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  1. Jopal78
    1. If you have plenty of time your brother could park on Addison west of the stadium. Be sure to go at least as far west as Southport and then start looking. Side streets would be best, and I don't think there are many parking restrictions for day games. Otherwise, the park and ride at Howard is good. 2. The busy bars are the ones closest to the stadium. Sportscorner on Addision and Sheffield is big and has food. Murphy's Bleachers is up Sheffield and also has food. The Cubby Bear is on Addison and Clark but is kind of a dump. There is a brand new Harry Caray's on Sheffield just south of Addison it is a brand new place and is nicer than the other bars/grills around but it also costs more. There are plenty of other taverns along Sheffield, Clark and Racine most of them will serve food and nearly all will be filled with folks going to the game. 3. Nobody will really seriously harass you unless you are a wise guy. Otherwise, you may get ribbed if the Brewers are getting destroyed but I've never had a problem. Bring a jacket because the wind blowing in off Lake Michigan can drop the temp inside the stadium quite substantially especially if you are not in the sun.
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    Keep in mind Cameron's career numbers (OBP/SLG) at the following parks: .444/.714--Miller Park .411/.656--Wrigley .378/.345--Great American .293/.521--Minutemaid .309/.460--PNC Cameron's numbers are horrible at Busch, but it is only 7 games. However, he simply hits very well at most of the Central division stadiums, so I wouldn't be worried about Cameron wherever he hits.
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    What is so great about Jocketty? He lucked out that a 13th round draft choice matured overnight and became the dominant hitter in the league. Additionally, if you look at his trades, the only ones that are clearly winners for the Cards was where he was using the Cardinals larger payroll to pick up a player from another team looking to dump salary: (Renteria, Vina, Edmonds, Darryl Kile.) Jocketty did alright in getting Wainwright, Jason Marquis and Ray King for JD Drew and Eli Marrero, but he missed horribly in giving up Danny Haren, Kiko Calero, and Daric Barton for Mark Mulder. Plus unless the Reds have the next Albert Pujols in their system, he will be hard pressed to keep the Reds competitive as Dunn, Griffey, and Co. leave town
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    Former Brewer pitchers always comeback to haunt Milwaukee. Last year, Jeff Bennett came out of nowhere for Atlanta and shut down the Brewers and helped snuff out their playoff chances. Jimmy Haynes went 3-0 against Milwaukee the year after the Brewers dumped him and Cincy picked him up. It is just a curse I guess.
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    Before we get our panties in a bunch, lets remember that Doug Davis wasn't necessarily "good" with the D'Backs last season. In fact, his walks, hits, homeruns were up last year and his strikeouts were down. This year he is looking to be the #4 starter at best and could be eclipsed by both Micah Owings and Billy Buckner before season's end. Now figure the D'Backs owe him around 16.5 million dollars over the next two years, and it certainly doesn't look like that great of a trade for Arizona either. In so far as Dana Eveland is concerned...see Allen Levrault another fat kid who could dominate the minors but didn't do a thing in the majors. I will freely admit that Eveland has limited major league innings and could still turn it around, I'm just not going to hold my breath. All told the Davis/Estrada deal seems like a wash to me.
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    Rowand got 5 years and 60 million dollars from the Giants, that is why he signed with the team. That is a lot of coin for a player who is a nice two hole hitter, but will be miscast as a middle of the order slugger due to the rather anemic hitters in San Francisco. There was an article in the Tribune a week ago, where Rowand stated that he liked the offer from the White Sox, but ultimately went to SF, because the Sox were unwilling to add a 5th year.
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    Please consider me for your tickets.
  8. Jopal78
    Sure the draft is a crap shoot but the fact of the matter is Beane took Brown #35 overall and regardless you expect at least some major league production out of drafting someone #35. The fact that they got zip from Brown at the major league level is proof that it was a wasted draft choice. They could have literally "passed" on that draft choice, picked up an organizational soldier to play C in the minors, and probably come out ahead from a financial perspective and broke even from a major league contribution standpoint.
