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  1. adambr2
    No, he proposed a second extension with the Brewers and the team turned him down. https://www.mlb.com/brewers/news/brewers-jonathan-lucroy-talks-negotiations/c-137818528 After they turned him down, he started griping about only wanting to play for a winner and asked to be traded. I never rooted for the guy to fail. Rather as fate played out the big contract he tried to maneuver himself into never worked out and that seemed right to me. Why did it seem right? His first deal was incredibly team friendly. Of course he wanted to try to extend before Father Time caught up to him. He lost tens of millions of dollars because of bad contract timing. He was paid enormously under market for his career relative to his production. He was literally asked in an interview about playing for a contender and gave an honest answer and also said that if he wasn't traded he would continue to go work hard for the Brewers. These guys can't win. If they give an honest response people are mad about their answer and if they give a canned response or don't comment people are mad about that.
  2. adambr2
    I believe the story is the Brewers wanted to give him an extension and he wouldn't even discuss it. I don't take joy in his career free falling but I can't say that it doesn't give me a little smile. For me it's all about the Cleveland trade as I found his reasons for rejecting it flat out stupid. He didn't need a reason. He has a no-trade clause to Cleveland and he exercised it. Never understood why people felt he needed to explain himself for why he chose not to go to Cleveland. Nobody asks a guy with a full NTC why he chose not to go somewhere in particular. It is their right and they earned the right to decline a specific destination in their contract just like Lucroy earned the right to say no to relocating himself to Cleveland. And no the Brewers were the ones that didn't want to extend. Lucroy did.
  3. adambr2
    We really should try to just buy out Burnes' entire career on a long-term contract right now, because he's going to be worth it. And Alexa still doesn't even know who he is.
  4. adambr2
    I feel bad for anyone who paid for a Bucks ticket for tonight not knowing they would be treated to the Wisconsin Herd instead. Good effort at least. You could tell Thanasis really wanted this one.
  5. adambr2
    Keston really has closed out spring strong after a rough go early. Great to see.
  6. adambr2
    He had a great spring, too. I think they're playing service time games with him.
  7. adambr2
    I feel for him and totally respect his decision not to play last year. However, I agree with a lot of the comments as well. Some of us don't really have a choice. It is not "selling your soul for a check." I still had to provide for my family last year. I don't have the money or luxury of just walking away for a year. Regardless, hope he has a great year.
  8. adambr2
    Wait, he still has an MLB job?
  9. adambr2
    Didn't really love how Bud finished that game throwing in the towel that early. With possession and a single digit game with over a minute left it was worth calling a timeout and putting some of your A players back in for a play.
  10. adambr2
    The 49ers are telling teams that Jimmy G is not available.
  11. adambr2
    It could be argued that Joey Hauser deserved to get punched in the junk. Yeah, I would have let that one go.
  12. adambr2
    I think that's probably a wash but I think Houser is probably a lot better reliever than Lindblom.
  13. adambr2
    Brett Favre's addiction was bad enough that it nearly killed him. https://www.si.com/nfl/2021/03/25/brett-favre-opens-up-painkiller-addiction
  14. adambr2
    I can change the subject. We could discuss the blockbuster signing of Joe Fortunato.
  15. adambr2
    I thought the context would make it obvious why I was continuing that conversation and that it wasn't just randomly out of the blue. I was directly responding to someone. Half of the entire post wasn't even about King but rather about overrating our own veterans which wasn't something that had been repeated. Had no idea it would get under anyone's skin so much.
  16. adambr2
    Who does? No one in this thread is claiming anything beyond the fact that this is a one-year, cheap prove-it deal for a guy that has a lot to approve. Why continue to post the same thing? I posted it at the time Brew posted about the Malcolm Butler signing in response to his comment on how he probably would have taken that over King. At the time it was the most recent post in the thread so I thought the context would be apparent, but I should have quoted him. Didn't think it would be this big of a deal.
  17. adambr2
    I really don't understand the continued negative commentary on the transaction. First, King is a longer-tentured Packer? He's been here four seasons..... Second, it's a one year deal for a low amount of cash, an even lower cap hit, and no long-term commitment on a 'prove-it' deal. That's not the equivalent of signing an average guy to a 3/4 year extension for a moderate amount of money. Quite literally the opposite. Honestly, if prior to the NFC Championship game you'd have been told that the Packers signed King to a 1 year, $4.5 million extension, would anyone have been upset? People keep acting as though this is their only move in the secondary. Yeah, it could be. But I'd bet a lot of money it's not. And the offseason is far from over. I never said it was our last move. And I said I can live with him as depth. I just said I don't think he's very good and we probably make him out to be better than he is. That is all. I don't think the contract is bad. He's just someone I probably would have moved on from at any amount. Quite frankly, I'm surprised as I figured he'd probably want a fresh start elsewhere. And four seasons is a long tenured guy to me, especially in the NFL where careers are shorter compared to other professional sports. I defined that as someone on their 2nd or 3rd contract which King now is. I don't think the average entire NFL career is more than 4 seasons.
  18. adambr2
    I will say though that even if Love has a great camp, it's tough to know what you have until he gets regular season reps. I think MM was certain he had something there with Brett Hundley and it just did not work out at all. Not comparing Hundley to Love, but you just don't really know for sure without the live game action against other starters.
  19. adambr2
    Exactly. It's a complicated situation that needs time and game situations to figure out and making a decision on it a year before you have to doesn't make any sense. Unless you think Rodgers will sabotage 2021 because he's bitter. Makes sense. I agree with both of you on that. And I hope that Rodgers would be a little more professional than that, but after the Favre saga, I'm not assuming anything about anyone.
  20. adambr2
    I just don't think King is very good. I can live with him as depth but that's about it. His best year, 2019, he was basically statistically average overall and that was with really high level red zone performance which is something that has been shown not to be a sustainable metric. I think particularly with guys who are longer tenured Packers who get a 2nd or 3rd deal, we often try to talk ourselves into thinking that they are better players than they really are and in general they continue to perform at the same mediocre level. AJ Hawk, Brad Jones, BJ Raji, etc.
  21. adambr2
    Where's the line in the sand with Rodgers where you move on to Love? Is it only if he falls off a cliff completely and you just end up having to release him? Or if he has one of those good but not great years like 2019 where you can still get compensation for him are you selling while you can?
  22. adambr2
    Yes, he didn't punch anyone in the junk this year, so it's a step in the right direction.
  23. adambr2
    Cain has played in less than 140 games and had less than 600 PAs exactly one season since 2015. Saying you'll be shocked if he plays half our games is a lot more of an emotional argument than a rational one. Cain isn't some walking medical disaster. He has a proportionate amount of injuries to most 35 year olds that have been playing professionally since 2005. It's not unexpected that it will take him a little bit to get up to speed this year after opting out last year.
  24. adambr2
    I don't get this. What's the problem with Davison? And I'm not arguing, I see his stats this year, he was awful inside the 3 point line, but the very little Badgers BB I watched this year, he seemed like their glue guy. Normally I watch 15-20 Badgers games a year, this year I watched a couple of games at the end and the UNC game. So, again, not a subtle way of disagreeing, an honest question. He did seem absolutely terrible at the rim, that could get old(see Bledsoe, Eric, NBA Playoffs)...but a good shooter and a hustle guy. Because he's a flopper, but more, he's a dirty player. A poor man's Grayson Allen. I don't know if that's what he meant, but that would probably be my reason to be glad not to see Davison in a Badger uniform again.
  25. adambr2
    I mean they did not give up much and I did not expect much. I wouldn't call the trade horrible if Tucker never played a minute for us just on the basis of not having to eat Augustin's contract.
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