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Milwaukee Brewers | Bucks | Golf
âYou see, the life I live is sickening / I spent a decade playing chicken with oblivion / Day to day, I'm neck and neck with giving in / I'm the same old wreck I've always beenâ
â David Berman
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Twins finally getting a healthy season from peak Byron Buxton and still somehow sucking is remarkable. He's the new Tungsten Arm O'Doyle.
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He was already a really good minor league player with the Rockies â this is more of a front office success identifying an undervalued player in a dumb organization. Athleticism and plate discipline set a high floor; the Brewers clearly value that.
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This is like saying Orval Trappist Ale is a shitty beer because it lacks intense hop bitterness or that Rickwood Field in Birmingham is ugly because it lacks luxury boxes. Youâre better than this!
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This is a Trumpian take, Drew. Oakmont is an architectural wonder that has challenged the worldâs best golfers for more than a century. It lacks the man-made tricks of TPC-style courses because it was modeled on the great links courses in the UK and built without modern machinery.
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Seems difficult to go from a tungsten end weighted 9 iron that is hard to close (so he doesnât hook it) to a more normal 46° wedge. His whole philosophy is that standardization lets him eliminate variables, but the new weighted irons seem like they might have added one. Weâll see!
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What is going on, Curt? Why have the Brewers deviated from the bullpen management strategies that have been so successful since Stearns/Arnold and Counsell/Murphy arrived? If this is all on Murph, why is Arnold letting this happen?
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Todd the Painter should file a workerâs comp claim against Murph.
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Mequondroids, Southeastern Wisconsinâs favorite Japandroids cover band. Dudes rock.
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Thanks! Bleak stuff.
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2002? 2020?
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CECOT Appreciation Night sponsored by FanDuel and Lockheed Martin
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That they also simultaneously lost Walker McKinven probably doesnât help. If their pitching game plans arenât aligned as frictionlessly with their infield (and outfield) alignments, itâs easy to imagine a few more balls in play finding holes. At some point, theyâre losing too many vital pieces.
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I donât think his defense was bad. That he had Ortiz & especially Turang flanking him probably hurt his advanced stats a bit, but he was the clear captain of the infield. He helped w/ positioning, was an excellent cutoff man, and had great chemistry with Turang. I think his absence is underrated.
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Willy Adames was load bearing. I understand why they didnât match the Giantsâ offer, but his absence has left a huge hole. Steady defense, big power, everyday reliability, leadership, and general good vibes are hard to replace, and they didnât even really try.
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He seems to hate using the splint. He has noticeably taken it out and fired it toward the dugout a few times after catching a pitch wrong/painfully. Has he considered experimenting with a different glove size/shape? Thatâs hard to do mid season, but a Jacob Stallings style larger mitt might help.
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Does Contreras scraping the dirt by the hitterâs back foot before an outside breaking ball actually work? If you watch games from the 80s and 90s, this kind of thing to trick the hitter was pretty common. Martin Maldonado still does it, too, but it seems to have mostly fallen out of favor.
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Hell hath no fury like a beat writer scorned.
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Gorgeous card, but the placement of the serial number is obnoxious. I wish they would put it on the back again.