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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, I don't know how I feel about this, really. I hated Berenthal's character in TWD. It's going to take some time to get over how much I hated him in that role. Hopefully, he shows up a few times in DD and puts in a strong performance so I can get the bad taste out of my mouth.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    The police did not murder the woman. They had no motive to do it and they probably didn't even know she was on the property. There's no reason they'd kill her, not without going waaaaaayyy down a conspiracy rabbit hole. It's far-fetched to believe police intentionally frame people for crimes... But what is possible - maybe even likely - is that they find "their guy" and then build a case around that person's guilt, reasonable or not. As I mentioned earlier, if you're right 99% of the time - and police generally are because criminals are pretty stupid and obvious - how do you stay vigilant and identify the 1% of the time you're wrong? That's what the police did to Avery in 1985. It's not that police are corrupt - a few are but most aren't - it's that when you're right so often and do whatever it takes to get "your man", it's hard to step back from the situation and spot the small percentage of times when you're wrong. And if the suspect is poor and/or stupid, the legal system doesn't do enough to defend that person against a police force and prosecution that is determined to convict. I don't believe most of the actions in this documentary are borne out of malice, I think most of the problems stem from intellectual laziness. The cops do this kind of **** all the time but the overwhelming majority of the time, they're right. They get the right guy. So what can we do to protect people when they're wrong? How do we implement stronger checks and balances in the system? That's the real lesson to be learned here, IMO.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    This is where the documentary falls short for me. We didn't see the prosecution's case. Why not? Obviously, there is something in there the documentarians didn't want the audience to see. I'm almost certain the case against Avery was more substantial than what was shown to us. Which is why, again, I feel the real lesson in Making a Murderer is how stupid, poor people don't stand a chance in our legal system... Whether Avery is guilty - and I believe he probably murdered the woman - is a side note to me. We simply do not have enough information to make an educated judgment on the matter because huge swaths of information was intentionally withheld from us.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    How have I never read this article before now? Great read. Not only does it highlight just how good Mauer was behind the plate, it talks extensively about Carter, another guy who rarely gets the respect he deserves.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, this. I wish he was better defensively - though it appears he has improved - but he's an acceptable bench guy. I'm not sure what people expect from a bench player. If he was better, he'd be starting somewhere.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    If Sano can play third, I agree. I'd keep Plouffe at third most of the time because he gets much of his value from defense (and the goal in 2016 is to win as many games as possible) but I'd try to work Sano in at the hot corner twice a week or so.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    The late season moves (or lack thereof) irked me but what really chapped me was the lack of movement earlier in the season, particularly revolving around Oliveros. Instead of finding a spot for him in a MLB bullpen walking a tightrope, they moved him to the Rochester rotation. Argh.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I see your point but this is only important if the Twins permanently move Sano off third base. If he was 26 or 27, I'd be worried he's done with third forever, a la Michael Cuddyer... But he's only 22 years old. I don't like the idea of moving a 22 year old slugger off-position but I don't think it will kill him, either.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I wanted to see a Plouffe trade explored but after what happened at third this offseason, holding on to him was probably the smart move. Trading a decent player for junk just so you can slide another player into his place isn't a good way to run a franchise.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    They don't only need players to rebound, they need guys going into their mid-30s (Kinsler, Cabrera) to not regress. They also won't get partial seasons from good players such as Price and Cespedes in 2016. It's possible the Tigers are respectable this season. It's also possible, maybe likely, they continue to nose dive. It's hard to keep winning when the bulk of your best players are well into their 30s.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    2014 Tigers: 90 wins2015 Tigers: 74 wins You're underestimating how quickly and violently the aging curve can hit a team. Not to pat myself on the back but at this time last year I said "the Tigers were good in 2014 but if there's a team in the ALC poised to collapse, it's them". The Tigers might rebound and be a decent team in 2016 but I'm not going to hold my breath in hopes a team with a *bunch* of players well into their 30s are going to magically rebound at the same time.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Really, I'm fine with anything between 76-88 wins for a prediction. I have no idea what to expect from this team. It could implode right off the bat as players regress and/or don't develop or everything could click together as Buxton, Arcia, and Park dominate while Meyer and Burdi turn the pen into a beast and Berrios makes a run at RotY. *shrugs*
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    The Giants and Dodgers also had a reason to move. NY had too many teams and baseball was suffering from down times in the 1950s as stadiums aged, surrounding neighborhoods deteriorated, and White Flight took hold. I can see why Brooklyn was heart-broken but did anyone even care about the Giants?
