For one, there's a lot of reasons "letting it rip" for a few seasons and then slashing payroll doesn't make financial sense. You seem to think it does, so taking the time to break down all the reasons it doesn't ...... eh. You have your opinion. Two. There's no indication that Attanasio will EVER run the team this way. You can want him to, but he's not going to. This just isn't how he runs his team (and hopefully not his businesses, if he wants to make money). He bumped payroll just slightly into the red in 2018 to get Moose and Grandal to make a run for it, and he repeatedly mentioned how that was going to make them have to make cuts in 19. This idea you have that they ABSOLUTELY can go up to 150 or 175 million... I don't know where you get your numbers from, but I'll take the word of the guy who's signing the checks. If he says he's not going to increase the payroll, welp, *he's probably not going to do it*. I think by now, everyone gets that's what *you want them to do*, but it's pretty clear this is not the way the Milwaukee Brewers and Mark A run the team.