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Romania is going to decline the change, right? It was all about how terrible it was to give it to Chiles and the effect on the Romanian girls mental health. But really, they will have zero issue robbing it from Chiles because of some delusional technicality of 4 seconds and even though the Romanian girl was literally the loser by skill/execution.
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To be fair, it isn’t really much of a relay. Basically just adding up 4 people’s 400 meter times. The 100 meter relay the transfers are actually a huge part and difference maker in the race. I presume a huge issue with it is the fact the US is so loaded. Sounds like a good thing until you got 3-4 people making the 100 and 200 meter sprint finals. They practice some during the week for the relay, but they end up with zero actual race experience all week.
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Kenny Bednarek, the WI Native, defended his silver medal in the 200m. USA basketball avoids a shocking upset and stormed back to beat Serbia. Took till the 4th Q for the USA to actually look like they wanted to win and tried working as a team.
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My first thought when I saw the pondering of charging for a ballpark village was "Wow, this is what the state gets for giving the money before knowing what it was for and before the Brewers would commit to a ballpark village." I can't say I am surprised, but it is still pretty pathetic. Hopefully the Brewers can be like every other sports team under the sun that made an entertainment district and find a way to make money with something that is at least free to get in the front gate. As far as the insanely expensive all-inclusive areas, I don't know, that seems like a REALLY steep ask for the economical Wisconsin market. The current options are very economical and cheap...and even then often times are not filled with groups. Often they are much under the max capacity. Are Milwaukee businesses really going to go crazy dropping $400+ a ticket to take their groups there? I think a lot of it comes down to the lack of attendance, at least in certain sections. The club outfield is a notable ghost town. You could blow that up and just make expensive areas.
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That finish was crazy. He went from in the race, to looking like a distant 5th place, to somehow storming back for the gold. Rooks steeplechase finish was equally impressive.
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I find a few of the things pretty surprising. Revamping the family area and wanting to charge for it, especially considering it is in the terrace level, as a weird direction to go. Though I imagine the reaction to that will be negative enough it never sees the light of day. I also found the whole charging for a potential 'ballpark' village pretty odd. I guess it depends on the details, but I don't know why you would make it in a way that it has an admission. I don't know of any other entertainment district that has a generic admission like that (minus a special event occurring).
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The Brewers sent out a survey today asking for opinions and interests as they embark on renovations, so check your email. A few concepts were put up for consideration: 1) A revamped family area in the terrace. After answering questions about it, it then hints at the possibility of charging a special ticket package price to even have access. (Yikes) 2) Entertainment district for year round activities. It again asks if you want to pay for it (on non-game days). 3) VIP parking area and potential valet. 4) Fancy Membership (thousands $$) 5) New premium seating areas So basically renovations for people spending big bucks and a reduction in economical areas of the ballpark.
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I mean, who cares? At worst it is a fun and goofy concept. Should we really fault the MLB for trying to grow interest in the game? There are almost 2,500 games a year
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With how cautious they have been anything more than .25 cut would be incredibly shocking.
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With that skid no team is currently on 100-win pace. The last year no team won 100 games was 2014.
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But it is if you want to make it a requirement. Forcing everyone to spend hundreds more to mow their lawn just to make things quieter seems like HOA type policing. Is noise pollution really a pressing issue though? If we wanted to make a difference with noise pollution my first step would be putting up walls along interstates and/or other busy roads. That would make much more of a difference than my neighbor mowing his lawn 30 minutes a week.
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If you are going to make a lame 'I told you so' post, at least being a part of the original discussion might be useful. Coming into the thread in retrospect to act smart is really unnecessary. The forum is a free discussion board, but it isn't a mosh pit and last I checked has rules. Which FTC is breaking at least a few of them. But thus, respecting other people and trying to be a positive member of the forum should be something you strive to do regardless. I don't really get trying to defend what FTC did. There is nothing wrong with looking back on things and pointing out how it was wrong. For instance, pointing out how Chourio did this in the minors so it might have been predictable is a completely valid way to go about it. Mocking a forum member for enjoyment is just odd and weird. FTC can have good discussion, like many others, it is a shame they insist on being negative towards others' opinions to make themselves feel better while doing it though. But thus, that is all I will say on the subject. I am sure the moderators can sort it out.
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Is there an expert Rugby analysis of this somewhere? Feels like such a choke job defensively. It is almost like everyone on the field just kinda shrugged their shoulders and thought the match was over...except the ballcarrier. It is like they just assumed she wasn't going to give much effort to run the field and after the first missed tackle no one was actually prepared to make a play to stop her. Props to the ballcarrier actually believing she could pull that off.