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    Regardless of the tone of the original article Brown is just another in a line of First Round Pick busts. The FJM author indicates Brown retired for personal reasons but when you cannot beat out such catching heavy weights as Jason Kendall, Adam Melhuse, it is indicative of a problem despite what his minor league number say. Also, with Kurt Suzuki and Rob Bowen (!?!) ahead of him in Oakland, and Anthony Recker and Landon Powell coming up right behind him in Sacramento the writing was probably on the wall as a 29 year old soon to be six year minor leaguer. He was drafted for sign-ability reasons and was a bust...big deal. (Chad Green anyone??) On a larger note, I don't think Beane has fallen off as a GM, he is going through a lean period where he had to ship off his homegrown talent, and the prospects he received and other minor league talent in house hasn't stepped up as expected, leaving the small market A's with some big holes on their roster. It very well could be a foreshadowing of the 2012 and 2013 Brewers, (lean years after some very big winning seasons)
  10. Jopal78
    And with this thread its official this site now appeals to the lowest common denominator.
  11. Jopal78
    Morneau for his career is average in terms of production from a quality first basemen. His career OBP is .340 and his SLG% is .498. They are paying Morneau as much as the Sox are paying Konerko who's career numbers are still better than Morneau's in over twice as many at bats (.353 and .495). In other words, the Twins are taking a huge gamble that Morneau is going to continue to improve over the life of this deal, or they are going to be paying a lot of money for average talent in so far as veteran slugging 1B go. As for Cuddyer, his career OBP is .346 and SLG% is .450. Ol' Geoff Jenkins' career numbers are .347 and .496. The Twins signed Cuddyer to a deal they didn't have to, because he was under their control through 2009. They essentially are paying him a premium for his last two arbitration eligible seasons (14.5 million incl. signing bonus), and then nearly 20 million for his first two years of free agency. Not that it is a horrible deal, but there is no need to pay Cuddyer the premium for his last two arby years, because there is plenty of sub .800 corner outfielders available for 10 million a season or less. Just ask Geoff Jenkins (2 yrs/13 million) Milton Bradley (1yr/5.25 mil), etc. The Twins would have been better served to go year to year with Cuddyer and let him walk, then pay him all that cash, when he hasn't distinguished himself from the cadre of corner OFers in the majors.
  12. Jopal78
    The Cubs have only 11 games left with a one game lead. If they go 6-5 the rest of the way (which would be about right considering their .560 win percentage over the last month) it would force the Brewers to go 8-5 just to tie. That would be a very tall order with 5 road games left and the 4 gamer with SD on the schedule. So I doubt the Brewers will get to 85 wins, let alone force a playoff game with the Cubs.
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    First, in defense of the Vazquez trade, Javier is 11-8 on a horrible team with a nice 3.91 era, and a sparkling 1.14 WHIP, not to mention a K:BB ratio of nearly 4:1. Vazquez has subsequently signed a three year 34.5 million contract extension which is a very nice deal for a 30 year old pitcher with those numbers. Dumping Thomas, and then trading for Thome was stupid. But the main problem is that last year Dye, Crede, Konerko, Thome, and Pierzynski generated enough offense to cover for the total lack of offense from SS, CF, and LF. Also, the pitching was still strong for the White Sox in 2006. This year, the early season slump by the entire lineup exposed their offensive weaknesses at SS, LF, and CF, plus the starting pitching outside of Buerhle and Vazquez struggled, and Williams power arm bullpen experiment blew up in his face. Plus their band aids to patch up LF and CF have failed (Erstad, Mackowiak, etc.) That being said Josh Fields has had a solid rookie year for the Sox at 3B and LF (.740 OPS, 18HR in 81 games). If Fields continues to improve as the LF, Crede comes back healthy, and they can land Torii Hunter in CF, they could make some noise in 2008. Of course, that is a lot of IFs.
