jerichoholicninja

Take out the off days in the middle of series. As it is now a team can ride it's 2 or 3 best BP arms and 2 or 3 best SP and not have to worry about using their bottom of the roster trash. That is the biggest difference between the regular season and the post season. Building a team with depth like the Brewers typically do wins you a lot of regular season games but means nothing in the playoffs.

I can't stand players who throw a temper tantrum every time a pitch comes within a foot of their body. Shut your mouth and take your base. There's way too many players in baseball that do it nowadays.

I don't think all the crap I've had to deal with job hunting in my life is unique to someone of my age but I wish I really would have documented it better as I feel it would make a pretty good book someday when it's no longer depressing to think about. The book would open with the story of the first job I ever applied for. I was going to be graduating from college in December and I applied for the job the week of Thanksgiving. I had a friend who worked there who was involved with their hiring but wasn't involved with this position. Mid-December I asked him if he knew where they were in the process and he said he would look into it. He told me they weren't going to making a decision until after the new year. Literally the next day I got a letter in the mail saying they offered the position to someone else and they accepted it. Looking back it's crazy to think that I actually got a letter in the mail about a position I wasn't even interviewed for but that experience pretty much set the stage everything else. Which brings me to two situations I've had in the last few weeks. On October 3, I sent a cold email to the director at a place I would really like to work at talking about how much I would really like to work there and why I would be a fit. The first time I've ever done that in my life. We exchange emails throughout the day and eventually he invites me to have lunch with him the following week. They are looking to budget for another position for 2024 and he thinks I could be a fit and they may have some projects for me beforehand. Holy crap! So I show up at the office for the meeting and I'm told he's out sick so I reschedule for two days later. That morning I get a call that he's still out sick and he'll reach out to reschedule. I let the rest of the week and the weekend go by and then on Monday I email saying I hope he's feeling better and I'm still available to meet. No response for days. On Friday I just happen to be in the area so I stopped in just to show my face and see if we could reschedule. When I get there they tell me he's no longer an employee there. I don't know any details but it seems like he got canned rather abruptly based on the timeline of my emails with him. I actually had an in at a place I wanted to be at and he got fired. A total shocker but somehow not surprising based on my history. Also, the week of my scheduled meetings with the guy mentioned above I had an interview for a job at a different place on Friday. Four days later they offered me the job. A real rollercoaster of highs and lows.

Has Adolis Garcia reached Cardinal-level douchyness?

It prevented the Brewers offense from scoring runs so...

Seems like the only place Counsell to the Mets rumors are coming from is from New York "reporters". Not that I put any ounce of stock in to what any sports reporter says anyway. Obviously everyone just assumes that because Stearns took over he'll hire his old manager but he didn't even hire him in the first place. I think it's more likely David wants to pick his own guy. The Mets are a very distant 3rd best team in their own division - at best. Why would Craig want to take on that mess? I don't care how much money Cohen spends the Braves are a long way ahead of them. After a couple of .500-ish seasons CC will probably be fired.

Aren't these awards determined by whatever advanced defensive stats and not just voters now? The whole someone doesn't hit enough to win one doesn't apply anymore. Look through the finalists. A lot of noodle bats.

Somebody other than the Brewers is contractually obligated to pay for most of this right? People can complain all they want but there really isn't another way.

I don't totally disagree with the beginning and end of what you said but the middle part is so ridiculous I don't even know what to say.

My two teams started out a combined 8-0 but now 0-4 the last two weeks. One team lost Dobbins and Chubb and the other just lost David Montgomery and Kyren Williams. Ugh.

He's getting a 2 year deal from somebody. Unfortunately this is where the financial disparity in baseball really is an advantage for a big market team. The Dodgers have signed plenty of guys in Woody's situation to multi year deals. The Red Sox and Yankees have done it before too. I feel like the Padres did recently as well. The Brewers can't afford to throw money at a gamble like this knowing you'll get next to nothing in 2024 and a total question mark in 2025.

