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  1. Patrick425
    Local stations are using names too? I assumed this was just a Weather channel thing. What local stations are doing this (are you in Milwaukee?)? I guess I"m not as down on this idea as others are. Why is this any more ridiculous that naming hurricanes? Also, why have local stations decided to come up with their own set of names, when they don't do that for hurricanes? I'm guessing it has something to do with the fact that it's the Weather Channel doing the naming of snow storms and not a government agency, so local network news affiliates do not want to appear like they have some sort of connection with the Weather Channel.
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    I think sometimes fans are overly concerned about hiring a recognized name. There were a lot of people that were hoping the Brewers would hire Bobby Valentine (mainly because of "name recognition") the last time they were in the market for a manager. I think everyone now agrees that would have been a bad decision. I tend to prefer the finding the "diamond in the rough" approach when it comes to hiring coaches and managers.
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    owbc, if I start on the noaa home page, what is the best way to navigate to that map? I searched all over that site yesterday to try to find a predicted accumulations map and could not find it.
  4. Patrick425
    I can't believe how many people want snow. No Thanks....I see absolutely no value to it.
  5. Patrick425
    Beware of Draco!
  6. Patrick425
    Wait...What!? Link please. If this is true, then my days with TWC may be coming to a close. It has been one of the biggest arguments for sticking with TWC. We have two boxes, but we also have TVs in the kitchen, basement, and 3 bedrooms without boxes.
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    Just to be clarify, it's 280 days without "measurable" snow, which I believe is defined as 0.10 inches or more of snow.
  8. Patrick425
    http://media.jrn.com/images/650*420/29828121-ap_aptopix_mideast_egypt.jpg This image that was in the Journal/Sentinel this morning is bothering me because the lack of any real description that went with it. There was a story about the protests in Egypt that accompanied the story. However, the caption that accompanied the picture, only said this: Protesters push soldiers Sunday in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's opposition called for more protests, seeking to keep up the momentum of its street campaign after the president made a partial concession overnight but refused to rescind a Dec. 15 referendum on a draft constitution. That's actually the caption from the JSonline website. The caption that was in the physical newspaper was even less descriptive. I have several questions regarding this picture, but two big ones: - What is really going on here? Why is the father with his two children facing the opposite way of the crowd and why are several people in the crowd extending their arms and pushing him and his children towards the soldiers? - What is the deal with the solder that is 2 or 3 people deep directly behind the father with the two children. What is he smiling about during this seemingly very tense situation? Not looking for any taboo political discussion on this forum regarding the situation in Egypt. I just find the picture fascinating and I want more information!!
  9. Patrick425
    Well, if my son ends up attending Madison after he graduates from high school, I'll have to make him aware of this completely antiquated copy card dispenser that does not accept $100 bills. This would be quite the hardship for him to have to endure. In fact this might cause him to take UW-Madison off his list of possible colleges to attend.
  10. Patrick425
    NYChez, I agree that Gallardo is currently a bargain for the Brewers (as is Braun...he's an unbelievable bargain). However, what is your reasoning for believing that Gallardo would get more than Grienke on the FA market right now?
  11. Patrick425
    Does anyone have an opinion on what type of money it would take to sign Jurjens. Sounds like he was due to make $5.5 mil and the Braves thought that was too rich. Would $4 or $4.5 mil per year for 2 years get him? Even if it's $5 mil/yr, I think it might be worth the gamble. The guy is only 26 and already has 2 or 3 seasons with pretty decent numbers under his belt. I'd rather do that than offer someone like Dempster $10+ mil/yr for 2 or 3 years (just seems like another Wolf or even Suppan type situation).
  12. Patrick425
    I think I'd be more apt to go if they held it some place like the exhibit hall at State Fair Park. I understand the uniqueness of having it in the clubhouse, but I have absolutely no tolerance for big crowds in small places. Last time I went (2 or 3 years ago), all I could think of is how fast I wanted to get out of there. I'd see something a few racks away that I wanted to check out, but there was no easy way to get there, so I just didn't. I basically just took the path of least resistance through the clubhouse.