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    The White Sox have Buehrle and Vazquez signed long term. Garland will be back in '08. Danks is an up and coming left hander, and Contreras has a history of running hot and cold for long periods of time. In other words, they have a rotation that is able to compete with those of the top of the AL. Not to mention that Jenks is a dominant closer and is pre-arbitration eligible. Based on the pitching talent alone, there is no need to strip the team down and re-build. Sure they have holes at 2B, SS, LF, and CF, but with reigning Dye that insures that the middle of their lineup in 2008 should be: Thome, Konerko, Dye, Crede, and Pierzynski. Now, if they are successful in making a run at one of the big four free agent CFers that would give them 6 really good hitters that would generate enough offense that they could carry some dead weight in LF, 2B, and SS. Finally, Dye wanted to stay with the White Sox; what are they going to do let a guy walk away, who over the last three seasons will have hit .280 with over 80 doubles, 100 homeruns and will have driven in close to 280 runs for the team and scored 250? If it was Melvin who gave a 2 year 22 million dollar deal for those type of numbers people would be calling it the steal of the season.
  15. Jopal78
    Given what the White Sox have in their organization for corner OFers, I think it is a good deal for them. Besides Dye, the White Sox have Podsednik, and a bunch of CFers miscast as corners: Erstad (who is all around awful), unproven youngsters Brian Anderson and Ryan Sweeney. Sure, Dye is probably on the downside of his career, but who else could they have gotten who is clearly better for that price?
  16. Jopal78
    Seriously, I will wager to the first person who wants it that the Brewers won't win more than 81 games this year.
  17. Jopal78
    Hatteberg has an OPS of over 1.000 against the Brewers since 2006!
  18. Jopal78
    Anyone willing to bet that the shabby Cardinals pitching will stiffen up just in time for the Brewers to hit town on Friday?!?
  19. Jopal78
    David DeJesus for the Royals scores a lot of runs (72), but not much else. The Runs are even a suprise given the rather crappy Royal offense.
  20. Jopal78
    Realistically or hypothetically? Realistically....None. (Are there more than a handful of players in the majors right now who have been with the same club for 10 years or more? Especially in a small market? I can think of Mike Sweeney and that is about it.) Hypothetically... I don't think there is much argument that having Hart, Braun, Fielder, Sheets, Gallardo, and Hardy for 10 or more years would mean the Brewers would be pretty successful during said 10 year time span.
  21. Jopal78
    Unfortunately, it is a lucky-stroke for the Cubs. They had: DeRosa, Theriot, Fontenot, all ahead of Izturis. Additionally, Ronny Cedeno has been hitting AAA pitching very well. Izturis was a black hole on their roster due to his offensive struggles, and hefty paycheck. Now the Cubs' roster crunch is somewhat slackened. It seems with the ownership up in the air, the Cubs are not allowed to simply release players and eat the remainder of the contract, hence Jacque Jones is still on the team as was Izturis. Therefore, even though they are more than likely paying Izturis' contract, they now can shuffle their roster around to add another bullpen arm, or they can call up Cedeno and give DeRosa more time in RF. Long story short, Hendry gets Littlefield to bail him out off a mess he made
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    No link yet, but heard on the radio that the Cubs have sent Izturis to Pittsburgh for a PTBNL. Yet again, Jim Hendry wiggles off the hook, and gets a more stupid GM to take on of his mistakes off his hands, and solves a roster crunch.
  23. Jopal78
    Brewers have their work cut out for them, the Cubs are currently playing a Giants team that does not feature a batter with an OPS above .746! Yipes.
  24. Jopal78
    Yost should have pulled the plug on Bush to start the 7th with 94 pitches. (By the way, this was posted just seconds before the Drew homer. )
  25. Jopal78
    Vazquez has been nothing short of amazing especially pitching for an awful, awful White Sox team. (WHIP=1.09!, 8.5 K/9, 3.77 era in the AL Central). Since Vazquez is also just 30 and signed for three more seasons, I do not think the Sox are "motivated to move him." Griffey isn't going anywhere, period. As it stands his nightmare of a contract is set to expire after the 2008 season. Shortly thereafter Griffey will turn 39. In this era of old ball players hanging around forever, I would assume that Griffey vetoes trades to any team, unless they are willing to extend his contract. As for the Rangers, there is really no point in picking up Lofton. With a healthy Bill Hall, the Brewers wouldn't be able to get Lofton enough bats to justify picking him up.Going forward what is really the difference between Lofton and Gwynn at this stage in their careers. Moreover, I think Melvin will find the market for Otsuka to be hotter than he expects, and will take more than crap like Dessens or Gross to bring him in.
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