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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    We're all guilty of it to some extent and if you can't laugh at your own mistakes, life isn't much fun.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I knew some would balk at that analysis. My point isn't that Hughes is good or that we can expect those win/loss results going forward, only that his actual on-field performance has not harmed the team (again, yet). And, ultimately, the season is about wins and losses. As of today, Phil Hughes has not negatively impacted the Twins' win/loss totals. I don't want anyone to read anything into my statement past that.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    If De Leon was Jose Berrios, maybe that's a fair deal (Dozier for De Leon). I'd still say it's a bit light on the Twins side of things but it's closer to the ballpark for sure. But De Leon isn't Berrios. He has a career high IP of 114. And he's injured... again. This time, it may end in Tommy John surgery. My concern with De Leon wasn't his talent, it's the fact the guy can't stay on the field. Compare that to Berrios, who is both younger and has been a professional workhorse since the age of 18. Good pitchers don't matter if they don't pitch baseball games. Maybe De Leon turns into a workhorse but there are questions about the durability of every pitcher in baseball. Deservedly so, there are even bigger questions about 24 year olds who barely topped 100 IP all of once in their career.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, the goal should be to get Duffey out of the bullpen, not add Mejia to it. One of Chargois or Melotakis needs to step up. Burdi is doing his job. The Twins need at least two arms in the pen.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, it has turned out to be a good month. I barely stayed ahead on my KC trip but once mileage was factored in, that made nearly half of last week's Minneapolis convention tax-free. Love that mileage deduction. I'll touch base with you soon on your recommendation. I have a few commissions to get through in the coming weeks (and another convention in eight days) but once that's clear, I'll have more free time through June.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Not to rehash the Dozier situation but there was no reason for Los Angeles to offer value for Brian Dozier. They were the only team in the mix for him and, as we found out, Brian Dozier Lite (Logan Forsythe) was available from the Rays. I would have done the exact same thing were I in the Dodgers' position. Try to get Dozier on the cheap and then fall back to Forsythe if things didn't work out. Giving up 2-3 good prospects for Dozier when Forsythe could be had for De Leon borders on no-brainer territory.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd have to look into it but that could be due to their expiring deal with Starbucks, where they got absolutely hosed and lost money. Square kinda retooled their business model at that point, realizing they're not going to get into massive enterprise solutions. They've been pushing more at small- and mid-sized businesses, expanding into pre-payment options based on past revenue and actual business lending. Enterprises like Starbucks can afford to negotiate extremely good deals with processing companies. I think Square's wheelhouse is in smaller markets where the current processing market is basically extorting businesses. I believe Square realizes that now and is pushing in that direction. Personally, I don't know where I'd be without Square. In the month of May, I'll process about $1500 through their service. That's an extremely high month for me (convention season) but that kind of market is where Square is booming. Paypal made a half-assed attempt to enter that market but they're Paypal (ie. they're bastards). Their processing system tries its best to keep all your money in the Paypal ecosystem, which is absolute ****.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, Hughes is skating the line but the Twins are 6-1 in games he has started. You keep a close eye on that guy but if the team is winning despite his scuffling, he's not hurting anything... yet.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    As an addendum, it's important to realize this: The Twins have given 30 starts to Santana, Hughes, Santiago, Mejia, and Gibson. That's pretty reasonable given the roster going into the season. Now Berrios will be added to that group tomorrow. The Twins have given one start to Nick Tepesch. One. Maybe Gibson should have gotten the axe a start or two earlier but when you really examine this rotation, the front office hasn't been handing away starts to junk pitchers off the waiver wire.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    They're not the moves I would have preferred to see but the team has been more than willing to bounce guys up and down the 25 man over the past few weeks. There has been a lot of roster action, it's just roster action that I don't really understand in the here and now. Remember how the old front office used to hang on to guys well past their expiration date in previous seasons. In 2014, the Twins gave a total of 19 starts to Deduno, Swarzak, Darnell, and Johnson. In 2013, they gave a whopping 30 starts to the likes of Samuel Deduno and Pedro-freakin-Hernandez. They gave another 28 starts to Albers, Hendriks, PJ Walters, and Cole De Vries. 58 starts, over 1/3 of a season, to those freakin' guys. My god, 2013 was unwatchable. By comparison, a spot start here and there to guys I don't want to watch pitch is like Christmas.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    No, but he's a journeyman that carries little to no weight in the organization. As I said when he was acquired, I don't understand why the front office went this route but I'll reserve judgment on Wilk's usage before getting upset about it. We often complained how the old front office would not only call up guys like Albers but keep them on the roster for months at a time. And that was a just complaint. If this front office uses guys like Wilk as the fungible assets they are, that's pretty normal for a modern front office. Pick up a guy to hold down a spot for 10 days and then dump him the moment you have a better option available.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    If Hughes can pitch like an acceptable #5 starter at 90mph, color me thrilled.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Given how people talk about Gimenez and how he handles a pitching staff, he should make that list as well.