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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Bert, and it's not close.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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?
  8. 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.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh damn. That brings back the memories.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm going to say what I said originally: Good god, man. Many people have had MASSIVE issues with that name for literally decades. I first realized that name was a problem when a friend told me she hated that name... in 2001. She's a member of the Lakota nation... But I met her in California.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I appreciate your response. I'm sure others do, too. I'm not trying to pick a fight here but why are you defending the Washington football team? I only ask that you step back, take a deep breath, and legitimately ask why you wrote a post defending that name. Again, so not judging you, just asking you to consider what caused that reaction. You seem like a good guy and nothing about this conversation has changed that opinion, I'm only asking why you thought that opinion was important to state. Say what you will, I want to hear it and I'm not going to put you on blast for it.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Dude, a bunch of people responded negatively to your post. It could have been easily resolved with “I misspoke, my apologies” if the post above was your ultimate mindset on the issue. Personally, I think your post was wrong. I don’t hold it against you because I had to read back pages to realize it was you saying it. The content of the post was dismissive to things many of us have thought about for ages. Literally nothing has stopped you from saying “what I said was wrong, this is what I meant to say” if that was what you wanted to convey. No one should be embarrassed about being wrong. It happens to everyone. Maybe next time, instead of throwing up a defensive shield and threatening to leave the board, think about why so many people reacted negatively to that post.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Instead of thinking about whether your mascot, name, or whatever, is defensible, think about why you need to defend it and why. Why would I defend a name like the Twins? What emotional investment do I have in that name beyond its literal name? None. I'm invested in the Minnesota team that plays baseball. Now change that name "Twins" to "Redskins" or "Indians". My investment is not in the name, it's in the city, the franchise, and the history. Change the ****ing name of these teams because they're ****ing racist. I'm a grown ass adult and can deal with it. Instead of thinking about how much a name change might insult your weird historical investment in a team, think instead of how much it sucks for everyone who isn't you to see a team name and feel ridiculed every time you see it. Inclusion over "history".
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Good god. Do any of you seriously think names are being changed just the sake of change? Doc, pick a side here. You literally wrote a dozen paragraphs, said little, but then basically declared your position that you think people are possibly changing a name in a knee-jerk reaction. Think about that for a second. People have been calling for a name change in Cleveland for two decades but it's a knee-jerk reaction? Where is the knee jerk reaction? (it's not them, it's you, and you should probably think about why)
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Probably Sano. We’re three weeks out from opening day.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Robinson has over 100 career rWAR, just ahead of Mike Schmidt and only three rWAR behind Mantle. A woefully underrated player.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    A fine idea.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    It’s an interesting footnote because, like you said, it’s basically impossible to be that bad without actively trying. And it’d be hard to do without the specific environment where someone owns two teams and intentionally shuffles all good players to one team. I don’t even know if a team could be that bad solely through trades.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Yet Washington, the laughingstock of baseball for literally 5-6 decades, turned around and named another team the Senators the NEXT SEASON after the original Senators left. The Cleveland Browns, a team with a legacy of sucking and/or heartbreak left after some really sleazy owner behavior and yet the city named the next team the Browns, too. I think you’re putting way too much stock into events that happened 121 years ago. Does anyone honestly care about what the 1899 Spiders did? The only connection would be the city, name, and logo. I think it’s a little silly to think too hard about ownership legacy on a franchise that dissolved in the 19th century before the American League even formed.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    If we judged teams based on ownership practices of over a century ago, every franchise looks pretty bad because owners were awful in the early days of baseball. Many are still awful today. I doubt anyone really cares what happened 120 years ago but the name itself has historical value to the city.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Ignoring this rather pointless debate, what was so bad about the 1899 Spiders season? I expected controversy but see only that ownership gutted them to make another team they owned better (gee, wonder why MLB later outlawed that practice). What’s so embarrassing about that? Baseball ownership was awful to a city and fan base, film at eleven.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    His contact rate continues to impress.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I think you all know who I am.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    But, for the record, I'm totally on board with Rickey being celebrated with an award in his name. He was a beast, and in such an amazing way throughout his career in baseball. There are few people who can we look back to the 1920s and say they were a good person but Rickey was one of those people. In the 1930s, Rickey started playing minor league teams and guess who fought him, releasing many players out from under Rickey? Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Rickey kept fighting and a few years later, the entirety of MLB had established minor league teams. Then, about a decade later, Landis died. Two years later, Rickey sat a player down and told him he was going to be the first black player in major league baseball. We all know that player's name. **** Landis. Yay, Branch Rickey. If we want to celebrate an establishment baseball persona, it seems pretty obvious to me.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Damned adaptive autocorrect. Flood. FLOOD.
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