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  1. Patrick425
    Not to be too nitpickey...but it's actually U.S. Airways
  2. Patrick425
    True - didn't think about that. Also, I think I'm wrong regarding Dillard being out of options.
  3. Patrick425
    I was trying to figure out which pitchers had the best chance to break camp with the big league team. Here are the locks (I think?): Gallardo Parra Suppan Looper Bush Hoffman Riske Villanueva McClung That's 9. How many do they usually bring with them? 12? Others who I figure have a pretty good shot: Morlan (Rule 5 - correct?) Dillard (out of options - right?) Then the rest battling are: Swindle Stetter Julio DiFelice Coffey Wright I'm usually not very good at these things. Does anyone think that any of the "battlers" I have listed already have a spot locked up? Seems like there will be a lot of good competition and I keep hearing rumors of the Brewers interest in adding another (Chad Cordero, Izzy, or J. Cruz among the possibilities).
  4. Patrick425
    According to the letter once you buy your tickets you can't login again at regular prices. You're supposed to put the the tickets in a shopping cart. I had the same problem. Well, that's what I get for completely ignoring the bold, underlined print on the letter.
  5. Patrick425
    Ru Rah Rah mentioned this article regarding Provus in the Roanoke Times last Summer. I thought it was worth posting the link here: http://www.roanoke.com/sports/mcfarling/wb/169275 Hard to swallow some of those quotes if you are a Cub's hater.
  6. Patrick425
    I was able to get though after a few tries and get April 11 Cub tickets. However, after that I could not get through. Eventually I got put into a virtual waiting room. After about an hour, I finally got in again, but then got a message something like "Additional ticket requests are not available at this time".
  7. Patrick425
    Saw him at the winter warm up and didn't really notice a huge difference. But then again, I wasn't that close.
  8. Patrick425
    I think the key word in Rillo's post was "different".
  9. Patrick425
    88-74
  10. Patrick425
    Last year, during one of the games at Maryvale, Suppan was walking around the park in his street clothes letting people take pictures with him and signing tons of autographs. Another game, Turnbow was throwing to people in the berm area during batting pracitce. Every ball that came to him, he threw to someone. By the time the game started, I don't think there was a person in the grass area that didn't have a ball. We're leaving in two weeks. I can't wait.
  11. Patrick425
    Anyone see this? Either some sort of Andy Kaufman type stunt?or he's in?need of some help.
  12. Patrick425
    Some of the lawn seating slopes more than others. Maryvale has a pretty steep slope. Oakland does not have lawn seating (not sure if this is true for any other park). While games don't usually sell out, it's not necessarily true that you would be able to get tickets where ever you want. Games at the Cubs stadium (Ho Ho Kam) do sell out from time to time and if you want good seating it may be hard to get. I've never been to a SF game out there, but I heard that they fill their stadium as well. Diamondback games are popular too and I'm imagining that Dodger games will be well attended. Also, "cheap" is a relative term. Most lawn seating is around $8. However, if you want to sit in the stands you are generally going to pay anywhere between $10 to $30. I notice that tickets at the Dodger stadium in the stands start at $18 and go all the way up to $45.
  13. Patrick425
    I was looking at baseball preview magazines in the store the other day. If I remember correctly "The Sporting News" had the Brewers 3rd (behind the Cubs and Cards) and Atholon (? not sure if that's right) had them 4th, with the Astros (?!) 3rd.
  14. Patrick425
    I agree completely. However, I think all sports should fall under the same scrutiny and that there should be a standard drug testing policy across all sports.
  15. Patrick425
    I think blaming the powers that be in MLB for not doing something about steroids sooner is somewhat easy to do in hindsight. I don't doubt that MLB was enjoying the excitement of the 98 season and the revenues that the sudden increase in offense was generating. However, from the late 80's with the bash brothers to just around the Sosa/McGwire race, I never heard a whole lot from the media or anyone else regarding steroids. It wasn't like there was this public outcry. It was almost like everyone was fooled. People blamed a "juiced ball". Some blamed expansion and thinned out pitching. Others talked about better work outs and better bats. There were a few murmurs about peds and the whole McGwire thing (forgot the drug he admitted to using), but that talk was not prevelant by any means. It can be argued that MLB should have had a better understanding of what was going on under their own noses. I can't argue with that. However, Steroids certainly didn't seem like an obvious explanation among those outside of baseball when it came to trying to explain the sudden surge in power numbers.
  16. Patrick425
    While I completely agree with you here, maybe if baseball players would, I dont know, start telling the truth and/or stop using illegal drugs Congress would go away. I guess my point was that athletes in other sports are never asked the question, so they never have to tell the truth. No one seems to question the 260LB linebacker than can run a 4.4 40. The problem is that the evidence is so clear in baseball. When guys are hitting 60 Hrs at the age of 37 and guys that use to top out at 20 to 25 Hrs are suddenly hitting 40 - 50, it's becomes pretty clear what is happening. Football does not really have telling stats like this and so those who do not get caught are never really questioned.
