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Saladino, Davies, and Cain coming up in the 5th. Will we score?

(1) Move Hiura up in the lineup! (2) Let Arcia be a starter once again. (3) Stop giving starters days off when they already have had them earlier in the week (i.e., Grandal) (4) Play the organ much more to get chants going at the game! (5) Let front-row Amy be the pitching coach. (6) Move Cain to 8th/9th in the lineup! (7) Trade for one decent pitcher (reliever or starter) (8) Trade for one contact hitter Do these 8 things and the Brewers will be great once again!

Brian Anderson tonight says, "Zack Greinke is either really good or really bad" each game. Is he really the Brewers regular play-by-play guy?

(1) Move Hiura up in the lineup! (2) Let Arcia be a starter once again. (3) Stop giving starters days off when they already have had them earlier in the week (i.e., Grandal) (4) Play the organ much more to get chants going at the game! (5) Let front-row Amy be the pitching coach. (6) Move Cain to 8th/9th in the lineup! (7) Trade for one decent pitcher (reliever or starter) Do these 7 things and the Brewers will be great once again!

Bad call for Cain and the Brewers on the called third strike ... suspend the ump for the rest of the series, please. He was just tired and wanted to go eat at the hotel.

There is ZERO chance in hell they could get the fans to be okay with that.. This is on DS..all on him..this team had problems awhile ago and instead of going out, being aggressive and getting someone, he just keeps thinking the players on the team will improve. This is what he gets...he has to own this. Period. I think just about every fan on here besides you would be ok with it. They simply aren't good enough. This board does not represent the fanbase though...plenty of fans that don't post on this board I can guarantee you wouldn't be happy about it...in fact, they'd be furious; As furious as the players threatening to go on strike in 2021 because of the lack of competitive balance?

Well, at least we have Keston!

The Brewers offense is not quite good enough to carry this pitching staff to anything significant this season as the roster is currently constituted. We must either buy or sell, but we certainly cannot stand pat and expect anything other than mediocrity this season. That's my 2 cents! Go Brew Crew!

So true ... especially when an owner's revenue stream is far less than other teams' revenue streams!

Better revenue sharing is needed! https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Revenue_sharing

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/sports/mlb/whatimhearing/2019/07/11/mlb-players-furious-willing-strike-over-economic-system/1708461001/ They are whining over lack of competitive balance--not enough teams trying to win! Why is there a lack of competitive balance? Perhaps, because large market teams have lots more money than small-market teams! I wonder why that is ... maybe because there is no salary cap or revenue sharing like the NFL has. But, I don't think the players union wants either one of those things ... wah! wah! wah! If you don't want to fix the root cause, you will have this lack of competitive balance that you're complaining about, players!

