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That's a nice remembrance. Tony is the only pitcher in history to hit 2 grand slam homers in a game.
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That was under the Melvin regime - there's a whole new team in place now. And a bunch of the players taken before him have done nothing as well. The draft is a huge crapshoot in basball. True, but it's not all luck. The Brewers first rounders since 2009 have generated the lowest amount of B-Ref WAR than any team in the NL. Maybe the Stearns era will be more fruitful. It has to be. -
That was under the Melvin regime - there's a whole new team in place now. Understood. And I'm not blaming Stearns for moving the guy. I'm lamenting that the Brewers organization either didn't draft the right guy, or their development system failed to get the most out of him. That draft in particular is littered with guys who have or will flame out, but if my favorite team picks 12th, then I expect that he'll end up providing more value than the guys at 13th and later. And in this case, as with many, they didn't.
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If the Brewers are to have any chance, don't they have to get more than 1 1/2 years of a major league relief pitcher out of a first round? They passed on Trea Turner, Justus Sheffield, Matt Chapman, Jack Flaherty and Sean Newcomb to get Kodi. If Turang or Huira turn out to only be pieces that are flipped for a mid-30s reliever, I would say they were busts, too.
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Another reminder how the Brewers struggle to turn first round draft picks into star players. I'm glad they could flip Kodi for Soria. I just wish they would get more out of those high picks.
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Position players pitching becoming more common
JimH5 replied to PinaMadness's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
If this is going to be a new trend, shouldn't they give a serious look at a concede option for managers? If the game is so out of reach that they're bringing in a position player, should they even play until the 27th out? When it was once or twice a season, the game became a spectacle, and you had to watch. But if it happens a couple of times a month, the novelty is off, the game is over, the at bats aren't competitive. What are we really watching? -
To me, Stearns will make or break his legacy through the farm system. The Brewers of the past 10 years have been so weak at turning first round picks into MLB stars. If he can reverse that course, either through better selections or better minor league development, then he'll be worthy of all the praise he's being given.
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I think the difference is that nobody here initiated the thread on our own. It was in response to something in the news about a Brewers player. To me that makes it different than the stuff of the political board.
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I'm glad that his teammates have are being supportive of him. And I hope that he is able to demonstrate to the world that he isn't what those tweets suggest he was back then. It's unfortunate for sure. But Hader isn't the victim. He's the guy with the history of ignorant words that are hurtful and insulting to a lot of people. It doesn't matter if he wrote those things to get a laugh or not. If he said he hates groups of people, it's not unreasonable or incorrect for them to take him at his word, and the onus remains on him to demonstrate his contrition and growth on a timetable not of his choosing.
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I'm bothered that they were put into a position to have to opine about Hader's tweets. Part of being a good teammate is to stand up for your guy, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that they came to his defense. It might have been more authentic to get others to vouch for his current character. And, I think his 2018 character is probably much different than what is represented in those 2011 tweets anyway.
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Maybe I'm reading this wrong but you seem to be contradicting yourself. You say you don't want him suspended for the tweets but rather that the tweets still exist and in the next breath you say you want him suspended for the tweets. I mean, causing a distraction isn't really a punishable offense here. This seems personal to you and hey, I get it. I'd hate to see what society would look like if we condemned every one that said something vile when they were 17. It's a little old now, but I was just in the dentist's chair and couldn't respond. My point was that I thought a suspension was justified because he stained the game by leaving a digital trail of hate speech on his Twitter account. He insulted people that MLB is targeting as customers. That he didn't get suspended...that's up to MLB. I thought they would have been justified in doing so.
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So you want to suspend him because he forgot to delete some tweets? Yes, given the vile content of those tweets and the distraction they caused on a night we should be celebrating baseball.
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Agreed with everything. My call for a suspension isn't to placate me. It's to send a message to women, African Americans and the gay community that MLB takes this seriously, and that the game is punishing a player to has shown himself to be disrespectful of them. I think it's possible to believe Hader's comments last night and still need to punish him for allowing this stain to happen.
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My suspension recommendations aren't for the vile stuff he tweeted as a minor, but for his 7 years of inaction since then to disassociate himself from the hatred and bigotry. Imagine the Brewers playing on the road at someone else's Pride Night, and they bring in Hader to pitch. If he hasn't served a suspension, what kind of message does that give the fans who have been specifically invited to attend that night?
