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  1. OldSchoolSnapper
    That he's from Thousand Oaks and has already made whatever he's made, makes me think he'd be inclined to go for the monster deal and doesn't really need the sure thing.
  2. OldSchoolSnapper
    Trading Yelich now is really insane and speaks to how far the team has come. Had he not been hurt, we don't know how far they go, but they're off back-to-back playoff seasons. Yet we have to trade him now to...rebuild? It's been a good team for 3 years, there's no reason to think they can't compete with Yelich and the same methodology next year. The time to trade him is 2 years away if ever. They weren't a superstar away from competing in 2018, and the 2019 champ barely squeaked past them. I like Rendon, think the contract is ok relatively speaking, but we can do this without those contracts.
  3. OldSchoolSnapper
    He did that once. Can't see him, now established as 10x the player and watching guys get paid, doing it again.
  4. OldSchoolSnapper
    I'm not so sure on this one. Think it might end up being ok, relatively speaking.
  5. OldSchoolSnapper
    Attanasio just seems like a guy who trusts his GM and if the GM begs he says yes. I'm sure they have soft payroll to work with and if something comes up it's like asking your dad for $20. He'll usually say yes. Well at least my dad. I'd be really surprised if he's ever had a hard demand or a hard no on a specific player.
  6. OldSchoolSnapper
    You want the Brewers to build a team the same way the Yankees do. Go watch Brad Pitt's speech to the scouts in the beginning of Moneyball. It's never going to work here. Never.
  7. OldSchoolSnapper
    Who says that's not exactly what the plan is? Or that he's a reliever? I missed the press conference where Stearns annointed him the #2.
  8. OldSchoolSnapper
    This doesn't hold the Yankees back more than their desire to be immensely profitable. They could eat this contract and still go out and sign anybody they want in any of the next 9 seasons. Every team can spend more than they let on, the Yankees have a virtually limitless spending account. Don't confuse an owner's unwillingness to spend a lot of money with not being able to do it. I don't want to get all brewcrew on the thread but teams like this are not in the same stratosphere. They can literally do whatever they want and be just fine.
  9. OldSchoolSnapper
    I've thought the same thing but never say it out loud.
  10. OldSchoolSnapper
    I will say the only time I've really wished there was an 8-team playoff is when the CFUs of the world go 13-0 and just get tossed in a random bowl with no chance to play the best. Sure they'd likely get obliterated but going undefeated and not even getting a shot is a very odd thing.
  11. OldSchoolSnapper
    I think there would be a lot of upsets, and fairly rare that 1 and 2 end up playing each other. But I think it's clear in the current state of CFB that the Wisconsins of the world are the tippy top of Tier 2, and there is a quite a bit of space between them and Tier 1. Having to beat 3 potentially superior teams, I just can't see it happening. You might get a flukey year where 1 and 2 lose in the first round or something, but I don't think, overall, it would create this competitive balance that people want. It certainly would not mirror the NFL.
  12. OldSchoolSnapper
    If we can't draw a distinction between the NCAA and pro sports talent pool, we're never going to come close to agreement on this topic. The NFL/NBA/MLB are pulling talent from the same pool of guys. They're all amazing, from the Tigers to the Yankees, and anyone can beat anyone at the right time. The guys plucked off the wire on March 25 are still elite. That is not what happens in the NCAA; the cream of the crop is concentrated in the same 3-4 universities, while the occasional players that slip under the recruiting radar wind up at other schools. They're not all pulling from the same place, Hawaii and Illinois are not gettin the #1 QB prospect from Florida to sit down at the table. You can say the pros aren't either with $$$, but the draft is at least something of an equalizer where a MKE can get Giannis. If you expand to an 8-team field, yes, you will get the seasons in which 8 beats 1. What I'm saying is that you will not get 8 beats 1, beats 2, beats 3. Wisconsin might beat Ohio State, they're not going to beat them three times in a month. It can happen in the pros, and does, because there just isn't the same disparity of talent. If that's the conversation (getting past round 1) then that's fine, I just don't see an 8-team field as increasing WI's odds of a title at all.
