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  1. adambr2
    I would have been good with trading for Seager, but yeah, I don't know why we would be offering up Peralta. I would much rather just take on his whole salary and give up far less. Not my money, though.
  2. adambr2
    I'm all about resting guys, but this is just flat out insulting. Thanasis Antetokounmpo in the starting lineup? Sterling Brown? Frank Mason in the rotation? This isn't the Bucks in Denver, this is the Herd.
  3. adambr2
    Nice little rally near the end but they just put themselves in too big of a hole to recover early. The #1 seed in the East is not in danger of being lost but losing homecourt advantage to the Lakers in the Finals most definitely is. With a back to back in Denver tomorrow and Giannis out again I'd be surprised if they aren't looking at a 3 game losing streak and 4 losses in 5 games.
  4. adambr2
    Braun: “He’s one of the best players in the game. Obviously I’m not going to the Hall of Fame. He has a real chance to be the next Brewer to be a Hall of Famer.” A little surprised to hear Braun come out and say this. I'm sure he's right but outside the PED scandal he's probably got the career numbers to at least put himself on the ballot. Wonder if he's specifically referring to the stigma around PED scandal athletes rather than making a specific statement about his career credentials.
  5. adambr2
    This team needs to forget about 70 wins and all that other stuff and just start figuring out how to play some good basketball again. That was the sorriest defensive quarter all season.
  6. adambr2
    Well, there are many ways to quantify the strength of conferences. I don't think the committee is going to look at this year's Big 10 as the best ever. I can see the argument, this conference is going to possibly send double digit teams to the dance. But objectively, this is a really deep conference but a very top light conference lacking elite teams. There is very little separation between the #1 and #10 team in the Big 10. Six loss conference champions are unprecedented. That's not taking anything away from UW, it's just not going to get them a protected seed, especially when they're likely to split the title with 1 or 2 others. That said, it's hard to argue that there's any better conference. It's a really weird college basketball year. You've got a lot of high end mid-majors. The Big East and ACC are pretty strong and the SEC has a few teams sprinkled in. Wisconsin is probably a pretty safe 5 right now unless they get embarrassed in their first conference tourney game. A win probably gets them to 4/5 territory, getting to the conference finals makes them a safe 4, and winning the tourney makes them a 3. I think that's our ceiling, I don't think we can get a 2. I could see a 2 for Maryland or Michigan State if they split the regular season title with us and win the conference tourney, but not us. Just my opinion.
  7. adambr2
    To be fair they only lost like 4 seconds. Either way it pretty much comes down to Davison making his free throws or not as to whether they have a shot.
  8. adambr2
    Who would have thought.
  9. adambr2
    Huge putback by Reuvers.
  10. adambr2
    Now a key reload of our own...
  11. adambr2
    Now it's a game...
  12. adambr2
    Getting slaughtered on the glass. Reloads are absolutely killing us. Trice has been nonexistent.
  13. adambr2
    Always solid to call timeout just to turn the ball over 5 seconds into the next possession.
  14. adambr2
    My playoff confidence in this team has gone from extremely confident to pretty shaky. I don't think it's a given that they come out of the East. George Hill is going to be a pretty key player if we do make the Finals because I fully expect Bledsoe to be a complete catastrophe in the playoffs.
  15. adambr2
    What a great game to simply not even show up. If the Lakers could hit a 3 to save their own life we'd be getting absolutely slaughtered.
  16. adambr2
    100% clean steal by Bledsoe and he gets whistled because it's LeBron. This is why people hate the NBA.
  17. adambr2
    Nobody besides Brook can shoot tonight. Middleton can't hit water from the middle of the ocean.
  18. adambr2
    Bledsoe is just awful in big games. He plays so tight.
  19. adambr2
    Yelich trying too hard to live up to his contract?
  20. adambr2
    Corey Ray is a bust. He doesn't even have the "high school young for his age" excuse
  21. adambr2
    A full no trade clause will kick in late in the summer on 2023. Before that, who knows.
  22. adambr2
    Because a poster tried to make an apples-to-apples comparison in the deals based on 2019 WAR numbers of a 35-year-old Braun compared to a 29-year-old Heyward. When comparing the value, you have to look at the value providing over the lifetime of the deal compared to cherry-picking one season. Since Heyward signed his deal before the 2016 season, he only has 4 seasons to draw conclusions from. It makes sense to compare those numbers over four years to the first four years of Braun's big-money extension, which began in 2011. Braun's big market extension began in 2016, not 2011. I'm not comparing Heyward to Braun but again, those MVP/near MVP type prime years for Braun were well within his first early extension and had nothing to do with the later big money extension that he's playing under now. The "lifetime of the deal" for the Braun deal everyone refers to ran from 2016-2020.
  23. adambr2
    I have never ripped Braun's production or the fact that he's "overpaid" or anything like that. I realize you cannot magically take that money and put it elsewhere sometimes, but still...do you think the Brewers wish they could've put $20 million to pitching or shortstop the past 2 years? I think they'd have taken that opportunity. This assumes there is a way you can just have a guy like Braun or Yelich for his peak years, then ditch them when they decline. This is how superstar contracts work. If you want a guy like Yelich or Braun, this is the cost. Would you rather have not had Braun at his peak because of the current value of his contract? I for one would rather pay that cost to have Yelich, now and in 9 years, than give him away and hope the money has value elsewhere We would have had Braun for his peak regardless. He was controlled through 2015 (his age 31 season), before the extension. Extensions for Yelich and Braun in this case are actually quite similar, but the big difference is Braun still has 5 years control remaining at the time and Yelich had only 3. I think this is part of the reason you're seeing teams try to buy guys out when they're so young so they can get those peak years cost-controlled. The first contract to Braun was fantastic and definitely something I would do with Hiura now. I didn't like the second deal for him as much because he was so far away from free agency. I do understand it though.
  24. adambr2
    I still think that option is still available to you if you want to take on the entirety of Nolan Arenado’s contract. If you do that, I don’t think the prospect return to Colorado will be that substantial. I have a really hard time believing the Brewers would even consider committing massive deals to both Yelich and Arenado from '22 to '26. Even if they were I just can't see the Rockies dumping Arenado as a pure salary dump even if it would be *fair*. It just seems like a nightmare PR move for them. Something that makes sense on paper but would never work in reality.
  25. adambr2
    Make no mistake, this is a team friendly deal. However, people are still missing what the value difference is between a player entering free agency and a player 3 years out from free agency. The team assumes a far greater risk extending a player far out from free agency. There is uncertainty. A player can regress, become injured, test positive for PEDs, a multitude of things can go wrong. If they do, the team is still on the hook for that massive future extension. Yelich and his agent understand that. There is downside in this for him. The downside is that if he has 3 more MVP caliber years he would have hit free agency and likely been in line for $400M+. But the tremendous upside for him is that he is guaranteed $215M right now in life changing money no matter what happens the next 3 years. He chose to take the bird in hand and that's a very understandable decision to avoid the risks. Yelich doesn't do this deal if it doesn't make sense from his side too.
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