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, this. As for the Chargers, as a former San Diego resident it's hard to describe how it infuriates me to see them move to LA. It's also exactly what I expected from the Chargers and their terrible ownership.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    That's virtually impossible, as the win range is 78-85 games. At least one, probably two, of the teams are going to finish at or near .500. If you project every team to be close to .500, you'll be "nearly right" about half the time.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    One thing people tend to forget is that teams finishing a rebuild often resemble a "cobbled mess". Older, decent players are still on the roster, young prospects are fighting for jobs, and very little is certain in the short-term. I wouldn't have built the Twins' roster as it stands today but I won't bash Ryan for it too much, either (not including the bullpen in the latter part of this statement). He's trying to prevent single points of failure (as in promoting a guy like Hicks with no one to back him up if he fails... No big deal on a 69 win team, a much bigger deal on an 81 win team). Most of these "issues" will sort themselves out in the first two months of the season as guys succeed, fail, and get injured.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    All I know is that one team will win more than 85 games and one team will win less than 78 games. I also struggle to believe the Indians and Sox will top the division. I just don't see it, particularly the White Sox.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    I expect regression due to BABIP but with those peripherals, he should still post good numbers. And let's not forget how undeveloped Max was and that he's only entering his age 23 season. In 2015, he hit a whopping 47 2B/3B and only 9 HR. There's a good chance as he approaches his mid-20s, those doubles and triples start going over the fence with more frequency.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    I could see Kepler spending most, if not all, of 2016 in the minors. It all depends on the play of two players. Byron Buxton: Well, duh. Oswaldo Arcia: If he bounces back at all, he could cement himself into the lineup for the entire season, which pinches Kepler quite a bit. On the other hand, it's possible Rosario regresses in a brutal, painful fashion and we see the two previous players get regular time and Kepler replaces Rosario, not the other two guys.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Jon has to be alive or it's one of Martin's worst bits of storytelling in the entire series. If Jon is dead, his entire story arc is pointless. He's a character that wanders around for five books and dies. His only legacy is bringing people south of the wall and that's not much of a story arc. If Martin needlessly erases a character he tricked audiences into caring about for damned near 5,000 pages, he deserves to be taken to task for it. That's horrible storytelling and betrays reader trust even more than previous deaths did earlier in the series.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    That's kinda every survival story ever, though... Including many true-life stories. If a survival story is worth telling, it requires highly improbable events to take place or no one cares.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Empire is possibly a 10/10. It's damned close to a perfect action adventure movie. ANH is either an 8 or 9, probably.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I'd probably put it fourth, maybe third if I was really hating the Ewoks that day. It was too derivative to go higher than ANH and nothing touches Empire.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    I was saying Bonds was better than Clemens before (and after, while we're at it) steroid use.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    That wasn't my point, but okay. I merely pointed out that Bonds was a multi-faceted beast (and the better player) before steroids came into the picture. He wasn't the better player by a lot but people tend to underrate Bonds' early seasons due to his post-steroids video game numbers. The guy accumulated something like 100 WAR before his age 35 season. From what I remember of the situation, Bonds was late to the steroids game. He started juicing later after getting pissed that everybody else was doing it and, in typical Bonds fashion, felt slighted by the lack of attention given to him.
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