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Very. Old buddy from college, we have been having the Gallo debate for years on end. We do random bets every once in awhile on obscure things: For instance if trump isn't our next POTUS somehow I win $5,000 If johnnny Manziel AND Tim Tebow never start another game at QB I win $100 I did lose the "twins win more games then the royal bet" 3 years running now with him
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I have maintained from day 1 that Biden was the correct choice. He would have destroyed trump with 330+ Electoral votes. I don't think Hillary was perfect, but for your claim that the country has moved so far liberal? Source needed for sure. The idea that Bernie would have won hands down is pretty absurd. Biden? Wins in a landslide. Hell even Hillary won in a landslide with 2.8 mil more votes
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Everything I have heard is Kinsler is not an option...take that for what you will... -
This is what it comes down to more than anything IMO. Good people actually caring about not only other people in this country, but around the globe. Very well said Bark.
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Lot of Cuban conservatives in Penn, Wisconsin and Michigan? Sorry to burst your bubble, but Bernie would have been a terrible general election candidate in pretty much ANY year. His foreign policy experience and plans were non existent (though certain better than Trump...but then again so is anyones) He ran on a platform of forgiving student loan debt point blank and "making college free", jeez, I'm sure the blue collar working class loved to hear that. He talked about raising the minimum wage, which is fine, but again, he wouldn't have been able to appeal to the 45 year old steel worker in PA. Plus frankly? His tax plans were asinine. I mean, I suppose if the Dems KNEW from the jump that Trump was going to win the nomination they could make the argument that Bernie was set up as the better candidate to "beat" him, (though I still doubt it, since Hillary won the popular vote by 2.9 million at last check), but Bernie would have been a terrible GE candidate pretty much no matter who he ran against. His ideas, while noble are frankly unrealistic in 2016. Small steps...small steps...
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This actually confirms my source as well, as they have been saying the Dodgers have made their "final" offer and it's in the Twins court, but the Twins keep coming back in re: to third piece (and potential 4th) Of course, final offers in early December are hardly final offers usually. But this does help confirm that it's the Twins holding out for more. Always nice to get a second source. As a Twins fan: I applaud them, they have the leverage. Though I do want to see this deal done soon!
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Typical spin coming from the team via a friendly media member. They are fine with trading DeLeon 100%
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Ditto, I also have a $500 bet with a buddy (Rangers Rube) on Gallo's career K rate: I took the over on 26%! I don't want to have to root for him to hit the under someday.
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No that was my title (under my name) I got filtered to statfreak101 during one of our epic arguments.
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The "bernie progressives" cost Hillary the election almost as much as Russia did IMO. It led to a lot of people staying home on election day, or throwing their vote away on Stein or Johnson,
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I wish I had more news though. I get the feeling that my buddy/source is holding something back, apparently this thread has been spoken of by at least one of the two front offices involved....
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The delay is annoying, but there isn't a hard ticking clock on this anyways. Dodgers obviously have been busy the last 48 hours as well. No major updates: deal is still on table, no "deadline" has been placed.
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I love how people who acknowledge global warming is the new communist.
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Oh no! I didn't think that at all. I was responding to your comment about (you) not wanting to come off sounding "un American" Definitely on the same page. Sorry if I was a little unclear.
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Questioning terrible decisions by the govt isn't un-American at all, in fact I think it's much more "pro-American" then idiots who stand by the phrase "God Bless America and no place else" or send death threats to athletes who kneel during the anthem. My main hope is that we find out during these next four years that even with a terrible president and a terrible cabinet, America will continue to be a great country because of it's people. If anything too crazy gets suggested or starts going down, the people can resist, fight back and right the ship. I mean my parents generation (and the ones just slightly before them) are the ones behind the civil rights movement and helped end the Vietnam War. IF **** goes south, the people can "win" again, just the small victory in North Dakota last week gives me a little bit of hope moving forward.
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The problem with the moderate republicans who opposed him: Bush/Paul was that: -People were tired of another Bush president, and Jeb had like zero charisma. -Paul was to far "left" to be a serious candidate. I don't think there was another moderate republican candidate on the "main stage" at any time IMO. People will bring up Kasich, but that guy had some extremely far right views when it came to women's rights. Rubio, Cruz etc were all very far right as well, and Fiorna and Carson were just sort of jokes to begin with.
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I think that would be more than enough grounds for treason. If you know a foreign country is going to "attack" the US, but say nothing, hide a bunch of **** etc and use that for a personal gain? That has to be treason, right? Will some of the people who voted for him actually not care? Sure, but only the ones dumb enough to refuse to believe it. But I bet 75-80% of the country would "care"
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Tony Batista is somewhere anxiously waiting for a call from a Philly area code number.
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Easier said then done, I think it would be a tough sell to the Pohlads to take on money, additionally, as much as I like Puig, there is a more than zero chance he could poison the well for a "young team" if things aren't going well out of the gate. If this was OOTP baseball? I would take Puig 7 days a week, if I were GM of the Twins I would probably take him because I personally like it when teams roll the dice. However, I TOTALLY get why the Twins current brass have little to no interest in Puig at this point. With that said, watch my source be completely wrong and Puig gets shipped over in the deal
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The Crawford, Gonzalez, Beckett trade indicates differently IMO, that is about as all in of a mode as you can be. They took on two horrendous contracts in order to get a solid 1st baseman (and Nick Punto)
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The Twins have zero interest in Puig. I actually think he is a fantastic buy low candidate, perhaps the best I have seen in 10+ years. However perhaps Minnesota on a team that will likely lose 90+ games next year isn't the best place for him anyways.
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Great find! You are the real MVP. Here is another solid one for Dankind (Sort of NSFW I guess due to language) https://web.archive.org/web/20080303114120/http://www.battleyourtailoff.com/wiki/index.php?title=Dankind
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Oh man, I totally forgot about Hawk, you guys had the longest running thread on BYTO I believe. It's a shame Brock deleted the BYTO Facebook page, I may need to make one in the near future, every few weeks I can dig up a classic thread, post or such and post it to the page or something.
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I mean it certainly was "more fun and loose" but to be fair to Twins Daily, BYTO was a much smaller community and nobody was trying to make it into anything that resembled a business, BYTO also had nil when it came to official "blogs" so while it was certainly more "fun" TwinsDaily provides a ton more info/takes/scoops etc It was a very awesome crew though, there were some epic epic epic threads. I remember when I went by the name: MackBrownSwallows...and JoeThaStud used to flip me **** for my first year about going to school in Oklahoma. Do any of you guys remember when we did the live game "chats" instead of threads for a few months? Those were actually pretty fun. Also we really really really should bring back the drunken rambling thread: Brock had some very memorable posts in that thread, but none could top "rongardenhire" Let's remember a few guys that I wish posted here: Awesome/bro tier: Musk OFX FroDaddyG Lambo Verve Troll Tier: Dankind Statfreak Itstimetotakeit Justanotherfan Narf LOL Tier: Rongardenhire TrolPo DPJ Tier: DPJ Kobs Tier: Klobs
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No idea, I know the Twins would prefer guys like Lux, dodgers won't include those types though.
