Ulice Payne

As exciting as it was when Milwaukee acquired Sabathia, trading for Ohtani would be absolute pandemonium. I'd make sure to enjoy every minute of it, especially since the price would sting for a long time.

SB Mowing https://www.youtube.com/@SBMowing This guy shows up at a house with an overgrown lawn and mows it for free. There's something satisfying about seeing the lawn put back in order.

It's an entertaining pipe dream to imagine the Brewers emptying the farm for Ohtani, winning the WS, then refilling the farm by trading Ohtani away over the winter. Edit--Never mind; I didn't realize Ohtani is a FA after this year, not next. Making this an even bigger pipe dream.....

I do enjoy some kitboga. Lately I've been finding Sarasota Tim to be compelling. https://www.youtube.com/@SarasotaTim He gives retirement advice, and frankly, I don't think the advice is all that good. But he has this affable, content demeanor; seems like a guy you'd like as a neighbor.

Holding on to them was the right call. This was the best chance to get back to the playoffs. A full baseball season is too valuable to not take the best shot. Will it work out? We shall see. But even if it doesn't, taking one more run with Burnes & Woodruff is worth the difference in trade value when they get moved this winter,

He should be called Fred. He's pitched well enough to not have to be called Freddy anymore. Hopefully he pitches even better and can earn the right to go by Frederick

Really like day baseball since I've been working from home. I can't really pay much attention, but it's still nice to have the game on

I've always enjoyed your unique take on things. Your perspective is always original, and I always make sure to catch your articles and posts. Keep it coming.

Willson can just get a few neck tattoos and the Cardinals will like him just fine.

I wish Ohtani was scheduled to start here in Milwaukee. Even though he'd be tough on the Brewers, he's an opposing pitcher worth coming out to see.

Love the Pilots cap in your avatar.

Here's a good Brewers related channel. Locked on Brewers https://www.youtube.com/@LockedOnBrewers Chuck Freimund recently took over, and it looks promising.

Since we've cut the cord, I catch a lot more YouTube. Any favorite channels to recommend? I'll start with The Why Files. https://www.youtube.com/@TheWhyFiles A guy and a fish present weird stories like conspiracy theories, time travelers, the supernatural, etc. Then they debunk them most of the time, but not before they've convinced you the story might be true.

Any poem including the line "Hey batter batter!" is a masterpiece. Happy Opening Day.

I still wonder if Stearns' being set aside was forced upon him, but portrayed publicly as Stearns' decision. Attanasio might hold Stearns responsible for missing the 2022 playoffs with how he navigated the trade deadline. And here is the quintessential ode to the Chevette;

I still wonder if Stearns' being set aside was forced upon him, but portrayed publicly as Stearns' decision. Attanasio might hold Stearns responsible for missing the 2022 playoffs with how he navigated the trade deadline. And here is the quintessential ode to the Chevette;

Matt Arnold has a heart to heart talk with Mark Attanasio, emphasizing the temporary nature of existence and the need to live for the moment. The next day, we all wake up to this: Sign Aaron Judge; 10 Years 400 Million. Sign Xander Bogaerts; 7 Years 190 Million. Sign Willson Contreras; 4 Years, 84 Million. Sign Carlos Rodon; 5 Years, 140 Million. Sign Kodai Senga; 5 Years, 75 Million. Sign Brandon Nimmo; 5 Years, 110 Million. Sign Carlos Correa; 9 years, 288 Million. C: Willson Contreras ($21M) 1B: Rowdy Tellez ($5.30M) 2B: Carlos Correa ($32M) 3B: Xander Bogaerts ($27.0M) SS: Willy Adames ($9.20M) LF: Christian Yelich ($26.00M) CF: Brandon Nimmo ($22.00M) DH: Keston Hiura ($2.00M) Bench OF: Garrett Mitchell ($0.70M) Utility: Luis Urias ($4.3M) Utility: Brice Turang ($0.7M) Backup C: Victor Caratini ($2.8M) RF: Aaron Judge ($40M) SP1: Corbin Burnes ($11.40M) SP2: Brandon Woodruff ($11.00M) SP3: Freddy Peralta ($3.50M) SP4: Kodai Senga ($15.00M) SP5: Carlos Rodon ($28.00M) CL: Devin Williams ($3.20M) RP: Luis Perdomo ($1.00M) RP: Matt Bush ($2.00M) RP: Eric Lauer ($5.2M) RP: Hoby Milner ($1.10M) RP: Adrian Houser ($3.6M) RP: Aaron Ashby ($1.00M) RP: Trevor Gott ($1.40M) Payroll is 53.64% over budget

