OldSchoolSnapper

You could also fire on all cylinders on July 29 and lose anyway. Nobody think it's guaranteed but you play the high probability path. I personally wouldn't care if they told Miz to go fishing for 6 weeks.

And even he had a lousy playoff start that sunk the ship.

If they lost to the good teams the rub would be that they aren't good enough to beat the best. They lose to the crappy ones and it's a "bad look." It's baseball and they are going to have skids. I wouldn't quite say the division is wrapped up but it is in good hands, the playoffs are a lock, and the Cubs welcome the Yankees and Dodgers once they finish with St. Louis. They're fine. They need the top arms ready for October. Nothing outside of that really matters right now. Even if 1-9 were raking it wouldn't mean much 2 months from now.

I keep hearing things like this, online and from my friends. I don't really agree. The fact is that on paper the Brewers are still a valley away from LAD when it comes to starpower. Sending off our best assets, who are kids on the farm, for a rentals or one single veteran, is just not something that I think does anything to combat what LAD is. Let's say we landed Jose Ramirez tomorrow, it wouldn't make anybody say we're the favorite against the Dodgers. I don't think Skubal does that for them either. I think we're better off on the boring path, continuing to draft, develop, and be there every year, knowing that eventually, either LA goes cold and loses before we even play them, or it happens when they play us. That's really it for me. We just can't afford to trade our kids. Yes even if there's an alleged logjam at a position, we don't actually know who pans out at the MLB level. I just don't see the appeal of doing it when we're incredibly successful doing it our way.

Eh. They have big assets tied up in Wyatt, Parsons, Hargrave, picked up LVN's option. He asked for a trade because they can't get a long-term deal done. Turns 32 around the Super Bowl. Plays about 50% of the defensive snaps. Wants to play in California. They can't afford him.

The upcoming fan art hat logo though, is one of the best things I've ever seen.

I "like" the MB thing just because it's old and I was a kid when they wore them. The design itself is extremely ugly. I was too young to have any memories of the original ball & glove teams. My first real season I remember is 1994. So Motre Dame just brings back my childhood. They were also just terrible. It's kinda weird to me anyone likes that logo or that they use it in any form. I do still absolutely love the original, purple Angry Buck logo from that time period.

I thought Kyler Murray was so incredibly "meh" even when he was being hyped up a couple years ago. I just don't see it with him, but they got him for nothing and McCarthy is a bust, so they can't be worse there. I think they'll be in last place.

Maybes dictating 6-12 wins is probably the very typical existence of NFL teams whose QB isn't Mahomes, Rodgers etc. Probably something we should just get used to. I am not sure the division is that tough either. I think the Lions are finished as far as title window goes. The Bears are the competition. I guess tough in that I don't think any of the teams are top contenders.

I think that stops working at a point though. You keep running it back thinking you're the same mid team, but eventually you're just pretty bad. It's a tough team to peg right now. There's definitely some real talent bubbling to the surface, Golden looks like a really good player and Watson has really found the next gear. I just don't see much depth and very little in the way of contingency plans. Too much money tied up in a couple players that aren't the difference makers they're paid to be. I like Parsons and Love, too, but one is going to miss more than half the season and the other really hasn't ascended to the level we'd hoped. I think Love is definitely good enough to be QB on a championship team, but not sure this team is good enough. RB is pretty frightening. CB is contingent on a pass rush that we don't have until November. Every team has uncertainty, but we seem to have it in spades.

Who thought the Packers were poor?

Yeah. The big brain had Bo Melton in there trying to come back in games we were losing.

Reliever, reliever, reliever. I think last year has people snakebitten and thinking they are farther from LA than they really are. They got cold at an awful time. They're not the sexiest lineup but they can do enough. Miz is the Wild Card that if he's on he can shut anyone down. The biggest hole for me is the closer spot. They will have to close a few high pressure 2-1 games to win the World Series and I am nauseous about MeGill or Uribe doing that. Doesn't mean they can't or that they're bad players, but it's the weakness.

Meh. Old man shakes fist at clouds. Let's say that it was Americanized. Well, it was in America and they want Americans interested. I know this hurts the rest of the world to hear, but America has a lot of money that would be very good for soccer. It's hardly an American thing for a culture to put their own spin on anything. These same guys hated the Brazilians 50 years ago because they did too many fancy tricks.

Aye, moves like this are always weighed against a mythical set of alternatives and not against what the alternatives are at the time the decision was made. In other words, yeah we could go down the line and find a 1-year guy who was a better use of that money, but that's easy to do after the fact, and we could have just as easily spent it on something even worse. That said, I don't think we should just give a pass to any decision that's made because we're X games out in first place. A decent reliever for $22 million would look nice right now.