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  1. Point Beer Is Best
    On our farm as a kid, my grandpa would toy with a small plat of land (maybe 1/2 an acre, which is probably a monster garden to everyone else). Sweet corn, pumpkins, cantelope & watermelons are what I remember the most. I also had a friend who was neighbors with a family that had a nice little greenhouse to grow things year-round. But what they were growing isn't something you'd probably want to grow in your garden out in the open like that.
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    I don't think it would hurt to actually call the ticket office with this question. I would think just having the bobblehead ticket would suffice.
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    However, in this case it wasn't an assumption. There were reports that Boras was dealing directly with Attanasio, and I believe that was also the case last year.
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    That would be fun. But probably never going to happen at a place named "Miller Park."
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    Just purchased our tickets. They only have the terrace reserved ($22) packages left for the bobblehead. Outfield Loge was the other area that was part of this offer, but those already sold out.
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    I'm in favor of expanding the rosters overall anyways. Expanded rosters would help in injury cases where a guy might just need a week to rest up and now don't have to place him on the 15 day DL or just go shorthanded for that time period. I think it will lead to an increase in offense, as long as they are limiting the number of pitchers a team can carry or limiting specialization on the pitching side by making them face more than one hitter. I do not like eliminating the defensive shift, so this solution seems "better" if you want to increase offense. As others have mentioned, you will see many more platoons to increase offense. But I think it would be cool to see teams carry a guy who may be nothing more than a pinch-run specialist. A guy with track speed who can steal a base at-will. That would add a few more runs a year for each team, and add even more excitement to late-inning situations.
  7. Point Beer Is Best
    I want to see a Mark Hamill doppelganger throw out the first pitch to Darth Vader, but first they pay tribute to "Field of Dreams." Luke: "Hey, Dad?" Vader: "Yes, my son?" Luke: "You wanna have a catch?"
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    Did Gallardo make any grand guestures like the now-popular full page ad to thank the fans for supporting him during his time in Milwaukee?
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    I don't have to even read that article to reach the conclusion that it's garbage, and normally that's an unusual assumption for me to reach. I'm sure Stark probably cited the usual rhetoric of how many different teams have made the playoffs in baseball and probably pointed to the Rays as some sort of example of how it can be done on a limited payroll. You can spend your way out of mistakes in baseball (if your team can afford it, which means small market clubs often avoid the high-risk contracts in the first place). You can't do that in the NFL, often because every team has a fair shake at retaining their own homegrown talent. The elite players almost never, ever reach free agency during their prime years in the NFL. If each league (MLB & NFL) could borrow something from the other, obviously I'd wish there was an increase in revenue sharing and a hard cap in MLB, and maybe borrow the "franchise tag" concept. I'd wish the NFL would adopt guaranteed contracts to curb the fake money (player x signs a 5 year, $100 mil deal that's really a 2 or 3 year deal because years 4 & 5 have a crazy high base salary that you know they'll be cut before that happens). The last CBA in football finally put in the rookie wage scale and has completely eliminated "holdouts" by younger players that had outplayed their contracts, but I still think using an MLB arbitration system for guys on their rookie deals might not be a bad idea.
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    In the interest of player safety, i think they should just implement the "Pitcher's Hand" rule like I used to play with my cousins. Of course we didn't have the added benefit of replay review so it led to a lot of "I got there before you caught the ball!" and "Nuh-uh!", so maybe that's a bad idea. Teams would implement crazy shifts against Ted Williams. This isn't some new concept that must be crushed to preserve the heritage of the sport. We just have way more data available to coaches to more precisely implement these shifts and on which batters it is most effective. Also, from what someone quoted earlier in the thread: Manfred made it clear that examining the pace of the game is first on his list of priorities, but not far behind will be finding ways to "inject additional offense into the game." Did Manfred actually use the word "inject" in reference to wanting to see an increase in offense? Because if so, that is a hilarious accident. Or was it?
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    I guess the way I'm looking at this is there were three options: 1) Decline Yo's option and free up $13 mil (not sure of the rules, but would we have been able to extend the $15.5 mil qualifying offer in that case, hoping he'd decline and pick up a draft choice?) 2) Pick up the option and let him play out the year, then offering the QO hoping for draft pick compensation 3) Pick up the option and trade him. If you look at what they did with option #3, in a sense they basically spent $4 mil to acquire those three players.
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    ... And then in the next breath, they say Stephen Strasburg is "very much available." http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/19/report-nationals-open-to-trading-stephen-strasburg/
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    It sounds like the Nats have no desire to break up their potentially historically elite rotation by trading Zimmermann. With the Phillies & Braves rebuilding, they ovbiously have their sights beyond just winning their division. I can't blame them. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/19/report-nationals-plan-to-keep-jordan-zimmermann/
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    The Mariners had a deal on the table for Cruz last year for $7.5 mil and a club option for 2015 at $9 mil before their ownership group scuttled it. That worked out pretty well for Cruz (gets paid big-time this year) and for the Orioles (playoffs and a comp pick for $8mil gamble). Now we'll see which decision was worse by Seattle - paying him now, or not taking a gamble on him last year for peanuts.
