Brock Beauchamp
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"Stunned"? They have a future HoFer on the roster, play in an incredibly weak division (that is only going to get weaker as Detroit's high dollar players age), and have the best farm system in baseball. Frankly, I'd be stunned if they didn't see the postseason at least once in the next 5-6 years. -
I think it's safe to say that Ryan has learned a couple of things since the Rodriguez trade that occurred nearly two decades ago.
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Really? I thought it was a decent thing for Ryan to do. Let an aging slugger and general all-around good guy go back to a team he wants to play for that had an outside shot at the playoffs. Sometimes, life it about more than just squeezing the world for all it will give.
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Mauer on paternity leave until Tuesday
Brock Beauchamp replied to notoriousgod71's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
The guy's kids are more important than a few baseball games. -
Trevor Plouffe and Ryan Braun best friends
Brock Beauchamp replied to darin617's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I'm no expert on steroids but I'm pretty sure they don't work like Popeye eating a can of spinach. -
Perkins is signed for about $5m a year. That's basically nothing by MLB standards. The risk in his contract "going south" are virtually nil because it won't hurt even the cheapest of teams too badly.
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This situation is pretty uncommon in several ways, I think.
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One of the things that stood out about the last GATG podcast was Aaron mentioning that Perkins' contract might be too long to get proper value for it. I've been thinking about the same thing for awhile now (actually, since the Span situation last season)... That Perkins having 3 1/2 seasons on his contract will offer little in value over Perkins having 1 1/2 (or 2 1/2) seasons on his contract. For some reason, GMs seem to undervalue longer-term contracts at the deadline, as if they're so transfixed on fixing this season that they overlook potential needs in future seasons, even if the overall value is much higher for the franchise. I don't expect Perkins to go anywhere. If anything, he is moved in the offseason, the same as Span.
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I'm not necessarily advocating year-round schools as much as I'm advocating a longer school year. The US goes to school for less days than most other industrialized countries. The side effect is that nine month school would be largely eliminated. My point about faculty is about support staff, not teachers. I'm all for more teachers. I'm not in favor of $150k principal salaries (but even principals are better than district-level employees, who swallow up too much money that should be directed straight to the schools themselves).
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I've always believed that we need to start with education. Tear the throat out of the American education system. Break the teacher's union who fight every change, whether it's good for the kids or not. Pay teachers a competitive wage to attract more of the best and brightest. Destroy the faculty system that eats far too many of the school's resources for so little direct involvement with the kids. Restructure this asinine 185 day school year that is based around friggin' farm seasons. Stop basing school funding on property tax revenue. I mean, COME ON. Blow the whole damned thing up. It's a long-term fix but IMO, it's the smartest fix we could make.
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I'm not absolving people of their crimes at all. They need to be punished for committing a crime. On the other hand, society should try harder to give poor people (poor black people in particular) better options that don't involve committing crimes. When you have nothing, no one around you has nothing, and there are no prospects for you to ever have anything, why not commit a crime? At that point, what do you really have to lose as a person? Your freedom? Who cares? To dissuade people from committing a crime, first you have to make their life outside jail of a high enough quality where they actually feel as if they're losing something by going to jail. Increasing punishment isn't a deterrent because their life outside jail is so awful to begin with. It's like threatening to take away a blind man's eyeglasses as extra punishment. What does he care?
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Agreed. While the type of subversive racism I've talked about mostly needs to dealt with on a personal level, the biggest cure for racism in America is fixing the increasing gap in socio-economic status. Being poor is a huge hurdle... Being poor and black (as so many are)... well, you're pretty much screwed at that point. Narrow that gap a bit and many of the racism problems start to dissipate a little. It won't make them go away but it will help a whole bunch.
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Well, to refute your point succintly: Black men are punished far more harshly than their white counterparts for the same crime. It's not that they're punished a little more... They're punished a lot more. I know you're not doing this intentionally but you're kinda blaming black people for being... well, black. This isn't entirely a "black problem" (though I'm certainly not refuting that culture does play a part in this situation). It's an "everybody problem". White people need to stop treating black people differently. The middle class needs to stop looking down at the poor. Black people need to re-evaluate who they look up to and respect within their own communities as role models. This is on everybody. It's way to easy to cast blame for one thing or another but when we get right down to it, this problem is way too big to be the fault of any one group of people (though it's hard to deny that white men share the biggest slice of the blame for this one).
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We've all done it. I've caught myself doing it more times than I can count. Hell, most of my black friends admit that they do it. It's almost an instinctual reaction and that's just wrong... But it will never be fixed unless we make a conscious decision to do it and opening discourse about it is the only way to make that happen. Trying to brush every race-related thing under the rug because the peg doesn't fit the hole just right isn't going to get us anywhere.
