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  1. PeaveyFury
    A bunch of male erotic testastrone touching braniacs trumps skill and beauty every time. I think this statement is interesting, considering the horrible image problem baseball has with regards to (artificial) testosterone....
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    I would absolutely disagree with this. Football is a much more complicated sport. I agree completely, and don't think it's really all that close. I don't see how the country's IQ has to rise to appreciate 'throw ball, hit ball where defenders aren't' over running a 4 wide set with a man in motion to try and negate the bump and run coverage in the man to man defense with a blitzing middle linebacker between the stunting defensive tackles....
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    Blech to Provus. Are we going to have to do this process all over again sometime in the next 10 years when Santo and/or Hughes retire and Provus leaves for the Cubs' job?
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    He's really damaging his earning potential as well. Not only has he lost out on like 8 years worth of real wages (bar tending part-time doesn't count), employers are going to look at his resume and think he has major issues that would prevent him from being hired.
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    It was known he read the board from time to time, as he mentioned brewerfan.net on the radio broadcasts occasionally. I'm pretty sure he did not post here, though. I believe this is correct. Jim has been a friend of Brewerfan virtually since inception, but I don't think he's ever posted here. Though Len Kasper did post here a couple of times when he worked for TMJ before he left for the Marlins.
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    Easy to see how Sheets would be insulted being treated like Penny (so injured the Dodgers wouldn't pick up his option and totally ineffective last year) or Smoltz (a pitcher in his 40s who pitched less than 50 innings last season) But that completely overlooks the fact that while they have similar injury concerns, Sheets is the only one of the three that costs a signing team a first or 2nd round draft pick.
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    I grew up in a speeding trap Rosendale?
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    The Dallas News with an update: Sheets wants a three year deal, and the Rangers have no intention of giving one to him. http://rangersblog.dallas.../ben-sheets-update-1.html
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    but if we sign him for this year, we can always just offer him arbitration again after the season and get that first-round pick. Assuming that he stays healthy all year and doesn't stink, with the latter being a major concern with Perez.
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    I just think the ship has sailed unless Ben gets super desperate. It's almost February, spring training starts in two weeks, and the best offer that any team has been rumored to be willing to give for Sheets is 1 year and 4 million. I think 'super desperate' is on the near horizon....
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    I think the biggest reason that Sheets has shown little interest in the Brewers this off season is because he wants a multiyear deal and Melvin made it clear that he wouldn't offer one. While completely possible, you'd think that as it becomes increasingly clear that no other team is willing to offer a multiyear deal either, that we'd hear more about the Brewers and Sheets reuniting.
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    Unless you mean Manny Mota -- Guillermo signed with the Dodgers... Briggs' post was made on January 8th, 6 days before Mota signed with LA, FWIW.
  13. PeaveyFury
    If something happened where Ben feels he was mismanaged by the Brewers, why would he want to come back and play if he feels as if he could get Yosted again and end his career. Because the staff that mismanaged him is now gone? And if he was concerned about how he was handled by the coaches in Milwaukee, why would he be so interested in going to re-unite in Texas with the pitching coach that had a fairly significant hand in that mis-management? Sheets will get a deal somewhere. I agree completely. But it's looking increasingly likely that the deal will be for a lot less than he would have hoped for, and the more likely that seems, the more likely it is that he ends up returning to Milwaukee for another year, IMO.
  14. PeaveyFury
    These geriatrics hit in the .220s and .230s Lamb hit .307 in 2006, .289 in 2007, and .273 with the Brewers in 2008. The outlier is his .233 with the Twins in 200 AB's. I don't think Lamb is going to be anything close to great for the Brewers in 09, but I don't think there are a ton of better options for the Brewers as a place holder until Gamel comes up sometime in May or June.
  15. PeaveyFury
    Toronto cut Lamb for being too lazy Lamb never played for Toronto. I hope he doesn't lock into the weak duo of Lamb and Counsell. At third, or for the roster? Because at 3rd, Hall is a big factor in the mix there. These senior citizens were barely adequate at their peak. Lamb was very good as recently as 2006, and good in 2007. Counsell still has value in an appropriate roll (and it's not his problem the previous management felt the need to start him at 3B way too often).
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    Here's the actual blurb from Rotoworld that was mentioned: According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, concerns over Ben Sheets' right elbow could ultimately prevent the Rangers from offering the All-Star pitcher a contract. The Rangers are currently seeking more information on Sheets' torn flexor tendon. Jason Jennings had a similar problem in 2007 and early 2008. In both instances he eventually needed surgery. According to the Star-Telegram, "the likelihood that an agreement will be reached by Monday, if at all this week, is waning." http://www.rotoworld.com/...spx?sport=MLB&id=3164 Clearly, if teams are under the impression that he's going to need surgery at some point, that certainly explains Sheets' struggle to get any sort of contract.
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    I believe they reconciled shortly after she filed for divorce, IIRC.
  22. PeaveyFury
    The Brewers were protected from missed time due to injury, career ending injury, or poor performance. They gave all that up for zero cost savings. Zero cost savings, unless Fielder puts together an MVP-caliber season next year and would have filed for 14+ million or something like that. Really, for 5 million in the risk due to the circumstances you listed, the Brewers limited the potential cost if he put together such a season, guaranteed that they'd avoid the unattractive process of an arbitration hearing (with a hard agent to deal with) for 2 years, built goodwill with said agent and player, and gave them cost certainty for the remainder of this offseason and in 2009 as well. Not saying it was absolutely worth it, but I don't think the Brewers reasoning for the deal is all that unclear.
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    haha, that didn't last very long One guy said that it'd be better to get autos in spring training for free, not that getting autos was bad or stupid.
  24. PeaveyFury
    A guy doesn't get voted into the All-Star game as a starter in his 2nd full season in the Majors without being liked strongly by his home fans. The issue that seems to be developing is that Brewer fans (and Wisconsin sports fans in general, I guess) aren't particularly thrilled when it seems like a guy doesn't make an effort to stay in good shape to perform their best. Much like the situation with Sheets here, I guess. The perception (whether fair or not) is that a laid-back attitude with regards to conditioning contributes to some of their issues on the field.
  25. PeaveyFury
    That isn't to say he has negative value, but he has to hit very well to make up for his defense Right. It's considerably easier to appreciate Fielder if he hits more like 2007, where he gave us nearly 5 wins with the bat before taking 1 or 2 away with defense than in 08, where the next return was only 1. But that also shows the argument for how much trade value Fielder has to an AL team that can DH him and not worry about the subtraction from defense....
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