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  1. OldSchoolSnapper
    I'd love Darvish on the Brewers but if they're the best offer and he's delaying because it's Milwaukee you have to wonder if this is a guy you want in the clubhouse.
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    Love the Olympics. I don't care about any of the sports for the most part but for some reason I DO care about them when they're in the Olympics. Really prefer Summer games but it's competition on TV every night, that's always fun.
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    This may ruffle feathers but it's a socioeconomic issue. The Cubs fans at Miller Park are largely not the bankers and lawyers of Wrigleyville. Those people just go to Wrigley on Saturday. What you get are the people who would never be able to see the Cubs play for $45 on a Saturday. It's a working-class crowd that's letting loose and after 15 beers yelling at someone for liking a different baseball team sounds like a great idea. The environment at MP where you can cook your own lunch and bring your own keg to the parking lot is an absolute dream compared to how most of the country has to do live sports. If you live here I don't think most people really appreciate how affordable the Brewers experience is. Now, I'm not implying that if you aren't rich you automatically don't know how to behave, but the demographics tend to lend to that type of behavior the lower you get on the income scale. You would have the same issue if 25k people from West Philly showed up, but it's a little too far for them. The Cubs fans can get in there car after breakfast and make it to the game. For some, this is their only shot to see the Cubs live all year - obviously the majority of them are just fine, but odds of an incident go way up when you add all this together.
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    I've seen some horrific stuff at Brewers/Cubs games. No other opponent brings MP down to the level I have seen. I've had to duck out of the way of sprinting drunks hurling fists at each other multiple times. You couldn't get me farther away from the place when these two play, especially on a weekend. If one of their fans is paying $200 for my $40 seat it's a win-win. I'm subsidized and don't have to be there. It happens at Lambeau too, but they are far outnumbered there.
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    Ehhh, ask a sales rep about that. The Brewers are much better off with people committing to that many purchases year in and year out. I'm never making it to 40 games and give away a lot of tickets, but I still want the playoff priority and the 40 packs are given seniority above the 20s, in addition to all the other cool perks of being a SSH. As long as there are Cubs fans subsidizing season tickets you're going to have people doing that. Also, I'm not "justifying" my scalping, just pointing out that I hate going to MP for these games. I don't need to justify anything, since it is merely the market at work. I've never gone to Lambeau Field at face value and I've never felt like a victim because of it.
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    I expect to get torched for this but I'm ok with it... I am a partial-season ticket holder. I buy up a lot of these games, then unload all my tickets to what I assume are Cubs fans, unless it is a very meaningful game late in the year. 1. MP stinks for these games. Loud, drunken idiots, many of whom are looking for a fight, yelling at you for no reason besides your Brewers hat. I don't care if they fill the stadium, they are just a certain brand of obnoxious. Traffic in and out is horrendous. 2. It pays for my season tickets. There have been years I've had a net positive on the package because I sold all these games. Why wouldn't you do that? It's just the smart thing to do. The issue is moot if the Brewers win 90 games.
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    Another common option is the non-breadwinning spouse continues working and adds you to their insurance. Some people really love their jobs and would do them for free. I have many friends and acquaintances who've done this. Usually the one working has a pretty liberal vacation policy and they still travel often while maintaining the benefit perks of a job.
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    Not necessarily. $40k for two people is doable, it just flies in the face of conventional thinking so there is a knee-jerk reaction that it's insane. Pete Adney has been doing it for years on about $25k with a dependent child no less. As far as early withdrawal penalties, there are a billion loopholes for accessing retirement accounts prior to that age but that's a much longer post. Healthcare is a valid point, however Obamacare has made that a much less stressful proposition than before. You can remove a lot of that burden by taking care of yourself - before anyone says it, yes, I know bad things happen to people who do good things and your uncle ran 5 miles a day and still got cancer. I get it. The odds are tipped heavily in your favor if you do those things, though. His example of the $40k wasn't meant to be taken literally, he just used it because it worked with round numbers and utilized the 4% rule with a nice round $1mm. His point is still valid - the math behind retirement isn't as complicated as we're led to believe. $3 million by age 60 is extremely attainable for two working people on modest incomes. And it's most likely beyond what anyone would need and still enjoy themselves quite a bit.
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    The tortoise plan has proven more effective for 99.9% of investors if they are invested in low-cost index funds. It isn't even necessarily tortoisey if expenses are curbed. There are blogs all over the place about guys retiring in their 30s using nothing but Vanguard indexes. Sorry, I'm older, retired and did fine, but this thread is rather amusing. I worked in finance for many years. The amount of people thinking they're better off targeting IPOs or messing around with bitcoin than they would be just dumping gobs of money into indexes is just always going to be funny. The math behind retiring early is really not that complicated. Don't make it harder than it has to be. Joe Blow has no idea when to buy and sell a stock or a BTC. You may play that perfectly once or twice. You're not going to get it to work for 20, 30 years. You're just not.
