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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    My point isn't that Santana failed in the Wild Card game, it's that the Twins had to go to New York and play said Wild Card game and the reason they didn't play at home is because their pitching staff was well below average. I'd certainly prefer to see someone better than Santana pitch the first game of the postseason but mostly I'm concerned about the 30-33 regular season starts that player gets before the postseason.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    If now isn't the time to make a push, I'm not sure there will ever be a time to make a push. After this season, Dozier is likely gone. That's 3-5 wins you need to replace. Some of the core enters arbitration, which means the clock starts ticking on them as they become more expensive. And next offseason, Mauer comes off the books, which means a Darvish contract will almost entirely be absorbed by the removal of another contract.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, while Lynn/Cobb is a decent consolation prize for those who lose the Darvish sweepstakes, the Twins already have two pitchers capable of equal or better performance going forward (Santana, Berrios). And that combo didn't get the Twins out of the Wild Card game in 2017. I want a clear upgrade, not another guy who's just "good". Though I won't throw a fit if the front office signs a "good" pitcher, I'd simply prefer something better than that.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    That's fair, I'm certainly wary of the guy as well, but I think you're trying a little too hard to downplay his talent level. He's a very good pitcher and it's completely fine to believe he's not the $150m pitcher you want your hometown team to sign without digging into very SSS arguments to defend that opinion.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    You've built some really strange narratives around Darvish. 1. If the Astros (and other good teams) can just hit Darvish at will, why'd Darvish post 12 very good innings against Houston during the regular season and why was he so far above average overall? 2. Darvish had the 12th-highest K/9 rate in baseball last season among qualified pitchers (and he played most of the season in the AL). He absolutely has "go ahead, try to hit this" stuff. 3. He's not going to be paid like he's the best pitcher in baseball, he's just going to be paid very well and (likely) in line with his talent level. There's no way he gets $200m+ in a Kershaw, Greinke, or Scherzer level of contract.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Yu Darvish, Wade Davis, and pretty much whomever else you wanted. And at that point, the Twins are one of the best teams in all of baseball.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    If all three pitchers go down with injuries that take them out of baseball for roughly the same amount of time, the timing of that injury should not be held against the pitchers whose "timing" was bad, nor should we reward pitchers whose "timing" was good. You don't choose when you get injured and if all three guys go down for roughly the same amount of time, it's just dumb luck if one of them misses one season while another misses almost two full seasons.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Definitely Darvish. The Twins have enough competent arms coming through the system and one or two of them might be better than Cobb/Lynn. It's unlikely the same could be said for Darvish.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    It should be announced soon. We have a few names in the mix but are working out the details.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    But when it works, you get the Rangers bidding against themselves multiple times for the same player! (still one of my favorite baseball free agency moments)
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I've heard that this movie is really good, even more so by the last minute replacement. Ridley Scott and Martin Scorsese are basically my gods. Not only because they make good films but that they have the ability to keep their finger on what makes good entertainment well into their 70s. Ridley Scott just turned 80 years old, for ****'s sake. And Martin Scorsese made his first "kid's film" in his late 60s. It's amazing.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, because they were worse people (by modern standards) without photographic or video evidence of their horribleness. The problem with sports is that you can't separate the art the from the artist. Say Steven Spielberg was a horrible serial rapist (knock on wood PLEASE STEVEN DON'T BE THAT PERSON), that doesn't mean you love the characters of ET or Indiana Jones any less. There's a disconnect with art and the artist that does not exist in sports. Puckett hits that home run in game six of the series and there's no filter of Luke Skywalker to separate the artist from his "art". And kids are going to worship at the alter of what they enjoy. When they watch a Pixar film, they won't give a rat's ass whether the creator of Wall-E is a double murderer. They only know Wall-E and he's great! But an athlete? There's no separation.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed that it’s a shame it still happens but some people in this thread are giving a lot of consideration to Sano and virtually none to Bissen. They should probably ask themselves why that’s the case. I believe Betsy but have somehow managed not to say an ill word about Sano in the process. I’ll let the investigators figure that part out. The only thing I can do right now is support a woman who had the gumption to talk about a very bad situation.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Let me put this a different way with way bigger numbers. They say something like two out of three assaults go unreported. Numbers vary but whatever, the numbers are so large they don’t really matter for this example. So for every 100,000 assaults, there are 200,000 unreported assaults. That means for every 300,000 assaults, 6,000 are false accusations. A large reason why women are reluctant to come out and talk about their experiences is because of what we’re seeing in this thread (which pales in comparison to the crap I’ve seen in other places over the past two days). Dissecting every word of their statements, challenging their personal history, implying they misunderstood the situation and/or intent, literally focusing on everything BUT the potential crime under consideration. So I ask you this: Why are you worried so much about your 6,000 fathers, brothers, and sons but giving so little thought or consideration to your 294,000 mothers, daughters, and sisters?
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    1. 6% is not a lot. It's just a bit more than one out of twenty. No one thinks one out of twenty is a lot of anything. Add in all the unreported assaults we're up to, what, about 1 out of 80 assaults are falsely accused? That's an insanely low number. 2. See, the problem here is that these things should be considered sexual assault. Just because young men have gotten away with stupid things in the past (myself included) doesn't justify continued bad behavior.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    You misunderstood the context of the conversation. I have no idea what the police would have done had Betsy gone to them with the accusation. But we were talking about Nick Nelson not going to the police, even though he wasn't there and it was well after the fact (by over a year, if I'm understanding the timeline correctly). The police would do nothing if Nick spoke up, which was the point I made.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Okay, so we're going to try this again, everyone. Be on your best behavior, as everyone (ownership and moderators) will be watching this thread closely.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Betsy herself has said the Twins had no knowledge of the situation.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    And what exactly was Nick supposed to do about it? You realize that the police would do nothing about it, right? It didn't happen to Nick. He wasn't there. Nevermind that it's not Nick's place to go around reporting things he was told in confidence.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not saying that wouldn't be a crappy move - it would be - but COME ON, MAN. Which is the greater crime here? 1. Sexual assault 2. Trading a player who may have committed sexual assault And, yes, forcing yourself on a woman and kissing her against her will is sexual assault. It's not "hang the bastard by his testicles sexual assault" but it falls on the spectrum of "sexual assault".
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    wut seriously wut So you'd have more of a problem with the front office dishing off a (in this theoretical situation, problematic) player than a player who committed sexual assault?
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    You should probably know that a large portion of this board has met Betsy, probably more times than they can count. There's no reason to doubt her statement. And we wonder why women are so reluctant to even talk about this stuff.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, if you're going to make a trade, go big. I'd prefer free agency but if a trade is to be made, I'd want it to be a blockbuster.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Or maybe they're smart enough to not sign anyone for more than one year. I'm not really sure why you think longer contracts to relievers are a good idea. Now, I get the underwhelming response to Rodney's talent level (but still, he's a significant step up from most/all the relievers signed by Ryan) but the length of contract isn't a negative, it's a positive. It's also possible they just signed one guy and we have no idea what they plan to do in January. Almost any time you can sign a pitcher to a shorter deal, you do it. Would you rather have Darvish on a one year deal or a four year deal? I'd take the one year deal. Hell, I'd probably take Darvish for one year over three years.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Wait, so you want the Twins to sign a reliever to a multiple year contract? Why? Relievers are terribly volatile. If you can get a guy for one year, you do that nearly 100% of the time unless he's Mariano Rivera in his prime. I'm not thrilled with the Rodney signing but he's a decent reliever on a one year deal. Now go get another one of those, please.
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