BrewerFan

Pick a different team then kid. If you are really under this delusion that the Brewers will be able to spend with the Mets...I don't know what to tell you. STILL haven't heard who the FA signing was that they should have made, but...I don't expect I will.

Since they went to the WS and then had a couple of 100 win seasons? LOL...alright.

I'll let the Rays know.

Right. I do find the "I'd rather not be in the playoffs than lose in the 1st round," line kinda funny. I remember the fans who were happy they went .500. This team needs some of the young guys like Turang, Wiemer, Mitchell, Frelick to just grow, the premiere prospects like Chourio, Quero, Misiorowski to hit and they need their young pitching to step up. It's just kinda that simple. They could have and should have played better and this is extremely frustrating, but they do have help coming.

Again, it seems pretty clear the easiest place to vent is the guy who owns ~1/3rd of the team and complaining he's tried to "improve the fan experience." Obviously you'd want to maximize revenue... The problem isn't the 140M payroll...waiting for some fairy tale where a guy worth 20 billion comes along and buys the team seems...fantastical. The problem is the Brewers offensive prospects didn't line up. It's that simple. They couldn't hit. Just give me the guy they really should have signed that would have changed the Brewers offensive outlook?

Yeah...AGAIN, this wasn't some great insight you had. The Mets asked for permission THREE times. Stop acting like you had this great foresight that nobody else did. https://www.mlb.com/news/mets-request-on-david-stearns-denied-by-brewers All you did was add a ridiculous level of conspiratorial nonsense about how Stearns was working against the Brewers and colluding with Eppler at the end of last year. You want credit for a take, that's the one you had before everyone else...and probably for good reason.

Yeah...I'm not blaming Burnes pitching poorly or most of this on Counsell. A couple moves I didn't like, but...c'mon.

I don't think anyone is. This is just the time for angry venting about the guy who owns 39% of the team in the smallest market like there was just a FA available who'd have made these ridiculous seeing eye singles fall for AZ and the Brewers hit into comically bad luck.

You have GOT to be ******* kidding me.

No...he does not. He's hitting under .200 vs lefties with maybe a .600 OPS. I don't know why you think he "destroys," LH pitching.

A hitting coach can't just make good hitters. We've gone through a few hitting coaches now and...I don't think that's the problem. We just haven't developed hitting and we're a year or two behind on the hitting to line up with the pitching. I guess the hope is that the next wave will have enough pitching, but...who knows. I do love CC, but I cannot wrap my head around Winker getting ABs. What is a hitting coach supposed to do with that? I don't think it's like Barry, but it's so much easier to see in another sport.

Yeah, I don't need to read past the headline. I've been a hardcore Turang fan, I've compared him to a poor man's Trea Turner, I still think he can approximate that, but he's not now, it's obvious. His based loaded AB last night with 0 outs was just terrible, he was overpowered on 3 fastballs. Monasterio has to start.

I didn't know which reaction to use here...the sad or solved it reaction! Just a blown chance!

We should probably afford him the same benefit of the doubt we're saying should have been afforded to Bauer. I'm gonna assume he didn't realize she was going to take it all the way...unless someone has seen all the texts. Bauer is kinda reading these like they're a group chat and I don't know that they are. It could have just as easily been her telling him she's linking up with a guy with a monster deal and he makes a joke? What a dirtbag he'd have to be to know the whole story and roll with it though. Even if he hated Bauer...I can't think of anyone who I'd let go through that KNOWING it was a lie.

I thought it was a game where Kotsay hits a HR and has a good game at the plate. Whichever that one was. My recollection(and I've tried to forget) was that there was a single that fell in front of him that a decent OFer would have gotten and then two more hit in the gaps that would have been....fairly easy outs for Morgan and routine plays for Gomez. I may have exaggerated the defensive impact he had, but I thought he gave up 3 runs? Lets just all keep that in mind when thinking about Jessie Winker as a DH. If this was Ron, he may be in RF for this game.

