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  1. Jopal78
    The Padres are a unique situation. According to the reporting, they have an ownership interest in their RSN. Each team will be in a different situation with different rules as they look to monetize their streaming rights. The system will likely get even more convoluted, the Brewers, for example, already sold their streaming rights to Bally
  2. Jopal78
    It’s called MLB Extra Innings. I live in Chicago and can watch any team’s game via Extra Innings except the Cubs, White Sox, and whomever their opponent is on a given day. However those games are always on regular TV. When I had MLB.TV and streamed Brewer games they were all available there unless they played the Cubs or White Sox. If you don’t have cable and live in Milwaukee, get MLB.TV and a VPN that places your internet connection in France and you’ll see all 162 games of every team. The real gripe here as I perceive it is that it should be cheap, quick and easy; a combination that rarely exists.
  3. Jopal78
    As alluded to earlier in this post, and confirmed by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the Brewers already had made a deal with Diamond/Bally’s for their direct to consumer streaming rights (as have KC, DET, TB and MIA). As a consequence, I would anticipate Diamond/Bally’s to continue to pay the Brewers pursuant to contract so not to run the risk of losing those streaming rights, which apparently is what the entire bankruptcy is about in the first place .
  4. Jopal78
    If you follow this story the Diamond wants the direct to consumer streaming rights, but MLB has balked in making a deal with Diamond for them. Therefore, Diamond claims many of their cable broadcasts have become unprofitable, and they cannot afford to pay what they agreed to unless they also have those streaming rights. Apparently, if they don’t get them they will simply drop broadcast contracts where they’re losing money like San Diego’s. (The Brewers aren’t really affected at this point because their direct to consumer streaming rights are one of the 5 already held by Diamond. ) For the other teams where Diamond can’t get the streaming rights and do not want to give the contract back, it looks like those teams will have to use the Court to rescind the broadcast rights and have them revert back to the team/mlb.
  5. Jopal78
    Pitching staff is 5th in Runs Allowed.
  6. Jopal78
    The Brewers have given over 1200 PAs this season to players with a sub .700 OPS, and continue to play three of those hitters on a near daily basis. The Pirates have only 700 PAs by players with a sub .700 OPS. The Reds approx 800 PAs to hitters with sub .700 OPS The Cardinals approx 640 PAs to hitters with a sub .700 OPS The Cubs approx 600+ PAs to hitters with a sub .700 OPS. Milwaukee’s roster construction is such that the pitching staff works without a safety net. If their offensive production was even close to comparable to the rest of their division they’d be 10 games in front.
  7. Jopal78
    What’s the current over under on the Brewers?
  8. Jopal78
    They’re in first so to the terrible division they play in. They’d be no better than second in 4 of the other 5 Divisons and would be 3rd in the NL West, AL west and 4th in the AL East. Of course they’re not going to trade Burnes, but when they drop 6 out of 8 series in a month, somebody is going to wrest first place from them, then come July they will trade him.
  9. Jopal78
    I don’t know, after tonight the Brewers are on a pace for 84 wins, and they have a challenging month in June.
  10. Jopal78
    The only reason there would be any blowback is because their owner and front office’s idiotic comments about rebuilding. Without Burnes and Woodruff they’re a 75 win team. Neither is likely signing an extension, so fans should know or realize once the team slips in the standings they’ll deal them both along with whomever else has trade value and expiring team control in the next 18 months.
  11. Jopal78
    About another 7-8 weeks is my guess.
  12. Jopal78
    That’s ball game. ‘23 Brewers…Yuck
  13. Jopal78
    If I said the Brewers misused Hiura in any way then someone else was logged in as me, or you are misreading something. A .322 OBP puts Ruf ahead of only Adames, Taylor, and Winker who are all indisputably having bad seasons at the plate, plus the two rookies Turang and Wiemer who are seemingly overmatched against MLB pitching right now.
