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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Well summarized. That's exactly why I pulled the trigger on the integration. We had a great community and I didn't want to see it die a slow death, which it had been doing for 2+ years at that point. Had I simply let things be, BYTO would be gone today either way. Without the front page content, social media presence, and events organized by the writers, keeping a forum self-sufficient in the 2010s is a difficult task. There's too much competitive in the online discussion space from social media. Social media is pretty bad at in-depth discussion but it does a good enough job for enough people that they won't even consider signing up for a dedicated forum anymore. People don't realize it but through 2006-2008, BYTO had similar traffic numbers to the first year of Twins Daily. It was a bustling forum. By 2012, that number was cut in half.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Actually, I like the idea of going bat-first with the fourth outfielder if the young trio of starters can hack it through a full season. If one of them gets demoted, particularly Buxton, it quickly becomes a pretty bad situation. Why do the Twins need a glove-first outfielder? They have one of the best defensive centerfielders in the game in Buxton, an acceptable occasional centerfielder in Rosario, and a guy you don't want to play in center but can in a pinch with Kepler. And two of those guys are absolutely terrible against lefties. I think Grossman as backup is a pretty good idea on a roster construction level.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I've long believed tenure should be swapped for a big ol' guaranteed pay raise. I don't like the idea of people being guaranteed a job simply because they worked the job for X amount of time but I'm not too riled up about tenure. It's a trade-off for paying teachers like crap. Fix the pay, negotiate a few concessions, and I think we see an uptick in teacher quality. Not that I believe teachers are bad today but as I said earlier, teaching shouldn't be a sacrifice. For example, I would never consider teaching. Not that I'd necessarily make a good teacher but I'm not going to sacrifice pay, hours, and money out of my own pocket to do so. Teaching should be competitive with other professional disciplines but it's not... And until it is, the teacher pool is going to be limited only to those who wish to dedicate an inordinate amount of time and sacrifice their financial quality of life to help children. It's a noble thing to do but there's absolutely no ****ing reason it has to be that way.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    DeVos is yet another garbage human being in an administration full of garbage human beings. Teaching shouldn't be a sacrifice. That's a good place to start with "education reform".
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I've always been cautiously optimistic on Dozier but it'd be hilarious if he went and jacked 50 homers in 2017. I don't expect him to do it but given his career trajectory - a steady climb from 6 to 18 to 23 to 28 to 42 homers - I'm not ruling out anything when it comes to the guy. Every year, I expect him to show warts and come back to earth a bit but he never does it, at least in the power department. Going into 2016, I didn't believe he'd cross 30 homers and he blew right by that number.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    This is a good example of why we don't use our shoddy memories to build a narrative that fits a preconception. Dozier's OPS splits for the past three seasons: Year -- Bases Empty -- Men On 2014 ---- .759 ---- .763 2015 ---- .733 ---- .782 2016 ---- .950 ---- .792 Dozier had a bad 2016 with men on base. So did the entire rest of the team. Yet he overperformed with men on base the year before that. The year before that, he was almost exactly neutral. So does Dozier lose/gain clutch ability on a yearly basis or is sequencing just kinda random, which explains why the Twins overperformed in 2015 and underperformed in 2016? I'll go with the Occam's Razor answer that sequencing is largely random.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree with your outcome, we're just not agreeing whether it's an imposition. I'm saying that, on a grand scale, every rule is an imposition on someone. If I don't want to serve people named Mary and claim religious diktat to defend my belief, why do I have to serve people named Mary? In the abstract, given a perfect humanity, I'd be allowed to do that. Anyone named Mary could go receive the services I offer from one of any number of people who perform my job. But the reality is that I wouldn't do that to people named Mary because it's a ludicrous stand to take and never happens. What I'd do is refuse to serve black people or gay people or Muslims. So would lots of other people. The end result is that we create a caste system that prevents any of those groups from truly interacting with majority society. So, as a society, we impose rules to stop me from doing that. And, technically, those rules are an imposition on my belief structure because I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do for whatever reason. The same way I don't really want to go get a driver's license but I do it every four years because them's the rules and I want to drive an automobile. Everyone has rules they don't like an we're all imposed upon daily by society. It's part of the social pact we make by living in civilization and agreeing to its terms. If we don't like it, we can go find another society we prefer and join a different tribe.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not saying they shouldn't expect same services and equal rights, obviously they can and should expect such things. But society is a compromise. People ask things from one another and impose upon each other. Where we draw the line is what defines our laws and social structure. And that concept was possibly the most important societal advancement of the 20th century: the acknowledgement that we, as humans, are flawed creatures and we often impose the will of the majority at the expense of the minority and that laws are needed to defend those who don't exist in great enough numbers to defend themselves.