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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    I've spent the past six months watching a five year old meltdown in confusion, anger, and fear, shouting/crying exactly these kinds of things. The amount of anger that video stirred in me is... substantial.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    A little bit of evidence that the court is still non-partisan and takes its job seriously: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/03/663887560/young-activists-can-sue-government-over-climate-change-supreme-court-says
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Awesome, because we all know how useful both animals are for harvesting.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree there will be a holdout or two but even the strict Constitutionalists will likely come out against trying to override the document with an executive order. It's pure insanity that basically negates the rest of the document, including the darling of conservatives, the second amendment.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    He has appointed two out of nine justices. What makes you think the rest of that group are more beholden to Trump than the Constitution? It's a pretty thin argument to make. All it takes is a single conservative justice to swing that vote but I more strongly suspect it'd be a lopsided decision to the tune of 8-1 or 7-2.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    On this, I agree. I strongly suspect he won't leave the office peacefully if he loses, either.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, his base will remain steady and behind him. But I think some of those people who voted for him but are ashamed to admit it will take pause. And literally any chipping away of his 2016 voting base almost ensures a loss in 2020. But it's still a long road to 2020. Lots can and will happen.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    A lot of the time, I can't tell if what Trump is doing is idiotic or pure genius (but rarely does it fall between those two polar extremes). But in this case, I simply don't know how this plays in his favor. He's not going to win over anyone in significant numbers, as this statement is SO MUCH WORSE than even anything he's done to this point. It's going to enrage liberals and even the most Trump-closeted conservatives/independents I know are going to reel in horror at the idea of using an EO to try to override the ****ing CONSTITUTION. The only people who will back this with fervor are those who already back the man. I'm not sure what he's playing at here but to say it a week before an election where he isn't even on a ballot seems like madness to me.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Hawkins and Morneau.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Beat me to it.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Honestly, I'm not so sure this is true. I was talking to a friend (who happens to be a person of color) last weekend and he summed it up nicely. Until now, it has been easy to democratically legislate oppression. White people, particularly white men, are losing that power by the day. So now, they're turning to non-democratic measures to keep the status quo... in essence, very little has changed except their ability to work within the system to achieve their long-standing goals so now they're stepping outside our democratic system to do it. Put in that context, it's hard to say things are really worse (and in some ways are actually better) but things are going to get ugly in the near future.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    In general, right now it's pretty tough for me to deal with the fact I'm raising two black girls in this country. I don't know how it feels to face racism every day but I feel like I'm getting a glimpse into the hopelessness that community feels and has felt for hundreds of years. And I'm a bit ashamed that it has taken me so long to get here, really. It's just so depressing.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I hope I'm wrong, too. But given how so many people are still lining up behind Trump or at least turning a blind eye to his behavior, my faith in humanity is pretty much at an all-time low. We literally have a situation where a person was fueled by the president's language to mail bombs to over a dozen of the president's opponents. Did the president change his dialogue in response? Of course not. And people still support him, either directly or indirectly. It's sickening. But I suppose there's some upside here. No one in their right mind can deny that racism, sexism, and general intolerance of the far right is still a power player in American politics. On the downside of that statement, I preferred it when we forced those people back under their rocks. Maybe ignorance is bliss but my daily life was a lot less troubling when blatant racists were afraid to show their racism in public.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Listening to MPR this morning is pretty rough after such a violent week/weekend. I'd like to think that these monstrous acts will resolve voters to demand better but I'm far too skeptical to expect that to happen at this point. What an awful time we live in.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    No one operates at 100% in game 84, not even Pete Rose. Sure, he operated at a higher level than most but no human being operates at 100% all the time. We're literally not wired to work that way, our brains actually can't maintain that kind of frenetic pace in perpetuity (thanks, mammalian ancestry!). Expecting an athlete to maintain 100% intensity for 3 hours a day, 162 games a year is unreasonable. That doesn't give players an excuse to skate or loaf when there's a legitimate chance to make a play but it does mean I don't get too worked up when a guy jogs out an IFFB in June. Give me a good, solid effort 100% of the time. When it really matters that you leg out that extra inch or throw the ball just a little bit harder, lay it out and go for it... but no one should expect the latter effort day in, day out of a 162 game season.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Almost but not quite. The handbook predates Twins Daily, which was founded in June of 2012. As we all know, the wheels came off the Twins bus quite spectacularly in 2011.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    From the sound of things, all three of these guys are on the same page (and close to the same age, to boot). I suspect it will be a cooperative effort to choose the coaching staff, especially because Baldelli has never actually managed before. But given that all three of these guys say the exact same things (analytics are important but only a tool; personnel, scouting, and player coaching come first, etc.), it's likely that all of them are looking for the same traits and complementary pieces in the coaching staff.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    At first, I thought it was a little bit odd that a guy as intelligent as Baldelli hadn't already learned to speak Spanish. Then I remembered that he has spent the past ten years learning front office management, scouting, and coaching at the MLB level. I suppose throwing "also learn to speak Spanish fluently" on the top of that pile is likely asking a bit too much. Still, I hope he puts in the work to accomplish that goal at some point.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    It's been quite a while since I read up on it but I thought he was receiving some treatment. I know a huge problem for his playing days is that for a large chunk of it, he didn't actually know what was wrong with him. The disease was discovered pretty late in his career, IIRC.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    I also would have been fine with Espada. I don't think the team would have gone wrong with either candidate.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    No worries, you just never can tell nowadays... some people would actually hold Baldelli's disease against him as proof of... well, something. I don't really know.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    If we ever offer a pay model, it will not be mandatory. It would be a subscription model more like Fangraphs (added perks and downloads, ad-free, that kind of thing) than The Athletic (pay or don't read).
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    It probably had more to do with his .752 AAA OPS than his Latino-ness. And even that .752 doesn't really tell the entire story. His OPS was well under .700 going into August 1st, if I recall correctly. In short, Kennys Vargas was pretty bad at baseball for most of 2018. That's why he didn't get promoted, especially when the team was trying out guys like Cave and Austin in Minnesota, who are younger and have more upside than Kennys.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Again, how is this even possible if people continue to move to the cities and cities gain even more in-state power over rural areas? How does a place like Arizona stay red under that scenario? How do Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, etc. stay purple and not turn blue? If your nightmare scenario actually plays out, entire states begin to drift to the left, negating (if not eliminating) the problem in the first place.
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