MrTPlush
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Cheesewiz, I’m pretty sure the twin cities have some of the worst cloverleaf exchanges in the country. The one you reference is absolutely horrendous and there is another one (Highway 52 and 494) that is just as scary. Take both of those back to back and see if you haven’t aged 10 years. On another note people not knowing passing lane etiquette is a populated suburb thing. I figure people are used to their 3-5 lane freeways and being in a middle lane isn’t a big deal. Not to mention it is expected for people to pass on the right. In Wisconsin I really don’t have much of a problem though. Usually only on 39 and 94...and it is almost always Illinois drivers to be exact. Sometimes Minnesota drivers that I am sure are from the Minneapolis burbs.
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Not sure I would use HOFers as examples of how Cooper should be too. They should be like Cooper and be nowhere near the HOF. Great player and underrated in Brewers history...but he was nowhere near a HOF career.
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you would think if that was true they wouldn't be consistently one of the worst teams in the league They eventually asked someone about that rumor. The anon source laughed it off and said they need a refund if they did. I can’t imagine they were paying refs millions when they were that average. Not to mention refs aren’t some random scrubs off the streets. Most are like lawyers and probably pretty wealthy as is. Can’t imagine they would even think about ruining their image over their part time reffing job.
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A lot of the allegations seem a little fishy. One is trying to tie in Gruden sleeping with the same chick as a RB, RB gets benched (even though he really didn’t), and the RB that replaced him missed a block leading to Alex Smith almost losing his leg. The paying the refs scheme also seems pretty questionable...and nude photo shoots with the cheerleaders...and pawning them off like they are pimps to elite season seat holders? Some of the more wild allegations seem a bit, too wild. I’m sure some of it may be true...but all of it? Not so sure.
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Ha...I stopped going to Wal Mart years ago for my safety.
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I’m not waving if you let me go first at a stop sign. If you stopped first GO. If you don’t put the shopping cart back I am going to assume you are from the Chicago suburbs and just feel bad for you. I will go #1. There is just no explainable excuse to not at least give a head nod of acknowledgement.
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2020 NL Central Standings Projections (Predictions Welcome)
MrTPlush replied to Eye Black's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Every year as September rolls in there is talk of a tiebreaker so wild it is hard to imagine. This year...what a glorious time for it to come to fruition. -
Just send them to school or don’t. Anything else is just trying to be cute with no clear benefit. Social distancing kids is just getting ridiculous. Seems most adults don’t know how to do any of these safety measures so expecting kids to do it is wishful thinking. Not to mention them needing to social distance to such extremes makes even being in person pretty darn pointless. Take temperatures if you must, probably shouldn’t have all the kids go through a lunch line, and possibly some other measures...that’s about as far as it seems sensible to me. They still will be closely interact, still need recess, and are going to be kids. I’m not sure one can avoid the inevitable of schools having to shut down again sooner rather than later.
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Summer Camp (aka Spring Training 2.0)
MrTPlush replied to A Swing and A Drive's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I will pass on the Hader change up hype. As the article states everyone and their brother works on a change up during spring training. The odds it becomes a meaningful part of his pitch mix is pretty close to zero. Part of the problem is the fact he is so dang good and productive as is it is really hard to justify the risk of throwing a pitch he doesn’t completely trust. -
Summer Camp (aka Spring Training 2.0)
MrTPlush replied to A Swing and A Drive's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
What do you call normal Spring Training? I’d argue these intra squad scrimmages are more competitive and more like the real deal than ST. It’s basically the active roster playing each other...no scrubs to be seen. They are also preparing for a 60 games season that is going to feel like a spring versus the marathon a regular season is. I think players will actually end up more focused and more prepared at the start of this season than they would in a 162 game season. ..they don’t have much choice. Usually guys can’t go 110% at the start of the season or else they would be laying on the ground before August ever hits. These guys have extra rest and starting pitchers will only need to throw a fraction of the innings they normally would. -
Summer Camp (aka Spring Training 2.0)
MrTPlush replied to A Swing and A Drive's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
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I think the technical definition commonly used is 5+ drinks for a guy or 4+ for a girl in a 2 hour period. Pretty much getting drunk to where you can’t legally drive quickly. I’d say the risk of an infection rate explosion in college towns is pretty concerning. Not only will they heavily commingle with each other, but they will also hit up the bars where older adults will be that will then transfer it to home/work. It’s a bad melting pot and you also have to consider where those students go back home to. Many live in more rural areas or far from local to the college. On the topic of college drinking I was always familiar with having parties right before a break as a one last time before we leave thing...or to have that holiday party for whatever was coming up. So you basically have all these kids infecting each other and then going home before they will ever show symptoms. Having in class college this year is probably not going to be looked back on all the great in retrospect. Maybe they don’t have much of a choice, but it’s probably not going to help the cause to fighting COVID.