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    One difference that should be mentioned is that religion often tries to control who a person is versus what they own or how they act. And society increasingly rejects the notion we can tell people who they are and interfere with how they identify as a human being. Guns are objects, things to own. A person being gay is intrinsic to their identification as a person, something they cannot "shut off" when convenient. In the past, this was reflected in the Civil Rights Act and people of color. Before that, it was women. The situation muddies a bit when that gay person goes out and demands the same services offered to other human beings, which is an imposition on another person's belief structure. Every act we take as a society is some kind of imposition on another person. It's the nature of being tribal. But, as a society, we're coming around to the idea that when it comes to a person's core identify, their self-identification and something that cannot be changed or turned off when convenient, we don't allow intolerance toward that person.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Heh, I accidentally hit post before I was finished. As you responded, I was kinda bringing up the same thing. Yes, it's very much the same thing. That's why I understand some of the pushback on gun control. I don't agree with it, but I understand it. And my views on gun control are pretty reasonable for that reason. I dislike telling people what to do but the obvious problem of guns needs some work.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I see where you're going with this, Levi, but I think one important distinction to make is that when we tell religion to stop imposing their beliefs, it's usually of the negative variety. Me: Religious people, stop telling other people who they can marry. Religious People: You can't marry that person. There's a pretty significant difference there and while I agree that we need to change opinions to really fix the problem, there's a big difference between "stop being an ass to other people" and "stop doing that thing I don't like". There's definitely some overlap buried in there - such as when the government tells someone they have to serve a person whose lifestyle they do not approve - but most of the time, religious people are the instigators who tell someone they can't do something. The pushback is "stop being an ass and telling people what to do", which can kinda be viewed as the same thing but really isn't.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Shep has been one of the more tolerable Fox anchors for a long time. Like Megyn Kelly, I suspect he'll leave at some point because why even work at that place?
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    If Hughes is throwing 90 and makes the rotation on opening day, I will be quite disappointed in the front office and coaching staff.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    My best case scenario is Sano sticking at third through his age 27 season or so. Past that, I don't see it happening. The guy is just too big.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. That's why I don't foresee Buxton crossing the .280 mark, at least in 2017. He can learn patience but I doubt it's going to be a light switch moment. He's going to hack and miss a lot. The question is whether it will be at an unacceptable rate.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd be happy if Buxton hit .270 this season. Hell, I'd be thrilled if he hit .270 this season. If any one of those players is likely to nudge their batting average over .280, I think it's Kepler. His discipline and more balanced approach will lend itself well to MLB once he gets adjusted, I think. Maybe Rosario if things finally click with him but I've never been terribly high on Rosario so I doubt he'll ever be anything more than a league average starter (and even that is somewhat unlikely).
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think it's that odd. If anything, I believe Law was trying to point out that he's the low man on Berrios.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Are you kidding me? I'd love to see some of those jackasses navigate the liberal socialist minefield that is Canada or all of Europe. Because you know, sure as ****, they're not going to pack up and move to Guatemala.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Man, the "tells it like it is" line really gets under my skin. Are people really this stupid? If you say five things, all of which contradict each other, how on earth are you "telling it like it is"? I waver between Trump being an idiot and genius. He plays a small percentage of Americans like a fiddle. He says wildly inaccurate things that contradict each other, yet somehow convinces people to select what they find palatable and discard the rest. It's pure madness. My faith in humanity has bottomed out over the past few months because I simply refused to believe people are this gullible.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm hoping that with a new front office that puts more stock in Goin's department, Molitor will come around on a few things. He's a smart baseball guy, I don't understand why he manages the way he does.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    She should be everything Elizabeth Warren is today, but isn't. She has always struck me as the kind of manipulative partisan we should reject out of hand.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I've said this for 25 years running now. I can't stand Pelosi. To me, she's everything wrong with the Democratic Party (so was Reid but he's gone now).
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm not against doing it at one position, maybe two if you include first, but a team certainly can't do it all over the field as the Twins have done in recent years. To me, that's probably the most disappointing aspect of retaining Dozier. I don't like the idea of Polanco at short and I hate the idea of Polanco on the bench.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, sure. Throw that on the list, too... But I was just kinda bundling that in with pitching, as defense directly correlates to runs allowed.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    And if we're using the metric of home runs to measure how dangerous a hitter is to a pitcher, the Twins were dead-center middle of the pack last season in homers, hitting 200 for the first time since I've been a Twins fan (pretty sure about this unless they hit 200 in 87/88, can't remember). It wasn't only Dozier who regularly went yard on this team.
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