Baseball is at a crossroads. What does it want to become? =========================================== Opinion: Major League Baseball is at a crossroads. What does it want to become? Bob Nightengale USA TODAY Published 6:42 PM EDT Jul 9, 2019 ============================================================ CLEVELAND -- Major League Baseball once again celebrates their sport Tuesday with the All-Star Game, showcasing the greatest collection of young stars, including one of the finest players to ever grace the playing field in Mike Trout, in a proud city steeped with baseball tradition. Yet, when everyone returns home Wednesday, getting ready for the second-half of the season, reality will finally hit: Baseball is at a crossroads. It must decide what it wants to become. Does it want to remain this nightly edition of home-run derby, with players swinging for the fences every time they step to the plate, with home runs, strikeouts and walks accounting for nearly 40% of the action? Or does it want to return to the game it was designed to be, with teams manufacturing runs, managers employing hit-and-runs and players bunting and stealing bases Tony Clark, the players union executive director, who played 15 years, had five seasons of 30 or more homers, retired just a decade ago, and hardly recognizes the game he once played. Neither does anyone else. “I think our game needs to figure out what it wants to be,’’ Clark said Tuesday. “It’s safe to say there’s a dramatic change in how the game is played. Our guys know their place in how the game has been played. “I don’t think there’s anything in our game that can’t be remedied by a little more baseball.’’ Yes, old-time baseball, when players were embarrassed by striking out 100 times a season, not just by the All-Star break. When hitting 30 homers a season was a magnificent feat, not first-half numbers that simply got you into the Home Run Derby. When it truly defined your hitting prowess to be a .300 hitter, and humiliating to be hovering around the Mendoza Line. Those days are long gone if MLB doesn’t do something with their baseballs. “The game has changed,’’ Clark said. “I believe the ball suddenly changed. The ball is different. Nobody has presented the why, yet. The question becomes, what are we going to do about it. “I’d be lying to you if I said I wasn’t concerned, both as a player and as someone who watches the game played on the field.’’ Commissioner Rob Manfred adamantly insists they are the same baseballs. They have not been intentionally doctored. The only difference is the drag of the ball has changed, resulting in the most home runs hit in baseball history in the first half, and on pace to obliterate every home run record. He has litany of major-league pitchers who just so happen disagree with him, with American League All-Star pitcher Justin Verlander saying “Major League Baseball’s turning this game into a joke.’’ Still, Manfred stood his ground for an hour during his press conference with the Baseball Writers Association of America, insisting there is no change to the ball. “The basic characteristics of the baseball, as measured by the independent scientists that we asked to do the study,’’ Manfred said, “provides no support for that. What there is support for is the drag of the baseball is a little less, and when you have less drag, it goes further.’’ And no, please stop with the conspiracy theories, Manfred pleaded, that baseball secretly ordered the balls to be juiced to fight back their declining attendance, with 18 teams drawing fewer fans at the All-Star break than a year ago. MLB: Manfred says the balls aren't juiced, so now what? GOT JUICE? As home runs increase, the doping question returns to baseball “Look, baseball has done nothing, given no direction for an alteration in the baseball,’’ Manfred said. “As a matter of fact, we commissioned an independent study to make clear there has been no intentional alteration of the manufacturing process. The biggest flaw in that logic is that baseball somehow wants more home runs. If you sat in an owner’s meeting and listened to people talk about the way our game is being played, that is not the sentiment among the owners for whom I work. “There is no desire on the part of ownership to increase the number of home runs in the game. To the contrary, they are concerned about how many we have.’’ The juiced balls, intentional or not, is among the litany of anxieties that are troubling the players and the union. The middle class is disappearing, both competitively and economically. There are 20 teams within five games of a playoff spot, but nine teams on pace to either win or lose 100 games for the first time in history. Two dozen of the All-Stars are making the minimum salary. Two of their biggest free agents, Dallas Keuchel and Craig Kimbrel, didn’t sign until a month ago. And their greatest stars, players such as Trout and Boston Red Sox MVP Mookie Betts are barely recognized outside their sport. This is why Clark and the union met with Manfred and MLB lawyers before the All-Star Game and informed them that they are interested in re-opening talks at the halfway point of the Collective Bargaining Agreement that expires after the 2021 season. “We are interested in reestablishing a competitive environment,’’ Clark said. “We are interested in establishing meaningful free agency. We are interested in players getting value as they are producing it. We are interested in getting the best players on the field … “I would like the system to work the way it is intended to.’’ Clark would love to see baseball act with the urgency of NBA free agency when their biggest stars signed within days, and not eight months, at the advent of free agency. “Teams are more efficient at what they are doing. They have more restraint than they have before. It has seemingly been more structured, more coordinated than we have seen in a long time. “When you start hearing the same stories over and over again, you start asking more questions.’’ Clark avoided using the word, “collusion,’’ but the message was clear. And, yes, he would love baseball to step up their marketing game. “I’d really like to have our players not have the ability to walk down the street and not be recognized,’’ Clark said. “We are at a time where the talent level of our players is off the charts. There is truly a chance to push our cards across and engage generations in a fashion we haven’t before. “Promoting our guys on baseball channels will not get us there. Baseball fans know who Mookie is. Non-baseball fans deserve to know who Mookie is. “Mookie should be a one-name guy. You say Ronaldo, you say Messi, you should say Mookie.’’ So, as you see, there will be plenty for the union and MLB executives to discuss during the course of the summer and winter. We’ll see just how willing MLB is to make changes to the economic system when they already have a contract in place until Dec. 1, 2021. But much quicker, and realistic, we could find out just what kind of game everyone wants baseball to become. Manfred still wants quicker and faster-paced games. He no longer is pushing for a pitch clock, but revealed Tuesday that he most likely will recommend to owners they implement the rule that requires pitchers to face at least three batters in 2020. The extra-inning tiebreaker will remain in the minor leagues and at the All-Star Games, but won’t be employed at the major-league level. And, oh, about those baseballs? That will tell us everything we need to know what direction baseball plans to go in 2020 and beyond. If the balls stay juiced, baseball will keep continuing with its nightly Home Run Derby. If they are deadened, it may lead to the game returning to its old-school values and strategy. We should know this winter which way baseball wants to go. “I try to be positive about the way the game is being played,’’ Manfred said. “It is a fact when you poll fans, people do like home runs. But I do think there is a concern the strikeout and the home run have become increasingly predominant in the game. “If we make a decision to change the baseball, you will know about it before we change the baseball. We’re going to continue to be transparent.’’ Follow Nightengale on Twitter @Bnightengale Published 6:42 PM EDT Jul 9, 2019

