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  1. folly412
    Like the first two. The delays for challenges / non-challenges were lengthy. It needs to improve on the MLB end as well; less obvious reviews that somehow take several minutes to make a call. And the OCD batter routines have gotten absurd. Not a huge fan of the commercial break guideline, but I guess we'll see how it's applied in practice. I usually like the cue of hearing BA and Rock after a commercial to know it's time to get back into the room, or getting the intro on a reliever before the inning begins. Overall, decent changes. I'd like to see a limit on catcher visits to the mound as well. No reason to allow a pitching coach to visit, catcher to visit, and catcher to walk halfway to the mound a couple more times all in the same inning, and all too often you get most of those events to one critical batter. Allow one catcher visit per inning, and count the delay from the catcher walking halfway to the mound to throw the ball back as a visit.
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    I like the idea someone brought up of allowing teams to call up as much as they want of their 40-man roster, but allowing them to only keep 25 active for each game. They'll deactivate recently used starting pitchers, which still allows for roster flexibility, but without the absurdities of using two relievers every inning and multiple pinch runners just because the roster size exceeds any practical use.
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    Sweet, let's draw lines on the field to box in each defensive player too. We can even spin that off as a player safety move since it would reduce collisions if every fielder stayed in his box.
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    They had a Milwaukee native on Sports Jeopardy a week or two ago. Thought that was cool until he said his favorite sports memory was that no-hitter.
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    Branyan. I just connected the fact that somehow The Muscle is one of my favorite former Brewers, yet Reynolds is one of my most despised. I can't figure myself out.
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    It's ok. I kind of like the logos, even if they're trying to make something without a brain look intimidating (and giving it big eyes). They are unique and have a nice color scheme. But not sure who OK'd the hat/logo variant that proudly displays the letters "BS".
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    Agree. And the inexperience will be a huge factor for some time, something we're not used to after having a coach who literally played freshmen the fewest minutes of any school in the country during his tenure. Walking into that environment is a tall order, even more so with Duane Wilson and Cohen playing their second college game, Johnson and Taylor coming off a lost year, Burton still not right after losing his mother and struggling to find his role, Derrick Wilson playing hurt and not very good to begin with. The up and down Anderson and second game with the team Carlino are the players closest to being "established". There's a load of talent on the roster - of the 10 including Fischer, six are top 100 recruits and Taylor and Carlino weren't. Just going to take some time to gel, and getting a 6'10" player in a month won't hurt.
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    In the Cy Young voting too. After all, Molina's game-calling is more dominant pitching than Kershaw's actual pitching.
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    I'd rather have 26 year old Lind, though I wouldn't want to pay for him. It could be much worse...it could be Overbay and Reynolds. As far as that platoon mate, anyone but Reynolds. Became one of my least favorite Brewers ever.
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    I could think of a lot of cool combinations of things to purchase if I felt like dishing out $1K on Brewers collectibles. This would be right above dedicating an entire room of my house to Wes Helms memorabilia.
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    Shocking, and just horrible news.
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    An ESPN Insider article by Jim Bowden titled "Joe Maddon could land with the Cubs". Seems a little odd. At least I thought Renteria did a nice job with them this year. Then again, Epstein has more stones than Melvin to could go ahead and make a move like this if he thinks that it would be an upgrade.
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    Agree. By the eye test only he wasn't the run-saving, black hole...Gold Glover that he was last year. Still very good.
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    Edgar gets his players to play inspired, smart ball. His not so smart decisions haven't managed to sabotage it all.
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    Can one brother but not the other, can one base coach but not the caricature. I suppose it was foolish to expect more.
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    I like the batter's box rule most...there's no need for a 30 second OCD routine for the batter between every pitch (though it'll shave 30 points off Tulo's average). The IBB rule is logical, and often occurs while the inning is already dragging on. 20 second rule is ok if used loosely, i.e. enforced when the pitcher is really dragging things along or stepping off repeatedly. Would be a little surprised if the inning/pitching breaks are ever implemented; heck, I think they're ideal at home for a bathroom/snack break. Not a fan of counting the number of timeouts, at least not an allowance for the entire game. I think there's a good compromise here, i.e. all too often the stalls occur when the catcher calls time, the pitching coach calls time, and then catcher walks halfway to get his word in...all to the same batter. It's got to be closer to one of those per inning, not all of those to one batter.
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    Are you talking about in the general media, or on this board? Milwaukee fans tend to be a bit hyper-critical of Yost (or basically anyone who ever manages or managed the Brewers). You know, just like they are of the Cardinals. Probably not any more severe here than what the national guys gave him. David Schoenfield, for example: "Ned Yost Shows Why He's A Terrible Manager" http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/52046/ned-yost-shows-why-hes-a-terrible-manager Also followed up in a postgame article, saying "Yost did make one of the worst tactical decisions in recent playoff history."
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    What I'd give for a team that played with a fraction of KC's inspired resiliency. The 2-0 lead in the first would been enough to get our lineup going through the motions and maybe lucking into one run on a ground out double play.
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    I wouldn't want Edgar anywhere near a contending team. I'd hand him a bad young team to make competitive since he's 2/2, just as long as there's an eject button.
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    With Escobar-Aoki-Cain at the top of their order, the Royals finish the season scoring only three less runs than the Brewers (42 more after August 1), on 55 less home runs. Actually, their reputation for an anemic offense is a bit overblown - #12 in runs scored after the All-Star Break. We were #28.
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    http://www.blackdog.net/postcards/images/occasion/ann12.jpg Horray! Nothing like going 1-9-2 in the final 12 series to close out strong.
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    Davis has to be one of the injuries that has been kept pretty quiet but has really been problematic. Had a bad last few weeks, but if he's barely been a platoon player with Parra when he was supposed to be the starter and they're bothering to play Braun every day and Davis hardly at all something just isn't right with him.
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    I'm quoting trwi7, quoting Todd Rosiak, quoting Attanasio, whose quote is original but sounds like he is quoting Yogi Berra. Thought this quote by Melvin was spot on: Exactly right. This team went 2-11 before the All-Star break, then had a 3-16 stretch to complete their collapse. That's beyond a Melvin problem for one or two roster deficiencies. Only teams completely devoid of talent or experience can explain that type of collapse, yet this team has both. Turn the nightmare of that 5-27 into a couple traditional "rough stretches" at 12-20 and this is a playoff team. It should be the end for this staff.
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    Congrats to Alcides Escobar, Norichika Aoki, and Lorenzo Cain on their first career playoff appearance. And the first managerial appearance by one Edgar Frederick Yost III, who with a lineup featuring those three as his 1-3 hitters has managed seven more wins and scored only four less runs than RRR's team despite 54 fewer home runs.
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    Agree, with "something" being the key word. If it's rolling a couple heads, making a couple legit impact moves, or declining expensive options/trading cost and making it a point to not have the 29/30 rated farm, those are all somethings. Continuing a predictable pattern of signing an average free agent to pretend an investment is being made and bringing in a score of gritty veterans as non-roster invitees is not making something happen.
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