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  1. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I agree to a point, but I highly doubt it's all smoke. A lot of gray area to try to figure out.
  2. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Agreed. Wholeheartedly. Sorry I do not have much else to add, but not much else needs to be be said.
  3. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Welcome! It'll be fun to follow the changes.
  4. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I get that. I'd love to not have to get up at the butt crack of dawn to start my work day at 6 a.m. in order to be able to get out at 3:15. Fortunately my workplace has been very accommodating to me having to shift my schedule around to make things work for my family. I certainly realize that is not always the case with all workplaces. It is difficult for find wrap-around care I believe because professional child care providers simply don't see enough of a benefit to offering it. That payment for watching a child for an hour or so after school or before school is miniscule compared to having a different, younger child for a full day. Because childcare facilities are regulated in the number of children they can have per adult supervisor, they are always after those children who will consistently be there for the full day 5 days per week. That often leaves those only needing shorts periods of care, or periodic drop-in care, out in the cold. Your oldest is too young to consider any after-school sports for a little while yet, but have you looked into if there is any sort of Boys and Girls Club? That has started to take hold in many communities around where ! live in northern Wisconsin for the same concerns that you have.
  5. Ron Robinsons Beard
    As an elementary school teacher I can tell you why...kids are burned out by 3. We used to go 820 to 307. Was good for staff, kids, and parents. Now we go 830 to 340 and the kids have minimal effort by 3. The last 40 minutes is tough to keep them engaged. It's a fight, as working parents argue for longer school days and other things like full-day 4K and even 3K because of the cost of child care. School used to believe that it is beneficial for parents to actually spend some time with their children throughout the day. A half hour in the morning and an hour or so at night doesn't cut it. But they have relented to that working parental pressure.
  6. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I don't think basing your argument on championships won necessarily tells the whole story either, though. Sure, Hoosiers is a great flick, but I don't necessarily want the Brewers to be considered MLB's version of Hickory High every time they make the playoffs. I know that the Dodgers only have one championship of late, and the Yankees are currently in a dry spell in that area, but absolutely no one can deny that those two teams have a distinct competitive advantage over the Brewers simply because they can go out and purchase any player they want on the open market, and pay pennies on the dollar in a trade to take on other teams' high-salary contracts. If they sign a player to a huge deal and he doesn't live up to it, it isn't a big deal. But when the Brewers do it, fans are worried that Christian Yelich is going to be an albatross that hinders the team from competing for the next decade. The NFL and NBA are more popular than MLB largely because you can be a fan of most any team and have hope. The cream that rises to the top are typically the teams that are run the best. It sucks that the ability to spend more comes into play in MLB, IMO. Sure, maybe the Dodgers would still be good if there was a cap and a floor. In fact, they are well run, so they probably would. But that doesn't change the idea that they are currently operating under a competitive advantage right now.
  7. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Perhaps a glimmer of hope: Jon Heyman @JonHeyman · 1h Contradictory to all the negativity/ upset surrounding the MLB/players talks, one person involved said he believes the sides are now “within striking distance” and a deal could be done be tomorrow night. Luxury tax remains the sticky issue but a 225/230M threshold should work.
  8. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Exactly. He knows that if he counts that much against the bottom line, they won't be able to surround him with enough talent to realistically compete for a Super Bowl. The guy has made a lot of idiotic choices in the last couple years, but I don't believe him to be an actual idiot.
  9. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I don't care so much about the names on the backs of the jerseys. I don't care whether Mark Attanasio makes a profit on the team. I care about the name on the front of the jersey, because I'll still be cheering for this team long after those names on the back have moved on, and probably long after Mark A either sells the team or hands it down to his kids. The Brewers are a well run organization right now, and whatever happens with this labor fight, I'm going to be upset if changes to the CBA are made that make it more difficult for the team to remain competitive in the future. That's the fans' skin in this game.
  10. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I am a working stiff who is employed by a corporation. Most people are in a similar situation, unless you are self-employed or a CEO of a company yourself. Therefore it is much easier for me to relate to the players' side of this than it is the owners' side. I cannot relate to the CEO of my small company, let alone those who own major Fortune 500 type companies. It's not even the "haves vs. the have-nots". It's more than that. It's a whole different dynamic.
  11. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I get that baseball players at the MLB level have a very rare and valuable skill set. But look at the median family income in this country ($79,900). Then look at the minimum salary of a first year MLB player ($570,500). No one is playing for free. There are very, very few people who can logically relate to the "plight" the players are feeling at the moment. I think that some owners love baseball. I wish more did. But some of them simply love making money. In the end, that's how they earned enough of it to even purchase an MLB franchise. It is what it is.
