OldSchoolSnapper

I mean, isn't really the best thing for the Brewers, that either COL or STL gets swept, and do we really care which one it is?

... We know. Give it a rest already. Nobody cares.

Just imagine how good this team would be if nearly every guy who had a career year in 2017 didn't regress terribly? Shaw is about the only one, and even he was cold for long stretches this year. Davies and Anderson in the rotation, not to mention Nelson missing all year. Knebel went from All Star to punching bag. Arcia ... Santana. At least Pina is starting to hit, but he was bad for much of the season. This team would be on pace for 100 wins had these guys played up to the level they did last year, and combined with the new guys who are playing well. On the flip side, the regression was everyone's worst fear heading into this season. That it basically happened and they are still in the hunt on August 23 is pretty unbelievable. If you told me this would happen I'd have this team pegged for 69-93.

Re-sellers dream to open the season. Opening series with STL and a weekend series with CHC.

CC is saving Hader for marriage

DFA? He would instantly have calls from 25 + teams. Send down, DL, yea, DFA is just ridiculous. Great, they can have him. He's been utter trash the entire season. I wouldn't play him a game unless we were up or down by 8.

DFA Knebel. Guy is absolutely useless.

If he goes another inning without giving up an earned run he gets credit for a quality start. Doesn't matter if he gets a quality start because back the 90s Cal Eldred ended up being a flop so the Brewers have a history of not producing home grown pitching and because of that the Cubs got Daniel Murphy and now that Darvish is out for the year Stearns still made a bad call signing Chacin who is TERRIBLE away from Petco. I'm done with this team. Traded away ALL of our top prospects for a few rentals and Yelich doesn't even have a good launch angle and Thames isn't a .300 hitter like he was in Asia so that was false advertising and now that Scooter fixed his swing the Brewers don't have a good 2nd baseman because Schoop is terrible. Done with this team. Even if we make the playoffs its not like we are going anywhere probably just lose the play in game and even if we win that it doesn't matter because we couldn't get Archer. I promise you Wade Miley isn't going to amount to anything. Should've just signed Lynn or AT LEAST traded for him, but no... Khris Davis is another name I can say out loud. This team is so Brewers. I'm done. I'm just done. I want everyone to know how much I know about baseball and it is SOOOOOO like Travis Shaw to keep trying to pull outside pitches and why wasn't Hader brought in in the 3rd when Guerra was in trouble, could have saved us 3 runs and we'd be winning. I would've traded Knebel this offseason because relievers all fall apart just look at Papelbon. I'm so done with this team. Why do I even turn the TV on? If Ted Thompson would have just traded for Moss... ahh, dang it sorry... and why can't Kratz catch a baseball? If Hader was pitching there he would have caught it. It is so like the Brewers to only score 5 runs on this scrub and then not score any for 2 innings. Terrible offense. This defense is terrible too. Today was the worst I've seen in any game since the Bill Spiers days and I've seen A LOT of games. Trust me. I'm a huge baseball fan and I know a lot. Jeff D'Amico, Jeff Juden, Kevin Seitzer. Look at all the names I know. This is unforgivable. Just wait, I promise I won't watch another game if they don't come back and win this. I'm so done. The Cardinals got Mat Adams. What a talent that guy is but we just sit here with our guys like they are suppose to improve on their own. What a waste. Taylor Green never got a fair chance. That's on Stearns. He should have known about Yelich's launch angle. Do your homework you nerd. I'm out. Kato?

On the plus side this was my first season as a SSH. The playoff invoice went out this week and I had total sticker shock, so I'm kinda glad I won't be dropping that cash.

Has been all year.

Welcome to roster management with a franchise qb. This is how you have to build a bug portion of your roster when half your resources have to pay one guy. I don't get the post though. The Packers actually liked Kumerow for a while but couldn't get him in. I don't see how giving him a flyer is some bad indictment. He's got loads more experience than the guys they drafted this year.

Hate to say this, but we sure look finished. We just do not have the gas for 162. You've got to wonder if it's more lack or talent or the "same old" is getting into their heads. It's just uncanny how consistently we do this.

Rodgers raves about lots of things. Look, I think he's a great story and I'm not saying by any means he isn't going to be a really good player. He certainly looks the part, he's big, and he's a tremendous athlete. What's most shocking to me is that he didn't get offers from anyone but Whitewater. The guy just looks like an NFL player. All I'm saying is that there are guys like this every year who end up doing nothing. Cobb is the most overrated player on the offense IMO. The guy hasn't hit 11 YPC in three years. He's been terrible since he got paid.

Kumerow is neat and I think he's played his way onto the team, but let's remember he's toasting practice squad players in preseason blowouts. He may be a special case because he's been around the league for a few years now, but he has a ways to go before he's a #3 wideout on Sundays.

