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  1. Bucky Rules
    Teams are generally "too cheap" to pay for any part of the stadium, not just the roof. Tax payers foot the bill, and I can't blame them, most of whom won't use the stadium, for trying to keep their property tax levee down. As for the question of the thread... I wouldn't be totally opposed to neutral site(s). Possibly an AL city and NL city splitting the games. As for the comment on Bud Selig... I think history is going to treat him much better than his contemporaries. Most of the things done on his watch have been very, very good for baseball long term.
  2. Bucky Rules
    If he's not a believer that you have to win with small-ball, and he's not a cancer in the clubhouse, and he's not going to kill the bullpen, and he doesn't come with a big price tag, I'm good with it. For the vast majority of the time players win/lose, managers watch players win/lose. So, find someone with half a clue, and don't spend a significant chunk of the budget on him. Then let's move on.
  3. Bucky Rules
    Wow... the only thing that I can think of is the players ultimately wanted him out. Every other reason screams for waiting until the end of the season. Doesn't it? I don't recall anything like this ever being done before. If he had lost the players, then I would throw my long standing Yost-support behind the firing. It's all about the leading of the team. If the team was no longer willing to follow him, then it's good that he's gone. Having said that... the next guy in line (after Sveum) is almost a sure-fire lock to do many of the same "idiotic" things that Yost did. Why? Because they (almost) all do. The chances of the love child of Bill James and George S Patton coming to the Brewers is slim and none.
  4. Bucky Rules
    Any Brewers besides Prince and Gagne represented by Boras?
  5. Bucky Rules
    Buc, the fact that LaRussa did it should give credence to the fact that ALL managers do some things at points of the season that just don't make sense to the many of the rest of us. Ned is no worse than most and I'd actually say he's probably better than most. I doubt that the people who want Ned gone will ever see it that way, but I think it's true. And more to your point... it's pretty much inconsequential in the grand scheme of things - even though things like that can irk all of us from time to time.
  6. Bucky Rules
    If the Brewers don't absolutely collapse in the final month, I'll eat my shirt if Ned doesn't finish in the top three. It's one thing to hate Ned, but it's a bit delusional to think that he wouldn't finish in the top three. When the manager of the poster child for small market teams (ever since the phrase was coined) has the 2nd best record in the NL, he's going to get serious consideration for the top spot much less the top three.
  7. Bucky Rules
    AMEN Brother! I hate those "since then" stats.... Pretty much everything that we use on a regular basis to review MLB stats is a "since then" stat. The only exception are career numbers which include everything the guy has done. It's perfectly valid to use "since xxx" assuming a reasonable number of ABs. If you really want to eliminate the "since xxx" numbers, then ignore the since April 1st numbers as well.
  8. Bucky Rules
    I like that idea. It would then move CC to down to pitch against NYM on 9/1. They'd just have to skip somebody once to line CC and Sheets up to pitch in both Cubs series.
  9. Bucky Rules
    This is a trend that I've noticed more this year than in past years. I don't know if it's a function of Sveum being back at 3rd base or some other factor. But, it drives me crazy. In general (and always in the 1st inning - unless maybe if the pitcher is coming up next), you shouldn't sacrifice outs for a single run to score. That is especially true when it won't even take a hit to score that run in subsequent ABs. Beyond the whole run expectency numbers (which are great - thanks rluz), it doesn't even pass the sniff test. If it's going to take the sacrificing of an out to get him home, then hold him at 3rd. There were no outs. If this is truly Yost's philosophy, then he needs to re-examine it. It's possible that he's just protecting his guy (in this case Sveum) again by saying he did the right thing (similar to saying Soup pitched great, Gagne had great stuff, etc). But, it has happened on several occasions. It needs to be corrected, and while I could care less if he admits it or addresses it as a mistake, I hope he recognizes that it is one and does something about it.
  10. Bucky Rules
    If he'll sign for 3-4 years at $16-17MM per, I'd be all over that. Sign me up now. He'll be 33 or 34 at the end of that contract. And his injury history is mostly flukish stuff with almost no arm problems at all. By ace standards (which he is, and will likely remain for the life of a 3-4yr deal), that contract is very reasonable -- and only about 5-6MM more than we're committing to him right now. To me, that's an affordable contract for a team with a $90MM payroll. CC on the other hand could reach 6 yr / $150MM. There's no chance on that one. Trade Suppan for a bag of doughnuts, and free up some more cash, if necessary.
  11. Bucky Rules
    You wouldn't come close to sniffing $22. Man... you do have it rough.
  12. Bucky Rules
    The Cubs are 7.5 games up in the wildcard race.
  13. Bucky Rules
    Did I miss something? All I heard was Ned saying was that he was going to keep it in house, and he compared the asking about it to that of a nosy neighbor being rude. Unless he said something else that I missed, we have a pretty wide gap between what we view as "crossing the line" and "horrible".
  14. Bucky Rules
    From a distance it seems strange that a guy that won 14 straight division titles would need to have his "bashers stifled" by a local columnist. And it's more than a bit ironic that the Atlanta columnist is pointing to Ned Yost as a beacon of light shining on Cox's career. I mean, Cox should be viewed as about as good as you're going to get, I would think. And Yost is one of the most heavily criticized people in the state of Wisconsin. (He'd be a clear #1 if Ted Thompson wasn't here).
