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  1. NYChez
    If you broke down "4 years / $60 million" into the following: 1. What if you could sign him for a 1-year deal for X dollars. 2. What if someone could, in 2008, sign him to a deferred 1-year deal for 2010 for Y dollars. 3. What if someone could, in 2008, sign him to a deferred 1-year deal for 2011 for Z dollars. 4. What if someone could, in 2008, sign him to a deferred 1-year deal for 2012 for N dollars. I see the 4th dollar amount (signing him now to pitch for you in 2012) as having a value of maybe $3 million. The 3rd dollar amount (pitch for you in 2011) has a value of maybe $7 million. The 2nd dollar amount (pitch for you in 2010) has a value of maybe $10 million. If you accept those amounts, we'd essentially be paying him $40 million to pitch in 2009! These deals have such diminshed values following year 1, that you can think of it as most of the contract's money going toward year 1. For comparison, see Pedro Martinez's 2005 four-year / $54 Million deal with the Mets. The return on investment assuming he earned his entire salary was like this: Year 1: $42 million Year 2: $10 million Year 3: $1 million Year 4: $1 million It would nice to see Sheets and Gallardo in the same rotation for a season, but the cost (possibly $40 million for one season) would be very high.
  2. NYChez
    The M's are godawful and Washburn is really struggling. Would the M's trade him + cash to the Brewers for a bag of balls? He could be a guy who benefits from a change of scenery / new league. The M's wouldn't mind getting $7 mil off the books.
  3. NYChez
    This year the Brewers have the #1 strength of schedule in MLB - not surprising considering that we've played 6 at Wrigley, 3 at Fenway, 9 vs. StL, etc. I did not know that under the same measure, the Brewers had the weakest strength of schedule in MLB in 2007. Is it possible that this team is as good as last year's team but we're just getting overwhelmed by the most talented teams (not to mention seeming to catch every team's ace)? In spite of the results, I think the team competed very well in Fenway and seems to be on the upswing if they can figure out who's going to pitch the 9th. Even with the rumor mill swirling, I sense no panic in the players. Especially after last year's experience, I think they realize that when the schedule gets a little more reasonable, they can do the opposite of what they did last year (come back from 8 games back instead of losing an 8 game lead).
  4. NYChez
    Would the "Let's Go Cameron" guy from Saturday afternoon's game please identify himself? It wasn't his repeated chant that was so funny. It was the woman sitting in front of him who kept screaming, "Would you PLEASE STOP!". It was cool to hear the "Let's Go Brewers / Let's Go Red Sox" back-and-forth going on. Even on TV on Sunday you could hear it pretty clearly. It sucked that the Brewers got swept, but Saturday's weather, the Brewer fan presence (especially in the back half of the bleachers which seemed to be 10-15% Brewer fans), and the fact that they battled back pretty hard each game in spite of the crappy pitching, made it a fun weekend in Bean Town. By the way, we stayed in town through Tuesday and the local sports radio shows were still raving about Braun.
  5. NYChez
    A big turning point could be if Gagne can walk into Fenway and nail down a save. That would be a huge confidence boost for the whole team and lead to success in Pittsburgh and DC.
  6. NYChez
    I'll be in the bleachers on Friday. I'm wondering if Brewer fans will be a noticeable presence during the series.
  7. NYChez
    They're actually 1st base line. I've sat there before and it's a good place to sit. That little section has its own concession stand so you don't end up waiting in lengthy lines. You also have a great view of the Monstah.
  8. NYChez
    Typical Dave Bush game. He's perfect in 4 out of the 6 innings, but the two others are just bing-bang-boom, a quick multiple run inning.
  9. NYChez
    The bullpen may be as rested as its been in 2 weeks. All threw 12 pitches or less in an inning (which begs the question, why did it take 108 pitches for Suppan to make it through 5 innings?).
  10. NYChez
    I have to agree with you. If Sheets and Gallardo each make 25-30 starts, there is no way they don't make it to the playoffs, and if they made the playoffs, Milwaukee would have gone frickin' berserk. Now, we may never again have 2 aces like that in the rotation at the same time. I hate to say this, but now there is a chance that this core (Sheets, Gallardo, Fielder, Braun, Hart, Weeks, etc.) will never make the playoffs. They may need to take a chance on Sheets or find an ace to replace him to make sure this doesn't happen.
  11. NYChez
    Cleveland is apparently celebrating its happiness somewhere other than the ballpark. They are drawing horribly inspite of the fact they went to game 7 of the ALCS last year.
  12. NYChez
    That's probably it. With seemingly every game tied in the 8th or 9th inning, guys are probably focused more on trying to pull the ball (to hit a heroic HR), and as a result any pitch on the outside half of the plate is going to result in a weak popup.
  13. NYChez
    The Brewers are hitting an alarming number of popups and lazy flyballs, and there's a reason for it. For a right-handed batter, when the bat ends up only in the left hand after the swing, it means they're not driving through the ball with their most powerful part of the body. When the right hand comes off the bat, the result is that the bat dips and you pop the ball up. An example is Kapler's at-bat in the 8th (when Hart was on 1st as a steal threat, and Kapler popped up the 3-1 pitch). I hope somebody on the coaching staff notices this and does something about it. It's easily correctable.
  14. NYChez
    You might want to check your channel guide periodically. It seems like Time Warner is adding more HD channels each day. We just got ESPNews HD over the weekend. Our Time Warner Extra Innings HD channel is 1 channel before the traditional Extra Innings channel. Time Warner says that it's offered everywhere.
  15. NYChez
    http://www.indemand.com/sports/mlb/schedule/mlbScheduleHD.pdf
  16. NYChez
    Here are some other guys with strained triceps: Joe Borowski - went on DL April 15 John Lackey - started season on DL and is expected to return in early May (7 weeks after injury initially reported March 15) BJ Upton - had strained triceps in spring training, is now playing everyday with the Rays and hitting .300. JJ Putz - sat out only 2 games in September 2007 with sore triceps
  17. NYChez
    Sheets had to hurry up and get hurt because the way he was going, he was going to get his 12th win by June 15th.
  18. NYChez
    If the Brewers absolutely, positively need an out to prevent a 9-1 deficit from turning into an 11-1 deficit, then I'd rather have Weaver out there than McClung.
  19. NYChez
    Perez is at 41 pitches through 2.
  20. NYChez
    That's National League baseball. Runners on base don't mean much if the pitcher is due up that inning.
  21. NYChez
    How could you hate that guy? He pitched his a$$ off during his short stint in Milwaukee while earning minimum wage. If we found 2 guys like that this year we'd win the World Series.
  22. NYChez
    I always thought I loved Jenkins, but now when he comes to bat with the Phillies, I think, "Thank God he's not on the Brewers anymore".
  23. NYChez
    The way this season is going, I wouldn't be surprised to see Carlos Zambrano bat 4th at some point.
  24. NYChez
    The way this season is going, I wouldn't be surprised to see Carlos Zambrano bat 4th at some point.
  25. NYChez
    The way this season is going, I wouldn't be surprised to see Carlos Zambrano bat 4th at some point.
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