Brock Beauchamp
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Yeah, I spent a lot of time staring at a calendar. We had to schedule this months ago so it's was definitely a "put it on the calendar and hold your breath" situation. One guy bitched and moaned that I did it on international signing day and I just didn't have time for his crap. I mean, it's bloody hard to schedule this kind of thing while working through personal schedules, the baseball calendar, traffic loads that will be impacted, etc. There are a dozen factors that have to be accounted for and when the dust settles, there are no "good" dates, only "more crappy" and "less crappy". And yeah, I chose "less crappy" for a half dozen reasons a casual outsider just doesn't understand. -
Financially, down time in December hurts a lot more than January, as ad rates are roughly tripled. Also, generally traffic is higher in December.
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Again, my understanding is that they didn't ask anyone else except him, at least that's what Boras and Correa strongly implied. Sure, talk to the guy, but what is the point of pursuing Correa if he's the only guy you're going to talk to? He already stated his opinion on Correa's ankle.
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But you already know what he said. Why ask him again?
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Teams. The insurance policies are a completely different thing, in my understanding.
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My understanding is that he's the only doctor the Mets used.
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Just popped in to say we should be good now! We’ll continue to work around the margins but we’re in a nice stable place for now, it seems. And you’re very welcome! Thanks for all of your patience!
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Yep, getting reports of 504s, working on it. We're going to have to spool up another server instance, we're still trying to evaluate what we need hardware-wise and how the site needs to be optimized. This new server is an entirely different framework and far more complex than our old setup. We'll get it sorted, just gonna take a little time. Which is why we do this in mid-January.
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Oh, I think the entire Mets situation feels skeezy as hell. The more we find out, the skeezier it seems. After the dust has settled, Correa landing with the Twins seemed inevitable, as they were the only front office seemingly on the up-and-up. The trust they established with Correa over the past year likely paid big dividends.
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What I find weirdest about this situation is that the Mets, after Correa's deal with the Giants fell through, turned around and called the same doctor the Giants used. What outcome did they expect, really?
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So things are back up and running but will only be optimized once we get a better gauge on traffic and server load, which will take a week or so. In the meantime, if you find a bug, post it here so we can get working on it (though I expect there will be very few bugs, that side of this transition usually isn't a huge problem).
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Why don't more people hate the Rays?
Brock Beauchamp replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Other Baseball
I didn't feature this topic, I simply created it in the Other Baseball forum. It's my opinion, feel free to agree or disagree. But if a team consistently rolls out a payroll roughly equivalent to what they receive in national television money, I don't really care if they win or not, they're doing a disservice to the sport. But if we want to get down and dirty about it, the Rays will receive about $100m this season for national TV revenue and the MLBAM sale. That doesn't include their revenue sharing cut, their local TV deal (which is slightly better than the Twins, mind you), and their ticket sales (playing in the AL East, it's nothing to scoff at even though their home attendance is poor). Their 2022 payroll was $98m. -
Every time we remember to pay attention, they're just doing something kinda crappy to their players. I have come to dislike that franchise immensely.
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Oh, the Gallo signing irks me far less in the wake of the Correa signing. It was a fine move - basically use Gallo to replace Kepler and then dish Max for something else. But in that moment, it felt like the front office was just spending money because they had money. Thankfully the biggest free agent circus in history came to town and they were able to do something with the rest of that money.
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Sign up for The Athletic if you haven’t already, you dweeb. This is a fantastic look into Carlos Correa and how he thinks. https://theathletic.com/4089872/2023/01/13/carlos-correa-twins-interview/?source=user_shared_article
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At this point, Gallo's upside is astronomically higher than McCutchen's upside. I didn't really like the Gallo signing - particularly the way the offseason was going at that point - but I watched 100 games of McCutchen last season. I have little interest in seeing him play more.
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It was widely known that Andrew McCutchen was sought after as a righty bat that could play a decent corner outfield - even in his older, diminished state from earlier stardom - but after a long career that saw him play in San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee - it appears he just wanted to go home to Pittsburgh. Which makes a lot of sense given how he came up through the Pirates system and thrived there during his prime seasons, becoming one of the best players in baseball. To add a "farewell tour" vibe to the equation, Buster Olney of ESPN pointed this out earlier today: It would have been nice to see McCutchen fill a badly-needed void in the Twins roster but it's hard to argue with that reasoning. View full rumor
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It was widely known that Andrew McCutchen was sought after as a righty bat that could play a decent corner outfield - even in his older, diminished state from earlier stardom - but after a long career that saw him play in San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee - it appears he just wanted to go home to Pittsburgh. Which makes a lot of sense given how he came up through the Pirates system and thrived there during his prime seasons, becoming one of the best players in baseball. To add a "farewell tour" vibe to the equation, Buster Olney of ESPN pointed this out earlier today: It would have been nice to see McCutchen fill a badly-needed void in the Twins roster but it's hard to argue with that reasoning. -
This is absolutely whataboutism and cut it out. I’m going to start hiding all posts of this nature. People have different standards for what they find acceptable and unacceptable in life. That’s fine. We ALL do it. Ron LeFlore retired 42 YEARS AGO. He has literally nothing to do with this conversation. AJ Pierzynski was an obnoxious baseball player who enjoyed getting under his opponent’s skin. That seems a weird comparison to a guy accused of sexual abuse. Feel free to like or dislike ANY player for ANY reason. That’s your right. It’s also everyone else’s right.
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Perfection.
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This isn't real, locking it. The guy has 14 followers and is likely a bot.
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I mean, there are a lot of terrible people who have donned baseball uniforms over the years. Everybody draws their line at different places. I don't actually care if someone wants Bauer on their team, that's their right as a person. People may feel differently about drunken driving than they do domestic abuse in either direction. That's their right, really.
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I also do not like any of those players and do not want them playing on a team I care about. Was this a trick question?
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The Twins' Road to Nowhere
Brock Beauchamp replied to Matt Braun's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Brutal.
