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  1. MrTPlush
    A salary floor is more important: Why? Partially because a salary floor wouldn’t exist without salary cap. So the answer is really both combined. But even then, the forced revenue sharing that must happen to allow such a salary floor is more important than a cap. A floor or cap is useless by itself, honestly. Forcing the limitation of the Dodgers ability to spend while forcing the spending of other teams is the most ideal situation. In theory, it should also spread out talent a little more and make more teams competitive.
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    They are better and by a lot for a variety of reasons. They can carelessly spend money to fix problems, we can’t. They have a better ability to drop prospect capital to fill holes. With all that money, they naturally have better depth in general. Also, the top versus bottom offensively is quite a bit different. We have 3 sub .600 OPS hitters and none that are close to a .900 OPS (within say .020 OPS). The Dodgers have zero sub .600 hitters taking major ABs and two that are close to a .900 OPS. We have black hole free outs to get them out of jams…they don’t have that in their lineup. That’s just a huge difference. We may have some true TOR guys better than we have in awhile…but they still have a really strong rotation that is better than ours, likely. Their bullpen is as good or better. We need to play incredible baseball and get some luck…that’s tough facing the Dodgers. Unfortunately we get one stab at it per year…so even if we succeed 3/10 times…that’s not very often in the grand scheme.
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    Not a great outing by Ashby. But his defense sure didn’t help with Chourio chickening out on a fly ball and a 2 out error.
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    Is Hill a wild pitch candidate? Only reason I can think you would want to maybe go three. but even then….not when it is that tough of a play.
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    It is really unfortunate that the Wisco thing was an idea that made it to final product, because the entire concept itself is quite genius. Brewers are very much so a state team more than just about any other team in baseball. So the concept made sense…and the supper club food area is pretty cool. The logos are cool and I’d argue the unis are decent. The blue is much better on the field and the matte helmet always look pretty slick. I don’t like them, but they are always a little out of the box with city connect jerseys. I imagine someone looked up slang ways to say Wisconsin and landed on ‘Wisco’ as potentially being kinda cool/young. Unfortunately, it isn’t a hit and it appears the marketing was heavily made around that term. Someone probably thought they were about to make that a cool term and you would instantly associate it with the Brewers.
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    Screw the bobber logo. Should have been an old fashioned with a ball as the cherry. Honestly, should have just put Wisconsin across the front. Also, cheesehead for the hat.
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    I never really get the Mitchell hate. Yah he K’s a lot, but he also mashes the baseball too. Might stop him from being a starter, but I think he can be a really good 4th OFer.
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    AppleTV exclusive for a game of the Brewers and Royals. Probably paid $10 for the right to that. Government needs to step in and stop this garbage, actually getting ridiculous.
  9. MrTPlush
    2 outs, runner attempts steal of 2nd, strike 3 called, runner stops running, catcher makes bad but not horrible throw to second. what exactly happens? Unable to determine result and they just have to put you back at first?
  10. MrTPlush
    I don’t particularly like this deal and I don’t agree with some people’s belief these extension usually work out for the team. Singleton, Kingery, Jimenez, and White are all pre MLB debut contracts that sucked. Luis Robert Jr. also likely to be a bad contract barring a massive year to make $20mil options seem like a good idea. I think that is like half of all pre-MLB debut contracts. Does Pratt really have the ceiling and skill to be giving this kind of contract to? Idk, I guess we will see how he does at AAA. One of these contract by itself is low impact…put 3+ of these contracts on the books and it isn’t a blip anymore. The more you do the more likely it is that a few are total flops and negate any gain we see from the one player that actually pans out.
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    I think even CB knows he sucks so when the Rays tagged Bauers he just figured he missed a call.
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    Umm…………………….
  13. MrTPlush
    Sanchez made it known early in that at-bat he was going boom or bust. He went boom.
