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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    They all live in their moms' basements, for sure.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Great post.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I looked into it and yeah, games will occasionally go ten innings if both managers agree to it. Either manager can decline, resulting in a tie game.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Just watched Cruz speak for an hour-plus at CPAC. There is a weird duality in the GOP I cannot understand. Cruz spent half the hour talking about how he will never compromise and the other half of the hour praising Ronald Reagan, a man who compromised constantly to accomplish a goal. He talked about Obama saddling us with massive debt and then literally flipped around and talked about Reagan immediately afterward. Are these audiences really that stupid? They can't all be this ignorant of recent history, can they? I just... I just...
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    It's been that way for awhile, don't know how long. No need for extra innings in the spring, as it's about development and pitch count, not wins. I'm drawing on hazy memories of attending in the 90s and I can't recall a team going into extra innings.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed on both counts.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Sometimes, getting too amped up to prove you should be there can be destructive. There is plenty of time to evaluate Nolasco, there's no need to put too much emphasis on his performance yesterday (and I'm saying this as a person who doesn't like Nolasco, not even a little bit).
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Go here and select a proxy. Change your proxy settings for HTTPS (not http) in Windows or OS X (Google how to do this). Keep the proxy settings window open because you're going to want to disable it in a few minutes. Go to MLB.tv. Select the game, allow it to buffer and authenticate. This takes 10-ish seconds. Once you see the video try to play (it will often stutter because free proxies suck), immediately disable your proxy from the settings window you still have open. This will revert back to your local internet connection for streaming. The video will accept the new connection (your local connection) and begin streaming as expected. MLB.tv, like most authentication services, only authenticates during initialization of the video/service. After you've cleared authentication, you're free and clear to use your local connection. Oh, and don't have a bunch of stuff open while you're doing this. You never know what kind of malicious crap is happening in the VPN and the less data you're sending it for the 1-2 minutes it's active, the better. You can also pay to use a VPN/proxy with enough speed to stream video but I don't really see the point in it.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I was all on board with the Harden signing but it was a real long shot. When I say "risky player with upside", I'm talking about stuff like the Pelfrey signing, except a player with more upside. A "good" Pelfrey is still a mediocre pitcher. Kazmir is the obvious and best example.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    An interesting tidbit about the Pirates, one that Twins fans should acknowledge: The Pirates are playing John Jaso at first base this season. He has played all of three games at first in his MLB career (spread over a half decade of play). He wasn't a first basemen in the minors, either, logging 14 games at first way back in rookie ball (2005). Other teams do it, too. Maybe not quite as haphazardly as the Twins but these kind of positional adjustments aren't unknown to the rest of baseball.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Kevin Correia was fine, really... But, at best, his ceiling is "warm body". A team that bad should also be taking risks on upside players because, well ****, what do they have to lose?
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    That's fair. Benson should have been running hard, the Beresford thing just bugged me. I don't like much of the idolization of Tom Kelly but man, we didn't see much of that under his watch (either Benson or Beresford).
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Absolutely. Different strategies for different needs.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, almost all my stocks are back in the black, if only slightly. Except Tesla. I've taken a beating on Tesla, though I suspected that could happen going into the stock. Between their aggressive expansion and plummeting oil prices, they're in a difficult spot in the short- to mid-term. But Tesla is a ten year stock for me so whatever.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    The majority of the fault definitely lies with Benson but Beresford didn't move. To me, that's an equally horrible breakdown of fundamental baseball. Benson's loafing had more of an in-game impact but Beresford standing there was equally egregious in my eyes. In a bases loaded situation, the on-deck hitter needs to be ready to move on contact and assist the runner as much as possible. It's part of the team game.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    This is too wonderful not to post. Trump in last night's debate: "He hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands, I've never heard of this one before. Look at these hands. Do they look small to you?" Last week's John Oliver. I'll just skip to the good part. Click the link. It's beautiful. https://youtu.be/DnpO_RTSNmQ?t=5m58s
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree it was bad but shouldn't Beresford have been in his line of sight, telling him to slide? It was a bad play all around but I'm not sure 100% of the blame falls at Benson's feet. Most of it, yes... But not all of it.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Absolutely. At this point of the "rebuild" (or whatever you want to call it), the proof is in the pudding. We have entered the world of "results matter". Building the team is no longer an exercise in the abstract; we're at the point where MLB wins are what define the success/failure of the front office. The one caveat being insanely bad luck through injury in the vein of the 2011 Twins or 2014 Rangers. That's the one aspect of an MLB club no team in baseball can control.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm wary of any Vince Coleman comp because the dude was greased lightning. He stole 407 bases his first four years in MLB, which makes any WAR comp... Difficult. In one season, Coleman posted a 3.0 oWAR despite hitting to the tune of a 91 OPS+. But if we're talking bat, that may be a fair comp to Buxton's floor.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    True. I was tempted to go back and edit that word before you responded but ultimately decided it wasn't worth the effort.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    On Nick Gordon: "Gordon has a collection of all-around skills that could eventually conspire to produce one of the top shortstop profiles in the game." What a great way to phrase his toolset. He's not overpowering in any one aspect of the game and it's easy to get down on him for not flashing one gaudy tool at us. But when a shortstop is "pretty good at everything he does", that's a borderline elite player at the position.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    That approach may work, though... Is it terribly different than what the Pirates and Royals have done in recent years? Sure, the Royals traded for Shields but they only won the World Series after he left. Both teams - you can probably throw the Astros in here as well - built aggressively from the farm and relied on internal players for success. Sure, they picked up a player here and there but the truly important players came from within. I don't agree with much of what the Twins have done in recent years but it's far from certain their approach is fundamentally broken. If they win 88 games this season - a real possibility - what does that say about their approach? It's not the route I would have taken the team but personal disagreement is not equivalent to failure. It's simply... Different.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Man, they are bullish on Park.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Those are fair points. I agree with many of them and mildly disagree with a few. I merely wish people were more careful with words. There is no way to interpret this: "stark contrast between how a smart team operates, and how the Twins operate" That doesn't involve the Twins being "not smart".
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Absolutely, if a key exists, hackers will find a way to exploit it for their own use. It's what they do and there's literally billions of dollars to be made by doing it.
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