Samurai Bucky

MLB should implement a relegation system. That would solve a lot of things. I know it would be tough for teams to be relegated and lose out on money, but that would pretty much guarantee the teams that have the most money stay at the top.

Blizzard warnings in Florida?

Billable hours, my friend... billable hours.

My kids have learned Python in college. My daughter's friend works for an Epic Software subsidiary and uses it to write test cases. I'm a little older and the, "Get off my <coding> lawn" gets in the way a little. Fortunately, I don't have a neck beard to get in the way... yet. I'm a C# guy. Plenty of ways to learn that. It will allow you to work in web, windows forms, and even mobile apps.

A few years ago, I was introduced to Leinenkugel's Canoe Paddle Kolsch. It turned into one of my favorite beers. Last year, we stopped seeing it at Total Wine. I found out today that they don't make it anymore. Today, the Samurai is a sad Samurai...

I wish I would do more of that. Before my dad died four years ago, both of my parents needed walkers. I was much more sensitive to people doing exactly what you did. My father in law doesn't need a walker, but he is not fleet a foot at 84 years old and should probably be walking with a cane. My mom and my father in law both have the window hanger thing. Here is another one -- the person has a handicap sticker, but they are not handicap! Perhaps their spouse, etc. is handicapped, but they don't need it. One would think they would be more sensitive, but they are not. On another note -- there are some facilities that have absolute garbage for handicap accessibility. Go to any summer baseball or softball tournament. There are a lot of grandparents that need handicap spaces. There are never enough. My son was in the spring baseball sectionals at South Milwaukee and my mom had to take her walker down a hill and across the uneven grass. Very frustrating. However, it is really cool when we take my mom to the Brewers games -- "I must be in the front row!" 😉

Ahh, but there is the code review 😉 I do agree with you. Our clients, or "the business" wants things to be built more cheaply. The way to combat that is with good requirements (giggle), documentation (giggle harder), and testing (belly laugh). I don't know about you @CheezWizHed, but we always have to fight to get those line items in for our clients. As you well know, the coding landscape has changed a lot over the past decades. When I graduated, C was the big language with C++ being used for OOP. Pascal was on it's way out. Now, we have things like .NET to separate us from some of the heavy lifting. With C, you malloced or calloced your memory and had to free it "manually." Now, you have frameworks that have led to automatic garbage collecting. This has led to poor programming practices. This will be quoted and somebody will say, "It bugs me when people talk about programming in this forum!" He he he.

That just shows that Python is evil...

Sasaki's actual quote: お金を見せてください！

As a software engineer, I have found AI to be very helpful. Perhaps more for menial tasks. For example porting a stored procedure to LINQ in C# -- I can get the result of the stored procedure and pass the schema to AI to create a new C# class for me. Then it does a fairly good job of creating LINQ (or Lambda) code. You are right, though, it has a ways to go. It has saved me time.

The seats on the glass at the the Dane County Coliseum were awesome. Of course that was before nets along the side, low glass, and being in the band 😉

Wasn't Tommy Pham the player who wanted to beat the stuffing out of some of the Brewers players? https://www.mlb.com/news/tommy-pham-thrown-out-at-plate-in-finale-vs-brewers

I'll call it like it is -- Penn State choked. The QB threw up too many crappy passes. Two of the interceptions were reversed on penalties (one was iffy). The last one, which cost them the game, was trash. Even so, it was a good game to watch.

Even more important -- he already knew what a bubbler was!!!!! 😉

I did not realize the Sesame Street skit counting to 12 with the pinball machine was sung by the Pointer Sisters. ... and for the music nerds in the audience, the time signatures makes Genesis and Rush songs look easy!

@Brewcrew82 and I are on the same page (I posted a few things too). 😉 There are ways that contract extensions can be negotiated to help nail down the financial portion. Bichette's chasing can go down. I'm not worried about that. Injuries can be a result of his inability to stay healthy, or perhaps there is a training staff issue. The Brewers seem to have an uncanny way to get players to stay healthy (Yelich was a bit of an outlier with his substantial injuries). In my opinion, make it happen. He will definitely make the team better.

My fear is Frelick gets moved to third-base, performs defensively like Ryan Braun did, then the discussion will be related to not having enough room for him in the outfield. There will be more frustration as well because Frelick doesn't mash homers like Braun did. Wouldn't it be great if the Brewers could take some of that outfield capital and trade for a good third baseman? Another alternative would be to trade that capital for a good shortstop?

