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Saw the trailer for the Springsteen fan movie thing and thought it looked kinda funny. Nice to see a semi original idea. Blinded by the Light I think it's called.
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Rapinoe's original comments were pretty nothingburger. A ho hum response to a question months ago that was released as a June surprise to generate clicks. Probably never thought it was getting any kind of traction.
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Yeah, those two things aren't the same. Arcia is at least an MLB hitter this year. He was not for a major chunk of last season.
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Well yeah, but they haven't exactly had a replacement for Arcia. Dubon is probably gonna be about the same guy. I don't mind him getting some time, but I don't think he's a long term solution to the Arcia problem. And I'm sorry, but "the number of wins is irrelevant" is a silly statement. If you are a 96-win team there is much less urgency to replace a developing player if you think he's going to be really good. When your offense is struggling and you're a supposed title contender mulling around .500 there is not a lot of time to wait it out with poor performers. If we're being honest this season is probably already over if they play in any other division. Just replacing guys for the sake of replacing them isn't really productive if there's nobody better.
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Arcia isn't the problem with our offense this year, that trophy is more of a Stanley Cup passed around among Cain, Aguilar and Shaw. But that doesn't mean Arcia is good. I think the initial honeymoon over his defense is ending and we are left with what appears to be a mediocre player. That doesn't mean it'll be what he is forever, but that is what he's been, and what he is right now. Kinda feel the same about Arcia as I do about Braun right now. I'm not under any delusion that either is more than what they are. They're not very good, but if the guys above weren't absolutely dreadful and we had a pitching staff we'd probably have 55 wins and nobody would really care.
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Ok? It wasn't an attack. I was just saying that I thought it was good. Cinemascore isn't a publication. It's an aggregate that measures audience reaction which is why I mentioned it. It got an A, which is fairly uncommon although so did Shaft.
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Well our guy looked nice and no one dug up his old tweets yet. In hindsight, that whole thing really became a nothingburger. There was so much talk about it following him forever and it seems like it just kinda vanished and most took it as the dumb ramblings of a kid. Sorta refreshing for a change. -
The Brewers are the albatross of the All Star Game. They switched leagues right about the time the power switched from the NL to the AL. I haven’t counted it up, but I think the record of the Brewers league is about 9-40-1. They also seem to lay a lot of duds in the game. I know Fielder won the MVP, but I think that is still the only Brewer to ever homer in the game.
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I thought it was easily the best Spiderman film to date. Cinemascore seems to agree. Definitely can tell they were trying to lighten the mood after Endgame. Edit: I take that back, Spiderverse was exceptional, but still thought this was great.
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When they don't make the playoffs this is the game everyone will talk about.
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Bucks off-season thread (non-draft)
OldSchoolSnapper replied to coolhandluke121's topic in Other Sports
Yes really. It's Indiana. You can quickly Google and see that it's still very much an issue there. It's not like he went to New Orleans or Brooklyn or some melting pot place. Plus, if it was really the reason he left, you'd think someone like him would be invested in being part of the solution rather than just skipping town. I really, really doubt that segregation had anything to do with him leaving. MOD EDIT: The bit that was removed was a bit too political. -
Bucks off-season thread (non-draft)
OldSchoolSnapper replied to coolhandluke121's topic in Other Sports
The Brogdon didn't like Milwaukee narrative kind of falls apart when I find out he's going to...Indiana. It's not like he went to Brooklyn. He's going to probably one of the three closest comps to Milwaukee in the NBA. I think it was probably just a case of choosing who to keep and wanting to address what they felt was a bigger area of need somewhere else. FWIW, they played pretty well when he got hurt, not that I don't think he's a fine player. I would've bought Mirotic's plane ticket out of town. He was terrible. -
It's not a dig, it's showing the truth. With Yamamoto doing well with Miami, he's on here telling everyone how he proclaimed Yamamoto was the piece that terrified him at the thought of losing when the Yelich trade was made. He said nothing of the sort. In general, everyone here should rest comfortably that the trade was a slam dunk, a home run. Even if all 4 Marlins end up contributing as major leaguers, we don't need people being revisionist about the deal. The Brewers got more than they possibly could have asked for. It's actually quite astonishing given what Yelich has accomplished that people are still looking back in fear at what was given up. One thing I've learned is that basically anything short of trading Hernan Perez for a guy who makes multiple AS teams, will always bring out the people who insist it was bad. If what we give up has any kind of redeeming quality at all, there will be gymnasts somewhere willing to bend it how they want.
