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Eric Byrnes and his Weird Wild Ways
JoeHova replied to pitchleague's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
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Too Early to Be Demoralized?
JoeHova replied to Warning Track Power's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I'm not sure what you are implying with this post. That Prince is dogging it? He will surely start hitting, every player has down months. However, you seem to be insinuating that he isn't trying or something. Why? -
Great to hear!
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Not really. He's closer in ability to prime Mike Redd than he is to Wade or LeBron. Not worth the max, though he'll easily get it. He's good though, don't get me wrong. He's just not great.
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Oh no! Hopefully Uecker recovers soon. Baseball wouldn't be the same without him around.
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Maybe, but they absolutely dominated the ones I saw. They were on another level. Maybe the other guys caught up, or GSG 9 sent their JV team that year. As for the matchup of winners from season 1, it seemed odd that the Spartan spear was credited with so many kills when it had been demonstrated that Samurai armor was very effective against it.
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That's why I was surprised Spetsnaz beat the Green Berets. Anyway, I think GSG 9 lost mainly because the guys they had using their equipment weren't as good/fast as the SWAT guys were. However, they weren't actual GSG 9 guys, unlike the SWAT guys, who were actually on a SWAT team. (The testers seemed to give too much credence to the fact that SWAT assault rifle was a bigger caliber. If that was a huge issue, I think most countries would use something bigger than the NATO round, which is what GSG 9's guns use. I know that .22 caliber is not big but I would assume GSG 9 uses a high tech bullet with more stopping power than a standard .22. Even the 7.62 NATO round is not that big compared to many handguns. There must be a reason people favor a (relatively) smaller round in automatic rifles, which I assume would be ease of use.) Also, they demonstrated the taser on a live guy but not the grenade thing. That seems to indicate that the grenade is nastier than the taser if they weren't willing to actually use it. (Not that they should have, I sure wouldn't want to get hit with a grenade even if it was supposedly non-lethal.)
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I was a little disappointed that they couldn't get any actual GSG 9 guys but I guess that's not too surprising considering that their identities are classified.
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That must be a high bar to clear.
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I know, it's just that it seems like a bad matchup. The Mongols dominated a larger land area than anybody else ever did despite having relatively few people in their army. They controlled an empire that had over 100 million people in it, during a time when the population of the whole world was probably about 400 million. Meanwhile, the Comanche's biggest military action involved 1,000 soldiers and killed 41 enemies. It's like having Julius Caesar fight the police of Monaco. It's not that big of a deal, it's just that the Mongols were arguably the most feared military force in world history so I was hoping for a commensurate opponent. Not to take anything away from the Comanche, but they weren't concerned with world conquest like the Mongols were.
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That's a shame.
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Too bad. I was hoping he'd get off to a hot start with his new team.
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I'm a bit disappointed that the Mongols got matched up against the Comanches. A more appropriate matchup, in my opinion, would have been Genghis Khan against Alexander the Great. I assume they matched the Mongols against the Comanche because both were known for their extensive use of mounted warriors but that's not even a fair fight except for the fact that the Comanches had guns. At their peak, there were less than 50,000 Comanches total. Genghis Khan and his men killed 45 times that many people in his conquest of Persia alone.
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It's on Spike. New episodes start on Tuesday at 7:30 (central) but they're running a marathon all day Tuesday (starting at 10:30 am). They also had the marathon on Sunday so I watched a couple episodes. Is it just me or is the actors fighting by far the least interesting part of the show? The rest of it is cool though, it reminds me of Mythbusters.
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There is a big difference between saying yes to a Braun or Longoria style $40 million contract and saying yes to a $160 million (or whatever) contract. I just don't see why Prince/Boras would be interested in negotiating in bad faith for 2 years. What's in it for them? All they do is alienate a possible suitor if that's their plan.
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Because they take on all the risk. That's the bargaining power the Brewers have right now. If Prince has a bad year or two or gets hurt, his contract will be much smaller (though still not small, obviously) than it would be now. They'd have to think they can get a much better deal in 2 years in order for waiting to be worth the risk. That's why it's imperative that the Brewers make an eye-catching offer if they want to keep Prince. It would be hard for anybody to turn down a guaranteed $150+ million (though not impossible, as Juan Gonzalez can attest).
