of how hitting philosophy has changed through the years. i think a lot of the aesthetic philosophy stemmed from the fact that the HR hitter just didn't exist before Ruth. when the top guy on your team is hitting all of seven per season, you're not going to strategize for it or plan for it or develop it in your younger players. thusly, you're not going to value it as much. it's not coincidence that after Ruth had a few years in the league that every other star started hitting HRs, too.
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    Yes, I to wonder who really made the call to start Suppan in game 4 when Gallardo was available and did end up pitching in relief that game. I still think that Melvin and/or Attanasio had a lot to do with that decision and not so much Sveum. that would make for a gigantic degree of meddling by Melvin if he was actually telling Sveum who he should be starting in the game. i have my doubts that a GM would go so far as to do that, even more so that Attanasio would have done that. his regular-season stats aside that year, he was brought on specifically to be a big-game pitcher, which he'd proven to be. and wouldn't Gallardo have been on short rest if he'd have pitched that game, too? if DM had thought so little of Sveum at that point, then Sveum would have never been promoted to Interim Manager in the first place.
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    ok, i'll be on board with Fredi Gonzalez as the next manager.
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    Cobb didn't think there was much of an art to the homerun and almost chose not to hit them. Until Ruth, i don't think the HR was really valued as much as it is today. that Ruth hits 10x as many HRs as the next best player can't make him 10x better than that player. the only way i would start to judge Ruth against his peers is much later in his career when so many other players started to emerge and also try to hit HRs. until then, Ruth didn't have any 'peers,' if anything, because he didn't have any peers--nobody else was trying to do what he did. Ruth was just too unique for the time that he first emerged, and i'm not sure any other time in history really compares--maybe the invention of the slider?? although the problem i have with ranking everybody on the basis of only ERA+ or OPBS+ is because of the tendency of baseball throughout history to adjust for hitters or pitchers becoming better as a group. Plain statistics don't take into account ballparks universally getting shorter, strikezones changing from the letters to the belt, change in mound height, pitch inventions, etc.
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    if the biggest complaint i got as a writer was my spelling, then i'd be very happy. i guess there's pretty much no winning for AW--he either makes mistakes from answering a lot of questions in a hurry, or he proofs his answers and gets blasted for not fielding enough questions.
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    i ask out of ignorance, but why try to void the rest of his contract? he was having a decent season, so $11M isn't outrageous to be paying a closer. and sure, $17M is absurd for a closer in his option year, but in those cases, i think the GM could give a nod to the manager to make sure he doesn't get too close to finishing 55 games.
  10. GAME05
    it's to this organization's credit that the only two guys i can think of that we let go a little too early are JDLR and Ronnie Belliard. At the same time, maybe that also means we've been holding onto guys far too long and allowing them to lose games at the ML level to watch talent that is never going to materialize. when you've got a team with the talent ours does, maybe it's more appropriate to start cutting ties with nonperformers and take some risks with replacements. i'm more inclined to find the oldest pitcher in the minors who still hasn't gotten his ML shot yet and replace Parra with him. that'd at least be more fun to watch, especially since we'd only really be asking him to replace Parra's current numbers.
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    since Sveum didn't get the full-time gig last time, i'm having a hard time believing that he'll get it this time. i'm not suggesting you do at all, but i'm not equating making a mistake hiring Macha with a mistake in not hiring Sveum. hiring Sveum could have been a mistake, too. although i have a hard time believing that Sveum "deserves" his shot at managing.
  12. GAME05
    loathe as i am to say it, i'd probably have the Pre-Roid Bonds at least on my list of top 10 outfielders.
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    apparently all the hopeful guys who want to someday be a ML manager (or return to it) are saying "sure, the opportunity is really limited, but not Milwaukee." i seriously don't know why you'd think that Milwaukee is such a horrible place that anyone with talent (or anyone who is even "decent") wouldn't want to come here.
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    "earning a save" vs. actually getting the win is certainly a mistake that really shouldn't be made, but AW is also writing the article before the game has even ended. it's an important mistake, sure, but it's one game out of 162, and i think there has to at least be a little leeway for a human to be human. i was a journalist and a copy editor, also. though AW wrote the article, "our" instead of "out" is really the mistake of the copy editor, so you're blaming the wrong person. i can't blame AW too much for doing that. you would be amazed at how much copy the proofers have to read through in a day. seemingly easy mistakes to catch like our/out are actually the hardest to notice. to this day i can't read a newspaper without a pen, because i always find a pretty good number of errors, whether that's the J-S or the New York Post. i don't want to be a complete apologist because there are certainly things that could be done better. there are always things that can be done better. but for the most part, it seems like expectations are astronomical. Sportswriters (is that one word or two? Quick! get an AP Style Guide out!) have such a tiny window to get from blank page to finished article. that AW doesn't know 'bead' from 'beat' is nothing i'd cancel a subscription over. at my last job, i used to get criticized by my boss for putting a comma where a semicolon should be. this all strikes me as a lot like that.
