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I don't know if Tool is considered metal or not but Sober and Schism are two of my favorites.

Went to the store to get toilet paper today and had to settle exchanging my $20 bill for 20 $1 bills. At least I'm good for a few days.

If there is anything positive to come of this it's that. We are going to face that someday and we need to be more prepared than we are now. This might be the wake up call needed to get our house in order for the day when a major killer disease comes knocking.

That's pretty much how I feel. If the goal is to remain competetive every year trading him in a couple years might have been a better move but who can argue with keeping someone like him throughout his prime?

https://www.brewcrewball.com/2020/1/11/21058985/milwaukee-brewers-orlando-arcia-statcast-defense-infield-outs-above-average Good article, and how volatile is this new computation? 1 12 -4 sure point towards some swings comparable to pitch framing. We are assigning blame % in this right? Raw numbers making that accurate is insanely tricky. People making that accurate is hard to avoid bias. There is always going to be some volatility in any system of evaulation. That's why I like to look at multiple ones along with what people in the know think. If there's a significant amount of agreement among them I think it's hard to argue they're all wrong. Pretty much everything points to Arcia having a down year defensively last year. I don't expect it to continue, but if it does that negates a pretty large part of his value even if he hits to his potential. Personally I'm pulling for him to regain his elite defense. I love great defensive play and always pull for guys who are elite. He can be and I think he will be again but he wasn't last season.

https://www.brewcrewball.com/2020/1/11/21058985/milwaukee-brewers-orlando-arcia-statcast-defense-infield-outs-above-average

Not sure how comparing Arcia to someone who had 2-3 good years surrounded by a lot of bad ones is helping make your case.

After "in the best shape of my life" "I added a new pitch" might be the most clique line in spring training.

It does suck that we haven't developed more but it also sucks that every time we do develop a good one they get hurt. Sheets got abused in a year where we had no chance to win and was never fully healthy after it. Gallardo's career was derailed by his injury his first season and he never fully regained his mechanics. Nelson was just breaking out when he wrecked himself running the bases. It really bothers me more how few RP's we have developed. It is hard to develop starters but you should be raining relievers. Going back further Cal Eldred and Teddy Higuera both had promising careers messed up injuries. Eldred was especially disappointing because his problems were so predictable. Not to mention preventable. He pitched 258 innings over 36 starts (both league highs) in his second major league season. He was never the same again.

The arbitration hearing have gone the team's way this season. That probably shouldn't come as a surprise since arbitration is decided on outdated metrics. When saves are a major component of consideration and teams use their best relievers in non save situations more often the players will lose arbitration cases more often. I posted this then listened to the Hader interview above. Guess I should have listened to that first.

I don't know your daughter but I know I like her after hearing that story.

All on the same night or three different nights? I ask because that would go a long way on determining just how good it was. Not to mention how dangerous.

It is a bit odd but I wonder if the self quarantine is because it is a confirmed case vs just being possible. I could see how people who feel perfectly fine might be more tempted to violate quarantine vs someone who knows full well they have it. Not to mention those who might be tempted to visit the person would be less inclined to visit someone who is sick vs someone who merely might get sick later on.

I don't think there is a set way to evaluate it. A lot of it depends on how the pitchers are used. The Brewers relievers are probably more important to the team's success because the Brewers don't really let the starters go deep enough into games to make them nearly as valuable that same pitcher would be on a team with a more traditional approach to starters. Short answer is get as many pitchers who are good at their role as possible and use the ones who are best at getting the desired results and don't worry about relative value of the role.

We always have new kids who work for us give us some music to play in the shop just so we can here different stuff. Sometimes we get real cool stuff sometimes we get K-pop. One kid thought she'd be nice and give us what she thought people out age would like and gave us the Village People. She could not have been more wrong but we just didn't have the heart to tell her how much we hated them.

I'm not sure his problems was due to overwork in 2018. According to him he changed his workout in the off season and failed to address a certain muscle group or some such thing.

