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I have been away from this thread for too long it appears. Maybe you missed the entire point of this thread asking for people's opinion on the matter, then I listed some things under controversial opinions, and used the word should. You seem to fundamentally misunderstand the difference between the word should and must. I am not advocating for any legislation on this matter. I am pretty surprised that some people do not associate a hat with team allegiance? I feel like that is the overwhelming majority opinion. If I see someone wearing a Yankees hat, I do not think they are a Brewers fan. I do not think they are a Reds fan. If I talk to them and they tell me they are a Brewer fan, I will probably ask them why they are wearing a Yankees hat. I will then personally think they are not much of a Brewer fan (it is possible this assumption will be wrong, but it will almost always be correct), and when I engage them on Brewer related news they will not know what I am talking about. In fact, when I talk to them about general baseball I will quickly realize they do not really like baseball and can only repeat cliches from ESPN regarding baseball happenings of the past few years. There is a 100% chance they do not know who Lefty Grove is (this cannot ever be wrong). I work with a decent number of out of state people, and just recently a newer guy was wearing an Astros hat. I figured I would make him feel welcome by starting up some baseball chat when he informed me he is in fact a Red Sox fan. I became concerned he did not really like baseball or follow it, so I asked him who his favorite Red Sox player was and he said David Ortiz which confirmed my theory. (The correct answer is Ted Williams by the way). I then threw a out a good baseball fan gauge question: Name the 8 ways the batter can reach first base. (H, BB, HBP, E, FC, CI, OB, K). He could only name four. There was no further need to confirm the Lefty Grove theory. So does this rule just apply to team hats or any hats? Does it also apply to other articles of clothing? Should I eliminate all mirrors from my house and get dressed in complete darkness so that I'm not influenced by something as girly as personal appearance? Oh, please please impart your wisdom on me, I want so much to be a real man and fan like you. It only applies to hats, which is why it does not say "You should not buy any of your clothing because you like how they look". I could see where you are coming from if I typed that. Hats are different from other clothing because the usage for hats are (in order) 1. Show team allegiance 2. Shield sun from eyes 3. Look cool 4. Make people think you are not bald 999999. wear backwards Since you asked, being a real man really has nothing to do with being a real fan. To be a real man you need to be excellent in the fields of: honor, toughness, courage and carpentry. You actually don't even need to like or follow sports to be real man, I don't even think Abraham Lincoln played in little league. To be a real fan, you should not show support for other teams. If you think wearing other teams gear does not signify supporting them then that itself is proof you are not a lifelong dedicated fan because you would just know this deep down in your soul. You will have had too many run-ins with fake, casual fans wearing random hats to let this go. You can think otherwise but you would be wrong. I understand there are some legit circumstances for this to occur, but I consider these fans to be on some sort of second tier. Like how Tom Hagan can become the Don's consigliere, but he cannot become a made man because he is not Italian. If I see you wearing a Brewers hat in the winter I expect you to be able to talk about the Packers. I feel like it is not completely valid for you to use the term "we" to describe you and other Brewers fans because you are not really in our inner circle if you have other non-WI allegiances. This does not apply to any out of state college if you went there. No Rick, you are the hero In summary, if you are wearing other team's stuff for whatever reason you are probably not the most serious Brewer or baseball fan. This is ok, you can choose this option in life and achieve great success. However that is what I would think and I would usually be right.

Im not so sure about this. His batting WPA was +.212. Before the failed DP, we had a 51% chance of winning given the score/inning/situation. If you assume the DP, looks like entering the bottom of the 7th, home team +1 wins 83% of the time. So that DP would have been the biggest play of the entire game worth .32 WPA.

Meanwhile, Braun can't even get his full name to himself. Reminds me of this game http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/COL/COL199905110.shtml Bobby Jones vs Bobby Jones

Yup, Uecker needs to explain to my coworkers why I just got all excited

I see Bandy's actual name is Jett, he is only Jett in MLB history. Broxton is the only Keon in MLB history and Marinez is the only Jhan in MLB history. neat

UW vs MU is not a rivalry because UW fans are largely indifferent or even MU fans other than for 1 day in December when there is a non-conference basketball game. MU fans have an inferiority complex and view UW as a rival and usually hate UW completely even when they are playing in the Rose Bowl representing the only Division 1 football program in the state. Also I see no problem wearing packer/badgers gear to show you support the brewers, clearly that is what it means. I went to a Brewer game at Dodgers stadium and wore a Packer jersey to really stick out since the Brewer blue/white blends in with the Dodgers colors. No one was confused about who I was cheering for at the game. Controversial opinions: You should only wear brewers gear, although you can "like" maybe 1 AL team and cheer for them if there are no Brewer implications, but you should not have their gear since they are not your team. If I see someone wearing the hat of team X I will assume that is their team and it is dumb when I say O, you like the Cardinals that is too bad but they say I don't really like them. You should not buy hats because you like how they look or have neat colors, that is dumb you are not a little girl.

