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Along the same lines, I find it hard to believe that WTMJ decided to broadcast a Packers pre-season game ahead of a Brewers game in August yesterday. We are a first-place team playing a division rival during the regular season and they choose to broadcast an exhibition game? Yeah, not sure how long you have been a Brewer fan, but get used to it. This has always bugged me regardless of what place the Brewers are in. An exhibition game should NEVER supersede a regular season game. Over the years, I have learned to live with this the best I can, but it still steams me.
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I disagree. There have been plenty of talented teams in the history of MLB that did not live up to their potential. My belief is that a lot of that rests on the manager setting the right tone in the club house. Basically, to me, that is the most important job of a MLB manager. Managing all the egos and personalities of 25 professional ball players and fostering an atmposphere that breeds success. While RRR may not be doing anything actively to create this atmosphere he is not doing anything to impede it. To me it was clear that the player did not really think a lot of Macha and I don't know that they would be sharing the same success under his leadership this year. -
I'd really love to hear what the conversations were between Braun and Pujols and Fielder and Pujols
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Link: Interview with Paul Molitor
Patrick425 replied to Brian the Automator's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Molitor has and will always be one of my favorite players. I just loved the way he played the game. Even my son, who has 13, has seen videos of him and Yount on the base paths and can not get over how aggresive they were. However, as much as I like Molly, healthy or not, I don't see where he could have broken Rose's record. Let's look at his numbers: He played 21 seasons and had a total of 10,835 ABs and 3,319 hits. Let's say that he managed to stay completely healthy (and there was not a work stoppage in 1981) and he managed to get 625 ABs for each his 21 seasons. That would have given him a total of 13,125 ABs. Then let's take the extra 2,290 ABs and apply his season best .353 average to these ABs. That would give him an extra 808 hits. Even with these VERY generous assumptions his hit total comes to 4,127 which is 129 hits shy of Rose's 4,256. -
I think in some instances....yes, this is true. Example - 6th Street and Clybourn on ramp in downtown Milwaukee to I94 West. It's clear that the engineers designed this for people to use the full ramp to enter the freeway, especially when traffic is backed up on the free way. However, for some reason, people do not want to use the full ramp when traffic is backed up and want to try to merge into the backed up traffic immediatly, thereby backing up traffic on the on ramp. An example, where I don't think the entire lane is supposed to be used...This is not really a lane that "ends", but east bound I94 at the Zoo interchange the left lane becomes an exit only lane (to I45 Northbound). When traffic backs up in the two right lanes during rush hour, there are always idiots who want to ride that exit only lane all the way to just about the exit point and slide into the middle lane at the last second. A lot of accidents occur in this area because of this (I was in one over 10 years ago...I was the 7th car in a chain reaction because someone slid in then slammed on their breaks). I also don't think this work in a construction zone situation where there are flashing arrows and several signs ahead that state "Construction ahead. Lane ends" I really think people need to get over earlier in this type of situation.
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What Brewer Players Do You Enjoy Watching The Least?
Patrick425 replied to rluzinski's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
1) Bettencourt - Obvious 2) Loe - Up until last year, the guy's career has been "unspectacular" to say the least. He has some success last year and suddenly he became our set up guy? 3) Grienke - Nothing really to do with how he's pitching this year. I just question this "desire to win" that I have heard so much about. He never hustles out a ground ball (hit by him). Pitcher or not, you run out every ball hit in play...one of my pet peeves. It's not even so much that he doesn't hustle (I realize many MLB players hustle out every grounder - to my chagrin), but sometimes he barely jogs out of the box. I guess I would also like to see a little emotion from him when he is not pitching well (swear into your glove..something) or if he does pitch well. I could see him pitching a shutout in game 7 of the World Series and then just standing on the mound after he strikes out the last batter with that half smile, because it would look foolish to show any emotion. Weeks and Fielder are two of my favorite players to watch....mainly because of #3 above. Weeks never dogs it to first. -
I don't fully understand how WAR is calculated, even after reading through this thread (my head is about to explode!). However, I understand it's a cumulative stat (like hits, HRs, RBIs, etc) and so you really can't compare different players career WAR because some of it is a function of how long the player played. Someone brought up the Pete Rose/Ty Cobb example to illustrate this. However, you could take Pete Rose's and Ty Cobb's Hits per AB (basically batting average) to get a more accurate comparison of talents. Couldn't you do the same with WAR if it's truly cumulative? Couldn't you just divide it by number or years played or games, or innings played?
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Exactly!!! It's this part of it that bothers me more than the slowness itself. Being so self absorbed and completely unaware that there are other people on the golf course. This could be said for just about anything..driving, checking out in the grocery store, etc. It really bothers me when people say the impatient people are the rude people. How about the people who have no respect for other people's time? Just because you have all the time in the world, does not mean that everyone else does. My son and I have this thing we do when we run across people like this. We substitute the "Activia" jingle with "Oblivia". Also, while I'm ranting, it really bothers me when I'm walking and someone steps out from a building, alleyway, or enters the path I'm walking on without ever looking to see if there is someone else coming. I can't believe how many people do this. They basically just step right in front of you like you are not even there...again..."Obliviaaaa"
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The K-Rod trade -- kind of suspiciously cheap?
