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  1. BrewCrewRising
    This is hilarious!! And a great idea!
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    I remember that feeling, and how things turned out the last time I felt that way. Me too Hawing, me too.
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    I can't fault Theo for signing Crawford. If Prince sucks next year does that mean it was a mistake to sign him? He also did not trade a lot of good talent. In any case though there have been some good points made above: Theo inherited great farm talent and a lot of talent was provided for him (not sure what is role was in drafts, etc.) Theo being the GM of the Cubs doesn't lock them in a WS title, but the Cubs won three division championships with the less than competent Jim Hendry at the helm. They have a lot of resources to use and Theo at the helm is scarier than Hendry at the helm.
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    My distaste for the Cubs is mostly because I have Cubs fans in my grill all the time because I live in Chicago. If I imagine myself living on a netural site then I realize that I hate the Cardinals and are just annoyed by the Cubs from time to time. Reaslistically my chief negative baseball emotion is frustration with the Crew.
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    The home grown guys being keys to Theo's success is a fair point.But part of the skill in being the GM is knowing who to hold on to, or at least what to spend the prospect on, and Theo has done that well. It's not like he threw in Nelson Cruz as an afterthought in a Carlos Lee trade only to see the guy slugging for a WS contender.
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    In yahoo news and also reported on Fox Chicago. http://sports.yahoo.com/m...F?slug=ap-redsox-epstein That is gong to make things harder for us.
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    Let's go Crew!
  8. BrewCrewRising
    From Bruce Bochy's blog: "Little League Team Europe, congratulations on your futile home run, and your celebration was just cute as the dickens! If any of you little miscreants ever find your way to the Major Leagues, you might want to skip spring training. The memory of a Giant is inversely proportional to the thickness of his skin. Yours, B. Bochy" And from Chris Carpenter's Blog: "Little League Team Europe, you demonstrated poor sportsmanship and disrespected the GAME OF BASEBALL with your home run celebration. Your little heads are still developing, but when they are bigger and older, and if you make your way into the Major Leagues, I will DRILL some respect into your heads. (NOTE: DRILL here is a double entendre. I can't tell you what it means. You'd know what it meant if you were a secret member of the Baseball Ettiquette Keepers Club. Carp. P.S. I realize I mispelled 'etiquette' but it's not proper for you to point it out. I can 'DRILL' all day. Keep it up." This is scary. Also, I found out that the Cardinals have a secret police squad set up that goes around the world adminstering baseball justice. Sort of a star chamber to keep players in line. The Cardinals really take this stuff seriously. EDIT: By the way, you won't find these blogs on the actual internet. They're "unwritten blogs". They're meant to complement the unwritten rules.
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    mlbtraderumors.com has some people saying that Rickets could go after Cashman, Epstein, Billy Beane or Andrew Friedman. The source on Epstein being interested is Peter Gammons speculating that Epstein would want to lift another curse. It scares me to think of the Cubs with somebody compentent at the helm. If they were smart with drafting and young talent AND coupled that with being able to abosrb a few big contracts, that would suck. Even with Hendry at the helm they got the playoffs 3 times.
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    The only way that I trade Prince at the deadline is if somehow the Brewers are more than 8 games out at that time. I don't see that happening. The only way? C'mon. Obviously if you could get 3 current All Stars you would do it. There are always scenarios where somebody overpays. But as great as Prince's bat is, it can't make up for bad defense around the the infield, and lack of production throughout the lineup. So there has to be a scenario where you could get something that would make up for his plus make a talent profit. Obviously when the Red Sox traded Nomar in 2004 Red Sox fans did not like it and getting Orlando Cabrerra and Doug Mientkiewicz obviously seemed inadequate to most fans because fans were emotionally attached to Nomar. But the Red Sox won it all that year. I too am emotinally invested in Prince, but I am wondering if anybody has an realistic scenarios where trading him could be beneficial to the team as a whole. It obviously won't happen, but it's interesting to consider.
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    Let me start by saying I'm entertaining a thought and not making a serious suggestion. So let us entertain the thought of who you would trade Prince for at the deadline. He's obviously mashing right now but to what extent will he remain at this level? He'll still be pretty awesome, but the way he's playing right now could make some team overpay for him. So, what if you could trade Prince, get a haul of prospects and use some of them to get Jose Reyes, and a decent hitting/good defense 1B, and a CF? Or else just use Gamel at 1st and converse some of the prospects for the future. With Reyes you'd still have a Type A FA to get prospects back for at the end of the season. I'm gong on the assumption that Prince would cost more than Reyes, but I am probably overestimating how much more he would cost. What would you trade Prince for? Emotionally I'm enjoying watching him too much right now, but the team still has holes, and I imagine that DM will just slightly upgrade some of them. But would it be worth it if you could spread the talent from 1B out to SS and CF?
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    McGehee's chakras are jammed. And he's been breathing out of his left eyelid.
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    This just makes it more of a 4 team race than a 3 team race and may actually reduce the number of wins needed to capture the division. The Brewers, Reds and Cards are still all stronger in the middle of the lineup than the Cubs and still should rate an edge. The Cubs got better, so the odds of the Brewers winning the division just went down. We can argue by how much but it went down.How much would you expect it to though? How would it shake out? Suppose the Cubs can win 6 more games because of Garza, and because of that their probability of winning the division increases by 7% (I'm just making numbers up, obviously. I have no idea what they really would be.) That 7% would have to come out of other teams' win-the-division probability, and I have to guess that it comes out of Houston and Pittsburgh more than St. Louis, Milwaukee and Cincinnati. (I'm assuming a model where you simulate every game, and I'm assuming that Houston and Pittsburgh lose more than the other teams do to the Cubs, and that they their total number of wins is reduced more than the other teams.) I'm also guessing that Milwaukee, Cincy, and St. Louis lose their percentage of the win-the-division probability equally, or at least close to. So can we really expect to lose more than a couple of % points in the probability of the Crew winning the division? I honestly don't know. You seem to know these models very well and that's why I ask. Thanks.
