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  1. FVBrewerFan
    The other danger is signing a player to a very team-friendly deal, then have a disgruntled player on your hands if he explodes. Say they would sign Villar to 5/15 deal. Then 2 years from now he's a perennial All-Star, a real stud. There's no way they can keep that deal for another 3 years, not without Villar demanding a trade and things getting real ugly. I think the time to offer a 5 or 6 yr deal is when a player has one or two arby years left and is more of a known factor. That way you get a discount for paying him more in his remaining arby years, plus insurance against future injury/performance risk. You won't get a huge discount, but you should be able to keep a few guys away from FA at reasonable contracts.
  2. FVBrewerFan
    Also, no Jason Kidd at post-game press conf. Probably nothing, but very strange comment from Hammond that they were having a "basketball discussion." Also odd, because obviously that conversation was over if Hammond appeared and made a comment. Boston, Philly, Miami, and others in a very similar situation as the Bucks a couple years back. They are all soaring, Bucks in disaster mode. Yet Hammond, Kidd, etc. are still around.
  3. FVBrewerFan
    Clearly meant as a test for mlb. In rookie leagues they could just call it a tie after 9 or 10 innings, what does it matter at that level. This stuff is getting into nascar level craziness, where the rules change every year in a failed attempt to garner interest.
  4. FVBrewerFan
    Thompson's plan: Demetri Goodson back from IR, convert Trevor Davis to CB. Defensive issues WHOAA SOLVVD
  5. FVBrewerFan
    This sums it up for me, your whole post really. Just call the strike zone according to the rule book, and however long the game is, it is. Crazy to think they believe game will go faster with a smaller zone. Automatic intentional walks are stupid too. Will speed up the game by a minute or so, and changes the rules so a pitcher doesn't have to actually, you know, pitch. That's just weird to me, and it does take away the intrigue of a pitcher air-mailing one over the catcher's head. All the pitching changes is what slows the game down, and nothing can be done about it. Or at least nothing SHOULD be done about that like limiting number of pitching changes, etc. Baseball is simply not a game meant to be "on the clock."
  6. FVBrewerFan
    Yea, it's frustrating. But the problem is, nobody is willing to give up a draft pick for any of the Bucks junk contracts they have tried to move in the past, or present. So expect more trades involving one bad contract for another.
  7. FVBrewerFan
    They want more runs, and faster games. So just quietly juice the ball a little? No way you can tell me the ball has been exactly the same for 100 years anyhow. That, and make strike zone a little bigger so you get more swings, quicker ABs. Done.
  8. FVBrewerFan
    So, it wasn't a horrible call, just not eexcited properly? You haven't acknowledged that it was a 16 point game at the time, not 19 as you were saying.
  9. FVBrewerFan
    You absolutely can not sit in roughly the same seats for half the cost for most games, unless it's upper terrace. Whenever I make plans for a game getting good tickets for a good price is impossible 90% of the time. A Tues night game in April, probably no problem.
  10. FVBrewerFan
    I don't know that it's dumb. And right or wrong, all NBA coaches do this. Much like a pitching staff, NBA players need to know their roles, when they get playing time, etc. If you just stick with the hot hand, Giannis will end up playing 48 minutes in most games, and Parker in many. (That's extreme, but you get the point.) It's a long season, and you need the bench to contribute. One thing Kidd does that I love, is that he WILL go with the hot line-up at the end of games. There's really nothing set there at all, could be anyone in there for the final stretch.
  11. FVBrewerFan
    Right or wrong, they didn't want to give it back to Brady, needing only two scores in over 8:00 minutes. They also knew the Patriots were playing the run on that play. Very different situation, so we can't just say they were running well all day, so easy 1st down run. Far from it. Could/should they have had a quick hitter? Probably. But you're right, this decision is picked apart to death, yet nobody points out how the defense gave up 3 TDs and 2 Two-Point conversions in the Patriots last 3 drives of the game. Not to mention two more scoring drivers in the 2nd half. It takes a whole team to come back and win a game lie that, but it takes a whole team to lose it too.