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    I’m guessing the long term success to the challenge system is challenging mostly on the pitching side and to avoid batting challenges unless it’s very obvious and a ‘big’ pitch.
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    I can’t wait for the super inspirational explanation of how every fine detail came together for this ugly fit. Lmao
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    Also, Boraa is like the player and his big payday is years and years away. He could represent this guy for years just for him to burn out. I doubt Boras is shedding many tears for the money he just made on a random prospect. Bet he would do it every time.
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    People upset over this are really failing to use critical thinking and basic math. 6 times to break even….6 times. For a season ticket holder who uses it 82 or so times in a season, saves them $900. I bet many break even on this in 2 games. Similar used to be a season seat seat holder reward option for the Brewers and was very popular.
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    Forward is the state motto. Which I think is why a state slang term is on the front, very much so trying to make it more so ‘state connect’ than city. Which I actually don’t think is a horrible idea as the Brewers are very much so a statewide supported team like the Packers are. If that was the goal though, should have gotten the rights to use Udder Tuggers.
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    Probably about half of them. The old Brewers one was widely regarded Top 10 even Top 5. Most of the leaked new ones for 2026 are pretty awesome (Orioles/Pirates). But also…you are old so you won’t like any of them. Additionally, you are also probably not of the non age demographics these are targeted towards. and note in response to you: These suck and don’t even make sense. This uniform is everything city connect jerseys aren’t supposed to be. The cursive with the fat line underneath? That is such a weird choice.
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    I’m guessing this is false and not actually something that was said. Either way it makes no sense. He took over a program that had little to zero historical tourney success. Actually, basically never made the tourney. Bo took them to a Sweet 16 appearance his second year and never lost in the first round till his 5 (and consecutive) tourney appearance. By which time he had already seen the Elite 8. Gard’s resume is nothing like BO’s. Gard has been not making the tourney or choking to a lower seed for a whole decade now. A team built by Gard has never been to the S16.
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    Gard is probably the guy for Wisconsin (not a WI fan fwiw), but that guy is an absolute pro at being a total choke job in the tourney. 3/3 losing in the first round to a 12 seed. 2/2 failing to make the Sweet 16 as a 3 seed. One time failing to score 50 points against a double digit seed. One has to wonder what Gard/WI does to game plan for these impromptu games against unknown opponents. Clearly it isn’t working.
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    He won’t play under the option. The purpose of the option is basically a tactic to make Contreras never be a data point in arbitration cases in the future. A jump to $14.5mil next year is unlikely from an arbitration standpoint. He’d basically need to have a 2024 level year or likely even better and still sit outside of the Top 4 in MVP. It becomes a mutual option if he is Top 4 in MVP voting and then he can decline it (still will be arby eligible). It is why the whole “just pick up the option and be nice to Contreras” thing never made sense even if we aspired to extend him. Contreras is signing these contract knowing the purpose of the option year is merely a contract technicality. No one expects it to be picked up.
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    Doug Melvin would be calling Yuni B out of retirement right about now.
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    If you took rookie hitters that weren’t phenomenal prospects and they then placed in the ROY voting (that also didn’t put up crazy stats to get votes) you would see most of those guys regress massively and often become fringe MLB players. I think trading Collin’s and Durbin is just playing the odds and likely selling high on them before they have no value 6-12 months from now. We could be wrong…but history says we probably made a good choice.
  25. MrTPlush
    Well, no, I don’t think it is all the revolutionary because we still have a gigantic disadvantage over the Top 10. The gap is arguably getting even bigger. Actually, I’d venture to argue teams like the Cardinals etc. being in the same boat as us actually just makes things even worse for us. Those upper-middle payroll teams weren’t afraid to spend some cash on extension and/or FAs. That at least helped steal some talent from the big markets. Now those Top 10 teams are the only ones not in financial turmoil/distress. If the commish can make his dream happen and put us all in the same TV pot and close the revenue gap because of this, then yes, it is revolutionary and he saved baseball.
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