OldSchoolSnapper

Movie star getting ripped in 6 months is a world apart from this - that is working out and shedding fat so you can see muscles that are already there. He lost 50 pounds for Guardians. There is a huge difference between getting lean and "gaining 25 pounds of muscle." This would be like Romeo Doubs reporting at 230 next season with the same body composition. It just doesn't happen.

Apples and oranges. I could lose 8-9 pounds in a single practice in college. That's not losing muscle. I could also "gain" 25 pounds in a literal week from the last weigh-in to the following weekend. That's not "gaining muscle." MMA/wrestling/boxing are regularly dehydrating themselves - that is what's causing those wild fluctuations. A workout + sauna + dehydrating for 2 days can do 15 lbs. I am not at all saying it's impossible for Frelick to be 25 pounds heavier than end of season. I am saying it is not physically possible that he "gained 25 pounds of muscle." If he was a warrior this winter, and is 25 pounds heavier, he probably weighed himself dry (not sweating) after a meal, has been resting and bulking and gained 5-8 muscle at the most.

No it isn't. I have been weight training for 23 years and I was a college athlete on a strength program designed by a professional for 5 years. You're not putting on "muscle" You are gaining weight and some of it is muscle. Usually, they will try to do this while minimizing or eliminating the loss of speed/quickness, but even if the goal were to gain 25 lbs, if it was in one offseason, they would concede that a lot of that is fat. But this is just a laughable thing to say, that someone gained 2lbs of muscle a week for 3.5 months, which is what it says. I know that he probably isn't claiming that, but it's when the fans and layman take that and run with it and keep repeating it. It is not physically possible, and it would be as believable to me if he said he gained 6 inches in height. It's that silly. It just speaks to the ignorance of the general public as to what 2 lbs of actual muscle is and how hard it would be pack that on. Also, the fact that he is a professional athlete and I presume already works out, makes it harder to put on, not easier. If you haven't run for 10 years and then run for 3 months you can probably shave 2 minutes off your mile in 3 months. Lifting is very much the same. You will skyrocket at the jump, and plateau as you go with the gains becoming harder and harder to achieve.

Everything is outpricing normal incomes. Covid also has continued to have an effect. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. People got used to living without live entertainment. It takes a long time to get them back to where they were. Some went right back, some won't ever, some will take a long time. It hasn't been a great economic blend of things.

No. I don't think the layman realizes what 25 lbs of muscle actually means. You can certainly gain 25 pounds in 3.5 months, and be a hell of a lot stronger than you were at the outset, but you are going to be putting on a lot of other stuff with that muscle. As has been alluded to, this is assuming you aren't using PEDs - and even then, this would be monumental growth. You're talking about 7.5 pounds of muscle per month. Almost 2 pounds a week. It's not possible. For someone beginning to take weight training seriously, the gains will be astronomically faster in those initial 4 months or so than at any point after that most likely, but you are talking more like 2 lbs a month and that would be excellent progress.

BSOML. Lol. I laugh every time I see these. There's no way, none, zero, that a human put on "25 lbs of muscle" in 3.5 months.

That $26.2 million is fully guaranteed and counts toward the salary cap so it really isn't a great deal for them. They are incentivized to sign him long term, which I would almost guarantee happens because he wants to be there. When Justin Jefferson signed last year the cap hit for the first two seasons was just under $24 million total and the entire contract has $88 million in guarantees. Cincy will be around $48 million in guarantees and cap hits for 2 seasons. They need the cap room to improve their defense because their offense is championship ready.

Every time this comes up, I find most of the complaints so weird. The price of stuff goes up with time, but even so, if you really want to go to a Brewers game, it's not expensive relative to just about any other ticketed event at a professional level. It's cheaper than any other sport, Disney on Ice, a show at the Pabst. If it is not a marquee game, I would never buy direct from the Brewers anyway if there is not some promotion (which they do a LOT of) . With minimal effort you can still attend some of these games for $10-15. Then there is the fact you can bring in food, but we get food price complaints (the food in the stadium is pretty damn bad anyway and continues to be a major ball-drop from the team IMO) and we still have complaints about paying for parking when you can very easily park for free and walk 15-20 minutes in, for a summer sport where the weather is usually nice, or take one of the bar shuttles for the price of one Miller Lite. I think the last time I went was last year around Father's Day where they had a 4-pack for $64 that included a soda and a hot dog, and it was a Saturday or Sunday. You're not getting that with any other pro team. All that said, I stopped going. I dropped my SSH and I never go unless invited for some group thing going on there, but it was more circumstantial. Just too many kids activities, and the driving always sucks. I only really had them for the playoff priority and with the playoffs as watered down as they are, that's not worth it either.

They are likely to sign him to a long-term deal, and use the tag if they can't get it done prior to March 4.

He played on the tag last season. There is a report out yesterday that they are doing it again.

I would really prefer the Packers add a bigger WR especially with Watson gone maybe forever. Someone like the Higgins variety even if he isn't realistic.

Packers don't look so bad in the end.

