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  1. adambr2
    Great half, but that swing at the end of the half really hurts. Needed to burn the clock, finish that drive with something and head into half up 17-0, not stall out and give it up the other way to go in 14-7. Huge swing.
  2. adambr2
    This reminds me of the original Rocky movie in Round 1 when everyone is just chilling and having a good time and then stands up shocked when Rocky connects at the end of the round and Apollo hits the ground.
  3. adambr2
    Virginia not having much trouble moving the ball early against Clemson. Unfortunately a huge turnover killed their drive and they stand no chance without winning the turnover battle today.
  4. adambr2
    I never liked the second Braun extension much, but I guess I can understand why some people did. That one had some intangible value attached. It was as much about keeping a franchise cornerstone at the time and a big important name for casual Brewer fans in Milwaukee for his entire career and away from free agency.
  5. adambr2
    If he's anything like 36 year old Verlander...why not? You realize that literally one pitcher has ever had a season like that at age 36. Also, how many arm injuries has Verlander had in his career? How many Strasburg? SS has thrown over 200 innings twice in his career. Yep. This would be no different than saying, "We should give Josh Donaldson 4 years and 120 million and there's no reason he won't be worth it. Look how well Wade Boggs and George Brett played in their late 30s."
  6. adambr2
    Yeah, I agree. I think the only way to get back into the discussion would be to couple our own upset of OSU with an even bigger shocker of Virginia over Clemson. And I really don't see either of those happening let alone both.
  7. adambr2
    LSU is taking Georgia out of the discussion. So it looks like Oklahoma is in. Personally I think a win tonight would give us a better resume than Oklahoma but I doubt the committee would see it that way. It will almost be bittersweet if we were to pull off a shocker tonight and make the Rose Bowl knowing that laying an egg in Illinois is the only thing that kept us out of the CFP.
  8. adambr2
    We would have Yelich if I was running the team. How? You wanted to go for it and get Sonny Gray in 2017 when he was being shopped by the A's, even if it meant using Brinson. How would you have gone about getting Yelich just months later with no top prospect to offer the Marlins? You said regardless of the circumstances or what it took that we should go get Gray. I don't remember the Quintana discussion but I'm assuming the conversation was similar. You have already expressed numerous times that prospects are just prospects and you have no patience or discipline in waiting for them to develop and are willing to use them to get proven players whenever they become available. How would you have had any trade capital at all left to use on Yelich when the right situation became available?
  9. adambr2
    Yes. If we wanted to give Stephen Strasburg 5 years/150M and he agreed, we could do it. But that's the problem with your mindset, Brewcrewin07. You're all about instant gratification and you can't see the forest through the trees. A GM, particularly in Milwaukee, can't operate that way. That's why we hired a GM who can. You speak of spending on a TOR while Yelich is still here. But see, if you were running the show, we wouldn't even have Yelich. We would have never had the prospects to get him because we would have used them long ago on an arm like Sonny Gray. We wouldn't have had the cash to sign Yasmani Grandal last year because we would already be budget stretched from whatever big name FA we signed in 2014. You can't run a baseball franchise with a year to year mindset.
  10. adambr2
    Maybe I will, maybe I won't. No way to know. But I can guarantee I'll enjoy being a Brewer fan much more in my lifetime than you will in yours.
  11. adambr2
    So you don't think Strasburg couldn't be had for about 4/120?? 5 for 150?? The Brewers could absolutely do that. A lot of these players are more concerned about AAV than anything else anyway. But whatever, if you are comfortable with them throwing stuff against a wall every year and seeing if it sticks as far as their pitching goes, without an incredible amount of luck, you will never see them win a world series the rest of your lifetime(regardless of how old you are now). You were the one who used Lorenzo Cain as the example of the Brewers spending big. I simply asked you what TOR pitcher would be available for a contract around 5/80. So then you changed the narrative entirely and threw out suggestions of nearly double that AAV for Strasburg. Spending 30M a year is not the same as spending 16M a year.
  12. adambr2
    Lorenzo Cain is your example, really? What big name TOR pitcher do you think is going to be available for 5 years and 80 million? And affordability is not all about how you structure a contract. You cannot structure your way into making Gerrit Cole affordable.
  13. adambr2
    What an anticlimactic ending. Neither of these teams really look like a top 4 team. Not saying we are either. It's too bad Baylor blew the huge lead in their game a few weeks ago. Baylor would have no real case without the conference title and Oklahoma would have no real case as a 2 loss.
