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  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. Jopal78
    There’s a complete misunderstanding of contracts, landlord/tenant law, and state and local politics.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Jopal78
    He was a somebody in the game once, which I guess is better than Rea, Junk etc.
  16. Jopal78
    That’d be pretty hard for Counsell to do and fill out a 9 batter lineup though: Adames Winker Taylor Turang Wiemer
  17. Jopal78
    The problem is they’re not even competitive. When they lose it’s been 3-0, 10-1. At least the bad teams of the late 90s would lose 7-5 and were fun to watch
  18. Jopal78
    Other way around, at this pace they’ll be taking it down to the studs on a rebuild
  19. Jopal78
    That’s the great thing about analytics you can find a stat to argue anything you want, it ignores that they’ve ridden those pitchers hard too. Payamps hasn’t recently tossed more than 60 innings in a season, he’s at 23 already. Same deal with Peguero, unless they simply burn them out, eventually the Brewers will have to go more often to those relief pitchers with eras over 8 who’ve so far they’ve only called on to throw 30 innings.
  20. Jopal78
    Where are them hot takes, dumping on the Cardinals now? 8-2 in their last 10, 3rd place and the Brewers already hear the foot steps coming up behind them Let’s face it, the ‘23 Brewers are just not good enough. Theres a lack of hitting talent and they were always going to rely on a wing and a prayer, and now the pitching staff where all the talent is has become a MASH unit, with arms being signed off the street and going right to the major leagues. Anything is possible, but I assume that July will bring radical changes to the roster.
  21. Jopal78
    You were right, Phillies claimed him on waivers, way to have the finger on the pulse.
  22. Jopal78
    It’s not a question of whether they’re competently run, I think the answer is yes. But clearly they don’t have the horses to hang with real contending clubs, and with the team control of their stars dwindling the writing has been on the wall for sometime.
  23. Jopal78
    These guys aren’t dumb, with getting bounced in ‘21 and collapsing down the stretch in ‘22 they saw the writing on the wall. It’s likliest reason why Stearns already resigned and Counsell is on an expiring contract
  24. Jopal78
    I mean Jesse Winker has his bags backed for a DFA, right? 3 XBH, can’t run, can’t play defense. They’d be better off rotating Tellez, Ruf, Yelich, Anderson, Miller etc through the DH slot than giving away automatic outs with Winker
  25. Jopal78
    He’s already decided to leave after this year. Hence the new stories of him entering the season with a expiring contract and no extension talks
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