  13. Patrick425
    Thanks for the heads up gregmag. Looks like a book that I'll definitely want to check out. The late 70's/early 80's were my card collecting years as well. I'm going to guess that the author is somewhere in his mid 40s? edit: Not sure if you were aware of this, but it appears that there is also a blog dedicated to "Cardboard Gods". I'm excited about reading this book after browsing through this blog a little bit. http://cardboardgods.net/
  14. Patrick425
    I didn't want to sound too much like an old curmudgeon..."When I was a kid players were more respectful and polite...blah...blah"...but I was thinking the exact same thing.
  15. Patrick425
    I don't remember that episode (I didn't watch The Baseball Bunch as much as I did TWIB - I was in High School by the time Baseball Bunch started airing). However, I spent hours throwing a tennis ball against our garage. However, I had more fun working on range than technique. I would throw from an angle, range to get it, then make an off balanced throw back at the garage and see if I could range all the way back the other way. I would try to see how many times I could go back and forth without an error. That video is awesome. The players appear to be enthusiastic about doing the show and doing all the "shtick" (Ozzie was really willing to play up the whole "Wizard" thing). Also, love to see the kids all wearing jeans and white tennis shoes. My son refers to white tennis shoes as "Old man shoes".
  16. Patrick425
    So that's the endless cycle? Draft a good prospect. Keep him in the minors for 2 or 3 years. Hopefully get 3 to 5 productive MLB years out of him then trade him to a bigger market/payroll team just before he becomes "unaffordable". Basically the small/mid market teams become farm teams for the select few large market teams.
  17. Patrick425
    5 years $70-$75 million http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/11/braves-to-sign-bj-upton.html
  18. Patrick425
    Ok, maybe I don't understand what Saber-metrics are, but that sure seems like a lot of Saber-metrics. Anyways, even if you look at FIP, his career FIP is 4.57. Again, I'm not seeing how this guy is going to go sub 4.00 next year. At the risk of turning this into a whole saber-metrics debate, I've never really understood FIP anyways. My understanding is that it is used because some people don't like the subjectivity of errors and how they are used to determine earned runs. While I guess I can somewhat understand this argument, I'm not sure I get the logic of completely taking all "non-HR" hits out of the equation. Seems like a hard hit gap double is just as much the pitcher's fault as a HR is, but for some reason that is not included in the equation. I will never understand the argument that says "Well this guys Fip suggests that his ERA should have been lower". No, his ERA is what it is. ERA and Fip are two separate equations. Two guys pitch 7 innings. Each give up 3 earned runs. Each pitcher walks and K's the same amount of hitters. However, one pitcher gives up 5 hits including a 3 run HR and the other gives up gives up 8 hits and no HRs. Per Fip, the pitcher that gave up 8 hits is a better pitcher and should have a lower ERA. I don't get it.
  19. Patrick425
    Ok? Is there some sort of Sabermetrics equation here that makes you see a sub 4.00 ERA coming from this guy? Let's see, he was drafted in the 30th round 10 years ago. He was 6-11 with a 5+ ERA on a very good Texas team. His last win came on August 4th. Career record of 39-44 with a 4.81 ERA and 1.4178 Whip. This signing makes the Cubs GM look smart?!? I'm not seeing it.
  20. Patrick425
    Without delving too much into politics here, I am completely for the free market...but not so much in sports. I don't think sports franchises (within the same sport) should be competing against each other financially. MLB should be looked at as one entity, not 30 separate companies. I don't think the Olympics would get many viewers if they gave some runners 10 or 20 yard head starts. Green Bay is about as small of a market as you can get but they are not disadvantaged by that because the NFL does much more in the way of revenue sharing than baseball does. As owbc stated, I would like to see baseball continue to try to close this gap in future CBA talks instead of just putting their head in the sand and pointing at outliers like Oakland and Tampa Bay and saying..see, everything is good and fair. In the last 10 years of playoffs, the top ten payroll teams (33.3% of the teams) have taken 52% of the playoff spots (43 out of 82 spots) and 50% of the WS wins. This is based on USA today payroll numbers which are taken at the beginning of each year. The perennial top payroll team, the Yankees, have been in the playoffs 9 of the last 10 years. So, there are really 9 playoff spots available to all "non-Yankee" teams each year.
