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  1. MrTPlush
    Because they want food that isn’t deliverable by the place they are ordering food from. A lot of people use it in bigger cities because A) they don’t have time to pick it up themselves (like most people on a 30min lunch) and B) they don’t own a car. I think I have done it twice in my life, both of which in massive snowstorms. Once was because I wanted Sushi and the other time I wanted Pizza at a place doesn’t deliver themselves. Im more of a pickup person though. Only times I ever get delivery is in a massive snowstorm or if I just got home after a big road trip and getting back in my car is not happening. Even direct from a pizza place makes a $12 order quickly $10+ more. Either I am ordering pizza to be cheap or I might as well just go sit down to eat versus a fee+tip.
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    Yeah, he would not be leaving camp if he had any real chance to make the OD roster.
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    Yeah, he would not be leaving camp if he had any real chance to make the OD roster.
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    I mean...yah, if it is a nice city with a great downtown atmosphere. Also helps, as you mentioned, if there is sweet public transit. You can go to a game in St. Louis zoom from the airport to the stadium, and never need a car....could probably fly from Wisconsin to St Louis, watch a game, and fly back all in the same day. Milwaukee isn't what those other cities are nor are the handful of cool things in Milwaukee anywhere near each other. If you could go plop an outdoor stadium on the lake and surround it with the good parts of Milwaukee....that would be pretty cool on paper (not that an outdoor stadium would sell many tickets). But like Fiserv? There isn't that much around it for being downtown and you would have to drive. Then hoping your window isn't smashed out or at least that your car is still there. I think the Brewers made the best decision in the city they are in and the crowd they have to attract.
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    My reference to Gallardo had absolutely nothing to do with which was better or not. It was purely the fact both would give you stretches of dominance just to blow it with stretches of being garbage. Sheets put it together a few years…but most of his career was much like Gallardo, average to a bit above average.
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    My reference to Gallardo had absolutely nothing to do with which was better or not. It was purely the fact both would give you stretches of dominance just to blow it with stretches of being garbage. Sheets put it together a few years…but most of his career was much like Gallardo, average to a bit above average.
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    Well his 2021 does...so there you are. If you want to argue he had more innings that in turn gave him more strikeouts...feel free to do so. But then you are comparing them on something that isn't comparable to the baseball times they played in.
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    Brandon Woodruffs 2021 isn't far behind either of those two seasons from ERA+ standards. His 2020 and 2022 seasons are also very above average. Ben Sheets has some longevity advantages and also his stats benefit a bit from the time he played. Back then you threw your top pitchers into the fire and let them start from the get-go...you also got to pitch 240 innings. Woodruff came up during a time where we liked to putz around with guys in the bullpen and obviously guys don't get to pitch as much. So it is a bit hard to compare them side by side in a lot of ways. Every single year Woodruff has been a starter, he has an ERA+ of at least 123 and an average of 140. Despite 2x as many opportunities, Sheets only had an ERA+ over 120 three times. Ben Sheets had career 115 ERA+. To me, Woodruff simply is more dominant and impressively consistent in doing that.
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    I am glad Brandon Woodruff and Corbin Burnes came along. Ben Sheets was arguably the most overrated player in Brewers history because he was the only guy in decades that was an All Star level starter. Sheets is honestly really similar to Gallardo. Both had flashes of being aces, but neither was very consistent. Sheets was able to put it together in a few full seasons...but like Gallardo, he made a lot of great seasons very middling due to stretches of awful pitching. 2/4 of the All-Star appearances only happened because he was amazing in the first half before turning in turd performances in the 2nd half. Which is exactly what Gallardo did in his lone AS season. I mean come on, he has a career losing record. Burnes is easily #1 here, in my opinion...regardless of his shorter track record. Brandon Woodruff also gets the nod over Sheets. Woodruff has 4 season that are basically on par or better than anything Sheets ever did. One of those was COVID shortened, but since he has pitched just as well since then, I wouldn't dock him over it like he got lucky. #3-#5 seems about right. Food for thought: If this had just been pitchers in general, would anyone have placed Hader in the Top 5? I would have definitely slotted him #5 and would have been tempted to even put him at #4...but the short dominance of Higuera as a starter gets preference.
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    Dump the buyout and just give him $45mil-$50mil...then I think you are onto something. Not sure just giving him what he would get per year in FA for that one year is all that enticing. Heck, even in the freak situation he somehow gets injured and missed the entirety of 2024, some team would still pay him upwards of $20mil+ on a 1 year prove it deal for 2025 and then if he performed just sign a big contract after that. He could probably struggle in 2025 after missing all of 2024 and still get another $15mil+ prove it deal in 2026. Then after struggling in 2026 STILL get another $10mil to try again. The dude has been so good he already has tens of millions in future salary locked up regardless of performance or injury. Not to mention even average starters get big money these days. The only risk to him is a wildly unlikely/rare injury that ends his career completely or doing something like Trevor Bauer to the point no team will sign you.