Assuming there was the level of planning and literal talk of theft from the text messages as represented? No...she should not. But a DA going after her would look awful and they'll be far more concerned with that. The LA District Attorney already said he's not filing charges. They'll say it'll discourage victims from coming forward and the like...I think in reality it does the opposite. When you so brazenly lie and you're caught in that lie and it's just ok, nothing happens other than a guy loses ~100M and the potential to earn much-much more.

That's fair. The details when they came out were...wild, shocking and outraging. But this video and a lot of these details leaked a WHILE back. Her actually texting that she was going go do this for money and his net worth and being asked by another women(her AA sponsor) if she ever felt guilty, I didn't see that, but at the very least, anyone who didn't kinda pause after this video came out and think, "MAYBE I got this wrong," I don't think they ever will. The Quintez Cephus case was another time I just assumed a guy was guilty because...why would they proceed if they had video evidence that disproved the story? I don't know, I tend to believe there are very few people out there targeting a man for his money, so this probably shouldn't inform our opinions moving forward...other than maybe we don't dig in so quickly to take sides and then just refuse to ever move an inch irrespective of the facts that come out.

Hey now...watch out. I QUESTIONED if he was guilty when this video was leaked and I was called a rape apologist by the guy who runs the board.

Maybe I'm the one who's off here and was unfair to @homer. I just don't see it being like Middleton or Lopez and paying them because if you lose them, you don't have anywhere else to spent that money and it's all part of keeping that core player here. You don't sign either of those players under most circumstances. You don't trade for Dame's contract. You do all of that because of Giannis. So saying it's like their deals, I guess at this point, after the Dame trade and the '28/'30 swaps and '29 first all unprotected, you've made that decision, but I'm struggling to see the argument that giving Giannis the max is like sucking it up and paying Lopez 4-5M more a year than you wanted to(or Middleton) because you were so concerned you could potentially lose a player. Giannis IS that player. I feel like he could slow down and still decline a pretty decent amount and be well worth that super max.

Some coaches/analysts have said he doesn't "love the game." I don't know if that's part of it. The Jets thought Rodgers could bail out that OL(and that Duane Brown at 38 could play LT). That's likely the bigger part. He's spent the last 2 years getting hit and probably learning bad habits. But you're absolutely right, when he's on, he looks really good. Like a young Rodgers. The way he was taking the snap and then just flicking it out to Garrett Wilson so quickly and throwing right as he plants. So many of these QBs have the physical talent. I wonder when teams will decide they should maybe let them sit a year, particularly if they don't have great OLs.

I honestly can't tell if this is meant to be in blue or not. He's 28 years old...he's at worst the 2nd best player in the NBA. I believe he's younger than both Embiid and Jokic(I know he's younger than Embiid). I don't think a single NBA team would give it a 2nd thought giving him a Super Max deal.... And as far as his game, his mid range has improved enormously to where it's been one of the better ones in the league. Will he still be the same player at 35? No, I'd imagine not, but...again, he's still just 28 years old. That's the prime athletic years for an athlete. What's more, it would be absolutely insane for them to have done everything they did, blow up their future and then not just automatically hand Giannis the max deal they can. That offer is on the table at any time he wants to sign it at this point and for the foreseeable future.

