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  1. PseudoSABR
    Your team might be some what competitive, but I'm not sure it will contend for the playoffs. It seems you have one foot in being competitive and one in rebuilding. You have a lot of veterans that hopefully can be used to acquire future assets, as teams figure out how competitive they are.
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    And Pelfrey makes a horrible motivational speaker. I'm glad those weren't the real Shockers.
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    Sending Arcia down to make room for Bartlett's supposed versatility seems pretty fruitless to me. Bartlett shoudl be the next man up, and I really doubt he can find a major league job with the way he hasn't hit this spring.
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    Embarrassing? For whom? We could use a middling-DH, actually.
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    Oh, agreed. I had assumed that Presley had options given the talk about Bartlett playing CF. Presley clearly makes the roster. Maybe they are just trying to lure Bartlett into taking the minor league deal rather than giving him release (ala Guerrier). Bartlett has a wife or home or something in Rochester (iirc)?
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    All the remaining players (aside from Rohfling) will see a LOT of time at the ML level even if they don't make the roster. So it makes little sense to cut Diamond, Parmelee or Kubel for the either Theilbar or Colabello, even if the later are more deserving. *Similarly, I could see Bartlett making the roster over Presley, to keep Bartlett with the organization, and if Kubel and Willingham will see a lot of time in the OF. *Edit: I wrote this assuming Presley has options, which he doesn't; Bartlett will not make the roster. The AAA guys are just a phone call and a day away; and having the perfect roster is less important than having a larger pool of players who can fill roles as injuries inevitably occur.
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    The Twins aggressiveness with a prospect makes it all the more bittersweet that Sano is out for the year. Good for Gibson!
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    That makes more sense. Thanks.
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    Well, that didn't take long. The timing is curious, waiting a couple days, but not waiting for until the end of Spring Training.
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    I wonder if Sano could do some rehabbing in Minnesota this summer. What are the rules with having him in the clubhouse or around the stadium during game time?
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    That's cherry picking stats to prove your conclusion. Revere was fringe in 2011 and 2013. After all, I can write a sentence like: I can't believe people are willing to give up a cost controlled SP that put a 3.4 WAR in his second year. The sentence however is misleading; the point is that there's a real debate, and it's pretty easy to see the warts and upside of both Worley and Revere.
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    If we presume just for a moment that foul play is involved, and if we also grant the players in such a foul play are smart, skilled, and have a plan, personally, I can imagine any number of scenarios where a plane could be stolen with out detection. A question I have is how long would it take to program the computer to enact a complex set of maneuvers and changing trajectories. Could someone essential walk in with a code to be typed in exactly into the 777 and if follow a prearranged course to avoid detection? If someone could get into the cockpit and then enter in a flight plan by simple key stokes through following a pre-written script hidden in their carry-on, the whole hijack scenario seems far more probable. Another scenario could involve the pilots resisting a hijacking, by say, taking the plane to super high altitudes and knocking everyone out and then out to the Indian Ocean to do no harm. An innocent explanation seem to rely on too much serendipity and negligence that make it a rather unsatisfactory to me. Sure a fire could know everyone out, the transponders, all the extra safe electrical equipment, and the masks and safety protocols could have been compromised, but it still doesn't take into account the changes in altitude.
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    What the hell happened? Let's get your theories. Here's a comprehensive running list of official thing we know: reddit Here's a nice condensed list of things we think we know Here's a list of possible theories explored and debunked: BBC (A Wired article that is getting a lot of play gets somewhat debunked in the BBC article)
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    The time to sneak him through waivers probably isn't now.Plenty of teams will use the rest of ST to evaluate him and waive him near opening day if need be. Waive him when there's more desirable players on waivers (closer to opening day).
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    Well, I decided to withdraw my application (I do think they would have eventually hired me given out correspondence, but clearly they were still interviewing other people); I've received some really great news about Law School, and I couldn't see myself deferring my acceptance for a year for this particular job. Thanks everyone for the help. It was an illuminating experience.
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    Diamond with 6 Ks and 3 BBs in four innings? What was that all about?
