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  1. edod
    If it did happen I'd have to consider whether to stop going to the games on my 20 pack or go and boo. Neither option is particularly appealing.
  2. edod
    I'm a die hard Brewer fan and die easy Bucks fan, but I've been starting to pay attention again with Scott Skiles at the helm. I happened to notice this thread and the latest trade rumor and am a little more than baffled. Sessions is one of the reasons I've thought this team was interesting--I happened to catch the game where he dished out 22 assists and have actually watched 10-12 games this year. I was under the impression he was starting to raise eyebrows this year, though he's looked a little unpolished at times. In what world do you trade away your two youngest and most interesting players for one struggling player? If it is there 1st round pick, can anyone speculate at what the Bucks are looking at in the next draft?
  3. edod
    He did try to make a start and it didn't go well. I think he pretty much put it all on the line for the team, especially if it turns out he was hurt for longer than the public knew, damaging his free agent dollars. I don't go in for the line of thought that a player lets his team down by getting injured, unless he's doing something stupid in his off time. I would only offer him a one year deal because he may be damaged goods. But I would offer him a two year deal to beat out another team and at this point it's going to be steal one way or another.
  4. edod
    Blog aside, how is he not? Parra is too inexperienced to really be tagged the #2, Sup can only be called a #2 by his salary and Yovanni isn't #2 because he's currently considered #1. Different thread maybe. The blog writer's line of logic isn't too bad for an outsider (if he is one). If the Brewers could spend 23 mil/per year on Sabbathia, then they could indeed afford Manny for half the length. It would be a jaw dropping move (because it would defy all the non-financial obstacles to this ever happening) and signify going all out. If I allow my self to indulge in this scenario I would argue that they might as well sign Sheets for two years as well. Two years of Manny/Fielder/Braun and Sheets/Yo/Parra at a significant deficit, then blow the team up for prospects, ala Marlins, rather than Twins/A's. I think the value of the bloggers idea is realizing the Brewers have a maximum window of two years with Fielder. But the Brewers are not using that model...
  5. edod
    Legally speaking, I don't believe it is a business. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif
  6. edod
    I'm back and forth on a Peavy deal. I've liked/feared him for some time and his contract seems favorable in relation to what the team was offering Sabathia. There is also the dear, dear schadenfreunde over the the Cubs. I'm uncertain as to where the Brewers are. They basically have the same team as the last two years minus an impact pitcher. In some ways Peavy would continue the win now strategy and I've found myself wondering what the window is for this group of players. Hardy and Fielder are getting expensive, Hart and Hall have shaken the trust in their abilities and there could be issues related to Parra and Gallarado's durablity. Would it make sense to go for it again next year with Peavy? Fielder is as good as gone in the next two years and you can't really see the team riding only Braun into play-off contention every year. (Or maybe he is our Pujols) Gettning Peavy with Escobar would be interesting in hindsight, because from here it looks like it might be selling high on Escobar. San Diego is obviously in dire financial straights so flipping them a bunch of cheap uncertainties for 3 years of Peavy could be shrewd.
  7. edod
    I couldn't agree with this more. What irks me is not that the Yanks just signed Sabathia or added to it with Burnett, it's that the Brewers know they are not really in it right now for next year and trading Cameron is sort of salary relief for them. The Yankees know this and are using this as leverage, but it's gone into the realm of non-sense by them trying to recoup salary for themselves with that leverage. They're the Yankees, the only way the imbalance of baseball ever makes sense, if at all, is if large-market teams provide salary relief to small market-teams in exchange for some value. Lets just rephrase this whole thread. Cabera would almost certainly have been a 4th outfielder in 2009 due to his play in 2008. Cameron put up all-star and gold-glove numbers in 4/5ths of a year and would probably due somthing similar in 2009. Why would one team trade that for another teams 4th outfiidler unless it was for added value ala salary relief or prospects? The Brewers could trade Cameron in June as a 1/2 year rental for more, so why shouldn't they get more for a full year rental?
  8. edod
    I got a coupon at the 1st playoff game for a free copy of the DVD and it says I can pick it up at the stadium store starting today... I need to find a ride.
  9. edod
    Yes, but do the Jays have any options for 3B? There's nothing much on the market and after the off-season the Yanks have had, I doubt they can justify throwing some AAA guy out their for the season. There's plenty of pitching to be had. But otherwise, it sounds good to me.
  10. edod
    Who is Coke?
  11. edod
    Cashman is being introduced to the term "nugget". Do the Yanks have any serviceable SP prospects in AA or AAA who could provide some protection the big league club (ala Zack Jackson)? 2nd thought: I haven't had time to read all of this or the other thread concerning this deal, but shouldn't this deal be Cameron for Kennedy, with Cabrera as a possible toss in? From the Yanks perspective, Cabrera was going to be a reserve OF at best and their getting an All-Star caliber rental in return. How the hell does this team continually turn everything, even basic arguments of value, in their favor?
