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  1. MrTPlush
    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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    To be fair, I don't think any coach likes it.
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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).
  14. MrTPlush
    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.
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    In the last two years he once failed to manage an OBP over .300 and once couldn't manage an average over .220. He may get to a mid .700s OPS again this year, which would be nice. This doesn't scream like a guy that is going to produce heavily into his 30s... especially when his defense starts sliding down a hill. You know who Adames is like? Carlos Gomez. Dude is exciting as heck to watch as a young athletic guy, but those types of fun dudes usually don't excel in their 30s. And the thing is, Adames defense nor his offense are honestly anywhere near peak Gomez.
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    I do think they are pretty plug and play, yeah. Counsell went from a player to a manager and was competent. Though a lot of his success is due to Pat Murphy. It seemed pretty obvious Counsell leaned heavily on Murphy during games because Murphy was a little more experienced in that aspect. Give someone good players and a competent coaching staff around them, won’t matter much who the manager is.
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    Let me put it a different way: Managers are basically just replacement level at best. There really isn’t anything unique and valuable to any one guy. You basically just need a guy to make a nice clubhouse environment and not be an idiot. I think many teams get caught up trying to find ‘that’ guy and make him be more than the figurehead they are.
  18. MrTPlush
    I don’t think there is anything complex about the Yelich trade. First off, I don’t think the extension should have any relevance. Secondly, 3/4 of the players have had a negative career WAR. Monte Harrison’s 0.1 is the only positive. Collectively it is something insane like over -7 WAR. Mind boggling insane and one of the most lopsided in baseball history for sure.
  19. MrTPlush
    Swanson is why I have zero interest in resigning Adames...and never have been. Basically, the same type of player. Pretty high-level defense paired an exciting at times offense. Dumb enough giving a superstar a massive contract well into his 30s...let alone guys like Swanson.
  20. MrTPlush
    Counsell leaves and it is about how special he is and the great loss. Brewers do fine without him and now we have to theorize all the reasons Counsell may have actually sucked. To think the players didn't respond well to him is a pretty big stretch. The players loved Counsell and many were pretty openly upset about him leaving. I think at some point, reality sets back in, and we realize managers are actually nearly worthless. This is the exact scenario I pondered happening and Counsell's "doing this for manager's" thing could actually backfire. If anything, he is proving they are worthless and paying them is pointless. Instead of increasing manager salaries in the long run, he is likely helping confirm they should be suppressed. No offense to Murphy, but Brewers fans were mad enough we went with him. If he had been an outside hire, the fanbase would have rioted hiring some random old bum with little to no managing experience. So, if he can apparently be good, why would you ever go out and pay a bunch of money for a manager?
  21. MrTPlush
    I miss those days, baseball was so much more enjoyable to watch.
  22. MrTPlush
    There would be no arguing because everyone would just blindly accept what the little box says. Much like everyone didn’t complain when there was no little box because it’s so close you couldn’t actually tell even if you wanted to. Robot umps would probably be more accurate and probably avoid the egregious calls…but I’m pretty confident it still wouldn’t be all that accurate. The strike zone is different for every single player and it is determined by their stance when ready to swing. How exactly is that box on the screen being determined? I saw a video yesterday that showed a strike call. One broadcast had it as a clear strike, one had it as a ball notably above the zone, MLB game-day seemed to called it a ball, and baseball savant had it as a strike. inside/outside of the plate should be pretty accurate…but high/low? Seems like a lot of room for error.
  23. MrTPlush
    Anti-Launch angle era.
  24. MrTPlush
    Risk / Reward I have mentioned it before, but Contreras pretty much has no reason to really chase an 'insurance' deal. He already has a good $10mil assured the next two years even if he somehow did something to miss the rest of this year and all of next year. We would pay him his arby salary next year to rehab and then still pay him the same to have him in 2026. His defense is good enough he will carve out a 10+ year career anyway and make tens of millions. I mean Manny Pina made $15mil in his career. The demand for a catcher with a pulse is really high. It isn't like he is an OFer and simply having a pulse isn't enough. The risk for a guy like say Frelick is literally not being on a MLB roster. Contreras is on an MLB roster even if he falls of a talent cliff. Nightmare situation he makes $15mil the next three years, best case is probably about $50mil. Locking in $30mil wouldn't be a terrible idea, but the motivation probably isn't all that high to do so. It isn't that uncommon to just buy out a guys arby years and be done with it though. You see it fairly often when a guy is entering the second to last year and the team just gives a 2 year deal. The Brewers did it with Prince Fielder.
  25. MrTPlush
    #1 So we can save money #2 So we can better balance out his salary versus a tax bill well over $20mil the last year. If we so chose to do. #3 Avoid awkward arbitration drama Contreras is having a pretty extreme amount of success before even hitting year one of arbitration. At least one Silver Slugger, at least one MVP vote finish, and probably two All Star appearances. His first arby salary is going to be pretty hefty and set him up for hefty raises. 7/14/22 or something probably wouldn't be hard to imagine if he continues to be a Silver Slugger type guy.
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