Brock Beauchamp
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Only Super-Mormons. You have to be a Super-Mormon to get the undies. (not bashing Mormons, BTW... I lived in Utah for several years and actually have a fair amount of respect for the religion)
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I'd be completely uncomfortable with a Mormon teammate. Is that okay?
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Accounts have to be deleted manually and we don't offer that service. Sorry. It's a real pain in the ass to do it and serves little or no real purpose. I suggest that you just allow your account to go idle, as it has no real personal information in it anyway (and if it does, feel free to delete that information).
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Which would be fine and dandy if things like racism and bigotry weren't real problems in this society and oppression (and even law-making) to banish such people to second-rate citizenship weren't issues in modern America.
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If you say so. I don't see why so many are having difficulty in parsing the difference between disagreeing with an individual and disparaging an entire group of people whose lives are not impacting yours in any way. Hunter isn't suggesting he dislikes a specific homosexual on his team, he's suggesting that he dislikes the idea of homosexuals, period. He chose to play baseball and he chose to be in the public spotlight and he chose to make the comments he did. No one forced him to do any of those things involuntarily. Therefore, he reaps the consequences of saying things people don't like. And maybe all those players that yelled "n*****" at Jackie Robinson were okay, too. After all, they were only baseball players.
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So you don't feel it's right to publicly disagree with anyone, ever. The mere act of disagreement and saying "you're wrong for having this belief", no matter how wretched that belief may be, is somehow a bad thing? If that's the case, how are we to operate as a society? How on earth would it be possible for humanity to reach an agreement and progress on anything? Was it wrong for northern society to circle around the south and its support for Wallace and declare "You people are wrong, you people are bigots"? Should we have quietly suggested that they have a right to express their opinion and resigned ourselves to racism, despite it flying in the face of a rapidly-changing social environment and the foundation of this country (as interpreted during that time)? What about suffrage? Should we have let that slide, too? In a republic/democracy, this is how social change is enacted.
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I don't see anyone here arguing that Hunter should be legally silenced. Publicly shamed, yes. Yelled at for having an inane opinion, yes. Silenced? Not so much.
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Oh, I'm not defending his law (my fiancee is also a lawyer). But the dude was infinitely quotable.
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The latter. It's the "right to swing my fist" argument. Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr was a pimp.
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If more people were intolerant of the intolerant, we'd see far less ignorant rhetoric and hatred toward the LGBT community. It's okay to dislike individual people. Some people are just dicks, me included. But to dislike an entire group of people who don't really impact your life positively or negatively in any real, discernible way? No, man. That's just not okay. And people who publicly spout such nonsense should be shamed into a corner until they (hopefully) reconsider why they took that public stance. I'm perfectly content hating people for their irrational hatred of others. I disagree with loads of groups and their "lifestyle" choices but if it doesn't impact me, I don't really give a damn what they do in their free time. And therein lies the rub. Being intolerant of intolerance is vastly different than being intolerant of peoples' lives. One is making the statement "dude, you're a dick and you need to stop saying that" versus "dude, I hate you, everybody like you, and you all need to go away forever".
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Matthew Shepard would argue this point but since he's dead and all, it's pretty tough for him to make much of an argument about anything. I mean, seriously.
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Ding ding ding. This is exactly why we should bring the hammer down on these types of statements. Hunter is doing what too many Christians do today... Condemning some "anti-Christian" behavior because they're allowed to do it socially while ignoring other, oft-times more damaging, "anti-Christian" behavior. I guarantee that Hunter has played with some "Christians" who have cheated on their spouses, done horrible things contrary to their supposed Christian beliefs, yet he hasn't said jack**** about them or their actions.
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It wouldn't be any more or less idiotic but it puts the argument into far less socially acceptable terms for those that still cling to the "gay people are less than me because I disagree with their lifestyle" camp.
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1. Nice use of "homo". 2. Yes. Yes they are a class of people.
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For those of you saying he has a right to an opinion, replace gay with "Mexican" and defend your argument. Please. I'm dying to see you do it. (and if you say it's not the same, it IS. The exact same arguments used against gays today were used through the 1960s against people of color). Intolerance toward the intolerant is the one time it's fine to be intolerant. Say that five times fast.
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Will Ryan bury his head in the sand again?
