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Correct, there is a reason: He chose to take a year off before possibly pursuing other openings. Well, there you go. If that's true he was not available anyways (it hasn't been a year). Even if that's not the case, Gardenhire's last 4 years in Minnesota were horrible and he was 6-21 in the post season in his career. I realize it's a smaller sample size but Roenicke was 5-6 in the post season and had almost the exact same winning percentage as Gardenhire (.508 vs .507) during his career.

Because......???

Noted and I guess that's a decent point. I don't know if Counsell will be a good manager or bad manager, but it would be hard for me to say that it was a bad decision without really knowing what all the options were and how the decision was made. I'm going to give Counsell the benefit of the doubt and at least watch how he manages for 3 or 4 months before making any judgments on his abilities as a manager.

Why do you think he's "unqualified"? He has not coached one MLB game yet, so not sure how anyone can make that judgement (unless experience is your sole criteria). I know a lot of people wanted someone like Gardenhire, but maybe there is a reason he's not currently managing a MLB team. Also, perhaps they inquired about him and he said he was not interested or wanted more that they were willing to offer. Perhaps they told him they were looking to rebuild and he said he wasn't interested in managing a team that was going in that direction. Again, weren't all MLB managers former players with no managing experience at one point?

I like the move. Always liked Counsell. Not sure why people keep bringing up his "poor" playing day stats. Who cares? There is a long history of MLB managers that didn't put up great stats during their playing days, including Ron Gardenhire (who definitely proved that career playing stats don't matter). And, for what it's worth, Counsell did play a fairly big role in 2 game 7 WS wins. Also, I get the questioning of a multi-year contract for someone who has never managed before, but other than that, I'm not at all concerned about him not having any experience. Every great manager in the history of baseball did not have any experience at the beginning of their managerial careers.

30-1. That's some sweet action! Sure is...especially if you believe this article.. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fancy-stats/wp/2015/04/30/heres-why-your-2015-kentucky-derby-pick-shouldnt-include-any-of-the-favorites/

Completely off topic, but Danzig..are you a horseracing fan at all? There is a horse in the Derby on Saturday named Danzig Moon. Maybe you should put a few bills on him?

Keep pumping up that trade value Braun!!!

I'd be fine with it too if it were not against the rules. Otherwise, I don't really have any sympathy for any player that gets caught taking them. If enough players believe that it is a legitimate way to help stay off the DL for extended periods of time and any other risks associated with it are minimal then they should try to convince the owners to loosen the rules to allow limited use of PEDs in order to stay healthy. I don't know that the players union is currently inclined to do this (or that they believe this) and I don't ever see MLB allowing PEDs. Not in the near future anyways. It would be contrary to pretty much every other professional sport. I'm personally skeptical regarding the "I'm only taking it to recover quickly" excuse. I feel like if MLB made some unprecedented rule change allowing certain PEDs, all of sudden there would be a rash of players coming up with all sorts of odd injuries and reasons that they need to be allowed to take PEDs.

Whatever happened to the San Jose plans? Are those dead?

Average of 3,787 per game!! Wow. The last time any team averaged less than 15,000 per game was 2006 (Florida).

JJHardy7 hit the nail on the head as far as I'm concerned. If people want to believe Braun didn't lie, that is their choice. It doesn't make it true. I might be the only one, but I read the "Worst Contract in Franchise History" part of the title, thought of Jeffrey Hammonds and then immediately threw up in my mouth. The Hammonds one will always stick out to me. Because it was "only" 3 years (4 years) it didn't hamstring the Brewers like the Braun contract threatens to do, but that one was just bad from the start without any benefit of hindsight. With or without Hammonds the Brewers were not really close to being a contending team and at the time I believe it was the biggest FA splash in team history. Hammonds had been in the league 8 years and had a long history of injuries. He was just coming off his best career year, but it was in Coors field and even in that year he only had 454 ABs (which was the most in his 8 year career!). To me, that signing was far worse than any move Doug Melvin has ever made.

Davis can get to 3rd on that?, but Segura (Parra?) can't get to 3rd on the deep fly ball Lind hit?

