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  1. danzig6767
    Unless the gun was off today, Bush was throwing harder than he has all season. Numerous times FSN had him throwing 90-93 compared to the mid-80's i've seen in all his other starts.
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    I was given a link to this and it really cracked me up. For anyone not up to speed with the maze game, it's a gag maze you have someone try that makes you stare at the screen intently and at some point a picture of the Exorcist girl flashes on the screen. You also need the volume on because there is also a loud scream. My daughter got her friend to do it and the girl nearly jumped out of her chair.
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    I agree that the rep Crean got as a great recruiter was overrated. He had some good classes, but also his share of stinkers or very mediocre ones. Even the getting of Wade wasn't something where Crean stole Wade from other basketball powers, Wade was just an overlooked player who had grade issues and who ended up being a better player than expected. I forget exactly who else Wade had offers from, but it wasn't big schools like Kansas, Duke, or even say a Purdue level school. As a bench coach, Crean won't ever be confused with other top minds in college basketball.
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    The NBA doesn't really have a problem with attendance, just their TV ratings have dropped over the years, like has baseball. The reasons for the ratings drop IMO are 1. All pro team sports except football have taken a rating hit the last 5-10 years as TV viewers have been given so many other channels to watch. I'm a huge sports fans, but i think i fit into that group who watches less non-local teams play baseball/basketball on TV because there are now 300+ channels i can choose from. I'm in my 30's and in my younger days, there were 5-6 channels to choose from so when playoff basketball or baseball was on, i usually watched it because little else was on. Football is more immune to this i think because teams only play once a week, playoff games are lose one game and your done, and football is America's favorite sport. 2. Before the rule changes, the NBA allowed for to long their games to be painfully low scoring grind it out wrestling matches. Gone were the days of up and down the court exciting playoff basketball like in the 80's, replaced with Riley, Fratello, Jeff VanGundy etc coached grind it out all defense no offense games where 88-85 scores were considered high scoring affairs. Many fans stopped watching because of this and mixed with others not watching less because of more viewing options, NBA ratings took a pretty big nosedive.
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    Rickie Weeks has an amazing ability to get gloves on so many boarderline non-error called plays that don't end up resulting in an out. Granted, since many are fairly tough plays, some should have been expected to not become an out, but i wish someone had kept track of how many blown DP throws and missed plays that weren't quite bad enough to be an error called plays Weeks has had this year. Weeks has improved defensively, but him and Prince on that side of the infield are sure frustrating to watch play defense.
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    What pro sport besides football hasn't seen it's playoff ratings go down by quite a bit?
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    The Cubs just look to have a better team than the Brewers do, which will make it extremely hard to catch them
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    Were you talking about Into the Wild? If so, i watched it yesterday and would highly recommend it, very very good movie. No need for me to write a review, just rent it if you haven't yet seen it, i can't see how anyone wouldn't like this movie.
  9. danzig6767
    Great get for Marquette if the kid can get his grades in order. I watched him in the WIAA tournament and Maymon is very skilled along with having nice size. He reminded me a bit of Tucker from UW, but as others noted, Maymon comes with the baggage of shaky grades and a nutty father who seems to be living through is skilled son. Hope it works out for Buzz Williams, but it will be interesting to see how he deals with playing time. Buzz signed two JUCO kids in that 6'5-6'7 range, has a highly regarded Texas recruit Eric Williams who is 6'7, Maymon is 6'6/6'7, and Lazar Haywood is around 6'6. Crean had a thing for signing tons of guards and no bigs, Buzz looks to be loading up on forwards. He's going to need to sign a quality PG and hopefully a big man 6'10 or taller. So far it looks like Buzz can recruit, whether he can coach will be the big unanswered question.