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    That's just it. At certain point, a population is just going to face a winter without heat (or facing whatever supposed insurmountable odds) to rally around what ever rights and privileges are the going rate (developed) world wide. It's an eventuality. Perhaps you're right, the time isn't now, but with the recent protests, there's certainly an imminent threshold. Long term, it's difficult to imagine there isn't some other viable way for Ukrainians to heat their homes without capitulation-like Russian dependence. More, given the warm European winter, Russia's hostility seems like a bad play. Maybe there's something your reading, I'm not reading; if so, I'd appreciate a nudge in the right direction.
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    Well, I don't think Russia invaded Crimea on a whim either. The question I thought we were addressing is whether it was reasonable and if it's good for the long term viability of Ukriane and Russia. As usual, we end up on the same page, though we take different circuitous routes to get there.
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    Well, the first action probably shouldn't have been invade a sovereign nation; that you frame it as reasonable is totally ridiculous. I'm not sure what Russia should have done, but they probably put themselves in this position as much as the West influenced the upheaval. I just totally reject the terms of your argument by couching the West's hand as a bluff; the West will get what they want--in a more Westernized Ukraine, Crimea or not, ostensibly that's what the people of Ukraine want as well. In a way, Ukraine's populace was trying to call Russia's bluff, and well, Russia just pushed all in, and we'll see how it turns out. It's clear, that their actions don't sit well in Ukraine or even in Russia (what with some 70 percent disapproving of the occupation of Crimea). I'd like to see some of these experts that actually support your take, I just haven't seen it. While overly simplistic, this is nice recap from Time of why it doesn't bode well for Russia.
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    Whether Ukraine has Russian sympathies before, the notion that part of their country has eben forcibly occupied certainly will make them gunshy at entering into a permanent diplomatic relationship with said invading country. The protests were, as reported, stemming from the refusal for eased diplomatic relations with the EU which would have brought many goods Ukrainians seek. Russia's supposed federation of whatever can't be held only by force; Belarus woudl be an obvious concern moving to the EU. Russia would lose it's entire Western border states to the EU which would be huge political blow to them. From what I've been reading, I just don't understand how Russia's actions has long term positive outcome for them. At best, they get Crimea, at best. At worst they lose all political and diplomatic influence West of their border.
  21. PseudoSABR
    If there's a realistic chance that we can resign them long term, I say go for it. But a one year deal doesn't make sense for the same reasons it didn't with Santana--we're still rebuilding.
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    How else should we let you know? Do I flag every post by the couple of posters that (IMO) derail threads? That seems extreme and annoying for everyone. I don't think it's too much to ask you guys to be proactive about it.
  23. PseudoSABR
    Honestly, I see the same posters with the same complaints about money and revenue; and the same folks trying to fence those complaints. Can we get some moderation so not every thread turns into this same overwrought discussion where it is already so clear where everyone stands.
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    Armchair scientist: Aliens are really unlikely, unless we simply misunderstand physics. When we consider that it takes light 4.3 light years to reach the closest star--that is it takes 4 years for freaking light to travel to the closest non-planetary star! And if we accept Einstien's notion that as matter approaches the speed of light, it becomes energy--and can essentially travel no faster, this is hard limit--and more, an ability that we can't even hope to accomplish with our current power or theoretical power sources, it seems very unlikely for Aliens to come visit. It would require inter-generational space ships and a real commitment to get here, or technology that defies the physical reality as we know it (wormholes, etc.) which seem totally corny and hairbrained. Possible? Sure. Possible like invisible unicorns are everywhere kind of possible. (List of possible habitable planets found here, look at the ly (light years) for context) (A neat aside, is that if we think about how long it takes light to travel, that every thing in the night sky is historical, non-current, we are literally looking at the past--so a star 3000 light years away, we see it 3000 years in the past! Cool stuff!). As for the supernatural, well, I haven't experienced anything close to such, at least, sober. The idea of ghosts, seems far more sad, than depressing; it's difficult for me to believe in any afterlife, much less one that traps some people to roam our material world.
  25. PseudoSABR
    Ukraine, without Crimea, will be part of the EU before long; not good for Russia. I'm not sure that Ukraine was bullied into the EU; that's your take, I haven't seen that legitimated anywhere. Sure, EU and the US have stakes in the Ukraine being part of the EU, but if there's a bully it's the Russia's with, you know, the tanks and stuff. I guess the Crimea referendum doesn't offer a No vote on it's ballots, hilarious. Both options lead to Russian control.
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