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Those all allowed hits though. The question that was posed, that I also don't have an answer to, is what if they don't allow a hit? So say the final stat line is: Pitcher A. L. 9 IP 0 h 1 R 1 ER 4 BB. Is it still a no hitter? I would think probably?

I was at the game and I missed when they announced it but remember commenting to my buddy that I figured they had about 25k and it was a pretty good crowd. Early on it was empty but filled in nicely and we were joking that the Bucks may have more for their home game. Nelson was fantastic too!

Even in what will most likely be a tough year for the W/L record, there will be things that individual fans will take enjoyment out of watching. Watching some new young guys break in and hopefully develop, maybe some kids like Arcia or Phillips make the 25 man later in the year and play good ball. That's what this thread is about. Honestly, and this probably isn't overly 'positive' but as someone who roots for the Brewers, but really just likes to go and watch games, I've always sorta liked years like this. I grabbed two for tonight in 115 for 20$ a piece on the internet, will go, have a beer, watch Johnny Cueto pitch which I always love to see and have a great time regardless of result! It's gonna be cold, it might rain, but I'm going to sit and watch live baseball with good company, a beer, and a dog and I couldn't be happier about that!

No; I thought it was exhausting (not in a good way) and tedious. It should have, and could have easily, been 30-45 minutes shorter and gotten the same points across. I thought the only part that really saved in any way was Hardy.

This made no sense to me and seemed just oddly off. My initial thought was 'well of course that's the case, you get more at bats with no people on than with people on, thus you'd expect more solo home runs. So I decided to do some math. Khris Davis has 1142 career ABs; 628 of them have come with no runners on. That meas 55% of his at bats the only 'home run' outcome is a solo home run. There were 4909 home runs hit last year in MLB. 2887 of them were hit with no one on. That's .588, we'll say 59%. All of MLB isn't a power hitter. Khris Davis hit 17 solo home runs last season; 27 home runs total; or .629. So we'll call it 63. Players with a higher percentage of solo home runs include Alex Rodriguez at 76%, Mike Trout at 78%, Manny Machado 74%, and Josh Donaldson at 68% More striking to me is that 10 of Davis's home runs came when he was leading off an inning. Over half of his solo home runs, he was the first person to Bat that inning. I'm sorry he didn't hit a single instead? Albert Pujols ended with .625. or 63% as well. Bryce Harper ended with 25 solo home runs, on 42 total home runs or 59.5%. 12 of his 42 came when leading off an inning. His last four home runs were with runners on. If you take those out, it's 66%. Which to me shows how finicky this statistic can be. So really looking at league averages, I don't think it's unreasonable for a power hitter to have 63% of his home runs be solo shots while playing on a team that ranks 25th in OBP. So lampooning Davis because he hits solo home runs, seems, well, off, for lack of a better term. And, further to the point of not producing runs outside of power, I'm pretty sure if every one of his lead off home runs had been a single or a double, the Brewers would have scored fewer runs on the season. And to be even more of a nerd; last year there were 85436 plate appearances in MLB. 56926 of them occurred with no one on base. That's 0.666 or 67% of the time someone steps up to the plate. Numbers are fun.

This made no sense to me and seemed just oddly off. My initial thought was 'well of course that's the case, you get more at bats with no people on than with people on, thus you'd expect more solo home runs. So I decided to do some math. Khris Davis has 1142 career ABs; 628 of them have come with no runners on. That meas 55% of his at bats the only 'home run' outcome is a solo home run. There were 4909 home runs hit last year in MLB. 2887 of them were hit with no one on. That's .588, we'll say 59%. All of MLB isn't a power hitter. Khris Davis hit 17 solo home runs last season; 27 home runs total; or .629. So we'll call it 63. Players with a higher percentage of solo home runs include Alex Rodriguez at 76%, Mike Trout at 78%, Manny Machado 74%, and Josh Donaldson at 68% More striking to me is that 10 of Davis's home runs came when he was leading off an inning. Over half of his solo home runs, he was the first person to Bat that inning. I'm sorry he didn't hit a single instead? Albert Pujols ended with .625. or 63% as well. Bryce Harper ended with 25 solo home runs, on 42 total home runs or 59.5%. 12 of his 42 came when leading off an inning. His last four home runs were with runners on. If you take those out, it's 66%. Which to me shows how finicky this statistic can be. So really looking at league averages, I don't think it's unreasonable for a power hitter to have 63% of his home runs be solo shots while playing on a team that ranks 25th in OBP. So lampooning Davis because he hits solo home runs, seems, well, off, for lack of a better term. And, further to the point of not producing runs outside of power, I'm pretty sure if every one of his lead off home runs had been a single or a double, the Brewers would have scored fewer runs on the season.

A 'Caution Countdown Clock' at racing events. Always been more of an open-wheel snob but do like all forms of motorsport. But seriously? A timer counting down so you throw a caution if one hasn't happened? What ever happened to racing!?

I probably wouldn't develop a specific fandom. I think I'd just end up watching less baseball, tuning in when the national games matchup interested me or seeing how many MLB Network live lookins were around. If I had to it'd prolly end up being the White Sox just because I have a fair amount of friends on the South Side of Chicago.

Four of Eight here. I think it would be awesome if Mad Max won. But I just can't see any way that happens. Best Director may be a possibility. I've seen four of the eight and will be pulling for either The Martian or Mad Max.