Even ERA+ is a flawed statistic because it treats all pitchers equally. Relievers have a significant advantage over starters for several reasons 1) only pitching 1 inning per game, never/rarely have to deal with fatigue. 2) never/rarely do hitters get to see them twice in a game 3) in theory they only have to face the the best hitters on the other team 1/3 of the time. So really, there should be an ERA+ for starters and a different one for relievers. I would imagine if that were the case Hoffman actually would not look like an all-time great reliever.

Of course he said that after it appeared that Mike Trout was actually Mickey Mantle 2.0. What do you think he would say publicly, "No, we weren't too high on Trout and that. We would have picked some other guy who sucks" Why didn't the other previous ~26 teams not pick Trout, and if Melvin was so good at identifying Hall of Fame sleeper picks why has he never drafted any others?

I used to think the same way but the Badgers won the NCAA hockey national championship, when I was a student there, and I didn't really even care. Now I think I don't really like hockey because I never played it when I was growing up. I agree 1000%

Are you meaning anything more by this than 'wish he would have?' I thought he went the pick before ours, but I was just curious as to whether there was more to the story. He means that offseason the Yankees signed the top 2 FAs, Sabathia and Texieria. They had to give up their top draft pick to the team they signed the "top free agent" from. Although CC Sabathia just came off a season in which he led both leagues in shutouts, and was the top LHP in baseball, Texiera was rated the #1 free agent so the Angels got that comp pick instead of us. So if either Sabathia was correctly rated the #1 FA or if any other team besides the Yankees signed Texieria we would have had the pick Trout was drafted with. However, it is a big assumption to assume we would have taken him there.

Boston had a losing record 3 of the past 4 years as they went through a mini rebuild. Cubs had 5 straight losing years while they did a rebuild. Now these teams are the buyers in the market. That is just how baseball works. This has very little to do with payroll fairness. Also if you think the other sports are 'fair' because of salary caps you really do not understand the economics of sports. It is harder to turn around an NFL franchise that is losing than an MLB one. Basketball is just more random since hitting big on just 1 or 2 players is all you need. The Packers were able to sign Reggie White, the top free agent available. It is literally impossible for the Milwaukee Brewers to sign the top free agent of any off season. No matter how much we want to pay someone else would just pay more. It is hard to turn around an NFL franchise because the only thing the matters for long term success in the NFL is QB play, and the NFL has a system where teams can keep top QBs if they want to. Do you realize that Aaron Rodgers would be on the Jets now if the NFL had the same model as MLB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj5aW0tj3mE

Shortly after Zack Greinke signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers in December, he made a surprising admission: It came down to the money...."It's obviously the No. 1 thing,'' Greinke said. “I could play for the worst team if they paid the most … If the last place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I'm going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.'' http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/zack-greinke-could-play-worst-team-paid-most-163824712--mlb.html

Every situation is different, you cant group all these 2 situations together. If the pitcher is batting things are much different. Here is an attempt to adjust the RE24 based on the hitter, and it doesnt even let you adjust the wOBA lower than .250. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/introducing-the-batter-specific-run-expectancy-tool/ Doing that runner on 1st, 0 out with the pitcher up gives you .594 average runs per inning. Runner on 2nd, 1 out and league average hitter up (.320 wOBA) gives you the same number. However, the average pitcher has a wOBA closer to .100

For some reason I remember this game too. How crappy would that be today, obviously the play at the plate would be reviewed and all the excitement is gone. Seeing the umpire wave safe and game over is the way watching sports is meant to be.

We'll see Lucroy again in crunch time, the Brewers are @ Texas Sept 26-28.

You can only do the pitcher moving thing once per inning, Rule 3.03 (Rule 3.03 Comment): A pitcher may change to another position only once during the same inning; e.g. the pitcher will not be allowed to assume a position other than a pitcher more than once in the same inning. But you could keep doing it every inning, and to pitch twice in an inning you have to start out as the pitcher at the beginning of the inning

Wrong, he is out if he is hit by a balled ball, the only exception is if you are hit by an infield fly coming straight down on your head while you are standing on the base.

O my God, learn the rules. Scooter needed to tag the runner sitting in front of him, then step on the base. easy DP pathetic

Hopefully the sheriffs are hiding all along 94 E tonight. Go home and think about being owned by Chase Anderson flatlanders

Nice game, Cubs only had extra base hits. I guess its not too rare, the last Cubs game with only extra base hits was this 1-11 loss in 2014

Looks like Dave May's claim to fame is leading the AL in total bases in 1973 and being traded to the Braves for Hank Aaron so he could end his career in Milwaukee He also had the second longest consecutive game hitting streak in franchise history, behind Paul Molitor. They showed a graphic earlier in the game. I know, I meant besides that. Second longest hitting streak? http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/615/img/photos/2015/12/01/38/fe/tmpebflo6-mdly-photo.png

Looks like Dave May's claim to fame is leading the AL in total bases in 1973 and being traded to the Braves for Hank Aaron so he could end his career in Milwaukee

Zach Davies batting http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xeqk8ZPAg9w/StPG8nJJsXI/AAAAAAAABUw/rdQ49IfNODM/s400/3.png

2nd game this year against the Marlins where we were shutout until the 9th, then all of a sudden made it interesting but Villar struck out to end the game with the bases loaded as the winning run