Yeah, I just turned on the game when Lind hit that flyball. Who was that on 2nd, Segura or Parra? Why didn't they just tag up to begin with?? That ball was plenty deep and Jay was going back to catch the ball. They would have made it to 3rd easily and none of that other baserunning stuff would have ever happened.

The last 3 posts were excellent. I can back it up with my experience with my son. My son is now 17 and plays varsity baseball at his high school. He started playing organized baseball at 5 and I coached or helped coach from the time he started until he entered HS. I think about the kids that he played with back in grade school and how many of those kids are still playing in HS. It's a small handful for many of the reasons mentioned above. Because it doesn't have the constant action that other sports have, most kids that don't have a real passion for the game, usually quit before HS. Most of the kids on my son's HS team really enjoy the game and that's why they still play. They try to play it as much as possible including spring ball and fall ball (we live in a summer HS baseball school district). The term little league gets thrown around a lot as a general title for youth baseball. Little League is the name of an organization. Many communities don't even have little league (Waukesha, for example). Select baseball is much more prevalent that Little League baseball (at least in southeast Wisconsin). Select is kind of misleading as many "select" organizations are really not that "selectful". Many will field as many teams as they need to as long as they have enough parents willing to coach. Two of the biggest differences between Little League and Select is that A) Little League tries to form teams of equal talent where Select organizations may have A, B, C, etc teams at each age level and B) Aside from the LL organization's "All-Star" team, LL teams tend to just play teams within their same organization where Select will play other select teams from other communities, enter local tournaments, and sometimes will even travel out of state to play baseball. Jericho's point about mental discipline is so true. There are not really many "set plays" in baseball. You may go most of the game without a ball being hit at you, but when the ball is hit to you, you are suddenly thrust in the spotlight and you better know the situation and what you need to do. You need to mentally stay in the game at all times regardless of how much action there is.

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I completely agree!!

Again, you said this: And for making sure to be really careful to not be late, why would you be careful if everyone else is coming in late and it's not a big deal. I would never rush myself then That's not a "flat tire". That's just saying..everyone else is doing it and getting away with it, so I'm going to do it too and expect to get away with it. I don't agree with that philosophy. As I stated in a previous post and you acknowledged that your analogy was not quite apples to apples, Greg Hardy made bad choices which is not the same as your car not starting or getting stuck in an unusual traffic jam.

What about 3-13? Has that ever happened?

How about for personal pride and self accountability? This is the point I'm trying to make. If you base your decision making process on what others get away with when they make bad decisions, then I have trouble feeling sorry for you when that plan backfires.

At least when we have bad starts in the future we can always say, "well, at least its not as bad as 2015!"...hopefully...

Well in reality, under your scenario, the truth probably is that there are other mitigating circumstances such as this is not the first time you were late or there are other issues you had with your work. Either that, or your Boss is a total psycho. Either way, I would be very very careful not to be late for work. I'm also glad that you realize that the analogy is completely different when you do everything right (set your alarm, leave your house on time, etc) and because of circumstances outside of your control, you are unfairly penalized. Under your original analogy, I assumed that you were late because of your own actions (similar to Greg Hardy situation).

Easy solution. Don't show up 15 minutes late for work. I'm more concerned about people who make good decisions and don't get treated fairly than I am about people who make poor decisions.

Ok, so let's play the hypothetical future Brewers game. Let's say the Brewers draft well and trade off old pieces for prospects. Let's say over the next 2 to 6 years these promising prospects start making their way onto the MLB club. Now let's say it's 2021 or 2022 and the Brewers have 3 solid homegrown starting pitchers and a couple of all-star caliber home grown position players. Maybe a couple of these players are arby eligilble and another couple of these players will be FA's in a year or two demanding $15 to 20 mil a year or more. Even with these 5 or 6 players they have some holes to fill. They are in contention but definitely need to make a move or two near the trade deadline in order to secure a playoff spot. For those who say..no, never trade any future pieces for now, what do you do? Take a chance at not making the playoffs in order to keep building knowing that you can't afford to keep the current pieces together for more than another year or two? Seems like this is a game of laying down track on one end while someone is tearing it apart on the other end. The Brewers should definitely tear down and rebuild now, but I don't understand the point of building for the future if you are not willing to do what it takes to make a run for it once the future arrives.