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That's the thing - they have to have a team of Ohtani's and Betts' because of the Dodgers ability to buy a staff. The reason the Brewers had the best record in baseball has very little to do with the Brewers and everything to do with how many regular-season innings each of the following Dodgers' pitchers threw: Glasnow: 90 Ohtani: 47 Snell: 61 Sheehan: 73 Gonsolin: 36 Kershaw: 112 Their best bet is to hope that the Dodgers pitchers get injured late in the season.
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As said in another thread, it's not the lat injury. It's the fact that the Brewers had to baby him and manipulate the rotation in an effort to get him through the season, which ultimately was unsuccessful. Only once did Woody pitch on less than five days rest - his seventh start - and in that start they only let him go 4 innings and 65 pitches. If he really was "good to go", he would not have been limited to 4 innings and 65 pitches in his seventh start off of the IL. They had to use off days, call up guys for spot starts, and do other things to constantly push Woody back in the rotation so that he was on more than 4 days rest. I think other teams are acutely aware of that and know that you can't manipulate a rotation like that for en entire season.
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You know that at the time Fickell was the hottest candidate out there. Everybody wanted him. He turned down a lot of opportunities because he didn't think that they were the right situation for his family. That UW got him at the time was considered a major coup by everyone nationally. Now, there's plenty of other things to criticize Mac about. But Mac is far from the first AD at a major school who made a football hire that didn't work out, and if UW didn't give him that contract there were plenty of other schools who would have.
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Coming up on "American Greed"...
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Minnesota is 3-4 and one source has them with the weakest schedule so far this year and the hardest remaining schedule. They still have two games against the Packers and Lions, plus one against the Bears, Seattle, Washington, Dallas. I said in the offseason that they could easily regress depending on QB play and whether McCarthy is ready. And that is coming to fruition.
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I have a whole bunch of body-weight workouts that you can do at home with a minimal amount of space. The gym I was a member at in 2020 sent them out and I did them at home in my living room throughout the winter of 2020-2021. Send me a PM and I will send them to you.
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Unfortunately you have to be signed in to Google and Google Maps in order to download maps and use them offline. I don't want to sign in and have it remember everywhere I go.
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Pro tip - when you put the vehicle in park, the idle shut-off disengages. Whenever I get to a stop light I put my vehicle in park. Not only does it disengage the idle shut off, but it also allows me to rest my foot/leg.
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Have a loaner while my vehicle is in the shop. It's the redesigned 2025 model of my 2019 Nautilus, wanted to get a chance to test drive one and see what it's like as I don't particularly care for the new body shape/style which makes it look more and more like a station wagon. No native navigation system, have to use Android Auto. Ugh. I HATE Android Auto, specifically Google Maps. They do an absolutely TERRIBLE job with street names. First, you can't read them - black text on a gray road, yeah, great contrast there. Second, they letters are too damn small. Third, they never use names for roads that are also highways. Yeah, NOBODY refers to Colorado Boulevard as Hwy 2. And then fourth, I have to acknowledge Incognito mode whenever I start the vehicle. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. On top of that, it runs on your phone, so how much data is it going to use? If I have to get an unlimited data plan, that's an extra $30/month. Useless. Meanwhile, Google is laying off UX researchers. Great idea.
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Yeah, but freedom of speech/expression/or whatever they think their rights are to do whatever they want!!!
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It's not just the injuries. It's that even after he came back they couldn't/didn't start him on four days rest. Only once in 2025 did he start a game on fewer than five days rest, and that was his seventh start. And the one time they did start him on less than five days rest they only let him go four innings and 65 pitches. Again, that was his seventh start - he should have been stretched out and able to go longer than that. They had to manipulate their rotation with the off days and bringing guys up for spot starts for him to try to get through the season, and even then they weren't successful. When you have a bunch of days off you can manipulate a rotation, when you get an extra arm on the staff in September you can manipulate a rotation, but you cannot manipulate a rotation for an entire season. Add to that he'll be 33 next year and I do not see anyone giving him a multi-year deal or an 8-figure deal.
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All his statement is designed to do is to calm the players down and try to stem the tide of them looking elsewhere. It really means nothing else. Unless I'm missing something, all firing Fickell right now instead of at the end of the season does is give players the opportunity to enter the portal right now and have more time to find another school.
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I think teams are well aware of how careful the Brewers were with Woody this season with pitch counts, how many times they let him get up and down, manipulating their rotation so that he could be pushed back a day or two after a lot of pitches, etc.. Add to that the lat injury that shut him down for the rest of the season and you have a guy who over the last three seasons has started a total of 23 games and pitched a total of 131 innings and finished each of the last three seasons on IR. Put all of that together and I would be shocked if anybody gives him eight figures.
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It would be nice if the networks stopped covering politics nonstop and actually covered some real news like this.
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Whatever the Broncos hurry up offense is, I want Love and MLF taking notes.
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Bring back Phil Longo
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Except that Alvarez is the reason that Mac is there in the first place.
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The right guy can probably bring as many recruits with him as they would lose.
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Agreed. And the earlier in the season they fire him, the more time it gives recruits and current players to look around and find another school. If I were the AD, I would already have outside attorneys contacting attorneys for candidates and drafting NDAs. Once the NDAs are in place, then have preliminary discussions to gauge interest and salary requirements. Once they have at least 3 candidates who are seriously interested who they like, then they can move forward with the process. Given that it's a state job, there are state laws that have to be followed regarding posting the job. I would fire him as late in the season such that they can meet the mandatory minimums for posting the job while being able to announce the new head coach the Monday after Thanksgiving. When they fire him, they can tell the team and the recruits that they have someone in place but legally can't announce it until the Monday after Thanksgiving.
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With the second injury that ended his season, and with the way the Brewers carefully used him during the season, I don't see anybody giving Woody more than 1/$5M, much less a multi-year deal.
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1) Freddy or Woody 2) Priester 3) Patrick 4) Miz 5/6/7) Henderson/Gasser/Myers 8) Hall 9) Hunt/Crow/Kuehner/Wichrowski/Harden One of Freddy and Woody will be back, one won't. Woody will come cheap - nobody's giving him a multi-year deal. Dark horse - they keep both Freddy and Woody and trade three of 5-9 in a blockbuster trade.
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Brewers (Quintana) vs Dodgers (Ohtani): 10/17/25, 7:38pm
LouisEly replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Archived Game Threads
Up yours too, Dodgers fans -
Brewers (Quintana) vs Dodgers (Ohtani): 10/17/25, 7:38pm
LouisEly replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Archived Game Threads
Win or lose tonight, I'm going to enjoy it. Cheers to a great season. Exceeded my expectations. Now, down the hatch. (And up yours, Cubs fans.)
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My issue is that they have to do something to stop the ability to create these "super teams". Elimination of deferred compensation (at least, forcing it to count against the cap while the player is playing) and hard penalties for going over the luxury tax are a good start. Revenue sharing will be needed, but have to have real penalties for going over the luxury tax. If the owners want to get the fans on their side, they first need to start doing what some franchises have done - concession prices for the every-day person. $2 sodas/hot dogs/popcorn, $5 brats/burgers/basket of fries, etc. If fast food restaurants can make a profit at those prices, so can teams. At the worst, they have to look at basic concessions as loss-leaders. Charge a premium for premium food and premium alcohol that wealthy fans won't care about paying for. Once they get the fans more on their side from a cost to attend standpoint, then they can lockout.
