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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    The comments in this thread so perfectly illustrate why this article was necessary. The fact that so many of you think it’s acceptable to escape world issues whenever convenient is exactly the point of Nick’s article. We need to be better than this.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Twins Daily “lets” Nick post this article because he’s an owner and all the owners stand united on this issue, which is a humanitarian issue that America has failed at for four centuries. It doesn’t have to be political unless you make it political. I don’t see why facing the problem that we’ve failed black Americans can or should be a left/right issue unless you make it one.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Change takes time, for sure, but Rodney King was 29 years ago. How have we actually changed in this regard? Three decades is a long tome to make this little (or no) real change.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    For the record, I’m not pro-looting, pro-rioting, or pro-arson. But, as white society, we should be asking ourselves the question “What options have we left black America?” I mean, a football player took a knee over this, literally the most peaceful form of protest possible, and we lost our collective mind over it. Perhaps our indifference, mixed with our condemnation over any form of protest, might - JUST MIGHT - have something to do with black America having no ****s left to give what we think.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    What peaceful protests happened in the past 30 years that have changed police brutality? Also, AFAIK no houses have been burned down but okay.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    All Lives Matter didn’t exist until an uppity black person had the audacity to say “Black Lives Matter”. That’s as much as we should need to know about the All Lives Matter “movement”. BLM is not exclusionary. It’s trying to peacefully be inclusionary yet it receives massive resistance, just as every black leader and protestor has every time they challenge the fact they are treated as lower-class citizens in this society.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Property doesn’t matter, particularly when the destruction of property stems from the continual loss of life while we all sit back and sip tea instead of doing something about it.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    As Governor Walz said (paraphrased), "I understand why people of color won't believe anything we say until justice is brought to them". Words are nice. Justice is the answer.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    You had me until burning down a police precinct is counterproductive. I can’t think of a single action that is more clear and absolutely productive in this situation.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    If people spend an entire lifetime kneeling, praying, pleading, begging, and doing everything under their power to peacefully get people to listen, yet no one in power ever does, I’m not sure what anyone expects them to do other than what happened last night.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Right? This is ridiculous. But it should be a very clear message that the market has only a loose correlation to the actual economy.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm truly sorry to hear of your loss. I know that sounds feeble in the wake of your sorrow but thank you for sharing. My thoughts are with you. I wish I had something to say but as a person who has suffered loss, I know words don't mean a lot right now. All I can say is that if you need help, Twins Daily will give what it can. PM me if you need more info.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Joe Nathan is the best reliever in Twins history and there's no question about it. He was literally the best reliever in baseball not named Rivera for 6-7 years and at times, he was better.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Damn, that is a great post. Thank you, twinsnorth.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    If I've done that, I apologize. I've tried to focus most of my arguments around misinformation, not preaching a singular solution. Maybe I've drifted into the former at times but as a CEO told a friend of mine, "we're erring on the side of humanity". That's an almost immovable statement, and a damned good one. I don't have a solution. I don't think any of us do. But in a situation where few facts are available, we need to cling to those facts and build more. That's how knowledge works. I'm in favor of what solution saves the most people. From the little I do know, "this is just like the flu" is not an actual solution, nor is it fact. It's the opposite and it's terribly damaging to us all because every keystroke, thought, and research put into that line of thinking is a keystroke, thought, and research not put into factual analysis of solving the problem at hand.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    This list only counts WAR accumulated in a Twins uniform. Winfield only had .3 WAR over two seasons with the Twins at the end of his career.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Let's take a moment to revel in Julio Franco. Unless my math is wrong, he played his final MLB game as a 49 year old. He's Jamie Moyer who hits. He literally played at the highest level until he was almost FIFTY YEARS OLD.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    This is really a great article and thanks for writing it. I was a big Mack fan in the early 90s but left baseball during the strike. I didn't come back until 98 and assumed Mack had left the game, but not under the circumstances laid out here.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    There are no good answers, and all of this is showing the folly of the American economic system as it stands today. We're trying to force our way into reopening not because it's the right thing to do but because we've put ourselves into a situation where there are no alternatives. We had literally months of warning. We did virtually nothing. I suspect Minnesota will be a leading example of how to operate because of how quickly we distanced ourselves, how effectively we distanced ourselves, and now we're on a path to test tens of thousands a day. But we had no federal leadership and I suspect, as is usual, we're going to have to spend truckloads of money to bail out the states that continually fail to protect their constituencies. That's the nicest way I can put it without openly blasting a certain party of this country for their continued failing of both their constituency and democracy itself.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Bolded for emphasis. Do you honestly believe that extending social distancing is prolonging the misery? If yes, why?
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Almost certainly. I really appreciate Walz's leadership on this. Any reopening of the economy before the infection rate drops and we have adequate testing is only going to prolong the misery as we'd likely have to shut things down again in mid- to late summer. Without any controlling measures to slow down the rate of infection, things will just go right back to where they've been (or worse) in just a few weeks.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Except they're not. You're using small numbers to make them look small without applying scale. .5% is, at minimum, 150% higher than the upper end of flu rates, which you referenced as .2%. Assuming those rates, which you're basically just making up, means that 2.5 people die of COVID-19 for every single person that dies of the flu. And that's your best case scenario. Never mind that infection rates cannot be left out of this conversation because humans have been fighting the flu for millennia. We have natural immunities plus a solid vaccination system that prevents people from getting sick in the first place. Start stacking these things on top of each other and the typical 30,000 flu deaths a year could reach 500,000+ COVID-19 deaths without things even going unexpectedly badly. And that's why I want everyone here, and I mean everyone, to stop equating this virus to the flu. That argument is used solely to minimize the danger of COVID-19. While I welcome discussion about how to move forward, it's time to squash bad, flawed comparisons that do not hold up to what any experts, scientists, or doctors are telling us about this virus.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    And I see Sconnie already took care of this conversation.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    If no company can store your crude, it's pretty hard to sell. Oil producers are still producing, but if they have no place to send it... well. What do you do with crude oil if no one wants to take it?
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I think most of us agree with this, but... You mentioned an R0 factor. We're not even close to the R0 being under one, which makes every state reopening resulting in more damage to both themselves and their surrounding states as rates spike again, which puts us back into this economic spiral as that web expands. We can all talk about about how it'd be nice to give everyone N-95 masks and get on with our lives. That's not going to happen soon. We can all talk about how the economy needs to restart, yet the economy can't restart if infections start spiking again. None of the good things are going to happen soon unless we clamp down and stay under quarantine until the R0 drops below one.
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