Watched this on your recommendation and thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks very much

Bell would be a good acquisition. Certainly, pay as little as possible. But this isn't about a two month rental; it's about increasing the odds of getting to the NLCS instead of another quick exit from the playoffs. That's worth quite a bit.

Bell would be a good acquisition. Certainly, pay as little as possible. But this isn't about a two month rental; it's about increasing the odds of getting to the NLCS instead of another quick exit from the playoffs. That's worth quite a bit.

Yeah, the only way this isn't ridiculous is if that anonymous executive is in the Brewers front office

Yeah, the only way this isn't ridiculous is if that anonymous executive is in the Brewers front office

Reading two books concurrently; The Presocratics, edited by Philip Wheelwright The First Philosophers; The Prosocratics and the Sophists, translated by Robin Waterfield They both go through the Greek presocratic philosophers. I'm going back & forth between the two books one philosopher at a time. Really I want to study Aristotle. However, I didn't want to just jump immediately to Aristotle without getting the the academic basis he had to work from. So I started with Homer, then Aesop, and now these guys. Next will be Socrates / Plato, then finally to Aristotle himself. Eventually I'll end up going through the Stoics, but I'll use some caution with them. The Stoics have such a well thought out world view, it's tempting to join them. I thought the Presocratics would just be a stop along the way, but I'm really appreciating them in their own right. They come from a time when philosophy and science were still considered to be the same thing. They ask questions that no one before them had thought to ask, at least among those whose work has survived in the written record. They move forward from the anthropomorphic views espoused by Homer & his contemporaries. They want to know what is the basis of the world / universe, what is a human, where is the earth located; metaphysical questions like that. It's Socrates who will turn the philosophical questions towards how a person should live; these guys were still just figuring out what a human was.

I remember the fight to build Miller Park. That was such a contentious time. Tommy Thompson and of course, George Petak took severe political hits. I stayed up late to listen to the Senate vote on the radio, and when it was voted down, I immediately turned the radio off & went to bed thinking the team would leave. I've seldom been more shocked as I was the next morning, learning the stadium tax had passed overnight. Milwaukee & Wisconsin can't possibly have the stomach to go through that again. There would have to be another way to address the stadium in order to have a positive outcome for the Brewers. I'd always thought that the stadium tax would just never go away, constantly being kept on the books to finance endless renovations. Hopefully this is being worked out ahead of time, behind the scenes this time. They can't do it the same way; it's not going to work again. It almost didn't work the first time.

I remember the fight to build Miller Park. That was such a contentious time. Tommy Thompson and of course, George Petak took severe political hits. I stayed up late to listen to the Senate vote on the radio, and when it was voted down, I immediately turned the radio off & went to bed thinking the team would leave. I've seldom been more shocked as I was the next morning, learning the stadium tax had passed overnight. Milwaukee & Wisconsin can't possibly have the stomach to go through that again. There would have to be another way to address the stadium in order to have a positive outcome for the Brewers. I'd always thought that the stadium tax would just never go away, constantly being kept on the books to finance endless renovations. Hopefully this is being worked out ahead of time, behind the scenes this time. They can't do it the same way; it's not going to work again. It almost didn't work the first time.