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I joked with my cousin that maybe someone should set up a GoFundMe for the Brewers. I'd contribute. I don't want the team moving to freakin' Nashville or anywhere else. Maybe there's enough other fans around the country/world that would want to keep the team in Milwaukee, too. I understand that people don't want to pay taxes. And there are plenty of people that don't give two hoots about the Milwaukee Brewers or any sports teams.

That was pretty wild. I still remember attending a Brewers-Twins game at County Stadium and Jim Gantner and Steve Lombardozzi got into it at second base, causing a Donnybrook with several side fights. My cousin and I were loving it. Our fathers gave us death stares to “knock it off” and stop promoting the violence. I need to look this up. If I remember correctly it was either the day Roger Maris died or the day Kate Smith (of “God Bless America” fame) died. I was at both games only because I remember them making a big deal about both on the County Stadium scoreboard And, yes, my dad and my uncle both were very sad about both announcements.

if you could 100% guarantee that the Brewers were going to make the World Series with Shohei on the Brewers roster (not necessarily win it, but at least make it that far) I think I would make that trade nine times out of ten, even if it cost Chourio, or any of the others. If it cost all three? I think that would be too high of a price. But no one can guarantee that. No one. So I'll keep my choice of "amusement".

He's the Jim Gantner on this club, except for Bryce has excellent defense as opposed to average (maybe above average?) defense. I still enjoy seeing him play ball. Maybe he'll improve next year. And maybe not. I'm willing to give the kid some time. I don't think anybody thought he would be a top notch, can't miss hitter when he was drafted, or am I incorrect?

I still think that a lot of Burnes' resurgence in the last handful of starts is due from him knowing / being told that he will not be traded. All season long, he seemed (to me) to be pressing--"I gotta make a good start in case I get traded" [doesn't make a good start] "Dammit, now I gotta be even better the next time!" etc. etc. I think it got in his head. Since that alleged talk with Matt Arnold in NYC, he's been lights out, almost as if he now fully relax and play ball without the pressure of possibly screwing up his trade value. Just my take. . . .

As others said, it seems that he got a bit “testy” (to use a Uecker-word) once he got hit by that line drive. I’d hate to see us give up on him, but it is the nature of a rule five player. He certainly has flashes of goodness. As for Gott and Topa, it’s the same thing. They flashed some good stuff for us but weren’t consistently good (or healthy, in Topa’s case.). There’s no guarantee they would have performed for the Brewers this season the same way they have in Seattle (due to coaching, usage, or some other intangibles.). You tip your hat to them for finally finding “it” and you wish them luck. Relievers are a dime a dozen and seem to be the one position where you can be great one year and absolutely crummy the next. And everyone accepts that.

I think, at this time, it is unlikely that he would be back this season. But I'm sure, as always, there is a slight chance that he could be available at the end of September and into October. But, again, this is extremely unlikely.

MLB TV app on my Roku is bugging me. But only some of the time. My wife and I have decided that all home games we will listen to the radio call while we watch the video feed from Ballys. Since we live in AZ, we can’t just get ok’ Ueck on the radio like normal WI fans. The great thing is that the MLBtv app automatically syncs the audio and video for you and, when it works, it’s glorious. However, starting last season and continuing into this one, the app will crash multiple times during the course of a game. We will be watching the game and listening to Ueck and then WHAMMO! It’s a crash to the home page of the Roku. It does this several times a game. Mind you, when we just watch the video feed with the Ballys audio, it doesn’t crash at all. The “radio crash” happens on both of our Roku players. I’ve checked for updates, but there are none. I’ve done the uninstall/reinstall that people on the internet have suggested with no luck. Even the app support says it’s because my internet connection is not good, which is completely false since every other app we stream does so flawlessly (the wi-fi router is literally ten feet away.) We’ve resorted to playing the Ballys video feed, muting the tv, and playing the radio feed off the mlb app on our phone or iPad. That leads to constant manual syncing as best as I can each half inning. I guess that works but it sure would be nice if the radio crash didn’t occur.

You could take the OP’s post and paste my username in front of it and most everything would apply to my situation, as well. I’ve gone to therapy for about three years now to deal with my anxiety and depression-type issues. It has been a godsend for me. And I, too, would have always been one of those , “I don’t therapy” kind of guys. But if you find the right therapist it can change your life. im still a devout introvert but it look at myself more of an omnivert (or even an extroverted introvert.). If I know you, I can be the life of the party or talk to you about anything. But if I don’t know you, it would be easier for me to have a root canal than to go over and try to talk to you. And sometimes, I just want to be left alone to do my own stuff. I’m glad that mental health, especially in men, is coming more and more into the forefront and, likewise, more and more people and accepting and understanding.

