Oso planning to go pro
Mark on some serious copium.
You got your wish. Be happy.
How about this. Counsell, over the last six months, considering all the possibilities:" I'm 53 years old. All the smart baseball people tell me I'm one of the top managers in the game. I wonder what it's like to work for an owner who has virtually an unlimited supply of money and a willingness to spend it on me. I wonder how many World Series I can win if my owner has the money to pursue the free agents I want and the other players I need to construct my team. My current contract is up in 2023 and I owe it to myself and to my family to find out."It might not be any more than that. He's taken the Brewers to what, 5 playoffs in 9 years. Maybe he's grown weary of trying to pull rabbits out of a hat with a patchwork roster of promising young players and various journeymen and retreads hitting .220.
It's precisely that.
Exactly. So why, until it (logically) happened why did you opine that there was 0% chance he was leaving?
Because that is how I felt at the time. I'm sure you've never been wrong in your life, Lenny, have you? No need to answer. Being a man is admitting when you are wrong, which is why I stood behind my comment and wagered on it. I was wrong and I paid my donk tax.Anything else interesting to add?
Of course I’ve been wrong. I just found it puzzling that before he left you felt there was 0% chance of it happening and after he left you said he made the logical move. Why would there ever be 0% chance of a smart guy like Counsell doing something logical?
Per the Athletic, Brewers open to trading everyone on the roster. Gonna be a ticket to rebuild city.
I’d move Burnes and Adames for sure and listen on Williams. It won’t be popular but it’ll be right. Sign a few bounce-back candidates and see what happens
Yep. Can only bite at the apple so long, and they've had a longer than usual window of contention for a small market team.Good news is that it shouldn't be a long process. Some good young talent on the way.
A sucky year for White Sox fans just got much suckier.https://www.dailyherald.com/sports/20231109/benetti-bolts-white-sox-joins-tigers-broadcast-booth
I don't follow the Brewers very closely, but maybe this is the right thing to do.Still, from afar, it seems really weird that a team that just won its division BY NINE GAMES would go into full-rebuild mode.
This was sadly inevitable. When Jason was going through an “interesting” contract renegotiation with the Sox last offseason, I was at the same time switching jobs myself. We talked about our respective situations and he told me how the Sox were looking to eff him over in multiple negotiating points (without getting too much in the weeds). I’m supposed to have dinner with him towards the holidays, and even knowing this was going to happen either now or next year, still unbelievably bummed by this news.
Not necessarily. You have two commodities entering their final arbitration year. Adames isn’t a piece they have to keep or should overpay to keep. Burnes is a different animal because he’s a pitcher but giving him a massive deal is a recipe for disaster, imo. He isn’t Verlander or Scherzer. He’s 29 and going to get a massive deal somewhere and best of luck to him and the team that sign him. If Woodruff was healthy for 2024, I’d see a case to run it back one more time but with his injury, they can reset and given the system, a rebuild doesn’t have to be Pirates-like but similar to 2015-17 Brewers where they were contending a year and a half into a full reset
That seems reasonable, Unk, and you obviously follow the organization far more closely than I do. I hope it works out for my Brewer-fan friends.