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I think everyone on the forum should be able to start a thread without needing to concern themselves with someone coming in 3 months to make some mega lame condescending reply that is basically just to troll someone. And people wonder why the forum is dead and people don't bother posting on here. Jopal is an active member who gives good discussion and he gets to open up his notifications to someone just being an arse for fun. Soon enough @Brock Beauchamp is going to have to make bots to post on the forum so the Fear the Chorizo's of the world can still have someone to be dick's too. But just to add: On the year he was striking out 36% of the time up to that point. In the 11 games prior to his post he was striking out 47% of the time and .111 BA. He had just double and a homer for XBH's in those 11 games. On the year he had only two doubles in what was almost the entire month of April. Was he as bad as Holliday? No....but Chourio was absolutely horrendous in April. So, I really don't think pondering a demotion was a crazy thought. Even if in the minors he often times started slow. MLB is very different than any minor league level.
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45 minutes run-time is not ideal for a .5 acre. Especially if you have anything that will aid bogging down the electric motor (long/dense/wet grass). So that isn't comparable at all. The Echo seems like it could do it, but again, we are now $200+ dollars more expensive than a gas one. I am not a battery lawn equipment or anything hater, I even owned a plug-in hybrid for a while. However, the bigger the battery powered thing gets, the less financially attractive it becomes. The batteries are so dang expensive if one stops working after 5 years or just degrades that much, the entire mower is basically going to be junk. If the $180 battery breaks on a $329 mower, are you really just going to buy a new battery? Probably not, so it is a brand new $330+ mower every five years? Gas engines are so simplistic even abusing one and the mower will chug along for 15+ years easily without any maintenance.
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A gas mower is going to cost you approx. $350. An electric lawnmower worthy of cutting .5 acre is going to cost about $750 because you will need extra batteries. The only way the price gets pretty comparable is if your lawn is .25 acre or less. Mainly because the price floor of an electric and gas mower are pretty comparable. I don't think my neighbor's care about me mowing at 11am or 6pm. Are there actually places where everyone hates the noise of a mower? Sounds like a miserable place to live. This seems like a talking point where 'electric is quieter', but no one actually really cares one way or the other.
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Require me to pay 2x the price for a mower that 'might' mow my lawn on a single charge? Even then, it 'might' for a year or two before the battery degrades and then I definitely won't finish on a single charge. This is even before considering with my dense and vigorous growing grass a gas-powered lawnmower is definitely more effective. Just make things as cheap and as effective, people will happily buy electric in most cases. Like those leaf blowers? Yah, who buys a gas one these days? My local Home Depot appears to not even carry one (minus the backpack ones, but that's a bit more than normal use). Trimmers are also a pretty popular thing most seem to get electric these days.
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#1 I think one has to accept the fact Wiemer has basically no trade value and is quite worthless. #2 I think one then needs to accept the fact his opportunity for playing time with the Brewers was on a ship that had set sail. So, I don't know, I guess I really don't care they traded him. His time with us was over and he had no value. If he becomes a good player, good for him, it wasn't going to happen here.
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Ahh, yes....Mahomes. I kind of figured Brady might have done it, but he is such an outcast he shouldn't be an example for anything. Even with Mahomes, they have won after that so that really isn't a good example of needing to win on the rookie deal. The NFL is so QB focused these days it would be hard to have a good QB prospect even fall into a situation where they would have a good enough team around them even if they managed to come out of the gate pro bowl level. Most teams that are a QB away chase the Kirk Cousin's of the world.
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Who was even the last QB to win a Super Bowl on a rookie deal? Russell Wilson? Since 2000 there are maybe like 3 occurrences?
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Just because you didn't have an irrational hate, doesn't mean there wasn't one. He was kind of the player many decided to make the organizational punching bag. It was a little odd because usually that guy is someone on a bigger contract that isn't living up to it. K's or not...it usually isn't a guy with an OPS+ of 113 playing for league minimum.
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2024 - 25 Wisconsin Basketball Thread
MrTPlush replied to Jim French Stepstool's topic in Other Sports
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Tesla did it, but they also had an advantage no one else will ever get...they were the only one trying to do it. Until the push in the last 5 years or so (thanks to the government pushing for it) no automaker really tried to challenge them. Would Tesla have done as well or even survived had the other automakers jumped onto the EV bandwagon? Honestly, I am not sure they would have. Now that all the automakers are hopping on the bandwagon it makes it just about impossible for a company to try and challenge that. It is like many other industries where the ability to get notable market share is hard to do and be profitable because the second you try they will all squish you like the little fly you are. Could a massive company like Apple try to push their way in? Maybe, they have the funds to do it....but I also think they would need to motivation AND a crazy dedicated guy like Musk running the ship. A lot of Musk's success is the fact he just goes all out and is willing to fail. He built his value on that. Apple is already a massive raging success, so it is hard to see them taking a risky plunge into automaking.
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A partnership attaches you to a trusted name though and I also imagine it gets you into their network of dealers. Apple wouldn't achieve either of those things. Tesla is on their own, but that isn't without huge struggles/difficulties. I don't know that I ever see a dedicated electric brand succeeding in the US (minus Tesla).
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Outside of NL Central,what’s your team you hate?
MrTPlush replied to Gump's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Dodgers, the fanbase is quite pathetic. You go to Dodgers Stadium and it is a stadium filled with losers and frankly the most unmidwestern vibe ever. Not really a fan of the Phillies either. Again, the fanbase is just kind of pathetic.