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I think that will happen relatively soon but I understand the caution over quickly promoting a guy who essentially didn't pitch last season. I hope we see Burdi get a promotion in June. Whether that's to Rochester or Minnesota, only time will tell.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    The Royals made some good moves to open their window of contention but I hope to God the Twins aren't going to emulate their strategy. Sure, they won a WS and appeared in another but they had to go through an elimination game to get there once and barely skated out of the first round the second time. And that was their window. Two seasons. The ultimate outcome - a World Series championship - was great after the fact but looking only at results and ignoring how one bounce eliminates the Royals in both their postseason appearances puts me on edge. I'd like the Twins to have both a larger window of contention and be more dominant in at least one regular season. Theoretically, the Twins should have more money to play with than the Royals so there's less of a reason to trade the farm over plunging into free agency.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Neither is on the 40-man. That could be the reasoning but I hope it isn't. I hope it's a performance issue, as weird as that is to say.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Given how the rest of the relievers are performing, Burdi has to be at or near the top of the list.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Going into the season, the pitching staff getting older in April and May was a risk. It's one of the reasons why I wanted at least one good free agent reliever. We've been to this rodeo too many times in recent years; the young flamethrowing relievers sputter out and the Twins are forced to go with scrapheap guys far too early in the season. On the flipside of that coin, some of the relievers are nearing a promotion. Burdi has been good so that's one guy. Melotakis isn't lighting the world on fire but may only be a month or two away. This *should* be a temporary situation but we've been here too many times to say that with certainty. As for starters, Berrios is here and it's almost inevitable that Mejia will be back before the break. This pitching staff should only get younger from this point forward.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    He was pretty good but not nearly as good as he is this season. He started hot in April (.845 OPS) but tailed off hard in May (.660 OPS). This season, he posted an .818 OPS in April and has been even better in May, posting a .934 OPS. We could be dealing with SSS here but I think it's more than that. Gordon is getting to the age where he's probably adding some muscle and hitting the ball with a bit more authority. We'll know more by the end of May, I suspect. Anyway, I didn't mean the team should promote him now, only that they should be thinking about how to get him reps in Rochester when the promotion season hits in late June or July.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    So Berrios' first start will come on May 13th, 41 days after the season opener. It's been a frustrating couple of weeks to get to this point but a little perspective is needed. It's not the middle of July.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    The team must be considering a timeline for Gordon to head to Rochester. The guy is dominating the Southern League. He needs to get some quality time in at the highest MiLB level before the season is complete.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Saw that the other day. I'm not convinced Shopify is the better buy today but a year ago it certainly was. Shopify has already seen substantial growth and I'm not sure how much it has left in it growth-wise, at least over the mid-term. Still not sure how Shopify flew so completely under my radar for so long.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    The reason I'm so bullish on Square is because they're one of the tech companies that filled a hole I recognized as a problem: payment processing. Current payment processing tech is laughably bad; it's mired in thinking that prevailed through the 80s and 90s with virtually no movement spurred from within the industry. Any changes to processing has come from the user end with Apple/Android Pay. Setting up a payment processing system for a business was a painstaking, expensive process where they gouged you for thousands of dollars of hardware, put ridiculous limitations on how you receive/transfer the money, and then only paid you when they damned well felt like it (often 30 or 45 days). Square blew that up. You use a free dongle on a phone or tablet or "upgrade" to a wireless reader for a whopping $50. Then you just swipe any and all credit cards and Square drops the money in your bank the next day, minus the small 2.9% fee they take off the top. It's the type of service that when I see a small business using something other than Square, I wonder what the hell is wrong with them.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Are you comparing quarter-over-quarter or year-over-year? I believe their YoY growth was over 20%. Quarter over quarter doesn't really work for them, as they process payments. The holiday quarter is always going to be out of line with other quarters. Anyway, I expect Square to be something of a slow burn. Payment processing isn't the type of market that is going to radically shift in a few quarters. What I'm looking for with Square is profitability, which I expect in the coming year. That alone should jump the stock price quite a bit, as many questioned if they would ever be profitable.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm in on GM and Tesla. GM for the dividends, Tesla because, as you said, they do more than cars. The reason I'm suggesting Square is because their last two quarters have shown me that they're going to be profitable unless the economy tanks. I think they're relatively low risk right now. Something would have to go disastrously wrong for them to fade and I can't really think of anything they could do to cause that disaster themselves. I think the stigma of Jack Dorsey is hurting the company simply because Twitter is floundering. That doesn't really matter to me, as the two businesses couldn't be more different and Twitter's own business model is the problem, not Dorsey (and there's no easy way to fix Twitter's problems, as they're baked into what makes it appealing to some people).
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