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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Metroid Dread is very, very good. Side-scroller puzzle adventure games work so damned well on handhelds. I have spent literally a decade+ wondering why the hell Metroid and Castlevania aren’t gaming staples on handheld systems as Nintendo treats Metroid as a second class franchise and Konami just makes truly weird choices with Castlevania.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Ugh, Carnivale. I adored that show and HBO pulled the plug on it so quickly. I'm still bummed about it. Mare of Easttown is definitely depressing.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    My opinion on Donaldson hasn’t changed since June. Quietly shop him and if a team is willing to take 50% or more of his contract, move him and let Arraez/Miranda play third. Then use the money for pitching or extending players. If a deal of that kind can be reached - and I think the chances of finding a team willing to take on that kind of money is relatively small, particularly in the off-season - great. If not (the far more likely outcome imo), keep Josh as a clubhouse presence and hope he plays well and possibly opens a trade possibility later.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Watching Mare of Easttown. Holy **** Kate Winslet is amazing in it.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm waiting for Metroid Dread to arrive tomorrow. I cannot overstate how excited I am to play a 2D Metroid game on a modern system (the 3DS game from 2018 was very good but held back by ancient hardware). This is the first "real" Metroid side-scroller on a flagship console since Metroid 2 on the SNES, I believe. The Prime games are fine, whatever, but Metroid works best as a side-scroller. It always has, always will. Now I just need Konami to pull their head out of their ass and do the same with Castlevania.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Hah, two Gleeman references in the same article, Stu.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    One of the most consistent postseason teams over the past three seasons also has the lowest payroll in baseball. Just admit there isn't one or two ways to win and we can move on, man.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, it's "on the chart". Semien hit 33 homers in the last full season anyone played as a shortstop and literally broke the record for homers by a second basemen in 2021. Stop trying to twist something to fit your point and examine the actual facts. Marcus Semien is a better baseball player than Andrelton Simmons by every ****ing measure except the one you want to use because you so badly want to prove a point. Just stop it already.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Actually in 2019 the Nationals had the seventh highest payroll by SporTrac. The thing is that you're letting the tail wag the dog, which is a classic sports trope. Every season in literally every sport, people praise the champion and then many try to emulate that formula. Except there's a new champion every year and their formula is different every year. For example, the Jays went big this season and will likely be worse next season. They did all the things right, still lost, and now will lose Ray and Semien. Baseball is painfully random and there are dozens of ways to win. The Giants are currently winning with a collection of old men on crutches. Good for them. There are so many ways to win, try to enjoy the ride.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    STOP USING BATTING AVERAGE AS THE END-ALL OF OFFENSIVE PERFORMANCE MY GOD MAN YOU KNOW BETTER THAN THAT IF YOU'RE GOING TO ARGUE AT LEAST ARGUE HONESTLY The all caps there are only half-joking with my frustration. You're very intentionally using batting average as the only stat that matters out of convenience. Even if you're an "old school" baseball fan, I doubt you believed Killebrew was bad at hitting. So stop arguing dishonestly and do it right now.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    The only way to coordinate this kind of thing is to tank for multiple years, as the Cubs and Astros did. Except the Cubs and Astros won only two of the past five World Series. There are other ways to compete without tanking, coordinating prospect rise, and then making the stars align for a couple of years by spending. In fact, the Astros don't even fit that model anymore. As the Cubs are once again tanking, Houston is still going strong and waiting for the ALCS to start after they've bled off very good players to free agency for the past several years. There are dozens of ways to win in baseball. Let's not tunnel vision into believing there are just one or two.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    One aspect that isn't great about this strategy - and I'm not necessarily arguing against it, just pointing it out - is that it locks the team into the same payroll and likely decline phase for multiple players at once. If you sign a pitcher and a shortstop for a combined $45m per for five years each, that likely leads to some real payroll ugliness in years four and five as your home-grown talent demands their own raises. But is there an alternative to doing this? I don't know. Maybe a high-priced signing, a big trade, and then 1-3 year filler pieces counteract that possibility a bit.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Me and this thread:
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    From a performance standpoint (and the price he *should* demand), Story might be my favorite target but for the reasons you listed, someone will likely drive his price beyond where it should land.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, because he's going to sign for a single year and definitely won't sign a 4-5 year deal that pushes him past 35. Don't be pedantic.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm open to the idea the Twins should spend big on a shortstop instead of multiple pitchers but the one that scares me away is Semien. I was a big proponent of signing him last offseason but he's pushing well past 30 years old at this point, played second almost exclusively last season, and his price will likely be obnoxiously high after his 2021 season, which I do not expect him to repeat.
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    I’ll be skipping this ALCS, thanks. I hope the NLCS ends up more interesting to me. 

  18. Brock Beauchamp
    It’s interesting to see the personal narratives fly in this thread, like so many others of this kind over the years. I’m not saying people shouldn’t be critical of the front office - they earned it after this season - but the certainty stated in this thread over an injured minor leaguer just makes me roll my eyes. And I know some of the same characters were saying the same things about Joe Benson, Oswaldo Arcia, and Nick Burdi. Some temperance is needed here. I may not like the decision but I have a narrow view of the situation. We should all acknowledge some ignorance.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    And that's why I do not watch modern shows one episode at a time. As shows drifted away from being episodic, the likelihood of a clunker rose dramatically. I watch no fewer than two episodes at a time, three or more if it's a short sitcom like Ted Lasso. I've found it reduces the chance of leaving disappointed.
  20. 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.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    PAY THE MAN
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, in no way am I defending any baseball team owners. I think they're all bastards.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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