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  1. pebadger
    Shoulda used a shoe, Doug. http://espn.go.com/mlb/spring2013/story/_/id/9027332/doug-melvin-milwaukee-brewers-treated-scorpion-sting
  2. pebadger
    Agreed. We shall have no whipping boy before his time. It is funny how the whipping of the whipping boy becomes an unintentional near parody of itself. It starts with largley justified general griping, and then somebody who really dislikes a guy kicks it up a notch. Then the whipping boy has a couple of damaging mistakes in a short period of time and we're off to the races. Then somebody weighs in saying the griping is overblown, which spurs "Is not! Is so!" arguments. God, I love this board.
  3. pebadger
    The new hot basis for punishing "cheats" is the "non-analytical positive". In a nutshell, it means that if the authorities think you're a cheat and they have information that they feel is good enough (by their own standards as judge, jury and executioner), they will declare you to be in violation of the anti-doping regime and punish you accordingly, even in the absence of any scientific evidence of the use of banned substances. In essence, it's the authorities throwing up their hands and admitting they can't catch the people they want to catch. I haven't looked at the new JDA language, and I don't think there is a provision to pursue such a case against a player represented by MLBPA, but that where the anti-doping effort is headed. I'm not necessarily averse to the idea of prosecuting violations on the basis of evidence other than test results, but once you go down that route you really need to have a well-constructed set of rules and procedures in place to ensure fairness and accuracy. Given what I know about how these things are operated, I feel very confident in saying that these governing bodies are not set up to ensure either.
  4. pebadger
    It seems to me that it's fair to hypothesize that this 'story' is being kept alive and dragged out intentionally by semi-daily drips and drops of "new" information.
  5. pebadger
    I feel sick for the guy.
  6. pebadger
    The 'funniest' thing of all about the whole "technicality" bit? Nobody other than the arbitration panel knows, and likely nobody will ever know, why Braun won his appeal because MLB and MLBPA quashed a written decision. And yet it's been repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated so often that people think they know what happened with the appeal when in fact nobody really knows anything. The fact that the media has done this, and continues to do this, is a travesty. By the way, Passan is the one who stirred up the entire recent spurt of activity. The New Times in Miami didn't mention one word about Braun in their piece on Biogenesis. Go back to read Passan's work right after Braun won the appeal. Go back to out previous mega-thread and read about Passan there. Then tell me with a straight face that that guy doesn't have an agenda in play.
  7. pebadger
    I've never used an illegal drug in my life. Never even took a puff off a joint. If one of you accuses me of having done so, and your accusation is accepted as truth by the public at large, what evidence can I possibly provide to prove that I'm not lying?
  8. pebadger
    Nothing in this story will shock me, from either Braun or from guys like Passan who are doing everything they can to try to get Braun. Make no mistake: There are people out there pursuing this story with an agenda. This general story has been out there for a while now. To me this reeks of guilt by unfortunate association, but I'm open to all facts. It does seem to me to be quite interesting that Braun is yet again put in the position of having to prove his innocence rather than accusers and insinuators having to support their accusations and insinuations beyond an initial report. In other news, still waiting for the written decision on the Brann case that MLB made sure would never see the light of day.
  9. pebadger
    Not really completely baseball-related, but Brewers TV man Brian Anderson is again doing play-by-play on basketball games for the Big Ten Network this season. I'm pretty sure he'll be working NCAA tourney games again as well. While I love college hoops, I can't help but get excited that Brewers baseball is also just around the corner when I hear BA on the call. So if you need that feeling, check it out. And since the Big Ten looks to be pretty great this season, you'll get a good watch on the hoops as well.
  10. pebadger
    I could get into the let's-play-GM analysis on all of this, but from just an in-the-moment fan perspective this team as currently constructed seems like it should really be a heck of a lot of fun to just root for, with a pretty solid punchers chance of putting together a run at the playoffs. So for that reason and from that perspective, I say "no".
