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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    For sure. I was speaking locally in specific regards to police violence, which is almost entirely under state and local jurisdiction.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    More important than Washington is to vote for governors, mayors, and district attorneys who prioritize it. Those are the people who can enact the most change.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    One of the most important civil rights moments in the history of this country was when a black man stepped onto a baseball diamond wearing Dodger blue. Racial equality and baseball have a storied history, both good and bad.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    You... mentioned... a party...
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    The Democratic Party has a pretty lousy track record on this issue, too. Say it again, class: This doesn’t have to be partisan unless I make it partisan!
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    To say I’m disappointed by these comments is a massive understatement. Many of you are showing why Nick needed to write this article.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Our city is literally burning. Some things are more important than readership and this article, while Nick’s idea and execution, was ultimately a group decision.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    The fact that so many make equality a partisan issue says some pretty terrible things about us as a society.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    The comments in this thread so perfectly illustrate why this article was necessary. The fact that so many of you think it’s acceptable to escape world issues whenever convenient is exactly the point of Nick’s article. We need to be better than this.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Twins Daily “lets” Nick post this article because he’s an owner and all the owners stand united on this issue, which is a humanitarian issue that America has failed at for four centuries. It doesn’t have to be political unless you make it political. I don’t see why facing the problem that we’ve failed black Americans can or should be a left/right issue unless you make it one.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Right? This is ridiculous. But it should be a very clear message that the market has only a loose correlation to the actual economy.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Joe Nathan is the best reliever in Twins history and there's no question about it. He was literally the best reliever in baseball not named Rivera for 6-7 years and at times, he was better.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    This list only counts WAR accumulated in a Twins uniform. Winfield only had .3 WAR over two seasons with the Twins at the end of his career.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Let's take a moment to revel in Julio Franco. Unless my math is wrong, he played his final MLB game as a 49 year old. He's Jamie Moyer who hits. He literally played at the highest level until he was almost FIFTY YEARS OLD.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    This is really a great article and thanks for writing it. I was a big Mack fan in the early 90s but left baseball during the strike. I didn't come back until 98 and assumed Mack had left the game, but not under the circumstances laid out here.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    And I see Sconnie already took care of this conversation.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    If no company can store your crude, it's pretty hard to sell. Oil producers are still producing, but if they have no place to send it... well. What do you do with crude oil if no one wants to take it?
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Weird how Parker bolded a couple of adverbs to highlight the uncertainty of his viewpoint while you bolded entire portions of a sentence to... say what, exactly? Oh, to point out what you inferred from Parker's post, not what he actually said. And before you get super upset and reply, I have no interest in responding and will not do so. Read Parker's posts again and try not to infer your own political stance upon them. Just read the damned posts, they're informative and useful. If you wish to debate the merit of them afterward, feel free to do so.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    This seems like a pretty good place to bring up Calvin Griffith and his racist ideals in a baseball context.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    It's a different game. Killebrew didn't spend the final four innings of almost every game facing a specialized reliever to get him out. Strikeouts were frowned upon, while now they're just a thing you suffer through for the greater good of offense. And in that situation, walking more definitely hurts a player's ability to drive in runs as balls in play is RBI if you're a slugger. Never mind all the good points brought up in the article itself; it's a lot harder to drive in runs if the entire lineup isn't built for 2-3 guys to drive in runs and instead favors 6-7 guys driving in runs.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    If you're mixing cocktails on a regular basis, creme de menthe is a staple of the cabinet. Mind you, our bottle is like ten years old because we don't use it often but when you want it, it's there.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Though Mauer was at a huge disadvantage because he was a catcher and DH. While he mashed as both, mashing as a DH doesn't give much in the way of WAR, though he was still a huge plus for the team because he spent so much time behind the plate. Despite being a beast that season, I suspect his DH WAR is a fraction of his total WAR. And let's not ignore that Mauer missed all of April that season due to injury. He came back that season and posted that WAR over five months, not six. Though I won't really argue with anyone who slots Carew or Mauer above one another. There are arguments to be made for both.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Sano can't do it because he doesn't put the ball in play often enough and he draws a ton of walks. That cripples his ability to be a massive run-producer, though I should point out that's not a negative statement. Joey Votto (I know, the Reds aren't a great example here for run-producing but bear with me) is a beastly hitter all around, posting a .300+ BA for his career but he has never driven in more than 110 RBI in his career because he puts the bat on his shoulder and spits on pitches if they're not the in zone. Sano, while not *quite* at that level, does the same a lot of the time. Any player who walks 10% of the time is at a serious disadvantage for RBI, while also being a huge boon to the team.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Glad to have you around Twins Daily and I've enjoyed your BBTN podcast segments over the past several months!
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't disagree with some of the premise of this post, that Santana perhaps isn't HoF caliber... but how you got there is kinda wrong. Cliff Lee didn't have a prime anywhere near that of Santana. Johan had five full seasons of 150 ERA+ ball. Cliff Lee had two. Johan's "mediocre" 2007 season was basically how Lee pitched during his best seasons, minus the two 150 ERA+ outlier seasons. And that's why, despite pitching roughly 100 fewer innings, Santana is worth about 10 rWAR more than Lee in his career. Kaat is an interesting point to bring up, though he kinda screwed himself by sticking around for a VERY long time and not being good. Kaat finished his career with a 45.2 rWAR. Through his first 17 seasons, he had a 48.1 rWAR. Through his final seven (!) seasons, he hung on and posted a -2.9 rWAR. And it's not as if he stunk it up for a year or two, he was roughly replacement level or worse every year out of those seven. I never realized he was so bad for so long, yet kept getting playing time in the era of free agency.
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