  12. edod
    Though you are being extremely pessimistic, I tend to agree with you. I don't love it, but the next year or two will probably be used to figure out what on the team now will take them to the next push for the play-offs. It is the most sensible course of action for their situation--unless of course, baseball would do more to change this. But short of a rash of injuries, it's not going to be 2001 rebuilding, its gong to be more like 2007.
  13. edod
    If I were TeamCanada and I had any sense that the Yanks were pursuing Sheets after signing CC, I would bid hard against them. We need a starter, he's the best still available and it would (really) suck to see Sheets leave the Brewers for a 2nd or 3rd round pick (sandwich pick noted) and then have to give up one of our two best positions players to replace him. It just seems that our compensation is drying up real quick and it becomes to time make those big dollars work. I'd start with an offer of 2/31 with a incetive year @17 if he makes 56 starts in the first two. Ben's injuries have never scared me, it's his luck that scares me. And since I don't believe in luck, I'm willing to acknowledge unfavaorable circumstance and make the move.
  14. edod
    I was born in Madison and not to baseball fans. My father wanted me to take up a sport as I was a fat kid with no interests. So I played pony ball and my father took me to a few Brewer games over the years. I collected baseball cards and distinctly remember being at the game were Yount hit 2500. But more, I remember my father's grumblings about how much it cost to go. Then hormones hit I was again completely disinterested in any sport. In 1996 I moved to Milwaukee to go to UWM and my first dorm roommate was a huge sports guy and so kind of payed attention, though he never had a good thing to say about the Brewers. The following year I realized two things. I had free cable and was 4 miles from the stadium that once took an hour and half to get to. (A U-pass plus 4-8 dollar tickets aclerated the process). The switch to the NL in 1998 sealed the deal. So I got to soak my self in 8-9 years of losing before basking in the success of the last two years.
  15. edod
    http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/brewers.html Causes more speculation than excitement. Does this mean Brad Nelson is moving on? Does this guarantee Gamel is not at 1B in AAA? OMG news, finally!
  16. edod
    All information has to be interpreted by the human mind. And all human beings create bias inherently by interpreting information through their particular lens created from their unique and shared experiences. It is not possible for one to be completely objective. English 101: acknowledging your own bias and point-of-view when interpreting outside information leads to a much more fair and even handed representation of information in the spirit of objectivity. I suppose this is also a point of view, but really, being subjective does not equate to being wrong. If so, brewerfan.net would not need a forum.
  17. edod
    This is the kind of approach to the bullpen that I love. Keep the 2-3 year, 4-12 million deals to a minimum. From the JSOnline comment section: ROFL... literally
  18. edod
    I think the 147 is the equivalent in Australian dollars.
  19. edod
    He's owed 10 mil in '09 and 12 in '10. That's a savings of 3 mil at the cost of a (very) little more certainty. I'd do it as long as there wasn't much more involved. And it would be mighty interesting to boot.
  20. edod
    If the Yanks lose out on CC, I would be surprised if they didn't blow everybody else of the water in years and money for Sheets, even after Pavano. He's still the second best arm on the free market and their still run by a Steinbrenner.
  21. edod
    I think in Torres' case, it's more of a case of chicken. He had to be talked out of retiring to join the Brewers this year and I believe I read somewhere during the season that he would consider it again in 2009. I imagine if he's brought back as anything less than the closer he might consider retiring and if he does so, after they pick it up--I think--the team will still be on the hook for the salary or a portion of it. Can anybody clarify/elaborate?
  22. edod
    Way to burn your own players. I wonder if he really wanted that published? I am really going back and forth on whether there really is a chance that CC would except a 100/4yr deal or if this is a really serious political move to soften the departure of the most exciting player the Brewers have seen since Yount. It really all depends on what CC's real feelings are toward Milwaukee. He'd have to really like it and believe the team has the talent and support to make a few more runs. That seems like grasping on threads to me.
  23. edod

    Scary Movies

    edod replied to greeg35's topic in Off-Topic Forum

    I was a horror movie junkie until my early 20's when I became an English major and realized most of them were awful to the point of being unwatchable. But, I did see the The Decent with the British ending in the theater. It was perhaps the best/most effective horror movie I'd seen since I was too young to rationalize away all the fear. It's best if you don't know anything about it going in (warning to those with claustrophobia).
  24. edod
    That's the problem, it was fair. We're talking about Boras here, the primary reason this team is even considering trading him. With any other agent they'd be looking the other way on these side issues.
  25. edod
    Man, those optimistic numbers sure are pretty! And they're only a 15% increase...
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