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  1. adambr2
    This is a pretty major accusation. Not saying an untrue one, I have no idea one way or another, but a small market extending a $215M franchise record extension to a player with a known poor work ethic would be egregiously negligent.
  2. adambr2
    Yeah, there isn't much you can do other than this. He's also got the full NTC anyway. I suppose somewhere down the line 3 or 4 years from now, if he stays somewhat productive, I could see a deal where he goes to a big market club in a salary dump type situation where we pick up half the tab, if he's receptive to moving.
  3. adambr2
    Yelich's contract is probably 100 million or more of negative underwater value. I know the big market clubs have a lot of money, but that doesn't mean they're going to just eat our bad investment just for Josh Hader.
  4. adambr2
    I'm assuming we will take a WR today, but at this point I think expectations for said player should be tempered as far as 2022 goes. As great as Davante Adams is, he wasn't much of a contributor as a rookie. Same goes with Jordy Nelson. These guys often take years in this system. Amari Rodgers was a Day 2 last year and I frequently forget he's on the roster. Won't happen but I'd love to get a WR in the 2nd and land some out of nowhere trade for someone like Tyler Lockett with the 3rd.
  5. adambr2
    I can't understand how Nathan For You didn't get more attention or critical acclaim. It is so good.
  6. adambr2
    Scott Hall is dying. ? family discontinuing life support, 3 heart attacks after complications from a blood clot following hip replacement surgery.
  7. adambr2
    The Simpsons actually began in the 1980s. Wild how long that show has been around.
  8. adambr2
    The Rumble could be the best PPV of the year by far, but they ruined it years ago by guaranteeing the winner a shot at a championship title at Wrestlemania which eliminates all but about 4-5 entrants. There's an old saying in marketing that "predictability is the enemy of engagement", and when you know that 25 of the 30 entrants have no chance that increases the predictability. Can't really do anything about the leaks, that's the media doing their job. If you want to make money, bet on the favorite the morning of the event. I think one of the best ones was in the late 90's when the tide was starting to turn from WCW to WWE and they grabbed a couple of guys who were just released from WCW the week leading up to the Rumble. They didn't even have entrance music for the WCW guys. Other than the times the winner wins a vacated championship hasn't it always been that way? Yeah, it's been that way at least since '94. And you've always been able to nail who had an actual shot to win it down to 4 or 5 guys and who was just there to get their hands dirty for 3 or 4 minutes and then head back to the locker room.
  9. adambr2
    There isn't any right or wrong answer, it's just a matter of personal preference. There's many factors that go into it, with the two main ones probably being what you're willing to pay, and what kind of content you're looking for. Straight cable or a streaming type of live TV will work fine for some, others wanting to watch specific shows may only find them available on Netflix, Hulu, Paramount, Peacock, etc.
  10. adambr2
    Anyone else getting into Squid Game? I'm hooked.
  11. adambr2
    If you were into 90s wrestling and have a subscription to Peacock, go back to the RAW episode mid summer 1994 championship match between Bret Hart and the 1-2-3 Kid. IMO one of most underrated and best matches ever.
  12. adambr2
    The few times we saw Bickford pitch here, he was throwing fastballs with little movement in the upper 80s to low 90s. There was literally nothing he was doing that indicated that he'd ever be anything more than a replaceable, dime-a-dozen reliever. I don't fault the Brewers at all for finally dumping him after sticking by him through all his off-field issues over the years. Perhaps he's found something with the Dodgers ... who knows. I do know, though, that relievers who don't bring much special to the table rarely last long. Bickford has added quite a bit of velocity (about 94 MPH average on his 4 seamer), is striking out 11 per 9 and peripheral stats are pretty supportive of his breakout. Whatever he found with LA, his performance has been pretty legit and not smoke and mirrors.
