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  1. JoeHova
    Can we call him Mat the Bat? Or is that too lame and/or derivative? I think I want to call him that.
  2. JoeHova
    I'm not mad about this move. This is what they did with Fielder his first year, used a top prospect as a bench player and DH. I assume Gamel will get sent back down for a while after interleague is over (barring injuries). I wonder who leaves now though.
  3. JoeHova
    I'm sure Night Train and Thunderbird have admirers as well, but I'm not sure the difference is just marketing. Like I say, I'm not much into drinking but for many foodstuffs (meat and cheese especially but plenty of other things as well), you do get what you pay for. That's not to say that you can't find a good deal sometimes.
  4. JoeHova
    The Rollie Fingers wine thread made me remember that Robin Yount was supposedly launching a line of lemonades called "Robinade" last summer. I realized I hadn't heard anything else about it since then and I also didn't see it in stores when I've been in Wisconsin (not that I remembered to look specifically for it, but I didn't notice it). I googled around for it and all I can find are some press releases and a bare-bones website that sells hats and shirts, but not the actual product. So, has anybody seen it? Does it still exist? Did it ever? Is/was it any good? I'm interested to know what became of Robinade.
  5. JoeHova
    Is $15 that unreasonable for a bottle of wine? I rarely drink but when I do I buy more expensive bottles than that.
  6. JoeHova
    Nobody is saying he is, or should.
  7. JoeHova
    Nelson's MLEs are barely major league quality for a backup 1B/OF, so I think it is fair to say that his career is hanging by a thread. The type of guy that he is needs a team to fall in love with them and let them play for a while so they can acquire that "proven veteran" tag. He's pretty much the definition of a replacement level player. I know he came up in the system, but he just isn't good enough to worry about hanging on to. To address the topic, I would be in favor of trading Nelson for Hinske. Hinske is a guy that can actually spot start if somebody goes down for a couple weeks. Also, while he may be below average at 3rd, UZR has him above average at 1st and in the corners. I can't believe that the same can be said for Nelson, though stranger claims have proven true.
  8. JoeHova
    Nice bklyn. Anyway, I don't mind this move. I was worried about the Jay Gibbons signing last year but nothing ever came of that. Plus, the bench doesn't have many good players on it this year so I won't have to worry about Catalanotto possibly taking someone's job. I remember back in 2001 when it looked like Frank was going to steal the batting title from Ichiro. He faded a little the last couple weeks but that was still his best year.
  9. JoeHova
    No, I'm not saying the team should make changes because of booing, what I'm saying is that booing makes it clear that fans are displeased. I'm not even a person who boos much (except for Lauryn Hill) but I think that it adds a lot to the game.
  10. JoeHova
    Where did somebody say that? Booing is the counterpart to cheering, why do some people get so unnerved by it? Wes Helms was a hindrance to the Brewers, so he gets booed. Where is the crime in that? How else are people supposed to express their dissatisfaction? By writing letters? Protesting outside the stadium? Don't say by not going to or watching games, because that isn't a real option for people who follow the team as closely as we do, at least not in response to the presence of one unsavory player. If you're talking about me and accusing me of a lack of logic, you should read what I said more carefully. I said that in a certain sense, most unpopular people are not really at fault for their unpopularity, they've usually just been placed in a position that they are incapable of performing adequately in. For example, if I boo Lauryn Hill when she opens for OutKast, I'm not booing her per se, I'm booing the decision making process that led to her being there in the first place. It's not her fault that her music is unpleasant and execrable, she's likely doing the best she can. That doesn't mean that I can't let my displeasure be known in the hopes that the same mistake won't be made in the future. Perhaps that hope is unlikely to come to fruition, but it's all anybody can really do in the moment.
  11. JoeHova
    Sure, why not? He was a victim of the Peter Principle, as have been many people who are popularly reviled. It wasn't Ned's fault that he was a terrible manager but that didn't stop people from disliking him. Somebody above Ned made the bad decision to put him in charge, just like somebody above Wes made the bad decision to play him so much (and give him a contract extension). Why should Wes elicit any more sympathy than Ned? Neither one could do the job they were supposed to do.
  12. JoeHova
    I never liked Helms because he was Ned's running dog and he kept Branyan from getting the playing time he deserved. I'd boo him for that still. Although it wasn't his fault, he was a symbol for everything that was wrong with team at the time.
  13. JoeHova
    I wish the untucking was disrespectful. Teams should break as many of the unwritten rules as possible as almost all of them are stupid and pointless. Baseball players need to grow up and stop looking for disrespect around every corner. Somehow players in other sports survive if the other team has a little fun.
