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Plouffe getting hot at a good time........can you hear me TR?

I lost the bet.

That's good? Bad? Can't tell.

Ooh yer smrt

Yes, under the super advanced section. ......or was it remedial, I can't remember now dammit.

I checked into it, you've said this before.....more than once.

Most Twins games I watch are in full descent.

I agree work ethic has nothing to do with age, but experience often has a lot to do with age. What it takes to be a professional athlete is a learning experience. I see nothing to suggest that Sano is A. Overweight B. Out of shape C. Poorly prepared You continue to stretch a single detail to mean much more than it seems to indicate. I have nothing against millenials and have many good ones working for me. They all have much to learn however, and that's perfectly ok.

None of us have any idea what Sano weighs, let's just all admit that. Personally I think too many assumptions are being made about his 23 year old character because he failed to lose a requisite amount of weight set out by the Twins. To take that and infer he is lazy and uncommitted is pretty presumptuous imo, not to mention highly questionable. He sure looks like he takes his game seriously and we quickly forget what this kid had to do to even get to this stage given where he comes from. The outfield experiment was a disaster that should have never occurred, even TR has pretty much recognised that at this point. Had that absurd decision never been made we wouldn't even be talking about this and it's likely the Twins wouldn't have even asked Sano to lose any weight.

Mod note, tone down the snark and personal attacks or warning points will be handed out.

I don't think that is likely at all, but I don't really think you probably do either.

"No question it's 3rd base", should have been his statement last November. I still don't know why it wasn't, I wonder if he does?

CBU Gold medal champs!! Cinderella story, came through the B side with 5 straight wins baby!!

Sorry for your loss Bark. Strength.

Double win, daughters team just won their softball semi-final 6-4 on a 3- 3-5 triple play!! Unreal, play for gold later tonight!

The team is a hot mess, and the guy who got it in said mess, should not be the guy to get them out of it This team has me yearning for 2011 for God's sake.

Well, that changes everything then.

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As if there already wasn't enough reasons not to read Souhan, this one should seal the deal for anyone still interested.

Um, there's something wrong with the scoreboard.

What'd I miss? Other than the usual I mean.

It's certainly helped by the fact it's as easy to buy a gun as a vending machine soda. If I can make someone have to do the extra work to find a way to kill a bunch of people as opposed to making it simple for them, I'm all for it. Maybe someone notices a person doing an awful lot of legwork on ways to kill 6 year olds, maybe they don't , but I'd rather give myself that opportunity than to just hand the gun over the counter to them. If saying banning guns is a lazy argument against gun deaths, then so is the, "they'll just find something else anyway" one. That's just an excuse to maintain the status quo and have it your way. Many issues contribute to why the people who do these things do them, I honestly don't think you need to tell most of the people on this board that, they get it. But while we idealistically try to work on curing humanity I think trying to do something in the interim that at least might help to reduce or avoid these tragedies is probably a good idea. If the social cost of that is you can't own a rocket launcher or that you risk facing the oppressive tyranny of the government, then I think in the grand scheme of things it's probably one most people are willing to live with. At least when the alternative is just a whole lot of talk. I realise I live in Canada, and I probably have a pretty good idea of what your opinion on that is, regardless, we too have socio-economic issues, growing disparities in wealth, challenges in the areas of mental health care, not to mention a 3rd world level issue of poverty with our indigenous people. What we also have are fairly stringent gun laws, and while we admittedly still experience our fair share of gun related deaths, I believe they play a role in preventing more of them from occurring. Which in my opinion allows us to focus more on the real reasons that cause them, instead of endlessly arguing about why owning an assault rifle is fair or not.

Nobody believes this will stop all of these events, but making it more difficult to obtain a gun will reduce them, it works in other countries. Sadly, you're response smacks of nothing but cynicism. It may come across as a "let's get real here people" approach, but it's just cynical.