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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    My first goal would be a backup catcher that could spell Suzuki more than once a week. Bullpen help would be nice but I think that can solved internally. And a lot rides on how Santana looks over his next 2-3 starts. If Pelfrey is expendable in late July, consider moving him.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Win 45. Game #: 2015: 84 2014: 99 2013: 101 2012: 105 2011: 96 Also, I believe this win ensures the Twins have a winning record in the first half.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    He suffered a pretty serious brain injury that affected his ability to get up in the morning and not feel dizzy. So maybe that's a valid reason to not put him in a position where people intentionally throw 95 mph baseballs at his face.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    44.2 innings, 42 strikeouts. Discuss.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree that top-down organizations (eg. the federal government) aren't efficient models but the free market doesn't have the right mindset for something as important and necessarily egalitarian as education. Look at the disastrous results we've seen from privatizing the prison system. What have we accomplished with privatization? Better ways to keep people in prison! The problem with the free market is that yes, it's more efficient than a government model... But its primary goal is to make money, not serve the greater good. The prison system is a great example of how the free market fails the public in these situations. Education needs to serve the greater good... So, while I believe that government is a necessary evil here, I think fair distribution of funds from a state level is the most logical (read "least wrong") way to accomplish that goal. It also has the added side benefit of trying 50 different education models and picking the best of the bunch instead of lording over the entire country with One Education System To Rule Them All.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    This is nothing more than observation and/or survivor bias, take your pick. You notice the guys that succeed, you forget the Bobby Kieltys.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Moving funding to the national level might work but I'm always skeptical of the federal government and their ability to rationally implement systems that work for everybody, which is why I generally default to intelligently-implemented state solutions. It's easier to manage the needs of Minnesota than the needs of Minnesota, Alabama, and California in one fell swoop. I agree that Mississippi and Alabama barely have functioning democracies, which is partially why I'm in favor of abandoning them unless national civil rights (which have to be implemented across the board) are in play. Instead of dragging them along with the rest of us as we've done for the past 200 years, let them reach their desired outcome. In the short term, it'd be disastrous but in the long term, I think we'd see the populace revolt to the point that they'd start to catch up with the rest of the country. We've tried negotiating with them for far too long and it simply doesn't work. It's time to try a different approach. Give them what they want and grab some popcorn because it's going to be entertaining in a train wreck sort of way.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm against national education. I think it can be handled more efficiently on the state level and if Mississippi wants to be a ****hole and undereducate their populace, have at it, you friggin' morons. I swear that at least half of my state's rights issues revolve around how much I hate the south and how much of a drag they are on the rest of us. If they want to continue living in a pit of despair, that's not my problem. I care about Minnesota, I don't give a flying **** about backwater Alabama and their 200+ years of trying to drag America backwards at every opportunity. Let them live in their neocon utopia of degraded civil rights, underemployment, and massive wealth inequity. I think the fastest route to killing the horrible neocon/tea party movement is to let them have it, at least on a state level. That'll teach 'em real fast. But I agree that managing educational assets through property taxes is asinine. Not only does it create wild fluctuations in school budgets, it also ensures that states will continue to create an underclass of people through piss-poor education in low-income areas (less property value, less school funding). I think educational assets should be moved more toward the state level and away from the municipal level.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    I look at that list and see a hell of a lot of talent. Some of it should have started getting tryouts in Minnesota a few months ago. We can't expect Oliveros to step into the seventh inning role right off the bat so getting him up here in May or early June should have been a priority... Instead, we saw the Twins put him into the Rochester rotation for a few games and then he got suspended for beaning someone. Sigh.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    If the Twins get back onto a roll, I might start doing this after the ASB.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    I wouldn't. The idea was sound and that's what matters. In baseball, good ideas often don't work but that doesn't mean you trash the idea because it failed once.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    This is how I feel as well. I'd like to see benefits expanded in many cases but there has to be an exit strategy in place. I don't have a lot of great ideas how to go about that but more extensive education benefits seem a reasonable place to start. I also believe that welfare recipients should continue receiving a partial paycheck after they start working. Wean them off the benefits slowly and give them an incentive (more money) to get back to work. If you get a job that pays the same as welfare benefits, why leave welfare? If you give them welfare money on top of the job's paycheck for, let's say a year of decreasing benefits, that's an incentive to get out there and work. Will those ideas work for every person on the dole? No, of course not... But that's not the point. There are always going to be the "slackers" in society who leech from the system. In a socialist world (and we are in a socialist world), that's the reality of it. We should work on incentivizing getting off welfare in a positive manner, not punishing people because we've tried punishment and it doesn't work (and I'm against the idea of punishing poor people for being poor in the first place). Again, I'm very pragmatic about this issue. What turns the most people from societal leeches into tax-paying citizens? To me, the money spent doesn't matter so much as the later return on that money. Whatever has the end result of getting people back to work and paying taxes is the best idea.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Win 44. Game #: 2015: 83 2014: 94 2013: 100 2012: 102 2011: 93 The only team to reach even 47 wins by the 100 game mark was 2011.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    They also lost because they have a bunch of bad pitchers in the bullpen and Molitor can't use Perkins in every situation of every game. As for Santana, very few managers put him out there for the ninth. For all intents and purposes, this was an early April start for him. He needs to ease into games a bit and while 93 pitches doesn't seem like a lot, 8 innings is a lot. That's 8 times where Ervin warmed up, threw pitches, and then sat and cooled off.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Does anyone have a link where Molitor talks about May's role in the pen? If they put him in the long role, that's idiotic.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    I. Hate. Bunts.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, the breaking stuff will come last. Good to hear the velocity is there.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    How does Santana look out there? I'm not near a television.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, this. One the Twins got 11-12 games over .500, the likelihood of them finishing with under 75 wins became microscopic.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    The bullpen massively over performed for 6-8 weeks and many of us said a regression was in the cards. I wonder what the splits look like in June.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    After April and May, I think 75 is a given. It would require a monumental collapse that we didn't see even in the darkest days of 2011-2014.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm still of the mindset that I'll be thrilled with 82 wins.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, that's a win. Steal tomorrow's game and the Twins are inexplicably back in this thing.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Defnitely. Going this direction is a roll of the dice, that's for sure.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    As long as he does it while facing his first batter, I consider that a quality Duensing appearance.
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