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#FreeWang ...yes, I'm afraid to use that hashtag on twitter. -
Hank Aaron comments on racism & 40 years since #715
bjkrautk replied to JohnBriggs12's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
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How many games have we lost over the years as a manager sticks with a closer who gets off to a slow start? Turnbow, Gagne, Hoffman, Axford, all of the Brewers closers in the past decade have had at least one start to the season where they've ended up getting bounced out of the job at some point due to early struggles before they were in mid-season form (if they did manage to recover). If RR decided that it was worth putting someone else - with plenty of experience pitching the 9th inning - into that closer's spot before it costs us early wins, I give him credit for not doing the easy thing and rolling out the designated closer in the 9th because that's "his inning." (Wasn't that supposed to be the knock on how RR handles the bullpen, after all?)
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THE BREWERS ARE ON A PACE FOR 162 WINS! (I didn't get to write the 'on a pace' language for an opening day HR, so you'll have to excuse my optimism here.)
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I've been as critical as anyone of Jackson over the course of the season. When Arizona switched the pick and roll, I knew he wasn't going to pass the ball to Kaminsky on the post with the guard on him. Give some credit where it's due; his step back created enough space to get a good shot off. It wasn't a 'bad' shot attempt, even though it didn't go in.
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As patient and as clinical as the Badgers were on offense, the Defensive and rebounding - limiting Baylor to one shot on most possessions - was the most pleasant aspect of that game.
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Wake plays in the ACC. And coaches that can recruit can recruit anywhere. Not to mention, the distance between his VCU recruiting network and Wake Forest (Winston-Salem, NC - part of the triangle with Duke and UNC) is a lot closer than Virginia to Wisconsin. Given the defections from the Big East in conference realignment, it's not a given to say that a middle-to-high Big East school is a better opportunity than a lower-tier ACC school. As Coach Bennett showed in recent years, it is possible to turn around a struggling ACC team....if you can recruit.
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Buzz Williams to VA Tech, according to CBS Sports.
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I'm assuming the punch came in the number of zeroes after the number on the check from Samsung (who advertised heavily during the awards, and who I assumed paid for the extreme product placement).
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What if your team starts the day before / after the holiday?
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The Canadian men & women won gold in curling.
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Missed shots and bad strategy. For anyone reading this who doesn't know, you only get 8 stones in a curling end. To score 7 points, you need to have 7 of those 8 stones closer to the 'button' (the center of the painted rings on the end of the ice you're throwing to) than the other team. By the time the other team has 6 stones in the house, and you're sitting with all of your stones out in front of the house....most teams would look to hit some of the other team's shots and start to cut down on the potential damage. Instead, they kept trying to draw in (throwing weight to land in the house, without hitting the other team's stones). It's inexplicable to me what they were thinking in that moment. Not sure if there's a youtube clip yet; I know there wasn't one when I went looking on Tuesday night.
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I caught Trenni interviewing the U.S. Men's Skip during the tail-end of the CNBC coverage yesterday. (His last stone was one of the few moments where I could look at the TV and genuinely say "I can do that" as he threw his draw through the house.) Also, guessing that's the Randy Moss who works for the NFL Network, as opposed to the one who played in the the NFL (when he wanted to play).
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I'm not going to try and dig it out, but the NFL Network ran a documentary last year about TSB, using Tecmo Madison as its framing device.
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Trae Jackson is killing me...
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It amazes me that, so relatively soon after Selig (-Prieb) ownership, fans are now complaining that our owner might be too active in 'meddling' to make sure we sign high-priced free agents.
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Brewers sign Mark Reynolds (Minor League Deal)
bjkrautk replied to markedman5's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
A replacement level player who has shown potential to be better than that if he has a bounce-back year....and who could also slide over to 3b if A-Ram gets injured or dealt. Pretty much exactly the type of signing the team needed to make. The more it keeps Francisco off the field, the more I will appreciate the pick-up. -
The Five Things Organization-Wide You Want To See In 2014
bjkrautk replied to sheetskout's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
1) Increased accountability within the organization for the team's failure to develop early draft picks into major league starters. 2) A draft class that stacks up with the classes that fueled the team's playoff runs. 3) A major league first baseman who is better than replacement level. 4) For their young starting pitchers to look more like 2012 Mike Fiers than 2013 Mike Fiers. 5) A full season from Ryan Braun that begins to put to rest all the when's and the why's of Biogenesis. -
Bill Cosby recorded a comedy special last month(?), and has made some late night talk show appearances recently to promote it.
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Devil's advocate: could a Young signing also serve as protection if ARam gets hurt / traded? Francisco does not have a comfort level switching between 1b and 3b, based on his comments last season. The question for me is always how much he signs for.
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The only answer is "too many," isn't it? One would be too many; this is an epidemic. He has a Skittles ad, 2-3 different Honda ads, and I think there's at least one more out in circulation.
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How many commercials is Michael Bolton in nowadays?
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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7424/11375880755_413ca9a063.jpg 12-0 Gratuitous plug for my Flickr set.
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...and if Gord Ash hadn't been so stubborn, he could have been a Brewer (Halladay, Carpenter, & Escobar were the Toronto pitchers rumored to be available around the time of the Vina trade -- the Jays wouldn't make the deal).
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A little sad that Aoki has been dealt (he was a family favorite), but given his contract situation and the outfield logjam after Khris Davis' breakout performance last year....it's hardly unexpected. As a starter or as a non-LOOGY LH reliever who'll be under team control for quite some time, it makes a good deal of sense to me. If we get a performance that's anywhere near the 6.14 K:BB ratio he had last year, Smith is going to be a solid contributor.
