DHonks

Chick-Fil-A has one of the cheapest costs of starting a franchise. Pretty amazing, considering how well run they are, how efficient, and tasty. Chick-Fil-A isn’t even a true franchise opportunity. CFA controls everything and you are basically just a glorified manager of it. Sort of. The franchisee only needs about $10k in start-up costs, but Chick-Fil-A pays for almost everything from building out the restaurant, training, kitchen, etc, and they get a higher annual fee than other fast food chains. However, they expect the franchisee to only have the one location, and be an active franchisee/manager. Crazy that to own a T-Bell you need around $2 million of wealth.

I'd say our top 3 fit that description. Of the other options I listed, 5-6 innings would be a fine goal.

Chick-Fil-A has one of the cheapest costs of starting a franchise. Pretty amazing, considering how well run they are, how efficient, and tasty.

It depends on where in the time zone you are. For eastern WI, you're on the eastern part of the Central time zone (changes in Indiana/Michigan), so the sun will rise earlier and set earlier than if you're in the middle of Nebraska, where you're on the western edge of the time zone. I spent a summer in Lincoln, NE, and it would still be light until 10pm. Having two time zones would amplify the problem. The sun would rise and set about two hours difference between NYC and Dallas. The curve of the Earth is why there are time zones. Depends on the problem. Sunlight too early or too late might be your problem, but working in the west based on east coast markets could be a different problem. People in California working in the financial industry have to be at work at 5:30 to prep for the markets opening. A 2-time zone country would alleviate some business challenges. Even some of the jet lag would be mitigated. Governments arbitrarily choose their timezones and don't simply do them every 15º of longitude as one might mathematically expect. Heck, there's even several half timezones in the world. My only peeve is that my devices always seem to think I'm in Mountain-Denver whenever I switch time zones, but I should be in Mountain-Phoenix. I frequently have to toggle my phone location

If we bolster our pen with dominant multi-inning relievers, I feel better about not upgrading our rotation. Woodruff, Davies, Houser, and some combo of Nelson, Wade Miley, Lyles, Gio, Peralta, Burnes, etc. I'd rather pay Pomeranz $7-8 million than Hamels, although if we had unlimited resources I'd try for both

In the playoff game, I think the pitching plan got a little messed up with Suter only going one. I was really hoping Pomy was going to go three.

Not sure if you mean you don't understand why we need DST or why we need to switch back and forth twice a year. As discussed above, if states start switching to just one time all year round, it's seems more logical to go with DST over ST. I think we should just leave it as one time and not switch. It works great in AZ that we stay STD year round. We don’t want more evening sun in summer. It’s. Weird in Montana that it’s twilight at 10:30pm in late June. They probably should be STD year round as well. I read an interesting idea a couple years ago that perhaps we should have eastern time change back one hour and pacific forward one hour, and just go with two time zones. with how interconnected the world is these days, it would make a lot more sense for business.

My expectation has been 3 years and $21-24 million.

Crazy to think of how bad our defense was....Weeks at 2b, Fielder at 1b. Remember all those times we justified Fielder's D by saying "he's surprisingly nimble for a guy his size!?" At least he played 1b. I had a running bet with a friend that I lost....I bet him that one time Fielder would whiff on a routine throw from an infielder, having it bounce off his face.

Well, at least from the eye-test he was about similar with Scooter and still better than Weeks. Amazing how bad defensively our 2b have been for the last 15 years. Anything hit to Scooter or Rickie's backhand was a good bet for a runner to reach first base. Hiura is most certainly worse than both Weeks and Gennett….it is not particularly close either. Hiura pretty much struggles with everything on defense and has no arm or range. He struggles to field a ball right next to him and can't get to anything away from him. Weeks could turn DPs confidently, had some range, and had a strong arm. Hiura had 16 errors in a half season. If he played every game he would have amassed 30+ errors. That is really bad before even considering how many plays he can't even attempt to make because of a lack of range/arm. Hiura is probably closer to the worst 2B defender in history than he is to having the defense of Weeks/Gennett...and that is really sad because neither of those guys were very good defensively. On a different note Bref has projections that include a reliability percentage. Yelich to hit .961 OPS (86%). Shaw to hit .769 OPS (82%). Projections are just silly in such an insanely flukey sport. Nothing ever seems to make sense. Weeks couldn’t field, had little throwing accuracy, and missed countless throws at first when covering bunts. I always hoped he would get better since he had decent arm strength, but his poor mechanics and footwork killed those hopes. Hiura has a stronger arm than advertised, but needs to work on accuracy. I can’t recall him with many fielding mistakes...weren’t they mostly throwing?

