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  1. Baldkin
    Well, your options at the 3 are Middleton, Butler, or GA. I understand the desire to develop GA, but if you play a guy too much who is so raw and isn't ready and he plays poorly it can hurt his confidence which can ruin his development. I think the best thing for GA's development right now is to limit his minutes so he gets some PT but isn't put in a position where his play is criticized as being a reason for a negative outcome. So that leaves Middleton or Butler, in which case I'd rather see what the 22-year-old Middleton can do. He started Middleton at the 4 on opening night, which was just stupid.
  2. Baldkin
    Or, not having 3 guys on the court who don't seem to care at all in Neal, Butler and Mayo?
  3. Baldkin
    Not as bored with TWD as Homeland, but yes. It has been pretty.... uninspiring to say the least.
  4. Baldkin
    Don't forget Farrell for not doing the smart thing and IBBing Jay in that situation to have Uehara face two guys with sub .600 OPSs. The Cards had used their entire bench. I'm not a fan of the IBB, but if there is one guy in MLB you can trust to go with the bases loaded in that situation, it is Uehara.
  5. Baldkin
    You should do that. The detergent reacts with the water and if it is concentrated (in spots) it might be causing a reaction that is causing those spots.
  6. Baldkin
    This is going to sound dumb, but it's probably copper. Do you let your washer agitate with the detergent in the water before you put your clothes in?
  7. Baldkin
    I thought Butler didn't play, looks like he did. Anyway, they were without their two best players (and two best scorers) against a team who didn't have a lot of turnover and who's probably one of the 3 best in the league. Not surprising they got killed. I don't think they will be really bad. There are a lot of teams who will be trying to lose this year. The Bucks are (once again) trying to 8th seed.
  8. Baldkin
    Considering they were without... what... 5 of their top 10 guys? 3 starters? Not surprising they didn't look good.
  9. Baldkin
    Again, not one mention of revenue sharing. Of course poor teams couldn't afford a salary cap and floor if the Yankees, Dodgers and Angels didn't have to share their 200m+ TV deals.
  10. Baldkin
    Back in the day they used to say the exact same thing about Green Bay. And the Milwaukee Brewers. Trwi7, if you want to argue FA don't want to come to Green Bay, good luck. Ted Thompson obviously doesn't want to sign many FA, but that's a different story. I'm not saying the Bucks will suddenly become the Lakers or Celtics in terms of a destination for FA. But if they build into a winner with young talent, they may be able to get a top shelf FA. The whole point is, if you have young talent, you don't need a top shelf FA, you need to retain that young talent. There have been, what.... 5 top flight FA's in the last 15 years, who actually threatened to leave the market they were in at the time? LeBron, Bosh, Howard, Paul, Kobe (almost went to the Clippers).... I'm probably missing some. If you have young talent, you sign the proper guys to fill out the roster, and build towards a winner quickly -- so that young talent wants to stay. That is where the Cav's messed up. They never surrounded LeBron with anyone who could actually help LeBron maximize his incredibly unique talents, even though they had 7 years to do so, the last year he was there, their offense was still "LeBron, put your head down and charge at the rim". If you think you have the young talent, you don't sign over-paid mediocre veterans to long term deals to start games. You play the young talent. You see who is legit.
  11. Baldkin
    For those that may not have seen it, he got picked off of 2nd base with his team down two in the 7th. Idiot. http://cdn.fangraphs.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/KozmaPickoff.gif.opt_.gif
  12. Baldkin
    Just because there will be a salary cap does not mean there will be parity or even come close to parity. When was the last time the Browns were relevant in the NFL? How about the Jaguars which are a complete joke right now is the salary cap helping them become relevant? What about Tampa Bay in the NFL are they relevant also because of the salary cap? If money really does buy championships then why did the Yankees and the Blue Jays not make the playoffs? I believe you can look at all of the sports and come to the conclusion that the teams that spend the most will be competitive teams and the teams that do not will not be competitive. This is true with or without a salary cap. Because the Yankees poured money into guys over 35 and expected them to stay healthy for a full MLB season? Injuries happen, in all sports, and saying that two horribly run franchises are examples of the salary cap not working in the NFL is, well, just silly. That's like saying the Bucks are a wonderful example of why it doesn't work in the NBA.... when in reality, they have simply been horribly run from the top down for 25 years. Right now, the Brewers (and Oakland, and Tampa, and...) not only have to be smarter than *everyone* else, and play stupid salary games (like Tampa keeping Wil Myers in the minors for 2 months), they also have almost no hope of keeping their own players through the length of their careers.
