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  1. Thurston Fluff
    For all the guff Ned Yost got here, he managed a small market team to two World Series and won one of them.
  2. Thurston Fluff
    That was my point. Pushing all your chips in when doing so isn't going to have enough of an effect to matter is not doing a good job of pushing all your chips in. If there was ever a clear cut example of why that way of operating is not as good as the way the Brewers go about business it's the Cubs.
  3. Thurston Fluff
    I'd argue it was a terrible job of doing it. If they had the prospect capital to get Skubal and maybe another above average pitcher I could see the logic of getting starters. If not then maybe get some relievers who can shorten games. What they did was get average at best starters who'd need quality relievers to back them up then failed to provide said relief. They'd have been just as well off getting a few scrap heap pitchers and hope their offense could pull them through. To go all in should be to get over the top not get back to what they were a year prior and could be next year. Deciding when to go all in is part of doing a good job of going all in.
  4. Thurston Fluff
    Their run was built on homegrown offense and supplemented with veteran pitching. The reason they couldn't continued doing that was their superstars on offense didn't superstar very long. I thought they would have been more like Houston than what they turned into.
  5. Thurston Fluff
    Well said. I'd add he signed a team friendly contract while paying at an MVP level to be a Brewer for the rest of his career. That alone is not usual but he did so while playing on a team friendly contract to begin with. He didn't bother testing the market in his prime choosing instead to stay here. He could have Paul Molitored it but he didn't.
  6. Thurston Fluff
    I look at Yelich like the Brewers version of Yadier Molina (I threw up a little saying it but bear with me) He set the tone for the team for a generation. The team responded to his leadership even when he wasn't the best player on the field. The team took on the identity of the player. The only major difference is Yelich isn't a total buthead. Which means the team isn't full of them like the Cardinals were.
  7. Thurston Fluff
    Life is good when you reach a point in the season when it would be mildly disappointing to only get 100 wins.
  8. Thurston Fluff
    I think the relief of finally winning a series lead to a letdown they just didn't recover from well enough. Given the goal is set higher this time around plus the experience of what happens when you have an emotional let down makes me believe it's not likely to repeat.
  9. Thurston Fluff
    Back in the 90's the two most prolific teams were Cleveland and Atlanta. One was built on power and a great overall offense and average pitching while the other on great pitching and an average offense. They won one World Series between the two of them. That one win was when they played against each other. The age old adage that good pitching bets a good offense has been proven both right and wrong depending on the year. There is no single best way. There is no built for the regular season but not the post season team. There is no good pitching beats good hitting. Homeruns are not necessary nor is an ace pitcher. There is just one good team managing to win all the series in a stretch when all the teams face a good opponent every series.
  10. Thurston Fluff
    This is a bit out of left field but it's something that's always bothered me. All-Stars shouldn't be selected solely by the season they've had that year. While it's not a career accomplishment award it's also not a best first half of a season award. I bring this up now because I just read this blurb in the USA Today.
  11. Thurston Fluff
    Voters dig the long ball.
  12. Thurston Fluff
    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?
  13. Thurston Fluff
    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.
  14. Thurston Fluff
    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.
  15. Thurston Fluff
    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.
  16. Thurston Fluff
    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.
  17. Thurston Fluff
    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.
  18. Thurston Fluff
    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?
  19. Thurston Fluff
    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.
  20. Thurston Fluff
    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.
  21. Thurston Fluff
    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/
  22. Thurston Fluff
    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.
  23. Thurston Fluff
    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.
  24. Thurston Fluff
    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.
  25. Thurston Fluff
    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.
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