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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Jopal78
    Whatever, maybe watch some YouTube videos on the law (or find some commercial lease forms online and read them) instead of just making stuff up off the top of your head.
  12. Jopal78
    No. If a party doesn’t comply with their obligations in a lease, the lease is breached. Assuming for the sake of argument, in the extreme instance the Brewers sued the Stadium District for breach of contract, there is no legal remedy to force the Stadium District to make repairs/improvements. If the lease was breached the Brewers obligation to play professional baseball games there is removed, and any lawsuit would be about money the Stadium district potentially could be responsible for associated with the Brewers finding somewhere else to play (rent, loss of revenue from moving, etc, etc.). That’s it, unless there extra language in the lease that states otherwise (somebody should try to get it via a FOIA request). It’s no different than if your stairs collapsed in your apartment and the landlord didn’t have the money to fix them. As a tenant you could sue the landlord for breach, and you wouldn’t have to comply with your half of the lease (pay rent) you would get the expectation damages (difference in rent between old place and similar new place), you can’t force a landlord to build new stairs
  13. Jopal78
    There’s a complete misunderstanding of contracts, landlord/tenant law, and state and local politics.
  14. Jopal78
    How many stars did the Cubs retain when they all entered free agency at the same time? Zero, they traded them all. The Brewers will do the same. They’re kidding themselves if they think they can remain competitive in the NL and break up their starting pitching staff at the same time. It’s never been done before by a small market team. Maybe if they were like the Cubs who have the money to sign Swanson, Stroman, Smyly, Bellinger, etc. to just tread water, but the Brewers aren’t big players in free agency and never will be. Maybe when they trade their stars over the next 13 months they will hit on the vast majority of prospects they acquire in return and be able to keep the party going, but the odds of that happening are virtually nil. They want to sell tickets and suite leases, so of course publicly they say there won’t be a tear down, but unless their FO are all stupid (which I doubt) they know that’s a ruse and are aware of the grim years on the horizon.
  15. Jopal78
    I read both articles, it’s just a rehash of the same business from last year, and the byproduct of repealing the 5 county sales tax. We all know, the Brewers commissioned their own study for what repairs may become necessary and how much those repairs might cost. The stadium district declined to order their own study (Had they got their own study, dollars to donuts it would call for fewer repairs at a cheaper price). Then, Evers smelling political opportunity, calls for 290 million in this year’s budget surplus dollars to go for Stadium repairs. The legislature also smelling political opportunity, calls it a bad deal, a waste of money, and kills the proposal earlier on May 3rd. Just weeks later, MLB (according to the articles) informs the Brewers the repairs outlined in the team commissioned study really should be done, just as Manfred is going to be in town on his tour of each major league park. Back to square one….Brewers want repairs subsidized, the Governor and legislature in Wisconsin will fight to a stalemate on the issue, and the Brewers don’t have a good option to relocate anyways when they’re told to go pound sand by the State.
  16. Jopal78
    Wrigley Field was made a National Historic Landmark. Given that designation (and the tax credits for renovations that came with it) they could not change too much.
  17. Jopal78
    Check the game logs, he has 7 walks in 9 innings just this month. A three game stretch at the end of April doesn’t mean anything
  18. Jopal78
    Brewers are free to go somewhere else, and potentially being on the hook for the costs of them moving. Evers and the legislature passed a law eliminating the Stadium District‘S ability to collect tax revenue. Given the political climate in Wisconsin they’ll never get a bill passed to institute or restart the sales tax. This has always just been attempting to get leverage for negotiations over how much each side is going to pay for any maintenance or improvements that become necessary for the structure.
  19. Jopal78
    A few more? He should probably start strike throwing. Small has 7 walks in 9 innings this month. Considering his 2023 season average is 6.1 BB/9 he’s actually going the wrong way! I hope you’re right, but I’m not going to hold my breath hoping he’s not a bust
  20. Jopal78
    We can disagree on viability and trajectory. They moved him to the pen so he could be a lefty relieve for the Brewers this year, and he couldn’t get it done. At AAA this year as a reliever he’s walking 6 batters per 9IP on average. He won’t pitch in the majors with that many walks. That’s why guys who didn’t even open the year with the organization like Sousa, Megill, etc, have been getting the call instead of Small When they drafted him, the front office said he was “advanced” and should move through the system quickly, so I think the trajectory has already plummeted. Like I said if he can cut his walks he could be a lefty reliever in the majors but right now he’s more an organizational soldier that has really only pedigree working for him.
  21. Jopal78
    Really? Small is walking 6 batters per 9 innings in AAA. That’s why the Brewers have been signing pitchers off the street and moving them directly to the majors ahead of Small. How many would he walk in MLB where the hitters are far more dynamic and selective? He’s never going to be a quality starter in the major leagues because he’s a deception artist who struggles with command (as evidenced as nearly a 5BB/9 ratio in the minors) and his low 90s swifty will get tattooed when hitters know it’s coming despite the deception. The bar is set so low for lefty relief pitchers, if he could get his walk ratio per 9 under 4.0, he’d probably have a 10 year career in the big leagues
  22. Jopal78
    The Brewers are a small market team, that cannot afford to let star players walk with just little to no compensation. Look at the history of guys they traded in the last 20 years before they reached free agency: Carlos Lee, Greinke, Gallardo, Gomez, Lucroy, Hader. Unless like in ‘11 with Fielder where they’re way out in front and planning to go deep in the playoffs, they’re going to trade all their stars: Woodruff, Burnes, Adames, etc. it’s just a matter of time. That their talking heads tell the media they don’t want a “rebuild” is just a crock of baloney.
  23. Jopal78
    Good post. Hiura is definitely a bust in my mind, but his draft year is looking like a really bad year for finding pro players, which diminishes the magnitude of otherwise missing on a top 10 pick.
  24. Jopal78
    Can we stop with the Small nonsense? Think about it, he pitched in the majors last year, so he’s on the 40 man roster. The reality is he’s a former first round pick from college: in other words a player they invested millions in and who they believed was close to MLB ready when drafted. They had him try to make the team as a lefty reliever this year and he could not do it. They thought so much of his ability as a SP they called up a journeymen Rea and Junk before Small, then signed Tehran to a major league deal before calling up Small. He’s another in seemingly long line of first round busts under David Stearns.
  25. Jopal78
    He was a somebody in the game once, which I guess is better than Rea, Junk etc.
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