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    Voted. Good luck. As a side note, some of what is in your story terrifies me. I just welcomed twin boys into the world last summer and I have a fear that they'll become Bears/Cubs fans (we live in Chicago) despite my best efforts. Good to hear though that you all transcend teams loyalties and just enjoy baseball together.
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    Chris, Once I was at a game at Miller Park and you gave up a homer. I said, "Ah c'mon on Cappy! What were you thinking with that pitch?" You never answered me, and now that you are parting ways I have decided that I will let that one go. But in all seriousness, you were the Brewer I always wanted most to succeed because it never seemed like you weren't investing every breath and effort into making yourself better and trying to win for Milwaukee. You will be missed and we will root for you wherever you go*. I am proud to share a first name with you, though I don't shorten mine. Sincerely, Christopher * - Wherever does not include Chicago or St. Louis, or any team that is facing the Crew in the playoffs, or any team facing the Crew in a "must win" game for the Crew. Wish for success is good for the rest of your career provided you do not sign with aforesaid clubs, or change positions. If you decide to become a power hitter and fail miserably, you only have yourself to blame. You've worked too hard at pitching and your pick-off move is a joy to watch. Wish for success is worth 1/100th of cent in cash value, but good for loads of baseball player specific superstitious luck - provided luck is not used against Crew, directly or indirectly.
  16. BrewCrewRising
    It sounds like we have to get Minor so we can start to corner the illiterate fanbase.
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    Wedding rings don't count. He has a ring as manager of the '01 D-Backs, and that's it.
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    I don't remember that. According to Hardicourt he was interviewed in 2002. I think I'd almost like Don Money only because he's fresh and has ties with a lot of the players. But I admit that's not a solid reason overall. None of the names mentioned do it for me really though.
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    For me there are three possibilities: 1) I started at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 1987. Since I was moving away from home for the first time, I decided I'd root for both the Twins and the Brewers. And then the Twins won the WS when I thought the Brewers were a better team. A bunch of people on my dorm room floor were kind of jerky about how the Twins won and the Crew had never won, and so I never did become a Twins fan. And then when Bud Selig was going to contract the Twins and they started winning, I thought I would root for them because I thought they were getting screwed. But now I can't feel sorry for them, and my old prejudices remain. I really do admire the organization though. So, I would probably follow them and root for them, but not be that invested in it. 2) I live in Chicago now, and I couldn't root for either of these teams. I have a softer spot for the White Sox since my grandpa was a fan, but I still associate the team with thuggery. 3) Otherwise I might root for the Pirates because I loved the stadium and was suprised by how much fun Pittsburgh was when I first visisted it. But all in all, I think I would just loosely follow minor league ball more.
  20. BrewCrewRising
    Take it back. Everybody else knock on wood.
  21. BrewCrewRising
    "If protection exists why isn't Gomez seeing any benefits from it" Well, if a guy never, ever takes a walk, protection is a moot point.
  22. BrewCrewRising
    I agree with the sentiment that Yost is good for a team like the Royals. He will function as a stopgap while they develop the potential and the unknown quantities. Ultimately, he's the Moses of managing; he's meant to make your team survive the desert, not take them to the promised land.
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    I think George Bamberger is my favorite Brewers manager of all time. I loved Harvey Kuenn, but if I'm being honest, he just inherited a great team, and knew how to let it loose. Garner had a great team, and gave the Brewers one of their best seasons, but I'm not warm to him. Props to him form not foiling a great team, but I'll never think of him as a manger who can turn the questionable in a possibility. I think Yost was great for what he was hired to do. He was like Moses really. Lead the Brewers across the desert of the lean years, develop the young talent, but was not meant to lead thim into the playoff promised land. Every other manager ranges from 'meh' to Royster (where Royster is its own self-contained term for horrible, horrible, horrible Brewers manager.)
  24. BrewCrewRising
    Just curious: Is the Braves hatred just because they left? What if the Brewers left Milwaukee, and somebody moved the Braves back to Milwaukee. Would you still hate them, or would you connect to the old glory? I ask because I had this conversation with somebody not long ago ( We decided that it would take a while, and it would take a lot of PR work). Did you hate the Cubs before the Brewers went to the NL? I know you've lived in Chicago a while, so I'm wondering if they bothered you before you had to deal with them as much as now. I personally grew to hate them after 2003 when the fanbase got extremely fashionable about their "playoff contenders". It didn't help that I didn't live far from Wrigley at the time. The Yankees still linger for me. 1981 will not subside for me. Cardinals still linger for me. 1982 will not subside, and La Russa doesnt' do much for their current aura.
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    There were black and Mexican cowboys, and cowboys of Indian blood. So, being a cowboy isn't predicated on being white. Neither is being a knight, mountaineer, a minuteman, or a patriot. It's a role based on one's actions, and inclusion in that group isn't defined by race. It might have been shaped by race, but it's not defined by it. Spartans in every mascot context refers to warriors from the ancient city state of Sparta. Argonauts are solely from mythology. None of these is the same as taking a race of people and making a caricature of them. Personally, I don't spend a lot of time worrying about mascots either. But I'm not going to automatically decide, 'Well I'm not losing sleep over that, so why are they?' if I'm not part of the same race or group that's being caricatured.
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