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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    You don't need to spend money to be competitive... The money is more for accelerating your leveling than it is an "instant win". And really, level only matters at gyms... And I'm still struggling to keep a gym running more than 3-4 hours and I'm about 200 XP from level 16. Again, the game is all about cooperation. A group of 4-5 level 12 players can take down a gym stacked by 3-4 higher level players. The game is built so it's easy to take down, hard to build. That's what keeps lower level players interested. Say you're level 10 and approach a pretty full gym from another team. Your highest Pokemon is around 600 CP but the gym has the following: 500 CP 700 CP 800 CP 900 CP You're allowed to use SIX Pokemon to crush that gym. Now, you'll never get all the way through that 900 CP "king of the gym" but if you use your six Pokemon to whittle away (and win) against the 500 & 700 CP Pokemon a few times, you'll decrease that gym's reptutation until only this remains: 800 CP 900 CP And you'll get experience for doing it though gyms aren't the best place for experience. Catching and evolving is where you gain the most XP. Again, it's easy to tear down in this game, very hard to build.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Ah, my bad. I missed that.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, but Jepsen was much worse the first two months of 2015, good the next month, even better the following two months.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    To be fair, I remember reading he had fought a minor injury early in the 2015 season and wasn't healthy until July, when he turned back into a good pitcher (and similar to what he had done in previous seasons). The Twins didn't get super-lucky with him, I'm sure they had scouts out there with information on his early season struggles with Tampa. But they kinda got lucky because, injury considerations aside, Jepsen was a phenomenal pitcher down the stretch and Kevin Jepsen is not a phenomenal pitcher.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's not shoot for the moon here. I would have been happy with "trade Ramos for a guy who isn't a middling relief pitcher".
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Nick Blackburn, pitching savior.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Capps was slightly better but, yes, you are correct that the Twins picked up something resembling a clone of what they already had on the roster. And they gave up a pretty solid top 100 prospect for the honor. I don't think I've screamed as much about a trade as it happened as I did during that trade... Though I also hated the Young/Garza trade... Not because I expected Young to tank but because losing Santana AND Garza in the same offseason meant the rotation was, to be generous, not awesome.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I was meh on the trade when it happened. There was upside in Jepsen and he performed well in 2015. With that said, Nick has a valid point. Why is Ryan willing to give up Hu AND Tapia for Jepsen but unwilling to sign a reliever to a three year deal in the offseason? There's a cognitive dissonance in that approach and it really bothers me. As Nick pointed out, prospects are the most valuable currency in baseball, even more than cash.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Pretty much the same thing I want to see, though I somehow forgot Plouffe in my list. The only place we differ is trading Nunez, though I'm not entirely sold in either direction. It all depends on the return. Oh, and I'd let it roll with Buxton. In a lost season, let him play. I don't see much to gain by letting him to go Rochester so he can play tee ball again. It's unfortunate he got hurt, as it looked like he was getting into a bit of a groove.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    - Trade Suzuki, Abad, Nunez, Milone, Nolasco if possible - Call up Polanco to replace Nunez - Call up Murphy to replace Suzuki - Dangle Santana, Dozier for right offer - If Santana is not traded, release Nolasco - Call up Berrios - Stretch out Trevor May - If Milone is still around, release him - Call up Chargois to replace May - Promote Pat Dean and put him in the rotation and closer role - Win World Series
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    A bit unfair to compare a 29 year old whose career appears to be on the upswing to a bunch of retired players. When all is said and done, it's likely Nunez will be no higher than fourth on the list and he may not be on the list at all. But, other than that, good list. Hard to argue with most of the choices.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    The game is pretty amazing. I live near Victory Memorial Drive in Minneapolis, one of the hotspots of the region (lots of landmarks to turn into checkpoints, mainly the memorial markers that line the parkway). The past several evenings, there are have been hundreds, if not thousands, of people strolling the parkway. I've seen quite the eclectic group playing this game. You have your typical white hipsters - the hallmark of Ingress - but I've seen 50-somethings playing the game, little kids, and being in north Minneapolis and all, lots of people of color. And we all talk to each other. "Hey, there's a Pidgeotte spawn over by that mailbox!" "Stop crushing my gym, man!" "Don't go down that block. Nothing good ever spawns down there." It's awesome. Kare11 did a bit on it... All that footage (and the image) are from Victory Memorial. http://www.kare11.com/entertainment/this-is-why-people-wont-shut-up-about-pokemon-go/268966609
