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These are just my thoughts. I doubt any traction could be made on these ideas, but in a perfect universe, I'd love to see some these implemented: --A salary floor. Make teams pay "competitive" salaries and get more competitive teams as a result (maybe? Hopefully??) --A salary cap is NOT ever going to happen at this point. I would settle for some actual damaging punishments for those teams that do go over the supposed luxury tax threshold. And I'm talking DAMAGING: 1000%+ penalty per dollar (?) over this threshold. Plus automatic loss of draft picks, starting with a first round pick for even $1 over the threshold, a second rounder once you go over $1,000 over the threshold, a third rounder if you go over $10,000, etc. etc. Just make it REALLY painful for a team to be paying so much money to players. --Revenue sharing of TV/radio/Internet money. I would also be fine with MLB taking over all broadcast rights themselves and sharing the money that way. Team-owned broadcast channels would go away. --Have all players worldwide subject to the MLB draft if they want to come to America and play in the MLB. --Get rid of the deferrals. Immediately. No grandfathering in, either. Sorry, Dodgers, you'll need to start paying Shohei and everyone else their actual salary each season. --Perhaps get rid of arbitration and make free-agency start after 5 complete MLB seasons. Again, I am perfectly well aware that probably NONE of these things would be agreed upon. I bemoan the likely fact that MLB could shut down in 2027, just when more of our Brewers prospects should be up and strengthening our team. And if baseball were to disappear for an entire season (or longer?) how many fans will they lose? Would the revenue streams that the owners/players depend on in today's game even exist in 2028 or 2029 if the fans say, "heck with it, I found other things to do with my money instead of giving it to you" ? I, myself, will always love baseball no matter what happens. I might not go to as many games, buy merchandise, etc. but I'd still pay attention and hope that they can get things fixed. My worst fear is that nothing is really accomplished and they sit out for a season or longer only to sign an agreement for 5-6 years that really accomplishes very little or nothing.

Gone are the days of Pete Vuckovich saying, "Give me a cortisone shot and then give me the ball!"* *-not an actual quote

Well, so glad I bothered to turn on pregame on TBS. It’s 90% Cubs talk. Thank god for unplugging my center speaker and putting Brewers radio on a Bluetooth speaker!

Well? Did the thread do the job like in games one and two? Or did the fans do the Scrooge McDuck thing from Cubs fans because they’d rather go to the Badger game? inquiring minds want to know!

I wondered if you were there. Congratulations! A hell of a ballgame!

This game is now in “all-timer” territory. It has certainly earned the moniker. Just a great game and another reason that baseball is the best!

No doubt! Both teams have been nails. i really really hope tomorrow isn’t anywhere close to this stressful. 10-2 Brewers would be just great! Please????

Wow!!

Nope, not me. This is awesome. I wish it was still like this all the time. I know I’m in the minority.

I’m out for the night on the site*. I’m hoping that I can come in here tomorrow and read a really enjoyable game thread! Go Brewers! *-subject to change

Well. . . . I'll go on record that I'm not a fan of Freddy pitching in tonight's game. On the road with the wind blowing "out", I guess I'd rather go bullpen game and hope to outslug/outscore the Cubs and hold Freddy for game one of the NLCS or, at worst, pitching game 5 at home where he has been pretty dominant. That said, I have to have confidence that he'll get the job done. It's just not what I would've done. That's all. Regardless, Go Brewers!!!

Because they want that big Philadelphia market to watch the game in their prime time rather than late at night

Sorry to say, this was inevitable due to all of the “shoulda used Priester in game 2” stuff I read the last couple of days. are those people correct? Maybe. He might’ve been just as bad. for those that were okay with Priester today, playoff nerves and all the hubbaballoo over Priester being a Cubs fan as a kid did not help him out at all. thankfully, it’s just the first inning. But yikes

Well said, and precisely the exact reason I predicted the use of Miz before the game started.

I hope that this is legit, but why do I feel that any Brewers fan that steps inside will be ridiculed, abused, and maybe even tarred-and-feathered? Sad that today’s culture has made me feel that the latter is more likely than the former. I wish we lived in a better world…. If legit, I wish you luck and thank you for your kindness—win or lose—in today’s society. I’ll be drinking in my living room in Arizona but I’ll maybe tip my hat to you into the ethersphere (is that a thing?)

I haven’t seen anything anywhere about when Jackson “felt it again” but my speculation is that it didn’t occur on that long foul ball in the corner to end an inning, but rather on the double play grounder that Swanson threw into left field. Jackson had to side-step/hesitate step Busch to avoid getting tripped and that is when I believe that he probably “felt it”. A hesitation move like that involving some quick semi-unnatural movement would do it, I would think. But who knows?

I know it’s not optimal, but I could totally see Murphy using Miz after Ashby instead of Priester, solely to get him work at home rather than at Wrigley, where he might be more apt to nerves (maybe?) Or maybe he uses Miz AFTER Priester goes through the lineup once. I really don’t care and anything I speculate is just for fun; I just want to win the game. I don’t care how they get there on the mound. heck, maybe this will all become academic after we jump out to another big lead (or *gulp* the opposite)

Well, yes, I already know that. But why is it suddenly okay to have 13 inning games in the post-season?

I still don’t understand why they play with one set of extra inning rules during the season and then a completely different set in the post-season.

They did. I think I have it on an old video tape from 1988.

I believe that I recently read that they changed the K-ball rules. Before, kickers and punters could play with them just a little bit during pregame. But now, the restrictions are gone. Kickers and punters can truly break in the k-balls to their specifications during the week, warm up with them on the sideline, etc. The article went on to explain that this is why there is a rise in 55+yard field goal attempts this year and why coaches are fine with kickers trying 60+ like it’s nothing. wish I could remember where I read that, though

You’re not alone. I have always thought the same thing. Absolutely NONE of that video sounds like Uecker. None. yes, I seem to remember Ueck being down in the clubhouse, too.

At least the 17 in a row in August is virtually guaranteed to not need any rain-caused doubleheaders.

I'm in three leagues already, but several contests (including a guillotine league). I'm game if you do it.

Ortiz is like the Jim Gantner (well, sorta). Meh hitter but a really good glove