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Depends how the world/country is going to react once the at-risk groups are vaccinated. Are we going to still be cautious until we see how that vaccine plays out among those people? Are we going to wait till everyone can get a vaccine? I think there is a good chance there are fans right from the start. Maybe not full stadiums in April, but I think we would see that eventually next season too. April is a long ways away.
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I believe current rules dictate a player must be eligible for trade the day it is agreed upon to be a PTBNL. You can’t bend the rules to simply wait until a player is eligible to make it official. I think the origination of that rule was because team(s) we’re making newly drafted guys PTBNL and finalizing it after the season when it was allowable to trade them. So unless they specifically change the rules for the year technically only guys on that 60 man roster could be traded and/or be a PTBNL. Of course that’s how I recall the rules last I checked. They could change those rules, but I don’t know why they would. Clearly they have their reasons for not wanting those players not on the 60 man roster traded. I would expect a team is stuck trading off that 60 man roster if they want to make something happen.
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That is a really interesting note to keep in mind as it means teams kind of need to add "expendable" players to the player pool that they don't mind getting rid of in trades. It makes you wonder how many players (and who) are being added just as potential trade bait options. Very little I’m guessing. There are only 60 games which will keep almost any team in it past the trade deadline (which is the end of August I think...?). It takes one little outbreak in your camp to suddenly need reinforcements fast so they probably care more about putting helpful talent on the roster versus thinking about trades. I’m guessing any player that has control beyond 2020 has almost zero chance of getting traded because their value will be utter trash considering a team can only trade off their 60 man roster. I’m guessing the trade deadline will kind of suck this year. Not sure how many potential bad teams have decent players that are set to be free agents. Most of those guys were traded in the offseason. Some minor trades will surely happen, but I think you have trade chips by default constructing a 60 man roster you don’t have to go out of your way to add guys for the potential purpose of trading them. That is already 39 guys past the regular MLB active roster and 20 past the 40 man roster. Looking at the Brewers roster it looks exactly how you would expect it to.
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We could play the what if game till the end of time. In reality it likely doesn’t end up like the perfect what if situation that is made up. Nelson very well could have ended up regressing...arguably more likely than him taking the next step forward. If we had a healthy Nelson we possibly don’t have someone like Wade Miley signed in 2018, who pitched about as productive as you could imagine for any pitcher. Thus we lose more games, don’t win the division, and lose the WC game...never even making the NLCS. Nelson being on the team could have meant a Peralta and Woodruff never gets a real chance in 2018 and instead one gets shipped off in the offseason...never realizing what we potentially had. What happened to Nelson sucked, but things turned out just fine for us. For better or worse I don’t think we would be miraculously better off if he had never gotten injured. His injury ended up causing a lot of positive dominos to fall.
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Pretty typical. Usually for weather purposes, but I see we are suppose to play in Chicago twice...which is somewhat odd. All the games against St Louis in September also not that odd, pretty typical we play a specific divisional opponent a crazy amount of times in September. Usually Cubs or Cards. The schedule is actually incredibly repetitive from year to year. I think they keep the same framework and slightly alter it a bit.
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We play the Twins on a weekend? Madness, madness I tell you. We don’t play the Cubs, Rockies, or Giants on opening day? Someone must have made a mistake.
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They shouldn’t even have to sweep. Use your brain and mow the correct direction.
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Season tickets are being credited for the remainder of the year. I’m guessing that means anyone can request a refund for the rest of the year for season seats. If games in 2020 can have fans (they won’t) a person will be offered the chance to buy tickets with the credit in their account.
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Miller Park is always called an airplane hanger...which I really never understood why we always got that comparison and no other retractable did. Regardless, this thing may be the ultimate airplane hanger stadium now.
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There are coaching staffs and most are made up of almost entirely people 50 or even 60+. There are also other essential employees any given day that will have at least some lukewarm interaction with players that could then take it home...thus snowball effect. The players themselves aren’t at high risk...but many are. There isn’t a lot of data in sport related cases, just not that many yet in the grand scheme.
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Who is ignoring COVID-19? Choosing to see optimism in a potential season doesn't mean people are forgetting that the pandemic is still going on. It’s just a comment, let’s not make it more than it is. I would be curious of the plans if and when people test positive...especially if an entire team gets hit hard. There is little wiggle room in the schedule for anything to go wrong, even a bunch of rainouts would be bad.
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Let’s not ignore the biggest obstacle still exists: COVID-19 This circus of trying to have a season is far from over.
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Im guessing they will get priority public pre sale right after SSH...just a guess, but sure seems like that is what they will do.