  14. Jopal78
    I haven’t transitioned to anything. It’s too bad they pulled the plug on Voit after 74 PAs especially when he rarely played in back to back games. I think given semi-regular PAs, Voit would have been fine. Of course, I understand it’s the last go around with this group of players and they’re kind of treading water at best, so the Brewers are desperate for a spark, thus Voit is out and Ruf is in. I am dubious that Ruf is going to make any meaningful contribution. I don’t really care what the metrics say Ruf’s value is (especially when those same metrics suggest Keston Hiura is a great player). That Ruf is soon 37, was already DFA’d twice before Memorial Day, went unclaimed both times, and is coming off a season where he hit a Homer every 20 PAs against LHP but failed to get on base against them at better than .325 tells me all I need to know.
  15. Jopal78
    I’m not going to argue metrics, there’s a stat to support any position you want to take. Ask yourself this, if Ruf is a good player, why has he been flat out released twice since opening day? Especially by a team with deep post season aspirations? Look, I hope he provides the Brewers a spark, but essentially a platoon guy and who (like too many brewers) hits for power and not much else and is 37, I’m not anticipating much in the long haul.
  16. Jopal78
    See above post. Maybe Ruf was a lefty masher at some point, but he’s coming off injuries, is going to be 37 soon and hasn’t been good in a few seasons. Let’s see where he at in 50 more PAs, I’m it expecting much better than Voit.
  17. Jopal78
    Too bad about Voit, 72 PAs and losing your spot is harsh. Though you can’t blame the Brewers too much who are clearly desperate for a spark. I think, Voit probably still has some chance to be productive if he got regular at bats, plus the Brewers had a team option on him for next year. Ruf isn’t anything and will likely be Voit-esque with his numbers in time.
  18. Jopal78
    Sure, if Anderson took an extreme cut rate deal like those suggested above. But in reality that’s not going to happen. People around here must really not pay attention to going rates for free agents in todays game. Anderson, if he keeps his production up, will be a 10 million a year player at minimum, and given the dearth at 3B league wide most likely in the 12-13 million dollar range, a price at which the Brewers won’t be interested.
  19. Jopal78
    It is already a ghost town around there in the offseason outside of Hinterland, All I’m saying is the interest/financial viability in those districts is directly tied to the fortunes of the team that bring them in. If they sell some suckers condos when the team is winning, the Packers already got their money. They don’t really care, or have a say, what the people do after the sale. To the extent people live there year round, they are even less likely than tourists to pour their money into the jacked up prices at the neighborhood spots as opposed to the old stalwarts Los Banditos, Kroll’s and Merricks.
  20. Jopal78
    No, For example: ACME Co., bought a condo, nobody lives there permanently. ACME Co., then rents out the condo they own on Air BnB for the 8-9 weeks during football season. The rent money for those 8-9 weeks exceeds the cost of the mortgage payment (assuming there is one) and as long as demand stays up for accommodations near Lambeau they’ve got a nice little money maker. It’s not as though folks at the paper mill or Bellin Health are relocating to Titletown en masse.
  21. Jopal78
    I can’t tell you for sure, but I’d bet most those condos and townhomes are used as rentals or Air BnB. It’s not as though Green Bay is a bursting metropolis with a shortage of housing stock.
  22. Jopal78
    We’ll see how Titletown District does post Aaron Rodgers. To have an entertainment district you need a successful team to generate interest; if the Packers regularly get their head kicked in the desire for those $300 a night hotel rooms with a two night minimum is gonna disappear pretty quick. likewise, if the Brewers go back to winning only 70+ games a year, history shows they will likely only be drawing about 14,000 fans a night and there will be zero interest in an entertainment District
  23. Jopal78
    He sucks, he was a pick near the end of the first round where it’s a crap shoot. but he’s just not a big league pitcher.
  24. Jopal78
    The funny thing is , the stadium cost 391 million to build, even using inflation per the Dept of Labor website they comes out to 570 million dollars. The study the Brewers had done and MLB apparently is relying calls for some 480 million dollars in repairs. Wouldnt they simply be better off asking for a new facility than sticking that amount of money to repair one that is 20-25 years old.
  25. Jopal78
    At 32 and ten years in the majors he’s not exactly a spring chicken. His demise was most likely as a result of diminished velocity on his swifty, which in turn accentuates his lack of command.
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