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I think he should be suspended. If it's 3 days or 30 days, it doesn't really matter to me. Otherwise it sends a message to minority groups that MLB is tolerant to players with a history of bigotry.
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Was this the work of a group of hackers breaking into some long erased series of tweets? Or was it just a guy who left the door to his ugly past open for anyone to see?
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It wasn't only that he said ignorant, hateful things at 17. It was that he was too dumb or lazy to clean them up in all the years afterward. MLB is a business that can't let its public-facing employees do shameful things without punishment. This isn't about Hader. It's about what Manfred's obligation is to society and to the game's efforts to attract gay and African American fans.
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MLB has taken great effort to reach out to all people with events like Pride Nights, the RBI program that tries to attract minority kids into the game, etc. They can't just shrug this hateful stuff off as the ignorance of youth. It was still up for everyone to see as recently as yesterday. How can MLB stand before the gay community and say this is a game that is open to all, and at the same time not take action against a player whose name was attached to hateful, bigoted things? It happened during what was supposed to be a high point of the season. They have to issue a penalty to him.
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I was probably a dope at 17, too. But what Hader was at 24 is a guy who was too ignorant or lazy to clean up his past and who became an embarrassing sideshow during one of the biggest nights of the major league season. He'll always be known as the guy who said hateful, ignorant things. And MLB is going to have to act. And it will be justified in striking down on a guy with that stuff available for the world to see.
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What to expect coming out of the break
JimH5 replied to brewmann04's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I think we should expect a Hader suspension. Either by the Brewers or by MLB. Those tweets, while old, were up on his Twitter feed for anyone to find. Whether he is or was a racist doesn't matter. He brought embarrassment to himself, the team and MLB on the biggest night of the regular season. -
True, but County Stadium cost $5.9 million to construct which is roughly $54 million in current dollars. Compare that to Miller Park which cost $400 million to build ($550 million in current dollars). And the 21st century baseball fan isn't going to go to the kind of place that was perfectly suitable in 1953.
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The counterpoint to the pontoon boat scenario is that I'm willing to spend $200 on baseball and $0 on boating or golf or wine or soccer. The money isn't burning a hole in my pocket, destined to be spent locally. If we live in an area without baseball, maybe I'll make more trips to baseball towns to spend it there. And in retirement, maybe I'll move to a baseball place. Having Miller Park and the Brewers here makes Mikwaukee more attractive to me.
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Does the plan call for the team to own the stadium, but the taxpayers pay for it? I'm not sure where the redistribution of wealth happens without that. Do you think the 5 counties are getting a cut of ticket sales at Miller Park? Hint: They aren't. No, they aren't. But my point is that if the stadium isn't gifted to the team, then it's not wealth redistribution. With Miller Park, we bought a stadium to benefit the citizens of Milwaukee and Wisconsin, just like Milwaukee County did when they tried to lure a major league team here with the Braves (or Browns or Cardinals or whoever else they could entice). Publicly financed stadiums are not a new thing. Major league teams make money, but that's true of lots of industries that rely on public money. There's a whole slew of hot-button political issues where taxpayer funding buys stuff that is upsetting to one group or another. Mark Attanasio and Stuart Sternberg are going to be rich wherever they park their baseball teams. If the residents or elected officials in the Tampa area want to have baseball, the Rays have given them an artist rendering of how they can do it. That's not to say that Tampa Bay people should accept the offer. Twenty years into their franchise, the Rays don't seem to have a lot of local interest. Maybe they want a team, and maybe they don't. I just don't get the uproar over public funding of stadiums, especially from Brewers fans, who have watched games in publicly funded buildings their whole baseball lives.
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Does the plan call for the team to own the stadium, but the taxpayers pay for it? I'm not sure where the redistribution of wealth happens without that.
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I don't have an issue with public financing for a stadium. Milwaukee County Stadium and Miller Park were public projects. I think the teams should have some skin in it, along with a commitment to stay at least as long as there is debt on the facility, but we are not "building facilities for rich owners" as much as we are building places for us to watch major league baseball. If citizens of the Tampa/St. Pete area want a baseball facility, they can build one.
