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How is only one of Narveson's runs earned?

Get him out.

Foul tip right on the tip.

Way to make Pavano work.

Very quietly since his line went from .231/.290/.333 the game before the hit safely in 14 of 17 happened to .230/.283/.321 today.

Man the Twins lineup is brutal today. Going to be really disappointing if we don't win. CF Ben Revere - .607 OPS 2B Alexi Casilla - .684 OPS RF Michael Cuddyer - .823 OPS 3B Danny Valencia - .626 OPS 1B Luke Hughes - .630 OPS LF Jason Repko - .436 OPS SS Tsuyoshi Nishioka - .485 OPS C Drew Butera - .469 OPS RHP Carl Pavano - .359 career OPS

Weird voice too.

Somebody needs to take Debbie's microphone away.

So I'm assuming Young isn't going for a ride since that says Bell on the side?

I think Prince would be better defensively in LF than Young. That was absolutely hilarious.

Yeah, swinging at a pitch way outside the strike zone and hitting a soft liner about 150 feet is not getting hot.

Isn't a black hole on offense? He's terribly inefficient on offense. How is that going to help the worst offense in the NBA last season? This offense is once again going to be horrible while the defense will be good which will put the Bucks right where they're the most comfortable. 35-40 wins and a 50-50 shot to go to the playoffs in the crappy Eastern Conference.

Fixed.

Gomez with corn rows >>> Gomez with afro.

Holy crap! A bat flip that wasn't a flyout to the warning track!!!

Some amusement park needs to use this name for the next ride they build.

Stupid baserunning again.

Awful pitching by Yo and awful defense by Betancourt.

If Bogut doesn't make that much of a difference then why is he a good guy to build around?

I hear the rebuilding thing, but you lose me on the point of giving an asset like Bogut away. Nobody wants to "give him away." You ever hear the saying sometimes you have to take one step back to take two steps forward? That's what the Bucks need to do. You can't ever be anything in the NBA without a star player. In order to get a star player you have to be at the top of the lottery. Bogut prevents the Bucks from being at the top of the lottery and that's why some of us want him traded. It has nothing to do with Bogut being a bad player and we're not saying he's not a good player. He's just the classic in between player. Not bad enough to keep us from sucking but not good enough to ever lead us to anything meaningful. David Robinson goes down, then the Spurs jump in the lottery. That's exactly the point. Robinson goes down, the Spurs could've gone out and made a patchwork trade to try to make the playoffs but they didn't. They just said we'll take our lumps this year and maybe get some lottery luck and come back next year. And they did. And they won four championships by drafting one of the best players of all time. Being terrible isn't good enough, you have to be lucky as well. Of course it isn't good enough. You have to have good scouts and a good GM, which we have neither of right now. McKinney, Babcock, Hammond and everybody else in the front office could be fired right now and I wouldn't care because they all suck. Nobody is denying that luck is involved either, it's called the lottery for a reason. The thing is though in pretty much every draft you're going to get at least two all star players. It's also pretty much known that even the all star players aren't good in their rookie and sometimes even sophomore years so you give them a ton of playing time and experience while they learn and then continue to draft high. Yes, Minnesota has gotten screwed in the lottery, but they would also have a good team if their management and scouts weren't stupid. 2006 they traded Brandon Roy for Randy Foye, 2007 they drafted Corey Brewer over Joakim Noah, 2008 they actually did something smart and traded O.J. Mayo for Kevin Love, 2009 they drafted Ricky Rubio, Jonny Flynn and Ty Lawson they ended up trading Lawson who turned out to be the best player they drafted and in 2010 they took Wes Johnson over younger, better players like Greg Monroe, Ed Davis and several others. So they could be looking at a starting lineup of: Lawson Roy ??? Love Monroe That's way better than what they have now. So once again, nobody is denying that tearing it all down and rebuilding is guaranteed to work. It's just the way best for a small market team to build. Look at Portland as well. They cleared Zach Randolph and sucked. Traded the 4th pick (Tyrus Thomas) and Viktor Khyrapa for the 2nd pick (LaMarcus Aldridge) and a conditional 2nd round pick. They then traded Randy Foye (7th pick) who they acquired for Sebastian Telfair for Brandon Roy (6th pick). Just like that they got two young all star talents to build around. Yes they also made the wrong decision of taking Greg Oden over Kevin Durant or even Al Horford but just with those two trades that got them Roy and Aldridge they built up enough talent through the draft that they have averaged 51 wins the last three years. The Bucks on the other hand have one season where they've won 51 or more games in the last 25 years.

Yes, draft the "lazy guy." He way outproduced Brandon Roy at the same age and when you're the only one on the team that can create offense it takes a lot out of you. He wasn't a highly regarded recruit and somehow worked his way into the lottery. That doesn't sound like a lazy guy to me. 20/6/3 as a 19 year old in a good conference is well worth drafting. On Harris. On Burks. So we could have taken a guy who is a far better shot creator both for himself and for others and who is only one year older than the guy we drafted. I just don't like Harris at all. To me he's just a role player.

The problem is he's rarely healthy. As far as the Weeks comparison, he's what 28? Furcal has missed a ton of time three of the last four years and will be 34 as this season ends. So once again, why would we sign him to a long term deal?

I never said the Bucks didn't have cap space. The problem is always how they use cap space.

My enthusiasm is tempered because Loe will be facing Mauer to lead off the 8th.

I don't think he was.