Patrick425 replied to adambr2's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I would have to agree with this. I don't think it's a given that the Brewers should just automatically offer him arbitration in hopes of getting extra draft picks. Seems like a big risk to me. -
I don't know why they don't just play Josh Wilson there for now. Not the solution we are looking for, but has to be better than Yuni both in the field and at the plate (although, Kottaras could possibly be better than Yuni at both as well, Gomez, Kotsay, anyone!!).
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This may have been mentioned before, but I hope they don't give K-Rod an occasional save here or there unless it's an absolute emergency (i.e. Axford has closed the last 3 or 4 games or something like that). I also would try to avoid using him in extra innings if possible (in case he "accidently" finishes a game). They need to conserve his 20 game finishing opportunities in case something were to happen to Axford in late August or September.
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Just bought two TIX to Portishead . . . .
Patrick425 replied to EdgarDiazRocks's topic in Off-Topic Forum
I had heard of them, but I had no idea that tickets were hard to get. -
You mean all the Berman haters?? Geez, people really have strong opinions about announcers!! I was enjoying the broadcast until I came on this board and read all the "joy-kill" messages.
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Any word on if Braun will be at the AS game to "tip his cap". I mean, after all, he was the leading vote getter.
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I'm a 20 game season ticket holder. We have the Saturday package which is basically all the Saturday games and some Friday games. Because of my son's baseball (and other youth activities) schedule, we are unable to attend anywhere from 3 to 7 of these games each Summer. In the past I would exchange these games we could not make for other games that we could. However, since MLB partnered with StubHub 3 or 4 years ago, it has become very easy for me to recoup some of my Season ticket costs by selling the tickets on that site. I would guess that I have sold tickets to about 20 games (3 seats a piece) over the last 3 or 4 years. I would also guess that I have made a profit (even with the 15% StubHub fee) every time with the exception of maybe 2 or 3 games (4 games tops). Some of this may be due to the fact that I'm selling almost exclusively weekend games (where the attendance is almost always near or above the 40,000 mark and also that these are family section tickets in the lodge level behind home plate. Because there are only 3 (?) family sections in all of Miller Park, there may be some that are willing to pay a premium in order to try to avoid the possibility of sitting near any inebriated fans. I would say there are more than 3 or 4 games a year that could sell above face value depending on where the seats are located.
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This may sound a little crass, but I certainly hope that MLB does not over react and start banning players from throwing balls to fans.
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Walking down Kilbourn avenue today near City Hall. I glance up to see a guy about to cross the street going towards Starbucks in Red Arrow park. I think to myself.."Gee, that looked a lot like Scott Rolen". Then I thought about who the Brewer's were playing tonight. That was Scott Rolen! Still doesn't top the time I saw ARod and Jane Seymore walking together the last time the Yankees were in town (2005?).
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Another note in regards the game I mentioned in my previous post. An elderly lady sitting a few rows behind us actually passed out.
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Yeah, they usually are over cautious about closing the roof when there is a threat of rain. However, June 8th of this year was an exception. I'm not sure if anyone remembers that game and/or date. It's was stifling hot and the roof was closed for the first inning or two. Then they opened it, but not completely all the way. Then we got a text from our neighbors in Waukesha stating that the weather was getting pretty nasty out there. I pulled out my phone and looked at the radar and sure enough there were some nasty storms coming. They kept getting closer and closer an the roof was still open. We started to think that maybe the roof was stuck or something (since it was never fully opened). It even started raining a little before they finally started closing it in the 5th or 6th inning.
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Hmmm...why do I remember just about the entire infield being Brewers during one of the early 80's AS games? Molitor, Yount, and Cooper (and/or possibly Gantner), but I think one of them may have been starting in place of an injured player.
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Wife and I are Korbel and Coke drinkers (Korbel vs. "cheaper" brandy is worth it to us mainly because of the next day "hangover effect" of the cheaper brands). On our Honeymoon in FL almost 18 years ago we went to a liquor store and they only had pints of Brandy. They were behind the counter and were very dusty. Yeah, not a whole lot of brandy drinking going on outside of WI.
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anyone golfed at whistling straits? (the straits course)
Patrick425 replied to Menotti80's topic in Off-Topic Forum
Ditto what DHonks said. I have golfed there 3 or 4 times and for the most part the caddies are very helpful. Many times they are caddies from the south who caddy up here in the Summer and down south in the Winter. An example of how helpful they can be. Usually for a 4-some, a caddy will carry bags for 2 golfers. I do remember one time when I was golfing there I was on the left side of the fairway and the other guy that my caddy was carrying bags for was far off the right side of the fairway. The caddy came over to my ball first. Based on the yardage, it seemed like a perfect full pitching wedge for me, but my caddy said no, you are going to at least want a 9-iron. I took both clubs (wedge and 9) and he went over to the assist the other golfer. I hit the wedge, hit it cleanly, and was about 20 yards short of the green. When he came over to me again, he said with a smirk on his face.."You didn't take my advice, did you." -
Our family is 11-0 at Brewer games this year. Here are the dates: 4/5, 4/9, 4/22, 5/9, 5/13, 5/21, 5/28, 6/8, 6/11, 6/24, & 6/25.
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Really? I already planned on seeing the movie when it came out and after viewing this trailer, I'm very much looking forward to it. Also, why is throwing a chair "cringe inducing"?
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Yes, this is what I was thinking. The show use to be on Discovery (which I think is affiliated with Planet Green). It's still really, really misleading to call it "All New".
