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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm quickly becoming a Berrios convert myself. But the reality is that he's the youngest pitcher in his current league and we're just now entering "promotion season". Give it a few weeks. Chances are that Berrios ends July in the International League.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    He has 15 starts in A+. He's only 20 years old. It's not as if the Twins have been making him slog through one level a season. The Twins have the youngest pitcher in the Midwest League (Thorpe) and the youngest pitcher in the Florida State League (Berrios). Let's be reasonable here. A little patience goes a long ways.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I haven't played D&D for years. The system was too obviously flawed for me to keep playing, even the 2nd Edition. There are loads of games out there without the unnecessary complexity and imbalance of D&D. Still know a few people who play 3rd edition, though. I gave it a whirl a couple of times, left unimpressed. Still less broken than the Palladium system, though. That was pure crap.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Can't we just be happy about the success of a Twins MiLB player without taking a swipe at the front office for not promoting a 20 year old pitcher to AA after 15 starts? There's still a lot of season left. If Berrios keeps this up, I can't believe the Twins will keep him in Ft Myers for much longer.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Last year, sure. This season Liriano is an injured, negative WAR player. Kevin Correia, despite his obvious flaws and absolutely awful start, has at least been slightly above replacement level.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    The thinking behind the Correia deal wasn't awful. The fact that he was "the guy" they picked up that offseason was, though.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    I wanted Correia out of the rotation badly six weeks ago but in retrospect, the Twins' patience looks like it's paying off. He has built up a small amount of value for the deadline.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Good point. We should petition for a nose amputation now instead of waiting.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    Sometimes things have to go wrong before they right themselves. This offseason, teams will not offer QO because players will accept. But it's hard to deny that this CBA has some pretty gaping holes in it.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Its omission is due to technical difficulties, apparently from our end. We're working with the PP to sort it out.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    That's not really fair. The Twins have signed at least one top 30 guy several years in a row. No, they haven't signed a Sano-type player during that time but they're not out there signing 30 $100,000 or under guys every year.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Buxton. Sano. I'm not only talking about the MLB team. The organization has had a pretty unlucky year.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Agreed. It's bad that I'm surprised to hear he went to the DL just one day after an injury.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    *shakes head in disbelief* This team is so damned unlucky. The moment Mauer gets it going, he goes down.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Big risk but for that price it's hard not to find the signing appealing.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    Ugh. Just ugh. I'm not in love with Firefly like so many of my fellow geeks but it was a pretty good show that deserved a lot better than it received. On that note, so did The Tick, which released during that same period but only made it nine episodes. That show was freakin' hilarious. It deserved so much better.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Man, I was so disappointed that they weren't able to finish the story arc started in the fourth season. The show was cancelled at the wrong time and the network forced the producers to ham-handedly end the series with one of the worst finale episodes ever put on television.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    And the theme song. Good lord, that theme song. Brilliant imagery presented over what might be the most atrocious lyrics ever put to music. It's so bad that my wife and I still joke about it constantly, years after we watched the show. For a minute, we seriously considered walking down the aisle to that song because it would have been so damned hilarious.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    True. Some amount of context for time period is needed for the shows. TNG came from the era of single episode stories. Just a few years later, DS9 was one of the first shows to start spanning seasons with story arcs (X-Files is probably the earliest and best example of this change in approach). In today's time, DS9 holds up better because of this reason. Modern television is capable of so much more nuance than television of just 25 years ago. I rarely watched television as a child because even as a kid, I struggled with the lack of real consequence seen in television stories. Today, I watch more television than I do movies due to the capabilities brought by on-demand television and binge-watching. It allows television producers to create work with the subtlety and consequence of film, only they can do it over years and hundreds of hours of content. Breaking Bad is a shining example of such content.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Ell-Oh-Ell.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep. I'm all in favor of opening negotiations with a low-ball offer but those Norris proposals were insane. You have to start at a point where the other guy listens instead of hangs up and resumes playing Mine Sweeper.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    What's likely is that some jackhole in the Astros organization had a password of "password" or "mom". As rigorous as IT can be about security, it's still only as strong as your dumbest user and as an IT architect, you can only do so much to protect your data. Some of the responsibility falls on the users for not being idiots and doing things like sharing passwords between systems (a compromised password in one system suddenly becomes compromised everywhere it is used), writing down passwords on paper, or emailing sensitive information. On topic, asking for Bundy and Bogaerts for Norris is all sorts of hilarious. I can imagine that more than one phone call ended with "Are you kidding me?" before a click was heard on the other line. Yes, it sometimes does hurt to ask. Any good opening offer should at least pique curiosity, not outright rejection and laughter.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Troy was useless, which is one of my biggest problems with the character. I yearned for the day when she'd squint her eyes and say "I sense hostility" after a first encounter over the com only to have Picard stand up, adjust his uniform, and just backhand her right there on the bridge.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Start in the third season. You will enjoy the hell out of the show and you won't miss anything worth watching.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    I would agree that TNG is probably the most watchable front-to-back but I really enjoyed the bulk of Enterprise as well. I think the show received a raw deal with the writer strike and subsequent cancellation. How it handled the Vulcans was particularly interesting and it turned T'Pol from eye candy to the most interesting character on the show, a Star Trek first. Outside of Uhura and Janeway, by the end she was the most rounded and least annoying female character in the STU. For being a progressive show, ST has a long list of truly awful female characters. A couple of years ago I went back and watched all of Voyager. Damn, that show was horribly racist and boring. Chakotay as the spiritual Native American (UGH) and Torres as the fiery latina were particularly painful to watch.
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