Baldkin

Meow, this is a good question. I'll have to think about it for a few minutes, but right meow, off the top of meow head, I'd have to say Super Troopers. Considering I have pretty much the entirety of Forrest Gump memorized, that one comes up quite a bit as well.

Manny Ramirez, ARod's first deal, Carlos Beltran, Todd Helton (probably)...

I still want to know why he is completely unable to work with certain pitchers. What part of his catching style rubs guys the wrong way?

Roenicke.

Can't help but remember the last time a young guy was coming off a great stretch of starts and went to Coors for the 'Crew...... viewtopic.php?t=28786

Except that iirc, the Brewers wouldn't even have any control of an event like that. Sportservice pays a huge fee to run concessions at MP. The Brewers can pay Sportservice for the beer so it's free to us. Problem solved. Also, I'm aware of the 1974 10 cent beer night. But this is 2013, not 1974 and I'm confident that Wisconsin residents would peacefully enjoy their free beer without incident at the park or drunk driving afterward. "Please drink responsibly." Clearly, you haven't been to opening day in the last 5 years.

Yuni is on pace to get 500 PA's and have an OBP under .240. Do you really think our manager has any idea who a good hitter is at this point?

You keep posting that same story, this is at least the 2nd time in the last month, which doesn't connect any of the necessary dots. I don't really want to get into a debate about everything that's wrong with that article and how he connects the "science" dots together, but that whole article is just one person's hypothesis. Some random thoughts from having read it through 3 full times: Certainly a more buoyant core could make the ball travel farther, but how much? Clearly not 33% or we'd be seeing 600 ft HRs like on video games. Why not test cores for all baseball types and not just MLBs? Why not actually set up a controlled experiment where the actual baseballs are hit by a bat at a consistent velocity to measure how far they all travel? What about the other side where players who have used claim to have gained a statistical boost from greater FB velocity or strength? Maybe the whole problem with that "analysis" is that the entire thing is centered around averages instead of spending some time looking at what happened statistically at the extremes? As the extremes move farther apart the average could still be in the middle... The ball may have been juiced, I believe a different manufacturer with a different process likely changed the characteristics of the ball, but that doesn't explain Bonds or Sosa hitting more HRs later into their career or any of the players whom come forward to spill the beans about their increase in production while utilizing PEDs. I'm not willing to dismiss any combination of factors but beating this drum about it all being the baseball is misguided at its best. They have x-rayed and taken apart baseballs to demonstrate the fact that the ball changed. I'm not sure what more you can expect them to do. Again, where PEDs have helped is in keeping players healthier longer. They haven't helped them hit more home runs. If that were the case, then as more and more players took PEDs the power numbers would have gradually gone up over time in MLB. They would not have dramatically jumped in one off season across all of baseball. Here are your extremes: Between 1965 and 1994, 2 guys hit 50 home runs. Between 1995 and 2002 11 did. You're telling me, that in the 25 years that steroids existed, that no one in baseball bothered to start using them until Albert Belle in 1994? I'll never understand the outrage. I'll never understand how "PED" became synonymous with "Steroids" and how come the "Old Guard" in baseball has no qualms about the thousands of players who admitted to taking (the now illegal) amphetamines in the 60's, 70's and 80's, but gosh darn it, if that evil Mark McGwire did it, everyone must be punished, even those who never tested positive, who's names were never associated with it, who just happened to be muscular guys.

Easy: I don't care. I want the best players to play their best, and I want them on the field the most. The idea that players have to go to sketchy behind the scenes doctors, instead of being able to get the best medical care to be on the field is amazing. The myth that "Steroids ruined baseball", that MLB (and the media) keep repeating, is amazing to me. I wish more journalists would take the time to learn about the process instead of spouting out the easy stories. MLB Changed the baseball. Now, steroids are being "blamed" for that. Who cares if Ryan Braun lied. If you were told you needed to lie for THREE MILLION DOLLARS, wouldn't you lie?

A huge win? To show that their entire testing process is a sham and completely ineffective?

What I don't understand about the Braun thing, is how this makes everyone think that MLB is now clean. Clearly, if Braun has been using for YEARS and beaten probably hundreds of drug tests, their testing program really can't be that good, can it?

