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  1. Point Beer Is Best
    Does anyone know how this impact Luxury tax accounting? For cash accounting purposes (assuming no deferred money), Hamels would count $14M and $6M towards the Cubs and Rangers, respectively. But for the Luxury tax/payroll implications, is it the same? Or is all $20M entered in towards the Cubs' payroll? From what I've seen the Cubs are entering into 2019 with $200M in payroll on the books already. Also - the Cubs have unloaded Drew Smyly and his $7M back on the Rangers today.
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    Interesting. The first article I had read on it this morning said the Rangers were only on the hook if he was bought out.
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    Agreed. You want arguably the best player at his position in his prime, you are going to have to give up your top prospect. Hiura, Nottingham and Peralta are exactly the three I was thinking of in terms of where I would expect Miami to start off with. The two years of control thing is what will likely give them pause.
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    Anyone else get the feeling we're going to see a "Machado was a bad teammate and killed our chemistry" type article in the coming days with anonymous quotes by his teammates?
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    I think you're referencing the infamous "Brewer World" twitter account.
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    He had all 11 at second base, don't forget that. He had 10 errors at 3B, and just 1 at 2B. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/shawtr01.shtml
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    I kept checking and eventually I got three Terrace Reserved in section 424 for Game 7 around 5pm last night. Pretty pumped to take my oldest kids (6 & 7 years old), and save the $200+ more it would have cost to buy on the secondary market.
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    When I checked Game 7 tickets this morning, StubHub appeared to be using a 20% service fee while Vivid Seats (which was cheaper than Stubhub earlier in the year) was at a whopping 25% fee. The $126 tickets to take me and my two young boys would be $480 ($160 per) with all the fees if I had pulled the trigger.
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    Agree with the thought process of starting Davies tonight (with Woodruff piggybacking) and then Miley starts Game 6 (and Chacin, if needed for Game 7) would both go on full rest. The Gio injury has created this option that otherwise would not have been available.
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    They left off Scott Alexander which is equally a surprise, but if I was a fan of the Dodgers I would rather have Urias than Alexander as the lefty out of the pen. Alexander made 3 appearances against the Brewers this season, pitching 3.1 innings and allowing 2 earned runs on 3 hits, 3 walks, and 4 strikeouts. Rolling the dice with Urias may appear to be a bit of risk, but it could payoff big-time if Urias has his best stuff. 6 of the 12 Dodgers pitchers are LHP. Obviously Kershaw & Hill for sure will get starts, but they are setting up to try to play matchups against our LH hitters.
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    There really isn't. It's exactly the Theo Epstein (PoBO)/Jed Hoyer (Exec-VP, GM) system the Cubs have in place. It's just a title construct that teams use to be able to lure existing GM's under the guise that it's a promotion, while in reality they just have a few extra people report into them. Regarding the Brian Sabean comment, his title is currently similar to Hoyer's (Exec-VP, Baseball Ops) except in this situation the GM position is open. If they genuinely offered the PoBO position to Stearns, it would appear he would be brought in to be Sabean's boss and they'd still be looking for a GM (in which case we'd have to play defense and promote Arnold to GM but likely lose another top assistant to SF if they offer up their GM position). Which is a structure that may seem like you have a lot of smart people in the building... but who's really calling the shots?
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    Not to derail, but another thing that won praise from the emerging football analytics school of thought was a decision to go for two by the Eagles. Down 14 but still in the 3Q (I think), the Eagles scored a TD. Rather than going with the conventional PAT kick, they went for two (which carries an assumed probability for success of 50%) Let's say the score was 21-7 (14 point deficit). The trailing team scores a TD and goes for two. * If successful, they now trail only by 6 points. If their defense holds the opponent (or if the scoring is a back and forth seesaw battle matching them point for point), they now only need to score a TD and kick the much easier to convert PAT kick to win the game. You are playing for the win rather than the tie by shifting the more risky attempt (2 point conversion) to earlier in the game while you have more time on the clock to score more points. * If unsuccessful, they still trail by one score (8 points) and would have another 50/50 shot to tie the game at the end. Of course, going for 2 early in the game and ultimately losing by 2 points because neither attempt was successful is the type of stuff that gets coaches fired if they don't have a progressive-minded owner/GM backing them.
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    Another reason to root for the Braves to at least push this series back to LA is that it will force the Dodgers to pitch Kershaw in Game 5 on Wednesday, making him unavailable until Game 3 in LA. LAD closing out tonight resets their starting rotation with Kershaw likely starting Game 1.
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    Same. I think if it's Braves/Brewers things will be more evenly split, but if it's LAD/Brewers, it will be LAD/Cubs fans on one side and everyone else lined up behind MKE.
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    I was kind of hoping for a Brewers/Braves NLCS so we'd get a week long celebration of Hank Aaron.
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    I disagree. Cobb still has some juice. We're probably 1-2-1 at this point if that were the decision because we don't beat the Bears without Cobb. We made the right call.
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    The exact same criticism was made of Casey Heyward, to the point we let him walk out the door as a free agent only to turn into a superstar.
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    They announced this game start change while the Brewers were still playing in Chicago, so it was more than a 36 hour notice. I was kind of surprised they didn't move the game start on Wednesday with MKE up to 1:20 to give them extra travel time to DC since they had to travel there and turn around and come back right away.
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    I added each of my kids to the list the week they were born. My 7 month old daughter is in the neighborhood of #133,000 on the list. I think my 7 year old son is around 60k and my 6 year old son is 88k (note: they won the Super Bowl 3 months after I added my oldest son when he was born, and my second son was born 15 months later. The list grew considerably in that time frame as well). And I'm #251 on the list for single seat season tickets. I added myself to that list about 10 years ago. So yeah - there's plenty of legitimate actual people wanting those tickets if anyone gives them up. My problem is with the people who appear to have signed their ticket rights over to ticket brokers and treat them as an investment vehicle.
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    This is true. If he's placed on the MLB DL, that counts towards his service time. His cheapest years of team control will now be spent rehabbing from an injury.
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    Is this a trick username? I'm surprised this thread went on for another 2 pages without anyone else acknowledging that the site's founder just posted for the first time in over 2 years.
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    Would be interested to know why the Reds weren't able to deal Harvey 3 weeks ago at the non-waiver deadline. Surely there was interest, maybe even by the Brewers at the time, but the Reds held all the leverage at that time. Now that he was claimed, they essentially have to give up Harvey for whatever is offered or pull him back and get nothing. Surely whatever the offer was on July 31st would be much better than the position they find themselves in now.
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    Torn on the idea of trading for Mack. If you did the deal and extended Rodgers, you're talking about having the highest paid offensive AND the highest paid defensive player on the same roster. Can't recall offhand if that's ever happened before. Ideally you'd like to get 2 good players with those picks on rookie contracts, but will they have the same impact as an elite player like Mack will? Maybe it's time to toss out the "long game" and pull an all-in move to get Mack since honestly his career will probably end around the same time Rodgers stops playing. Of course if they continue with the "long game" of always fielding a competitive team, the other option is to package those two first round picks next spring to move up for the successor to #12... *ducks*
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    Once we install the electronic strikezone and move the umpire off to the side, you may as well play your catcher as a 4th OF or 5th IF. The catcher is near useless without any baserunners. A ball boy/girl will retrieve the ball and throw back to the pitcher. Not even putting this in blue - this could happen.
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    Saw an article with a quote from a rival executive regarding the high prices on Nat's rental players: "It's like their ownership group told them to sell, but the front office doesn't want to do it."
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