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Per the NFL website: (Aug. 28) Claiming period for players placed on waivers at the final roster reduction will expire at 12:00 noon, New York time. https://operations.nfl.com/gameday/nfl-schedule/2024-25-important-nfl-dates/

I think we've found the Doug Melvin burner account.

Passan's quote about it is: "...he's primed to seek that eighth season and reap the third-largest deal ever for a pitcher, behind Yoshinobu Yamamoto last winter and Gerrit Cole in 2020." Feels like 100% speculation rather than insider knowledge. He runs off a list of aces have that have gotten 7 years in the recent past so he seems to be suggesting Burnes might try pushing the envelope. Then goes on to mention that Cole has an opt out so could insert himself into the fray.

It's not second guessing when you don't like the move before the guy has thrown his first pitch.

The method I use is recognize the poster whose posts you want to ignore and scroll right on by their post. Works wonderfully.

Devin definitely should not have pitched tonight, should most definitely have been pulled after the first 4 pitch walk that forced in a run and they still had the lead. That all said this team was due for a blown game, pity it seemed fairly avoidable. No guarantees Megill gets the job done if they pulled Devin earlier but I'd rather have seen that happen. Bad loss, on to the next.

Brewers only play the Cardinals 6 more times, not 7. One less H2H game to worry about.

Just another reason that all the legalese mumbo jumbo that corporations attach to products and that absolutely nobody reads just so you can use them should be banned. Signing away your right to sue so that you can watch a half hour of television (that you're paying for, free trials be damned) is beyond ridiculous. I think I remember hearing about some minor uproar maybe a year ago about McDonald's updating their terms of service that you had to agree to just to use their app to order their food. The catch being something similar to the Disney thing about having arbitration rather than a right to outright sue. That crap shouldn't be allowed to hold up in courts anywhere.

It really was ugly last night. I rarely tune in for preseason games or only watch to a certain point but I stayed with the game through most of the 3rd quarter before turning it off. Preseason doesn't mean much but you'd still like to see some sliver of competence and there wasn't much to be found. At the very least Packers coaches have more than enough material to light a fire under these guys in practice this week.

NFL teams get to sell tickets, concessions, merchandise and self-produce a television broadcast to make that sweet, filthy lucre while putting out sub-standard game play.

CC certainly won pre-season manager of the year. If only they didn't have to play the games...

Easy, root for the Cards to beat the Dodgers and the Brewers to win.

Chourio has made a steep improvement just in these last 3 weeks since the all star break. It wasn't that long ago that he was slashing .243/.294/.384/.678 (pre all star) which is a stark difference to his current line .277/.322/.441/.763 (post all star). I'm sure people around the sport have noticed his hot streak but all it's really done is catch up his numbers so that he's in the same ballpark as the other leading rookies. Fortunately there's still 7ish weeks of season left. Hope he keeps it going.

Chourio's recent game log over the last 2ish weeks. My goodness the multi hit games.

The Kid is on fire. 🔥

Bauers has a sweet swing when he connects for power. Wish it happened more often.

My favorite stat with Chourio is the kid is having a blast playing baseball. Constantly smiling. So I guess the stat is Smile factor: 1.000.

Marlins very nearly swept the Orioles (lost game 3 in extra innings) just before coming to Milwaukee, they're playing well right now. That said I wholeheartedly agree. 😆

And Brandon Bostick. May he forever live in infamy. You know, instead of the cheap QB method the Packers are pretty much going with the cheap offense other than QB and that works too. Hopefully. There really aren't many, if any, expensive contracts on the offense. Even Jacobs' deal isn't that bad.

I get it but at the same time if he wasn't playing baseball he'd very likely be doing something else. That's 5 days off in the middle of the season, very precious time for a baseball player. He'd be traveling or visiting friends and family and still working his body even if it's off the field. It'd be really hard to ask him to just stay in bed for 5 days and not strain himself.

5 days, not 6. He played the Sunday before the break and the Saturday after, then was given Sunday off. So he played 5 innings of fairly uneventful baseball (hitting into two groundouts and making one defensive play on a base hit to right field) sandwiched between 4 off days. I think he played because he felt well enough to play, just like he played after the break up until he didn't feel well enough to play. It feels to me like it got worse in that 2nd Cubs game when he was removed from the game in the 8th inning. I get Yelich's back issue is a big deal but pro athletes play through their aches and pains until it gets to a point where they just can't anymore. I think that has to apply to Yelich just like anyone else. He can have a sore back that he can play through, there's no known timeframe to take time off for rest so that it doesn't get worse, it could easily go as long as a typical trip to the IL anyway or longer. At least playing through it until he can't lets everyone know for sure that he has to shut it down so you're not playing the "what if" game. That's how I feel about it anyway. I'm sure there's room for disagreement there.

People are fooling themselves if they really think Yelich playing in 5 innings of the ASG is the problem here. It sucks he's hurt. Scapegoating doesn't change anything.

Really hoping it gets done this weekend if not today. Taking this into next week just dials up the pressure (and fan angst). In the meantime, for those that may not follow Tom Grossi on YouTube.

Whew, sounds like a lot of excuses. They're supposed to be better and they're not (right now at this point in time). Of course my post was somewhat tongue in cheek but there is nothing they are going through that the Brewers aren't also going through and they still have more talent than the Brewers. Yet the narrative around this Brewers team is how are they doing all this winning without good starting pitching? If you were offered a straight swap of Corbin Burnes and Grayson Rodriguez for Freddy Peralta and Colin Rea would you do it? I'd hope so. Wouldn't even have to think 30 seconds about it. So now we're going to compare Meyers and Civale and say we're obviously better there too? At a glance I'd take their 8th and 9th inning RPs (Cano and Kimbrell) over ours too. For one, the Brewers don't seem to have a designated 8th inning pitcher. Maybe that's by design and maybe not, the idea of using Hudson in high leverage earlier in games isn't a bad thing but nobody else has really established themselves as a rock solid 8th inning set-up man. All this on top of that Orioles offense and they are only 1.5 games better than the Brewers in the standings and have a similar run differential +85 to the Brewers' +84. This is all pretty circumstantial as the Orioles have been on a 3-8 stretch in their last 11 games (they just broke a 3 game losing streak by defeating the Marlins in extra innings). The Brewers had been on a bit of a skid themselves but won 4 of their last 5 after the AS break. a couple of those Cubs games go differently and maybe this little bit of a swing in the Brewers' favor isn't as meaningful.

The Brewers (403 RA) have allowed the 5th fewest runs in MLB (tied with KC) and have allowed fewer runs than... checks notes... the Baltimore Orioles (414 RA). Who I've been told have better starting pitchers than the Brewers.