Thurston Fluff

Voters dig the long ball.

I'd be nice to see defense get the credit it's due but do you really think that's going to surpass close to double the homerun difference between the two in voter's eyes?

Senzatela would be my pick. It'd be a righty for a righty move and he hasn't shown any particular reason to keep him on a playoff roster for anything other than saving the rest of the pen for a day.

He looked decent enough in his limited time in Milwaukee. Maybe he has enough time to get the last spot on the playoff roster with a good showing. It would be a cool story if he did and got a few key outs in a series.

I'd have a lot more sympathy if it happened to any other team. A team that tried to enforce unwritten rules and playing the game "the right way" via bean balls and getting in to fights does not get to complain when it happens to them. They just didn't just didn't like having the same lessons of being classy that they forced on other to be forced onto them.

I'd say the same thing about you if you claimed you were taking the job to make people like the person you took the job from more money.

The only thing I didn't care for was him negotiating a job when there wasn't an opening there. It's bush league to take a job when a manager hasn't been fired, even more when said manager did a decent job and wasn't going to be fired if you didn't take the job. Way, way, way more bush league to do so while also talking about taking the job for the sake of managers everywhere. I can fan hate someone because their my team's rival but still respect like them as a player/person. I lost some respect for him for how he went about getting the job.

This is sort of a Shrodinger's cats situation. Does 12 exist if it happens at the same time as 11? Can 11 be both 11 and 12 at the same time?

I totally missed the annual passing of Fangraphs projected win total this year. There's always next year I suppose. Hope all who celebrated had a good time.

The same talking heads who complained yesterday will talk about how smart a move it was a if Pratt makes a couple great plays this week. This is what we all wanted. The Brewers to matter enough that people talk about the smallest of "controversies" surrounding the team. It was the same when we didn't get Skubal. It just means people are interested enough in our team to talk about more than the box score.

There is a special place for BF fans to talk politics. That may be where this should go. https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/brewerfanpoliticalscene/general-discussion-f64/

If they close those loopholes do we still need a salary cap? It would be nice but a hard cap is going to be very messy and very well could mean a cancelled 2017 season. If the owners can get those loopholes closed it might mean the soft cap with enhanced revenue sharing could level the field enough to be relatively fair. This might be a good thing to be coming out now. It gives owners a reason to believe getting their house in order is a better option than demanding players give in on the one thing they are least likely to give in on.

If they close those loopholes do we still need a salary cap? It would be nice but a hard cap is going to be very messy and very well could mean a cancelled 2017 season. If the owners can get those loopholes closed it might mean the soft cap with enhanced revenue sharing could level the field enough to be relatively fair. This might be a good thing to be coming out now. It gives owners a reason to believe getting their house in order is a better option than demanding players give in on the one thing they are least likely to give in on.

To be fair it would have been a gesture of sportsmanship if the fans had thrown the ball inadvertently thrown into the stands back on the field.

Six man rotations are not totally normal these days. We'd need our starters to average seven regularly, not do it on occasion, for cost to the bullpen not outweigh the benefit to the starters. I think a six man rotation would be good if we did it all season and had six starters who could average 6-7 innings per start. That would limit each starter to 27 starts instead of 32 and limit the bullpen to 2-3 innings a game. I think as it is now we can go with a five man rotation and skip/push back a start for the starters here and there. The starters would still limit their innings and the bullpen wouldn't get overtaxed to do so.