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  1. logan82
    Didn't take long at all to save up bottles. I went with a Midwest brew kit. The $80 one since I wanted the auto siphon. It also added a 5 gallon better boy which I might not use for quite a while but since it was only $20 more than the other one and an about siphon was $20 I figured getting a better bottle for an extra $10 was a pretty good deal. I have not brewed yet but have read quite a bit and have formed some opinions. The actual equipment kit was just over half of my original investment. All the additions can jump the price up pretty quickly. Just under $30 for a 20 qt brew kettle(a cheap one at that). Another $27ish for an extract kit. I also sprung for some Star San since I don't have a dishwasher for sanitizing. The forums over at HomeBrewTalk.com make it sound like practically a miracle liquid for sanitization which seems to be key for good tasting beer. I am already looking at at least another $80 in stuff for down the road to make things easier if I end up brewing quite a bit(wort chiller, bottle tree although a dish rack would also work) and that doesn't even include a bigger, better boiling kettle(7+ gallons). Those things are not cheap. I think I will just keep it simple for a couple years. Are there any good brewing stores in the Madison area? Stopped at the Wine and Hop shop and will probably go back once I start brewing more. Just wondering if there are any other stores that are easier to get to around Madison.
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    Let's see, a guy is out for a whole year and then he leads his team in innings and gets injured. Shocking.
  3. logan82
    Nobody doubts the Braves pitching development. They doubt that the Braves would actually trade guys worth acquiring.
  4. logan82
    So maybe his shoulder wasn't quite full strength when he came back or maybe we were all overreacting to a small amount of PA.
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    The eyeball tests on McGehee and the metrics line up. Sort of like they do with Braun.
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    I agree that closers are mostly replaceable but I don't think it makes much sense to trade a cost controlled guy like Axford. Maybe once he hits arbitration but unless we have a good replacement it really makes almost no sense to me to trade him.
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    Green and Gamel are more than likely to be with the team longer than McGehee. Anybody can play 1B so replacing a 1B is easier than any other position. So down the road when we need to replace McGehee it leaves us with more options if he is at 1B than if we put Gamel at 1B and leave McGehee at 3B. No I don't care if his bat plays at 1B or not. Our lineup is likely to include Gamel, McGehee, and Lawrie all at the same time. It makes little to no sense to move guys around just so their bat will fit at a position. You move them around to provide optimal defense.
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    We are more than likely not going to be competing next year so I would move Fielder and then McGehee can slide over to 1B. Of course if we get a good return on a McGehee trade, I would move him but I would move anybody for the right price as long as it improved the team.
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    If Casey were willing to stay in MKE for a small salary (unlikely) then keeping him, despite the defense, is a good idea. But since he's unlikely to accept a relatively small base-salary, and his contract expires in the near-future, it's unrealistic to assume that he'll last beyond his contract... Unless, of course, he can be signed for beneath his value (which, again, is highly-improbable). We have control of McGehee through the end of the 2014 season at shich time he will be a free agent. He is barely above average as a hitter and a poor defender. He isn't a bad guy to hold onto. It would make almost zero sense to give him a long term contract. He will be 32 his first year of free agency. In other words on the decline. So you go year to year. You don't want to buy out any free agent years like you would with other young players.
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    Stopped at Cooper's Tavern today. Had an Ayinger hefe. Nice place, good beer. Looked like they had specific glasses for each beer they served. Hennepin served in a Hennipin tulip glass. Ayinger served in an Ayinger weizen glass. Hoegaarden served in fancy pint Hoegaarden glass. I have heard that is the way they do it in some places in Europe. Every brewery designs their own glasses specifically for their beer. The beer geek in me was very impressed. Saw quite a bit of Lagunitas beer in Woodman's today that I dont' recall being there on my last visit. Didn't pick any up of course. Looked mostly like IPA's.
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    logan82 replied to logan82's topic in Off-Topic Forum

    You were right about Woodman's. They have a ton of Stubbs'.
  12. logan82
    Nice grammar there guy.
  13. logan82
    That is a good way to look at it. I don't think we would give up much more than Hoffman and Stetter for a guy like Axford.
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    Unless a manager uses the guy properly and puts him in the back end of the pen as the long man.
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    Not really. McGehee had far and away the best year of his career last year. There is no way anybody would have traded much for him last offseason. Probably. He isn't a terrible hitter but I think teams are moving more towards guys who can play in the field and saving the DH spot for giving regulars some rest. Completely agree with that. His left handed bat with a decent OBP would slot in perfectly in the #2 hole. That way Braun is sandwiched by 2 lefties. Gamel would almost never face a LOOGY.
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    Found this nugget today. Funny, I would say the same thing about Carlos Gomez.
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    I see comments which state we will keep McGehee until he hits peak value. That is easy to say. It is also the trick of being a GM. His peak value may have passed. I doubt that. He probably had little value after last season since it was so far out of line with anything he had done at any level. He is probably at his peak value now and through next year if he keeps hitting like he has so far. I will believe that he can keep hitting like he has so far when he does it through about 2+ months next year as well.
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    McGehee is not a super sub. He can only reasonably play 1B and 3B. He doesn't have the mobility to play 2B, SS or any outfield position. He isnt the type of guy I would want around as a bench player.
  19. logan82
    I don't know of a good source for options on specific players. The player index for the 40-man and 25-man roster on this site has them I think. The links seem to be broken though. 404 not found
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    LaRussa is famous for finding reasons for hitting the opponents. He perceives everything as some sort of slight on him and his team thus the need to retaliate. That is the type of thing that only increases when self policing is the norm. Next time throw at LaRussa. Go up to the mound and throw the ball into the dugout. That might stop things. Kind of doubt it though.
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    Not a very big part. At least he had a few lines though. Easy to miss.
  22. logan82
    Well at least he got a chance to start so Edmonds could get some rest.
  23. logan82
    We do need pitching but young good pitching is so valuable our best return might be a good young hitter. It isn't like our minor league system is stocked with bats. We have Lawrie, Gamel and Cain then a bunch of guys who are probably at least 2 years away. There is a good chance none of those three are impact bats.
  24. logan82
    Maybe Macha should pull a struggling starter now and then. I have not been watching the games to closely this week so are they being left in for some reason or has grandpa Macha been napping?
  25. logan82
    Honestly I think our lineup is about as optimized as we can reasonably expect. No manager will hit Fielder 2nd or our 5th best hitter 3rd. Our top 5 hitters are in the top 5 spots and nobody is hitting more than 2 spots away from where they should be. Except for maybe Gomez that is. Gomez should probably be 9th. I think Gomez hitting makes most Brewers fans sad, or I should say trying to hit.
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