  14. JoeHova
    I think Melvin kind of deserved to be fired. I wouldn't say that the D'Backs have massively underperformed throughout his tenure, but they have to be getting worried about the lack of development of some of their players. Also, I assume Josh Byrnes is trying to save his job. His position might be pretty precarious considering some of the moves he's made recently (mostly the Eric Byrnes extension, followed by dumping Carlos Quentin. Any time you can lock up an overrated 32 year old and trade his better, younger replacement, you've got to make that move).
  15. JoeHova
    To me, the biggest problem with fan voting in MLB and the NBA is when oft-injured guys who are having bad years or who have missed most of the season get voted in (Grant Hill, Ken Griffey Jr., Vince Carter, etc.). However, the leagues open themselves to the risk of stuff like that happening when they open the voting so soon after the season starts. Also, if Milledge looks like he is going to win a spot, the league will just rig the voting like the NHL did when Rory Fitzpatrick was going to be a starter because of a similar campaign in 2007. The whole thing is pointless and makes a mockery of the sport, which is exactly what I don't want to see happen, despite any problems I may have with MLB as an entity. If those guys at SOSH want to mess up the all-star game, start a campaign to vote in an undeserving fan favorite on their own team. At least that is understandable and can be justified as trying to show how much they like a certain unsung player. To try to vote in a minor leaguer from another team is just mean. Imagine how we would have felt if Yankees fans had voted Bill Hall into the game in 2002. It would have just embarrassed him, as well as the team, city, and fans.
  16. JoeHova
    I wonder what went wrong with it to take that long. I mean, with Chinese Democracy the long delay made a bit more sense because music is music. Sure, CDs have been superseded to some extent by MP3/4s but it's basically the same. With video games (especially PC games), the systems are constantly changing, which would seem to make such a long development time totally impractical.
  17. JoeHova
    Playing Bill in the outfield made some sense, considering the fact that he had spent a whole season out there and CF is usually considered for more difficult to play than LF. That said, it does look bad when a guy gets injured while he is playing in his first game ever at a new position. I wouldn't have criticized Ned for doing it, either. I don't mind a little versatility. For example, I thought it was pretty cool when Albert Pujols played 2nd base in that game last year. Bill at least theoretically has enough bat for the outfield so it isn't like playing Counsell or Willie Bloomquist out there.
  18. JoeHova
    Wow. I'm kind of disappointed.
  19. JoeHova
    Exactly. Managers, players, reporters, etc. are just as stupid as fans. No system is perfect. I don't think there's anything wrong with letting the fans have a say.
  20. JoeHova
    Olney states pretty clearly that Melvin told Branyan that he had "no interest" in him but thought that Jack Zduriencik, who had a team coming off of a 101 loss season, might. I don't know how I could be misinterpreting that, but maybe you're right. Olney or Branyan didn't say that Melvin only had interest in Russ as a backup, he said "no interest".
  21. JoeHova
    IIRC, it was said that Prince and Rickie skipped A+ because the Brewers didn't like their top prospects to play in the High Desert park, which they felt distorted numbers and approaches too much. I can't remember if that was speculation or if the team came out and said that, but it wouldn't seem to be an issue anymore.
  22. JoeHova
    Why? Why do people insist on saying things like this? What is your problem? Does the fact that other people don't have the exact same perspective as you threaten your worldview that much?
  23. JoeHova
    Russell Branyan played in 50 games for the Brewers last season, and when it was over he hoped to go back to Milwaukee. Doug Melvin, the Milwaukee general manager, responded that he had no interest in Branyan... Perplexing and disappointing. I think most of us at least thought that Doug would have offered him a minimum deal. Oh well, a lot of fans in Milwaukee will always love Russ. Hopefully he keeps hitting in Seattle.
  24. JoeHova
    The fact that Cameron and Hoffman both signed one year deals shows that they were not in great demand. For example, the Padres were rumored to have offered Hoffman around half of what he ended up signing for with Milwaukee. Suppan is terrible, I doubt anybody else wanted him for anything close to the money that the Brewers offered. However, even if I grant that other teams did want him and that he was one of the top free agents (which I don't believe), 1 relatively big signing in 20 years doesn't really refute my point that top free agents aren't how this team is built or will ever be built.
  25. JoeHova
    Luckily as Brewer fans we don't ever have to worry about the team signing a good free agent, so whether someone wants to play here or not is irrelevant, they all have no choice either because they are draftees (Braun, Prince, etc.), guys who were traded for (CC, Lee, CV, etc.), or guys who no one else wanted (Turnbow, Podsednik, Branyan, etc.). Also, it's misleading to say that "there are some here that now do not like the trade". There were plenty of people who were not in love with the deal from the beginning. Not only because they thought LaPorta or Brantley would be stars but because they thought that a limited budget team like the Brewers should not trade their top prospect for half a season of one player, when the potential savings of having a good player locked up for 6 years at below market rates could be so important to the makeup of the team. I personally thought that the Brewers gave up a bit too much, but it wasn't a franchise-crippling move, imo.
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