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Of course not. And the numbers surely say that his future postseason performances will regress toward his career means. But putting analytics aside and knowing Devin's track record, would you bet on that happening? In a Yankees uniform? In that media market? On the flip side, as a degenerate fan of the Brewers, I don't know if I can handle another blown save in a postseason elimination game and that surely clouds my thinking on the matter. -
Half of me sees Williams as a perfect fit for the Yankees following in the footsteps of Rivera with one historically good pitch. The other half of me thinks his personality and the big media market are going to clash. I like the move for us, I was ready to thank Devin for his service and move on, regardless of the economics.
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I bet many of the owners are having second thoughts about allowing Cohen buy a team, that's for sure. You're not supposed to care more about winning than profits.
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Willy Adames goes to San Fran 7 years, $182 million
owbc replied to Jastro's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I think it's fair to ask what this spending spree is going to do for the Giants in terms of World Series odds or even playoff appearances. Assuming they sign Burnes or another high profile FA as well. In this new top-heavy era, we've got like 3-4 teams playing with monopoly money, but that leaves the #5-15 payroll teams in a weird spot where they are spending pretty heavily in free agency to keep up, while, in many cases, suffering a loss of local TV revenue. We could be in a situation where the Giants spend nearly half a billion dollars on two of our former players and I still might not want to swap their roster for ours. -
I see why we were interested because 3 years of a cheap impact arm (assuming no further injuries) is worth a ton. But for that prospect haul I'm fine letting him get away. About time the White Sox got serious about rebuilding.
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I don't know what it's like in Milwaukee these days but in Seattle the weekend MLB games are absolutely overrun with families and children. I bet the demographic numbers would show that attendance is skewing younger while TV viewership is skewing older. Anyway...I think the underlying issue at hand here is that everyone knows that modern pitching is absolutely overwhelming the bottom quartile of batters, so pretty much every team is putting guys with .170 batting averages into the lineup. You often have the scenario where late in the game you have the 7-8-9 hitters coming up against a 102 mph fireballer and more often than not they get mowed down and can barely make contact. Ten years from now there will probably be 3x as many guys that can throw 102 mph and the middle infielders will still largely have the same physical build that is optimized for defensive run prevention. So, what do you do about it? The golden batter is just one of several dozen possible rule changes. There are plenty of softer ways to loosen the rules around pinch hitting that wouldn't be as extreme as a golden batter.
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Overall I think baseball is more exciting than cricket, but cricket does have the advantage of letting you see the best batters hit for a longer period of time. Maybe you just let Aaron Judge keep batting until you get him out?
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Just wait until other sports start emulating this — Manfred, some MLB owners, and Fox Sports execs will be setting the playoff bracket for MLB soon! I find it hilarious that they allow a closed door group with vested interests to set the playoff bracket. Anyway, Miami to the SEC.
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In banana ball the player that you are pinch hitting for becomes the base runner. Personally I would make it illegal to do the substitution if the hitter has already recorded a plate appearance in the inning. However, for a walk or hit batter I would still allow it following the banana ball rules.
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It’s not that much crazier than a designated hitter. I’m not in favor of it, but I like the acknowledgement that we are still in a dead ball era and more changes to increase offense are needed. My hope is that a 2D auto strike zone with rounded corners will do the trick for offense though. If we go to a 154 game schedule it would also allow single season records to continue to be broken. That said, please please please do banana ball rules for the all-star game. That would be so much fun.
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I agree that Vegas isn’t gonna happen but they will find a sucker to fork over public money for a stadium. My bet is on Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, the Rays’ situation is now a disaster, with them basically having to play three straight months on the road this summer and no stadium until 2029 at the earliest. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them land in Nashville
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What's going on right now doesn't affect us too much. We've always been poor. Fans of mid-market teams who are suddenly feeling poorer than they used to be are not taking recent events as well. I don't worry about it too much, it's still far better than it was pre-luxury tax when the Yankees were spending 3-4x the median payroll. These days the Mets are at like 2x the median. If the median payroll is 150M and you have a team spending 500-600M, then there will be a real problem. I don't think it will happen though, the RSN crisis will work its way up to the biggest markets eventually. I think the 2030s are going to be rough for the Dodgers.
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Despite my frustrations with the program I generally agree with this and Wisconsin doesn't really have any choice right now except to give Fickell at least another year. A run-centric offense gives us the ceiling of Iowa and that doesn't appeal to me either.
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It only feels like it because we follow Wisconsin. Or at least we did, I didn't even watch a full game worth this year, it was too painful on the eyes.
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Alvarez is ancient history. Bielema was an internal hire. I'm sick of our head coaching hires being flops. Fickell is a disaster. At a time when the stakes have never been higher in college football we've dissolved into irrelevancy.
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We’ve never hired a coach with a track record of winning at a major program. I know there aren’t many of them and they have choices, but still… It’s always either a Wisconsin Guy with minimal HC experience or a mid-major guy with a system that won’t translate to the Big Ten.
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How do we fire Fickell and hire Day when he gets dumped?
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I was reading Reddit this morning about how $MSTR is about as clear cut of a Ponzi scheme as you can get. But there’s also reason to believe the market will keep chugging on a little longer…depends on what policies the next administration go with and nobody knows what they will do…
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They had no fear of us scoring again, and they were right.
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2025 should be an interesting year. I think the public is expecting Bernie Sanders populism and what they are going to get is tax cuts favoring the wealthy. People are saying they expect prices to go down. How exactly is that going to happen? Personally I was hoping for a refinance on our investment property that is in the low 7s but that's clearly not going to happen. Even if the election had gone the other way, it's clear that the current growth in stocks is not sustainable. How many years in a row can you expect 30% gains in the S&P 500? We're due for a correction anyway, but it would suck to miss out on this bubble getting inflated even more in the first year or two of the next presidency. For now just playing wait and see.
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The Milwaukee + Nashville combined market would still not even crack the top 10 in MLB. We'd need to give the other third of our games to Charlotte. That would get us roughly to a tie for #3 with Chicago.
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They have been sloppy all year. It’s amazing they got this far before it bit them.
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Agreed, it seems like folks are asking for a return to a Daron Sutton-type announcer.
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BA was on his A-game tonight, incredible calls. Especially the “Big Christmas” one.
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We're so lucky to have BA. The unabashed homer announcers are obnoxious. Personally I like having some variety in the booth. I wish the Brewers would rotate radio and TV commentators like some teams do.