Yeah, that all makes sense. Just one point of clarification(and again might not have been talking to me) but when I said restructure his contract, I'm talking about him taking a pay cut. Not adding years or void years or any of that. It's really hard for me to see any team signing him to a big deal. He said he wants to play here, I'd let him. But not for a 9.5M roster bonus+whatever the base is. It's gotta be nearly 10M. The Eagles cut Fletcher Cox and then re-signed him to kinda clean up the cap and go year to year with him. I'd do that. Cut him, he comes back and I'd welcome him back...for a couple million+ incentives... if he can practice and this 5th surgery actually solves anything fine. Otherwise I'm right there. He doesn't factor into their plans, they move forward as though he's not there. Yeah, I suppose it makes sense to have Tom playing LT...but I don't think they'll do that in-season. I think you pretty much know what you have in him. An extremely athletic LT who's just not quite strong enough at times, but he compensates with great balance. He actually had a good grade vs the Lions(82 per PFF I believe). -Newman...feels like Sean Rhyan can't be worse. I'd bet Rhyan makes more mental mistakes, but that still can't be as bad. I think they know what Nijman is at this point. I really hoped he'd keep growing, but he made a huge jump and now he's kinda plateaued for the last couple years. I suppose if they were REALLY trying to do everything they could to win this year(without making that silly Tristan Wirfs trade that I doubt TB would even consider) you could play Walker and Nijman at the OTs and Tom at Center when Jenkins comes back. That's your best 5 most likely and nobody else can really play Center. Ultimately though...I think you're right, just let the young guys play, see if they can hold up. Maybe you'll be surprised. I was pretty adamant that Bakhtiari wasn't good enough and they needed to draft another OT. He was just good "for a 4th round pick at rookie," I never imagined he'd become what he has. I don't think we'll find out we've already got our two franchise OTs on this team. I hope I'm wrong. I think we have 2 core pieces in Jenkins and Tom, Walker I think fits in there, ideally for me at RG. And then you have some freedom with this OT class. There are guys who are better fits at RT. Oak Creek's own Amarius Mims at 6'7 340 and a smooth athlete, he may be a better RT. So having Tom already in place is huge. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/prospect-rankings/offensive-tackles/ That is insanely stacked. Morgan from AZ is exactly the Packers type of prospect. So is Barton from Duke(he sounds more like a OG prospect). Guys they could take later. The top of that class though, 4-5 guys who would be easy day 1 starters and produce an immediate upgrade. I think this is going to be one of those drafts where you saw the Packers go CB back to back to try and finally address the need. Or this will be the year the Packers take a WRer in the first round, or Brock Bowers if he falls...because....of course the Packers do things differently than everyone else expects. I'm just going to enjoy watching the team grow and develop and not have expectations of them beating a Philly or SF type team.

I guess that should have been in blue. I would love to have Brogdon....but obviously not at the cost of Portis and Connaughton. I'm also not actually worried about his personality. I know there was some discontentment there, I think White was part of that as well(he was unhappy). I don't know what about, but Brogdon at 22M is not worth chopping away at our depth even more. If there was ONE thing I wish we would have done just to tweak the roster, it'd be add Carter. I DO wonder if the Bucks MAYBE sneak under that 2nd apron during the season so they can still go after buyout players. I don't know how it'd work exactly, but they saved money in the Dame trade(this year) and they were under the 2nd apron, but over because Jrue, Allen and Middleton had unlikely to be earned bonuses, but apparently the Bucks can possibly still stay under it until the buyout market...in theory. So say some Twitter experts or as we can now call them..."X-perts." That was corny as hell. I own that.

He's elite. He's much better than Jrue as a ball handler. He's also much more explosive than I think people realize. He was never Ja Morant explosive, but he's got some hops and went up over guys. Not so much recently. Anyway, as a ball handler, just repeating rankings I've seen from more knowledgable fans or the Bill Simmons' of the world on Twitter or wherever, he's considered an elite ball handler. Just behind Steph and maybe Harden and ahead of everyone else(again, not named Kyrie). I'm sure there are guards who don't play because they're ineffective who are better, but he's got a tighter handle than Jrue for sure. He can get to the rim easier...doubt he can finish as strong at the rim, but give and take(much more take for the Bucks as an all around offensive player).

I mean...obviously we now trade for Brogdon. Portis+Connaughton...right? Or maybe we're just set? I think we're set. And I really like the look of this team. Cam Payne was a VERY underrated signing. We'll be in trouble if he's running the point vs the Celtics or Nuggets, but 20-25 games so we give Dame time off? Very good backup.