Brock Beauchamp
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What is your desired roster on August 1st (or even September 1st if not all players are moved at the regular deadline)? Here's what I'd like to see: C - Murphy (having a good June) 1B - Mauer 2B - Polanco SS - Escobar 3B - Sano RF - Kepler CF - Buxton LF - Grossman (hold on to the guy and see if you've caught lightning... Rosario also an option) DH - Park (maybe? not entirely sold on this) SP - Gibson (though not out of the question to trade him) SP - Santana SP - Berrios SP - May SP - ???? (this could go several ways, really) RP - Chargois RP - Rogers RP - Pressly/Tonkin/roster chum I stop caring about the bullpen at that point. There are arms in the system, many of which can fill roles (albeit badly). There are also some pretty untradeable pieces, such as Jepsen. I won't speculate deep into the pen because I don't really give a damn. Burdi, Meyer, Wimmers... Let 'em fight it out. Bench: I don't care. I don't. At this point in the season, the bench is an afterthought. Fill it with guys you either couldn't move or platoon various prospects to see what you have. Trade pieces: Milone Plouffe Dozier Nolasco Abad Nunez Suzuki And then other very bad players like Tonkin, Jepsen, etc. Whomever is playing well enough to return anything better than a bag of balls should get consideration. Not all of those players need to be gone on August 1st but I'll be *very* disappointed if more than half of them are still with the team.
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This is the most likely scenario, IMO. The second most likely is an injury between now and September 1st. If that injury happens before August 1st, the Twins should be able to move Suzuki pretty easily... Especially if the injury is short-term (with Suzuki then taking a back-up insurance role). Either way, I don't see the Twins getting anything more than a D prospect, maybe a C if they're lucky. In other words, no one that will help the team before 2020 or so. But trading Kurt is still the right move. A D prospect with marginal upside is more useful than seeing Kurt play out the season on a team that will struggle to lose fewer than 100 games. -
Yep, but King managed to reel it in... Now, he reeled it in by using the most bizarre mechanism possible (himself), but he reeled it in. Normally, I would despise what King did in later books of the Dark Tower but it was such a fascinating character examination that I was all on board. Was it the best story element? No, not at all. It was questionable at best... But damn, watching King eviscerate himself on the written page was some pretty engaging stuff. I spent large parts of books 5-7 in complete bewilderment, but in a (mostly) good way. My least favorite part of the series wasn't the King section, it was the death of Flagg. It felt so punchless after that character was such a menace throughout the earlier books. Maybe King meant it to be punchless but I still didn't like the decision.
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At this point, it's probably too late for editing to save the series. Martin needs to start tying together story threads or the mess will continue and editing can't tell him what to write, it can only alter what he has already written (unless the editor has the power to force a complete re-write, which is highly unlikely at this point). If editing was going to save the series, it needed to happen in book four. That's when things went off the rails and Martin started world-masturbating. Before that point, he had plenty of time to handle the still large but manageable number of storylines running through the books. If Martin spends book six working on the white walker threat, tying together the Iron Islands, Dorne, Gendry, fake Aegon, and the entire north storyline, book seven could still be great. In other words, I don't expect much from book six but if Martin smartly starts reeling in past mistakes, it could lead to an amazing book seven. When I started reading book three, I started worrying that Martin was going to fall into a common writer trap, one occasionally displayed by even some great writers like Stephen King; thousands of pages of discordia wrapped up with a series-ending deus ex machina in the final 5-10% of the book/series. Thus far, Martin has only fueled that concern. But it's not too late to fix it, I'm just not sure he realizes it's a problem... Though with how well the show has played out in season six, I hope that was a wake-up call to him.
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There is no reason for Suzuki to be on this team on August 1st. Okay, so maybe there's no reason for Suzuki to be on this team on September 1st... But I'm sticking with August 1st. If Ryan can't get *something* for Kurt, he failed to do his job.
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Well, right now Plouffe's value has bottomed out. He's a negative WAR player with injury/aging concerns. If he puts together a good month and gets his OPS back near his career number, faith could be restored in him a bit and his value could normalize. He's a bit like Brian Dozier, though a few weeks behind. Both were relatively stable - though unspectacular - players who regressed in a big way this season. If they can prove that regression was temporary by hammering the ball for 4-6 weeks, that goes a long way toward reestablishing their value (which, in Plouffe's case, is still rather meager).
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This team is struggling to maintain a .333 winning percentage, which means they can't win more than one game out of three. If Ryan is thinking of *anything* other than seeing what he can get for Plouffe, Abad, Dozier, Nunez, Suzuki, Nolasco, etc., he should he fired on the spot. I can see a reason to keep Dozier. Maybe Nunez if the team thinks they have lightning in a bottle but can't get a return for it. Everyone else over 25-26 years old needs to go. If fewer than four players are gone at the deadline, it's a huge fail.
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Maybe we have different definitions of the word but I don't consider those "issues".
