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  1. 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.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    What if your boss supported your decision?
  3. 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?
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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?
  14. 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.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Probably Sano. We’re three weeks out from opening day.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    His contact rate continues to impress.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I had no idea Mike Bell was Buddy Bell’s kid.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Black Americans have stopped playing baseball and going from memory, now occupy MLB rosters at about 1/3rd the numbers from 40 years ago. Surely you realize that is not the front office’s fault and a much larger Major League Baseball problem.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    My children are black. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, my child asked who that was and pointed at the Griffith statue. I was conflicted. I deferred the conversation to another day based on her age. Now, I never need to have the conversation with her about that statue. Step outside yourself for a moment; stop accusing people of various things, and just realize that this move literally brought some of us to tears because it's just one less thing I have to explain to my black children. Now imagine *actually* being black. Even raising black children, I can't even do it. Their experience is so outside my own that I can't even begin to imagine their perspective and world view. These things really matter to people and they damned well should, as it's just one more indication American society is tearing down more walls of systemic racism. All of this is good.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    It solves me walking into a stadium of a team I love without needing to have an awkward conversation with my children about why there's a statue of a man who thought people with their skin color were lazy and awful. That solves something. Do not let perfect be the enemy of good. This is a small gesture and certainly not one that fixes any large problems we have on a societal level. But if you add together a bunch of small gestures, they become something more.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    It's a well known fact around here that I have zero love for the Pohlad family. And until the past 3-4 weeks, I'd never really been given a reason to change that opinion. But I also acknowledge that Carl's kids are not Carl himself and I think we can all agree ol' Carl was pretty rotten to the core. But I've been legitimately impressed by the Pohlads and the Twins organization as a whole for the past month and I hope this new trend of me not despising my favorite team's ownership continues going forward.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    All I know is that I can hold my head a little higher walking into TF with my kids. My eldest actually saw the Griffith statue and asked me who it was last year. I think she was confused why a man in a suit was in bronze compared to all the ballplayer statues. I kinda grimaced and said “We’ll talk about him some other time, you’re not quite old enough for that conversation yet.” Now I’ll never have to explain to my black child why a statue of a man who said something so entirely vile is front and center in the ballpark of our favorite team. That’s a good thing. I cannot wait for baseball again and the Twins have done a lot to impress me and confirm that my love for them is not misplaced over the past month. Right now, I am very proud to call myself a Twins fan and I hope to pass that legacy onto my children in the coming years.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    You literally said you're not angry about police kneeling on a man's neck for ten minutes as he cried for his mother. That's not okay.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, "complicity by silence". Because I'm not voting for, donating to, and helping end systemic racism as a whole. The mere fact that I haven't gone on tangents on this particular forum in the past month about literally everything wrong with America regarding race is a real "gotcha" moment for you. You're part of the problem. And, again, how ****ing dare you think you know a goddamned thing about how to raise black children. I've literally spent years studying, listening, and trying to be the best, most prepared parent I can to raise my children for their specific needs. And you just waltz in and say what you've said? Shame on you. SHAME ON YOU.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Cool story. I lost my mother and brother to Asian street racers doing 120mph in a raced out Honda. Next time something bad happens to an Asian person, I'll be sure to step in and post exactly what you posted here. That's fair, right? That wouldn't be the least bit condescending or have the taint of gloat on it at all.
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