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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    BTW, you can find comments below videos if you scroll down a ways. They're further down the page than most other comments sections on the site.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    PAY THE MAN
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, in no way am I defending any baseball team owners. I think they're all bastards.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Tampa/Oakland have zero championships in the past 20 years. Yankees/Dodgers have two championships in the past 20 years. Perhaps there are other ways to win.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    There are plenty of ways to win without pulling the crap Tampa pulls on its fanbase. Sure, they're a good team and I like many of their players but they give fans little to no reason to cheer on the franchise as they rake in the millions while crying poor. And they have just as many championships as the Twins do over the past 25 years. What I'm saying is that a team that operates like the Tampa Bay Rays does deserves very little community support. I don't want my team to operate in that fashion. I don't want any baseball team to operate in that fashion. Fans deserve better than what Tampa offers them.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins were at a financial disadvantage in the latter days of the dome but they definitely weren't Tampa. Brad Radke: 1995-2006 Torii Hunter: 1999-2007 Johan Santana: 2000-2007 (signed through 2008) Michael Cuddyer: 2002-2011 Justin Morneau: 2003-2013 (signed extension at least two years before TF) The Twins were a revolving door of players through a lot of the mid- to late-90s but that's typical of a bad team. Through the 80s, they retained many of their good players. Through the 2000s, they retained many of them at least one year beyond free agency, oftentimes more than one year. Tampa doesn't even keep their guys until free agency.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Ughhhhh I cannot state how much I hate this brand of baseball thought. Who cares if Polanco has "peaked"? He's a good player and the Twins need good players. Every team needs good players. Tampa is an extremely well-run franchise but they're also a bunch of empty uniforms. There's a reason the fanbase is non-existent. They're also a ****ing scam. Their entire payroll budget is roughly what they received in national television revenue from MLB this season. They're raking in money hand over fist and deserve huge ridicule for it. They pull the crap they do on their fans because they want to, not because they need to. As a fan, I want my team to be good and I want to cheer on players I recognize and like. The Twins do not need to operate like Tampa. No team needs to operate like Tampa, including Tampa. There are times it makes sense to trade good players. I didn't have an issue with the Berrios trade due to the short-term incompetence of the team and the return on the player. I didn't love trading Berrios but understood it was a reasonable baseball move. But it's a big jump to go from Berrios to trading a good, cost-controlled player in his prime like Polanco. That would just straight-up piss me off.
  8. Brock Beauchamp

    Brett Anderson is still only 33 years old. That's kind of breaking my brain.

  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree with everything said here. That's pretty much how I view Gordon as well.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I see almost a zero percent chance of the Twins risking Polanco's health and offensive production by moving him back to short, a position he was bad at in 2019 before injuries and age set in. Gleeman & the Geek don't dislike Gordon, not at all. They simply don't have faith in him as a starting shortstop (or probably even a starter anywhere) and for good reason. He hasn't shown either the long-term hitting proficiency to be a starter or the ability to play a competent shortstop in Major League Baseball. Scouting reports have been skeptical of his ability to stick at short since draft day and they haven't improved since then. For right or wrong, it's quite apparent this front office does not view Nick Gordon as a starting shortstop.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I know he has options, I'm saying I don't reserve a 40-man spot for him. If he can sneak through waivers, sure, keep him... but I'm not dedicating a spot for him at this point.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Given how this season has gone and the way the roster is built, I wouldn't hesitate to clean house in the outfield. I'd drop Garlick, Refsnyder, Cave, Astudillo, and Rooker. I'd keep Gordon because I think he has real potential as a 10/11 man and he's actually kind of key to my outfield plans... If Gordon is a legit CF backup, maybe I keep a right-handed bat like Refsnyder or Rooker (I lean toward Refsnyder due to the glove but Rooker's bat is far more potent). If Gordon is not a legit backup CF, I ditch all the corner guys and go sign a competent defensive backup CF for a million bucks. Basically, it's time to move on from no-position corner guys taking up well over half the team's positional roster space. This team needs more balance than it has had in the past and that means sacrificing a little offense for defensive competency on the bench.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    I’ve heard that. Haven’t watched it yet.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    LOL yeah, Asimov didn't really believe in writing... women... I also don't remember the book that well - it's been two decades since I read it - but I know the show is wildly different, largely out of necessity. Most of the novel is a couple of people sitting around, often talking about some abstract concepts. Obviously, that doesn't work for the show, which needs strong, defined roles.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed on Rooker. I quite confident we'll see Jax in Minnesota again, almost surely from the bullpen. His slider is good enough he'll receive more chances and he has options remaining. I believe the chance of Cave returning is near-zero. He's now arb eligible and there's absolutely no reason to start paying him a seven figure salary.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    @Mike Sixel No commentary on Foundation yet?
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm 1.5 episodes through Foundation (had to stop suddenly) and I'm super-impressed. The production value is through the stratosphere and while it's not a direct translation of the novel - which is nigh impossible anyway - it feels true to the vibe of the story and I'm really into it. Apple TV+ is kinda killing it. I rolled my eyes when Apple announced the service but they've quietly become one of the highest-quality streaming services available.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    So you're asking us to go out of our way to create workarounds for you to watch free videos while using an ad blocker?
  19. Brock Beauchamp

    Nick Punto had a 1.139 OPS in the 2009 ALDS.

  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Going into the offseason, I'd plan on a bullpen of: Rogers Duffey Thielbar Alcala Moran Gant (iffy on this, could easily be Garza or Farrell in his place) Free Agent Free Agent I wouldn't hesitate to drop guys left and right in favor of younger pitchers with more upside and free agent signings. I don't expect the Twins to run out and give someone Hendriks money but at least one guy should be paid May money ($7-8m per) to stabilize the pen.
  21. Brock Beauchamp

    A 6-4 record is required to avoid a 90 loss season. Four against TOR, three vs DET and KC remaining.

    1. Brandon

      Brandon

      At least that is possible.  

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      Brandon

      5-4 now

  22. Brock Beauchamp
    While I agree that I want them to either sign or target a very good pitcher in trade, we shouldn't just write off a "reclamation" project. This front office traded for Odorizzi and Maeda, both of which provided outstanding results. They weren't only good, they were some of the best pitchers in baseball (Odorizzi 2019, Maeda 2020). If this front office targets an under-appreciated pitcher in trade again, I'm all on board for it. Bonus points that they traded with what I view as the two smartest organizations in all of baseball to acquire those two pitchers. While the jury is still out on the Dodgers trade, the Twins absolutely torched Tampa in the Odorizzi trade.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Marvel is killing it on D+ and this looks to be more of the same. I'm here for it. Also, it looks to be heavily influenced by Matt Fraction's run on Hawkeye from 6-8 years ago, which is the perfect version of Hawkeye, IMO.
  24. Brock Beauchamp

    The Twins have fallen 20 under .500, which means 90 losses is a pretty sure thing.

  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Only Murders in the Building is very good (Hulu).
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