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    Denver would first laugh thinking it was a prank call and once they realized it wasn't, they'd hang up in .00000001 seconds. You are asking Denver to trade Carmelo Anthony for a vastly overpaid role player in Jefferies and arguably the most toxic contact in the NBA that belongs to Zach Randolph. To show just how toxic the rest of the league views Randolph and his contract, there were multiple reports out of both Milwaukee/New York that the Knicks offered the Bucks Zach Randolph for Gadzuric/Simmons/Bell, all three of our ugly contracts just to get Randolph off their team. Looking around the NBA, i can't think of a single player and his contract that would be viewed with more contempt around the league than Zach Randolph. The Knicks spent most of the season begging any team to please take Zach off their hands and nobody wanted any part of him. Portland simply was lucky enough that the Knicks hadn't fired Thomas sooner, so that they had one sucker out there who was willing to trade for Randolph and his ugly ugly ugly contract.
  11. danzig6767
    A question for the stat crazy guys here? Is there any data out there that tracks 1-2-3 innings? I ask because maybe it's just my perception, but it seems to me that outside of Sheets, Bush has the highest number of clean innings. It seems like the guy just cruises through stretches of his starts more than anyone besides Sheets, but then manages to nearly always implode in between his great stretches in starts. Whether it's like tonight where he allowed almost no baserunners before blowing up all at one time or the starts where he'll say retire 9 in a row, give up three runs, retire the next 7 of 8 batters and then blow up for another three run inning where batters are ripping one rocket after another. It seems most pitchers labor more consistently through the whole start when they pitch bad, where Bush chronically seems to be jekyll and hyde in most of his starts.
  12. danzig6767
    I don't see the big deal about getting sweeps or not, all that matters if the final record. If we had swept tonight and then lost 2 of 3 against Washington compared to winning 2 of 3 from both Pittsburgh/Washington, the final result either way is winning 4 of 6 games.
  13. danzig6767
    This is the same Dave Bush we saw last year. Bush frustrates me more than any pitcher on the staff. The guy can absolutely cruise through multiple innings very quickly without allowing many or any baserunners, then at some point the floodgates open. He puts a runner or two on and then starts serving up tasty meatballs right over the heart of the plate that get smoked for homers or extra base hits. Next thing you know, what looked like could be a high quality start ends up in another Brewers loss after Bush implodes. I had high hopes for Bush after his first year with us. The ERA wasn't great, but his secondary numbers gave me reason to think he was better than the ERA of that season. Those hopes have completely vanished for me, Bush simply leaves to many extremely hittable pitches over the heart of the plate that get smacked hard.
  14. danzig6767
    Poor Dave Bush with just another unlucky start
  15. danzig6767
    Bush and Villanueva serve up some of the tastiest meatballs that any hitter can dream to see.
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    Not only is five years a pretty long time, you're just assuming it was almost all Melvin's doing. Doug not only inherited Sheets on the big league roster, he needs to give great thanks to the drafting skills of Jack Zduriencik who found most of the higher skilled players on the roster who also happen to be cheap and thus allows Melvin to spend money elsewhere. I think Melvin has done a solid job overall, but nothing overly special either. After the Brewers went so long with poor GM's like Bando and Taylor, i think some fans overrate the job Melvin has done to a degree. Kinda like if you've been forced to eat nothing except plain rice everyday for years straight and then you're given a sirloin steak, that steak will taste heavenly even though it's not top of the line steak. I'm by no means calling for him to be canned, but getting a team from that 82-85 win range is the real tough job for a GM in baseball without of huge payroll. It's getting around that time for Doug to show he can build a team that makes that next step from now respectable to playoff team.
  17. danzig6767
    Ugggg I agree with platooning Hall for awhile, but Craig Counsell
  18. danzig6767
    I hate the DH as much as most other DH haters, but i do think it's overreacting to say i'd never watch baseball if the NL adopted it. I don't like that in pro football today wide receivers can't be touched without drawing a flag and that quarterbacks often get roughing the passer calls if they get breathed on, but i still love football and watch. I know many sports fans don't care for the NBA anymore, but i still watch even though it disgusts me that stars get foul calls any time they recklessly charge into the lane. I'd be very disappointed if the NL ever adopted the DH or if the Brewers switched back to the AL, but no way would i stop watching the team i love. The good thing is i think the vast majority of fans for NL teams would be against the DH, so i don't see a change happening anytime soon. Plus, owners would have to ratify a chance like that and i can't fathom enough NL owners agreeing to it because it would anger fans and cost owners more money.
