Brock Beauchamp
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Bolded: Your attentiveness to the issue does not dictate when it began. I first read about this happening in the late 90s, with references it had been happening before that point. We now live in an age when information is at our fingertips. If you can find the equivalent of people protesting the Notre Dame nickname, please do so and post the evidence. Until then, stop equivocating and what-abouting and rebut my actual statement, which is the harm actual human beings feel about the Native-based names in question. My "criteria" is actual people who feel harm done to them by a name. What is *your* criteria? In short, stop it with vague whataboutisms and generalizations about human culture, which is an impossible bar to reach because humanity is ugly, convoluted, and contradictory. There is no consistency to be found here, we just try to shuffle along while hurting one another the least we can. Don't talk in the abstract, it does none of us any good.
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MLB Recognizes Negro Leagues as Major Leagues
Brock Beauchamp replied to prouster's topic in Other Baseball
If statistics are what you’re most concerned about, I think you’re coming at this from the entirely wrong angle. But yes, stats are going to be an issue with the negro leagues, though I don’t think it matters all that much. The sport and its history is much more than a collection of numbers. -
And my primary concern is whether people actually feel damaged by the existence of said name. Various tribes and Native groups have been protesting Cleveland's name for literally decades with growing intensity over time. I have yet to see a single person legitimately care about the Fighting Irish name unless it was couched in defense of a Native-based name, which is a really crappy argument because it's based in the abstract, not actual cultural substance of real people who feel personal injury. That tells me all I need to know about the two situations. Again, should Irish-Americans start to care about the moniker, more power to them. I'll listen if and when they decide they don't like it, which they haven't in any significant capacity, if at all.
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If it's the culture taking hold of slang used about their own culture, that's a pretty different bar to clear than derogatory names for outside cultures. Surely you see the difference there. I'm not even saying Notre Dame's nickname is fine, I'm just pointing out that what cultures do with their own culture isn't really my business, nor my right to tell them they're doing it wrong.
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And it's possible that, someday, maybe Notre Dame changes its name. I have no real opinion on the matter, being neither Catholic nor Irish. If Irish Americans decide they want the name changed in large enough numbers to garner public interest in the subject, good for them. But there's a world of difference between a group of people naming something after their own culture (in this case, Irish students and alumni) and a bunch of people naming something after a different culture (pretty much every Native American themed name in American sports).
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There's little concern about a logjam now that Rosario is gone. That's one of three prospects for LF and there's a good chance the Twins have to cycle through them all to find a good fit. I'm in favor of bringing back Cruz but only on a one year contract or a one + option contract, perhaps with a healthy $1-2m buyout in 2022.
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I don't know if I'd call them the division favorites but they're definitely expected to be a frontrunner for the division. Personally, I viewed their 2020 as the type of "surge forward, fall back" season that young teams often see before becoming legitimate competitors going forward.
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You realize you originally quoted a post that's almost a year old, right? You're talking about the 2021 Sox and my post is from before the 2020 season began.
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Sure, but there's a difference between young players struggling, having their ups and downs, for a few years before breaking out (the 2019 Twins) versus having a bunch of rookies or second year players breaking out simultaneously (the 2020 Sox). The former is almost expected, the latter is more unlikely. And, as we saw the Sox implode down the stretch, it's probable that they would have ended a standard 162 set as a good, but definitely not great, team.
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A pleasant surprise. I expected them to drag their feet on this for a few years like they did when retiring Wahoo.
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Provus a Candidate for Cubs TV Job?
Brock Beauchamp replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I really like Provus so I hope he stays but I definitely understand if he leaves. -
It's Official Now! Twins Invite Affiliates
Brock Beauchamp replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
This is exciting. I will be watching more live baseball when it becomes possible again, as I don’t fret as much taking two baseball unaware children to a game at Saints prices. -
Yeah, I was just eyeing up Delta and Boeing as potential candidates for me to jump back into the market. Another stock to keep an eye on is Intel. They're going to get ****ing clobbered for the next 12-24 months by Apple and AMD but Intel has unrivaled manufacturing might and engineering prowess. Expect their stock to take a drubbing and then come back strong.
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It's 100% dependent on his velocity. He simply cannot survive at 90mph (or even lower, as he was at times this season).
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Have you been in a retractable roof stadium? IMO, they're awful. The damned things may as well be a dome the way you're boxed up in them. Never mind that it was logistically impossible to put a retractable roof stadium in the lot where TF now stands, which means a large part of its draw, location, would not exist.
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It happens all the time, though "falling off a cliff" is a bit drastic. Look at Thome, who went from well above league average with the bat to slightly above league average in a season. He immediately retired but had he not, it's likely he follows up that season as a pretty bad DH option. Once someone hits 40, it's really hard to judge how they're going to age season-over-season. edit: It just occurred to me to check Thome's splits in his final season and he was a pretty bad hitter that season. He posted a 112 OPS+, which is pretty weak for a DH/PH. But the real story is his handed splits. He had 186 PAs that season and only 30 PAs came against LHP. That means he was a hitting specialist who very rarely didn't have the handedness advantage, yet still barely posted an OPS above league average.
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Nope. I'd offer a lucrative 1 + option but not two years guaranteed.
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTSar6CTaWagBgYhd4iLMfOZGJbJGe6paL4sovsbPlKzFSdQEl4nlGFqt8exT2O1Udvq6qbOvgtn20Q/pubhtml
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Yeah, that’s about right.
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I haven’t liked Rocco’s management but he’s not the one missing balls middle in or middle middle or inducing 100 weak pop outs.
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I generally agree. I don’t want to push a starter too hard but feel both Maeda and Berrios deserved the start of another inning, both with a short leash.
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Except they HAVE been close to perfect. Even Romo got three outs before allowing a run.
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Berrios wouldn’t have pitched the seventh anyway.
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Neither should have been pulled, IMO.