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    This game is great exercise. I took yesterday off and walked 12.5 miles. I've logged 3.5 miles this morning already. The dog doesn't understand what brought on this glorious life change but she's a fan.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I just finished walking off that 10km egg I started incubating this morning. I'm drenched in sweat. Maybe humid, sticky 90 degree days are not the time to do such a thing.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    While I was typing, a Pokemon invaded my house.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Kind of... It has "footprints". Three footprints is far away, two is closer, one is very close, and zero is "you're on top of the Pokemon". But the footprints aren't directional. You can use other Pokemon as reference (is the Pokemon you're tracking moving up or down the "Nearby" list) but it's not like the game will lead you directly to the Pokemon you're pursuing. Also, the game is SUPER buggy right now. The servers are overloaded... But given the financial might of Nintendo and the know-how of the developer (Ingress is basically the same game, only more primitive), I expect the bugs to be sorted out within weeks, if not days.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, it's hard on your battery. There's a battery saver mode that helps a bit. When the phone is upside down (in a pocket or held normally in hand while walking), it powers down the display. But it's still hard on the battery because it's running a lot of processes to track location, ping servers, display graphics, etc. You don't really fight your friends in this game, as it's better for your friends to play cooperatively. For example, you and your friends are Blue team. You would go out and pursue gyms held by Red or Yellow teams and defeat them together. If you're all different teams, it doesn't encourage playing together, as you'd often be directly competing for the same stuff (and this game, like Ingress, is all about alliances... 1-2 people often can't take a gym... But 3-4 can).
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    It's from the developers who created Ingress. The premise is that you walk around and there are checkpoints and places to fight other Pokemon at local monuments (that can range from a playground to a special sign to almost anything). Once within physical proximity of that checkpoint, you can interact with it. That part is a lot like Ingress... What separates Pokemon Go is while you're wandering around between checkpoints, you stumble upon (or track) wild Pokemon roaming the area. You capture them, add them to your library, and use them for fighting at the checkpoints. Obviously, the game encourages exercise. I've already logged 17,000 steps on the day (though I woke up at 4:30am and walked out the door to start Pokewhoring at 4:45am). And no, I didn't wake up that early just to play Pokemon. My wife had to be up early and she doesn't wake up unless I get up. So I got up.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Alright, who's playing? I finally broke down and started playing Saturday night and haven't stopped playing since that time, really. I'm level 9, should be level 10 by the end of the day. And my legs are very, very tired. I've almost hatched a 10km egg I incubated this morning.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    It was a typo.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Trying... Not... To laugh... “Before I came here, I tried to pull the ball too much,” admitted Arcia. “I would maybe over-swing a little bit, swing too hard. When I got here, the hitting coach told me to try to use the whole field. He said to just try to put it in play, because with my strength the ball is going to go.” Damn those Twins for never letting players go oppo and forcing players to fit their pull-happy hitting ethos.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Ditto.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    The Twins are currently an AL-worst 32-56 on the season winning just 36.4% of their games. In July, the Twins are 7-3. Over the past month, the Twins are 14-15. There are 75 games left in the season. How many games do the Twins win to close out the season? 41 wins leads to a .546 record (41-34). 38 wins leads to a virtual .500 record (38-37). 35 wins leads to a .467 record (35-40). 32 wins leads to a .426 record (32-43). 27 wins leads to a .373 record (27-48), which would match their first half winning percentage at .360. What do you predict?
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    1. It's likely Stewart ends up as a #3-4-ish guy but the entire point of my post is that given his weird trajectory, putting labels on the kid is foolish even in 2016, much less 2014. 2. If fans are disappointed that a #4 pick isn't in the majors as a 21 year old, fans need to adjust their expectations. That's not how baseball works most of the time. Appreciate when things go so well that timelines are accelerated, don't expect that to be the norm.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Astounded is one way to put it. Personally, I might not watch another Twins game this season if Suzuki is on the roster September 1st. There's no reason to keep the guy. If you're such a fan of his production, sign him as a free agent in the offseason.
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