I don't disagree. They are way overvalued. The number of times an immediate impact player gets traded for a 3rd round pick makes no sense to me.

Not a chance anyone trades two first round picks for a 30-year-old DL. This isn't the NBA. NFL draft picks are very highly valued.

The problem is being on the court. It's a huge problem.

Middleton was useless. He'll go down as a big piece of Bucks lore, but whatever. They got nothing back really, albeit a guy that should at least suit up more. I am not busted up over it. The window was closed already. I don't know what the Bucks are doing. I don't think the Bucks know what they are doing, and there is not much that they can do. There has been a lot of talk about windows and the Bucks not getting more titles. The tricky thing is, the Bucks won their title closer to the end of their window than the beginning and that has thrown people off. Realistically the window shut the season after the championship where they lost the EC semi to Boston. That was still a quality team. Then the years before winning, the bubble and the loss to Toronto. That was the window. They've been an aging team in decline with cap hell and no picks for the last few years. That's the lifecycle in the NBA.

I will go against the grain, sort of. I actually get trading Luka. If you are concerned about his fitness level, which I would be. He is not a workout warrior or a LeBron that does anything and everything for an edge. He's just extremely skilled. I get their trepidation with the supermax on the horizon. I don't think they were going to do it, so they got in front of it. AD is where it stops making sense though. He's 31, and injured himself. They could have dished Luka for an absolute haul of picks. There were ways for this to make sense if they really didn't believe in Luka. And they didn't seem to advertise he was available. There would have been a bidding war.

Poor Buccos. This offer was very likely to be declined by anyone, especially people not local to Pittsburgh, and now they get to be the butt of jokes about anyone wanting to watch them for 30 years.

I guess I think it's weird that a guy who is going to become the highest-paid pitcher in baseball wants a card of himself.

The fan base here in particular has adapted the risk-averse model of the ownership group. I am not smart enough to say who is right or wrong. But there is a sizeable risk with Yelich-type moves. You are seeing it play out right now. His contract sucks, though it could be far worse. It is a big risk to take, that in no way ensures better results. Plunging hard into 1 or 2 seasons also is far less likely to work than it was in the past, IMO, due to the simple fact that the contracts are drastically more out of control than they were when the Marlins and DBacks tried similar strategies. There are two groups of fans. Ones who are strict develop-in-house people, and ones who at least think they are willing to take a huge risk to add MLB talent to the roster immediately. Of course if those risks don't pan out, the fans then immediately blame the team for losing and stop coming to games. As a random guy who doesn't suffer any of the consequences of losing, I would also like to see something big happen, but realistically I know it isn't going to, it's just not what this team does.

I would decline. The tickets would get old pretty fast. I question the retail value of those tickets too; it would fluctuate a lot, there are fees associated with selling, and selling is also just a pain in the butt. You can't really get the most out of doing that when you have to keep selling in fairly small chunks over a long period of time. The rest of the stuff in there is just random, for me anyway. Why do the Bucs even want it?

They also offered a date with Livvy Dunne. They should wait until the kid is 13 and try that one again.

I will not deny that while dramatized, you have a point here. You're a fan so I am not sure what action you are expecting any fan to take. However I would agree there is a tendency to shut down any criticism here as being disloyal, not a real fan, whatever, etc., and we should always just be happy with whatever result we get as long as they finish above .500. Seems like it's blasphemy to suggest maybe trying something different to get over the last hurdle, rather we should just be thankful for what we have 100% of the time.

I totally get the frustration from Brewers fans about feeling stuck where they are in the progression of things. That is a totally valid feeling to have. But one look at what these marquee players are getting and it's obvious that is just never going to be the approach. One of these contracts going bad is utterly crippling for Milwaukee. Yelich's kind of sucks as it is, and it could be so much worse. IMO - the league is dumb and broken beyond repair, but blaming Milwaukee is just venting spleen. You can't blame the league because it isn't going to change, so you blame what is in your purview, the owner, because it's feasible (not really) that someone else could do it better. It is pretty hopeless to me as far as thinking the Brewers will ever win a championship, but if they are always in the mix at the end you keep alive that one random year where the Dodgers are hit hard by injuries or something and the window cracks open for you. I have adjusted my reality personally. I just hope that there are more good days than bad and that there's a team to follow in August. That is really all you can ask.

It is the choice that is a bit unsettling. I can accept that nobody here really knows what Bisaccia's role really is, but he hasn't exactly wowed anyone with that ST unit. I am not going to blame him for NFL kickers missing chipshots and Nixon fumbling kickoffs, but they get called for holding on touchbacks and fair catches and then we had that snafu in Week 18. Those things are on coaching. A game management coordinator seems like it would be suited to someone younger and well versed in analytics who hasn't grown up in the game under the old regimes and isn't swayed by conventional wisdom. I will echo other thoughts that I don't think MLF is a bad coach, but I think he is going to be fired in the next 3 years. After the 2026 season is the first time I could realistically see it happening. I don't think he makes great decisions in games and they are routinely flat with their opening sequences in marquee games. He has a lot in common with Mike McCarthy, honestly.