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Freeway posts on realgm too. He denies it but 99% of the board is convinced it's him.

What's the big deal with what he said? He's absolutely spot-on imo.

I hope this is a joke.

He's 23 years old. He has plenty of time to develop his game and where he's at now he isn't a bad player. As far as an all-star, I don't care he's in the East. I'm talking a legit All-Star and not just a token spot because there aren't many other good players. That's fine. I understand he's still young, but he'll have been in the NBA for a while. There comes a point where everybody has to say if a player isn't going to develop a post game, a rebounding game, a jump shot whatever then he's never going to. If Bogut can't next year then I'm of the opinion that he never will be. If you don't believe that, that's fine but that's where I'm at with him. Not every player is interested in working out for Milwaukee. Milwaukee most likely wanted to work out more players, but over the past few years that means nothing if a player refuses. How many 1st round talents did we work out? As far as I know it was Alexander, Randolph and Donte Greene. After that we worked out four guys, none of those four were drafted. I'm sorry but I don't buy the "players didn't want to be worked out in Milwaukee" crap. These guys are going to want to improve their draft position even if they don't want to play here. If they come in and impress then it's more likely they get drafted higher, either by us or another team after hearing about their workout. Nobody that I know of said they didn't want to come to Milwaukee this year to workout. As far as I know we didn't even try and after Alexander's workout we were pretty much banking on him falling to us and didn't even bother working anybody else out. Isn't it nice for a change to have a player who wants to be in Milwaukee? No, I'd rather have a talented player who hates it here than a player who imo will suck but loves to be here. It's too early to tell if Alexander was worth the pick, but if you can give Bogut only four years to judge him as a player you should give Alexander four years. I'll give Alexander time. I still think he's going to suck though.

I think with a pass first point guard and Skiles in town it's not completely out of the question that Bogut generates some all-star consideration in the next few years. An all-star C in the East pretty much means jack to me so I'm not really sure why you're pulling that out as if it will impress me. There's Dwight Howard and then average to slightly above average C's like Bogut, Dalembert, Ilgauskas etc. Bogut's problem is he is now entering his fourth year, has only one reliable post move that he can go to, completely lost the jump shot he had at Utah and isn't a good free throw shooter. If he can't add diversity to his offensive game in his fourth year then I can safely assume that it isn't going to happen. See - Michael Redd. I know it's one of the best examples in the history of the NBA, but one of these guys could pan out to be at least a solid starter. Again, I said the likelihood. I never said that they couldn't just that it's not likely. History proves that I'm right. Look at the 2nd round picks of the last five years. The starters: Monta Ellis Anderson Varejao Mo Williams The role players: Carl Landry Gabe Pruitt Ramon Sessions Paul Millsap Leon Powe Brandon Bass Ronny Turiaf Louis Williams Andray Blatche Ryan Gomes Amir Johnson Chris Duhon Trevor Ariza Jason Kapono Luke Walton Steve Blake James Jones Kyle Korver So that's three starters out of the last 150 2nd round picks, 18 role players out of the last 150 and the other 129 are either in the D-League, buried on the bench, went to Europe to play or are European players who may be role players or never come to the NBA. Banking on 2nd round picks to become anything more than role players will lead you to the lottery every single time. Who would you have taken? Someone who at least made sense for this roster. I didn't see much difference between Speights and Alexander as prospects and since we had just made the Jefferson trade Speights made more sense for our roster. I think Randolph has a lot more upside than Alexander. I think J.J. Hickson would've been a good pick. He was incredibly efficient on offense in the ACC as a freshman and blocked 1.5 shots. I would've been fine with Brook Lopez as well. Even if he never lives up to his potential, he should be a solid big. The most disappointing thing about the Alexander pick to me was that he was pretty much the only guy we worked out. It seems like they saw him and decided not to work anybody else out and do their homework on anybody else. What would they have done if Alexander was taken by the Clippers or Knicks? Do they quick try to make a trade even if it means getting pennies on the dollar because they didn't do their homework? Do they draft somebody that they've barely scouted because "their guy" was taken?

I couldn't really tell who was all there. The only one for sure that I saw was Gagne. It looks like Rivera, Braun and maybe Parra were there too.

If this core with Redd and Jefferson at their peak, Bogut finishing his fourth year, Villanueva finishing his fourth year and Ridnour can't win then this team needs to be blown up. You can only say Bogut and Villanueva have potential for so long. If they can't do it after this season then you can pretty much say it's done, they're not getting any better than they are right now. Sessions and LRMAM are 2nd round picks. The likelihood of either of them panning out as more than role players is slim. Alexander was a complete reach of a pick imo and was taken due to his athleticism and hustle and not his actual basketball skills. This team is depressing me already and training camp hasn't even started.

If they don't make the playoffs this year, this team should be blown up. Completely. Nobody should be safe. We are the fifth oldest team in the NBA right now. The four teams older than us are Dallas, New Orleans, Phoenix and San Antonio. All four of those teams are much better than us. There are a ton of other teams that are younger and better than us. We are the oldest team in the East. Complete blowup if this team doesn't make the playoffs. Get as many expiring contracts, picks and youth that you can and start the rebuild.

This doesn't happen if we still had prohibition.

So he's never won one? I've met people who haven't won Academy Awards either. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

For the win.

I will since I was like 7 years old at that time. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif I'm blaming our defense for losing state to Marshfield. We tie it at 14 with a couple minutes left and they give up about an 80 yard TD pass basically giving us no time to drive back down and score (we almost did score.) Froze my ass off for three hours to watch that.

Considering this is his first GM job I'm going to go with a no on that.

Arrowhead Warhawks. Colors are scarlet, white and blue. Doesn't specify which color blue, it's like a columbia blue that basically outlines the scarlet and white. Probably just call it blue otherwise the fight song would sound dumber than it already is. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif http://images.wissports.net/wsn/hs/60/17.jpg Went to school with Nick Hayden, former defensive tackle for the Badgers, now with the Carolina Panthers. Tyler Donovan, former QB of the Badgers. Ben Askren who is currently wrestling in the Olympics. Max Askren, Ben's brother who wrestles for the University of Missouri. One of the best teachers at Arrowhead is Tim O'Driscoll. Some of you might know him as the Brewers official scorer.

The song Alone Again Naturally by Gilbert O'Sullivan has a very upbeat sound but when you listen to the lyrics it's just depressing.

Where would Salome start? We already have trouble getting our backup catcher one start per month. How many would the third catcher get?

Haha. Was anybody just listening to the Doug Russell show on 1250? Mike Wickett was talking about how the U.S. lost to South Korea and that Matt LaPorta went 0-4 and Mat Gamel didn't play. Our radio hosts sure are on top of things.

Ned in response to Sabathia's outing: "Yeah, it was a grind for him. He was a grinder tonight." http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Is there any good reason Sabathia is still in right now? You actually have a chance to lower his pitch count in a game yet he's going to end up with at least 105 pitches.

We're trying to win now, at least that's what the Jefferson trade told us so to trade one of your best players for salary relief is ridiculous.

HEY COREY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Triple down the left field line. Nice.

Come on Rickie. Geez you're a terrible defender.

Maybe it's because he's as dumb as a rock when it comes to baseball.

What is with pitchers throwing Counsell balls all of a sudden? It's not like you're in danger of giving up a homer if you groove a pitch.

Yeah, I don't think now is the time to start experimenting with players playing new positions. Maybe if they gave him some in BP to see how he looked, but even that's doubtful.