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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I know, just hassling you a bit because it’s funny.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Roberto Clemente sacrificed for BLM? Whoa, way to get ahead of the curve on that one, buddy! I knew he was awesome but that's incredible! (read the post you quoted more closely)
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Not the other side at all but if you haven't seen The Athletic's roundtable with Black former MLB players, it's definitely worth a click. It also includes two Twins players, Hunter and Hawkins. https://theathletic.com/1849574/2020/06/02/a-conversation-retired-african-american-mlb-players-on-race-baseball-america/
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    My wife is an attorney, I'm well aware why corporations settle lawsuits. And it's usually *not* because they're 100% free of guilt.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Yikes, this is a bad take. The NFL literally settled a lawsuit Kap filed against them, accusing the league and teams of blackballing him during the prime years of his career. Is losing the prime years of one's career, a profession that only exists on a very short timeline, not a sacrifice to you?
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Great post, thank you for contributing.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Now you’re just inventing scenarios that may not exist. There is no reason to demand sacrifice to make a statement, much less create an artificial sacrifice for no real reason.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Again, it’s not an empty gesture when many players have said the point of sitting out games is to redirect attention to real events happening all around us.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    This... doesn’t make sense. People have asserted there should be consequences, yet no one has actually said why that’s the case when both players and ownership seem to be on the same page here.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    No, it’s not. Several players across various sports have said sitting out is about creating awareness and quieting the sports world so Americans can dedicate their attention to the events surrounding us right now, which is more important than watching men and women hit and throw sports balls. No sacrifice is needed to make that statement. A league imposed artificial sacrifice does the opposite, as it gives the optics of a bunch of rich white owners telling young black and Latino athletes to shut up and entertain us while Rome burns.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, that’s what happened so I’m not sure what your argument is here. The players decided to not play, the front office and ownership supported them in that decision, so we’re all good here.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    They’re making a public statement. No sacrifice is needed to make a statement. An artificially imposed sacrifice makes no sense and serves literally no one.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    What if your boss supported your decision?
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Why should there be consequences? Seriously, why? Both teams decided not to play and in the case of the Twins, it appears the players have the support of ownership. Dunno about the Tigers. What benefit to anyone is a team loss because a group of athletes made a peaceful protest for a cause?
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, it's possible but Minnesota and Cleveland just put a real hurt on Chicago and there's little reason to expect that to change as the 2020 season progresses. In 2019, the Twins lost four games in a row once and three games in a row one (excluding the four game streak). Them losing five games in a row is... unlikely. The fact is that it will be *very* hard for Chicago to even hang with Cleveland and Minnesota, much less pass them, especially given the hole they dug themselves out of the gate.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Literally my only worry in this lineup was Arraez and... yeah. He's just as much a professional hitter as he was last season and there's no stopping that kid. He spits on pitches an inch outside the zone and slaps all others into the field. He's on the path to being one of the best pure hitters in baseball.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Start out? No. But kids, especially the elite athletes, begin to decide their future path through high school and into a sport as young as 11-12 years old and start to play on roving teams, attending specialized camps, etc. And if you offer a child a path that caps them at $1m versus a path that offers them literally 20-30x that amount of money, which direction do you think their parents will steer them? Take that money from MLB salaries, not other draft picks. The point is to encourage kids to play this sport, not discourage them.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    This is such a deterrent for anyone to ever enter the MLB draft. If you’re an excellent baseball player out of high school, you’re likely an excellent football, basketball, maybe hockey player, too. We need to incentivize playing prep baseball, not create a wall that prevents elite athletes from thinking about baseball as an option and instead pursuing another sport.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    They should be able to back-date it several days... not sure how that works in the weird reality that is 2020. Normally, it would back-date to his last appearance, whenever that was.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    That's an apples to oranges comparison. The NFL has nothing approaching the scope of Minor League Baseball, which presents a greater opportunity to more players... if they're paid a living wage to do it. And paying a living wage to MiLB players simply won't cost much money. In MLB player terms, and entire MiLB organization could probably get a pay raise for the cost of one aging, mediocre relief veteran.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    It's low, which Nick touches on in the article, which is why we're currently brainstorming and implementing new ways to encourage more diversity within our writer corps (and, hopefully, improving diversity in our community as a result). But while I've been part of various conversations about the writer corps, it's not really my arena so I can't offer much in the way of details.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Absolutely. The RBI program is a nice start but it's quite old now and doesn't appear to be effective. In their own best interest, MLB should be doubling down on those types of programs... but we all know how short-sighted MLB owners tend to be on pretty much everything.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I cannot like this post enough. Fixing the minor league pay structure costs so little and fixes so many problems in one fell swoop.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Let's reframe this conversation a little. If Twins' leadership questioned their own baseball decisions in an attempt to improve the ballclub in literally any other way (scouting, prioritization of player type, front office structure, communication, development, et al), it's likely you would applaud their open mindedness and ability to challenge themselves to build a better Twins organization. Yet you respond this way when they consider the very same problem in regards to race. Why?
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    The entire point of this article is that skin color, whether we want to admit it or not, *is* a factor. How else could you explain the Twins (and baseball) having so few front office BIPOC executives? And that's something we need to actively work to change.
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