MrTPlush

Why would it make it hard? That second year is nothing more than insurance for Hoskins if he comes back a disaster. Any resemblance of his old self and he will rip that up to go sign a 3-5 multi year deal. Though if he rips it up, I am pretty sure we can offer him a QO and get compensation. As long as there isn’t a handshake agreement to not do so…unless I am way behind on current QO rules or if they even exist still. Which is possible. Regardless, if you are a Brewers fan, you are definitely hoping this ends up a one year deal. If he doesn’t opt out, that is a pretty good sign he played terribly.

If Todd Helton gets in, just put in the PED guys too. Crazy

I believe he joins Jenkins, Fielder, and Sheets as the only players from the 2000s. This is the third year in a row someone has been inducted. Though it may be the last for quite awhile. I’m guessing the next guys to be added will be Burnes and Yelich. Hader also probably gets in someday too. Though I suppose Hoffman may have a chance before then if they get bored and want to vote someone in.

Yes, I guess I’m the sense why he is still available in general. I suppose I wasn’t thinking of it like that.

This is meaningless. We aren't trying to extend him, we would be trying to sign him in FA. You need to be the highest bidder regardless of whether his agent is Scott Boras or any other agent.

Meh, I don't mind if the Lions make it and win. Goff isn't that great and their team in general really isn't anything special. Their fans have been pretty humble the last few years, not really that obnoxious. Like someone else said, I don't think their franchise is on the up and a risk of dominating the division/conference. If they make the Super Bowl and lose...that may haunt them for decades. They give me 2015 Broncos, 2006 Bears, or 2002 Raiders vibes. The Broncos won it and haven't been anything since...the other two lost and it has haunted them since. Neither has managed to get back and really anywhere near the Super Bowl since. If they manage to make it...they better win. Goff isn't going to be leading them to constant conference championships to try and get back. On another note, the Chiefs are beyond lucky to not only have Mahomes...but have him in the generation they do. QB play has fallen off a cliff and the Chiefs have the one guy in the NFL that actually is a beast. Lamar Jackson and Brock Purdy are in the MVP talk these days...these dudes wouldn't have even been a blip on the radar 10 years ago. Can you imagine having a young prime Aaron Rodgers these days with a competent front office?

This seems hardly shocking at all. When have the Brewers ever gone after a major 1B? It isn't exactly an investment small markets go after. Not to mention he is going into his age 31 season after sitting on his couch all last year. I mean, honestly, hard pass.

Be careful what you wish for. The only thing that will keep the Brewers afloat is revenue sharing. The Dodger's RSN failing isn't good for the Brewers...it is just a domino effect downward. I can't imagine Amazon doesn't fight to keep the games on cable. An all-subscription approach would be a disaster. I am not sure I would call the RSN era a fail to the Brewers. They got hosed because their contract always lagged behind the big contracts...but it also was back when every cable/direct TV customer was helping you pay to watch them. The glaring issue with the subscription is the fact subscriptions are on a monthly basis. Therefor a fan can just watch April and September if they want. They can also watch in April/May, realize the team is trash, and cancel their subscription. It also allows people like me, to cancel after the season is over and not pay to watch NBA basketball I don't care about. If hard economic times come, you are canceling subscriptions. This is going to lead to a lot of uncertainty year to year how much Amazon can profit off things. Especially when you consider we are a small market and consistently competing is likely a blip, not a trend for us (at least in a macro picture). Thus, their payment to the Brewers is likely going to be quite conservative. An optimist would say, "Well maybe that will motivate teams like the Brewers to stay competitive so people keep their subscription!" I mean, maybe...but I am betting a team will be more profitable rebuilding than spending $30mil for Amazon to pay them $10mil more a year.

The answer to this question is really impossible to know. The direction of the team this year may have a lot or even everything to do with the answer. If the young guys really don't make some leaps and we start looking years off from competing, Contreras is definitely at risk of being traded if the return is big.

Do we actually know they won't show the stuff on cable? It would be a pretty big leap to go entirely onto Amazon. Demographics or not. They could easily keep it on cable and have the option of a subscription-based model through Amazon Prime. Then the dinosaurs get what they want and the younger generations get what they want. At that point the cost of Amazon Prime in itself is kind of meaningless as the demographic that doesn't have cable overwhelmingly has Amazon Prime already.

Jordan Love has got to hold some kind of record for game ending choke job INTs in a season. Nearly every time that dude had the ball in his hands and had to make things happen with his arm, he flat out reached to the bottom of the barrel to throw the worst pass imaginable. It’s like, 10 year old playing Madden type IQ. That being said his decision making in general improved a lot as the season went on. I won’t lose it over a few drives where he reverted back to max stupidity and had throws only a giraffe with elastic arms could catch. Is what it is. He got his year of development to get his feet wet. Time to find consistency, fend off the league figuring him out, and make better decisions at the end of games. Maybe he is the next Romo/Rivers/Predcott…time will tell. He does concern me a lot about never being able to be THAT guy…and instead just a solid pro bowl QB that can’t lead you anywhere

They just played two of the Top 3 offenses in football and they gave up an inflated 32 points to the Cowboys (honestly a solid performance) and 24 to the 49ers….on the road. Heck his dudes should have caught two INTs today. I don’t know…I get Barry has been the guy to blame for years…but this seems like an odd time to bang that drum.

