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  1. AdvantageSchneider
    I'd rather have Gamel up than the Hurricane. McG is doing good, but he's mainly seeing just lefties. He might struggle without the platoon advantage. Gamel isn't doing that bad that he should be sent down.
  2. AdvantageSchneider
    The timing is a little surprising too. They are 24-28 and that's playing without one of their better players in Doumit. I thought there was a lot of talk in spring training about having a winning season this year so they wouldn't set the record for most consecutive years below .500. I guess that was all talk.
  3. AdvantageSchneider
    No surpise the pirates got taken again. I think Nate has as many home runs as the entire Braves starting OF has at this point in the season. The Braves were desperate for OF offense and the pirates couldn't get more out of them than some second teir pitching prospects? At least they didn't deal him to the cubs. Looking back at what we gave up for half a season of CC, you have to think the pirates were robbed considering the braves are getting 3 years of McLouth.
  4. AdvantageSchneider
    At least that explains Julio in the 6th.
  5. AdvantageSchneider
    They hired Jim Tracy as interium manager? If I'm an NL west team I might think about tanking a few games against the rockies the rest of the way just in the hope they bring him back long term.
  6. AdvantageSchneider
    Isn't Hornsby considered one of the games biggest jerks in the game?
  7. AdvantageSchneider
    They used to kick you out after a certain amount of time. I imagine they still do, but how long you have I don't know.
  8. AdvantageSchneider
    I would imagine that if you asked someone in ticketing that you did not want to get wet and the game was sold out they would still be able to move you to like the Toyota tundra seats or maybe the HD deck or maybe the Gehl club or even those best seats in the game seats. They'd try to move you someplace where you wouldn't get wet. I'm sure they could do it. I doubt that would be a problem. The Brewers now don't seem to take too many or any false steps from a PR point of view.
  9. AdvantageSchneider
    I believe Mo's Irish pub has a shuttle. I also believe that the BBC has a shuttle, but I'm not positive on that one. Also Fat Daddy's in the third ward has a shuttle.
  10. AdvantageSchneider
    Looks like Yost was right about Riveria not being able to play more than once a month.
  11. AdvantageSchneider
    Koskie's made over $26 million in his career. If he's made that much money and blown it that another $1M is really important to his family's welfare he really screwed the pooch. It's hard to argue that $1M would be worth blowing another 2 1/2 years of his life if he takes another hard shot to the head. If he wants to play in the WBC so he can say he went out on his own terms fine, but I think he's crazy if he wants to do more than that. And I don't know how anyone can seriously compare playing "hurt" in a softball league to what Koskie's doing. Unless you were in a coma for two years due to a softball related accident the two scenarios are not comparable.
  12. AdvantageSchneider
    Well that sounds a little better, I guess. Best of luck to him.
  13. AdvantageSchneider
    I guess I had a different reaction when I read the article. "this week Koskie said he's been symptom free for more than a month." I have a hard time justifying Koskie playing some glorfied exhibition games when the dude has taken 3 years to recover from his last concussion. The play that put him out did not even look at bad. I've taken harder spills getting out of bed in the morning. I'd want no part of scrambling the rest of his brain. I can't believe they are actually letting him play. One more reason not to like the WBC.
  14. AdvantageSchneider
    I could not care less. Slightly ticked off I have to wait an extra week for real baseball this year b/c of this stupid event.
  15. AdvantageSchneider
    Although at the time he wasn't really the consensus #1 pick was he? When Weeks was drafted he was the golden spikes winner and was considered to be a #1 pick with Upton, IIRC. San Diego I thought took Bush b/c he was from the San Diego area and he would be easier to sign. Right away he got busted for underage drinking I recall and people were saying the padres screwed up royally in taking him, esp. since he wasn't even the best player in the draft. Here's the original story from US today. http://www.usatoday.com/s...ft/2004-06-07-picks_x.htm The key paragraphs, "The selection, which continues on Tuesday, was a bit of a surprise by the Padres, who said in the days leading up to the draft that they narrowed their choices to three college players: Florida State shortstop Stephen Drew, and right-handers Jered Weaver of Long Beach State and Jeff Niemann of Rice. Signability likely played a major role in the Padres' final decision. Agent Scott Boras represents Drew and Weaver. "
  16. AdvantageSchneider
    None of those things will directly hurt our chances this year. And really only the picks will have a long term impact on the club. Compared to losing Molitor, we went from what 92 wins to 13 years of losing baseball. Hammonds stunk if up for 3 years and ate up a ton of cash we could have used. The guys that replace powell and Jack Z, might be even better. Those aren't even negatives, yet.