  13. adambr2
    Yep, even well-run organizations miss from time to time. It does appear we missed badly with Bickford. Hurts a little more for all that we invested in him and as you said lose him for Godley. Not guaranteed he'd be replicating his success here though. The Dodgers may have seen/found something with Bickford that we weren't able to unlock. Sometimes that happens, and sometimes it happens the other way around.
  14. adambr2
    The alternative to Norris would be Perdomo/Milner. Do you think they are better options? Certainly Norris hasn't had a good first few outings by any stretch, but shouldn't call for a DFA unless you are convinced one of those guys is better. I think we give Norris a few more chances before we cut ties. And he'll actually probably be easier to hide in the back of the bullpen once September rolls around if he doesn't figure it out before then. Regardless, this is a bit of a miss for Stearns at this point clearly unless something drastically changes. I don't know that we necessarily need a direct replacement for any of those guys. Situational LOOGYs are kind of dead anyway. If they have a 3rd lefty pitching out of the pen in late September and October I think it will be Ashby.
  15. adambr2
    Norris has already given up as many earned runs for us as Pomeranz did his entire Brewer tenure. Pomeranz was a conversion project who had a better fastball and benefited greatly from the move from the rotation to the pen. I'm not saying Norris should be DFAed now (although it wouldn't bother me if they just moved on), but Pomeranz has really put our expectations for Norris out of whack. Sometimes it just doesn't work out. Sometimes you get Matt Albers instead of Drew Pomeranz.
  16. adambr2
    LOL No...Here's the thing guys..I look at the postseason and the Padres and Dodgers specifically and I ask myself do the Brewers legitimately have enough to compete with them in a 7 game series, without pretty much needing everything to go right. The answer to that is no. Yes, there is ALWAYS luck involved, and the Brewers aren't going to come close to the talent the Dodgers have, but what I would like to see is for them to try to eliminate the need for absolutely every single thing to have to go right. In order to do that they need more pieces. The bigger the better. You aren't going to completely eliminate the "luck" factor, but I do believe you can at least try to minimize it. Well they have been a full run better in ERA than any other team in baseball the last month, and they have arguably a better top 3 in their rotation and a better closer than either of those teams, which are widely considered important components of a playoff team. So I don't know what exactly you are seeing that the rest of us are missing in the comparison. By the way, one if not both of the Padres and Dodgers will have to win a do or die single WC game just to make it to the first round.
  17. adambr2
    Norris would be a great LOOGY. Unfortunately the 3 batter rule has just kind of made LOOGYs obsolete.
  18. adambr2
    Meh. Could be a revival candidate, but I would rather not have to bank on it. Hope this isn't our only pen move.
  19. adambr2
    Am I remembering correctly that the wrestler who was Isaac Yankem is Cain? Yes. Far better gimmick there at least.
  20. adambr2
    I am watching some old RAW episodes from the 90s on Peacock and some of the gimmicks seek unfathomably bad in hindsight now. "Duke the Dumpster Droese?" "Isaac Yankem DDS?" How were those actual things?
  21. adambr2
    Also, I agree with other sentiments on The League. Fantastic, hilarious show for 4 seasons. After Season 4 it was a sharp slope down.
  22. adambr2
    Superstore was okay. I watched it, but it was never a show that I had to watch every week when new episodes came out.
  23. adambr2
    Precisely. If the Brewers were offered the current day equivalent of Brinson, Harrison, Diaz and Yamamoto for Hader, Hader would be on the next flight out of Milwaukee. For fun, what would the equivalent of that actually be from SD? Have to be something like Luis Campusano, Robert Hassell, Ryan Weathers, and a lottery ticket? That's probably close. Campusano would be roughly equivalent to Brinson. Hassell is pretty much what Monte Harrison was worth.
  24. adambr2
    Hader definitely does not have more trade value than what Yelich did when we traded for him. If he did he wouldn't be a Brewer.
  25. adambr2
    Brinson is in pretty solid danger of being DFAed this year. I'm not saying that it's not possible for him to turn it around and have value but the "there's still lots of time" period has passed for him.
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