Lmao, thanks for showing up when it mattered. What a joke.

Why are we not taking timeouts???

MLF should have called a timeout on that 3rd down. The play call was absolute garbage if they brought all that pressure they showed. That was a chance to about put the game away…and it was thrown away with a trash play that all Love could to do is chuck the ball and hope it didn’t get picked off.

This season is lost without prime Aaron Jones coming out of the woodwork.

First step, get a few first downs. A three and out here would be pretty depressing and just toss them the ball back at the 50. At least make their offense earn it.

Jordan Love absolutely crumbling.

I doubt we all will get to do laps and celebrate because we already have Prime and it is no extra cost. I am sure there will be an extra cost, but I could see it being cheaper than what a dedicated Bally subscription was. Amazon will make a boatload on people that have to get Prime just to unlock the ability to get Brewers baseball. They also make a boatload on the fact you now have Prime and will make a bunch of unneeded purchases now. That is value Bally itself couldn't provide and depended on subscription price entirely. The value baseball has and why Amazon has any interest in baseball is the fact the season is so long. It stretches 6-7 months, football is only 4 months. Add in the basketball RSNs and you darn near cover the entire year. You may only buy Prime the one game (aka month) your team plays on Thursday for football. Infinitely more viewers, obviously, but much less commitment to Prime in the grand scheme. The concern is accessibility. Peacock, financially, was a raging success for the wild card game. The problem, millions of viewers did indeed refuse to buy a month sub to watch. So, while the NFL and Peacock got their cash...millions less watched. Is that a big deal for the NFL/Chiefs? No...probably not, however, I don't know the same would ring true for the Brewers when millions less watch over the course of an entire season. I just don't think there is any reason why Amazon would buy the viewership rights and not force you to buy Prime. That model isn't working for Bally, why would it work for Amazon?

As sveum said, that is based on points allowed. They are a more modest 17th by yards allowed. The offense is 12th by points or 11th by yards allowed.

But what are you insuring against? In the Midwest, where I am guessing he lives...there isn't a ton of risk with an extended power outage. I guess you could amortize it over the life of the loan, which will make the cost seem small. That is also how you make a speedboat seem cheap too though. I guess I don't know that I would compare it to insurance. You need homeowners' insurance because you don't have hundreds of thousands to rebuild if it burns down etc. There are plenty of alternatives compared to a whole home generator, some quite cheap. I am guessing the average person, at least in the midwest, would be lucky to run into 10 times the home generator made a huge difference (aka probably a good 3+ day power outage). Heck, many maybe half of that over a 30 year life of a generator (usually considered max life, could be less). So you pay a solid $1k per time it kicks in to save the fridge or the house from being 45 degrees? There are probably better ways to spend $8k or so at that point. That is kinda why I say, you have to find value in the luxury of it. Where the typical power outage of 2 hours, 8 hours, maybe 24 hour power outage being avoided is a huge value to you. Of course, a lot of it depends on where you live and the infrastructure. My first step, if I was pondering a whole home generator, is finding a neighbor that has lived in the neighborhood a long time. Are extended power outages often etc.? If he can't even recall a big power outage, that is probably a sign it isn't much of a concern in your area. If you live in a newer neighborhood and all the utilities are underground...a big generator is likely going to be quite a waste.

Okay, so if you knew that...then what is the point of giving tax credits for hybrids?

Till you give tax credits and the price suddenly spikes.

Don't get a solar one. It is a lot of investment for quite a bit of potential headache. If you are getting a generator, you need it to be reliable. Generators usually don't help your homes value much. As nice as they may be and as much as one may say they would like one...99% of people don't have one. No one starts their house search with one of the requirements being a generator. So naturally, it just doesn't add value for a buyer. I wouldn't shy away from a gas one. Yah, gas goes bad...but you just run it down after using it. It may only last 12 hours on a tank of gas, but driving to the gas station for more gas is pretty easy. It is the most economical and best ROI in my opinion...as far as taking care of needs. Plug in your fridge...plug in a few other things, boom....you are good. I just find whole home generators to be a luxury and rarely save your arse. The only people I know that have one and NEED it are people with saltwater fish tanks with well over $10k in fish etc. in them. If your concern is your furnace and heating your house, just have an electrician alter your furnace so it isn't a light switch and instead a plug into an outlet. There are plenty of portables that can handle your furnace plugged into them. Then if/when you move you still have generators to take with you instead of it being attached to the house you are selling.

Maybe we win, maybe we don't. Is this lopsided on paper? Yah...but we would be very far from the first team to win such a match-up in the playoffs. I have watched the Giants in the playoffs enough to know that. I think our offense is good enough and our defense performs better than people like to think sometimes. I think we are pretty underrated. Despite the disastrous start to the year our offense was ranked #12 and the defense #10 in the NFL. That was without key pieces on offense too. We are playing our best ball and playing like a Top 5 team. We don't blow the doors off offensively or defensively...but it is a legitimate Super Bowl possible team. Of course, they probably don't have a great chance if the 49ers bring their 'A' game, but that doesn't always happen.