  13. Baldkin
    He couldn't have summed up my feelings better himself. http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/762236/carp.gif
  14. Baldkin
    That's a pretty disingenuous article, considering this is only the 2nd season that there were 10 teams (1/3 of the league) making the playoffs, so of course the average payroll of teams will trend towards the middle.
  15. Baldkin
    And the strategy of signing over the hill veterans and trading young talent/assets for half-season (or 1.5 season) rentals that they've been using for 25 years now has worked how well? The Bucks have had 1 good team (maybe 2, if you count "Fear the Deer") since Kohl became the owner, and both of those were built on top 5 picks. Besides, you've forgotten about Orlando (Howard), Miami, Denver (Anthony), Utah (D Williams), NOH (Paul), and LAC (Griffin) who all "tanked" and got top picks. I would've been extremely excited to watch this season had the top 9 been: Sanders, Henson, Ilyasova, Udoh Middleton, Giannis Knight, Wolters... heck, I'll even include OJ Mayo. Instead of getting to watch the young guys, I am going to end up with a season of watching Luke Ridnour, Carlos Delfino, Caron Butler, Gary Neal and Zaza.
  16. Baldkin
    http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/game_preliminaries_3.jsp Bold added by me. It really was a 50/50 play, and depends on the ground rules in Detroit, but clearly, his glove would have been reaching over the fence (yellow line) to catch the ball.
  17. Baldkin
    It's okay, at least we weren't the Astros. http://usatthebiglead.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/astros-throw-ball-into-the-ground-vs-yankees-a.gif http://usatthebiglead.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/astros-throw-ball-into-the-ground-vs-yankees-b.gif
  18. Baldkin
    He can and he has before, he started 15 (?) games there last year. He isn't Carlos Gomez or Mike Cameron out there (no one is, really), but he's no worse than Choo is for the Reds. If he's playing there once a week at most, there is no real downside.
  19. Baldkin
    Anyone but St Louis and Boston, please! The Brewers out drew 4 playoff teams this season (Pittsburgh, Rays, Cleveland, Oakland) and finished virtually tied with another (Cincinnati).
  20. Baldkin
    For traveling, I highly recommend either driving to Kenosha for the Metra, or driving to Skokie and catching the Yellow line. Both are infinitely cheaper and much better than the Amtrak option.
  21. Baldkin
    They have to do it right, though. Hire a 5th umpire who's in the booth. Or have a guy in NYC for all the games. Something. There is no reason that the on field ump needs to be the one making the final decision. I'd say the same thing about the NFL.
  22. Baldkin
    And then explain to me why a 2 hole hitter is getting paid 200 million? Doesn't make sense. If you don't understand why Joey Votto is getting paid 200 million, I'm not sure what more I can do. He's the active leader in OBP. He is the best player in baseball at doing the thing that helps your team score the most: Not making outs. He's "wasted" hitting 3rd, because the 3rd hitter comes up the most with 2 outs and no one on over the course of a season. He'd be better hitting 2nd, with his OBP, getting on in front of high SLG/LOW obp guys, like Brandon Phillips (who, by the way, has 100 RBI's almost as a direct result of Votto hitting in front of him -- 300 PA's with guys on this season).
  23. Baldkin
    You're probably right, he should be hitting 2nd, but not for the reasons you state. The teams best hitter should hit second. This season the Reds have gotten a wonderful .283 OBP from the 2-hole. He's also hit 3rd almost all season, which is the worst spot for him to hit. Oh, and he's only had 189 PA with RISP. He has a .480 OBP in those situations. Clearly, what he should've done is made more outs to help his team more.
  24. Baldkin
    You want crazy? Joe Carter did it not once, but TWICE with a sub .700 OPS. 1990 and 1997.
  25. Baldkin
    He had Brian Shouse for 3 seasons, who was the definition of a lefty specialist. The guy should ONLY face LHBs, maybe a righty if it goes Lefty, Righty, Lefty. From 2006-2008, Shouse PAs against were 83, 108, 108 RHBs. He faced 91, 93, 104 vs LHBs. He faced MORE righties than lefties. For comparison, Trever Miller, the Cardinals LH Specialist in 09/10 faced nearly 50% more LHBs than RHBs.
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