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  1. Baldkin
    In no particular order: Darth Vader The Joker - both Nicholson and Ledger Commodus from Gladiator Eric Gordon - Billy Madison Ivan Drago - Rocky IV (Rocky Ends the Cold War) Nurse Ratchet - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest John Doe - Se7en Sauron - LOTR Voldemort - Harry Potter Captain Hook - Peter Pan
  2. Baldkin
    I sure listen to the Managers Corner on a regular basis. I'd link it... but its very not work safe.
  3. Baldkin
    That's pretty much only true the first week of the season. Beyond that, days off, injuries and skipped starts effect both #1's facing each other.
  4. Baldkin
    Because they can just pull Davis back. The same way the Blue Jays could've with Rios. If the other way were the case, the team putting someone on waivers would have no leverage at all. The Brewers could say, "Here, we'll give you this baseball. No? Okay then, we'll take him for nothing."
  5. Baldkin
    Scott Podsednik?Richie Sexson?
  6. Baldkin
    It was 6 innings with a catcher he'd never really worked with and the guy throws 5 pitches. I can only imagine there would be issues. Especially when Kendall was calling for way more fastballs than he normally threw. I would've given the guy a shot in the pen the rest of the year to see how he did. I'd imagine that's what Cleveland would do. I trust scouts to some extent, but I've learned that when it comes to pitchers who don't throw 95, they tend to be wrong quite a bit. When his results are that good at AAA, I think he deserves more than a token glance in MLB.
  7. Baldkin
    It does work. I was referring more to free agency. Sorry for not explaining myself better. The Brewers were able to sign 3 guys for 12 million this off season. The Yankees signed 3 guys for 60 million. The Royals, and their 45 million dollar payroll couldn't even afford ONE of those guys. The Yankees, Red Sox, Angels (Gary Matthews, anyone?) can afford to shrug off contracts and still sign free agents, where as the Brewers, having "missed" with contracts to Hall, Riske and Suppan basically crippling them from signing anyone else.
  8. Baldkin
    Over the course of his last 37 outs, Yovani Gallardo has given up 11 ER, 2 HR, 16 hits and 6 BB. The sample size is so small for Swindle, you can't judge very much on his results. He's been bad for 12 innings. I was sad to see him go, I really thought he could be the second lefty in the pen. Plus, watching guys swing and miss at his loopy curve ball was awesome.
  9. Baldkin
    And rich teams choose to sign bad veterans for too much money, and then just shrug off the contracts. Just because small market teams can compete doesn't mean there is competitive balance. If one team has the option of throwing 20 darts and the other team has the option to throw 3, which team is going to win more often?
  10. Baldkin
    There isn't a single hitter in baseball who hits better with two strikes over the course of his career than he does otherwise. Why? Because Strike 3 is a lot different than strike 1. He hit into a double play, it happens. Being a professional hitter (like, say, Jason Kendall, who leads the Brewers in GIDP) doesn't make you immune from those things. I'd rather Braun go up there and try to hit doubles and HRs than go up there trying to hit ground balls to second base.
  11. Baldkin
    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/joe_posnanski/08/05/market.size/index.html?eref=sihpT1 Joe Posnanski just wrote a piece about that very thing, which I agree with quite a bit. It used to be the small market teams could compete by out smarting the large market teams... but now that the large market teams have wised up, the competitive balance just isn't there any longer. Right now, it seems like the best option to attempt to win is to take a Marlins-like approach for a small market team -- draft well and hope you get enough talent to win in a given window, then sell off all the parts and start over. That just sucks.
  12. Baldkin
    I've always been very partial to the Culver's Butter Burger.
  13. Baldkin
    If the 'Crew can play in September the way they played August 2008 (20-7) anything is possible.
  14. Baldkin
    I'll be there with bells on.
  15. Baldkin
    Why in the heck would Cam do that, when he'll probably get offered at least 2 yrs/20m on the open market? I've heard that sentiment on the radio and in posts quite often recently, "I want Cam back, but he's too expensive" he's more than outplayed his contract this year I just don't understand the sentiment.
  16. Baldkin
    You don't really need scorers, you need shooters. Look at how most of the guys from those Phoenix teams have fared after they got away from the inflated 7-seconds numbers. The biggest issue with it, is you need the right guy to run the offense, otherwise you'll end up like the Knicks last year.
  17. Baldkin
    What Doug did was assemble a 5-man staff with one very very good pitcher, one with a huge upside who pitched above average the previous year, and 3 middle of the road but ultra-durable starters. What's happened is, the guy with the upside has been terrible, and two of the middle of the road starters both got hurt.
  18. Baldkin
    2 texts, sure, that's fine.... but 37 in a 24 hour period when you know I'm gone and unable to respond. Sweetheart, you're crazy.
  19. Baldkin
    Because he'd cost 3x as much and play defense and hit worse than Catalanotto?
  20. Baldkin
    Hart has the speed to play CF, but his ability to judge flyballs is just horrible. Watch Cam for a game or two, and watch how he reacts almost before the ball is hit. Then watch Hart... and how he waits about 3 seconds before taking his first step. He could play it, but he'd be at best, as good as Bill Hall was out there, IMO.
  21. Baldkin
    Hopefully he starts a few games at Miller Park, the extra revenue generated from beer sales due to 5 hour long games might be enough for us to sign up some big time free agents this winter!
  22. Baldkin
    Step 13: Don't lose games when you're up by 6 runs
  23. Baldkin
    Young power arms like McClung and De La Rosa... or do they not count because they could never throw strikes? He's brought high ceiling guys in. He's been unlucky in how they've panned out. Guys like Santana, Liriano and King Felix aren't just out there to be had by trading Bill Hall.
  24. Baldkin
    Great post, Crew. If I could try to convey one thing, it is that exact statement. Right now, the Brewers are not just risking Yo's arm by throwing him high pitch counts on a consistent basis (over half his starts have been over 110 pitches), they are also risking it by throwing him many more innings than he was able to do so last season. There's no study about knee injuries, but there are plenty of studies that show that young pitchers injury and fatigue rates increase greatly if their innings jump by more than 30 or so in any given year. You don't have to look any further than Manny Parra for an example of a guy who's innings got bumped way up and then hit a wall 2/3's of the way through the season (and has been terrible thus far this year). Personally, I think that's much more likely the root cause of Manny's problem than some "He's mentally weak" argument.
  25. Baldkin
    The Cubs and Dusty Baker said the same thing about Kerry Wood.
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