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    Cameron was 35 by the time he was playing for the Brewers. He is a freak of nature athletically, but Cain isn't 35. That's 3 years away. He most likely will drop off by the end of this deal, but I think it's likely you get 3 solid years out of him and possibly more. As of today, the dude can still fly. Gomez was never as consistent a player. He was always an erratic player offensively. Again, I just think way too much is made of age. There are good older players all over baseball. These guys aren't in their 50s, they're world class athletes who are playing well longer than ever before. I reiterate that I expect some drop-off the last year or two, but that is a price you pay for FA in any sport. Solid veterans with a history of success are never the best value propositions. You have to pay for past performance when you delve into FA. You often overpay. If you want players like this, that's the trade-off you make. It's much easier to predict decent performance from Cain than it is to search the scrap heap for the next Travis Shaw.
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    The 30+ thing is way overstated. If this were football but I'd care but it's baseball. Plenty of guys last well into their 30s and play very well. One like Cain who's taken great care of himself, it isn't a stretch to think he'll remain productive for at least 3-4 years.
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    I noticed about 5 years ago while I was at AT&T Park that they sold Sheboygan Bratwurst at the concession stand, so that would lend some credibility to that. I would think it has to be J-Ville.
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    Possibly unpopular opinion: They all stink. If you want real sausage, the way the pioneers of sausage intended them to be, you need to go to Bavarian Sausage Inc. in Fitchburg. The large brands sold in stores are OK - of course, I eat them every year. But after going to Germany/Switzerland and being blown away by how much better they were, I had to have the real thing at home. We are lucky to have a shop like BSI so close to home.
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    You're right, he was, although it looks a lot less apparent when he's playing with other guys who are 6'3 and 240 lbs. At 5'7 you don't look that big. Although 5'7 and 200 lbs is huge.
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    This is an amazing contribution. Thanks.
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    Parra always had that defeatist look on his face. I never figured out if it was his attitude or just the way his face was. The dust-up with Fielder might be an indicator.
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    Not sure what he's up to, but he is jacked as hell now. https://www.facebook.com/angel.salome.75 Confirmed that is indeed him.
  18. OldSchoolSnapper
    Wow, Salome. I completely forgot about that guy. That's right - he was a big part of their plans. Quick googling shows he had mental health problems and later asked to be moved to the OF. His career basically ended there. Bizarre. I don't think I've ever forgotten about someone who was supposed to be such a big deal like that. Apparently Parra is still playing for the Bridgeport Bluefish. Good for him, still playing the game he loves.
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    I thought this could be an interesting discussion as we struggle to keep ourselves busy during the Brewers offseason. Are there players who flamed out for one reason or another, that you think could have made it had things been different for them? I'd like to avoid injuries, because those tend to make more obvious selections. I'm more talking about guys that just fell into bad situations, or missed opportunity for whatever reason. For me, the guy that sticks out is Mat Gamel. I know he did have injury problems toward the end, but I always thought he was mismanaged right out of the gate. I'm no scout, but I thought I saw a potentially special player there. I never felt like he got a fair shake with the Brewers, which at the time was complicated with McGehee's short but solid stint here. I felt like that dedication to a player that had a very clear ceiling (McGehee) really impeded what Gamel could have become. Then came the injury problems his window closed quickly.
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    The food is good but laughably small-portioned and expensive. I appreciate that you can bring stuff in. But like $10 for tiny tacos is something I'll only do once. I just can't buy concessions at sporting events. Such horrible value, but that's everywhere.
  21. OldSchoolSnapper
    I thought they were a .500 team. The interesting thing about this team is that I think this is the most optimistic Brewers fans have been at the end of a season since the 80s. At the end of the last two playoff runs, you knew there was going to be a significant step back. This team very well could regress next year, but the hopeful feeling is that it won't.
  22. OldSchoolSnapper
    I remember Fielder hitting a home run in Game 1, Lucroy hitting one for false hope in Game 6, and Marcum starting game 6 despite the knowledge he was CLEARLY out of gas, but other than that, I'm with you. I went into it expecting us to lose. It's just kind of a blur to me. I was in Atlanta for Game 1, for the Packers-Falcons game on SNF. The Packers were in the middle of their 13-0 start to the year, so I went to a bar to catch game 1. It was FULL of Packers/Brewers fans. Every TV in that bar (Stats) had the Brewers game on. Not a single NFL game was on anywhere. Packers rallied from down in the 2nd half to beat Atlanta in Atlanta (how times have changed). It was an amazing time to be a WI sports fan. I believe the Badgers were also undefeated. It looked like we might win a Super Bowl and WS in the same year.
  23. OldSchoolSnapper
    He used his chips early because he wanted the game to end sooner. It was kind of a necessity given how taxed the bullpen is. And it worked. These were high percentage situations that the players choked in. I'm genuinely flabbergasted at how someone can pin last night on Counsell. The players should have ended that game about four separate times. The Shaw hit is moot. Nobody in baseball scores on that play.
  24. OldSchoolSnapper
    Counsel played his chips fine last night. Jeffress threw a pitch that ends the game 9/10 times, last night the guy hit it.
  25. OldSchoolSnapper
    Strangely I wasn't that moved by the NLCS. I was at Game 6, kinda had that feel outta the gate we were saying goodbye to that group. Cardinals scored early and often, Lucroy launched one to keep it close briefly, but when they lost Game 5 I pretty much knew that was it. I just remember the feeling in the stands being one of "This was a hell of a team, let's applaud them on this season." The only time I thought we were going to take that series was after Game 1. Part of being a perennial doormat is that I don't vividly recall a lot of brutal losses. They all just blend together.
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