Brock Beauchamp
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This thread wasn't meant to be an indictment of the NL, though it has turned into that... I was just pointing out how crazy it is to have just one 90 loss team in a league.
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I just noticed the AL is going to finish the season with just one 90 loss team, Oakland. The NL is likely to have six. Crazy.
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A backup catcher would have been nice but I'm more concerned about 2016 and finding a legitimate replacement for Suzuki (or at least a guy who can split duty with Kurt). Herrmann and Fryer have received all of 53 plate appearances combined in the second half of the season. Their impact on the team has been negligible. -
Not Jepsen, no... But they certainly could have done more with the pen. I will never understand why they were so reluctant to give Oliveros a shot and instead moved him into the Rochester rotation where his season quickly unraveled.
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C+/B-. Ultimately, I like where the team ended up, I merely wanted them to get there 4-6 weeks earlier. That's my biggest sticking point with the deadline. The problems were there in early May yet very little was done to patch any of the holes until July 31st.
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Which Loss Do You Want Back Right Now?
Brock Beauchamp replied to John Bonnes's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I wasn't against the May spot start because I thought they were moving him back into the rotation. When I found out they weren't, my opinion changed. -
My point is an addendum to Ashbury's post. We shouldn't forget one simple tenet of capitalism: money begets more money begets power begets even more money. Companies and people who gain too much money and power are often a detriment to the system, not a benefit... and we've been dancing with the devil far too long in this regard. Our news, devices, and services are delivered and controlled by far too few, both on personal and corporate levels. Simply put, the consolidation of power has gone too far in this country (and world, as the US is not entirely unique in this regard).
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Yep. I don't think any of us are predicting it - none of us want it to happen because of the ugly ramifications of such an event - but if things continue down this path for too long, it's almost inevitable. We've seen 35+ years of overly pro-business American government. It's time for the pendulum to swing back in the other direction.
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If you follow the tech industry, Google Maps is the rarity nowadays (and was built largely from outside tech acquired by Google). Most of the Google services you use did not actually *originate* within the walls of Mountain View. You know how most new products are started today? Google looks at a small operating named "Android" and says "NEAT!" Google buys that little operating system for a few million bucks. A pittance to Google, really. Google profits massively by leveraging the rest of their assets into making Android a success. Not only does Android make a little bit of money but more importantly, it allows the rest of Google to make even more money through bundled services. Google sees next new little project and says "NEAT!". Google buys that company, partially with the money they've made with their last acquisition, Android. Continue snowball process ad infinitum. The tech industry, like too many industries in the world, is based more on the "startup and sell" concept than they are branching out into a useful, independent service. Our overlords become fewer by the day. That's not a good longterm solution for anyone. Like Ashbury said, that first million is really hard. The 100th million, not so much. That principle doesn't only work on the individual level, it is also employed extensively at the corporate level.
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WE NEED TO SUPPORT OUR TROOPS (with bajillion dollar jets that barely work and tanks the Pentagon doesn't want)
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I think the GOP base is smarter than that. I'm not saying I think they're smart... Maybe "less dumb" than that is a better way to put it. Ted Cruz is completely unelectable on the national stage. The GOP, while they're good at bluster and talking up fringy candidates, will end up more toward the middle in the general election, just as they did in 2008 and 2012. Though I'd laugh my ass off if Cruz somehow won the nomination. I think the best thing that could happen to the modern GOP is for them to lose in a spectacular and embarrassing fashion... something like a 45-6 loss would make me very happy. It may be the only way to move the party back toward the middle and stop letting the most insane members of the party run the show. Republicans have put themselves in one hell of a pickle this election. They had a slew of laughably unelectable candidates - Trump, Cruz, Walker, etc. - and one man whose last name will scare away voters in record numbers. No way does a man with the last name of "Bush" walk into the White House in the next decade.
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Which Loss Do You Want Back Right Now?
Brock Beauchamp replied to John Bonnes's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
This is the (almost) obvious winner. That botched idea directly led to May being unavailable for the entirety of the Yankees series as we saw the Twins' pen implode spectacularly. That single decision led to multiple losses. Honorable Mention: Perkins in the A's game after the break. -
What I don't understand is why you can come up with reasonable ideas in a five minute post yet in the 20+ years of my political voting life, no politician has done the same thing. It's more than a little bit infuriating.
