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Link if it's plausible. I know nothing about their system.

I guess I would too considering it saves $12M or so.

I dont often agree with Briggs, but he nails it here. Well written Sir.

Ad nausem over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Being competitive and "all-in" are two completely diffferent things. The Brewers have never been all-in except in the summer of 2008.

RIP Stuart Scott...a different kind of tv legend.

I've been to Disney 8 times, various parks, and 5 of those times with children. It would be too exhaustive to even touch the surface with tips and tricks here in this forum. As hammy said, there are TONS of blogs and forums out there dedicated to your exact question (First Time at Disney with family). If you have any specific questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them here or on PM.

LaRoche is a bum. Glad that guy is off the market and not a consideration for our management.

Agreed. I wanted nothing to do with any LaRoche on the Brewers.

Overachieved. Probably closer to a 77-win team talent wise.

Bringing up Attanasio in every thread, lamenting & steering the conversation with the connotation that "XYZ" won't happen because it doesn't suit "winning in the next 9 months" is unneccessary and to the point of getting old. Your point has been made in many, many, many threads that you disagree with the long term direction of the ballclub and you feel that Attanasio is the puppet string puller. "He wants instant gratification." We don't know that. Having dinner to interview those in the job market doesn't make it so. Talking to agents of those that are in the job market doesn't make it so. The horse has been beaten.

Why does every comment include "Attanasio"? Doug Melvin is the general manager. There is way too much weight being thrown into the fallacy that the Brewers are looking to win a World Championship in 2015 with a $180M payroll and then sell the team and get out of the baseball business forever. As a former co-worker of both Attanasio & Doug Melvin, I can assure you this organization under their watch has a complete vision of 2015 and 2018 all at the same time. 2018 isn't as bleak as people are making it out to be and M.A. doesn't have his fingers in personnel as much as people make it out to be. Does every discussion need that context and connotation? I don't think the Brewers are in the market for Scherzer. I think he would fit and do well, but we have to remember that this is an organization that wouldn't spend $100M on Sabathia 6 years ago. I just dont think signing a 30yr old to an 8 year deal is smart. Now, if he can be had for 4/$95?

The Tampa Bay Rays have been doing this for years. However, I always find the acts to be C-List type performers.

If I read one more time the phrase, "go for it" or "all in", I may scream.

With as articulate as you are in your opinions, I wouldn't have put you at 62. Nice to have somewhat of a visual to your username after all these years.

Yes, but if the Brewers didn't exercise their side of the option they had to pay a $4M buyout. Hence the net number of $10M is accurate when comparing what could the Brewers have done if they didn't go the ARam route in 2015. The most accurate number for 2015 is $12M. The Brewers would have had to pay $2M in 2015 and $2M in 2016. I don't understand it. I wish the Brewers would have declined the option and just forked over the $2M for this year and saved themselves $12M.

"I think the best thing the Brewers can do is accept the reality that they are not a championship caliber team right now and they are not 1 or 2 players away from being there. They aren't a lost cause either so they don't have to move all their best players but they need to realize that Milwaukee isn't going to get excited about a .500 team that finishes 5-6 games out of the playoffs like they may have gotten excited about 8 years ago." ~paul253 I think they clearly have a handle on those beliefs. I don't think they sign 1-2 free agents every year at the belief that they are then the favorites to win a World Championship or field a championship caliber team. I think they do their best every year to acquire talent and win as many games as possible. 2015 doesn't need to suffer to make 2017 great.

That is my definition of going all-in as well. And in that light, the Brewers have yet to go "all-in" in the past 15 years. They have never come out of a season completely lost for failing to make the playoffs. I also assert that trading away Lohse and Gallardo doesn't mean the Brewers are giving up on a season. Saying they have an opportunity to trade away Gallardo and Lohse is simply a belief and not really fact. We don't know if anybody is willing to take on those players and we also don't know that the return would be a few great prospects. The "failure" of the Brewers to trade short-term assets in the past isn't an "all-in" approach. I think the Brewers are following a great model. They are mixing shor-term assets with long term assets and are remaining competitive just about every season for the past 7 years. I haven't come away at the end of any season and thought, "well, we got to rebuild now". I also don't think Mark A. is as involved in player equity as some posters do. I love the Brewers approach over the past 7 years. The Brewers will run into problems when drafts don't work out. Hunter Morris didn't pan out to replace Prince and it hurt badly. As I've said before, I'm not a fan of Huntsville and Brevard County. I want MLB talent on the Milwaukee team. I don't want to pull what Houston did the past 2-3 seasons. Draft well, trade some of them for short term talent and grow the others you keep and the team should be able to remain competitive each and every year.

I don't understand why the team can't acquire talent without the seemingly vulgar word of "all-in" being thrown around?

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Danzig is spot on. I always hate when people point to failures in sports being "simply mental". As if, "If he just wanted to walk, he would walk" It doesn't work like that. The approach is fine. Colorado, Toronto, Minnesota were 4-6th in OBP last season. Walking more is overstated. Score more runs than your opponents on more nights. Whether that be by pitching dominance, or home runs, or small ball doesn't matter to me.

I'm shocked that I haven't read one post that is something along the lines of "if the Brewers would have kept Cain, Escobar, and resigned Aoki, then it would be them in the 2014 World Series". Honestly, that's what the crux of these types of topics seem to me to be. I'm rooting for the Royals, but what's the point of analyzing a trade 3 years down the road? It was assumed that Greinke would be a short return and that the Royals would have a long return if they sat on their investment. The Brewers reaped immediate dividends and the Royals are now able to do the same. It doesn't have to mean, nor should it mean that anybody "won" or "lost" a trade. It also should have very little impact on that job performance of a manager or general manager. Hi&Tight said it best "We're the Milwaukee Brewers... The point is to put a competitive team on the field, get into the playoffs and hope that you are or you get hot, you get a little luck and win....All I can ask of the Brewers is that they try to put the best team on the field and are aggressive when the situation calls for it. They did just that in 2011." If that involves a "meddling" owner who wants to closer control his assets and his business, then so be it. If that involves the general manager giving up assets that might produce in 3 years for immediate assets, then so be it. Playing armchair GM is fun, but it's not even close to reality of what is possible in the real business. Andrew Freidman is considered a God around here and I think very highly of him, but his "talent" took the Rays to mid 70's in wins? Brian Cashman, with any resource at his disposal, won two more games than the Brewers. I applaud DM and MA for making this team competitive just about every September since 2007. If they keep their noses to the grindstone, eventually it'll all come together in a perfect storm and this city will get their pennant.

Trades get won and lost...who cares? Are we supposed to act like scorned girlfriends 6 years later and lament over what our ex ended up with? Come on Man!

I do have the patience, but I'm scared to wait that long. Lowers might go from $220 to $500? Ugh. My experience has been deer hunting week is easier to find, but maybe it's the opponent?

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