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  1. owbc
    Seeing all the empty red seats in St. Louis is going to be delightful.
  2. owbc
    You have to assume that if Freddy is on the roster on the day that pitchers and catchers report in mid-February that we're taking the comp pick. They would have to be in real deep doo doo to be in a position where the clubhouse and fans would accept a sell deal at the deadline. It's much easier politically to make the move now, even if the return isn't much different than it would be at the end of July.
  3. owbc
    The Brewers are so smart in the timing of these things. Right when the top free agents are off the board, fans are thinking about buying tickets for 2026, and the media is putting out articles on offseason grades. All they have to do is look up the mid-to-large markets with "D" or "F" grades and tight pocketbooks and dangle that carrot. New York, Baltimore, Boston, etc....you know how antsy your fans are right now, they are mad that you didn't purchase a $200M free agent! What if I told you that for the cost of almost nothing (except a couple of young, controllable major leaguers that you are probably undervaluing), that you could have a #1 ace, get your fans pumped for 2026, and embrace "win now" mode! Meanwhile, Brewers fans will just collectively shrug their shoulders, knowing that management will find a way to be selling excess pitching by July again.
  4. owbc
    How often do we see a contract like this where the happiest day for the fanbase is the day the signing is announced and then it’s all downhill from there? Theres not a whole lot of upside in this contract. Bregman ain’t gonna have a career year at 32. If they are lucky they get their 3-4 WAR/year, but Cubs’ ownership didn’t magically become free spenders and they deferred salary to avoid the luxury tax. They are done spending.
  5. owbc
    They've wanted to do it for ages but there's always been 2-3 franchises involved in some sort of stadium/ownership problems and they need to dangle the threat of relocation for stadium negotiations. Now that the Las Vegas stadium is under construction and the Rays have a viable future in Tampa/Orlando, they have their eyes set on growth again. Especially since billionaires have plenty of money sitting around these days and there are a number of potential ownership grounds showing interest. I don't know that it will happen immediately, but I bet they have 32 teams playing by 2035.
  6. owbc
    32 with geographic realignment is long overdue.
  7. owbc
    The quarterfinals changed my view on the expanded playoff. Wow is it refreshing to see the scheduling and rankings biases exposed.
  8. owbc
    Crazy that we're a laughingstock during a time when the Big Ten is far and away the best football conference. At the current rate, the only way they might lose a bowl game is when two B10 teams are playing each other in the playoff. Edit: never mind, USC lost
  9. owbc
    The next step is clearly to decouple the athletics departments from the rest of the university. Money should not flow between the sports and academic sides of the university. Money probably shouldn't even flow from football to other sports except to cover shared expenses. As was previously mentioned here, my hope is that college football eventually splits from the NCAA and becomes its own league that competes with the NFL. Ideally the rest of the collegiate sports remain in the NCAA and go back to the traditional geographically-based conference alignment. But I wonder if that's even possible given NIL money is going to pretty much every sport these days.
  10. owbc
    I hadn’t paid much attention to the playoff…what in the heck are Tulane and James Madison doing in the playoff??? And Texas A&M didn’t win a single challenging game all year.
  11. owbc
    Really great match. Could have gone either way. Hudson seemed to come up with a big play for Kentucky whenever they needed it.
  12. owbc
    Winning organizations are proactive, not reactive. We've already predicted that Collins will likely fall back and that our pitching lab can fix Zerpa and made the appropriate move based on that prediction. If you wait, then Collins has no value after he falls back and Zerpa may have already figured out whatever it is that we think he can improve on.
  13. owbc
    This is an easy decision for the Brewers FO when it comes to depth pieces. Sell the guy who just had his good year and buy the guy who had it 4 years ago.
  14. owbc
    Collins feels like a Brady Clark type, who also debuted at 27. I think Clark's 4.7 career bWAR is a number that Collins could probably hit, but it's hard to see his ceiling going much above that. The market for decent relief pitching is insane this winter. The Mariners had to pay a top-50 prospect to get Ferrer from the Nationals, and Ferrer's numbers are in the same ballpark as Zerpa (+1 extra year of control for Ferrer). Just watching how the postseason unfolded this year, an Isaac Collins-type is not going to be a difference maker while reliable bullpen arms were worth their weight in gold. The Brewers absolutely think they can find replacements for Collins and Baddoo is surely one of several options that they will evaluate to fill in the outfield. If we think our FO is smart than we should be transacting heavily and trying to get little advantages wherever we can.
  15. owbc
    Jorge Polanco to the Mets for 2/40. Might be the most ridiculous overpay of the winter so far.
  16. owbc
    Looks like Stearns has finally managed to convince Cohen to be careful with his pocketbook. But in the short term I would be worried that Mets fans are going to come to his house with pitchforks. It's not easy to sell the fans on fiscal responsibility given their recent history of spending, especially when the result is two fan favorites leaving.
  17. owbc
    The people deciding the playoff teams have a financial stake in the decisions that they make. Can't say I feel bad for Notre Dame or their fans. The reality check of being a small fish in a big sea of superconferences must hit hard.
  18. owbc
    College football feels like a test for how far late stage capitalism can go before people stop watching. Soon the playoff bracket will be based entirely on which matchups generate the most TV dollars. And people will still watch.
  19. owbc
    A few teams (Tampa, Seattle, maybe others?) have dropped their away grays. It might start becoming a wider trend since those are not very popular in terms of sales. I think it would be sad to lose that tradition.
  20. owbc
    That might have been the last time we see Giannis in a Bucks jersey. End of an era. Just praying that injury isn’t what it looked like…
  21. owbc
    At some point Rosenthal is going to get what’s coming to him and I’m going to love every second of it. Maybe someone will hot mic him…and there’s a deep drive to left by Castellanos…
  22. owbc
    There have been a number of mainstream articles written about the accounting used to keep the hardware investments from looking like giant losses on the balance sheets. At some point the hardware investments will slow down and the productivity gains and profits will kick in. If that doesn’t phase well, we’re going to have problems. To me it feels like the dot com bubble with a mix of 2008-era accounting thrown in. It’s easy to see why people might be nervous, even if the long term prognosis on AI is optimistic. Nobody knows what might pop the bubble. This could go on for years.
  23. owbc
    Bitcoin is most likely getting hit by higher electricity prices as some miners are liquidating and transitioning to AI data center services. A natural consequence of halving combined with the AI explosion.
  24. owbc
    Investor confidence is finally weakening. I’m more entertained by the MSTR/Bitcoin death spiral right now.
  25. owbc
    We'll see. In many ways this is a trial period for 2028 when MLB will put everything for sale at once. The Mariners were not on MLB.tv locally last year, they were still using their own RSN and a terrible streaming app to go along with it. So it might get better.
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