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  1. Thurston Fluff
    I have a feeling we will be saying the same thing about Darvis in a year or two. For all the hype they got a few years ago for their strong minor league system they sure had to spend a lot of money to fill holes. It almost seems like they built their team using outdated strategies. It seems like high end starters are not as necessary as they used to be. Going deep into games isn't all that necessary anymore. Yet the Cubs spent boatloads of money and resources on them.
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    If you click on the video on the right you'll see some of the coolest balloon art imginable. It starts with a lot of building of the art but if you go towards the end it's got all the finsihed products. It's well worth a look. https://worldballoonconvention.qualatex.com/en-us/
  3. Thurston Fluff
    At this point I don't think Braun should get to play everyday when healthy and rested. He has to earn his playing time like everyone else. Nothing against him but there are equally good players on this team and none are more suited to part time play than he is. Given his fragility it might be the best role for him going forward.
  4. Thurston Fluff
    The key is best players on the field not best a pharmacy can produce. Like FVBF said earlier it isn't fair to ask clean players to risk their health just to keep up with someone they are better than naturally. The problem with making some stuff legal is a lot of the lighter stuff are used as masking agents. If you move the line and make some of them legal then you essentially make harder stuff impossible to catch. At this point they all know what is going to produce a positive test so there aren't many good excuses left for failing a test.
  5. Thurston Fluff
    There are a lot of young guys on this team playing important roles. I think Stearns may be less inclined to bench roles for young players. As far as him being hired with little more than an ivy league education then obviously all that is necessary to rebuild a team in basically two years is an ivy league education. Frankly I don't think Ivy league educations are that good so he must have learned something since his college days.
  6. Thurston Fluff
    Most rosters have a Drake type reliever on their team. It's a sign of how good our pen is that we can release him despite the fact a coupe of our relievers are still on the DL. Anyway while I was never a fan of his i didn't hate him like most here do. Good luck Oliver. I hope you find some success in the league somewhere some day.
  7. Thurston Fluff
    I had someone change lanes right in front of me without signaling this morning. Had to brake not to rear end him. Ironically he had a watch for motorcycles bumper sticker on his car.
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    Your subconscious must be huge to fit him in there.
  9. Thurston Fluff
    I'm not singling you out for this since pretty much everybody thought the same thing. Looking at it now I wonder why it was such a conventional thought. Yes, we lost a huge part of the rotation with Nelson out but barring Nelson, this is essentially the same pitching staff that ranked number nine in all of baseball in ERA last season. It isn't a team that relied on health to get there either. It relied on depth which only got deeper in the offseason. Seriously who could have known Stearns might know more about this team than all the pundits, talking heads and fans?
  10. Thurston Fluff
    Obviously not great, but I think it's important to remember these are just tune-ups and he is probably (obviously) not game ready. Now, do I want to see him start over, say, Woodruff? No, but if he takes a start from Suter, well, it probably isn't the worst thing in the world. with so many players on the disabled list (including aaron wilkerson on the minor league dl), i'm more concerned about miley taking away a 40-man spot from someone else, because we need healthy minor league depth on the 40-man. i've mentioned before . . . i'm hoping that the brewers are holding out on stephen vogt and manny pina both being activated by the time miley is called to the rotation. jett bandy out, leaving three catchers on the 40-man, and miley taking that spot. otherwise, the club gambles in transferring corey knebel to the 60-day disabled list. i'd like for the brewers to preserve all other players currently on the 40-man (could make an exception for oliver drake, though). From what I've read Thames injury will probably take 1 1/2 - 2 months. Even if he heals on the shorter end he'd only miss two weeks he could have played anyway. So I guess the question would be is a possible two weeks worth of Thames worth losing someone on the 40 man roster at this point? If not, then the answer of how to open the 40 man spot got a lot easier today.
  11. Thurston Fluff
    That's where I'm at. I like having so many good players that one or two going down doesn't effect the team very much. Especially considering there is always one or two players hurt.
  12. Thurston Fluff
    ???? Chacin is a career .187 hitter which makes him one of the better hitting pitchers in baseball. Yea but what was his OPS+?
  13. Thurston Fluff
    Does anyone know enough about him to know if he's a hot and cold sort of pitcher or one that is consistent? I ask because I always felt a guy who predictably gives you an average outing was better for the team than one who is great one day and terrible the next. Even if the numbers at the end of the year are identical how you get there has an effect IMHO.
  14. Thurston Fluff
    How about we just have the date the manger/GM is going to be fired built into every contract when we hire them? Then we can tell the fans what day they will be fired at the same press conference announcing his hiring. Maybe if we take the mystery out of it we can end the cycle of fire the manager discussions that pop up as soon as they are hired.
