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Without coming across as an apologist, the lengths you're taking this FO thing is really quite remarkable
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4 in a row!!!! First time in 40 years!!!!! 4 preseason wins and 4 BG10 wins, who'da thunk it, good on Kill and his staff!! This is a very young team and the future can only get brighter, definite boost to recruiting. Could be ranked this week even. Go Gophers!!!
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Anyone who takes a negative view of Israel aggression is a Liberal lefty....on steroids, got it. Yet another clichéd belief that everything Israel does is in response to a shower of rocket fire from Hamas, which justifies the slaughter of whoever gets in the way. Yes Israeli civilians suffer but to ignore how much of it comes at the hand of Israeli provocation is incredibly naive. Not everything comes in response to the alleged terrorists and there is plenty of revisionist history written about Israeli aggression. If Obama makes Khan look like a choir boy then Sharon made him look like Jesus himself. Surrounded by zealots? The original zealots were the Jews, a term that still applies to Likud.
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As opposed to the current crop of players the Twins curently have? Who would you trade and who do you suppose would want said player and for whom?
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Exactly on point.
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You're right, it was "Minor League Hockey Player of the Year". I did check the spelling of "honours"......you're spelling it the wrong way. -
I find the analogies to other workplaces a bit naive, pro sports teams are not like the average workplace and the relationship between the employees has a very different dynamic. The Incognito case is an extreme one and goes beyond what the traditional idea of hazing is. Hazing is really nothing more than a way to encourage bonding and, particularly in the sports world, a way to show ones committment to each other and the team. In some ways it is analogous to the miltary, albeit with vastly lower stakes, but the notion of trust and committment to one another is similar. I'm not comparing playing football or baseball to being in a theatre of war, merely pointing out that they are often synonymous in a metaphorical sense, especially in this instance
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There are always idiots like Incognito who take things too far. For the most part hazing is an innocent tradition that is really not much more than a fraternal club initiation, a right of passage. Are they silly? Sure they are, but they exist in a workplace inhabited by a select, elite group of individuals who are never really asked to "grow up". They do, after all, play children's games for a living.
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And in other news, Abasi Omondi earned similar honours as Kenya's, 2013 Hockey Player of the Year.
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Try 1838......or 1979 for more recent history. Really at the end of the day, the Afghans have never really known peace for very long.
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They have been a great to watch the last few weeks. They have an attitude,the defense swarms the ball and plays hard to the whistle and the offense loves pounding the ball, gotta love the character Kill is instilling in the program. Consider how young that O- line is, going to be a force in a year or two. The best thing about this win is it showed another step forward for Kill and his program. They came off big wins over Northwestern and Nebraska and followed it up by beating a team they should beat, and did. That is a huge indicator that you believe in who you are and what you are trying to accomplish. Damn that Iowa game got away from them, wish they could play them now, would be a different story. Go Gophers!
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Hi Jack, very gracious of you to be doing this, you obviously love what you do. What type of influence and how much input is asked of your department in relation to the Rule 4 draft?
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Some things are worth the risk...
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Rhetorical question.
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5000 word post just so you could pull out that beauty.......nice!
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Wolfson: Starting pitching on the Twins' radar
twinsnorth49 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
Fool me once, shame on you.....Fool me, you can't get fooled again. George W Bush -
Berardino: Jason Kubel interested in Twins reunion
twinsnorth49 replied to Parker Hageman's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
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I think the Baker not wanting to play here thing was blown way out of proportion, if not being an outright myth. We went around and around on this a year ago and the evidence to support it was pretty thin, pretty much people trying to interpret out of context media bites. I'd welcome Baker back for the right price, which at this point would have to be pretty low. Given that, he'd be a relatively low risk signing.
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Why is it ok for Native Americans to be the only race to be used as sports mascots.? Why was it illegal in the US for Native Americans to practice their religion well into the 70's ,using the very same symbols and ceremonies used by sports franchises during the same period? Isn't this just a simple issue of respect and compassion? It's not a matter of political correctness, it's a matter of common sense. Sports teams that use names and caricatures of a race of people are ignorant and nothing more.
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No more than we know with any certainty that they can't. Let' not pretend some of the best coaches, in any sport, haven't messed up strategy. Stringer makes a good point, is this as good as it gets for Kill's program and can they get the talent? Wins like this matter, they serve as good examples that the program can acomplish things, which can definitely help recruiting, especially locally. With the program he inherited, year 5 is the make or break year, 5 or 6 conference wins would be successful to me by then and moving on to have a shot at the B10 title game beyond that.
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Perhaps he is and yes it is a common occurrence, although by no means a given. I just have this sinking feeling that he's saying it with his fingers crossed behind his back, because he ain't going there.
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Anybody awake yet or shall we just make the Tracey Claeys is really coaching the team, Northwestern had injury issues, Nebraska isn't really that good, excuses now? Three years to rebuild a program and build the culture you envision is ridiculous unless you inherit programs the likes of which Bielema did, which of course do not require a rebuild in any way. Mason did some good things and had productive offenses, his defenses were abhorrent and he had a belief that you could only ever be so good in Minnesota, an attitude felt by the players and student body. It also limited his recruiting, he settled and became comfortable. Kill has been far from perfect and his approach to non-conference play is disappointing but I still believe he is working to achieve a higher standard and a winning culture at Minnesota. The win over Nebraska goes a long way in furthering that.
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That's the win this program has been looking for, a huge boost to Kill and his staff. This win and the win against Northwestern (I know they had some key injuries but still a solid team, ranked 25th only a couple of weeks ago ironically)), serve notice the Gophers are coming.
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Well, the Giants overwhelmed Lincecum. I think that contract will affect the market. I don't know about that. We say that every year when a guy signs early. Everyone tries to portray that as the market. I don't necessarily agree with that. That's one instance. There will be a couple (contracts) that come into play this winter, or fall, and we will all grasp some. But that doesn't mean it sets the market. Usually hate to play the cyncic but it sounds more to me like he's hoping it doesn't set the market, because he won't be in it if it does. Not that I would have advocted signing Lincecum to that deal but if that's what it takes for him, it's not going to get much better.
