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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Another player who deserves recognition with an award is Curt Floyd. He literally sacrificed his career to end the reserve clause, and it was a damned good career. 42 WAR through his age 31 season, averaging 4.4 WAR his final three seasons before the contract dispute.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Branch Rickey? He’s not infallible but also potentially the most influential person in all of baseball history. He created the modern farm system and signed Robinson. As to Landis, he, like Cobb, is still in Cooperstown. I have not heard a single person call for their removal from the Hall of Fame so the “erasing history” argument is utter garbage. Both of them have their place in baseball history acknowledged, there is no need to celebrate either.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Stop projecting intent upon and disparaging other posters because they disagree with you or, maybe more accurately, do not 100% agree with you.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I was vaguely aware of it; one of those things I’d see every couple of years as a player hoisted the trophy and then I’d forget about it again.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I have to keep repeating myself because I wasn't clear the first time; from my understanding, the Twins were one of the last franchises to integrate facilities and housing.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Pineda is an outlier but it’s still pretty garbage that they didn’t prorate his suspension, just like they prorated lots of other things.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Indeed. Cheers to that sentiment.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I haven’t read it directly but I’ve seen several people say the Twins were the last or one of the last teams to integrate facilities. Sorry, I don’t have a direct source for that information. Wish I did.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm going to say this once and I do not like bringing my children into this conversation, as it is unseemly and just repugnant. I have adopted two black children. I love them to pieces, there is nothing more that I treasure than my two perfect little girls. But more than how much I love them is my desire that I should never have needed to adopt them in the first place; that the world should be a fair, just place where white people don't need to adopt black children because their parents can't care for them due to a system that has banked on imprisonment, unfair judicial rulings, and a general demeanor that they're unfit to exist. And I actively work against that happening to future generations of black children. I donate money, mind space, voice, and activism to prevent this from continuing. I cry about how much I love my little babies but I would trade them for a world where my taking them into care out of necessity didn't exist. And it just crushes me to admit that I'd give away my precious little girls to make the world a better place. But I would. Because they'd be better for it and, ultimately, that's what I want for them. So how do I represent "systemic racism" again?
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Sorry, to clarify: the Twins didn’t integrate lodging and Spring Training until 1964, I believe.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins were one of the last, if not the last, teams to integrate. Are those the actions you're looking to see? I don't understand what you're trying to say here, please explain.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I had no idea Mike Bell was Buddy Bell’s kid.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    This is the second time you've brought this up and I'll just copy and paste my last reply that you ignored. Cut it out with this line of conversation. Literally *all of baseball* is less black (in the sense of Black Americans) and this is not the fault of the Twins front office, it's a baseball problem. My last post copied: "Black Americans have stopped playing baseball and going from memory, now occupy MLB rosters at about 1/3rd the numbers of 40 years ago. Surely you realize that is not the front office’s fault and a much larger Major League Baseball problem."
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Right? I don’t use the term “class act”, well, basically ever... but it really applies to Carew in this situation. Way to stay above the fray. My respect for him couldn’t be higher.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Black Americans have stopped playing baseball and going from memory, now occupy MLB rosters at about 1/3rd the numbers from 40 years ago. Surely you realize that is not the front office’s fault and a much larger Major League Baseball problem.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    My children are black. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, my child asked who that was and pointed at the Griffith statue. I was conflicted. I deferred the conversation to another day based on her age. Now, I never need to have the conversation with her about that statue. Step outside yourself for a moment; stop accusing people of various things, and just realize that this move literally brought some of us to tears because it's just one less thing I have to explain to my black children. Now imagine *actually* being black. Even raising black children, I can't even do it. Their experience is so outside my own that I can't even begin to imagine their perspective and world view. These things really matter to people and they damned well should, as it's just one more indication American society is tearing down more walls of systemic racism. All of this is good.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    It solves me walking into a stadium of a team I love without needing to have an awkward conversation with my children about why there's a statue of a man who thought people with their skin color were lazy and awful. That solves something. Do not let perfect be the enemy of good. This is a small gesture and certainly not one that fixes any large problems we have on a societal level. But if you add together a bunch of small gestures, they become something more.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    It's a well known fact around here that I have zero love for the Pohlad family. And until the past 3-4 weeks, I'd never really been given a reason to change that opinion. But I also acknowledge that Carl's kids are not Carl himself and I think we can all agree ol' Carl was pretty rotten to the core. But I've been legitimately impressed by the Pohlads and the Twins organization as a whole for the past month and I hope this new trend of me not despising my favorite team's ownership continues going forward.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    All I know is that I can hold my head a little higher walking into TF with my kids. My eldest actually saw the Griffith statue and asked me who it was last year. I think she was confused why a man in a suit was in bronze compared to all the ballplayer statues. I kinda grimaced and said “We’ll talk about him some other time, you’re not quite old enough for that conversation yet.” Now I’ll never have to explain to my black child why a statue of a man who said something so entirely vile is front and center in the ballpark of our favorite team. That’s a good thing. I cannot wait for baseball again and the Twins have done a lot to impress me and confirm that my love for them is not misplaced over the past month. Right now, I am very proud to call myself a Twins fan and I hope to pass that legacy onto my children in the coming years.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Both matter.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Given the comments and actions of Baldelli, the front office, and even the Pohlads over the past three weeks, I will be giving the Twins money as soon as baseball resumes and I will be just a little bit happier walking through those turnstiles with my children as soon as we’re allowed to attend games again. Small gestures can mean a lot.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    You literally said you're not angry about police kneeling on a man's neck for ten minutes as he cried for his mother. That's not okay.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, "complicity by silence". Because I'm not voting for, donating to, and helping end systemic racism as a whole. The mere fact that I haven't gone on tangents on this particular forum in the past month about literally everything wrong with America regarding race is a real "gotcha" moment for you. You're part of the problem. And, again, how ****ing dare you think you know a goddamned thing about how to raise black children. I've literally spent years studying, listening, and trying to be the best, most prepared parent I can to raise my children for their specific needs. And you just waltz in and say what you've said? Shame on you. SHAME ON YOU.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Cool story. I lost my mother and brother to Asian street racers doing 120mph in a raced out Honda. Next time something bad happens to an Asian person, I'll be sure to step in and post exactly what you posted here. That's fair, right? That wouldn't be the least bit condescending or have the taint of gloat on it at all.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    You’re the second or third person to say this in this very thread. When I say I’m mad as hell, understand that I’m not mad as hell at people who want to have a conversation. I’m mad as hell at that guy are there are millions of that guy in America.
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