jerichoholicninja

I'm thought that just means that if your cable provider allows you to watch on mobile devices you can now watch games on it.

Boyer is actually a righty who is just really good at getting lefties out. I'm not sure what advice he could offer or if you could say he's even competing against other lefties.

I've been on a lot of message boards that have users post "milestone threads" when they reach a certain number of posts. I don't think I've ever seen one here before but I have nothing better to do at the moment so here's mine. My baseball fandom story is probably different than most. I didn't come from a baseball family or even a sports family. My early experiences with baseball were with the old Manitowoc Skunks Northwoods League team. My uncle was a host each summer for players so he had season tickets and we'd go to games and hang out with the players. It wasn't until many years later that I realized that I used to hang out with major leaguers Juan Pierre and Jay Gibbons when I was a kid. I played baseball as a kid but I don't even know why I did. Most of my friends didn't and I didn't even have any affection for it. It was probably because my parents wanted me to do something in the summer and baseball was pretty much all there was. The summer of 1998 was when that changed. Yes, it was the McGwire/Sosa homerun chase that piqued my interest in baseball. All my teammates were talking about so I started to watch the games that were on TV and soon I was hooked on baseball. Eventually I learned there was a team in Milwaukee and they actually had games on TV too. While most kids learned the intricacies of the game from their parents or grandparents, I was self-taught in most everything baseball and I think that is why I've never understood a lot of the old school thinking about the game. I taught myself how to keep score from an old Skunks game program and would score my MLB '99 video games as I played them. Video games also introduced me to stats. I'm proud to say that I was ahead of the mainstream as I always favored OBP over batting average and knew that RBI totals had pretty much nothing to do with a evaluating a players talent. I came to Brewerfan.net almost 11 years ago during my senior year of high school when I was working on a research paper about MLB team payrolls effect on winning. I'm sure most of us have either written a similar paper or at least done cursory research on the topic ourselves. That was three user names and probably over 5,000 posts combined ago. Since then I've graduated high school and college, gotten married, bought a house, and will become a father in May. Basically I'm an adult - except for not having a job. That said, I love baseball even more than I did when I was a kid and I'm looking forward to taking my child to Brewer games and the games I coach and play and then eventually teaching the game to him or her. Wisconsin is a tough place to be a diehard baseball fan. The weather sucks for baseball. I've spent two months of each of the last 14 Springs freezing my butt off at high school and college baseball games. Miller Park is probably the best thing to have ever happened to the Brewers franchise and any pro baseball team in the Midwest that has built a stadium without a retractable roof is just plain stupid (looking at you Twins). If the weather wasn't bad enough there's another pro sports franchise in the state with a long and storied history that over shadows everything every other sports entity in the state does. The Brewers are the third most popular team in Wisconsin (if that) and unfortunately attracts a lot of band wagon fair weather fans. As bad as it sounds, I missed the early 2000's Brewer games when the stadium was always half full and you could sit pretty much where ever you wanted and didn't have to worry about obnoxious, drunk college kids who couldn't tell a double from a double play. For as much as I'm involved in baseball at different levels, I really don't have anyone who I can discuss the game with indepthly and intelligently. This board has been the one place I can go for that. If it didn't exist I don't know if I would enjoy the game as much as I do. So I am thankful for this place and all the people who make it the great place that it is. PS: Now that Khris Davis has been traded, I think I need a new avatar. Any suggestions?

The international market is a joke. They are paying 16 year old kids more than number 1 draft picks. An international draft is the only solution to fix that problem. A salary floor is dumb too. I read that the Jacksoncille Jaguars are something like $30 million under the salary floor. Is there any way that spending the money to get them over the floor is going to turn them into a playoff contender? It's the NFL, maybe, but probably not. If they make the playoffs next year it's going to be more because they got lucky with injuries and Andrew Luck repeats his 2015. In the Brewers current situation, forcing them to spend any more money on the MLB team does nothing to help the organization. A salary floor is simply a way to ensure that the owners don't simply hoard money in a league with a salary cap and full revenue sharing. It's the players association way of avoiding collusion to artificially keep salaries down. If the MLBPA is pushing it, it would be because they want to make sure their veteran, AAAA fodder member players are getting major league jobs and salaries over cheap, young minor league players.

When people refer to baseball as "hardball". It seems to me that it's only people who were born in the 50's and 60's who do this. For example, my Father in law was born in '54. He knows I coach and play baseball, yet almost every time it comes up in conversation he wants me to clarify that we're talking about hardball. My uncle who's the same age uses the word hardball a lot but only in the context of when he was a kid. He knows that I and the Brewers play baseball but when he was a kid he played hardball. My mom (born in '56) used to say hardball a lot but she has stopped. My dad (born in '48) would use hardball all the time. It must be a generational thing.