  17. Patrick425
    No offense JohnBriggs, but I don't think I'm making a classic mistake. I'll give you Vaughn, but the others you mentioned were never really expected to be anything special in the majors and ended up having some good years scattered between some not so good years. Not that where you are drafted means everything, but lets look at some of that Brewer lineup that you mentioned. Jaha - 14th round draft pick Mieske - 20th Hamilton - 11th Cirillo - 11th (had a solid career) Seitzer - 11th (also had a solid career, but was past his prime when he joined the Brewers and never had more than 490 ABs in a season with the team) The current Brewer team is stocked with young, high draft pick players who are coming into their prime years Fielder - 1st round Weeks - 1st round Hall - 6th round Hardy - 2nd round Braun - 1st round Even Kendall, though past his prime was a 1st round pick Gallardo - 2nd round Bush - 2nd round Looper and Suppan, while not "young" any more and maybe not living up to original expectations, are 1st and 2nd round draft picks respectively One of the points of my original post was that there use to be so much uncertainty going into spring training. Who's the SS? Who's in LF? What is the rotation other than maybe the first 2 or 3 starters? We pretty much know the opening day starting 8 position players for 2009 and the 5 guys in the starting rotation. There may be some competition for bench players and bullpen staff. There is stability on a young, exciting, home grown team. This is much, much different than the hopeless feeling of mid 80's and much of the 90's into the early 00's.
  18. Patrick425
    I know that there are people you disagree with this, but I can not believe how much baseball is put under the microscope compared to other sports. I'm not saying that anyone should get off free when they lie to congress. I just can't recall any NFL or NBA players who have had to testify before congress or a grand jury.
  19. Patrick425
    I'm not sure I understand why that's "part of the answer". You could compare him to anyone. Why Hall? Are you making an assumption that his numbers will come back down like Hall's did? If so, why? Edit: I didn't see your comments on the bottom of the chart. Still, the assumption that Hardy will follow along the same path as Hall doesn't seem to make sense to me. I'm sure if you looked long enough you could find someone that put up similar numbers to Hall in the first 3 or 4 years and then went a different direction.
  20. Patrick425
    I have seen a lot of disgruntled posts regarding the Brewers and what they have or have not done in the off season. The acquisition of Looper has helped a little, but I know there are still many disappointed Brewer fans that hoped the Brewers would make a bigger move. However, at least we have a pretty clear idea of the Brewers everyday players and starting rotation and we are talking about names like Braun, Fielder, Hardy, and Cameron. Some very real offensive potential there. I can remember some years where no one was really sure what the Brewers were going to be putting out on the field at all. There were position and rotation battles all over the place. Great names like Mieske and Hulse battling for positions and maybe we knew the name of two or three starting pitchers like Bones and Karl. The rest of the rotation was battle between names like Sparks and Scanlan. It was truly hopeless. I know that it's like everything else in this world, you always want more, but Brewer fans should take time to remember past years and how bad things really could be. At least we are living in an era in Brewer history where there is actual and real hope of contending and making the playoffs, not just some pie in the sky dream that crashes down to reality starting approximately at the end of May.
  21. Patrick425
    It isn't just Brewer fans. Parra is a massive breakout candidate in fantasy baseball. Take a look at these charts at this site. http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/baseball_beat/ Very few starters live in that NE quadrant that don't become a success and almost everyone that lives there becomes a #1 or #2 type pitcher. Interesting. Thank for pointing that out. I'm pleasantly surprised at were Parra ended up on that graph for 2008. However, the graph is a snap shot of a certain point in time. I think it's meaningful if a pitcher spends 3 or 4 consecutive seasons in the NE quadrant, but it seems like pitchers can certainly drift in and out of that quadrant. Looking at the list of 2007 pitchers that were in the NE quadrant, it appears that 15 out of the 26 on the list did not remain in that quadrant in 2008. So, it may be true that pitchers that "live" in that qudrant tend to be number 1 or 2 type starters, but it may be too early to state that Parra is "living" in that quadrant.
  22. Patrick425
    I think Parra is a bit overated by many Brewer fans. I see him as being more of a 3 or 4 type starter over his career.
  23. Patrick425
    Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. I thought when they had this first year of initial testing without penalty they came out with a number at the end of the year in the range of 5% or below. This would appear to be a lot more than 5%.
  24. Patrick425
    The difference is that Alex was asked about this point blank on national TV and lied about it. We're not asking people to "come out" and admit it, but AROD flat out lied about it. That is the difference.I'm not an ARod fan, nor do I support in any way what he (or any other ped user) did. However, what did you expect? He's not better or worse than the other 103 unnamed users. The others were never asked the question. That doesn't mean they aren't liars. Did you expect him to say "Oh gee Katie, you got me. I was just waiting for someone to ask and you did." Give me a break. The rest of the players that tested positive were just never asked the question, but they are still liars. Also it drives me nuts when they ask the guy on the street what he thinks and some joker answers like this "With all the labor disputes, outrageous salaries, and steroid use, I lost interest in baseball." In reality, these people never were big baseball fans to begin with, but now they are going to get on their high horse and act like they made a big sacrifice of turning away from baseball based on principles. It's almost like they are saying that those that still follow baseball have no moral standards.
  25. Patrick425
    Do you think it makes any difference (or should make any difference) that he came right out and confessed? I always thought of Pete Rose had come out and just owned up to his gambling and apologized right away that his relationship with Giamatti and Selig would have been much differnent. He may have had the ban lifted. Not sure if it would have been enough to get him in the HOF, but he would have at least had a chance.
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