  15. Bucky Rules
    No... actually some of us have been beating this drum for months. Besides, I found Yost's nosy neighbor analogy kind of funny.
  16. Bucky Rules
    I don't get it. Lou bunts in the 1st inning, nobody out, in Parra's game. Right there is about as big an in-game management mistake as you can make in my mind - the whole idea of playing "small ball". Many managers do it, and in my book it's an automatic disqualification as a "better than Yost" in-game manager. On top of that (although admittedly from a distance) he appears to be a guy that regularly kills his bullpen. And - from what I've seen - he's done it since he took the three-headed bullpen monster in Cincinnati to a World Series Championship --- further proof (again, in my mind) that managers don't make much difference. I'm sure he's fine in the clubhouse, and deflects criticism from his players as some have suggested. I don't see how that's any different than Yost, though. Lou gets a better rep because A) he was a better player, B) he played and managed in New York, and C) he happened to be lucky enough to have managed some good teams.
  17. Bucky Rules
    This isn't the NFL that is essentially drafting from the football equivalent of AA and/or AAA level baseball every year. If the draft took place every year from a pool of all minor league players, you would have a better argument. Really... the Brewers success with their top picks in recent years is amazing to me. Look around. Not many teams have truly hit on their picks in the Jack Z era like the Brewers have. Besides... using that logic I can defend Rickie Weeks by saying that he has had a better career to this point than the #1 oa pick in that draft. Weeks and Young were the clear consensus 1 and 2 picks in that draft by the so-called experts.
  18. Bucky Rules
    That's a nice sentiment. But, IMO it only means the price goes up. Given that the Cubs haven't won it all in 100 years, and the competition in getting tix among the large fan base, their willingness to pay will also go up. I think it's pretty clear that the most die-hard Brewers fan would accept SOME price for their tix. Let's say $1,000,000 for the sake of an extreme example. Nobody in their right mind would turn that down, right? Well then the question becomes - how much less than $1MM will it take to get a Brewers fan to give up their tix. The numbers of fans involved (and the relatively easy access to get here) dictates that we're going to see a good amount of Cubs fans at Miller Park. More of them will simply be willing to meet the required price. There's no way around it, unless the Brewers become some sort of neo-fascist organization and boot anyone caught cheering for the visiting team.
  19. Bucky Rules
    Absolutely. And to be honest, if I had playoff tix and some Cubs fans wanted to pay some obnoxious amount to buy those tix from me, I'd do it. For people to be up in arms over this is nuts. There's no avoiding getting Cubs fans in Miller Park. They're willing to pay the price, and for many north-siders it's as easy, if not easier to get to Miller Park as it is to get to Wrigley Field. But, that doesn't even matter... they went all the way to Atlanta and took over Turner Field, too. It's unavoidable. Accept it, or get aggravated over it. It won't change anything.
  20. Bucky Rules
    Oyyyyy --- not again. I really had hoped we had gotten rid of this discussion when Wynegar was fired. The only positive that came of it was that we ended all the crapola about how bad our hitting coach was. That lasted a couple years anyway. I guess I should be thankful for that. Outside the manager (and maybe even over the manager), the hitting coach has got to be the most over-rated guy in an organization. Go ahead, fire Skaalen. Bring in the greatest hitting coach on the planet. It must be the Cubs guy because they've got the highest OBP in the league, or the Rangers guy because they've scored the most runs. Bring him in - whoever it is. I'd be very interested in seeing how much different the team hits over an extended period of time. My guess is that if there was any improvement, it would be very easily attributed to either natural maturation of some young players or a change in personnel. The hitting coach is not the problem. I'm not even sure that there is a problem. But, I'm 99.5% sure that if there is a problem, the hitting coach is not the solution. Maybe somebody has some examples of where the firing of one hitting coach and the hiring of another made any meaningful difference?
  21. Bucky Rules
    TLB -- be careful, you're getting a little soft. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif
  22. Bucky Rules
    He had a .374 OBP last season. That's well above average. Along with that he slugged a very respectable .433 for an OPS of .807. So, yes... I do call that pretty good.
  23. Bucky Rules
    I think if Ned had this one to do over he would've pulled Suppan. I was actually hoping he'd pull him before he faced Carlos Lee. He ended up getting Lee out, then got crushed by Blum. But, just because I thought he should've pulled Soup doesn't mean I'm joining the Dark Side. I'm still perfectly content with Ned as the manager.
  24. Bucky Rules
    Rickie has been much better at the plate for over three weeks now (.391 OBP since 7/6). His last two seasons were pretty good offensively. And I think he's got a chance to make a good season out of this year, too. Obviously tonight was not one of his better nights. But, I'm sticking with him.
  25. Bucky Rules
    At the risk of putting words into people's mouths, it seems that almost everyone so far is pretty much on the same page with Gagne. We think he's different than earlier in the season. And we think he can be a very important part of the bullpen going forward. That's a far cry from where things were a month ago. Hopefully we aren't all getting suckered in for the big let down. I've got a feeling we aren't.
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