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  1. Playing Catch
    I agree with Jay87. I think Clarke is a good bet to have a decent MLB career -- even if it's just a Luke Voit-style RH slugger 1B/DH type of career. Martinez has intrigued me for years. It would be pretty fun if he turned in a 20/20 season this year, and makes for a tough decision for Brewers brass to keep/lose him.
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    Credit to Collins for having them locked in the whole game, my lousy prediction was somewhat based on my belief they'd come in flat, fighting the 11 am start and snow. I also expected that the Badgers would do a better job on the boards, and of course, a better job with ball security. I also expected about 45 free throw attempts.
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    Now THIS is the kind of officiating I hate.
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    That kind of improvement while drafting as a two-time division champ and two-time wild card... I'm not sure what else needs to be said for people that don't believe it's a well-run organization (which requires leadership and investment).
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    So you're saying he could play first base??
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    Speaking for myself, part of the reason I don't mind a little disparity is simply due to the economics of things. The larger markets already subsidize the smaller markets, not just in financial terms, but in bringing eyeballs to ballparks and TVs. (Without doing any research on the topic), I would guess that the vast majority of baseball fans ONLY pay attention to their own team, unlike in the NFL or NBA. I know that once the Brewers are eliminated, my interest in baseball really craters. If MLB wanted NFL-levels of parity, MLB would lose millions and millions of eyeballs (and dollars) because if the Mets and Yankees were as bad as the Jets and the NY Football Giants, it would ultimately impact stadium revenue AND TV revenue in that market. If we were being honest with ourselves about desiring a perfect competitiveness-to-revenue ratio across the league, The Brewers would move to New York to become more financially AND competitively viable. With this said, I believe MLB is nearing that tipping point of competitiveness, and that further rules will need to be added to maintain the current competitiveness of the league.
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    Badgers are going to absolutely crush Northwestern today. 85-60.
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    This is officials' favorite trick, IMO. There's a bunch of dead-ball, non-turnover, non-shooting fouls on one team, and with the same number of fouls called, the other team shoots 20 more free throws.
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    I guess I'd have to watch it again, I just always know going into a B1G road game that the road team is gunna get hosed a few times. I just don't like it when the Badgers get hosed AND they get into foul trouble, or AND there's a big discrepancy in foul shots (when both teams have about the same number of fouls). That's when I feel like the fix is in. The slanted calls/no calls in favor of OSU didn't result in either of these events, so I felt fine. I usually reserve my hatred of refereeing for those games when the Badgers play against an aggressive defense predicated on forcing TOs. It's THOSE games that drive me nuts, because the Badgers will get called for ticky-tack stuff while the aggro-team gets away with murder.
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    Gasser had a hard time getting out of the shadows, too.
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    I'm looking around other game threads... am I the only one that thought this game was officiated really well by a couple of disciplined defenses?
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    Max is awesome, no one has said otherwise. But he's gunna need to continue to take advantage of being the 4th defensive priority for the Badgers to keep winning these games. He's like all of those Purdue guys who are clearly down the pecking order, but end up their 2nd leading scorer. He'll be All-B1G defensive team. Is that enough credit?
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    We, as fans, may need to either just accept that he'll be on the team at least until the deadline, or the Brewers will get back a package that we don't really like.
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    The other thing with Burnes is that the teams that would be trading for him know that there is little hope/expectation that he would sign an extension. I see in all of these team-specific threads on Burnes that it's hard to find an acceptable trade for both sides. In the Yankees thread, for instance, even the fanbases can't find a trade that they both like.
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    I still respect Clancy for these efforts... although if everyone did it, it wouldn't work. When was the first Brewerfan top lists? Like 2004? Toby's Top 40 or something like that? Or does it go back even further?
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    I'm guessing Vegas is already aware of all this?
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    I agree with the last few posts... My guess is that teams believe that, in terms of trade value, Cease>Burnes primarily due to the extra year of control. Perhaps teams are slowly ramping up to an offer for Cease, and then the losers of that auction will then turn their attention to Burnes(?)
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    MLB made a lot of big changes to the player development schedule in recent years. I can imagine them changing things up with the off-season schedule in order to draw interest from fans. I would imagine it would have a lot to do with the NBA and NFL schedules and being able to provide headlines for media outlets (and therefore, we consumers). I think it's good to start everything immediately following the World Series, though. It prevents issues with "tampering," and other shenanigans.
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    I think, if anything, MA would want to keep the Cubs down EVERY year. If the Cubs win in 2024, only to have the Brewers win again in '25, '26, and '27, I think he'd be fine.
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    Oh, certainly, they are perhaps the two most important pillars of the program, so poor choice of words on my part. I just meant -- like you mentioned -- that he may look at the tradeoff with Essegian and believe it's worth it. I'm also not sold on Gard's explanation that Conner has suddenly turned into Gary Payton in practice.
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    Gard is a smart coach. There are a lot of ways to win basketball games. It's possible that while Gard will always pay lip service to defense and practicing, that he senses that this team may win by being really good offensively and outscoring teams, and living with less than stellar defense.
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    This might be the key question in this thread. I might say... "yes?" (Of course, 1/100 is probably a 'no,' but maybe 1/50? 1/75?). Miracles are fun. Miracles are forever. The game is about glory.
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    I'm sure casual fans will say, "It was just Nebraska at home, who cares?" But I've seen enough... The Badgers are Final Four-good.
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    I prefer to wait until after players do things stateside before getting too excited, but it's hard not to like the profiles of these players. Quintana, Made, and Peña all profile as "stars," rather than "regulars," (who are also valuable!). Two switch hitters with power and a guy with plus-plus speed is fun to dream on. I maintain that the comparison to Quero sounds fun, but my guess is that Corobo is a defense-first catcher from Venezuela... and that's where the comparison ends. I'd love to be wrong, and I LOVE defense-first catchers, so I'll still be watching.
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    Every single rotation player has had one or two signature moments this game. And what I continue to marvel at, is that they STILL have lots of room to improve.
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