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  1. PKBadger
    I was looking at Bobby V's wikipedia page and found this item: Since 1980, Valentine has owned and operated Bobby Valentine's Sports Gallery Cafe, a sports bar located in his hometown of Stamford. He claims to have invented the Wrap sandwich. He claims that his restaurant was the first anywhere to serve a sandwich in a tortilla wrap. I already liked the guy for our manager, and now he's making outlandish sandwich claims? Pay him his money. He'll be a cult hero.
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    $3 million is a little more than I'd want to spend, but I don't find it to be outlandish. Dusty is making $3.5 mil to manage the Reds, Piniella $3.5 mil, TLR was at $2.8 mil through 2009 (couldn't find an updated number). The Cards and Reds had comparable team payrolls to the Brewers. Valentine has managed in a World Series and frankly has been a hot commodity since he returned from Japan. MLB managers seem underpaid to me, compared to their contemporaries in the NFL and NBA.
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    This one is the best because it actually has a meaning that fits the situation being described. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedgie "The Melvin is a variant where the victim's underwear is pulled up from the front, to cause injury to the victim's genitals." (cleaned up code oddities --1992)
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    I like any manager that would get ejected from a game, put on a disguise and sneak back into the dugout. http://wtfbaseball.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/bobby_valentine_fake_mustache.jpg
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    He was responsible for the worst in-game managerial decision that I can ever recall seeing. Doesn't fill me with a great deal of confidence.
  6. PKBadger
    Hire Ryne Sandberg. Take a chance on a new guy, and piss off Cubs fans in the process = Win.
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    Nor did Rickie consider every at-bat, in every game situation, a good bunting opportunity.
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    http://starsmedia.ign.com/stars/image/article/992/992212/ocd-family-guys-buzz-killington-20090605014340917-000.jpg
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    Why younger? I thought baseball fans tended to be older, not younger. http://www.gallup.com/pol...icans-baseball-fans.aspx ..there are significant age differences on the favorite sport question. In the combined data from the 2004-2005 measurements, just 6% of 18-to 29-year-olds say baseball is their favorite sport. That compares with 10% among 30-to 49-year-olds, 11% among 50-to 64-year olds, and 18% among those aged 65 and older. I don't disagree that baseball fans skew older. But in general younger folks have more disposable income (or spend more) - this is why advertisers covet that 18-34 demographic so much.
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    So the people in Wisconsin are younger and make more money than people in other states? I'd really like to see the stats behind this assertion. I've read countless stories about the "brain drain" here, as our best and brightest are leaving the state to find work because salaries in WI are comparatively low. And I grew up in Racine, a city that relied heavily on manufacturing and sadly is on the decline.
  11. PKBadger
    OK, so here's a question for the folks who want to revert Jeffress back to a starting pitcher. What is the "rule of thumb" about increasing innings workload for a guy who has gone from starter to reliever and back to starter? Or, to put it another way, how many innings could we safely expect Jeremy to pitch next year? The only problem I have with taking him out of the bullpen is that it could be 3-4 years before he can turn in a full 200 IP season. I see that his career high is around 94 IP....don't we usually like to keep guys to a 25-30 IP jump each year? That would be 125 IP in 2011, 155-160 in 2012, 185-190 in 2013, and then let him loose in 2014? It seems like a waste of time for a guy who can get major league hitters out now. As a fan, it would be frustrating to see us have to shut him down year after year because he hit the limit.
  12. PKBadger
    The mis-spelling of his name is making me uncomfortable http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif
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    Puddle of Mudd
  14. PKBadger
    IIRC, isn't Hoffman good friends with Linebrink? I wonder if that would make him more interested in joining Chicago.
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    He's been a model of consistency over the last 4 seasons. .280-.290 batting average, .380 OBP, 25 HR, 85 RBI. And his splits aren't terrible either.... .760 OPS against lefties, not great but you could do a lot worse. It certainly seems like an overreaction by the Rockies. Carlos Gonzalez just collided with a wall in tonight's game, so I doubt they release him until there's a clean bill of health issued. Edit: he's a pending FA (team option of 10.15 option will be declined)....that explains a lot. Would definitely like the Brewers to take a look this winter if Fielder is moved
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    Maybe Jack Z gets desperate....desperate enough to overpay for a big bat like Prince Fielder in the offseason.
  17. PKBadger
    Dickerson's been hurt most of the year (last game played = April 29). Looks like he was pretty decent off the bench in 2008 & 2009. Might make a good reserve OF for next year.
  18. PKBadger
    Why would spell check yell at him? It's a word. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expectedly You've actually put me in a position of defending Witrado. Ick.
  19. PKBadger
    Bacardi is a staple - you'd probably want a light rum to go along with the Captain spiced rum.
  20. PKBadger
    Spoken like a true Blues fan. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif Sure, it's exactly the same. If the Yankees had a salary cap and made really smart moves to acquire huge talent in late rounds of the draft (within that salary cap) that no other teams identify, the best front office in the league, were in the Midwest, it's exactly the same. The Wings lived through some really lean years for a long time. I'm sorry that they happened to peak when the Blues were last a decent team... I mean, Fuhr/CuJo, Demitra, Turgeon, Tkachuk, Weight, and Pronger were pretty good. It's too bad that they never peaked together in a conference without Detroit and Colorado. Too. Bad. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif Thanks for that Stevie Y blue-line slapper in the top corner in a game seven OT, though. That's a great memory. Like when Pronger tried to cheap shot Yzerman, but missed and hurt himself. The Red Wings are a big reason why the salary cap exists in the first place. They spent $78 million on player salaries the year before the lockout - the highest total in the NHL.
  21. PKBadger
    He's started 66 games over the last 3 seasons. That's more of a chance than a lot of players get. What frustrates many of us is that even his "good" games are really borderline quality starts, at best.
  22. PKBadger
    Then I listened to Tim & Sparky on 1250AM Sportsradio Milwaukee on the Ussinger's post game show. I don't remember which guy it was, but one of them I thought was a super generic goofball. He just kept saying things like the whole goal is win the World Series and we gotta get some pitching in here. I was thinking to myself geez, Einstein wanna tell me something I don't already know? Sparky. He's useless. Don't listen if you value your sanity. I heard an archived interview with Anthony Witrado on Bill Michaels' show. I thought he was kinda meh. I'd say that Witrado is kinda "blecch", and also kinda "ugh".
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    The guy who wrote the B/R article is a Brewers fan. (Follow Witrado's link and then click on the writer's profile.) There isn't a shred of truth to it. Un-freaking-believable.
  24. PKBadger
    Well, to be fair, Z only gave up four runs.
  25. PKBadger
    Since forever, when that opinion is a negative one directed at your employer. This is not a freedom of speech issue, ma'am. Here is my opinion: if you plan to be Facebook friends with people from work, adjust your privacy settings so they can't read your status.
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