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is that mike watt?

Capuano will have a great deal of value...and i think vargass will as well...one of those two will probably be tradeed...other than that, i doubt will seee any real turnover at all...i think jenkins will be back. At this point, i'm pretty sure the brewers like jenks and he'll be around next year. Every night I go to bed and pray that Kevin mench will retire so thaat he's gone from the lineup, but he will defeinitely be gone next year. One buy low OBP candidate is Brian Giles...along with Abreu, if the crew parts ways with jenkins...other thaan that, i'm not sure theey team can really do better than jenks out there... I'm sure they'll bring in some junk to compete witth the bottom of the bbullpen and roster, but i doubt it will have a signifigant impact on the team This team is what it is...there won't be any budget busting moves...they could surprisse by dealing one of the young core guys, but i don't think that will happen until the guys are arby eligible...

reading rainbow is STILL on the air...

i benched myself a week ago...

i don't think a corner with no power at all would be what you want from a starter, al...

mlb rarely releases specfific details in cases like this, but i don't think anyone should be making assumptions at this point, especially considering how little public info there is on this topic..

Dear Matt Wise, We'resorry for the traigc loss of your baseball ability. We know you were a close friend of being able to pitch since childhood. We didn't know your natural talent as well as you, but now that it is gone we all feel the impact winning ball games used to have on our lives. I hope your new career finds you well after thf funeral, sincerely, brewerfan.net

in the link report, there was a quote where brad nelson said he was excited about playing 3b because it will help his status as an upcoming free agent...i'm pretty sure brad is gone...so his prospect status is questionable

Imaji--- I understand your sentiment and think you make some very strong heartfelt points about your image. I don't think you are breaking the rules of the forum. Of course, i do think this discussion and the direction it is headed is reminiscent of the discussions we had prior to the banning of political and religious discussion. This is a baseball forum...not anything else. We have off topic discussion, but it is as an aside, rather than a central point of the site. Because of this, we decided to cut out conversations that make people angry and uncomfortable. Things got prettty bad around here in 2004, so it just had to happen... why? well, this place is meant to be fun...i see few people having fun here. You are not in the wrong in anyway, however i think bringing this fight to brewerfan is misguided---just as misguided as a well informed discussion on free speech would be. Not that what you are saying is wrong, bad, incohherant, or offensive, but that this isn't the proper forum for it. In asking you to remove your image, the mods were more of less hoping to avoid a situation like this. Honestly, it's hard to expect that this topic won't come up over and over again on the board, so perhaps it would be bets to let it fade away now. Support your heritage, live your way---this country is free and a helluva democracy. But, perhaps it would be wise to focus on the topic at hand, rather than forcing an uncomfortable issue. anyway, i see that you already said you'd drop the conversation, but i wanted to throw my thoughts out there...

i really think hitters like gillespie and gamel will dominate in huntsville next year...we could see .900 ops' out of both of them... brevard really suppresses anythign above singles power...hernan irabarren was fine there, as well as alcides and yohannis, but it's murder on the power guys... just from looking at ryan braun, it's clear that the fsl is tougher than the majors http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

couldn't they have done this last week? arggh

great work patrick....i honestly didn't realize we didn't have derek miller on the list at all last month... the new format is definitely providing some pretty wild swings, but i think it's a good way to relate our emotions on the matter

50 games

well i want to know why you think caleb gindl should be ranked so high... i'm high on him too, but i want o see anothr 100 ab's before i make him a top ten kinda guy

ready from nashville? steve bray...greg aquino...dennis sarfate...seth mcclung... those guys are lkely the closest... so no, now that thatcher and balfour are gone, i doubt we'll see any callups in the near future...and if we do, it'll be because someone has completely lost it...

steve hammond is putting together a good year in AA after a very rough start...derek miller will also see AAA next season, methinks

i'd say he'll get most of next year in AAA, then he'll be called up or traded, because i think he's running out of options...he'll be a starter...but i'm not sure if he'll be much more than a .750 ops kind of guy... he's a good prospect, but i don't think he's going to hit .300 or seal 40 bases...

the comparison was villy and yo, not yo and braun... and it was probably off because Yo and Villy were never ranked that high...yo peaked at #1 this year, a position that will inman would certainly have been placed at in next year's book... yo just wasnt viewed as a "top" prospect by the media until last season...much like things have been with inman

while there have been some doubts voiced about inman in the last month, there weren't prior to that...he was the #3 prospect in Basball america entering the season...new top prospect Manny parra was 18...so i think there is some revisionism going on when people say that will wasn't a bonafide top prospect...he definitely was... and i agree with you to some degree about thatcher and garrison...i've never actually been much of a fan of garrison..he doesnt throw that hard and he doesnt strike a bunch of people out...i just thought this was a very weird trade for the brewers.. and as for melvin's comments, of course he has said that...but prior to now, he had not acted on them...he also hadnt dumped a ton of money into a league average pitcher in suppan or brought in junk like counsell i guess it boils down to this: I look at the young guys that the brewers drafted and traded for as prospects and i see the backbone of this team...fielder, hardy, braun, yo, villy, parra, hall, sheets, and hart...those are the guys that have made this a playoff caliber team... of the guys that have been brought in as vwets, only coc has made a huge difference on this team... so, i really think that the change in action---bringing in vets from outside the organization---what i view as a change in philosophy---has not helped the team in fact, i think it has weakened the team...and i think it will continue to weaken the team as more trades are made.. the reason i picked this trade as a talking point is because this is the point where we finally traded top prospects away... I understand fully why a lot of you guys disagree with me...and i understand that Melvin has said he was going to do this...but i also don't see the team as improved...and i'm not so sure this team will make the playoffs...so it really burns when they gave up young players... ok, as for the comp picks, great...but you are just delaying the arrival of internal help even longer...and of cours,e inman may amount to nothing... but what if this isnt the year? then what>? and how has this deal made the team better next year? i really like doug melvin...but he's made some moves that i dont like over the last year...and i think this most recent one burns the most because i think it weakened the team next year and the year after... anyway, glad to have a discussion on this matter... yea, melvin may have said he was going to start doing this when the team got competetive, but i don't think it has improved the team

if someone could post a link to the catch, that would be sweet

that Jake Brown survived falling 40 feet yesterday because if he died, watching that video would be waaaaaaaay less awesome... if you haven't seen the video: Jake Brown is made of awesome

Robert--- Are you excited or scared about the upcoming watchmen movie?

---John One of the relief guys (JT King, I think) told me that they had heard Lporta was going to play out the season with helena...he's not a great source, but he's closer to this situation than we are... ask coach hart or mike guerrero and let us know what they say -brad

The thing that bugged me about this trade is that even with the draft picks, the farm system is considerably weaked in a time when they are ready to compete... so, inman and thatcher were ready to help, and garrison was probably just a season and a half behind...but those draft picks...even if they move ridiculously fast...will be years behind...sure, the team needs the prospects in the future as much as now, but it has delayed the payoff from the draft picks... the brewers are not going to be able to keep all of these young players...and they'll start paying arbitration to all of them soon...i think it would have been more beneficial to have those young, cheap players in 2008 and 2009, than 2010 and 2011... anyway,

Thanks...I hope i didnt make it too much of an opinion piece this mon th...