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Outside of his speed, I don't recall much about Felder beyond his nickame and a humorous exchange between Bob Uecker and Pat Hughes when Kenny Felder was drafted by the Brewers. During one game in '92 Uecker expressed surprise when he learned the Brewers drafted Kenny Felder because he the Brewers already had him once and he currently played for the Giants Pat Hughes, playing the good straight man, reminded Ueck the former Brewers OFer was Mike Felder. Uecker had a sarcastic reply which I can't remember now but had me laughing hard at the time. I wish I could remember more about the exchange, because it was pretty funny when I heard it 30 years ago... not so much as I type this out.

While the book I am reading is highly political, I will keep my own opinions about the politics in the book to myself so as not to violate forum rules. Due to recent current events, I am re-reading The Third World War: August 1985 by Sir John W. Hackett, 1977. It was written as a possible future history, and after the fall of the Soviet Union was considered an alternate history. With recent events, some of the predictions made in the book are relevant again. Not the most fun read out there... but I've never been considered a ball of fun.

When I younger, including my childhood, I think only between 80-100 games were televised after I got access to games over local and regional TV. So even when I had cable and FSN WI and you could see almost all 162 games, I never watched that many. For me, between work and family, if I watched 3 or 4 games a week I was happy. If I didn't watch, I'd catch the highlights and read the box score and I was good. That's how I watch the Bucks and NHL, too. For me, the NFL and my other love (F1) is different. The Packers have 17 regular season games and the F1 calendar is 23 races, so I am way more inclined to make the time to watch each of those events means more than 1/162 of a season. And it is way easier to make time to watch 40 events than 162 or 82. So for me, it isn't a big deal to me if Milwaukee appears on Apple TV or FoxSports and I don't to see them. If they are on ESPN or TBS or Peacock and I'm not otherwise engaged, I'll get to watch them because the first two come with Youtube TV and my wife already subscribes to Peacock. If Bally Sports is 20.00 a month, I'll probably add that between April and October. I'll be right in my 3-4 games a week happy place. I think the main reason for these exclusive deals is two fold, but in the end they have the same driver. Baseball wants to get a younger, more diverse fan base because the current one isn't. This is a ton better for the advertisers, as they can sell commercials targeting more demographics for more money. It also is an attempt to grow interest in baseball to a younger audience which aren't approaching permanent retirement age. Catering to other fan groups is likely going to be secondary to making sure major league baseball doesn't die with those of us (almost) 50 and over.

I really only knew of Howell through his time in Milwaukee. Like @Julio Muchacho, I pretty young when the Brewers went to the World Series (9), so I wouldn't have realized he was an all-star in '78 or a really high draft pick. I do remember his relative lack of success in the 1982 post season, but I wouldn't have thought he was hitless. I look forward to many more of these!

I really only knew of Howell through his time in Milwaukee. Like @Julio Muchacho, I pretty young when the Brewers went to the World Series (9), so I wouldn't have realized he was an all-star in '78 or a really high draft pick. I do remember his relative lack of success in the 1982 post season, but I wouldn't have thought he was hitless. I look forward to many more of these!

I really only knew of Howell through his time in Milwaukee. Like @Julio Muchacho, I pretty young when the Brewers went to the World Series (9), so I wouldn't have realized he was an all-star in '78 or a really high draft pick. I do remember his relative lack of success in the 1982 post season, but I wouldn't have thought he was hitless. I look forward to many more of these!

I really only knew of Howell through his time in Milwaukee. Like @Julio Muchacho, I pretty young when the Brewers went to the World Series (9), so I wouldn't have realized he was an all-star in '78 or a really high draft pick. I do remember his relative lack of success in the 1982 post season, but I wouldn't have thought he was hitless. I look forward to many more of these!

I haven't done this in ages, and I haven't follow as closely as I have in the past, hopefully this list doesn't skew the results too much, but I had fun. Obviously 31-35 pay tribute to some all-time BF favorites and are just for fun. Thanks for organizing this @reillymcshane! Aaron Ashby, LHP Garrett Mitchell, OF Brice Turang, SS Sal Frelick, OF Joey Wiemer, OF Hedbert Perez, OF Felix Valerio, 2B Tyler Black, 2B Jeferson Quero, C Ethan Small, LHP Freddy Zamora, SS Jackson Chourio, SS Hendry Mendez, OF Russell Smith, LHP Joe Gray Jr., OF Mario Feliciano, C Abner Uribe, RHP Zavier Warren, UT Antonio Kelly, LHP Eduardo Garcia, SS Jheremy Vargas, SS Carlos Rodriguez, OF Max Lazar, RHP Korry Howell, OF Victor Castaneda, RHP Darrian Miller, C Luis Lara, OF Logan Henderson, RHP Gregory Barrios, SS Dylan File, RHP Dennis Sarfate, RHP Mark Rogers, RHP Dave Krynzel, OF Bill Scott, DH Shea Vucinich, 2B

I wouldn't be too upset if the Packers draft looked a bit like that. It's a bit light on WRs, but I'd take it. Speaking about the difference between PFF and PFN, Jake Ferguson never even appeared in the list of best available in my PFF drafts. And the one I posted above I had three picks between 92 and 111, so you'd have think he'd have shown up.

