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Yadier Molina Extension - 5 years $75 million
thebruce44 replied to Warning Track Power's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
BaseballHQ has done a ton of work on trends of players skills as they age and one thing they discovered is that it is very common to see an age 30+ power spike from defense first catchers and when it happens they tend to sustain it. What happens to their OBP and defense? How many of them remain at C? The power spike makes a lot of sense. -
Yadier Molina Extension - 5 years $75 million
thebruce44 replied to Warning Track Power's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
4 year trend says to expect an OPS of .750ish from him and Cs like this tend to peak late so he very well could sustain that or even improve on it. Still an overpay but not as bad as this would suggest. What do you mean catchers like him? It seems like a lot of catchers in their 30s need to move off being an everyday catcher. -
Digging up his earlier comments on this scene, they sound like perhaps Braun could have just been annoyed at having to pee in cup (certainly understandable). http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/DanBickley/150636 We heard earlier that he said something jokingly like this is what happens when you go 3-5 or whatever he did. It sounded like he was in a good mood after the game, but was a little annoyed at having to go take the test. I didn't read too much into it.
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It has really gotten a lot better in the last few episodes.
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http://cnnsi.com/2012/writers/seth_davis/02/27/Hoop.Thoughts/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_wr_a1 Man I love Buzz and this team. I was surprised to hear the taunting card being played, when I saw it originally I didn't see the intent or that it was on the WVA logo at center court. Good to hear Buzz clear it up.
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I don't believe either to be the case. Can we just wait until we have all the scientific details?
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I disagree. My personal guess is that they violated curfew with only 1 day off between games and went out to a party. How would Buzz not sit them? Not only that, it gives them extra motivation in somewhat of a trap game and lets some of the depth get big minutes at a time in the season they are more likely to sit a lot. And they won.
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Sorry to ask, but it would be awesome if someone could post links to all the audio or video in one post like the guy on Mike and Mike, Will Carroll's interview, and Braun's presser. I'm in meetings and missing most of this unfold while this thread gets more and more massive. I just don't want to miss anything.
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Carol has always struck me as an intelligent reporter which is what we need right now. I hope he puts ESPN to shame.
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Boers and Bernstein. Usually pretty funny. Second on Chicago radio only to Tom Waddle IMO, mostly because he is really objective which gets him into trouble with a lot of the Chicago fans at times.
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Yeah, I normally love listening to B & B, but had to turn them off on my way home. A lawyer called in and explained the importance of chain of custody and that it is NOT a technicality and they just dismissed him because they're minds were already made up since Bud is "involved" (even though MLB is outraged by this decision). Is this really the current rumor that is running around? And it has been substantiated by what? It took an independent panel more than 45 days to determine something that open and shut? I love how we've learned nothing from this whole situation and everyone continues to base opinions on bogus sounding rumors.
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For what exactly? They had a source that said Braun failed a test. He had a positive sample which would indicate a failed test. What did they do wrong? They reported that he tested positive for PEDs. We were almost immediately told by every other news agency that was not the case.
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Long-term extension for one: Greinke or Marcum?
thebruce44 replied to adambr2's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Its an outlier for baseball in general. That was probably the finest season by a pitcher in the last decade. Without looking it up, you probably have to go back to Schiling or Pedro when they were at the top of their games. -
Hopefully they can keep up with their studies!
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When has that stopped them? I'm surprised there hasn't been a Coors Light 6 pack of questions done every hour about the latest Braun situation. Or a nightly 2 hour special called "The Decision" where Skip Bayless and Steven A. Smith yell at each other about the latest non-news.
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Yea, especially when MU just had a whole week off. Oh well, time to get ready for Tourny action so hopefully its good for MU?
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Deep Down, what are your thoughts about Gamel?
thebruce44 replied to RobDeer 45's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Wait, I thought Mat got hurt because he was too lazy to stretch out. I'm surprised Haudricourt hasn't run a story yet about how Mat got hurt because he was too lazy to stay thin. -
Subaru. Nearly every car they make, outside of the WRX, is what you are looking for. And their AWD systems are second to none.
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Just to add more to the Vander discussion, I remember earlier someone called him out for disappearing once the Big East season started and not putting up double figures against the better teams. I'm paraphrasing that, and it was certainly a legitimate point that I am probably overstating here, so no offense to the previous poster. In his last few games it was starting to look like he was taking that step: @Vill - 9 pts, 7 reb SetHall - 16/8 @ND - 12/7 @Dep - 16/3 Cinn - 14/7 @UCONN - 2/3 Before laying that egg during the Jae Crowder show it looked like he was getting on track to be that out of nowhere tourny player. I'm eagerly waiting to see which way he goes with 4 regular season games left.
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I think Vander is the x-factor. He's the one NBA type talent that could take them from the two NBA prospects to 3 you typically need for a Final 4 run. With him playing like he is now, they are probably a Sweet 16-Elite 8 team depending on the match ups. If he gets hot, and Gardner gives you meaningful minutes I don't think any team in the country would want to face them. I don't really think it will happen, but thats what I think it would take. And I know I've been more of a Vander fan on here than most.
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Well, if we are going to do the what if's, how about if Otule hadn't gotten hurt. In a typical Big East Year MU probably does what they almost always do. Get picked to finish 8th or so, lose a bunch of 1 point games to top 10 teams, knock one or two off, then finish 5th and be 5 points away from finishing second or third.
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I didn't hear anything either. I find it odd that the first time it would have been picked up by so many people and so many blogs but then nobody was paying attention the next day when he changed his stance. Doubtful.
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Awesome screen name.
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That was Michael Raymond-James, an awesome actor who was in True Blood and Terriers. His work on True Blood was really good. When I saw him, I thought "sweet, they're bringing in another character for the rest of the season." He's such a good actor I didn't think they would want to kill him off right away. But that's exactly what they did. I watched Talking Dead and Glen Mazzara said that was precisely the reason they brought him in because nobody would've expected him to be killed off so quickly. It was a great scene. It took me a little while to place him from Terriers (I loved that show). I was a little disappointed to see him offed, but at least it was nice to see Comic Book Rick.
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Its been a long time, and I am not saying he is the better long term NBA prospect, but it seems like DJO is playing at a higher level than Wade did his final year at MU. He gets to the basket like Wade and finishes, but when he gets hot with the outside shot he is unstoppable. Last I checked, he was looking like a mid second rounder though. I hope he can sneak into the first round. There is no way DJO is playing lose to what Wade did his Junior year. I saw every home game and NCAA tourney game that year and while DJO is playing amazing this year, he is not playing on the same level as Wade. Looking at the stats, you are right. Of course, Wade shot pretty poorly down the stretch (which is mostly what I remembered) but he did a lot more than just score and he didn't have the other options DJO has.