Just be careful with all the Journal Sentinal investigative reporting regarding carcinogens and toxins from roasting beans. I don't know of anyone who roasts coffee that does so without adequate ventilation. There's quite a bit of smoke involved when roasting. Not a nice smelling coffee type f smell either. I tried the one that goes in the rotisserie and found it to be annoyingly slow. The drum also made it hard to see the progress of the bean being cooked. That matters with home roasting because the time it takes to roast the exact same bean changes with things like humidity and ambient temperature. Also beans from one season to the next vary in roasting times. It also makes it nearly impossible to do a dark roast. I also tried a few fancy ones with all kinds of programing features. They never work for the same reasons. If you're actually interested in roasting beans I'd suggest the Alpenrost by swissmar. It's simple to use doesn't have a lot of useless features and allows easy viewing of the beans. The irony is that was the first one I bought. Never had one come close to it for quality of roast since then. Overall if you know what you're doing and pay attention you can make some exceptional coffee. It takes time to learn and these days there are any number of small roasters around to get high quality freshly roasted beans from. Best advice I can give when purchasing beans is get them local from small batch roasters. Any amount of shipping seems to drain something from the flavor. If anyone wants to know more about home roasting I'd be glad to share what I've learned over the past 25 years of doing it.

When did depth not count on paper? I get what you're saying in the sense that if all the starters on the team stay healthy theirs may very well be the best. But the odds of going through a season with only five starters are negligible. That makes the depth more than just an afterthought. It will play a significant role as it does every season. I think the best thing Stearns did this off season was avoid making a big splash on one player and chose to add overall depth instead. You said it right there. If everyone stays healthy, that's the on paper along with just what they could/should do. You can't plan for Shaw/Jesus type things to happen. And for the depth, like I said, you can say the same thing about everyone. If their 5-8 guys were proven or good they wouldn't be their 5-8 guys. That is more than a big if. It's a nearly impossible one. Has any staff every had just five pitchers start all season? Furthermore how often does every pitcher on a staff pitch to their potential? I'm not sure what on paper means to you but for me it includes more than just the starters. That's where quality of depth comes in. I'd rather have five average guys and have 3 more almost as good ready to go than 5 really good ones and nobody behind them. I think the chances of having a decent staff is better with 8 guys who have to potential to be league average or slightly better than four guys who are well above average but nothing behind them that could get near average on their best year.

When did depth not count on paper? I get what you're saying in the sense that if all the starters on the team stay healthy theirs may very well be the best. But the odds of going through a season with only five starters are negligible. That makes the depth more than just an afterthought. It will play a significant role as it does every season. I think the best thing Stearns did this off season was avoid making a big splash on one player and chose to add overall depth instead.

No need to duck. Kiss was a major early supporter of Rush. They played some with them in Canada before Peart was a member and liked Rush so much they had Rush open for them on their Fly By Night tour. Geddy Lee credits Kiss for showing them how put on better live shows. One of the first people Rush let listen to their Caress Of Steal album was Paul Stanley. Who was in turn brutally honest about what he thought if it. Turns out Stanley was right. It was a major flop.

I found out watching Trailer Park Boys a few years back. Rush was by far my favorite band going back to the mid seventies. I have no idea how anyone could be as much a fan as I was/am and not even know the proper way to pronounce a band member's name. Speaking of Trailer Park Boys the episode with Alex Lifeson is still my favorite from that series. He did a couple other things with them but the first episode with Lifeson in it was what go me hooked on the show.

Ditto. While others were writing songs about sex drugs and rock and roll he was writing metaphors about how inequality leads to uprising of the masses and things of similar depth.

Looking at it in a vacuum it was a waste but that was part of an overall strategy to gain affordable talent over time. Obviously that one backfired but that same strategy got us a very cheap Lucroy in his prime. It isn't just Melvin who does that either. Nor is he the only one who misses on some. Stearns tried the same thing with Villar. Lucky for us Villar turned down the offer. I never had a problem with Helms or the deal he got. It didn't work but there was a valid reason to try. Handing Suppan that deal was less forgivable.

Is there any actual health problems with HGH use? I ask because I'm against allowing PEDs mainly because it forces everyone to use something that has serious long term health issues or risk losing their job to those who do. I'm less worried about taking things that don't have serious negative consequences for long term use.

Well played sir. Well played.