Well I survived last year without MLB Network but I just spent a night at a hotel that had it and couldn't turn it off. Like I posted above, customer service didn't care last year when I called to complain. I'm considering calling again and see if they change their tune.

The international market is a joke. They are paying 16 year old kids more than number 1 draft picks. An international draft is the only solution to fix that problem. A salary floor is dumb too. I read that the Jacksoncille Jaguars are something like $30 million under the salary floor. Is there any way that spending the money to get them over the floor is going to turn them into a playoff contender? It's the NFL, maybe, but probably not. If they make the playoffs next year it's going to be more because they got lucky with injuries and Andrew Luck repeats his 2015. In the Brewers current situation, forcing them to spend any more money on the MLB team does nothing to help the organization.

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Is Nottingham a Coulter-level hitter? If not, than the fact that I've read a lot about him possibly having to move to another position makes me less excited about this trade.

My comment was mostly in jest but more about the rankings and the people who do the rankings than the organization or the players themselves. Was there anyone on this board, other than his dad, that expected much out of Ben Hendrickson?

His health is all that matters. His numbers are above average at worst but overall really, really good. No one cares about the steroids fiasco and his contract isn't as terrible as some make it out to be. If he can prove he's healthy and keep putting up the numbers he has been teams will want him.

MLB Network showed a list of all people banned for life from baseball. I was surprised at how big it was, 25 or so. Most were from the Black Sox scandal though.

Wow. The fact that they were top 100 guys doesn't really reassure me about our current top 100 guys.

MLB Trade Rumors says Boston is looking for a lefty reliever.

http://winace.courageunfettered.com/pics/broken_record.jpg I was going to post almost exactly the same thing.

Agree. It's a slight win for people who want to watch one out of market team exclusively, but overall big whoop.

Think the way syllabols are broken down is the biggest reason. There would be a break between the wa/demi. So you actually say Demi in name but wade you don't. U'd say Wa/de (with short vowel) Plus Demi sounds much cooler & makes him even more like a "Demi-God" Or Demi Moore. Which is the first thing that pops into my mind whenever I see his name.

There's already a thread about this in the MLB forum. And your in market team is still unavailable so this really changes nothing.

Lucroy isn't getting an extension here so if his choice is to stay here and not get an extension or go to a winner and not get an extension I would bet he chooses to go somewhere else.

Really? I highly highly highly disagree. What makes you think that? You think he would rather be paid pennies on a garbage team vs. accepting a trade to a good team to play for pennies? Demanding an extension would just be stupid on his part. Staying with the Brewers isn't going to make his contract any better. Exactly. Lucroy has twice made it clear he wants to play for a winner. If he were to reject a trade to a competitive team his "character" would pretty much drop to Braun "It's that guy's fault I tested positive" levels.

Hasn't every major trade made during this rebuild, aside from Lind, brought back as much or more than us posters thought? Gomez and Fiers got us two top 100 prospects plus a young MLB OF, Ramirez was expected to be a dump but brought back a probable bullpen guy, Parra got us a young 4/5 starter, Krod got a high upside middle infielder and many thought no team would ever trade for him, Segura has been crap for almost his entire career but still returned a very high upside prospect (with some help from Aaron Hill). Texas and Washington have had very talented teams for a few years and spent a lot of money but have absolutely nothing to show for it. One of them is going to get desperate and give up the goods for Lucroy. My gut is telling me both have made very good offers but Stearns is doing his best to play them against each other to squeak a little bit more out.

I should have just read the thread title. I was thinking it was a waiver claim. Either way minor trades like this are more common during spring training than a guy like Davis.

Unless they're trading him to another rebuilding team, wouldn't it make more sense in that scenario to trade Davis, who should bring back a pretty good haul of prospects? I don't see why the Brewers would trade away a guy with Liriano's upside and years of control, unless they could get a similar talent back at a position of need. That team could prefer Liriano's defense to Davis's lack of or they only need a guy for a month or two. Also, Liriano is going to cost the acquiring team less than Davis would so I can see him being more attractive.

I think the "right way" he's referring to is being a marginal at best baseball player yet somehow getting jobs in your late 30's.

What are the odds Liriano is "flipped" during spring training? Since he was claimed on waivers I believe the Phillies are the only team that passed on him. Some team with no OF depth is bound to have an injury and Milwaukee is overflowing with OF. Barring a trade or injury Davis and Braun are the corners and Liriano isn't really a CF. He's also a RHB like those two making a platoon not an option. He also has no options so he'll be riding the bench in Milwaukee.