  11. pebadger
    At least they're not in danger of finishing 6th.
  12. pebadger
    "This call to the bullpen is brought to you by the Marquette University School of Dentistry." Make it happen marketing department. Make it happen.
  13. pebadger
    I know Dale can't do Brewers fantasy camp right now, but the first year he and Robin can finally be there together this story from both sides will be worth the price of admission all by itself.
  14. pebadger
    I know I'm completely UN-representative of the world t large, but the thing I love most about baseball is the season itself. I love Opening Day. I love the journey. I love knowing coming home and at the very least having the Brewers on in the background. I want them to make the playoffs and I want them to win when they get there, but just getting there is a better ride than the playoffs themselves. I'm not some baseball-is-the-center of-sports romantic. I'm much more of a football guy in terms of my body of knowledge. I love college hoops from the time it starts all the way through the regular season and then the tournament. But if baseball bastardizes itself in order to chase ratings in the playoffs, they'll lose me to one degree or another. If the season doesn't mean as much to baseball, baseball won't mean as much to me.
  15. pebadger
    And with that, I can watch the World Series without a whole lot of stress. Not a Giants fan, but I think my rooting interest won't be fully formed in this one until we get into it and I see how things play out a bit.
  16. pebadger
    Wow. I think that might be an achilles for Jeter, but it's definitely something structural. Much as I want the Yanks to lose never want to see that. If it's as bad as it appears it might cost him a season. At his age it could be worse than that.
  17. pebadger
    Going to stick my head in a vat of hydrochloric acid . . . .
  18. pebadger
    I tuned in for the 9th just to see the Yankees lose tonight. If I have to cheer for anybody, it will be the Tigers. Not long ago I liked the Giants, but something about them turned for me in recent years, and it's mostly fan-based. Otherwise, I've got football on tomorrow and Monday and the USMNT World Cup qualifier on Tuesday. Daughter has a swim meet on Thursday. HS football playoffs on Friday. I'll worry about Wednesday when it comes - god forbid I read a book. That pretty much takes care of my week.
  19. pebadger
    I just finished cleaning up my puke. I think I'm just checking out on these playoffs. I even talked myself into rooting for the Reds.
  20. pebadger
    The Cards played 32 games (almost 20% of their schedule) against teams with more than 100 losses on the season. Those two teams accounted for almost 25% of the Cards wins on the season. (21-11, winning percentage .656). The Brewers got to play the Cubs and 'Stros 34 times. The Dodgers got to play those two teams a whopping 12 times (8-4, winning percentage .750). The Cards won the second wildcard by 2 games. In the AL there were six teams with better records than Detroit, earned against tougher opposition, but only 4 of them get to join the Tigers in the postseason. Since nobody really wants to get rid of divisions or take steps to balance schedules, that's just the way it's going to be.
  21. pebadger
    I do have to say that I think MLB is gutless for scheduling Monday's STL/WAS game (the ONLY game on Monday) to begin at 3:30 Central Time. Here's a hint MLB: Be as afraid of Monday Night Football as you want. You're STILL going to get more viewers on Monday night than you are on Monday afternoon. And no, I don't care that the teams have to play in Washington on Tuesday. These guys have played plenty of nights in one town followed by a night game in the next. Both teams are on the same footing in that regard, anyway, as they're both making the same trip. Just a terrible decision in my view.
  22. pebadger
    Where's the "Like" button on this website?
  23. pebadger
    I've seen enough "Cards fans wouldn't have acted that way" tweets and comments to fuel my hatred another lifetime (I'm up to 4 now I think).
  24. pebadger
    Have a good offseason, everyone. I just hope I'm not back writing huge posts around the time of the Heisman award again this year.
  25. pebadger
    I don't know whether to curse the Yankees or the Red Sox, so I'll do what I usually do and curse them both. With the Crew dead my hope against hope scenario is for the O's and A's to both win their divisions to force the Yanks and Rangers into the one-game scenario, but I know it won't happen.
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