  13. OldSchoolSnapper
    No, because the parity in CFB is comparatively really bad. None of those comparison really make any sense. Game 107 has a point because they've missed and made the playoffs by 1 game. I don't see the parallel to that and this at all. Seattle or SF will be a 5th seed in the NFC. There is quite literally no separation between the two, and they will be seeded 1 and 5. Relatively, there is an ocean between Wisconsin and the #1 seed. Even if they pulled off a miracle, they have to pull of 3 miracles. Comparing it to the NFL is apples to oranges. It would be more comparable to a 1 v 16 in the NCAA tourney, which is absolutely pointless 99.9% of the same, and the 16th seed is certainly not running the table. CFB just doesn't have the parity where an 8th seed can realistically pull that off. If those teams would rather get a chance to beat a top seed than go to a random bowl game, that's fine with me, but WI isn't going to win a national title as an 8th seed in FB. I don't see it expanding to 8 teams as really beneficial to the program is that's the goal. It's much more viable that they get a random year where they close the talent gap and are an actual top 4 team.
  14. OldSchoolSnapper
    I've long given up on them actually using those to honor players. More likely we get a 16th Ryan Braun. That they haven't ever done Jeff Cirillo in the 90s uni is a real crock. I'm not sure they've done a single bobble in Motre Bame logo. It's an ugly logo, but should still have at least one. Maybe Vaughn was? Not looking at it atm.
  15. OldSchoolSnapper
    The Rose Bowl was just as pointless when it "meant something." Even if the game itself was fantastic, like the UCLA game where they were massive underdogs and won 38-31 while Dayne carried the Bruins on his back half the game, they ended the year ranked 3rd or 4th. It's the definition of pointless. It was an amazing game, but part of the reason I've only ever been half-interested in CFB. The 8 team thing seems utterly pointless. Let's say the Badgers are 8th and get in. They're going to beat OSU/LSU/Clemson in consecutive weeks? LOL, ok. Those bottom 4 teams are never going to pull that off in CFB.
  16. OldSchoolSnapper
    It has been very similar since the Bostick game save for the run the table stretch.
  17. OldSchoolSnapper
    They could very well lose any of the remaining three. They also could win all three. The Bears are probably the safest. If they can't beat them in December at home they should just give their playoff spot to somebody else.
  18. OldSchoolSnapper
    Coan is a gamer.
  19. OldSchoolSnapper
    Up until that play it really felt like OSU just thought they could show up and win by 35.
  20. OldSchoolSnapper
    It's simply comes down to the fact that the Bucks are more or less ok with letting teams jack up low percentage shots because they don't think you can beat them doing it. Any time they actually lose, it's the first thing people are going to point to because it's what they see.
  21. OldSchoolSnapper
    Thank you. He beat that to death during the series. That master prediction was not why the Bucks lost no matter how many times he keeps repeating it half a year later. They lost several games with Toronto shooting below average from 3. The Bucks stopped hitting shots. It was as simple as that. When they stopped hitting shots, all energy could be exerted on slowing down Giannis. Toronto was getting roughly the same offensive efficiency during that series as the Bucks opponents were all year. These "wide open 3s" had absolutely nothing to do with the Bucks loss. They'd let teams shoot from there all season and the Raps were not any better at hitting them. It's maddening every time I read it, it's just not what happened.
  22. OldSchoolSnapper
    I think he does, but it says a lot about the state of SP when a 5-ERA pitcher gets $8 million a year based on a very good 60 innings. Granted, his early career is bogging that down (or up).
  23. OldSchoolSnapper
    I'm sick of Twitter reacting to every deal with "Lol overpay" Overpay is probably the dumbest hot take in FA in any sport. Do fans think there is just one team pulling numbers out of thin air and offering these sums out of the goodness of their heart?
  24. OldSchoolSnapper
    The officials have no stake in the Finals. There have been numerous red carpet teams losing in the Finals in the last 20 years, some of them have gotten absolutely smoked. The Bucks have no one to blame but themselves if they don't win it this year. They have absolutely no excuse for not at least getting there. Superstars get calls and we have the biggest one. I don't think the NBA wants anything more than Giannis vs. LeBron.
  25. OldSchoolSnapper
    If I'm Mike McCarthy that's the job I want. You have a QB and an owner who will go after any player you want.
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