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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Huh, that's an interesting point, one I hadn't considered. But you're right. If Kepler is still banged up, it's hard to think they'd roll with Cave and only Cave as a CF option.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    For what it's worth, I totally read The Office bit as retaliation to that post as satire. It also made me laugh because Michael's sheer hatred of Toby is always funny, particularly that scene.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think he gets rest, he just doesn't start. The moment Paxton is gone, Schoop will follow, methinks.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I can't help but wonder if the Twins are considering using an opener in front of Gibson for game four and then trying to squeak three innings out of Kyle, hoping that over a week of rest will give him enough oomph to get through a lineup once.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Not 100% dictated but probably no less than 75%. My take is also "how Berrios goes, so go the Twins".
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    No big surprises there. Gibson makes it, which I agree with... If you get into a pinch, at least Kyle gives you some chance of pitching a couple of effective innings, even in his depleted state. A bummer for Wade, though. That kid impressed me, even if his numbers don't really show it yet.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Especially on a team that plans to throw two bullpen games in a five game series. Odorizzi and Berrios are needed to stabilize the bullpen and not burn the wick at both ends.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree but Bemidji is roughly 80% larger than Thief River Falls. Who knows, MLB's cutoff could be somewhere in between those two populations (assuming subscriber rate across both populations are similar).
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    On regular rest, I want Odorizzi. Berrios is more sink or swim while Odorizzi is more of a steady performer, especially in the second half. It’s interesting to me how Twins fans look upon those two pitchers so differently when Odorizzi has been a slightly better pitcher in 2019.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I get it, I wonder the same thing myself... but that's a gut feeling not based in reality. Any quick hook you give Dobnak, you can give Odorizzi. And who is the better pitcher? That's pretty clear. It's Odorizzi. The only thing that convinces us Dobnak will be good is his quick hook, not actual talent.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    $5/mo is not an inflated price if you already have the infrastructure built and in place, which is why I brought up MLBAM and MLB.tv in the first place. Or maybe you think MLBN gets more money than that by bundling into a $10/mo package with 12 other stations? Again, I don't think you appreciate how easy it is to pull in something like this to the MLBAM tech. They don't do it because they don't want to, not because it's not feasible or, god forbid, easy. They are sticking themselves in playing the existing game, which is a game of diminishing returns and user refusal. At some point in the near future, this is all going to implode. They could have gotten out in front of that but they're not. They continue to play this losing game of forcing users into doing things they don't want to do. Remember that MLBAM actually *broke* this idea in the early going with streaming tech in the first place (which is why they're a LEADER now), yet they're not pushing forward with it. Without MLBAM, where would we even be with sports streaming? And how many "bridges did they burn" by doing that? Do you think that networks just laid down and accepted that MLB would stream baseball games over the internet in 2002, completely circumventing the entire cable subscription network in the process? Yet MLBAM is doing just fine today, don't you think?
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    See, I disagree. First, MLB giving users the ability to pay them directly is not the same as OTA using a sub-channel to get users to not-pay. Second, I'm not sure providers will care if a channel is offering a streaming service to users at an inflated price. The crossover there is limited. If a provider is charging $10/mo for ten channels and MLB is charging $5/mo to stream, where is the real crossover there? Cord-cutters are already operating under a different demographic so the overlap is small. It's not as if Comcast is going to lose much by not selling to a demographic that isn't using their service in the first place.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    As I've said from the beginning: I do not choose my game two starter until game one is finished. If the Twins lose game one, I put Odorizzi on the mound for game two because I don't want to go to Minnesota down 0-2 and he gives me the best chance of not doing that. If I'm up 1-0, Odo pitches game three because running bullpen games back-to-back is probably a bad idea.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Do you realize how powerful the MLBAM tech has become? Disney literally bought them to power the coming behemoth that is Disney+. That's how good the tech is and if you look at what it powers, you'll realize that MLB created something pretty special when they decided to go down this road almost 20 years ago. I'm not saying they need to eliminate the package push, I'm saying they could slot in the $5/mo package with so little difficulty that it's a no-brainer. Add a simple package into MLB.tv and it's done. That's it. The entire infrastructure exists to do this and it's more than flipping a switch, but not a lot more. But no, let's not break the mold. Let's just keep pushing this same system that has made more and more viewers leave over the past decade and abandon sports as a whole. It's a bad system. Offer an alternative. This is why I was soooo hopeful that Amazon - despite me hating them quite a bit - would buy Fox's sports division. They would have absolutely destroyed this mold that is begging to be destroyed.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Don't even get me started on Comcast. I mean, they're not Verizon, but they're the second-biggest villain in ISP/cell service going today. Consolidation has absolutely crippled consumers in tech choices. All of them are bad. The only real option is to pay Apple but they also have their own issues, namely that they're Apple and jerks about most things (sometimes in a good way, such as privacy, but often in a bad way, such as "the only way you can do this is to give us money because we're Apple").
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Ultimately, it doesn't really matter. I simply won't give Google money, though I use several of their free services because why bother NOT using their services? They know everything anyway. But if you actually realized the sheer amount of data Google knows about you, you'd probably crap yourself. For example, Google almost certainly knows 90% of the websites you've visited in the past year and almost everything you've done on your phone. It doesn't matter if you use Chrome or not, they know. And how they do it is super ****ty. The same goes for Facebook.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    While I disagree with the general stance taken by sports leagues and conferences, I will quickly admit that OTA isn't an option and hasn't been for years. I've voiced my complaints about individual networks and leveraging them into large provider packages and that's my major issue with this particular situation. If this is the ball we want to play with consumers, give consumers a direct choice. I will pay MLB $5/mo for MLB Network separately and stream it through MLB.tv. Easy-peasy, no muss, no fuss. If you want to get my money, I'll give it to you directly. But that's not what these networks want, they want to be bundled into massive packages and they ALL want their cut.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Apple. But most are pretty bad. Google and Facebook are terrible because of the comprehensive data they accumulate across multiple platforms. It's actually impossible to avoid them if you use the internet, even if you never sign up for a single service from either of them.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Really, I think we're talking a bit at odds here. I'd put Duffey/Rogers to close this series. The rest would be pushed back but those two would be featured the most prominently. If there's a situation where there are two men on in the seventh and Gardner is coming to the plate, I *absolutely* burn Rogers in that situation and let him pitch 4-5 outs. Then I'd bring in Duffey. But I wouldn't hesitate to use Rogers earlier given the Yankees' lineup and how devastating Duffey has been in the second half.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I disagree. Against the Yankees, I believe Tyler Duffey is the Twins' best pitcher. I'd still lean on Rogers - probably pretty hard - but I'd lean on Duffey even harder. Duffey's second half OPS against is .468. Think about that for a second. .468. And he's right-handed.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    The average person has almost no ability to tell the difference between server failure, local network failure, or ISP failure. Pretty much never believe anyone’s report about the reliability of a service unless they’re a sysadmin. But your argument at large on is on point, in my opinion.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    It doesn’t make sense that YouTube would go down under pressure. There are literally zero server setups more reliable than Google. Zero. With that said, I generally avoid giving Google money whenever possible because I so strongly disagree with how they treat user data.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    They've had to do something. AT&T has been losing their ass on the DirecTV purchase for awhile now. The subscriber rate has plummeted in the past year.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    And the service itself is terrible with a bad interface. Do not use DirecTV Now.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    A good way to get MLB.tv is to switch to T-Mobile. Every year for the past 3-4 years, they offer a free MLB.tv subscription to all their cell subscribers. That’s over a $120 value, or roughly $10/mo off your cell bill.
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