  12. Ron Robinsons Beard
    The biggest hold-up now is the players wanting a decrease in shared revenue and higher luxury tax thresholds, which in essence only helps the large market clubs. Players want this because it is their belief that small market owners are not reinvesting shared revenue earnings back into player salaries, but are instead pocketing that as profit. They believe that penalizing large-market, huge revenue teams for having huge payrolls is directly taking money out of players' pockets. I believe that there is some truth to what the players believe in these cases. However, if MLB concedes and gives the players what they want here, it will only hurt small market teams such as the Brewers. The Brewers would basically be penalized because teams like the Pirates suck and refuse to pay to put a competitive product on the field. The only real answer here is a strict salary cap and salary floor. But it will never happen, because the large market teams don't want it and the $100+ million contract players don't want it. And those are the guys who are ultimately making the decisions. It isn't the Mark Attanasios or Brent Suters of the world (even though Suter has been present at the negotiations, I would imagine rich jerks like Scherzer are much more vocal).
  13. Ron Robinsons Beard
    April weather typically sucks in northern Wisconsin. It is wet, and often still very cold, as winter tries to hang on as long as possible. The proof for me during that month that actual spring weather and nice days are on the horizon is being able to follow early-season Brewers baseball. But now billionaire owners bickering with millionaire players is threatening to take that away, which would be the second time in three years. And that sucks. I know that baseball will eventually be back. But if they don't get their differences ironed out this week, and it ends up delaying the season, it's going to be an absolutely terrible look. And both sides are to blame.
  14. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Right. But at the same time, the Packers could theoretically tell Love's representation to pound sand.
  15. Ron Robinsons Beard
    LOL ... a Broncos reporter tweeting this out doesn't look suspicious at all ... Move along, people, move along ... What motivation would a Broncos reporter have to fabricate something like that? That would make the Packers less likely to want to deal Rodgers, not more. I don't know that there's anything to it either, but I'm also not willing to totally dismiss it just because we don't like what is being said. Manufactured drama. It has been speculated that if the Packers are hanging on to Rodgers, Love would be the one dealt, possibly even to the Broncos to pair with Hackett. Allbright is speculating (and that is all this is, pure speculation) that Love has little value, so if the Broncos wanted him, they "should" be able to acquire him for a song. I think that, as of right now, Rodgers is the Packers' QB next year, and Jordan Love will again be his backup. The Packers have shown no indication that they don't believe in Jordan Love. Wanting the two-time reigning MVP to come back is zero indication that they don't like Love.
  16. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Or he knows we do. Or maybe it is just as simple as he was just having some feelings last night and wanted to thanks his friends. This isnt even about last night. Everything he does and says is drama. He loves it. Creating drama and experiencing it are much different, though. I don't get the feeling that he's experiencing any at this point. But I agree, he certainly does seem to enjoy working up people into a lather.
  17. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Or he knows we do. Or maybe it is just as simple as he was just having some feelings last night and wanted to thank his friends.
  18. Ron Robinsons Beard
    LOL ... a Broncos reporter tweeting this out doesn't look suspicious at all ... Move along, people, move along ...
  19. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I guarantee that timeout wasn't silly to those deep reserves who were getting their opportunity to play against a Big Ten power. Bravo to Gard for caring enough at that point to put his players in the position to not be embarrassed in the few seconds of game action they were going to see.
  20. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Juwan Howard is a 6'9" former NBA power forward and enforcer. Greg Gard looks like the guy selling insurance in the office around the corner. The idea that Howard is claiming self defense is an absolute joke.
  21. Ron Robinsons Beard
    I have no advanced stats to back this up, but my perception has always been that Moran has traditionally owned Brewers' pitching and has killed the ball at Miller Park/AmFam Field.
  22. Ron Robinsons Beard
    There is also a lot more revenue sharing. The NFL shifted when free agency made things more even, not a salary cap. A few MLB owners are buttheads and keep much of the shared money so the really rich teams use it as an excuse not to share any more than they absolutely have to. Right here is the key to pretty much every economic issue that is hurting MLB right now. MLB has made attempts to level the playing field and add parity to a sport where the big markets grossly outspend the smaller markets, and instead of reinvesting that shared revenue back into their teams, the owners of teams like the Pirates, Orioles, Indians, Marlins, Mariners, Tigers, Royals, Athletics and D-Backs are content to operate on a low budget and pocket their shared revenue earnings. If shared revenue is a thing in MLB, those teams should probably be required to spend it to put a better product on the field. Because the way it is right now, players want to do away with shared revenue, because the bigger markets are the only ones who have shown they are willing to spend big ... so why not but MORE money in their pockets? Such a broken system.
  23. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Really makes you start to question the MLBPA's argument that the players aren't getting their fair share, doesn't it? No. Not at all. Using an individual case to make that argument is silly. In the middle of a collective bargaining stalemate, it simply is not a good look. Which is likely exactly why the Nationals let word leak out that Soto turned the offer down. Game playing. Perhaps I worded it wrong, though. MLBPA has a point that all players are not getting a fair share. But it is also a fair argument that the MLB salary structure is extremely top heavy, and it is deals like this that back that idea up.
  24. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Really makes you start to question the MLBPA's argument that the players aren't getting their fair share, doesn't it?
  25. Ron Robinsons Beard
    Most teams that need a GM are probably in a rebuild. Otherwise the old GM would probably still be there. Not if their GM is poached by a huge market team with an owner with a stupid amount of money burning a hole in his pocket and a little brother complex/need to be relevant.
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