[quote user="Einsteinhood"] 1) I love the way you're setting yourself up as the protector of the honor of Brewer fans everywhere. [/quote]F [quote user="Einsteinhood"]A regular Sir Lancelot.[/quote] U [quote user="Einsteinhood"]2) The reason I was responding point by point still was partly because I think ...

[quote user="Einsteinhood"] [quote user="mikeyjay21"]I don't know why you think I'm taking this personally.  It has been your words that Brewer fans have an irrational "rancor and b!tchiness" and would be so unappreciative and mindless that they'd ditch the team during a rebuilding effort, even right ...

[quote user="Einsteinhood"] [quote user="badger80"] [quote user="mikeyjay21"] I won't go into too deep of a political tangent here, but.. it's like the Republicans.  Like Einey's Cheney-esque pre-emptive strike against our team's new leader before the season began.. [/quote] This needs to be ...

Of course there will be upset fans.  Just like (as you pointed out) there was with Sexson.  And just like there was with Lee, and Cordero, and Sabathia, and even Overbay.  These things happen, and they happen with every team. The key is whether or not they're actually the smart moves to make, because that's what's going ...

[quote user="MrQuestions"]  Very well written posts mikey, I agree with just about everything you said in this thread. [/quote]Glad to know someone agrees with me.  Maybe I'm not really going crazy after all... ;-)

Attendance wasn't vital during this last rebuilding period. You trade your expensive players before they become free agents (Sexson).  You build through the draft (Fielder, Weeks, Braun).  You find cheap talent through waiver claims and scrap free agents (Podsednik, Davis, Kolb).  You turn lead into gold every now and then ...

[quote user="Ol Dirty Brouhard"] [quote user="mikeyjay21"] You're placing too much of an importance on attendance when it comes to fan loyalty.   As long as you spout this drivel about Brewer fans being so short-minded that they'd turn on the team and not support the management during a rebuilding period ...

You're placing too much of an importance on attendance when it comes to fan loyalty. Either that, or you're equating an insulting view of the intelligence and reasonability of Brewer fans with attendance.  As if not wanting to spend $80 for you and your honey to watch a less-talented team lose is a bad thing.  I guess only ...

[quote user="Einsteinhood"] [quote user="UWWhitewaterGrad"] RE: The Brewers turning into the Marlins if they win a WS and don't resign the core or they trade them away. If the process helps the team and they know that the team won't be in a long funk, why worry about what people say? [/quote] Because those people ...

[quote user="Einsteinhood"] [quote user="mikeyjay21"] It's reasonable to understand that more people would not want to spend the money to watch a losing team.  But that's why you financially manage that drop-off in revenue with an appropriate reduction in franchise costs, most notably in salaries and payroll.  ...