adambr2

I assure you I'd enjoy an NBA Championship just fine without an accompanying heart attack.

My confidence level for this game was about 80% coming into Game 6 and I'm 50/50 right now. I think it would be closer to 20% for a Game 7.

It took 8 minutes to get our 5th point that quarter, so I'd like 5 points to be something.

Meh. Questionable offensive goaltend on Brook and the Middleton 3rd foul could have been offensive, but officiating has had very little impact on this game.

Any reasonably competent game on our part and they're printing T shirts right now. So of course we come out with this.

We are Wisconsin sportsing this.

It’s the exact opposite. Insane. The pattern is insanely similarly opposite, but both teams played incredibly well in Game 5 and the Suns are playing poorly in Game 6 and the Bucks are playing somewhere between poorly and hot garbage.

They won't have lost the series if they lose tonight, but it will feel like they have.

You are terrible, Brook.

This is absolutely disgusting. Did they forget about the whole playing for a championship thing tonight?

Holiday has been as putrid tonight as he was good in Game 5.

Giannis. Stop. Taking. Jumpers.

Come on guys. This is here for the taking but it's not just going to be handed to you. Pretty sloppy.

Long ways to go but you don't get the feeling that the Bucks are going to be denied.

Patty...that's one you just give up on, man.

It's amazing seeing even solid hitters like Wong start swinging out of their socks at bad pitches in situations where their run means nothing and getting on base is as useful as hitting a homerun.

Another advantage to robot umps: they don't get bored in the 9th inning and start suddenly stretching the zone by 6 inches.

So frustrating of a game. Even had the guy up we wanted up there.

JBJ is still an offensive hole in....almost August.

Good start to the inning.

Not Strickland's best day. The Royals have been obnoxiously hard for us to figure out.

I didn't even realize/remember we got that 3rd year. If he can start to stay a little healthier this looks like a homerun deal.

How often does a team shoot over 65% from 3 and lose? Is there anyway to look that up?

Sure, you don't want to pay market rates for a player years away from free agency, but by the same token when Adames is 6 months away from arbitration where his pay will grow exponentially he has no real reason to sign an extension with the Brewers. He, his agent and the Brewers F.O. know if he plays well he'll likely make 25-30 million dollars over the next three years. What are the Brewers going to do; offer him 3yrs/45 and ask for a club option for a 4th year? That type of deal doesn't make any sense for Milwaukee, and offering anything less doesn't really make any sense for Adames (unless he doesn't believe he can continue to perform at this level, or is afraid of a catastrophic injury ruining his career). It all depends on what Adames is really prioritizing. If his main priority is to get to free agency and break the bank, yes, there is nothing we can do, and we may as well go year to year with him. However, keep in mind that Adames has never made more than close to league minimum his entire career. He's basically playing on one year contracts the next 3 years if he wants to go the arbitration route, and there is risk in that. A lot can happen or change over 3 years. He hasn't obtained life changing money, yet. We can help him with that security if he's willing to give a little. Maybe he'd like to lock in life changing money for security now, and still have a chance to break the bank later? That can be done, too. So if he's open to it, it's all about finding that middle ground that might work for both teams. So suppose Adames is projected for about 3/30 in arbitration the next 3 years. So from a team perspective, what do we want to get out of this? Extra control. If we can just buy out 2 years of his free agency, we've got him for 5 years instead of 3 which has tremendous value. So from Adames' perspective, if he is going to do something where he's allowing the team to buy out free agency years, the team needs to give something. So perhaps rather than start at 3/30 for those 3 years, we may need to go 3/35. That's fair. So at that point, what are two potential team option dollar amounts that could make sense for the team, but decently compensate Adames? Obviously this is where the guessing game comes in, but I would throw out a $15M team option for 2025 and a $20M team option for 2026 as a possibility, both with a buyout of $2.5M. Why does that make sense for the team? They gain valuable control over Adames, and in the worst case scenario, if he tanks, you're only on the hook for 3/40. This hurts, but it isn't going to cripple the franchise. Does it make sense for Adames? Maybe. As I mentioned, he's never made more than league minimum and he just guaranteed himself $40M of life changing money even if he gets hurt tomorrow. If he "only" ends up with the $40M, it doesn't really hurt him because he would have reached free agency at the same point anyway. Otherwise, he ends up with as much as $70M over 5 years. And if he's still playing at this level, he's going to hit free agency at 31 and he's still going to get a huge multi-year contract then. Obviously I'm just splitballing here, but I do believe there is middle ground that makes sense for both sides if the ideas of both the team and Adames are aligned.

No one is suggesting that Adames is going to be cheap. The question is simply how expensive. Additionally, although I have brought up the Tropicana vision issue with Adames numerous times as something that definitely holds merit and gives us reason to think his performance here is sustainable, it doesn't mean that his Tropicana numbers are simply going to be disregarded by an arbitration panel. They'll be taken into account.