Will preface this with saying that I really liked Birdman and had no issue with it winning last year. Saw The Revenant this weekend. Hated it. Cinematography wise, it's gorgeous, although not really any more so than A Walk in the Woods from earlier this year. Everything else wise it got really boring in a hurry. The beginning and middle part of the film seem to just drag on. For example, the plot points that the trailer indicates the movie is about, occur about 65 minutes into the film. I can't imagine giving DiCaprio the Oscar. He's not 'bad' in it. But in my opinion both Hardy and Gleeson were better. Hardy has 'more' to do than DiCaprio. DiCaprio does very little for the vast majority of the film past crawl around and grunt. Hardy's accent is a little weird, but I didn't really have any trouble with it, nor find it overly distracting. The closest thing I could really think to compare it to is the isolation from The Martian. And in my opinion Damon was better than DiCaprio is here. But Damon certainly had more to do and more to work with. Perhaps I just went in with too high of expectations. I saw this this last weekend, and The Hateful Eight the weekend previous (3 hr 70mm film version or whatever) and thought they were both too long, dragged, and were very disappointing. A buddy of mine and I go to a movie pretty much every weekend and have for nearly ten years. We see a lot of really bad movies, we see a lot of good. We got to talking after The Revenant and went over our top five from the year and came up with, in no real order: The Martian Pawn Sacrifice Mad Max: Fury Road Star Wars: The Force Awakens A Walk in the Woods Sicario I saw both Joy and Brooklyn without him. Liked them both but neither really felt like it should win to me, although of the two Brooklyn felt more deserving.

I'll just echo what other's have said. It'd probably be easier to get a hotel downtown, rather than one in Wrigleyville, which, for all intents and purposes is a residential neighborhood more than a tourist area. I've stayed at the Hotel Palomar (Illinois and State) multiple times, it's about 180 a night, clean, get a pretty good room, nice restaurant in the hotel I enjoy (Sable). I have no idea if they have a two night minimum. I'm usually down there during the week, and not on weekends anyway, so that may affect cost of the room. And it's also usually just myself. And I have pretty basic needs from a hotel room. But there's plenty of hotels in that downtown River North area, including just about every chain. I know a few years ago I stayed at the Westin on Michigan Avenue and the Brewers were staying there at the time and plenty of players were in the bar at the hotel a few hours after the game. I do not remember the cost of the room from that. But it was back in like 2010-1. All I remember from the game is the cubs walked off on a walk on a pitch right down the middle.. And from the Palomar you literally walk out the door, turn right, and there's the Grand station on the Red Line. From Grand I believe it's six stops northbound to Addison and Wrigley is literally right there. It's also a pretty easy to cab TO Wrigley (Probably about 20$ though, compared to 2.25/person one way for the red line). It's much more difficult to get a cab AFTER a game though. Just make sure you get on in the right direction. Northbound to Wrigley, Southbound from. It's not always as clearly labeled as you'd like, especially when you're underground at the station. On the positive side though, there's usually plenty of people in Cub or Brewer gear heading out to the game. Just stick with the herd and you'll get there! Some get off at Belmont though to hit up a bar on the way in or something. I suggest waiting until Addison for a first timer and finding an establishment around there (There's plenty) as to avoid any confusion. From the Westin getting to the red line is a little more complicated, but it's just a few blocks to the Chicago/State station, and a few more to Clark/Division as well, depending if you walk north or south. Chicago/State is probably closer.

I don't disagree. I think I read in the past that they have trouble recruiting the 'elite QBs' away from the more passing oriented schools because of the reputation as a run first offense. It also plays into Alvarez's comments of 'the type of player they can recruit'. They know they can get a great line, so they focus on getting a great back, and fill in from there. They've certainly had their fair share of success, but I think we all see what Wilson managed to do and wonder if more like that could get them into the playoff.

They should have probably been fairly mediocre this year, but they had a running back that put up Barry Sanders-esque numbers. But mostly, a very good offensive line and very good running backs. They've had pretty good QBs in the past too. Wilson has obviously turned out to be pretty good. Tolzien was nothing to scoff at while in college. Stave actually has decent numbers. Made some poor decisions this year, but they didn't really have much in the way of receivers. Their QBs aren't often elite, but they're typically at least decent, if not better.

Seconded. And I didn't even realize how awful they were by comparison until someone convinced me to listen to the score.

Me. April-All Star Break usually. And then after that I usually tune it out until around the last week of August. Not sure why. It's just been like that most years.

it kind of lost me when it said Adam Dunn was having a down year because he's only hitting .223, which, you know, is only higher than his batting average has been every year since 2010.

According to Wikipedia 290 million of Miller Park was publicly funded. Also according to Wikipedia the total cost was 400 million (533 in 2014 dollars). So what, about 73% was publicly funded? Take those numbers for what they're worth as they are from Wikipedia and I didn't look at the citations.

Part of me wonders if the entire thing wasn't just a made up story coming out of the whole 'Soichi stray dogs' thing that was designed by some marketing person to take the spotlight off of the whole 'Ryan Braun' thing. And then part of me wonders when that part of me got so cynical that it can't just be a happy dog rescue story.

I'd have to agree. I saw everything but Nebraska and Philomena and thought that most of them were good but not great. Honestly, I feel the best movies I saw all year were Frozen, Rush, and The Wind Rises, and I felt that those (especially Frozen and The Wind Rises) were heads and shoulders above the rest. But hey, there's probably a reason I don't review movies for a living!

Die Hard all the way.

Pretty much exactly what Teatoe and theBwaz said.

Day games during the week always use to be half price 'kids and seniors' days too, which always helped. Not sure if they still are, though.

I threw a perfect game in my Road to the show in MLB 11 after the Brewers loss. It made me feel special. Too bad I was traded to Cleveland.

I'm in Brookfield and it's been getting darker and darker with lots of thunder and lightning. No rain yet, though, which seems kinda strange.

Yea, I pretty much agree. Just about all that appears to be down there is Taylor Green, who has a pretty good line at .258/.358/.445/.803, which probably isn't an upgrade over McGehee at the major league level. Although I do like the 21 walks in 128 ABs.