Brock Beauchamp
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I don't move Odorizzi. I don't move Gibson. Both have been decent enough (or in Gibson's case, legitimately good) to keep for next year. I think Lynn probably falls under the last paragraph of my post (meaning he's blocking someone you want to see in August and September). I don't think anyone in the bullpen is good enough to bring back anything worth thinking about. Sure, you field offers, but if the return is pointless, just keep Duke/Rodney.
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LaMarre Claimed by White Sox
Brock Beauchamp replied to Tom Froemming's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I am all for Ryan LaMarre earning the league minimum with another team. -
If the Twins sell at the deadline, answer this question: Exactly what do you expect they can get for any player who can't/won't be returning for 2019? (the correct answer is "almost nothing") So do you give up and get a pathetic return on expiring contracts or just play out the season and see what happens? I'd rather see them ride it out considering what the return would be either way. The one caveat being that an expiring contract is blocking a player you want to see in MLB through August and September.
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Books I am reading, read, or plan to read
Brock Beauchamp replied to Mike Sixel's topic in The Sports Bar
I finished Renegade: The Spiral Wars. It's OUTSTANDING. The book didn't just hold pace through the end, it kept ratcheting up the intensity. It's basically a mash-up of the best elements of Battlestar and The Expanse, with the world-building of Gibson or someone of that talent level. If you like those three things, you'll probably love this book. It's a truly outstanding sci-fi war story. I so badly want to see this turned into a television show. It would be amazing. The way the story unfolds and keeps you on your toes (only one thing is pretty obvious from early in the story) would be a perfect fit for television. It's laid out as a methodical mystery "reveal" every 50-100 pages, right in line with an 8-10 episode season. -
Books I am reading, read, or plan to read
Brock Beauchamp replied to Mike Sixel's topic in The Sports Bar
Started reading Renegade: The Spiral Wars a couple of weeks ago and I’m now about two-thirds of the way through it. Absolutely fantastic. If you like sci-if, READ THIS BOOK. If the rest of the book holds its current pace, it’ll probably be a top ten sci-fi book for me. -
It was the environment. Also, A Quiet Place is not a "jumping' movie. That's the point of it. I don't think I jumped once the entire film. That didn't mean it failed, it wasn't trying to do that at all past one or two points during the story.
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I do. But there are times when I just roll with it because I'm having a fun and/or an experience. A Quiet Place was one of those times. But generally, I'm super critical of gaping plot holes. But in that film, I just didn't care.
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Would You Trade Eduardo Escobar?
Brock Beauchamp replied to Parker Hageman's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
If you can get a top 75 prospect for him - unlikely, I know - you do that. If not, ride it out and QO the guy. -
But to be fair, there are about a trillion plot holes in A Quiet Place, which is why it's an experience. Don't think about it too hard or it will suck you out of the fun.
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A Quiet Place is a fantastic film that needs to be experienced, not only watched. I told everyone I know to skip the theatre and watch it in a dark, quiet room. I lucked out and caught a matinee with about ten people in the theatre. It was outstanding. Definitely not overrated, simply a film that doesn’t really shine with a bunch of other people around you. (but it’s not a “scary” movie in the sense that it horrifies you, it’s a suspense film that relies on the lack of sound to build fear)
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I think the real lesson here is that we need four kinds of people and politicians: far right, middle right, middle left, and far left. We're weeding out the two middle groups, which should be the strongest of the four. Now, I'm not equalizing the far left and right, as one has actual policy traction while the other shouts and kicks in a corner, mostly by itself. But if the country is going to right itself, those two middle groups need to be better represented. We should demand two things from every politician right now, and one of them should be really easy to accomplish: 1. Massive campaign finance reform (hard) 2. Independent districting of both state and federal representation (this should be easy to accomplish) The problem is that whatever jackass group is running things wants to avoid the latter. Right now, it's the GOP. In two years, I expect it to be the Democrats. They'll pull the same **** the GOP did a decade ago and we'll all lose for it, except in a different (and probably more palatable) way. That doesn't make it better or right.
