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I would guess they have a training-provided canned answer for this question. It's a good question though and one I've wondered myself really often. I would guess that a good number of people always carry and then forget they have it on them when they go through security. I've done it with my phone and keys and to some people their guns are a similar item that goes everywhere they do. If it's always in your purse it'd be pretty easy to forget. I've gone though a couple times with my Swiss army knife and just blanked that I had it on me. To people unfamiliar with guns it sounds absurd, but if you're more immersed with the culture it seems like it'd be easy to have happen. Pinning down a number is really hard. I'm just gonna guess it happens 20 or so times on a sellout and probably all 20 are people who forgot they had it on them. I really have no clue. I'd have guessed similar to Keith but the fact he had an answer for you makes me think it's more. Then again, his answer may just be a canned thing from training.
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I'm gonna say there was more Braun fever at the time than there is now for Yelich. I think the big reason is that the Brewers had sucked FOREVER. They've had a modicum of success the last decade so there's some fatigue there. They drew 3 million fans in 2008, that was before they'd even made the playoffs yet. Before Ryan Braun the mere concept of a Brewers player winning MVP was comical for anyone born after 1985. Braun and Fielder were transcendent players for the team that they hadn't had since Yount.
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I don't know where I stand on giving guys huge long-term extensions but Yelich strikes me as one that will play for a really long time and be pretty good. He's got a very lean, wiry frame and still looks like he's 17 to me. A knee can blow out at any minute but if I had to pick guys who will play well into their 30s he would be at the top of the list.
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These two things don't have a whole lot to do with each other. Any long-term contract is full of deferred costs. You just sign it and figure it out every year as you go. But this year's budget being maxed (which may or may not be true) has nothing to do with Yelich getting a huge deal for the next decade. Braun, Moose, and Grandal make a lot and all come off soon. If they really wanted to offer Yelich another Braun-type deal, they definitely could.
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I'd be pretty shocked if Moose came back again. They have cheap money in Shaw and yeah he's been bad, but he's also been good. 2B belongs to you know who. Grandal would make much more sense from many different angles. -
Baseball. On paper the Dodgers should have won a title by now. It takes the Dodgers coming out with two bad starts and everything changes. Definitely not the expected outcome, but much more plausible than other sports.
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Honestly an argument can be made for the Brewers being the worst franchise in baseball in terms of results. The only team I consistently make the argument for being worse, is Seattle.
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Do fans really though? I mean we all obviously love Yelich A LOT...but doesn't seem he has the ungodly appeal Braun had before everything went down. People are much more skeptical of idolization nowadays. Not just in Milwaukee, everywhere.
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I think "insane" quite over the top. I would say the Brewers in 2011 and 2018 had better teams than a lot of them. But it's an indisputable fact. Almost all of the teams have been able to get to the postseason and give themselves more shots than the Brewers. They've haven't made it consecutively in nearly 40 years. That's really bad. That was the original statement. They load up once, don't close the deal, and take 8 years off. Opinions may vary but I would love to win 90+ games 4-5 years in a row. That would be a lot of fun for me.
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Problem is the Brewers will never be able to afford long-term deals for stellar SP. Their best bet at having a 4-5 year window of a World Series quality rotation is hitting on several young guys that they can control for a long time. The only way to do that is throwing them into the fire.
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Kansas City went to the World Series two years in a row. Tampa had a 6-year stretch of five 90+ wiin seasons and an 84-win season. Minnesota was in the playoffs 6 times from 2002-10. Cleveland is probably going to win 90 for the fourth straight year. Pittsburgh and Cincy both had sustained playoff appearance this decade. Weird post. So yes. Comparable towns have done a much better job than the Brewers, who get in once and then fall apart.
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Packers roster analysis, post draft moves/needs?
OldSchoolSnapper replied to OnTheBlack's topic in Other Sports
Ooof, I can't disagree more on Cobb and Matthews. Buh bye. Nothing against them, but just time to turn things over. Cobb is productive when healthy, which he never is. Matthews is still disruptive at times, but just felt like he was never going to used as the supplementary player he is at this point. Every snap they are giving to those two guys while hoping against hope they don't hurt is a snap taken away from someone 10 years younger who needs to be on the field. But I wanted them both cut prior to last season. I have my eyes on Jimmy Graham this year. He was much more productive than most people are giving him credit for. He didn't score, but neither did anybody else. That offense had so many problems it was really hard to single out anyone who didn't have a really good year. I think he's a shell of what he was and his hands were a little stoney at times, but I think he's a dark horse for being a contributor this year. -
It's annoying to me that we can only do this once a decade while other comparable markets are able to have 3-4 year windows or sometimes longer.
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If you hadn't watched any baseball all year and had the Brewers stat sheet and the standings, you would probably say the team has a fighting chance and should try to add an arm or two and squeak into the playoffs. However if you've been watching the team on a close to nightly basis, it's much harder to be optimistic. Who besides Josh Hader are you even remotely comfortable with protecting a lead? When they hit, they can't pitch. When they pitch, they can't hit. It seems like they strand an insane amount of runners, and always seem to shoot themselves in the foot with dumb basepath mistakes etc. The eye test this year has been especially bad IMO, as bad as anything the numbers suggest. That said circumstances still give them a fading chance. There's no reason to sell before late July. 2-8 in the last 10 but if they go 8-2 in the next 10 then adding a couple guys doesn't sound all that ridiculous anymore.
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The real tragedy of this season is that the Cubs aren't very good. It was a fairly easy year, compared to most, to keep our window cracked open with some elite players like Yelich and Hader. What a shame.
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We call that the Greg Vaughn experience and I grew up on that ride.
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Pretty much the definition of a middling team that's in an extended rut - they don't do anything extremely well with any consistency, so they can't count on anything working for them every game. That's a frustrating place to be as a team. They were fine in April and May though, and then just like that, everything went to hell. It's unusual, usually you see it happen to one or the other...either the Pitching goes, or the hitting goes, not usually both at the same time. I mean what changed once June came?? They were 10 games over...everything wasn't perfect, but they were working enough to get them 10 games over. The W-L was fine in April and May but plenty of people were sounding alarms. People always sound alarms but even then I think there were legitimate concerns. The pitching was suspect, the differential was never very good and they were winning one run games at an unsustainable clip. If you were optimistic you thought the staff would sort itself out and be good enough to be carried by a very good offense. Neither one happened.
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That’s what you call a losing team. Pretty much the definition It's what you call inconsistency, but the extremes to which it's been true this year are truly amazing.
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Sorry but Salad Man makes Arcia look like the Babe. Give me him at the plate over Salad Man any day.
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I've been thinking this for awhile and wondered why they haven't had one yet. Was definitely being sarcastic but also thought it's been quite a bad stretch without them at least trying the old cliche.
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Stearns isn’t selling because he’s not an idiot like some on here 3 games over .500!!! Sell everything!! 3 games over .500? They're about to be 1 over. Everything is totally fine. Selling is ridiculous and this team is totally making the playoffs with ease.
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The only thing that can fix this team now is ... A players' only meeting.
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Counsell wanted to leave Chacin in but took him out to try and score. We can think what we want, just saying that was his rationale.
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The Brewers aren't winning the division. Don't even bother looking at the Cubs. Their fleeting chance is a wild card and that is slipping away. This has been a problem all year though. The offense and pitching never play well at the same time.
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It's entirely possible his shoulder is irritated.