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Toyota Roll Over Ad
Brock Beauchamp replied to B Richard's topic in Twins Daily Issues & Suggestions
I know how frustrating those things can be. I've spent 20 minutes googling "Toyota" and browsing their site and I can't get the damned thing to appear for me. MEH. -
Actually, I think this point is exactly why race should be talked about in this case. It's not that Zimmerman is a blatant racist; he may or may not be... I don't really know. It's the kind of creeping, pervasive racism that is really a problem in this country. We look down at people who walk around, using the N-word and outwardly speaking out against black people. That's not the problem. Those people are easily identified and called out as racist by the general public. What should be the real concern in the Zimmerman trial is "Would he have followed a white kid?" He may have, he may not have... We don't know. But, given the plethora of evidence we have as a society, there was a higher chance that he'd view a black child suspiciously. As a society, we still have a real problem with the casual perception of race; black people are generally viewed more negatively than white people, even when they're just going about their day doing normal things. And that's a huge problem. And that's why we need to talk about these kinds of things. The Zimmerman case might not be the best example but it's in the public eye and we shouldn't pass up the opportunity to think and talk about why we perceive these inequalities as a society because they sure aren't going to fix themselves if everybody just keeps quiet about it.
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He's fascinating and only seems to become moreso in time. All of his peripherals are showing improvement over last season except strikeouts, where he's turned into Nick-freakin-Blackburn. I don't get it. I just enjoy watching him pitch and leave it at that. Predicting what he'll do next is a good way to drive yourself crazy, I think.
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Well, I think you need to evaluate actual results but if a guy gets hit by a bus and ends his career, you can't hold that against the GM. Weird crap happens and unexpected injuries occur. The Santana pick-up was a risky one because of the money and pitchers often blow up in a front office's face... But Johan had shown to be a pretty sturdy guy. If you're going to take a risk on a pitcher, there was no reason it shouldn't be him. But if the guy goes out and pitches well and remains injury-free, the GM's decision shouldn't be written off as entirely "lucky", either. Results matter.
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I'm sure guaranteed contract money weighs more heavily than possible endorsement money but as someone who has lived in both Los Angeles and the Twins Cities, I can tell you that there is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyy more money to be had in LA. Sports stars do not lack for endorsements (particularly when you factor in that LA doesn't even have a football team). Hell, even middling players seem to get more than their fair share of endorsements out there.
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To boot, endorsement money in the LA area is worth quite a bit more than endorsement money in the TC area. Money has more to it than just the amount written on the contract.
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Blatant violation of the rules immediately following two moderators telling the thread to cool it. I mean, come on.
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Okay, this conversation needs to steer itself into a more productive direction or the thread is going to be locked. If it continues down this path, locks and bans and all that fun stuff will be handed out. Tread lightly.
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Article: Trading Perkins Makes Too Much Sense
Brock Beauchamp replied to twinstalker's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Yep. Even the Santana move was a good one, as they didn't give up much in return. Going the free agency route would have been a fine solution for Kansas City. They might not have gotten a Shields-level pitcher given their payroll restraints but they would have improved the rotation and the lineup by picking up a Tier B pitcher and slotting Myers into the lineup. -
For the first 200 years of this nation's history, nobody really complained about conceal and carry permits being very restrictive. Only in the past 30 years have we inexplicably decided that people should be allowed to carry firearms around in public pretty much anywhere they please. This isn't a Constitutional situation. I'm not saying we should restrict who can buy that gun, only that we restrict whether that person can carry it into a packed movie theatre after they passed a test that involved little more than "this is the end that goes bang". The second amendment covers the right to own a firearm, not to do as you please with it at the expense of those around you. The courts of this nation didn't have any problems with states saying that people can't carry firearms in public (and, seeing as many states still have restrictive laws on the books regarding such matters, they still don't). I'm not advocating that the Federal government start clamping down on states for playing fast and loose with carry laws, I'm only suggesting that it's in everybody's best interest if states self-regulate and use a little common sense instead of trumpeting "you'll pry my gun from my cold dead hands" every time somebody even mentions that maybe we shouldn't let fringe nutjobs walk around with a loaded Colt 1911 all day long.
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TK has a very keen baseball mind but he's boring to listen to for more than a few minutes if you're not a hardcore fan (and after awhile, he will test the patience of even the most hardcore of fans). And let's face it, we're in the extreme minority here. We don't care about presentation nearly as much as in-depth content... But the average fan doesn't share that sentiment.