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Twitter Message From Glen Perkins
Brock Beauchamp replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Not arguing, just an honest question... Who pays for the medical costs of an active player? I know the team pays rehab costs but I'm not sure about surgery and hospital stays. -
Kurt Suzuki's Offensive Resurgence
Brock Beauchamp replied to Brandon Warne's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Okay, I know I've said this a thousand times on this forum but... If you think a candidate is "sell high", so do all 30 GMs in baseball. They're not morons. No one cares about Suzuki's last two weeks, at least not enough to drastically change his value. Even if he keeps hitting like this through July I don't think it will drastically change his value (though it sure won't hurt it either). -
Almost certainly. Gendry was a big plot point in A Game of Thrones and looked to be a key piece of Ned's plans.
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Hey, don't forget Gendry. Whatever happened to that guy anyway? He just dropped off the map, didn't he? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KudzuPlot
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I also think he dies but it is interesting how the Littlefinger/Varys showdown looked inevitable but now... Maybe not so much.
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I feel the opposite about Dorne. I think it's the worst currently running story now that the Iron Islands have picked up a bit. Though Dorne easily could be swapped with the Iron Islands storyline. But they both suffered from the same problem, really. Isolated storylines full of characters I had no interest in learning about because they seemed one dimensional and didn't meaningfully interact with those I did care about. I lost interest in Dorne the moment they stopped interacting with King's Landing and the Mountain killed the prince. It's kinda like the worst parts of a Victor Hugo novel. Sure, the convent in Les Miserables plays a part in the storyline but I didn't need a 90 page preface about the convent before it's tied into the story. By the end of 90 pages, I wanted to watch the convent burn just so *something* would happen. It's hard to reverse course and get the reader back on your side after you've pissed them off.
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Yeah, I don't really know where the Bran story is going but I consider that a plus, really. It's interesting enough that I want to see more but vague enough where it can go almost anywhere. Hardhome happened awhile ago but actually having the white walker king pursuing Bran brings light to two questions: Bran is a real threat to the walkers and why the king isn't attacking the south.
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Oh, absolutely. If a Muslim thinks radicalization and oppressive law is awesome, they wouldn't move to America. They'd stay where they are. That's what bothers me most about the Islamophobia consuming the west. We're attacking the people who disagree with radical Islam the most, the people who dislike it so much they upended their lives and moved to another country to escape it.
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Also, by showing us teasers at Hardhome and the great tree, the show is feeding us a timeline of events that explain why the white walkers remain north of the wall. The king is busy dealing with Bran in the far north, which postpones any kind of southern attack. I spent several thousand pages of the books asking myself "what the **** are they waiting for, anyway?" It seemed a bit contrived that the white walkers didn't attack while the south was raging civil war. The show explained some of that away with the Bran storyline (and Hardhome, giving us clues that the walkers were busy cleaning up the free folk still north of the wall).
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This is really worth a read and it's a good reminder that while Islam is part of the problem, most Muslims aren't. Not that anyone here is making that argument but it's a good reminder every now and again. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-omar-mateen-muslims-donald-trump-0160620-story.html
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Yeah, exactly. To be honest, I stopped giving a **** about the white walkers in the novels because they were nothing more than "SCARY BAD GUYS RUN AWAY OH NOES" material that appeared no more than twice in the series. They were bogeymen, not legitimate villains. All that changed in the show with Hardhome, Bran's interactions under the tree, and just showing the white walkers on-screen. The series has handled them quite well, in my opinion. The show runners haven't revealed their hand (we still know virtually nothing about the white walkers other than how they were created thousands of years ago) but they've shown us enough to be legitimately scared of them and build them up in our imaginations (mainly due to Hardhome). We've also seen enough of them where we want to know more because they're an enigmatic entity from the beyond that teases us with visuals but little information. It's a fine line to walk; the books ignored the white walkers too often and I stopped caring... But show too much and the mystery is gone. The show has done a fine job of handling that balancing act.
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I'd be disappointed if they had ice dragons but I'll also be disappointed if they don't have something cool hiding beyond the wall. The final battle is going to have to turn the volume to 11 because we've seen battles get bigger, more complicated, and more spectacular in the eight season lead-up to the final showdown. But dragons would be kind of dumb. Dunno if the white walkers could have giants, golems, or whatever but they need to have something that makes for a visually spectacular battle.
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I mean, that'd be fine if they were actually developing. In ~4,500 pages of work (excluding the prologue), the White Walkers have consumed less than 50 pages and that's being generous. That's not development, that's ignoring them entirely.
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The show is miles better than the novels, no doubt about it.
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Sure, I think the training will serve a purpose, the storyline just seemed a bit like an afterthought. They had the idea to get Arya to Easteros and the training but then didn't do much with the storyline once she was there.
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Yeah, I was hoping Jon wasn't going to do the stupid thing but I didn't get annoyed when he did because it fits his character. He made it through the mistake and hopefully, will learn something from it and the writers will take advantage of last episode to make the character grow more.
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That sounds right. Really, the Direwolves have been one of the weaker spots of both the show and novels. They were played up to be these amazing creatures but only two of them have a role worth noting, at least as far as I remember: Summer was used by Bran as a key story element and Bran experienced much of his story through Summer's eyes. Also, Summer sacrificed him/herself heroically. Ghost has routinely defended Jon and generally kicked a lot of ass. The other three have been basically useless.
