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  1. Thurston Fluff
    I don't any more either. I used to just do the comedy stuff now I'm a certified balloon artist as well (Yes that's areal thing.) Not really sure how that happened.
  2. Thurston Fluff
    Which is what he may find to be the challenge of the job, and might draw him in... Like someone mentioned above, we need to be worried about who he takes with him when he goes as well. Him leaving could be catastrophic to our future... Give Attanasio's history of refusing to let people out of their contracts this probably would be limited to people with expiring contracts. As far as the challenge of fixing a dysfunctional franchise as a draw maybe maybe not. If the challenge is dealing with a meddling/unstable owner and dysfunctional organizational structure that can't be changed I'm not sure that's the type of challenge many GM's are interested in. The whole Stearns interest in the Mets thing seems more about them being his childhood team and being a native New Yorker. I haven't seen many people talk about his interest in a new challenge.
  3. Thurston Fluff
    Four years in a row for the Brewers.
  4. Thurston Fluff
    If I was Stearns I'd be careful what I wish for. The Brewers were well run and had competent people in place prior to Stearns arrival. If he leaves for the Mets he will not be taking over a franchise that was as well run and stable as the Brewers. He will be taking over a dysfunctional and poorly run organization that will need a complete overhaul top to bottom. He may have talent and money on hand but that job is not likely to be as easy to transition from crap to contender as the Brewers proved to be.
  5. Thurston Fluff
    I’m actually more bullish on humanity. Most people I meet are pretty decent. The outliers grab a disproportionate amount of attention. That’s quite the lack of self awareness from the balloon family, though. I feel the same way. Probably because someone comes here to whine about it the few times it happens.
  6. Thurston Fluff
    You poor soul. I wasn't concerned for myself. I'm vaccinated and boostered and wore a n-95 mask with gloves because I knew it was a covid house. I just thought it was rather thoughtless of someone to do that while not knowing the status of the person at the door.
  7. Thurston Fluff
    If you have a child at home sick with covid and someone knocks on your door to deliver some balloons do you 1- put on a mask before going to the door then tell the person to leave them on the porch until the delivery person is at least six feet away or... 2- come to the door maskless then call for your covid infected child to come get the balloons.
  8. Thurston Fluff
    I don't expect the Brewers to do much until after the CBA is worked out. They won't know what they may be getting in revenue sharing or what might happen to the arbitration/pre-aby system. I wouldn't be surprised if the six years of control is changed which would certainly change the way they approach free agency and trades. Until we know what system MLB is working under it's probably not wise to dabble in the free agent market at all let alone get in on the big names.
  9. Thurston Fluff
    ...and that line of thinking right there is a problem. Look at the line just before that. It's a sunk cost and there is little reason to spend limited resources replacing a 25th man on the roster.
  10. Thurston Fluff
    Unless there's a minor league player forcing their way on the roster JBJ should remain with the team no matter how he's hitting. He plays great defense and can run the bases well enough to have value as the last man on the bench type. The last man on the roster isn't going to be paid more than league minimum. I don't think you can find someone who hits well enough and near as well on defense for league minimum.
  11. Thurston Fluff
    Putting them lower would have fit the F grade comments off base (no pun intended). They weren't supposed to suck but did anyway.
  12. Thurston Fluff
    Thanks. I mostly put CLE/PHI back to back because I thought it was kind of hilarious that CLE spent like 50 million to win their 80 games & PHI spent over 190 million to win their 82 games. If it was in the name of humor I'm all for it. There was plenty of good one liners in there for sure.
  13. Thurston Fluff
    How can you give the same grade to a team that was just under .500 with a barely even trying payroll and one just over .500 with a trying really really hard payroll? Other than that pretty spot on and quite humorous. The years of wasting Trout transitioned smoothly to wasting Ohtani line was my favorite. Well done.
  14. Thurston Fluff
    This was a very strange Halloween. Trick or treating started out normal as the first ones were the four neighbor kids. They all had costumes where I couldn't see their faces but I knew it was the neighbor kids because I saw them leave the house. WE go all out and by full sized candy bars. The kids said thanks and left. That's when things got weird. Every 15 minutes or so a new group of kids came by. All in groups of four. All had costumes that didn't show their faces. They didn't stop coming until I ran out of candy and had to start handing out apples. After that I didn't get any more trick or treaters the rest of the night. That was weird enough, but on Monday I was talking to our neighbor and it appears all the neighborhood bu tone place must have been handing out the same candy bars as I had since their kids had a huge haul of full sized candy bars and one apple each. That means the one neighbor that didn't hand out candy bars must have handed out apples like we did when we ran out of candy bars. Just so weird how random things like that happen.
  15. Thurston Fluff
    As a shop that has a lot of kids coming in we require masks. We also provide free ones for those who don't have one. We also have an aids resource center next to us. They hand out free condoms and needles. They also require masks. Oddly enough the place that hands out free needles and condums don't provide free masks. Apparantly they tell people who don't have masks that the place next door have some for free. The truly annoying part is we don't get the masks for free nor did we ever tell them we'd provide masks for them but also want to do the right thing and keep every one as protected as possible.