Well, at least from the eye-test he was about similar with Scooter and still better than Weeks. Amazing how bad defensively our 2b have been for the last 15 years. Anything hit to Scooter or Rickie's backhand was a good bet for a runner to reach first base.

Don't forget, Grisham is far from a sure thing as well. My current guess is we sign Moose for 3 years and keep shaw for a 1b platoon with Braun

definitely worth dreaming. Some sluggers take longer. Teams gave up on Jose Bautista, Nelson Cruz, Brandon Phillips, and countless others.

People hate me around here but In N Out sucks! In N Out burgers are awesome, but their fries are awful. Shakes are mediocre. Good coke carbonation though

Arica could be just a placeholder for Turang. Brewers will likely start Turang in A+, but could conceivably start him in AA.

Wow, pretty harsh towards the 90s. They had some solid teams. Wasn’t it 1998 they printed playoff tickets before a miserable Sept? I still have them in my dad’s house. Jeff Cirillo, Fernando Vina, Mark Loretta, jeromy Burnitz, David Nilsson, John Jaha....all good players. Even Jose Valentin, despite his strikeouts and poor D, was good. We had solid bullpens. If we had any pitching at all, we might have had winning seasons Some solid teams? They finished second place one single time...that was their highest accomplishment. I think the gas a 83 win team, an 80 win team, and then all down hill from there. The 90s teams sucked and their uniforms were quite fitting. MrTPlush, as is usual, we disagree. In this case it's on the wording. I replied that they had some solid players on those teams, listing quite a few good players. You're focusing on the end product of those teams--their records. However, they even had a few competitive (you'll argue the word "competitive," but I mean around .500. In other words "not miserable") years that unfortunately didn't break the losing ways of the 90s. In 1997 they were over .500 in early September. In 1998 they were over .500 into early August. Some other years weren't so bad. In hindsight, we had a good core of players. We weren't terrible by any stretch of the imagination. Unfortunately we had an owner that couldn't keep up with the modern economics of the game, an outdated ballpark with limited revenue streams, a weak GM, and terrible results with early draft picks.

Wow, pretty harsh towards the 90s. They had some solid teams. Wasn’t it 1998 they printed playoff tickets before a miserable Sept? I still have them in my dad’s house. Jeff Cirillo, Fernando Vina, Mark Loretta, jeromy Burnitz, David Nilsson, John Jaha....all good players. Even Jose Valentin, despite his strikeouts and poor D, was good. We had solid bullpens. If we had any pitching at all, we might have had winning seasons

The Brewers obviously don't see Fry as a catcher and probably never will he is a 1B/3B only and not a catcher. We had Fryer player a lot of OF and he carved out a nice career as a catcher, we had Brantley at 1b quite a bit. Sometimes guys play out of position due to organizational strengths

These teams you mention are misleading. There’s the Monorail from MGM Grand to Sahara. There’s the tram connecting Mandalay Bay, Luxor, and Excalibur. One links Aria, Vdara, and Bellagio. And lastly one links Mirage and TI.

we seemingly do this every year. I'd like to focus on bats for a while in rounds 1-6, then we can load up on pitching.

What's Pizza Ranch? Sounds like a weird combo for a name.

Best book on the Strip is the Mirage. Place some bets and have some fun. If betting win sports lines, don’t bet $20 on a game. If you win, you’ll get like $18 and change in profits. Instead either bet saying “to win $20”, meaning it’ll most likely cost you $22, factoring in the -110 juice. For shows, I’ve loved Ka and O. I didn’t get LOVE...I guess at 38 I’m too young. I’d check out Terry Fator if there on a weeknight.

Ray has 0.1% chance of getting taken....at most. Even if taken, he’ll likely be offered back. I’d forgotten the new guy—Feyereisen. So two arms to protect, maybe Peterson, Griep, or Brown

Looks like only Bickford needs protecting. I don't anticipate anyone else being a consideration.

They can try, it that would seem foolish. In arbitration he’ll get $4-5 million in 2020, 6-8 million in 2021, 12-15 million in 2022. Are we offering 3 years $22milion? That would be low end