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I understand that he pretty much had to go, but I still feel kinda bad about it. I always liked him, thought he was a great team player and did anything that was asked of him. Granted, he was the type of mediocre that had to do so, but I still thought he had a great attitude. I felt that most of the time he was an unfair lightning rod with the fans. His production was OK for most of his time here, but lately, yeah, he was awful.
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Aguilar might have found something the last few days. Probably not, but maybe. That and no options, but that's going to run dry pretty soon.
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I don't know how people hanging on the Cubs results in June make it through the year. Would absolutely exhaust me. I'd take any kind of sloppy win the Brewers can get.
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He still runs really well, which plays into his defense as well. Santana wasn't a good defender, but contrary to what you'd assume about a guy of his size, he was also pretty fast.
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Define "better" in 2019. Even with a healthy Knebel and Grandal, I still assumed they'd win fewer games. Very high 80s or low 90s, due to increased competition and just the fact that most people can look at last year's numbers and see things wouldn't be the same. Jeffress and Hader being that perfect again? Aguilar and Shaw going for 70 homers? Those two going from AS quality to no business being in the majors, to me, has hurt the most. Part of the reason that Puig HR crushed me so badly was that I just kind of felt like the stars aligned for us last year. Great team, but they kept getting very fortunate. I mean they clinched the playoffs by a guy falling on his face with a clear path to home plate, lmao.
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That 2018 team was a lot better than this one. That doesn't mean this one can't have a better outcome in the end, but it's going to have overcome a lot more. Some expected regression of guys who had ridiculous years, some unexpected horrible regression of others, a big loss of Miley, Knebel going down. Chase Anderson was lightning rod because his arm fell off but still wound up with a 3.93 ERA. Lower than everyone but Davies right now.
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Yes. The brewers need something good to happen. They need to win a series. And they need to find players they can count on going forward Something. I feel for counsell this year. He’s really been stuck with a horrible hand So happy that this horrible hand has them in playoff contention and one game out of 1st place in the Central. I think it's become somewhat reasonable to take this with a grain of salt. The endless pessimism bugs me as much as anyone, but this team has a lot of warts. I do not see that "playoff contention" holding through September if there isn't serious change. I don't know what that change is, but we cannot have two former AS-quality guys batting below .200 and we cannot have 4/5 starters getting shelled in the first 2 innings at any given time. Frankly, I am shocked they're still 5 over. It really feels like they should be more like 5 under. All the things the same, I really think CHC is running away with this as we get into crunch time. But I'm starting to feel like the sheer talent gap is too wide or just that the Brewers have too much going wrong to do what they did last year. The bullpen isn't good enough to carry the SP and there are just so many black holes on offense. Jimmy Nelson was something that could have helped but the guy just looks finished. It feels like 2012 more each week. A good amount of firepower on offense but some black holes, and really nothing in the pitching dept.
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It was 100% Super 2 protection
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I'll take the silver lining of Jimmy Nelson putting up 2IP 0ER if we can have it.
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I tend to believe the DJ thing is exaggerated, but I wonder what the Brewers think now about not just giving him whatever it is that he wanted. I always wondered if it was a Counsell thing. A concern about DJ asserting too much control over the staff/power over the team, etc. No clue, just something I wondered. I do think he probably made some difference, but I think, in baseball especially, their influence is greatly exaggerated. They're important, but it's not like every guy suddenly forgot every piece of advice he gave. This is a combination of bad luck, regression, inadequate talent and yes, probably coaching too.
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It does matter, especially with this pitching staff. I would say Shaw and Aguilar have been catastrophic. I, like many, thought Aguilar regression was likely. But my idea of regression was something like .245/.320/.760. Shaw hitting .160 was something I never saw coming. These are all-star conversation players who are now below replacement level. They play (for the most part) every day. IMO they have been a far bigger problem than any young arms sputtering.
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I think most people recognized they did get lucky last year, but nobody expected consistent shelling like this. It's hard to say the offensive isn't a huge disappointment either outside of a couple guys. If they didn't have 4 duds on offense they will probably still be +10 even with this pitching.