  16. Thurston Fluff
    Teams can hide their lack of starting pitching depth in the playoffs due to the days off combined with being able to push everyone to the limit knowing there is no tomorrow to worry about. There is also the issue of slumps and surges every team, no matter how good or bad, go through. The Diamondbacks can win a seven games series against the Dodgers if they're playing well- or the Dodgers aren't- at the time. There is no way they could win a 162 game series against them. Why? Because the Dodgers are much better than the Diamondbacks.
  17. Thurston Fluff
    Nothing to add other than I love the renaming of the thread. That sort of light-hearted humor is why I love this place so much.
  18. Thurston Fluff
    While I get your sentiment I think the premise is wrong. The problem with that hypothetical is there is never a guarantee of winning one. By using that hypothetical the real question gets lost. The real question is how much does going all in change the odds of winning it all? I don't believe trading all your top prospects changes the odds very much. Houston traded for Randy Johnson in his prime and got bounced in the first round. The Dodgers got Scherzer and Turner and got bounced by the team with the worst record in the NL playoffs. With no guarantee the hypothetical is never anything more than a hypothetical.
  19. Thurston Fluff
    Sure, it's not that easy, everyone knows that. But in any walk of life, whether it's business, sports, whatever it is, isn't the idea to maximize your opportunity when it presents itself and put yourself in the BEST possible position to be the best in the end?? You invest in the opportunity to be great, not the guarantee you will be(there is no guarantee). It can only go one of two ways...it will either work, or it won't. It's that simple. But I can tell you this, when you DON'T do everything that you possibly can to even put yourself in that position, the opportunity to be the best, the odds that you'll become the best in the end are...minimal at best. When you put all your eggs in one basket you have one shot. If it fails you now have zero eggs going forward. Given the rather unpredictable nature of the playoffs where the best teams do not usually win it all it seems silly to go all in every chance one gets. We've seen both ways in the past couple decades when the team had legitimate playoff hopes. One was all in and it got us two playoff appearances and no WS in eight years. The other four playoff appearances and no WS in five years. The difference is one way meant no chance in the near future while the other offered hope for next year. It doesn't take much see the 2022 version of the Brewers looks a lot more promising than the 2008 or 2012 Brewers to see how the different strategies worked out.
  20. Thurston Fluff
    This is speculation on my part but I always felt Taylor had to try to build a competitive team in a hurry. I don't know if he got the job because he promised it or was told afterward but it seemed pretty apparent to me they wanted a winning team to go with the new stadium ASAP. That at least explains why he traded the few good major league players we had for ready made major league talent (I'm using the term talent loosely here.) That would at least explain trading for player like Jimmy Haynes and Jamey Wright instead of getting higher ceiling minor league talent several years away from contributing.
  21. Thurston Fluff
    It isn't just drafting players it's developing them. Melvin started with a depleted farm system in the coaching and scouting department as well as a dearth of talent. He also didn't have the luxury of an even playing field in the international signings. Back then the big market teams could simply buy all the international talent they wanted and there was very little the small market teams could do about it. Either way I think most agree Melvin was capable of producing good teams in tough environment and left the team in far better shape than he received it.
  22. Thurston Fluff
    To be fair Melvin acquired a sizable chunk of the pitching staff we have now. I thought he was a fine GM who did a great job building a respectable organization top to bottom. He is part of the reason the rebuild was so short. Taking over a generally well run organization is far easier than a rudderless ship. That said he never got us where we wanted to be, a perennial contender. I agree with the poster who said he sometimes overpaid for short runs instead of building for long term success. We'd have probably had a better run with the prospects we traded for Greinke than we did with Greinke.
  23. Thurston Fluff
    I think there was definitely a sufficient amount of angst that existed for how we were playing in September. Right, I guess Thurston wasn't around these boards in September. Runaway division champs but probably the least fun of any September playoff run. The lone exception was being there when they finally clinched. I don't think I could have taken much more negative talk of this team, certainly didn't need more. Thurston was on these boards at the time. While many were stressed about the record I felt that was misplaced. I thought they were doing what they needed in keeping all their players as healthy as possible and lining up their pitching. My point was all the arguments about who we faced missed the point that it really doesn't matter what the record is of who you face in the playoffs. We were set up to do so as well as any team could be. Yet our playoff run was derailed by the team most here felt it was worth losing a few games to make sure we faced first. As was the run of the team many here preferred to lose a few games to miss having to face.
  24. Thurston Fluff
    So much for all the arguments for being the second best team so we don't have to face the mighty Dodgers in the NLDS. We ended up facing the toughest team to beat first. Perhaps in the future we should stop worrying about facing a particular team and focus on how ours is playing.
  25. Thurston Fluff
    Well said. Offenses tend to be more streaky than pitching and defense. Ours was average at best and went cold at the wrong time. That doesn't mean the formula is wrong. It just means we weren't the hot team in the playoffs. That happens a lot. Hell this season alone had two 100 win teams out in the first round and the two teams with the worst record coming into the playoffs moved on and are tied or leading their series. There is no formula for the playoffs. There is no right way to build a team to win a single five or seven game series.
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