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  1. DuWayne Steurer
    Not sure how they're not floundering if they're headed for the lottery as you (rightly) point out? I think a few of the moves were odd (acquiring MCW for one). I think last year was kinda flukey. Going from 15 wins to 41? Wow. They have some young, exciting players. Parker, Giannis. Middleton is a nice piece (not a star, but a nice piece). I think they're getting there. Like you said, they need to find an identity. I think they will. But not this year. I think they're struggling to find the formula. But they're headed in the right direction. At least it looks like it.
  2. DuWayne Steurer
    If Tim Raines doesn't get in I'm going to seize federal property.
  3. DuWayne Steurer
    1, 2, 3 steps. Knee down. Rolls over. Drops the ball. INCOMPLETE? WHAT?
  4. DuWayne Steurer
    The last week of 2008 was so crazy. The walk of grand slam against the Pirates. The final day. The Rickie Weeks three run homer on Friday night against the Cubs. It was so fun and so eventful. I went to the first game of the 2011 NLDS against the D-Backs. That was a blast. I thought the roof was going to come off the place when Fielder hit the home run.
  5. DuWayne Steurer
    I'm actually pretty excited for the Brewers future. For how fun 2011 was, I'm over Doug Melvin. For how much talent we had during his tenure, 2 playoff appearances and one playoff series win feels very disappointing. I feel like we're pointing in the right direction and trending up. The Packers had a disappointing end to a promising season (that isn't over yet) that got derailed by injuries. They still have an elite QB who's got at least 3-4 prime years left, and maybe more. Heck, Brady is 38? and still playing at an elite level. The Bucks are young and the East is just super crowded with a lot of "pretty good" teams this year. They're not floundering, but they do look headed for a lottery pick, for sure.
  6. DuWayne Steurer
    That certainly seems to be the targeted attributes, doesn't it? I don't know if that's the new "market inefficiency", but that's certainly what Stearns is going after. It's also what makes me think that guys like Gennett and Segura and Davis will be gone sooner rather than later. Scooter lacks both plate discipline and versatility, as does Segura, and Davis, while increasing his walk totals this past year, appears to have absolutely only one position he can play.
  7. DuWayne Steurer
    A mediocre bench guy for a few years is far from "one of the worst guys to wear the uniform". Herrera shouldn't have been a starter, but for a bench guy he was versatile and he wasn't terrible.
  8. DuWayne Steurer
    Kylo Ren had JUST been shot in the chest by chewbacca moments before by the bowcaster, and was very badly wounded.
  9. DuWayne Steurer
    All true, but with at least part of the fan base not all in on total rebuilds and 3.5 million seats to sell in 2016, when all you get for news on the team is fringe player waiver claims, they're not great PR. Selling seats in 2016 is not Stearns job. His job is building the best long term team he can. Spending money on fringe middling-free agents so he can win 74 games instead of 64 is not the way he wants to do that. Worrying about seating is not his problem. That's Rich Schlesinger's job. That's what bobbleheads and t-shirt giveaways are for.
  10. DuWayne Steurer
    The only thing Johnson will do is take at bats away from a younger guy who MIGHT have upside for a future role. Johnson has been terribad two years in a row and has negative defensive value.
  11. DuWayne Steurer
    I loved Guardians of the Galaxy. Guardians had one really big thing going for it that Star Wars didn't though in that it had no expectations, and it had the freedom to be whatever the creators wanted it to be. http://45.media.tumblr.com/4455eca5cc04a309673d1b7d7ee2e0a8/tumblr_nf4w2oI8P31s2wio8o4_500.gif
  12. DuWayne Steurer
    I think, for some people, and I'm not saying anyone in particular, they just say "if you strike out less, that means those balls in play will be x% hits and homeruns and doubles" or so on. I think there's a fallacy to that thinking. Someone else mentioned that the season Jose K struck out 180+ times was his best offensive season. I'm not saying he had his best offensive season BECAUSE he struck out 180+ times, but I think there is causation between the offensive approach you have at the plate and the results. If you take a guy like Jose Hernandez and say "we want you to choke up, protect the plate, and make more contact", what do you end up with? Would you then get a .250 hitter with 25 doubles, 7 homeruns, and a .650 OPS, who doesn't take walks, and only strikes out 75 times? What benefit is there to that? Apparently, that's exactly what Minnesota tried to do with Carlos Gomez. They wanted him to bunt, make contact, and use his speed to get on base with ground balls and such. I don't know how much truth there is to that. But if that's the case, it certainly wasn't working.
  13. DuWayne Steurer
    When they started the "battle plan meeting" around the hologram of the Death Star....I mean.....err........"Starkiller Base", what I was feeling was not a sense of nostalgia, but rather deja vu. Up until that moment I was really enjoying myself, and was able to overlook all the nods back to ANH......despite them being very obvious. But at that point I was saying "This? Again?" It was borderline trite and contrived. There were people in the theater whispering (or saying outloud) "Why did they leave ANOTHER obvious weakness in their super weapon!!!!!" or something similar. It was a good movie. I had a lot of fun. I like the new characters. I think the trilogy is well set up moving forward....but the space battle/Starkiller base thing just kind of really pulled me out of the moment.