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    I would think 1-2 would be Paul Molitor leaves Jeffery Hammonds 3 yrs- $21M 3rd place would be the year we gave Teddy Higuera a 4 year contract I imagine I'm leaving out quite a few other off seasons. Not in my top 3. Maybe we should do some sort of ranking.
  18. AdvantageSchneider
    Is his contract the worse ever for an organization? $36.2 million for .158 with three home runs and 14 RBIs in 75 games. I know the yankees paid Pavano like $38 million for 157 innings of about 4.8 era. Obviously a couple more million but better "production". Which one is worse? I'm thinking Jones. Any other bad contracts come to mind?
  19. AdvantageSchneider
    I've been reading it too, and it's a shame so many trees had to die and they've yet to really prove WI has a larger drunk driving problem than any other place. The emotional evidence they use is about the weakest form of argument you could make. If you really wanted to save lives they should be on a crusade to get rid smoking in public places. Smoking causes far more deaths a year in Wisconsin than drunk driving does. (edit: long nested quote --1992)
  20. AdvantageSchneider
    I think you are over stating the cubs case. The cubs lost Derosa who put up a .857 OPS last year. That's pretty comparable to what they should expect to get out of Bradley if you look at his road numbers, career numbers and take into account he won't be DH'ing this year like he was last year. They also 250 AB's out of Jim Edmonds who put up the mind boggling .937 OPS and replace him with .738 OPS Fuku plus whatever reed johnson gives them. They lost wood, Dempster is bound to regress to the mean and they don't have a lot of depth in their rotation. Most of their important players, other than Soto are over 30, so you can expect them to give back a little of their performance. The brewers are still young enough to improve. The cubs will be good, but I'm not convinced anything they've done is better than treading water this offseason, and there is the possibility the Bradley contract could be a major mistake.
  21. AdvantageSchneider
    How do you know it wasn't park effects? Last year he had a 1.145 OPS at home and a .872 on the road. That seems like a pretty big split. I'll go on record as saying as a Brewer fan, I love this contract for the cubs.
  22. AdvantageSchneider
    Technically the first OUI offense is not a criminal act. First offense OWI is a forfeiture violation subject to a fine of $150 to $300, plus an OWI surcharge of $365, and license revocation from six to nine months, except for first offense OWI with an AC of 0.08 or more, but less than 0.10, there is no surcharge or other additional fees. Second offense is a misdemeanor offense with a fine range of $350 to $1,100 plus the $365 surcharge, jail from five days to six months, and mandatory license revocation from 12 to 18 months. You obviously have not been reading the jounral sentinel's series, "Let's Ban Drinking in Wisconsin".
  23. AdvantageSchneider
    I didn't think the Giants could get any older. I guess i was wrong. You must have to be on the AARP mailing list for Sabean to sign you.
  24. AdvantageSchneider
    You are talking about the same Dean Taylor that gave Jeffery Hammonds a 3 year $21M contract? He probably would have been slightly more successful since he would have had more money to spend and by sheer luck he would have done something that looked smart. He would not have been successful enough to last more than a year or 2 in NY.
  25. AdvantageSchneider
    Where to start? First I don't really see the Mets, dominating the postseason, neither do the cubs or the white sox. You list the Cardinals as being a big market. As of the 2000 census St. Louis is the 18th largest metro area, hardly a large market. The twins, A's, Indians, Marlins, Dbacks, Padres have all had post season success, none of them are large markets. The Yanks have had a huge payroll advantage for all of 2000 and they haven't won 1 WS title, and last year they missed the playoffs. The Mariners had a 100M payroll and loss 100 games. The Orioles have a top 5 market and have been horrible forever. Payroll is an advantage, no doubt, but it is hardly the determining factor. The reason the pirate and the royals and even the brewers are/were bad for so long had nothing to do with market size and had eveything to do with bad managment. So yes, you are going to have a hard time convincing people that baseball has a competitive balance problem. The competitive balance would be a lot better if they instuted a salary cap of some type, but people aren't going to think baseball has to do something about it based on recent history.
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