My wife and I have begun looking into this topic in the last year. She hits 30 years next school year. I will in 2026-27. In Arizona, teachers can “double dip” by starting to collect your pension and still go back to work at a slightly reduced year-to-year contract. I’m having a tough time convincing her to “double dip” while I finish up my career, as we could easily bank that extra money to help pay for a good portion of health insurance until Medicare kicks in at age 65(???) or whatever age it ends up being. But she wants out. She is so frustrated with the system and the politics of a low-income school that seems to be more and more focused on test scores while behavior (student and parent) has gone down the toilet. She’s already promised a colleague that she’ll do year 31 because that colleague’s daughter will be in her class. So I keep asking her why not at least do one year of double-dipping, you know? It’s better than nothing! But I’ve kind of given up battling with her over the other couple of years. Past that, I think there’s a very good chance that we’ll just stay here in Arizona. If we somehow won the lottery (big problem: you gotta play to win, and we don’t play) then we would probably buy a place in Wisconsin and do the snow bird thing. But otherwise, my wife is officially done with snow, cold, mosquitoes, humidity, severe storms, and other Wisconsin things. I’m pretty sure I’d be fine with it, but whatever. Happy wife = happy life, right? The extreme heat isn’t that big of a deal, it really isn’t. So that’s not a problem. The mild winters are great and, where we live, we’re good for one or two days each winter that we’ll get snow—although we’ve actually had a couple of snowpacalypse events for our area in the last three years. But it was all gone in a day or two (it was so funny watching the natives try to deal with it!) We’ve got many investments to go along with our pensions so we should be fine with retiring at 55, although I wish the markets were better. Thankfully, we won’t be touching those investments until we’re well in our sixties—at least that’s the plan—so hopefully things will turn around. I AM concerned with social security and whether or not it will exist by the time we’re 67 (or, again, whatever age it changes to) but I don’t want to make it any more political than that. I am thankful that the light at the end of the tunnel is getting bigger and brighter. I never thought it was going to happen.

I see some Pedro Cerrano in him at the plate. yes, I realize he’s a fictional Major League player

I don't believe it's back yet on Youtubetv. Now that Sunday Ticket has at least some prices, it'd be nice for Youtube TV to get their act together with MLB Network. I'd kinda like the discount on the Sunday Ticket prices. Knowing my luck, they'll resolve things on June 9th, just a couple days after the early bird prices expire.

This sounds pretty awesome.

This isn't MLB news, per say, but I saw this also on Quick Pitch last night and wanted to comment. Yesterday, Miami and Minnesota played a game in Miami with the roof open and their "windows" open. It was beautiful! Probably the best I've ever seen that mausoleum, er I mean stadium. It's too bad that they can't play more games with the roof open down there. Darn Florida rain . . .

I think the article for the games does a really good job of creating a recap for those that did not see the game. And I like the stats, graphs, and video tweets, so I don’t have to look for them myself. At the same time, I don’t know if I, personally, need a recap of the entire game, especially when I can just watch the 20-minute game recap on mlb.tv. But I do see the usefulness of this article.

I saw this yesterday on my twitter feed. While I deplore all things Cardinal, this way actually pretty neat. The guy is certainly one-of-a-kind. I applaud him for wanting to try things out before he retires.

Sports Illustrated, like many print magazines, are basically extinct. What does exist is small articles that point you to go to their digital version, include their daily stuff in their website and, probably, Twitter. i, too, have subscribed since the early 90s and renewed my subscription about a month before they decided to make it a monthly. I had renewed for two years, and was at least happy that they are honoring my purchase for 104 issues, so my subscription doesn’t run out now until 2028 or something like that. Lol

MVP: Christian Yelich CY Young: Brandon Woodruff Rookie of the Year: Garrett Mitchell BA Leader: Sal Frelick HR Leader: Rowdy Tellez ERA Leader: Corbin Burnes SO Leader: Corbin Burnes WAR Leader: Christian Yelich Breakout(s): Frelick, Weimer, Varland, Disappointment(s): Urias, Miley, Contreras (he’ll be fine, but we probably expected more) Bold Prediction (s): Brewers get an All Star starter (not necessarily voted in by the fans) Record: 91-71 Playoffs? Yes, NL Central Champs, beat themselves in NLCS as bats completely disappear

I can’t believe Barstool Sports has been using a “Rage Room” (sponsored by Jack Links) to smash stuff up with a baseball bat on camera. I’m clearly getting too old to understand things anymore. (Of course, half the guys going in to smash stuff look just about my age or a little less.) Ugh. How old are we, really?

So . . . the only way to vote is on Twitter? I don't have a problem with that, per se, but it seems there should be a way to vote here on the site, too. Unless I missed it. Which is entirely conceivable.

I think it would be really funny if Rodgers comes on McAfee's show to make an announcement, and either the Packers or Jets (or both) say, "Screw it" and announce the trade about 15 minutes before Rodger's makes his appearance.

@SeaBass I appreciate what you said about the show. I have been on the fence about starting the show because I have never played the game, since it was always a console-exclusive (I'm a PC gamer.) Now that the game comes out on PC this month, I have incentive to play the game and then watch the show. However, I am also a CHEAP PC gamer, meaning that I never, ever buy a game full price, always waiting for sales and almost exclusively waiting for those 75% off deals on steam or some other gaming site. So, it'll probably still be months/years before I play the game! 😆

I boldly pick that, for once, the Brewers will not surrender some scrub player's first home run of the season/career in July, August, or September (emphasis on scrub player, not a rookie) that just kills a ballgame for us. It seems the Brewers give these up a lot and cost them a game or two. (I'm pretty sure it happens to every team, but it'd be nice if it didn't happen to us, for once.)

Nice article, but Sexson did not come up with nor play for the Guardians. I think you could have (and should have) put the actual team name in your article. I remember Sexson for his opening night homer at Miller Park (somehow managed a pair of tickets in the nose bleed above the chalet) and his “non home run” that was hit more than halfway up the flagpole in Houston. Heck of a player.

This was the same for "Man vs. Bee" on Netflix. Something like 9 or 10 episodes but each one is only about 15-20 minutes long. Hilarious, if you like Rowan Atkinson humor, that is.