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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, which is why I said the far left is inept and mostly harmless. I have loads of idiotic leftist friends on Facebook; the kind of people who post memes that make you roll your eyes. Those people post links from those sources. Outside of that, I'd never even know those places exist (earlier, I accidentally referred to "Occupy Democrats" as "Think Democrat"). Whereas Alex Jones is pretty commonly known. As are people like Tomi Lahren. They have actual, wide-sweeping influence and audiences.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Well said.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    The problem I see with your argument - and it's a big one - is that you're using a single term ("lean") for wildly different sources with very different motivations. CNN leans left. Not obnoxiously so, but they're mostly leftist corporate stuff. Fox News is right. They don't lean. They're rightist partisans. Info Wars is bat**** crazy, lunatic right wing conspiracy stuff. It's not Mother Jones, not even close. It's farrrrrrrrr worse (Mother Jones goes off the rails at times but actually makes an attempt to write insightful, detailed articles on a pretty regular basis, whereas InfoWars' bread and butter is lazy hit-and-run pieces). Don't generalize because you're lumping in the slight partisans with the flat-out lunatics, which lends them legitimacy. http://www.allgeneralizationsarefalse.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Media-Bias-Chart_Version-3.1_Watermark-min.jpg
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    They're pretty much brainwashed. Their platform is uninformed, contradictory, and hypocritical. Do you know who else is brainwashed? Their far left counterparts. The difference is that the brainwashed far left is inept and ineffective and therefore completely harmless to everyone but themselves and anyone in their immediate proximity (raw water! vaccines!). It's possible to have disdain for crazy on both ends of the spectrum, you know. Also, there are conservative media sources that aren't mind-numbingly stupid. I have no issues with those sources, to each their own. All I ask is for critical thinking, not agreement. Double also, I despise places like Think Democrat almost as much as I despise Breitbart. If any news source tries to play the role of avenging angel at the expense of facts, I have no use for it at all. At all.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    It's more than talk radio. I know MANY people who exist only in the loop of conservative media: Fox News, talk radio, Breitbart/Info Wars, etc. And Fox News is the rational one out of the bunch.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Go ahead and wrap yourselves in the flag, you scum-sucking *******s. Oy. How much it angers me to see people say **** like this is hard to measure. I don't have to agree with (or even like, really) McCain but I'll show the man the respect he deserves for all he has done for this country. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/11/610325611/mccain-irrelevant-he-s-dying-anyway-white-house-official-reportedly-says?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180511
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Two front offices ago. So long ago that Ramos has already gone into free agency. Time to stop beating that horse. It's been dead for half a decade.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I mean, I'm not bashing Richards. He has velocity and could be a decent pitcher... but he's no ace. Never has been considered one, never will be unless he magically turns the corner at age 30. Kyle Gibson ranked higher on top 100 prospect lists if you need a frame of reference for Richards.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    And now Garrett Richards "is finally becoming the ace they wanted him to be." ... Garrett Richards? Ace? *turns on oven*
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    The FS1 pregame crew makes me want to stick my head in the oven. "He's swinging at 35% of pitches outside the zone, which means he's swinging at 65% of pitches in the zone." No, that's not what that means. Not even a little bit.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I wonder if some kind of universal healthcare approach is the correct solution to college loans. "You have this GPA and qualify for this much money. We have negotiated with universities that will give you a four year education for this dollar amount and not one cent more." If universities start losing students because they can't provide an education for a certain dollar amount, maybe that new basketball arena won't be such a priority. Of course, they could just lop out faculty expenses and keep that stupid arena. That would fit the current upper education MO. It may have to be complex legislation - something I'm not fond of in general because more complexity tends to add more stupidity - but something has to be done to keep university spending on non-educational expenses in line. If the government can intelligently negotiate prices en masse, we might be able to stop the bleeding.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Fangraphs had Polanco’s defense around average last year while Escobar was below average. As for offense, it’s not really fair to compare them but they were pretty close last season... but Escobar didn’t have a death in the family that skewered his numbers for a couple of months. On the other hand, Escobar is a beast this season and we have no idea how Polanco would be hitting if he was on the field.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I don't think America is ready for that message yet. Maybe if 20-somethings voted - they don't - that message might gain traction. Like Levi, I think vocational schools are the first and most appropriate push. Get kids in and out of school without crippling debt, teach them an actual skill that will help them land a job or start their own business. After that is accomplished, we can start to talk about how to fix the universities (which badly need a fix for the reasons Pseudo laid out).
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I think the Ks are here to stay in some capacity, though almost certainly not to the extent we see now. Sabrmetrics have done a lot of cool things for baseball but they've also made the game less watchable. We have pretty concrete proof that launch angle, swinging out of your shoes with two strikes, and working counts lead to more wins. Those will almost certainly stay, though maybe not at the levels we see today. Because at some point, guys who don't do those things will become undervalued. Some team will build a roster that looks like the mid-80s Cardinals and will beat the snot out of the rest of baseball for a few years, probably with a payroll in the bottom third of MLB. And like the lemmings front offices have shown themselves to be over the past century, half of baseball will chase that idea and drive up prices on those players. Cue the never-ending cycle.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd love to know his spin rates in MiLB. Seeing a guy come up and make MLB hitters look this foolish makes me wonder if some guys see a MLB baseball and its different stitching and say "ugh..." (Berrios) while others look at the stitching and say "SPIN SPIN SPIN" (Romero). It's pretty idiotic they use different balls between the minors and majors. Romero always had pretty good scouting reports but what we've seen thus far is above and beyond anything I read about him. If he was pitching like this in Rochester, he literally should not have given up even one hit and should have had an 18.00 K/9 ratio.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Half a game out on May 8th. We all called this a week ago, right?
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins still have an option on May, right? It makes sense to put him in Rochester and let him get a feel for his breaking stuff. Coming back from TJS is a tough thing to do when you haven’t pitched in a long time and have to face MLB hitters immediately.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I just can’t even with Rosario, Kepler, and Escobar right now.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    By the way, reports are in that the Martinez ball just landed.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, then I guess it's a good thing the front office that earned that reputation is no longer in charge. Falvine has been moving people through the system at an acceptable pace and promoting people pretty logically, give or take a few bizarre moves that are likely weird from a spectator perspective because we're missing information, not because the front office is being stubborn for no reason.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, my mistake. For some reason, I thought he was in his final two seasons.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, damn. Yeah, completely forgot about him.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree but Arrieta is actually doing pretty well for himself. Lynn, Cobb, and Morrison? Maybe not so much. (but I made a similar point the other night... guys need to pay attention to what's happening to these players and reconsider if they want to postpone into late February before signing a contract that may very well hinder future seasons and long-term contracts)
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    It kinda boggles the mind when you realize that Thorpe is only pitching through his age 22 season in 2018. Despite three years (!!!!!) of non-stop setbacks, he can pretty easily be in Minnesota at age 23.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, the depth will likely be the key to this season if the Twins end up making the postseason. I'm hoping the team starts liberally using off-days to let Romero pitch every 6-8 days through July and August if he's showing signs of wear. Well, assuming he has been effective and the team is eyeing October, that is. Add a couple of days between starts and the team can shave off ~20 IP on the season pretty easily.
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