  21. Patrick425
    Ok? Can you maybe make some sort of argument as to why you don't think there is a problem? Read the second linked article in the original post and then tell me what you disagree with. To me, when one team is making more off their TV contract than 26 teams are from their entire revenues, it seems just a tad unbalanced. All else being equal, if I come to the poker table with $200 and you come with $100, the odds are in my favor. Is it impossible for you to win? No. But you can't afford to make the mistakes that I would be able to make. Just like anything else, in the short term you can point out instances of the the low or mid market teams having success, but over the long run the big market, high payroll teams will take up most of the post season spots.
  22. Patrick425
    Keep in mind this quote from the first article I linked above: In addition, because of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court settlement between McCourt and Major League Baseball, the portion of the Dodgers’ television revenues contributed to MLB revenue sharing would be about $1 billion rather than about $2 billion. (MLB disputes that interpretation of the settlement, but the court rather than the league has the final say.) So, I'm not sure that 1/3 of this TV deal will go into the shared pool. Also, if the Brewers make more from other TV deals than they do their own...what does that mean? Let's say their TV Contract is worth $20 million (seems like no one really knows, other than it's probably not more than $30 million). Even if they make $25 million from other TV contracts, that still only comes to $45 million. The Dodgers, will still make $200,000 million after revenue sharing ($160 million if you don't believe the statement from the article above) from their deal. That's quite a gap. There may not be a rash of $200 million dollar payrolls, but all it takes is 3 - 5 teams with payrolls at or near that mark. Every year we look at the FA market and immediately cross off the top players as having any chance of landing on the Brewers roster, leaving us with the Wolfs and Suppans of the FA world.
  23. Patrick425
    I just received this today. I'm giving it as a Christmas gift, so I will not be able to watch and give a review or the quality, but looking at the box there are some other goodies that I did not realize were included with the package (listed as "bonus features" on the box): - Robin Yount: Hometown Hero - 1982 Brewers Clinch AL East - Harvey's Wallbangers: 1982 Brewers - Juan Nieves Closes Out No-Hitter - Sexson and Burnitz: 3 HRs each in one game - Ben Sheets strikes out 18 - This Week in Baseball: 2008 Brewers - TWIB: 2009 Brewers - 2011 NLDS Game 5 Post-Game Celebration - Ryan Braun's 3 HR game There is also a sticker on the front that reads "Four Unforgettable Brewer Victories plus Radio play-by-plays" Pretty Cool. I think my son will be very excited about this gift.
  24. Patrick425
    I'm sure many of you have seen this. Anyone have any idea what the current Brewers contract is with Fox? I believe they extended it sometime in 2009 and it's not made public, but I thought I remember some sources saying it was around $15mil/yr. This new deal for the Dodgers, if finalized, would amount to $240 million per year: http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgersnow/la-sp-dn-dodgers-fox-sports-6-billion-tv-deal-20121125,0,4821671.story According to this article the Dodgers would have more revenues from their TV contract alone than 26 other clubs have in entire revenue (Yankees, Boston, and Cubs would be the only teams not on that list) http://sports.yahoo.com/news/dodgers---7-billion-tv-deal-will-widen-chasm-between-mlb-s-rich-and-poor-040842261.html Edit: Not sure where I got the $15mil/yr for the Brewers. I thought someone on one of the threads on this site stated that. However, I was able to locate an old thread that mentioned talked about the Brewer's TV contract and it seems to be a mystery. The only "guess" that one poster made was somewhere between $30mil and $50mil. Still, a far ways from $240mil.
  25. Patrick425
    I predict Davidoff will be wrong on more than half his FA predictions (in regards to what team they will sign with).
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