The Brewers still have a budget. If Craig really wants to go to the highest bidder just about any other organization can add another half million or so to whatever the Brewers offered and not think twice about it.

There was an article a couple weeks ago about how little managers are paid. It said that Counsell intend's to "reset the market" for managers. If there's any truth to that he's not sticking around Milwaukee.

I agree 100% with this. MLB playoffs don't interest me at all. I haven't watched any Brewers playoff games since the Hader implosion in Washington. I don't think I've watched any other teams games since I turned off game 7 during the rain delay of the Cubs/Indians series. As a fan, baseball is all about not getting hung up on the loss today because there's another game tomorrow. Not so in the playoffs. For the players and the teams, the regular season is all about depth and using your whole roster to get through the season. In the playoffs, you ride a handful of pitchers and the bottom of your bench rarely sees the field. It's a totally different game than the one they just spent the last 6+ months playing. And it's not very interesting. Unless your favorite team is winning.

While I guess it's "exciting" to see underdog teams do well in the playoffs it really cheapens what it means to win the world series to me. If we get a DBacks/Rangers world series, whoever wins, does anyone really feel like either of these teams are championship worthy? Neither would have been considered one of the best teams in baseball at any point during the regular season. I see so many posters lamenting that the Brewers will never win a world series in their lifetime for whatever reason but I just can't get too emotionally invested in the results of a handful of games over 3 weeks especially now when almost half the league makes the playoffs.

Has any GM ever said, "yes, we are trying to trade so and so" other than probably the Mariners with Griffey? I haven't read anything about the presser from yesterday because whatever was said means absolutely nothing.

Keston's lack of defensive skill at any position was never going to sit well with the Stearns/Arnold administration. It's not really that surprising he was never given a shot.

I was watching the game while getting dinner ready. As it happened live, I thought to myself well that's DPI and Minnesota should tie it up soon. Turned away for 5 seconds and came back and was surprised to see KC with the ball. If a DB has a hiccup within 5 yards of receiver these days it's an automatic PI. Calls like this is why people think the NFL is rigged. I'm not going to say KC gets the call if the situation was reverse but that's going to be called more often than not and when it goes in favor of one of the NFL's darling teams and essentially wins them the game it doesn't look good. Of course there's the other issue of the KC defender immediately taking his helmet off and not getting flagged too. Not that it would have made a difference but how can you not call that.

I get that it's funny that Sean Payton lost to the Jets (and Hackett) after the dumb things he said this offseason but let's not pretend that Hackett didn't just put on one of the worst head coaching performances of all time last year. And if it wasn't that he's BFF's with Aaron Rodgers it's likely he doesn't have a job in football this year.

After Thursday night and Sunday morning games left me in a huge hole I had already written off the week. JaMarr finally going off put me ahead and fairly confident I had pulled off a massive come from behind win then Kittle happened last night. And I lost.

I hate Thursday games. Last night just about guaranteed both of my teams will lose this week. Played against DJ Moore in one and I had the Washington D in the other.

I've always hated making decisions based solely on the handedness of the batter and the pitcher. There are so many more important variables. What's the pitcher's arm angle, his velocity, what pitches does he throw, what pitches does the batter struggle against. Those seem like a lot more important things to consider to me. I also agree with what Plesac said. I've always struggled pitching to left handed batters because my visual frame of reference for location changes. Switching back and forth between RHB and LHB really messes with me. But put a few LHB in a row and it's not as bad.

Eppler resigns amidst IL-gate. Does Craig really want to get involved with the mess the Mets are? Not saying he'll be back but he'll have the pick of whatever job he wants. Why would he chose the Mets.

Really, all this great pitching we've had has gotten us nowhere. Might as well trade Burnes and/or Woodruff, personally I'd move Devin too as I don't think he's anywhere as good as his numbers, and try something different.

I checked out after game 1. Last night I didn't flinch an inch when I got the alert that they blew another lead.