I saw an article on Bleacher Report titled something like, "We Owe Ryan Day an Apology". The hard core OSU fans are still very bitter -- even if they win a Natty. You know what? As a Badger fan, give me the natty. I can handle the Badgers losing a game to Minnesota if that is the only loss and they end up winning the National Championship.

I think this is like Spock playing 3D chess. There are short-term goals, but those goals weighed against the long-term goals. I am not part of the front office. Yet I see them focusing on locking up good talent to provide the core and then trying to fit pieces in where there are needs much like @Playing Catch is suggesting. The goal is to make sure the foundation of good, young talent provides a recurring core that produces. They only way they should go "all in" (IMHO) is if they can trade away the younger talent, but not affect the timeline of young talent being able to contribute.

This is a great idea. However, this would cause more disparity between the teams with a lot of cash vs. teams without a lot of cash. Perhaps expanding the roster in the next CBA would be dependent upon addressing the clear disparity in dollars amongst the teams. This would require concessions by the big market teams and also by the union. See existing forum discussion: https://brewerfanatic.com/forums/topic/44163-labor-discussion-salary-cap-local-tv-sharing/

I'm wondering if Dallas will surprise some people at the end now that they are eliminated. Now they can play for themselves instead of for Jerry Jones.

You know, this is something I simply can't relate to. Todd Frazier made the statement that he knows the owners have the money -- they just refuse to spend it. This is because he played in Pittsburgh and has experience not getting paid. What was one of the funny comments made after Soto was signed? He is worth more than the primary owner of the Brewers. The fact that there isn't a salary cap (hard, soft, or otherwise), doesn't mean that there isn't disparity. From a economics standpoint, I don't see how it is possible for Milwaukee to have a 300M or 400M combined salary among the MLB players. They will be in the red every year. My understanding is the players are saying, "Too bad! You can pay, so pay up!" Would Milwaukee be able to survive on a 150M floor? I think it would be tough. I also thought it was interesting that, according to Evan Drellich, the players union already has a lot of transparency with the Owners' books. As an owner, would I want my labor force to see every bit of information about my company? Of course not. Also, what difference does it make if I build some hotels next to the stadium (which was probably paid for by the local taxpayers)? The players simply want a bigger part of the pot... > 50%. Oh, and how about profit sharing for the taxpayers. Hey Todd and Erik Kratz -- wouldn't it be cool if the tax payers, who paid for the facilities where you could work and make millions of dollars, would get some kickback? That won't happen because it will take a portion out of their pie. Sorry for the rant. If a player wants to get paid more, then be better. Get yourself to the point where a bigger market team will pay 760M for you instead of complaining about making "only $750,000" a year (Source).

Middleton took over Thanasis' spot on the bench.

This is a double-edged sword. Most coaches don't have time to be going to hundreds of tournaments a year. In the case of softball or baseball, the coach is going to go to a "showcase" type of a tournament. The goal is to see the top talent at these showcases. That makes sense, in theory. From the players' standpoint, he/she needs to make sure they are in the correct club / academy. Pony up the money. Sure, the club might have a marketing group, but it ends up being the player's and player's parents responsibility ultimately. My daughter who hit almost .600 one year was interested in playing softball at La Crosse. There was an independent state showcase that she was invited to mostly because of how well she played in club and because of the recognition in the press / all-conference. She wanted to major in something specific and that is why she chose that school (she didn't have a lot of offers because her parents... me and Mrs. Samurai... didn't fully know what to do). The coach texted her or called her saying that he would be at the showcase. At the showcase, my daughter tracked him down and when she introduced herself, the coach said, "I'm sorry... who are you?" There was a huge disconnect and my daughter decided at that moment she wasn't going to play the game -- she didn't play softball in college. Contrast that with my son who ended up playing a little at a D3 college, but had gotten a random hand written note from a Wisconsin football coach (Taylor Mehlhaff) inviting him to a kicking camp at Camp Randall. When we got there, the coach remembered my son and had a nice conversation. That didn't go as far because my son was only money from 40 yards -- leg wasn't big enough... 😉 I think good players will work their way to the top, will be noticed, and will get a chance to play. If my kids were good enough, they would have been noticed more.

Um, beer? Anyone? That will be $30… 😂