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  1. OldSchoolSnapper
    I'd personally be happy to get rid of one our vastly overrated WRs for Metcalf. Like I get it, people aren't wrong when they say we have good WRs. But that's just it, we have a bunch of OK WRs and the fanbase has drastically overstated their abilities. But getting Metcalf and getting to keep Reed, who I think is the best one we have, is good. The first still sounds really steep to me. He's 28, you've gotta pay him $30 million AAV for the trade to even make sense. I'd do a third in a heartbeat, and some soul-searching over a 2nd. But you could use the pick on a WR for a lot less.
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    Ah, I am seeing SEA would be sending a pick back, which does make more sense. Looks like a 4th.
  3. OldSchoolSnapper
    If Metcalf is getting a 1st and a promising player times have really changed. There was a time players like that got traded for 4ths. Doubs is better than Wicks but I'd rather keep Wicks with the concussions and possible malcontent stuff. I can't see the Packers agreeing to a trade like that. He's under contract for only this season. I have seen "high pick" but I haven't seen that it's 23. I can't believe it is.
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    I wanted Metcalf right out of the draft. He is an animal. It is going to be pretty funny if that happens, handing Love that kind of physical freak that Rodgers probably would have burned down his house for. I won't hold my breath though. I am sure the next report coming out is about how that report is completely made up.
  5. OldSchoolSnapper
    Their biggest flaw was not winning more titles with teams that were good enough to do it. They could have won in the bubble. If they get past Toronto, they win it. And they were up 2-0. They arguably repeat, at least win the East, if they get by Boston in Game 7 - a huge series to win without Middleton. I don't think the Bucks failures are organizational. We're simply living in what happens to every team, what is necessary to have a championship window. I have said this before, but the title they did win just happened to be closer to the end of that window than the beginning. Their failures are of on-court execution. Not poor planning, IMO. After 2022, it was going to be a longshot for them to get another one. They had a real chance to grab a few from 2018-2022. That was a 5-year window.
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    I feel pretty confident in saying that Kuzma has made the team better. They're getting a different version of the player that was in Washington. He didn't even shoot well last night and stayed +19 because he has been such a positive defensively, which I don't think anybody saw coming.
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    That's like $60. I wouldn't want to use a $500 voucher on that. Thus why personally I'd open this up to any teams, because frankly in a 162-game season, it's not that important to me that the Brewers are in this game. I'd be looking for a cool experience, i.e. Yankees at Fenway, Dodgers at Oracle or something - an event that might come close to $500 and I would otherwise never, ever pay for. But that's just how I'd look at it.
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    I am making the assumption that you only want to use this over a weekend, because some weeknight game isn't going to be a great value. At a lot of these parks, you could do better on the secondary market on a random Tuesday. Given that, there are only really two choices that make sense to me after looking at the schedule. Dodgers Stadium on 7/18-7/20 or the Phillies at the end of May; I actually saw a game there last summer and thought it was a great park. I would personally lean toward the Dodgers, and I'd also want to go to a night game. Personally, I think I'd use it on a non-Brewers game to get the most value. My favorite MLB park I've been to is Oracle in SF.
  9. OldSchoolSnapper
    I never really thought this was a claim Frelick was making. It's just BSOML fodder that we get from reporters EVERY year.
  10. OldSchoolSnapper
    Literally every headline about this is that he "added 25 pounds of muscle." However the silliness of the whole thing is also evident in this: "Frelick noted that he had already lost three pounds between when he left home and reported to camp." That's one trip to the bathroom and a light breakfast. The inference that he lost 3 pounds of muscle already is this silliness at work.
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    Yeah that's not how it works. It would actually be a lot harder for someone already in some measure of shape to do this, than it would be the average out-of-shape person to do it if they took their training seriously. If this were the case then NFL players would show up bigger and stronger every single year. When you are 210 pounds of rippling stone, adding mass becomes very very difficult to do. If you have been sitting at a desk for 10 years, transforming your body is simple - not easy - but simple with dedication.
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    Kuzma is looking like a very good addition for swapping a guy who never played. It is looking a lot like his heart just wasn't there in Washington. He has looked like a superb on-ball defender and is making contested shots at the rim. I don't think the Bucks are a championship team but they are giving me hope for a 1st round win and at least pushing the Cavs a bit.
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    It is likely he does get tagged but it will probably only be a short-term thing until they sign him to a larger deal.
  14. 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.
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    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.
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    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.
  17. OldSchoolSnapper
    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.
  18. OldSchoolSnapper
    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.
  19. OldSchoolSnapper
    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.
  20. OldSchoolSnapper
    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.
  21. OldSchoolSnapper
    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.
  22. OldSchoolSnapper
    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.
  23. OldSchoolSnapper
    He played on the tag last season. There is a report out yesterday that they are doing it again.
  24. OldSchoolSnapper
    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.
  25. OldSchoolSnapper
    Packers don't look so bad in the end.
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