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    He already has $20mil in career salaries if you include 2023. His 2024 salary is pretty much locked in too at that price minimum. Unless he blows out his arm this year in July or later...they would almost surely offer arby. Not sure we really gain much doing it...one year isn't helping us patch the titanic of outgoing players coming up.
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    This is pretty common negotiating when the sport isn't in season. They can let MLB Network fall off the service for a while and subscribers won't care. Bigger issue if the channel drops off in season...that is a sign of a bigger issue.
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    I mean...clearly a joke aimed at the people that think the Brewers are cheapos....jesh I am sure he got it some random way as I am guessing he is in Venezuela these days. It is just a tad funny.
  14. MrTPlush
    Garrett Mitchell showed enough promise in his short stint last year he should certainly be the opening day CFer. And what everyone doesn't want to hear, we can't afford to lose a potential year of control on a guy with the ceiling Frelick has. The production difference between Mitchell and Frelick for that month just wouldn't be a lot.
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    Brewers so cheap they couldn't even hook the man up with a current hat....had to dig one out of the clearance bin in the back of the team store. 😅
  16. MrTPlush
    The person that did this for him could have at least managed the new logo, lol Smh,
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    Figured Yelich was being saved for #1 in RF....now that he is not, I don't know if I really get labeling him a RFer. Even his two big seasons, one was in LF more than RF. If you are going to base him as a RF purely based on those two seasons, then he should just vault to the top. It was probably two of the Top 5 offensive performances in franchise history. The Athletic puts them both in the Top 3. I was kind of excited for this position because when I thought of it, I remembered Corey Hart is totally going to make it. Sadly, he was never the same after getting injured. For a second it looked like he was going to slide in and be a really solid 1B after Fielder left. He always flew under the radar and put up great numbers.
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    I don’t own cable and never will. I didn’t watch any games last year, but doesn’t mean I didn’t have the opportunity. There was a streaming option. Bally Sports had a subscription option. It was $20, which over the season is similar to the cost of MLB.TV that everyone in market wishes they could have. If you liked the Bucks, then it was only $15 a month to watch both. I know when it first launched in season the devices you could use were limited, but pretty sure that was fixed by tue end of the season…I wouldn’t know for sure though as the Brewers weren’t worth spending money to watch in my opinion. I am curious, for teams not controlled by Bally…they were all readily gotten on streaming services, right? I assume so, because everyone acts like Bally is some kind of crime to baseball. I don’t care enough to check every team, but the Yankees network was only on cable. The Cubs were only on Fubo it appears. One article said half the teams are on YouTube TV and that article was old enough it still had all the Bally controlled teams on it. So what, less than 10 teams?
  19. MrTPlush
    Location I guess is a bit debatable depending on your tastes. The tailgating scene and the fact it is by itself makes it a very unique baseball experience. Everything there and everyone there are ready for a classic baseball experience. The crowd is very middle class and casual fan. The entire lower level behind the plate isn’t like a business meeting. Sometimes it is is nice to get there early, relax, and take a nice walk around the outside of the stadium. Not being downtown it is very non congested and doesn’t bring the stress of elbow to elbow foot traffic. As far as accessibility, well, it is arguably the most accessible. Can get there by car, bus, Uber, shuttle, etc…and it is extremely fast and easy to get there. Whatever your definition, there is no way it is worse than Dodgers Stadium or similar. That isn’t even downtown and a nightmare to get in and out of.Even taking an Uber is a total disaster.
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    It wasn’t difficult to watch the games. Cable is easily accessible to 99% of the population and they even did a streaming service subscription that was reasonable. If you lived in a tree house with no electricity, then yah, I suppose it was hard to access the games. Were non Bally teams just readily carrying their games on streaming services? I checked the Yankees channel, nope, same way. That’s just one other channel…but something tells me most teams probably aren’t on the streaming services.
  21. MrTPlush
    The problem with the per month subscription is the fact is is brutally dependent on the team being good. If the team fire sales in July, half the people aren’t going to waste a dollar watching the Brewers. A lot of people probably would just buy September, some just in the summer, etc. I just don’t know that model is really sustainable in the small markets. Cash flow would be all over the place.
  22. MrTPlush
    This is how the rich stay rich. File for bankruptcy to clear debts and/or get government bailouts with little repercussions in the grand scheme. Usually have plenty of other businesses/ventures completely protected from the other asset imploding.
  23. MrTPlush
    I was just reading this morning about a person that worked at like an insurance call center and a guy had called due to finding out he had a terminal illness and was trying to work out insurance stuff. At the end of the call she said, "Get well soon." I am sure that is an understandable way to end the call in 99.9% of calls....but that one, was not it. ooof
  24. MrTPlush
    Gain potential extra year of control and potentially gain a lot down the road. OR If we hold him back and he doesn't perform as well or even gets sent back down at some point, who cares, we lost nothing then. At that point holding him back didn't cost us any performance, so what does it matter?
  25. MrTPlush
    Honestly, Yelich is probably going to have more WAR in 1.5 years as a RFer than he will as a LFer in half a decade. To think we were going to have our next HOFer after Braun ruined his career *punches wall*
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