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  1. DHonks
    Why? In what other area of life other than sports do we expect the employees pay to go up every time revenue goes up? And I’m sure these players who demand more pay if profit goes up will gladly take lower salaries if the owner loses money right? There are far more professional baseball players deemed MLB talent than there are MLB jobs. When you have a surplus of talent, wages shouldn’t go up. Adding two more teams, expanding rosters, creating an MLB-owned extra AAA team of MLB free agents, and adding the DH to the NL would provide jobs for over 100 MLB/AAAA players. A full time DH (although not used very often, as most teams rotate DH duties) is paid more than a LOOGY or bench bat.
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    I don’t agree that players are “grossly underpaid” in their early years. I feel minor league players are grossly underpaid. Some major leaguers may be underpaid in their first 3 years relative to the value they contribute, but the best of these players are often locking up multi-year extensions worth much more than their peers during those years to buy out arbitration. These players usually have little-to-no track record of success. If you go by minor league numbers or tools, then Brooks Kieschnick, Alex Escobar, Ben Hendrickson, Mat Gamel, JD Martin, etc were all worthy of giant contracts. $550k plus meal money in spring training and on all road trips is is nothing to sneeze at.
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    Today was wonderful. Before going to bed in Vegas Friday, my buddies asked me what the line for Marquette was. We speculated it'd be -6 or so. When we saw -3, we were ecstatic. Today we actually got the game at -2.5. One guy in our group was 6-0-1 today. My day started off well, and finished nicely with the WCC games (SCU 1h, St. Mary's 1h, 2h, and game, and Zags 1h, 2h, and game).
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    And really I don’t think money is the biggest issue but players wanting long term deals with guaranteed money. Many of these free agents probably have had nice short term deals with nice price tags but they want the years. Moose & Grandal both settled for the short term deals but many haven’t been willing to. Hard to believe Kuechel hasn’t been offered at least a 1-2 year deal at around 14-15 million. But I’m sure he wants a 3-4 year deal at same price. Due to the Garzas, Lohse, Suppans before him, most teams know a pitch in their 30s statistically drop off before end of that deal. How do you know Kuechel hasn't been offered a 1-2 year deal at 14-15 million? You're saying that, just like how the media was reporting the best offers to Machado were for $175-200 million. The media and MLB players has kept complaining about how the market is broken, citing examples of Machado and Harper being unsigned. Yet Machado just got a massive contract. It is likely Kuechel has several offers of varying lengths and dollar amounts.
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    I assure you that no one leaving Wisconsin for spring training will be found in Flagstaff to ski. I know many people who come from Wisconsin to ski as there are no mountains in Wisconsin just in case you haven't noticed. Apparently TPlush doesn’t understand you were talking about downhill skiing. Wisconsin has some hills, but that’s not skiing. That’s why every skier in Wisconsin goes to Colorado, Utah, etc for snow skiing. This would be a great week for it in AZ. One ironic thing about winter sports, I knew very few people in the Milwaukee area that played hockey, but AZ has a ton of youth leagues.
  6. DHonks
    Did well last night with Georgia St, st. Mary’s, Michigan, 1h BYU, and 1h Weber st. Lost on Weber st game, Weber 2h, and Charleston . I’m on bowling green, Davidson, Indiana, and Kent st today.
  7. DHonks
    I think you missed the most versatile on the list
  8. DHonks
    not sure what the problem is. Players are doing pretty well. Old players or flawed players aren't getting overpaid though. Still, some basic reforms should solve these issues.
  9. DHonks
    I really hate that the clock doesn't stop on made baskets in the last minute of the 1h in college hoops games. Why do this in the last minute of the game, but not the half? As a person that enjoys sports wagering, I hate seeing a team kill me with a backdoor cover where the ball goes in with 3 secs left, but before the ball can be inbounded the horn sounds.
  10. DHonks
    teams are playing very physical defense and chasing Howard around with their fastest defenders. They need John and the Hausers to start setting the tone early to free up Markus.
  11. DHonks
    I agree. They played well. I especially appreciated that they decided to win by 10. why's that? so they covered the line? I think it was 6.5.
