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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Eh, I have nothing against the woman other than she made a really poor life decision when she married a talking Cheeto. Actually, reading through Facebook this morning has been disappointing in several ways, one of which is seeing so many self-proclaimed progressives lay into Melania over her plagarism, looks, intelligence... The list goes on. I expect better. But wow, how embarrassing for her.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    FWIW, this problem has mostly gone away. It was the byproduct of the game being WAY more popular than expected.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd prefer to see a first-time GM take the role but why wouldn't an experienced GM want this job? The Twins have a very good farm system and that's after they graduated a handful of young top prospects to MLB. I think this is a pretty attractive job for anyone in baseball who isn't already a GM/president on a winning team. With the right moves, the Twins could be a fringe contender as early as next season and a real contender as early as 2018. How often does a job like that pop up in baseball? Not very often.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Beane has an ownership stake in the A's. Let's put this to bed right now. Billy Beane will not leave Oakland.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I strongly disagree. Gardenhire and Smith can be assets and good management realizes that just because a person failed in one role doesn't mean you discard them as a failure in all roles. Wanting Gardenhire and Smith out of the organization is an emotional response. Smith is a capable administrator who never should have been named general manager. That's not his fault, that's ownership's fault. Throwing Smith to the curb because ownership put him in a role he was not equipped to fill is arrogance and stupidity on the part of ownership; they're putting their failure to hire the right person at the feet of the employee instead of themselves. If Smith was a capable administrator in 2007, he was likely just as capable of filling that role again in 2012. As for Gardenhire, he's out there coaching young players on the fundamentals of baseball. That was one of Gardy's relative strengths throughout his tenure. Why wouldn't you want that guy back in that role with limited authority over player personnel? Personally, I don't care one way or the other but I understand why the Twins thought he'd be good in that role, as he seemed good at it in the past.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't disagree. I only question whether Antony is capable of getting the right return on those players. Both are under contract and have value. The last thing I want to see is them handed away for junk.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed. As long as he doesn't move anyone under 25 or Santana, Dozier, or Gibson, he can't do much right or wrong at the deadline. My best case scenario here is that Antony doesn't do much at all.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    They're not starting off fresh. Antony definitely knows the players in the organization so that's a plus. But I question his inexperience in handling opposing general managers who may smell blood in the water. I agree that it's unlikely he'll do much long-term damage - I doubt he's going to trade anyone under 25 years old - but I think it's possible, maybe likely, that he gets the short straw on a few trades he executes between now and September.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    No. That's an awful premise. There are good people in the Twins organization. It's the responsibility of the new GM/president to isolate those good people and retain them if they fit into the new organization. Cleaning house just for the sake of cleaning house is an awful management tactic.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, that's a good example of the virtue of patience. Cuddyer turned into Berrios. Sometimes, it's better to just sit on your hands if the opportunity isn't there to make a good move. Again, that's what worries me about this situation.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Those weren't great examples and I should have spent more time elaborating instead of trying to get a post in quickly. My worry is that trades will happen willy-nilly because that's what Antony feels he is supposed to do. That means lots of players shuffled around without a plan in place; who to target, who to move, organizational needs, etc. Compiling a game plan and executing it during something as trying and difficult as the MLB trade deadline without experience is a delicate operation, to say the least... And if Antony feels he has to "impress the boss", it might lead to some pretty stupid decisions.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, I agree teams will be open to interviews, I only question whether they'll let their personnel deal with distractions in the middle of a season. The Twins will likely pursue teams with capable front offices (ie. in a pennant race) and teams want their personnel focused on the challenges at hand, not dallying with another business trying to steal them away.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh, there's no way they could bring in someone from the outside and have them handle the deadline. That's completely unreasonable... But it still puts Antony in a dangerous situation. Is he ready to handle assets and negotiate with experienced GMs around the league?
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    No. This is the one part of the decision that terrifies me. I'm picturing a scenario where guys like Dozier and Nunez are handed away for peanuts. I'm also picturing a scenario where nothing happens, though I think that's unlikely because Ryan was just fired, likely over disagreements about what to do at the deadline. Putting an inexperienced person in a position of authority with a strict mandate to "do lots of things" in less than two weeks will often lead to disastrous results.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    My thoughts exactly.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Firing a GM midseason is a statement move. If Rob Antony is GM on December 1st, I'll be shocked. Ownership doesn't can a GM who has been with the franchise for over 30 years (especially a loyalty-based team like the Twins) and then hire his hand-picked successor four months later.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I never thought I'd see this midseason. I doubly never thought I'd see this less than two weeks before the trade deadline.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Whether you choose to believe him or not, Ryan said he didn't have much contact with the franchise while he was being treated for cancer. And given how he was in the middle of intensive treatment for cancer, it's not a stretch to believe Terry had more important things on his mind than the 23-25 man choices for the Twins coming off a 90+ loss season. And that's where Antony failed in a big way. The back of that roster was laughable. While typically, the 23-25 men on a roster don't make a huge difference either way, the thinking that led to those choices was broken... to be generous.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    One thing to keep in mind is that the Twins need permission from another team to speak to a potential candidate. And if you approach say, the Dodgers, midseason and say you want to speak to their assistant GM about a job, it's likely they'll tell you to go **** yourself and call back in November.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    I saw all I needed to see of Antony during Spring Training of 2014 when the Twins rolled into the season with the most inexplicable 25 man roster I've ever seen.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Holy crap. I did not see this coming. I won't celebrate, though I think this is the right decision. For whatever you want to say about Ryan, he was a class act and held a life-long dedication to the franchise, serving it for over three decades. That deserves a tip of the cap. But now it's time to move on. Given how this is a midseason move - a rarity in MLB - I think it's a clear sign ownership plans to clean house. If they wanted to pass the torch to Antony, they could have let Ryan finish out the season and bow out gracefully. This is a statement move. I expect a top-to-bottom cleaning of the franchise, though I question Molitor's fate, given how he's buddy-buddy with the Pohlads.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    First and foremost, poverty is the root of ethnic minority problems in this country. What irks me is that people refuse to admit racism had caused the poverty problem. We need to fix both problems. But both problems involve 40+ years of multi-generational retooling of American society. In the meantime, there are many small things we can do to make things better. And that, imo, is the goal of BLM.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    What do you mean? http://66.media.tumblr.com/c7dd431015026bf4652fb175e5e1fc29/tumblr_oadcsvZnSM1qfqxggo1_500.gif
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree it might be a bit of an overpay but it's in the ballpark... And because I'm in no rush to trade Ervin, that's about what I'd ask. Given Santana's steady(ish) performance and injury history, he's a reasonable gamble to hold on to for at least one more season. If he keeps performing, his value will only go up as his contract winds down.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Personally, I'm in no rush to trade Santana but were someone to offer a 75-100 prospect, I'd probably pull the trigger. If that team required me to pay, say, $4m of Santana's contract in 2017 and 2018, that seems reasonable. Asking for anything higher than the bottom quartile of top 100 prospects is living in a dream world, in my opinion.
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