  12. FVBrewerFan
    I can see Giannis/Middleton being a great PnR option, with Middleton being the screener. If defense tries to go over it, Giannis is in the lane doing nasty Giannis things. If defense plays under it, lots of open looks for Middleton. They should be doing some of that already with Giannis/Parker. The rotations are frustrating because with most of their roster you don't know what you're going to get on any given night. Or even within a game. A guy like Mirza can go 4-4 from three in his first half run, then go 0-4 in the 2nd half. Same thing with Dely and Snell. Maker needs more minutes, he's a legit 3 point threat and at least run around and use his length on defense.
  13. FVBrewerFan
    You keep saying 19 point lead. It was a 16 point lead.
  14. FVBrewerFan
    Actually, Atlanta was up by two scores at the time 28-12. With 8:30 to go. So getting a 1st down was important than 40 seconds in that situation. (Or at least you could make a case.) Running it on 3rd and 1 is no automatic 1st down as the Patriots were playing for that.
  15. FVBrewerFan
    But that can also backfire. Packers got too conservative against Seattle in 2014. To me the only really inexcusable thing is snapping the ball in the 4th quarter with 15 - 20 seconds on the play clock. I mean that is at least one thing you have total control over. Oh, no question going conservative can and does cost you a game as well. I'm just saying this is why coaches are so afraid to keep the pedal down. But you're right, just by taking more time each snap, running the ball just a little more, etc. they could have had a lot more time tick away. Finally, passing on 3rd and 1 wasn't a horrible decision, but a pass play that required a deep drop by the QB was.
  16. FVBrewerFan
    Falcons showed why NFL coaches always want to play it safe with a big lead. As fans we always want a team to put the foot on the gas when they're winning by a wide margin. I think the Falcons really wanted to put one more TD on the board for the dagger, and it backfired. Would have been safer to run a lot more up 25, and the clock would have taken care of the rest.
  17. FVBrewerFan
    Terrell Davis very questionable too. The a Kurt Warner of RBs.
  18. FVBrewerFan
    Has Kidd lost this team? Lost 9 out of 10 now. Reminds me of the Scott Skiles days. First year, everyone played hard on defense, played as a team on offense, and they had a surprisingly good year. Then it went south fast. Now look at Kidd. First year, great start. Last year they took a step back. Now this year after a mediocre start, they are free falling. If this team is good enough to beat the Cavs, Spurs, Rockets, etc. and battle the Warriors to the end it tells you there's more talent here than their record. There's got to be something going on in the locker room, and that something can't be good.
  19. FVBrewerFan
    rwa12 called that one!
  20. FVBrewerFan
    Yea, feel like I'm missing something. Why would Charlotte want that contract?? If this is it, how can you not love this deal! Hibbert gone at the end of the year, and at worst Hawes would be a 1 yr $6MM man next year, or easily traded. Hope the phone rings on Monroe, Henson, Tely, and Dely. Lots of dead weight to move yet, but Plumley is a good start.
  21. FVBrewerFan
    Makes perfect sense. Maybe someone doesn't want to go to all those Friday games, or can't. Or sit in the upper corner with the BP tickets. Season tickets allows you to pick the exact seats you want, and you know you have them without scouring around for tix for all these individual promo games- where tix are hard to come by, by the way. I think some people are looking at it as "does this make sense for me" rather than does this make sense in general for people who want to go to many games, or even all the games.
  22. FVBrewerFan
    Yes, there's many promotions. But that means trying to buy tickets to all these individual games, with a lot less control over where your seats are. Season tix you get discounts plus your seats are all set. Plus, a lot of people divide season tix with family, friends, coworkers. Bars, companies, etc buy them. So it's not like most people go to 81 games.
  23. FVBrewerFan
    That's almost exactly what he said, other than that last little bolded part.
  24. FVBrewerFan
    They have no illusions of competing. Even Mark A and CC made statements over the weekend in this regard. With that said, they don't want to be awful either. So I agree with you in that regard. The Brewers believe it doesn't help young players develop when you're blown out in most games. That's why Stearns continues to tinker with the 40 man, he wants to make it as good as possible without spending much money, which is a really smart way to approach things this year IMHO.
  25. FVBrewerFan
    I would say that makes sense, in fact I'm in favor it. However, Mark A just made yet another comment about being committed to Arcia and living with the growing pains. I would expect Arcia as SS on opening day, barring something crazy in SP- like if he starts booting a bunch of balls, strikes out at an alarming rate, etc. Even at that they may still go with him. All the comments I've seen and heard point to Arcia is up for good.
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