  12. DHonks
    what a great 2nd half for Marquette. Cain and Morrow provided a nice jolt in the 1st half. Then Marquette played great in the 2nd
  13. DHonks
    I don't think he'll be worried about the shade. current forecasts show that we'll be in the 40s-low 60s for the next 2-3 weeks.
  14. DHonks
    so...2 or 3 years until he's a Yankee?
  15. DHonks
    If you want the best value in Phoenix, Aguila GC is a tremendous desert layout SW of the park. If it were near where I live, it'd be $200+ per round instead of like $20-30
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    I always wonder if agents and players only look at top dollar figures. Comparing Illinois and California cost of living and taxes means his $300m in San Diego would be about $260-270m in Chicago. So really it’s possible the White Sox did offer the most money for him. Of course, I’d rather play in beautiful SD
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    The Ricketts have been "tight" with money for a couple years (relative, of course). Doesn't it have to do with the Wrigley renovations? MLB can fix this. But before they do it, they need to pay minor leaguers better. Some ideas: -Add the DH or use Doug Melvin's idea of only 8 batting in NL. -26 or 27 man rosters -expand to 32 teams -create a system (like has been proposed) that doesn't incentivize teams keeping players in the minors to open a season (Kris Bryant rule) -I'd almost like to see a system where owners guarantee players a set share of revenues. If MLB player revenues fall below the threshold, all players receive a share of the extra revenues needed to reach that threshold. -MLB veterans over 30 signed to 1 or 2 year deals count less towards the luxury tax threshold -less punitive luxury tax -tanking is pointless in baseball. Teams tanking rather than re-investing in their on-field product at the MLB level should be fined draft picks or money -MLB should create an extra AAA team, managed by MLB or MLBPA, that contains only veterans with MLB service time. This keeps them playing and in shape, only a step away from their contract being purchased. -draft pick free agent compensation needs to be replaced with an NFL system where the league weighs the added players in addition to the lost players, resulting in extra picks being awarded. the system shouldn't hurt a player.
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    Perhaps, but in 2003, Ned Yost was what the Brewers needed after that dumpster fire of 2002. The attitude and the enthusiasm for the Brewers was a huge boost. There were downgrades in talent (seriously. NOT re-signing Jose Hernandez and signing Royce Clayton?), but he managed a double-digit improvement in wins from the previous year. His replacement with Roenicke was arguably a downgrade. Well your forgetting Macha in between there. You talk about 03 with Yost being exactly what that team needed. That's how I feel with RRR in 2011. I still think RRR should be a manager somewhere I liked RRR as well. He and Yost had a great honesty/authenticity about them. Ken Macha was a train-wreck. I thought he'd bring an analytics approach, but his last year was the only time I've ever given up on a Brewers team since I became a fan around 1992. That 2010 was no fun to watch beginning in mid-May.
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    almost every time people on brewer fan were bashing Yost/Maddux for bringing in certain relievers and not others, we'd find out in post-game pressers that the preferred option was unavailable due to workload. I loved the Yost/Maddux concept of "if you get a pitcher up, you might as well get them in the game" as they tracked bullpen pitches among a players workload, not just game pitches.
  20. DHonks
    Good to read, I like it when I'm occasionally right with my suggestions (Moose at 2b). Good thing we signed Grandal, or Clancy would have Moose catching.
  21. DHonks
    I'm still amazed that people hated Yost. From insiders, I always heard Maddux had pretty much complete control over the pitching staff. Yost ardently defended his players at all times. He was a great manager at helping develop young prospects, showing them the confidence they needed.
  22. DHonks
    I'm a fan of either the DH or Doug Melvin's idea of simply batting 8 players. Seeing our luck with Junior Guerra, Jimmy Nelson, and several others getting hurt has changed my tune over the last few years.
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    On a similar note, absolutely love the ease with Apple Pay cash.
  24. DHonks
    Probably because there isn't any open display of religious sentiment for valentine's day? Most of what is seen with Christmas is trees, Santa, and happiness. but you could be right.
  25. DHonks
    kind of an off-shoot of hawing's comment...my fiancé and I don't celebrate either. She tells me there are a lot of cheaper days to buy flowers. But I find it funny that we have such major tension in the US over open displays of religious sentiment around Christmas, but we don't have any tension over religious sentiment about St. Valentine's Day.
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