  15. Thurston Fluff
    I doubt the Brewers have any internal definition of "a #3" or "a #5" pitcher. They signed Chacin to be... Chacin. I think the problem is some fans wanted more and take their frustration out on who we did sign.
  16. Thurston Fluff
    The southern slang has certainly rubbed off on me. I've become somewhat of a cross between the two cultures. Funny story, one time I had a guy at a bar question my out-of-state ID and he called his manager over to look at it to verify. The manager happened to be from Wisconsin and proceeded to ask me three questions...what do I call a water fountain, what's a beer you can only get in Wisconsin and to name three Packers wide receivers. Once I answered, he goes 'it's legit' and walked off. You're gonna fit in just fine. Welcome.
  17. Thurston Fluff
    I wonder when that rule was put in place. It would have made a difference when it happened to the Brewers. Perhaps it was added because of it.
  18. Thurston Fluff
    Pretty much. Are umpires allowed to remove pitchers who don't have control of their fastball because they might injure a batter? I get what the ump was trying to do, but that's not his job. If the pitcher isn't warmed up, too bad. Have him lob a few balls to the batters until he's loose. I'm of the same mind as you two. This happened to the Brewers a few years back and the umps asked Atlanta's manager if he could take a few more warm up pitches and Gonzales refused to allow it. The umps followed the rules but also took the time to tell to Smith to worry about his safety instead of the game. As did RRR. Smith did so and predictably got hit hard and it cost us the game. But that should be the penalty for stupidity. In RRR's defense, he didn't have his normal coaches in place because two of them were at their kids graduation. This one is even less forgivable.
  19. Thurston Fluff
    I see you changed your original post but even this one, umm... of course he’s better than Drake. It’s an upgrade. Why wouldn’t people be happy about that? So if a guy puts up better stats, isn’t that a good thing? And upside? Drake is 31 years old. These guys are what they are. Jennings has just made a career at the MLB level at getting guys out pretty consistently. Pena and Swarzak shows that guys are not always what they are by age 31. That was just last season on one team. Every season in baseball there are multiple players around the league who come on like that. Relievers are the most likely spot for that to happen. That does not mean I am in favor or keeping Drake over someone who is doing better. I just think sometimes people are to quick to write off players.
  20. Thurston Fluff
    I guess if you have the money it's better to both pay one guy to be the guy and stock up a bunch of NRI's with in AAA and see what shakes out. I just don't think throwing a lot of money at him is any more a guarantee of it being fixed than scouring the waiver wire or trading for someone would be. Overpaying for something just because you need it doesn't mean you bought something that fixes the problem.
  21. Thurston Fluff
    Exactly. They would have had about the same chance of having an effective closer signing a few lower level pitchers and a few NRI's and seeing what stuck. I get the idea of needing a closer for a team that has playoff hopes but throwing money at someone just because they did it once upon a time doesn't automatically fill the void. Nor is it the best way to attempt to fill it.
  22. Thurston Fluff
    I always felt that was one of the best things about Firefly. It mixed the best of westerns and sci-fi so perfectly.
  23. Thurston Fluff
    With how erratic relievers are from year to year, Drake is about as likely to be successful as half the relievers in baseball. I'm not saying he's going to be good. Just saying if he's on the roser to start the season I'm not all that worried. If he sucks rocks for a month the damage would be no worse than any number of supposedly good relievers around the league will be then he gets replaced.
  24. Thurston Fluff
    I'm not sure one season of pinch hitting means he's really good at it or it was just just small sample size noise. I'm also concerned that his pinch hitting ability is related to his overall playing time. That is something he won't have with Braun taking his starts at first. I get your desire to have a good pinch hitter but isn't the need for that somewhat mitigated by the fact one of Braun, Santana, Cain, Yelich or Thames are on the bench every day? If I had to choose between someone taking a roster spot just for pinch hitting or using that spot to have more options on the position with the most question marks on the team I'd take the latter. In places we don't have a known quantity then I'm all for having a lot of options. If they can get a lefty reliever for one of them fine. But I think the chances of that are about as good as me getting a spot in the rotation. I am left handed though soo...
  25. Thurston Fluff
    That's the problem with hypothetical questions, see I read it as you wouldn't know the result going into each season. So you wouldn't know 9 seasons would be horrible up front. Even so though, I would still take the WS title. I guess if it was worded to say: looking back after a decade would you rather see one championship and 9 losing seasons or nine playoff appearances and no championship, it would be a harder choice. Even then, if I was in the year 2028 and looked back and saw one World Series win a decade ago and nine losing seasons after that I would probably be more disappointed than if I looked back on a bunch of postseasons but no championship. But that is a much harder thing to choose from than knowing the next nine years are going to suck.
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