Obligatory: http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/896484/Yuni1B.gif.opt.gif http://disciplesofuecker.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/YB.gif The Brewers have never cared about defense on their infield under Doug Melvin. They undervalued Escobar's defense, and they disregarded how bad Betancourt was at SS.

I know with the job market right now employers have the upper hand, but this shouldn't be happening. I remember there was a case a few years back, where a guy had to spend something like 45 minutes every day putting on his gear before his job (I can't remember what he did exactly). He ended up suing and winning for back wages. that's interesting. although maybe there's a difference that i'm paid only on commission. and if i'm paid to fertilize a lawn, i guess that means i have to spend the extra time to put fertilizer in my truck (etc.). the job runs to November and i have zero intention of returning for a second season. so mostly i just don't care enough about the job to want to go through the hassle of the court system for what would amount to maybe $3000 of back wages. http://www.dol.gov/compliance/topics/wages-commissions.htm Basically, if they aren't paying you minimum wage for the hours you work (this includes overtime -- more than 40 hrs a week) then you should be due back wages.

There was no point not to use it. Gooden wouldn't play this year, and his salary still counts to the salary floor. So, even as a "just in case" move, it was the right thing to do.

Stealing this: After 5 years filled with trades, draft picks, and FA signings (really the annual turnover of players has been ridiculous under Hammond's watch), how many of his own acquisitions did Hammond think highly enough of to extend their tenure with the Bucks past their [then] current contract? 1. LRMAM 2. John Salmons (traded a year after extension signed) 3. Gustavo Ayon That's it. That's the list. That is horrendous.

.297/.392/.504 for a career .896 minor league OPS. Khris Davis got a measly 18 PA's before being sent back down. Ryan Braun has now only played in 58 of the Brewers 94 games. They couldn't have found some more PA's for him?

For those that didn't see what Funketown is talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCNWH9cGyMk

Free Jeff Bianchi. ABYB.

Since May 10th: .257/.296/.481/.777 55K's in 226 PA.

Well now, here we go.... no diet soda either, I'll assume. Do you have a favorite type of liquor? Spiced rum and Soda-water is a favorite of mine. Irish Whiskey & Ginger-ale, Sweet Tea Vodka and Lemonade (many places will call that a John Daly), Any of the "Russians" (blind, black, or white). Margarita's, when made well, are wonderful. My staple is a decent bourbon on the rocks, or a good whiskey sour (mind you, ask if they use 50/50 or some such nonesense. Make sure they use actual sour mix or lime juice for this). Hope that helps.

They'd announce them the day after the ASG.

With AK47, they would be fine, depth wise. 1: Teague/Ridnour/Wolters 2: Mayo/Ridnour/Delfino/Wolters 3: AK47/Delfino/Greek 4: Ersan/Henson/Udoh/Ayon 5: Sanders/Zaza/Udoh/Ayon

I don't think his groundouts were the problem. His problem was walking 5 guys in 3 2/3 and the defense making 2 huge errors as well. Of course you'd rather he strike out 27 guys every game, but all other things equal, you'd much rather have a ground ball pitcher than a fly ball pitcher. I just can't stand to watch pitchers who cannot throw strikes (and yes, Yovani falls into that category this season).

Yes, of course strikeouts are best for a pitcher, did I ever say they weren't? I said, the reason people harp on groundball pitchers is because flyballs score 3x as many runs as groundballs.

I've talked quite a bit about a pitcher's ability to miss bats on the minor league forum, I really don't get the ground ball obsession around baseball. Ground balls are just as varied as fly balls, it's not like every ground ball should be converted into an out or is "lucky" to get through the infield. The only real difference is that ground ball can never be a HR, which has some value, but I think ground balls are vastly overrated. How about pitchers who can get themselves out of trouble on their own? I think Hellweg can still be successful, but he's never had the command or missed enough bats. The first thing he needs is to command the zone better and then if he can sharpen his secondary stuff he could be a MLB starter. Until then I think he's a reliever. Flyballs are worth almost 3x as much as groundballs. http://www.fangraphs.com/library/offense/batted-ball/