In fairness, Twins Daily writers who are old enough can let us know what it's like to write about a WS win.

Of Jones, Green, Beasley, and Jackson, I would for sure not sign Beasley. Cobb and Rodgers have the slot covered, and the guys they need to replace in Adams, MVS, and EQ all are outside guys. He is redundant and would take a roster spot from someone else you need. Of the other three, I would look at adding one of them. If Green Bay does indeed keep 7 receivers, one of them will need to a Malik Taylor type who can help on multiple special teams. None of those three tick that box, nor does anyone they might take at 22 or 28. My order of preference would be Jones, Jackson, and Green, with my interest dropping off rather considerably after Jones.

Ok, the PFF.com mock draft is addictive. For fun, I moved picks 22 and 28 and ended up with 14 picks starting at 32. You have to believe one of those 5 receviers will make an impact.

Just here to enjoy the hot streak however long it lasts...

Really, who among us aren't?

The cynic in me is already wondering who they'll acquire next year...

I don't have 5 favorites, but I can say having one which honors a legendary Brewers catcher is awesome. ?

I find your lack of faith in the Yankees disturbing...

If you are a bit too young to remember James Lofton, here are 10 minutes worthy of your time. 12 if you want to see him in a Raider or Bills uniform, too. He was the best player at his position from the time he was drafted until 1985. He was the best player on some bad teams. Back to back 1,300 yard 22+ yards per catch seasons in 1983 and 1984, all while averaging less than 4 catches per game. In 1984, he had games of 0, 0, 1, 1, and 2 catches, and still managed 62 catches and 1300 yards. His quarterback his first 20 games was David Whitehurst. While the prime of his time in Green Bay he played with Lynn Dickey, he also played with Rich Campbell, Randy Wright, Jim Zorn, Vince Ferragamo, and Chuck Fusina. If Lofton play for his college coach in San Francisco, or in San Diego with a team who could get their best players the ball often, who knows what sort of numbers he'd have put up. I still believe after Don Hutson, Lofton is the second best receiver to play in Green Bay. Sterling Sharpe was amazing, but I think Lofton was a bit better

If you get a Browser extension, you can make the site run in Dark Mode. I use a Chrome extension called Dark Reader.

I know this was already posted by Peavey, but I love the twitter thing so much I can't help but post this.

It appears to be working for me.

It is open year round, and will have golf leagues and tournaments on non-game days and out of season. If I had to guess, I suspect they will be most heavily used in the winter when you can't golf and on non-game days. Maybe the people who use them on game day will be non-baseball fans who went to the game with baseball fans? If they are using the simulator at least they aren't disrupting people who want to watch the game.

I don't disagree with you. I just think that making this public knowledge is a PR spin to get people on "their side" mad. Both sides do this, so I'm not pointing fingers. I don't really care one way or the other, so I don't understand getting upset over these things. If a Brewer player makes an error that costs them the playoffs, get upset. If management decides to trade away your favorite player to save some money, get upset over it. If the cost of a player's beef burrito is put into a different column in the team's Quickbooks ledger, who cares? BREAKING NEWS: Milwaukee Brewers reveal they use Quickbooks to manage their finances.

Wait, this site was borne out of the ESPN board? That's... crazy. My Twins forum was also borne out of the ESPN board. That makes us brothers or cousins or some sort of kin. I already feel at home.

Professional baseball players aren't mythical beings, they are people. People are imperfect creatures whom have things at which they excel and things they don't, likes and dislikes, life priorities, etc, which are unique to them. The fact baseball players can hit, catch, and throw a ball better than most doesn't change that. And like every adult I've ever met who is working for a living, no matter how much they generally like their job, people are not immune to disliking their job from time to time (or all the time), or having a bad day (or week, or month). They aren't immune from having their job performance be impacted by 'life' events, and they certainly aren't immune from giving less than maximum effort from time to time. It doesn't matter the job, it doesn't matter how much you make, it doesn't matter how much better off or worse off you are than others, and it doesn't matter if people are watching or not, and it doesn't even matter how good you are at your job, sometimes having to work just plain sucks for reasons. And sometimes people are really good at performing tasks at a high level, and even though they don't really like it they do it anyways. And if you are good enough at it, you don't need to give maximum effort all the time. People will think you are, and they will even sometimes be amazed at how you do it, but they'll never know you coasted your way to a job well done. This is a people-thing, and baseball players are just people.