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Pot, Gay Marriage and Overturning the supreme court
Brock Beauchamp replied to DaveW's topic in The Sports Bar
Yep. I know several people who are complete burnouts because they smoked all the damned time. I also know several people who are productive human beings and smoke several nights a week. There are negatives to weed, just as there are negatives to any mind-altering chemical. I have yet to hear someone could up with a legitimate argument how weed is different than alcohol. Given the enormous amount of cash involved here - both in taxes and reduced expenditures fighting illegal drug importation - I don't understand why anyone is against the legalization of marijuana in 2015. It makes all the sense in the world... And this is coming from a person who can't stand the stuff and thinks it's one of the most boring highs I've ever felt while under the influence of a drug. -
Eh, I don't like it much. First off, we need to stop talking about reducing the number of tax brackets. That's stupidity talking and pandering of the worst kind. You what takes all of three seconds to figure out? Your tax bracket. It's a ****ing chart with lines of numbers, man. But... It's a somewhat clever way to mask "let's cut taxes on the upper brackets by reducing them entirely" and framing it in a "simplifying the tax code!" plan. But I agree that exemptions need to be cut and the tax code needs to be simplified... But Jesus H. Christ, how many times do we have to go through this "cut taxes on the rich!" garbage? We've made significant attempts to cut taxes on the rich twice in my lifetime: Reagan and Dubya. Guess which two presidents saw the deficit skyrocket during their presidencies? Reagan and Dubya. Republicans need to stop pushing policy we've seen fail multiple times. It's tiresome and stupid... Almost as tiresome and stupid as voters continuing to fall for it.
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Ah, I see Ash already referenced his name. Schaefer.
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There's actually a rule stating that a runner cannot retake a base behind him once he has advanced to another base. It was created after some oddity in the early 20th century when a baserunner stole second, then first, then second again. I believe he was attempting to disrupt the pitcher.
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An interesting point. It certainly seems counter intuitive.
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I honestly do not understand half this post. These are my points: 1. I never heard a Twins fan call Morneau lazy or unmotivated when he failed to come back from a concussion and be productive, yet I hear it about Mauer all the time. That's what I meant when I mentioned "fan attitudes"... and you seem to be taking that one phrase completely out of context of the 6-7 paragraph post in which it was contained. http://twinsdaily.com/topic/20211-mauer-lack-of-training-and-overflow-of-excuses-catching-up-to-him/?p=406344 2. Morneau failed to be productive long after he reported he no longer had concussion symptoms. That's it. Those are my points. PS. What does Morneau's 2015 concussion have to do with anything? Why'd you even bring it up? PPS. As far as I remember, Joe Mauer never used the phrase "bi-lateral weakness". That was all Bill Smith.
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You're completely correct in that Joe would have missed a significant amount of time this season had he received another concussion.
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*groan* Perkins is struggling because he used to be a 95mph pitcher who now sits at 93mph much of the time. Is part of that due to injury? Age? I don't know but I doubt he's struggling because he can't "man up", whatever the hell that means anyway.
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Even during his best seasons - 2009 excluded - I always believed Joe was best suited to the second spot in the lineup. But fans have always been rough on Joe; probably because he's more of a new-age player who succeeds by not making outs, I suppose. The criticism has intensified in the wake him becoming an average to below average player but there were always a significant group of Twins fans who rode Mauer for no good reason.
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Must Read Reusse: Mauer Contributions
Brock Beauchamp replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Yep. Joe is, in a sense, getting very lucky. He's not performing much better than his 2015 line but has managed to reach base in 40+ consecutive games. -
No, you can't compare one concussion to another but the point is Morneau never returned to being the player he was before the concussion, even after the symptoms were long gone. I find it baffling that people will accept Morneau's concussion and his subsequent struggles but refuse to give Joe the same benefit of the doubt, yet their production dropped in very similar ways. Both players stopped hitting the ball hard the moment they suffered a concussion. Hard hit doesn't factor in shifts or any of the defense measures taken against a hitter. It's how well the player squares up on a pitch thrown to him. Both Joe and Justin stopped squaring up on pitches after getting a knock to the head. Just because one concussion looked worse and knocked out one player for longer than the other doesn't mean the same permanent effects don't exist. These are brain injuries and we're barely scratching the surface of what they do to players over the course of their lives. We have no idea if that was Joe's first concussion or his eighth. We have no idea if that was Justin's first concussion or his eighth. They both played positions and sports where concussions are prevalent and writing off Joe's struggles because he says "I feel fine" is ignoring the elephant in the room because Justin said the same things multiple times, yet he never returned to his pre-concussion ability.
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Okay, there is a lot of misinformation in this post. Morneau played parts of three seasons with the Twins post-concussion. This is Joe's second year post-concussion. As for Morneau being symptom-free, a quick Google search turned up this in June of 2012, less than two years after Justin's concussion: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/former-al-mvp-justin-morneau-beat-concussions-for-now-but-is-tortured-by-his-failures-against-lefties.html "And whereas a return to normal life – no headaches, no vertigo, no nausea, no mental lapses – represents a normal goal for those who have suffered multiple concussions like Morneau, normalcy is not something to which he aspires." December of 2012: http://www.1500espn.com/sportswire/Justin_Morneau_is_miles_ahead_of_where_he_was_last_offseason122712 "Morneau was able to put the concussion issues behind him early on, and his surgically-repaired wrist stopped bothering him sometime in the middle of the season." So... Yeah. Justin gets a pass for a brain injury while Joe's struggles are because he doesn't train hard enough.
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