  14. DuWayne Steurer
    When you say "these movies" I assume you're talking about the prequel trilogy? Because removing Jar Jar, making them (the entire trilogy) about 2 hours shorter, and letting the actors actually act would have gone a long long way towards improving the final product. And yes.....dialogue.
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    Except......
  16. DuWayne Steurer
    Great! Saw it Friday and want to chat about it without getting death threats. Never before has there been a movie or tv show that has had the spectre of spoilers hanging over it like this one has.
  17. DuWayne Steurer
    If you have 8 batters with a .330 OBP, and hitting a lot of homeruns, you'll score a ton of runs.
  18. DuWayne Steurer
    I did a (very very informal) study myself on this once when we were having this discussion back in (I believe, 2008) There's a belief that high walk/high power teams tend to "score runs in bunches" so to speak, and what I found is that this just really isn't the case. The run distribution curve is pretty much the same for "contact" teams, power teams, etc, etc, etc. As you go through seasons, you may find outliers (well, you'll always find outliers), but they aren't exclusive to teams that rely on power. I have a thumb drive with the doc I did, but I'm not sure where it's at, so right now all I can say is "I remember doing it", and you'll just have to take my word for it!
  19. DuWayne Steurer
    I feel like I'm supposed to be excited about this. But I'm really not.
  20. DuWayne Steurer
    I feel like I'm supposed to be excited about this. But I'm really not.
  21. DuWayne Steurer
    What I don't want to see the Brewers doing is paying someone else 15 - 20 -25 million to have Braun playing for them. To me, that's a salary dump. I've seen a few suggestions of that, and if we're paying cash to get rid of him, that makes no sense. We're not in a payroll bind, and our farm system is in pretty good shape (relatively speaking, from where we were). I don't think the Brewers are in a spot right now where they are so desperate to be rid of Braun that they should need to pay to be rid of him. He's still very productive, reasonably priced for his production, and *should* still be productive when we hit our compete window again. If he was playing like garbage, or just grossly overpaid, or if we were at a point where our payroll was squeezed.....then I could see the point of paying someone part of his salary to take him off our hands, but we're not in any of those situations. I admit his health is a concern, obviously, going forward. But he played 140 games this past year and hit pretty well, so unless they get a decent offer (which doesn't require the Brewers sending significant cash), I'm totally ok with sitting on him and letting it play out.
  22. DuWayne Steurer
    Davis AB/HR rate of 14.5 was better than all but Bryce Harper, Carlos Gonzalez (Q) and Mike Stanton (NQ) in the NL. His career rate of one HR ever 17.2 AB's would have tied him with Goldschmidt for 7th last year. If he gets 550 AB's and reverts to his career rate, that's 32 HR. If he maintains his 2015 rate, that's 38. Trading him now would be repeating the mistake Pittsburgh made dealing Bautista or Cincinnati trading Encarnacion early. Davis value isn't likely to go down a year from now but it could well skyrocket with a 40 HR season. While I'm not predicting he'll hit 40, the potential is certainly there. Davis upped his walk rate as well last year. To add onto this, while his "ok" defense lowers his value to a team in the W/L column, a 35 homerun, .830 OPS season will certainly give him value to the Brewers on the trade market. Probably over and above what his actual value to the Brewers is in the win column. Unless he completely tanks and has an awful season, there's no reason to not let Davis get 600 PA's and see if he can completely peak his trade value this year.
  23. DuWayne Steurer
    Do the Brewers really NEED to *salary dump* Braun? They've jettisoned a lot of their high salary guys, they are in rebuild mode, the team payroll is well under control, and frankly, Braun is not overpaid at all for his production, provided he stays on the field for 130 - 140 games per season. If he stays reasonably healthy, he's going to be productive (hopefully) when the Brewers compete window comes back around, and he doesn't have a crippling contract. They certainly don't need to pay out cash to get rid of him. Only reason I'd be motivated to move him is if they get a ridiculous offer that's just too good to pass up.
  24. DuWayne Steurer
    Hayward walks at a much much better rate than Crawford ever has. Hayward walks about every 8 pa's. Crawford about every 20.
  25. DuWayne Steurer
    This is a good signing for the Cubs. I know people want to bash them for it, but the guy is coming off his age 25 year, not his age 30 season. He's also not a terrible hitter. He put up a .359 OBP and stole 23 bases. He's going to put up a .350+ OBP (we would kill for that, wouldn't we??) Steal 20 bases, hit 13-15 homers, and play GG caliber defense..... probably for the next 5-6 years. It's not impossible that he'll find a little bit more power. He has seasons of 18 and 27 homers. Is he a 22 - 23 million dollar a year player? Well....... kinda yeah. He's going into his age 26 season, he OBP's well, plays good defense, and hits for decent power. If the Brewers were on the cusp of contending and Heyward played a position of need, he'd be exactly the kind of guy (and at the age) they could target.
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