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Why wouldn't they be? They could easily have just said they weren't interested in negotiating during the season, which is a pretty common thing for an agent to say. I'm sure Prince wouldn't mind getting a huge payday 2 years early. I just doubt he will be interested in giving much (if any) of a discount in return for that.
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Rotation Battle 2.0 -- Latest: Suppan Named 5th Starter
JoeHova replied to Jim Goulart's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
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Link seems to lead to the "post a reply" yuku page. What happened that is upsetting?
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Wow, that is something. Must have been pretty amazing to see live. Hopefully nobody got hit by any debris.
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My money's on the Germans. Those guys used to own that Swat Team Challenge (or whatever it was called) on OLN. IIRC, they aren't allowed to show their faces in public, which is kind of scary/cool.
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I think it's much too soon to judge Peterson. Give him (and the pitchers) a couple months, at least.
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The thing about Schroeder's "blue collar type attitude" is that it's so obviously phony, or at least exaggerated. Pretending that you don't know what various 2 syllable words mean doesn't make you blue collar. I hate the attitude of ignorance, both feigned and actual, that he has. Ignorance is not a desirable blue collar trait. Schroeder has a job that requires him to actually be knowledegable about certain things, but he doesn't care to even make an effort. The best example of this is him not knowing that Prince and Cecil aren't on speaking terms when he interviewed Prince after his first game. Prince was the best prospect the Brewers had had since Schroeder started working for them, yet he had obviously not read even one article about Prince. 99% of the people who posted here at the time knew that Prince and Cecil had a falling out but a guy who is paid to follow the team had no idea. That's just one prominent example, Schroeder makes his disdain for knowledge clear on a daily basis and it is that which makes him a terrible announcer. Faux folksiness as a cover for laziness and incuriousness is detestable.
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The Reds team is Thom Brennaman and Jeff Brantley. Each is unbearable in any setting. Together, they drive me to despair. Luckily I don't like the Reds so I don't have to listen to them much. However, the presence on the airwaves of such monstrously repugnant broadcast teams doesn't excuse the ineffectual and inept Anderson/Schroeder pairing. The best that can be said about them is that they aren't quite as bad as some other guys are. That's not enough for me. Let's see, I'd rank the Reds, Twins, Diamondbacks and White Sox announcers well below the Brewers team. The Mariners have a team that is a little worse. The Dodgers B-team is also worse but Vin Scully still does the home games so on average they are way above the Brewers. If we are ranking by the 30 MLB teams, not by individual announcer, I'd put the Brewers team somewhere between 22nd and 25th. To me, the Brewers announcers are in the unfortunate group that make games less pleasurable/fun to watch. They aren't as bad as they were when Daron Sutton was the PBP guy but Anderson hasn't exactly been the breath of fresh air that I had hoped. I used to think Schroeder was just dragging his partners down but if anything, Sutton has gotten worse in AZ. That probably means that Anderson wouldn't improve much with a new partner either, although I believe he (and all fans) would benefit from a new color analyst. It's time to give Schroeder the boot. This is his 16th season and he still brings nothing to the table.
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I know what you are saying, but I disagree. Katin: age 25 AAA- .856 OPS age 26 AAA- .804 OPS career minor league BA- .269 career minor league OBP- .333 career minor league steals- 20 Cruz: age 25 AAA- .907 OPS age 26 AAA- 1.125 OPS career minor league BA- .297 career minor league OBP- .369 career minor league stolen bases- 106 Cruz was a much better hitter, he hit for a much better average (important for the transition to MLB for high strikeout players (Cruz actually struck out less than Katin too)), he had a better OBP (even if you adjust for the difference in BA's) and was/is a better athlete. Katin's best tool defensively is his arm but Cruz also has an excellent arm and is great defensively in general. I like Katin but I don't see him being equivalent to Nelson Cruz, except in the sense of being relatively old and still in AAA.