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If true, I know exactly what to say: my respect for Justice Kennedy just dropped through the floor. I hold justices to the absolute highest standard. Most of them meet this standard, even the ones I don't particularly like much (Scalia, for example). I respect the hell out of Roberts, even though I disagree with his opinions much of the time. On the other end of the spectrum, Thomas can go jump off a cliff.
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What about France, where Le Pen was soundly defeated? As a collective, we need to stop acting as if this is Trump's country. The ****ing guy lost the popular vote and won via an Electoral College perfect storm. Now let's focus on making sure he loses by a larger margin this time around.
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Turkey is a wildly different situation that required several things to happen in a nation that has relied on the coup pretty regularly for about 100 years now. Who cares if 30% of the nation loves this? Show me a period in time where 30% of the nation hasn't loved truly awful things. Instead of screaming about the unfairness of rural voters and their impact on things (you won't get disagreement from me on that, really), figure out a way to win over enough of them that the point becomes moot. Because that's where Democrats have failed over the past 30-40 years. Rural voters aren't inherently awful. By and large, they've been conned by one party and ignored by the other. Find a way to win over a few of them.
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It's not about being perfect, it's about not nominating terrible candidates. Look what happened the one time they nominated a not-terrible candidate in the past 18 years. He won two terms. The Democrats have a solid track record of nominating completely uninspiring people to run the country. Were they smart people? Sure. But Gore, Kerry, and Clinton rally people behind them at the same rate as the color beige.
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Except that power isn't (or at least shouldn't) be inevitable and permanent. And what happens the next time the opposition takes power? They up the ante... just like we've seen in every power transition for the past 25+ years. The GOP stoops to a new low, the Democrats continue along the rules of that low. Then the GOP stoops to a new low, the Democrats then play along at that new low... Where does it stop? We need to reestablish checks and balances, not continue to erode them because everyone loses sooner or later under those rules.
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Honestly, I think the self-pardon talk is pretty pointless. Do we care if this asshat ends up in jail or not? I want him out of the Oval Office. I don't care how that comes about, I just want him gone. Whether he goes to jail or not doesn't really matter to me. And if he has to pardon himself, there's no ****ing way he isn't impeached. Congress would collapse in on itself the following election and the biggest blue wave in history would hit the government.
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Without checking, I think he lost by 4.5m last time around. My biggest concern at this point is complacency within the public. It's easy to check the box of the devil you know and not think about it too hard. Then again, the Democrats will probably nominate another Gore or Kerry, which hands the election to the GOP again. It would help if the Democratic Party stopped being incompetent and found someone with a pulse and/or isn't despised by a huge portion of the voting public.
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I have to agree with Levi on this one. If you ratchet up the conflict and erode checks and balances, sure, you might win in the short term. But you lose even bigger the next time the opposition regains power. It's a game that everyone loses in the long term as we slowly spiral into losing the democracy.
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Someone bought TrumpHotels.org and it is glorious. http://www.trumphotels.org/
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Picked up by Amazon.
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Best sci-fi show since BSG. Maybe even better. It’s phemomenal.
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Rewatching Band of Brothers for what is probably the 20th time but first in 5-6 years. And it's still probably the greatest thing ever put on television. Even after all this time, it's simply magnificent.
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That's actually my point. There are loads of ways to get to June, July, or August before seeing a call-up, none of which involve service time or Super Two status.
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Again, you're overthinking this. Jimenez has all of 20 PAs at the AAA level. Obviously, the Sox are taking the approach that they don't want to jump two levels with a 21 year old player. That's really common throughout baseball. Even the mighty Bryce Harper had 84 PAs at AAA before seeing a promotion to Washington. Jimenez can get plenty of seasoning after he accumulates 100-150 PAs at AAA, giving the Sox a better idea whether he's ready to face MLB pitching.