  15. GAME05
    i recently finished the book 9 Innings, which a bf poster recommended. it attributed Kuenn's success replacing Rodgers primarily from bringing in a change in attitude and behaviour in the clubhouse. the author said that if it was Rodgers replacing Kuenn, the results of that 82 season might very well have been the same. so when i think about new managers i don't think so much about specific qualifications like Money and Sveum certainly have, but just someone who has a personality that's mostly the opposite of Macha. Valentine comes to mind because i think an arrogant and cocky attitude would fit well with the personalities of the stars on this team. at the same time, i really do wonder why it is that he's been out of MLB for so many years.
  16. GAME05
    Hall always struck me as a great teammate--he always seemed to be first out of the dugout to congratulate a HR. but the way he was moved around, no doubt he got pretty disgruntled and angry at the organization. plus we couldn't really have moved him back to utility status because Melvin had promised him a permanent spot at 3rd, and that would have meant Melvin going back on his word--again. plus even if Hall became a utility guy again, that would have blocked us calling up Escobar, and there was certainly a lot more promise of Escobar being good than Hall finding his stoke again. The Brewers would have been insane to offer Sheets anything near what Oakland gave him. what's the point of lip service if it's clearly never going to happen? no way i get mad at Melvin for sending Hardy down--that was a great move. it theoretically makes him more valuable in a trade, which makes the Brewers better--which Hardy's bat certainly wasn't doing. if we can get mad at the Brewers for doing that to Hardy, then we should conversely be mad at Sabathia for accepting more money to play for the Yankees.
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    it really shouldn't have to take six hours to fill out a job application.
  18. GAME05
    until recently i lived a half-mile from such a place--they truly do exist.
  19. GAME05
    who? Jody Gerut? hadn't realized he was still with the team. he was an outfielder or something, right?
  20. GAME05
    that's a really good point about McGehee. i was one of many who was expecting a sophomore slump, but he's ended up really solid offensively. definitely the defense is rough, but then we're also talking about a guy we picked up for nothing and aren't paying $9M per season. plus without him it would have been Gamel starting, playing a similar level of defense and you'd figure not as solid offensively quite yet. at the least, this team really has all the pieces in place to be a contender. and i think Wolf is going to have a much better year next year, too.
  21. GAME05
    that's the thing, though. i don't doubt at all that there are cheaper and better rums out there (i don't drink rum), but a bar almost has to carry stuff like Captain's and Bacardi. i don't have much faith that the typical bar-goer has a very discerning pallet(sp?), but instead just drinks what's common (Budweiser, Captain, Jack...). assuming that, that a bar has to carry the usual stuff, wouldn't every bar have to stop at some point for space considerations and just specialize in one or two things? or maybe i'm just used to small bars that don't have much space to stock stuff that doesn't move fast. not alcohol related, but i always prefer barstools that have the bars underneath to put your feet on. some places only just have that long rail to rest your feet on, but i'm often turned to talk to someone, meaning my feet have to dangle and that's not as comfortable. also, i would always hope that the owner spend some quality time picking out the jukebox music. bad music isn't necessarily a deal-breaker for me, but good music can keep me going back to a mediocre bar.
  22. GAME05
    how does Kazmir have a better upside than Wolf? i would think of the two, Wolf has a far better chance of bouncing back and having a better year in 2011.
  23. GAME05
    why Dale Sveum as manager? i don't really believe that tenure makes anyone more capable at being a manager than anyone else. i don't think we'd be any worse off with a manager from outside the organization than one from inside. plus, if it's Sveum, then why not Randolph? the season is a disappointment for me because i thought we at least had enough talent to make the playoffs this year (or at least compete). but yeah, i sure hope the young kids get all the playing time in the world right now.
  24. GAME05
    i'm thinking at this point, retirement isn't about having to take a 96% pay cut, but more that he doesn't want to end up as the 40-year-old ex-ballplayer who can't lift a fork to his mouth without pain. obviously we all hope his arm returns to at least normal-human levels.
  25. GAME05
    that stuff bugs me, too, hawing. i used to be a copy editor. for something that gets printed with the Milwaukee Brewers logo, there should be more pride and effort in the work (read into that what you will). not to mention, how is it possible for something to be "somewhat" meteoric? Steven Wright joke: If a word was spelled wrong in the dictionary, how would you know?
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