Brock Beauchamp replied to johnnydakota's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
This is the one arena where Smith really succeeded and I will be disappointed if Ryan goes back to his cheapskate ways in the international market. The Twins should be there and they should be aggressive. I'm not saying they need to sign either of them because I've never seen them play but the Twins should be strongly considering throwing money at one of these guys. -
Mackey: Morneau finally healthy!
Brock Beauchamp replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
The guy posted an OPS+ of 113 last season and you could see he was still struggling, particularly early in the season. I'm not worried about Justin. If he stays healthy, I think we can expect at least an OPS+ of 120-ish for the guy (around an .800 OPS), with the ability to OPS at .850 if he rebounds. -
The Tigers haven't gotten bad yet because they continue to raise their payroll well beyond what anyone would have considered reasonable. There's only so far they can go with that, though. Sooner or later, that bubble is going to burst. Even the Yankees can't spend their way out of player development and their payroll ceiling is considerably higher than Detroit's. And when the bubble does burst, it will hit them hard because they've signed several guys to astronomical contracts that won't age well. As for the White Sox, they've been pretty mediocre in a bad division. 88 and 89 wins in six years (only one of which turned into a playoff berth after a required game 163) isn't going to impress me much. Williams has done a pretty good job with an awful farm system (that he continues to plunder at every opportunity) but sooner or later, his luck will run out. It's merely surprising that it hasn't already and that the Sox continue to keep their heads above water.
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My point isn't that they drafted well with those high picks, it's that their resurgence was borne from internal players, not external signings. After that point, it was supplemented with money but to start off, they did it from the farm.
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Neal: Twins won't overpay for average pitching
Brock Beauchamp replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I wouldn't say definitely that the Twins haven't made any legitimate offers. We just don't know... On the other hand, it is unlikely that they haven't made any legitimate offers. Otherwise, we would have heard something, just like we do for almost every other team in the mix. Other than that minor quibble, I entirely agree. -
Neal: Twins won't overpay for average pitching
Brock Beauchamp replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Your entire assumption of winning teams is flawed. High profile players go to the teams who are willing to commit big money. Pujols probably passed on Miami because they're a horribly run franchise that is known to liquidate their players every 3-5 years. He was right because they just did it again. The Cubs don't have difficulty signing free agents and they're almost always awful. The Dodgers haven't had trouble signing people in the past few years and they've been mediocre. The Mets never seem to have trouble signing people when they want to spend money. Detroit never seems to have a problem and they've been up-and-down so much in the past decade it's like a rollercoaster. High profile signings are linked more closely with big market teams (that also happen to win because they have money to spend on good players) than it does with winning franchises. Another example is the Nationals. They were pretty awful before they started throwing money around and amazingly, started attracting good free agents. The rumor mill is abuzz with teams being linked to many different free agents. We hear of it all the time. Yet, oddly enough, the Twins are never in the final 2-3 teams discussed with these free agents. Why is that? Because the Twins are better at keeping agents' mouths shut about offers? That argument doesn't hold water. Agents are in the business of drumming up excitement about their players. Why would they suddenly keep quiet just because the Twins are involved? -
But they flipped a bunch of prospects for Miggy and restocked by trading guys like Granderson, drafted during their awful stretch. It all stemmed from those early to mid 2000s picks. Then they spent a **** ton of money to supplement those players. I keep expecting the Sox to implode but Williams manages to assemble a mediocre team every year. Of course, they also haven't won 90 games in over five years and have only made the playoffs once.
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Detroit's recent success was built on the back of historically awful seasons (and the resulting draft picks) from the early 2000s. To sustain that success, they've been spending money like drunken Democrats. Either way, the base of their success was internal, though it was heavily supplemented by cold, hard cash. As for Chicago, they haven't made the playoffs since 2008 and haven't done much since 2005 when their team was... you guessed it, largely built from within. Mid-market teams just don't win without help from the farm. The best you can hope for is consistent mediocrity.
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Neal: Twins won't overpay for average pitching
Brock Beauchamp replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
If I walk into a Ferrari dealership with $5,000 and ask for a new car, I'll be promptly turned on my heel and escorted out the door. At that point, could I frantically wave my arms and scream about how I can't give my money to Ferrari? The Twins haven't been rumored to be in the mix for any decent pitcher this offseason. And it's not as if rumors aren't circulating. We've heard about them "being in the mix" on some pretty bad pitchers, just not any good ones.
