Inside Pitch ):

LOL Comparing Redd to Amare or Shaq is LAUGHABLE.  I'll rest on this with that last comment of yours and wait until Novmeber when Redd is still with us and tell you that I told you so and REDD IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE!  And Bogut should be moved before Redd?  I won't bother reading the comics tomorrow as I'll just wait for your next hilarious post!  Maybe we can trade Redd for Dwight Howard? LOL

and bogut should be moved?....what an idiot, you are either skinny, trapboy,bytor or wisco....maybe all the same, probably all the same lol.

Are you talking to me?  I just said moving Bogut was stupid. And why the question of my identity?  I have been on the Sports Bubbler for over a year now (mostly on the Brewers), my name is right on the bottom and i have NO idea who those other people are besides their posts.  I just agree that Lee is NOT coming to Milwaukee, Redd is near inpossible to trade with his contract and injury and that Bogut is fine at Center for us as he averages nearly a double double, blocks alot of shots and is still young and improving.

 no wisco i am not talking to you i am talking to the sportsnuts, a.k.a bofb, a.k.a bofb2, a.k.a atlantahawksnowinflight, a.k.a freeway.

Inside Pitch ):

Are you talking to me?  I just said moving Bogut was stupid. And why the question of my identity?  I have been on the Sports Bubbler for over a year now (mostly on the Brewers), my name is right on the bottom and i have NO idea who those other people are besides their posts.  I just agree that Lee is NOT coming to Milwaukee, Redd is near inpossible to trade with his contract and injury and that Bogut is fine at Center for us as he averages nearly a double double, blocks alot of shots and is still young and improving.

and i like your post on bogut.

Do you think I am Wisco?

maybe, i get suspicious of posters with under 100 posts poping out of nowhere to take up the other side.

quicksdraw:

 no wisco i am not talking to you i am talking to the sportsnuts, a.k.a bofb, a.k.a bofb2, a.k.a atlantahawksnowinflight, a.k.a freeway.

Inside Pitch ):

Are you talking to me?  I just said moving Bogut was stupid. And why the question of my identity?  I have been on the Sports Bubbler for over a year now (mostly on the Brewers), my name is right on the bottom and i have NO idea who those other people are besides their posts.  I just agree that Lee is NOT coming to Milwaukee, Redd is near inpossible to trade with his contract and injury and that Bogut is fine at Center for us as he averages nearly a double double, blocks alot of shots and is still young and improving.

 childress is in cleveland. therre goes that idea!!

aussiebob:

 childress is in cleveland. therre goes that idea!!

That is great for us, as signing Josh Childress would have been a terrible move.  We need to see what we have and not add anything that will bog us down financially no matter what the cost. 

The best case scenario is that everybody gels...Bogut has a great year, Redd comes back not missing a step, Jennings is awesome, JA and MnM improve and we make the playoffs, that would be great but unlikely.

Even if everything fails, we will be in position for a top 5 pick and that will probably yield an impact player.  Teams in the past few years picking in the top five have gotten some great picks and this years draft is supposed to be great!  Why add Childress at 4 - 5 million when all it will do is make us a bottom of the lottery team like we were this year.

If we are going to be good it will be because we got great injury free years from Bogut and  Redd.  Childress will not net us anything but a worse draft pick.

Rest assured, I am not Wisco.  Me and him have actually argued against each other rather heatedly in the Brewers forum over Rcikie Weeks.  My name is Jeff Steinhardt and I live in Pewaukee.  Check with Wisco and I'm sure he can validate his own identity but take it easy and don't be so paranoid: not everyone who takes the other side of an isssue is not somebody posting under anotehr name, people do have differing opinions that's all.

Hollinger has an interesting write up

Which takes us to trend No. 3. Because as much as teams are spending in pursuit of unrestricted free agents, it stands in sharp contrast to those of the restricted free agents on the market. Gortat struck a deal for an offer sheet from Dallas, but desirable commodities like Lee, Paul Millsap, Marvin Williams, Josh Childress, Ramon Sessions and Nate Robinson have barely gotten a sniff.

Moreover, the market for those players to get anything above the midlevel exception is basically gone. Unless they can persuade one of the above teams to join in the bidding, somebody like Lee or Millsap could end up settling for the midlevel exception or playing on a one-year deal for a scandalously low qualifying offer -- $1.03 million for Millsap, $2.68 million for Lee.

It doesn't get better for the others. Childress will likely have to head back to Greece if he can't work out a sign-and-trade with Milwaukee (it's possible, as a contract starting at $5.1 million in a sign-and-trade for Bruce Bowen and a draft pick works under the cap; the total value of a five-year deal with 10 percent raises would be $30.6 million), while Williams seems likely to play for the $7.3 million qualifier in Atlanta and try again a year from now. Robinson will likely have to leave New York and play for the midlevel exception somewhere, unless he gambles on playing for the $2.9 million qualifier and doing better next summer.