Thurston Fluff
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If anyone's brave enough deal with the whether tonight a rare lunar eclipse is taking place. Mercury's orbit puts it between the Earth and moon. This only even happens 3000 thousand years or so.
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I have a different idea that's equally out of the box. Subsidized contracts. The basic idea would be teams pay a certain portion of the contracts and an MLB pool funds the rest based on the local TV revenue. For example if the Brewers offered a free agent a contract at $40 million per season and their local revenue is 60% less than the Dodgers only 30% of the money would be paid by the Brewers. The rest would come from an MLB fund every team pays into according to their local tv contracts. Obviously the specific would need to be worked out so a team like the Brewers don't use up the entire pool signing someone but the basic idea would allow more teams to compete for high end free agents, the money would go to the players and the playing field would be evened out without a salary cap or floor.
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Tyler Black broken hand (out 6-8 weeks)
Thurston Fluff replied to liveforoctober's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Hamate injuries seem to be the type that lingers even when they player is capable of playing. Given he was the odd man out, he wasn't on the major league roster and won't be using valuable service time to rehab the timing is about as good as possible for this type of injury. Let him heal, let him take time to get fully back to normal and get him ready to take a more significant role next season. -
Is it the type of collusion that's illegal though? Colluding against players is illegal but I don't think colluding against an organization is. I could see a scenario where the Dodgers have to essentially give some players away because teams know they'll have to cut them anyway.
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Pretty sure the umpire doesn't see it at that angle. Is there a reason it's a different color? That could make it weird to see.
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I have a feeling the bird flu hitting birds that can't fly is some sort of cosmic joke.
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Canha to Royals for PTBL or cash
Thurston Fluff replied to duewizard's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I agree. If he cold be serviceable at first and left he could take over the 4th outfielder job next season and he could get a starters level of ab's. -
If that was the case it should have shown up before now.
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Or the pitchers are good at getting weak contact. I think it's probably all of the above but we shouldn't just assume the pitchers didn't have anything to do with it.
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You know this how? Just because Turang is the best second baseman doesn't mean second base is his best position.
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Both came up as shortstops but were blocked by Adames. It's hardly a stretch to think the best position for both is shortstop. In either event only one of the two would be moved.
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A- Just because you don't think Durbin is the answer doesn't mean they did nothing. It just means you didn't like what they did. Which leads me to... B- While others just trust all the moves the team makes you don't seem to trust any moves the team makes.
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Glad to see fans here are giving PECOTA's Brewers win projection all the time it deserves here.
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Maybe but Sheffield wanted the big city and bright lights he was never going to get here. He wasn't happy he got drafted by Milwaukee to begin with. It's hard to blame one move for something that started off poorly. At most I'd say it was the final straw as opposed to the prime factor.
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He couldn't stay healthy. The article is nice and all but it doesn't absolve the fact Sheffield was the problem. Had the Brewers trade Molitor to keep Parker simply because Sheffield wanted him he'd have been the most hated man in Milwaukee. I seriously doubt that would have helped his productivity. Not to mention it's just plain old bad management to allow one player to dictate who stays and who goes.
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It does but I know the people who posted it.
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This isn't mine. I'm not close to this level but I thought it was worth sharing. It is entirely made up of balloons.
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That might be part of it. I think it might be more a symptom than a cause. In general large corporations are slow moving and don't react to changes as quickly as small places can. When helium got scarce the prices shot up a lot in a short period of time. Party City didn't adapt like small places did. The change from a helium balloon arch to an air filled one for example took us about a day to adjust. We called a local awning shop and had them bend us some conduit and never had to say no to anyone. It took them months to stock and sell the framework for arches. Even then it was a DIY and not very easy to do. Not only were they slow to adjust their solution was not very good. Large places also set their prices higher up. When the circumstances change on the ground it takes time to trickle down. They always relied on volume to make up for a narrow profit margin so when the price of helium quadrupled in a few months they were losing money because the changes in prices rose slower than the cost of the product. Another semi-related problem is most large places project inventory out a lot further than small places do. When they buy balloons that need helium it could be for next year. Suddenly they have inventory locked in that can't be moved. Which is all to say a private equity firm would look at that and decide to cut their losses but it was due to the built in weakness of a large scale entity more than it was consolidation to maximize profits.
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My hope is more cable networks go bankrupt to force MLB to centralize all games into a single streaming source run by MLB. By centralizing all the money in one service all the teams would have an equal share of the revenue.
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There was no gaslighting going on. More bites at the apple is the exact opposite of going for it. The team never claimed it was going for it any particular year more than any other. The goal was to be a viable contender every year. They've done a pretty good job of that. If they continue there is a greater chance of having a run than going for it in a small window does.
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Don't know what else to say than it's sad news. I guess the glass half full part of me thinks he had an incredible, full life. That he could do what he loved to the very end is the cherry on top.
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lLast season they lost two aces and their manager and they were playing rookies or second year players all over the field. It would have been the perfect time to let Bauers or Black play if they viewed the season as a transition or minor rebuild. Yet they signed Hoskins and Sanchez.
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I don't believe their thinking changes from year to year. It's more about how to get to the same goal they have every season than what they want out of any particular season. Overall I think it's a mistake to view it as windows of opportunity that open and close depending on the status of the current roster. I also don't think the front office views it that way. looking through the windows of opportunity lens leads to holding onto players you should let go or acquire some that doesn't make sense for the long term. There will come a time when the team fails to find enough talent for a team to be competitive for a couple years but it won't be due to them intentionally going for it in a single window at the cost of the future.
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Kind of crazy how baseball changed it's tune on associating with gambling companies in such a short period of time.
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How much trust would anyone have that they'd be able to follow through if they did? Cost certainty is even more important when you're dealing with unstable income sources.