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    Definately. They're probably targeting multiple FA's with draft pick compensation attached to them.
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    Luckily, as an S-Corp you are treated like a simple partnership and avoid the double taxation of a C-Corp (pay taxes at the corporate level, and then pay the dividend rate on the distribution). You don't pay corporate income tax, so you'll just have to pay taxes on it as if it's a dividend (typically 15% or so, which is probably less than your salaried tax rate, and MUCH less than if it was deemed a bonus which can be around 40%).
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    I agree that the Giants are where we want to be in terms of number of championships, but I don't think that's where we want to be (nor are we capable of being due to salary constraints) in terms of roster construction. I know it's all the rage to look at the Royals & Giants and set them up as the perfect franchises this offseason, but the reality is that over a 162 game season, these teams were Wild Cards.
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    I quit listening to 107.5 at work for the same reasons. I'll still listen occasionally in the car, but almost every day I'll hear a caller or a host say something that makes me say out loud, "ugh, WHAT?!" The other day, Rookie was lamenting the fact that the Brewers had picked up Gallardo's option and said "I don't know why they want to invest that kind of money on a guy who's only 25 wins above .500 for his career." I almost drove off the road. He followed that up with "He was 8-11 this past year, so this was clearly the worst season of his career." This is 2014! Are we still using Wins as a valid statistic to judge a pitcher's worth? My God.
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    Well, you do realize that you're basically trolling that homerism to come out by using a condescending tone to essentially say that "Molina was the better catcher this year and it's not just my opinion - it's the opinion of people who actually know what they're talking about." Also, it seems to me that you think your stats should count (base-stealers allowed), but dWar should be tossed out for not "telling the whole story." Lucroy had an outstanding year at the plate, and was no slouch behind it either. Couple that with Molina missing significant time this year, and it's completely reasonable for people to suggest that Lucroy was a more valuable player in 2014, and should see some recognition for his efforts. You're dealing in absolutes - either we agree with you, or we don't know what we're talking about. And as we all know... http://media.tumblr.com/2b214d90cee69777c2ff8fc9d0f90866/tumblr_inline_mnvxyz5vv51qz4rgp.jpg
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    Pro tip: If you're like me and wondering who Darva Conger is, don't google that name from your work computer.
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    My in-laws have a cabin (well, it's more of a trailer home, but I digress) not far from Hayward in the Solon Springs/Barnes area. They'll go to bars to watch the Brewers games, and I believe they use DirecTV. They are considered to be in the Duluth/Superior TV market, so they have access to both FSN-North (Minnesota Twins) and FSN-Wisconsin (Brewers). In any event, I would be surprised if your FSN options would change at all between Dish & DirecTV.
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    In regards to picthers, Seid's hands were somewhat tied. The general consensus was that the farm system was devoid of pitching talent, especially at the upper levels. So the "fix" was to draft college pitchers rather than HS pitchers, thinking that they would progress to the MLB team much quicker. That plan basically blew up in their face. I think most would agree with you on Jack Z's drafting style while here. Gallardo is the only notable pitcher drafted during his tenure, and many think that was Melvin inserting his authority to overrule Jack Z (who did not want to draft Gallardo). For this team to succeed, we need to find a Ben Sheets, Gallardo, and Peralta and have them graduate to the MLB rotation within 3 years of each other - not over a span of 15 years.
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    I feel like there are some comparable qualities to the NY football Giants, who won two Super Bowls in a span of 5 years. Who were the "stars" of those teams? Michael Strahan retired after the '07 season, so he was only part of one of those titles. And Eli Manning played huge during those title runs, but has generally been an average QB over his career. They were the #5 seed after the '07 season, ran the table on the road in the postseason and upset the only truly "great" team that year - the previously undefeated New England Patriots. The Giants won the Super Bowl that year - but were they the "best" team over the course of the whole season? In 2011, they were only 9-7, but it was good enough to win their division and again ran the table to another title. But would you say they were the best team that year over the course of the whole season? Had the SF Giants had the best or second best record in the NL each year they won the title, then yes, they would be a Dynasty in the traditional sense. And I don't mean to take anything away from them, because I would argue that they've accomplished something even greater - they've won those titles when they weren't supposed to. Isn't it even more impressive to have won those championships as underdogs as opposed to being the favorites?
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    That was a definite "remember where you were" moment for me. The Spivey trade to Washington for Ohka with Weeks being called up to take his place was the dawn of a new era of Brewers baseball. I'll miss the laser shot HR's, his 100% effort, and the endless "you know"'s from his early interviews.
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    In a sport filled with "unwritten rules", here's one that's pretty common across all sports: You don't go after another man's coaching job. Jason Kidd caught a lot of flack for that this offseason in the NBA. You're just not supposed to do it.
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