  19. danzig6767
    Yuck, i want nothing to do with another midget PG and/or one that doesn't defend well. Augustin i think when officially measured will be around 5'10 and he wasn't much of a defender in college. If you're going to draft high a tiny PG that isn't a good defender, you better be sure that guy has special offensive talent and that not Augustin. I've spent the last five years watching TJ and Mo be real defensive liabilities at PG, that last thing i want to see is adding another one. With the rules in todays NBA that makes it tougher to guard perimeter players, having a bad defensive PG can just wreak havoc on a teams defense. I'd rather roll the dice on Westbrook that he can be coached on his offensive skills because that kid would be the Bucks best defensive guard to be around here in quite awhile.
  20. danzig6767
    I didn't read the whole thread, so maybe this was brought up already. I wonder though if journalists today are willing to do things they wouldn't in the past simply because they and papers so often now are left way behind when it comes to breaking stories? Plenty of times on here or a Bucks board i read, posters joke/mock about when JSonline will finally post up the big story that everyone already knows about. When i was younger, there were three TV channels and the newspaper that gave the news and broke stories, that's about it. Now it seems pretty rare for the major local papers to be the one to break big sports stories. By the times the journalists and the paper gather all the sure fire facts, in many cases the story is already out all over the internet and on cable shows like ESPN.
  21. danzig6767
    He was a terrible GM in regards to putting together a big league team and he hired Lopes, maybe though Selig pushed Taylor into that hire. On the plus side, Taylor hiring Zduriencik may have been the most important thing to happen to the Brewers franchise in the last 10 years besides getting Miller Park built and Attanasio buying the team.
  22. danzig6767
    They don't suck, but i do think the fact that all four of Weeks/Cameron/Hall/Hardy are low batting average type of hitters, might cause struggles for the offense the whole year. Obviously OBP is a more important stat for hitters than their batting average and of course the slugging has to be factored in also, but it seems the low batting average/high strikeout hitters are more prone to longer hitting slumps that the high batting average/make contact hitters that might not walk as much as you liked or that don't have a lot of power. I know Overbay struggled last year and is again this season, but i really wish our offense had a lefty bat in his mold when he was hitting well. A .300ish hitter with a solid eye that hit lots of singles/doubles, but could also hit 15-20 homers.
  23. danzig6767
    Obviously i want the Brewers to make the playoffs this year, but another reason i want them to get on a hot streak is i really would be bummed if the team got buried so far in the standings early on that the last few months don't matter much besides seeing younger players do well. The great thing for me last season was that every game felt important. It sucked that we missed the playoffs, but at least the last few months of the season i was still very much into the games. In so many of the prior seasons, by June/July, the Brewers were already out of it and i'd watch less and less of the games unless some young prospect was called up. There would be very little reason to care if the Brewers won or lost a game in July/August/September because they'd be buried in the standings. Last year it was a wonderful feeling that losing games in August and September actually stung, instead of making me yawn. Even if we don't make the playoffs, i really hope that in August the team hasn't crashed down so far that i'm watching something on the Food Channel instead of Brewers games.
  24. danzig6767
    The thing i don't care for is that McClung has been fairly effective in the role he's been in and barring a surprise by him doing well starting, the bullpen role is probably the best fit considering his abilities.
  25. danzig6767
    The Brewers do have a good number of players that look to be underachieving and the Cubs have some guys likely playing over their heads, but i just think they have a better team than we do and the Gallardo injury further widened the gap. The Cubs have a better defensive team, a better bullpen, and unlike our lineup, they have a nice mix of high batting average, guys who take walks, and a decent enough amount of power. In their rotation, i very highly question if Dempster can keep pitching so well, but Lilly is a better pitcher than how he started the season. I won't give up on playoff hopes quite yet, but it sure looks like the odds of beating out the Cubs for the division are very slim unless they get struck badly with injuries.
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