  14. adambr2
    This is it exactly...so if we know that, the Brewers have to know that, yet this is the pool they continue to want to swim in, especially with pitching. At some point, it's like anything else in life, you get what you pay for. I don't think anyone is going to disagree with you that as a general rule, more expensive free agents will produce better results than lower priced free agents. We just flat out don't have the money to compete with the Yankees and the Dodgers or even the Cubs for the Gerritt Coles of the world. I don't know what else to tell you. We just simply have to be creative and find other ways.
  15. adambr2
    With the way Albers pitched in 2017 in Washington, taking a shot on him for 2/5 made total sense. He started out fantastically in 2018 for the first half, got hurt, and unfortunately was never really the same for us after. Sheesh. Not every single value based signing will work out just the way we hope it will. But we criticize those moves and ignore the terrible ones that he didn't make that people wanted.
  16. adambr2
    Penn State had 2 losses that year, OSU had one. Huge difference. The second loss is what removes our case to get in over OSU and what removed Penn State's that year. We are talking about identical record teams one that is a conference champ and one is not. I think Georgia and Wisconsin would both be in under the scenario. The discussion would be which of LSU and OSU would get in as the 4th non conference champ at-large.
  17. adambr2
    If georgia beats LSU today and clemson wins, who are you putting a hypothetical 1 loss badgers team in over assuming they win a close game against OSU, who already have a blowout win against the badgers? Probably OSU even though they'd be in the same spot they are in now. You have two Big Ten teams in this scenario, both 1 loss, they played each other twice and split their games. How do you not take the conference champion in that scenario?
  18. adambr2
    For all the insisting that the Clemson coach did that his team won't make it to the CFP if they don't win all their games, it would be kind of funny if that became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  19. adambr2
    On College Gameday they are debating whether Georgia, if they lose a close game to LSU, should get in over Baylor if Baylor wins. They aren't even discussing the possibility of us. I wonder if that is because they think we have no shot to get in regardless, or just no shot to beat OSU. Regardless, how can they think a 2 loss Power 5 non champ should get in over a 2 loss Power 5 champ who would have just beaten OSU? We are probably going to get smoked anyway. But still.
  20. adambr2
    Nor should he be expected to operate the franchise at a loss. As good of an owner as Mark A is, he bought the Brewers as an investment. Not for his own personal enjoyment. And that's ok. It wouldn't be ok if he was operating the franchise with a bare bones payroll that clearly served no purpose but to maximize profit margins, but that's not happening here.
  21. adambr2
    We thought it was a huge mistake last year when they went cheap on the rotation, and we were right. Losing Lyles like this is embarrassing. Its becoming clear that Attanasio has slashed the budget. It's not embarrassing at all. No one should be surprised that DS wouldn't go 2/16 on a player with fantastic short-term results that looked unsustainable.
  22. adambr2
    Did not see you a single time in the Narvaez trade thread but I figured you would show up on this one within 30 minutes of the original post. You do not fail to disappoint. Anyway, part of the goal of Stearns and the reason he was hired is to build a sustainable winning model in Milwaukee. As such, knowing how bad these big names usually work out in the end, they're not a team that will likely ever invest in a top dollar FA arm. If you're expecting that, you're probably rooting for the wrong team. Your obsession with big names is just not something that would ever work for this franchise for more than a year or two. The answer for them long-term is to develop their own, and though they've struggled to do that, they may have found one in Brandon Woodruff. You can't just say "they won't home grow them" just because they haven't in the best. They can, and they need to. Don't forget about Corbin Burnes. 2019 was a lost year for him, but he still has the arm talent to bounce back in a big way. Lauer will definitely be in the rotation. The fact that they let Anderson go tells me they do have a plan. And there still are guys that could potentially impact the rotation in 2020 that could be reasonable targets -- perhaps Kuechel, Rich Hill, maybe even Ryu depending on how his market ends up.
  23. adambr2
    The other side of the coin, is that any small losing streak, and you're already on the hot seat. I'm not so sure about that. Garrett has gotten an extremely long leash, much more so than I would have expected from Jerry Jones. For all his faults, Jerry hasn't shown impatience with his head coaches.
  24. adambr2
    Yeah the 2nd loss for us is a killer but looking at Baylor's schedule they do not have a particularly impressive resume. Lot of close calls and really no great wins. That would obviously change with a win over Oklahoma but we'd obviously be adding an even more impressive win in this scenario to add to an already much better resume.
  25. adambr2
    I've been firmly in the "UW has no shot at the playoff" crowd, so I'm going to look like a hypocrite here but I'm just thinking out loud. Utah is now out. Georgia is out if they lose to LSU. Oklahoma is in with a win I'm 99% sure, but I'm less confident about Baylor. They are only ranked one spot above us. If we were to beat the #1 team (a supremely impressive #1 team at that) and Baylor narrowly beats Oklahoma, is there at least a conversation to be had there or is it still Baylor easily?
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