I would like to see baseball's commissioner publicly apologize to Sabathia for forcing him to leave Milwaukee, due to the unfair revenue-generating advantages that some teams have.

Not much enthusiasm in this thread ... I found the celebrity all-star game more intriguing than the homerun derby, I might add.

I hate the HR derby in its current form. It was much better with Chris Berman announcing and guys getting outs for non-homeruns. What I would rather see is skills competition such as: --the fastest man in baseball around all the bases --pitchers having to hit targets with certain types of pitches --hitters having to hit balls to certain fields on command (landing on the outfield grass) --rightfielders throwing to third base --left/centerfielders throwing home --etc. Baseball needs to use more of its imagination for their showcase week ... keep the HR Derby--allowing only 5 outs each round to speed the thing up and eliminate the possibility of guys simply getting worn out and having to put with long rounds of unimpressive popups, grounders. liners -- shorter rounds might make more people willing to participate and would allow a wider/larger selection of sluggers in the competition, too. MLB has to step up their game (impose a salary cap while you're at it, too!!!!!)

Not just an all-star, but Wood is all-class!

Yep, that is what big-market teams do ... they take your stars because you cannot afford them and then come to your town to beat you. They take your cake and eat it, too! Boo, MLB! Fix this! We couldn't afford Manny Machado last season, and he beat our brains out ... remember that? We had to settle for Schoop ... remember that? Go Brewers! Defy the odds! Play with a chip on your shoulder!!!!!

@ tomwopat And this goes to show what I've said a lot in this thread -- the MLB is UNFAIR -- even with the most loyal fan base theoretically, our owners/team still cannot make enough money to truly compete for available free agents nor in retaining stars!!! Boo, MLB! Small market fan bases should go on strike from the MLB -- bring the MLB to its knees until we have reform and fairness. Small-market teams are glorified minor-league-teams in some respects for the big-market, deep-pocket teams! Boo, MLB!

I agree with all of this ... BA is not a true Brewers fan ... I am convinced of that. Matt Lepay is more enjoyable to listen to in the booth with Rock. Matt Lepay doesn't seem to be in a rush -- and is honestly rooting for the Brewers with Rock.

We've won the 8th most games in MLB since Attanasio hired Stearns. I think they share the "blame" for that in some proportion (along with Counsell & the players themselves & the rest of the field staff & front office). The Stearns hiring was brilliant on Attanasio’s part. He hired a boy genius that re-built this team with help from Melvin’s all time record hader houser Phillips Santana Trade, among other moves, in near record time. Avoiding a tank that would cost the team lots of revenue. My guess is Stearns has made Attanasio over 150 million in the last 3 years if playoff revenue is included. 2.5-3 million fans year after year, 20-60 million in profits every year. All we are is a fan, that continues to overperform their market size to the extreme. It’s laughable how much this fan base supports this team, and, that’s it’s NOT reciprocated with a payroll deserving of said fan. 127 million is embarrassing. I believe this supports your cause/the fans cause quite a bit! Check out this:

Waaaah, see ya. Honestly, no one cares. I care! Don't give up! We need you! We need die-hards!

Tomorrow at church ... maybe, pray for Burch?

I no longer watch the NFL Too many kneelers?

Don't you like it that Aaron Rodgers stays in Green Bay? Don't you like it like it that little ole' Green Bay (barely over 100,000 in population) can compete with New York, Chicago, and LA every year and sign and retain players on a level-playing-field with them? Sure you do! The NFL gets it!

I don't think sports is for you. Maybe quit sports. Your asinine rants on here won't be missed that's for sure. I like "fairness," your rudeness, notwithstanding!