I think 2019 was the first year most people saw a competitive team a few years ago. That seemed to be the mantra. I think you will see a step up next season. Younger pitchers getting more time and lots of fairly green players with more experience under their belt. Whether it's enough with the Cubs still strong, we don't know. But I think it's a great time to be a fan.

In looking at the playoff field from last season, if you asked me who won't be back, I'd probably say NO and CAR 1a and 1b. Again, the NFL can be nuts, but those two have had consistency issues. The Vikings are also due for a 5-win season, just because that would be a Vikings thing to do, but they are loaded.

I said a top 15 pick and said there is a decent chance they experience a drop off or injury at QB because the guy is 40 years old. I don't think it's all that controversial. This might be shocking to you, but the NFL standings can change drastically year to year and I simply think NO is a strong drop-off candidate. Their franchise QB is 40, they play in a tough division, and Dallas and Green Bay were non-contenders a year and both missed star players for most of the season. The playoff field isn't going to be identical to what it was last year. The defending NFC champion, that most prognosticators still think is the class of the NFC, went 10-6 last year and finished third in that division. The NFC is loaded, especially if GB and Dallas return to form. GB has been more consistent in contending than NO which went 7-9 for three years prior to 2017.

The Saints were a perennial 8-8 team until last season. I really don't care what they did last year in the NFL. With a QB that age they are one slip away from 4-12. They need to play with Atlanta and Carolina and a rising Tampa team. It's very conceivable to me that's a top 15 pick. I'd put strong money down it's not 25-32.

If the Packers are sitting at 7-1 they are a contender and I see no reason to trade either pick. I don't think this team is that good, but that would convince me to keep the picks. No point to "go for it" when you're 7-1 and have Rodgers as you're already "in it." Those types of deadline deals, while happening more often, are pretty rare in the NFL anyway. The Saints pick has the potential to be a top pick IMO. That division is loaded and you have to wonder how long Brees can excel/stay healthy.

It is too disingenuous. It almost always is in these conversations because we have no idea what avenues were explored to trade those guys. If he called up every team in baseball and that was all he could get, what choice does he have if he doesn't want a noodle-arm K-prone OF? I don't personally lose any sleep over trading Khris Davis, but I, like Stearns, don't like those kinds of players anyway.

I think you have to stay away, ultimately, even though I'd love to have Mack. I think you're better off with a Peppers/Woodson type signing, a star whose market is down but can still contribute to a championship team. They won a title because of Woodson and frankly should've won another in 2014 largely due to Peppers. We've seen what happens when Rodgers gets hurt. Paying Mack $20mm a year if that happens again really doesn't help the team at all. There is just way too much uncertainty in a long-term contract with a player at his position. Rodgers could still play for 10 years. We don't really know, but he could. Brady appears headed in that direction and they're very similar in terms of offseason care of their bodies. I think it's more likely Rodgers is a top player longer than Mack even though he's 27. Those guys wear down much faster.

This is the same distortion we've talked about earlier. If the Stearns approach is quickly turning a pile of garbage into a winning team, you'd also have to admit the Stearns approach includes trading away major league talent for little or no return. Stearns did jettison, Khris Davis, Will Smith, Scooter Gennett, Martin Maldonado for little or no return. He sold low on Jean Segura. Adam Lind could also be included if we've already seen the best of Freddy Peralta. He also spun off the prospects he acquired in the Lucroy trade for a handful of veteran rentals. The preceding shouldn't be construed as a slam on David Stearns in any way. I think he's done an ok job with the hand he was dealt and lwhatever edicts come from ownership. However, I don't think he's a personnel genius either. Nelson and Anderson having career seasons in 2017 is more likely than not the main reason the team jumped into being competitive, as opposed to any sort of master plan implemented by the GM. This is disingenuous. Davis and Gennett were not good players on fairly large sample sizes. He jettisoned them for little or no return because that was the market for those guys at the time. It isn't as if he could've traded them for what they'd command now. The only criticism would've been expecting him to "see" something in them and know they'd become stars. Which isn't realistic to me. Segura is the worst of those moves IMO. He had already shown he could be a star in MKE and went through personal tragedy and lost himself. It wasn't really surprising that he caught on again and I thought they gave up too early, even at the time.

I don't care about splitting or catching the Cubs necessarily because I think it's a pipe dream. But we're in jeopardy of finishing 3rd in the Central. I just want to win games at this point to have a shot at the end for anything. I haven't thought about the division race in weeks.

Fart.

In the age of passing offenses the most valuable position on the defense is a pass rusher and the salaries paid to them prove that. It is very easy to mask mediocre CBs with pass rushers and a great CB with no pass rush is not going to look very good. The CBs are barely allowed to play defense anyway. I would still agree with the rest of the statement but Mack is a Reggie White-type acquisition that instantly makes GB the NFC favorite if he doesn't get hurt. This is an elite player.