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  1. biggentleben
    As a free society, we allow free choice, but we also legislate consequences for stupid choices. I can choose to get drunk all I want, but laws restrict me from driving once I am inebriated with serious consequences if I break that law. A school requiring vaccinations and supporting legal ramifications for anyone who puts other children at risk is just like those drunk driving rules.
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    I have counseled dozens of women who have had or are considering an abortion, and I can honestly say that not one woman has ever been forced into the abortion that I met with, so the reality of your statement is highly dubious. I have seen parents and boyfriends who suggested it, but I have never counseled a woman who was "forced" into the decision.
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    Yeah, though the comparative metrics we do have do show Simmons to be exceptional thus far in comparison to even the best of the best. I just hope he keeps it up and doesn't go the way of Rey Ordonez.
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    Yep, we already went down that road. Sorry for making an example that I knew was fanciful.
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    POTD!
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    Interesting since he hasn't even played the position in 5 years, and even then, he wasn't considered the best CF in the game most years before that. Not sure where that perception is from.
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    McGriff was considered an exceptional defensive first baseman, but Gold Gloves are pretty meaningless throughout the field as a measure of defensive value, most of all at first base. McGriff was also quite hospitable with the media and an offensive stalwart for a World Series champion in his career. All those things would put him above Hunter.
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    This position to me is interesting. He must have a sterling reputation in Minnesota because he doesn't have that reputation with other team's media throughout his career. He's known as being fairly standoffish to the opposition's beat guy over his career. Hunter has also stuck his foot in his mouth with some of his comments over his career off the field and refused to address many of these outside of a special few reporters, which doesn't endear him on a national basis.
  9. biggentleben
    This is the issue. I used DRS as an example metric, not a specific example. Whatever metric that has some ability to be measured back across eras that you prefer...
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    My $0.02 on the situation would be this - it seems to be unevenly executed across forums. I created an offseason thread with the initial post discussing how it could be a spot to evaluate moves and hot stove intrigue. That worked for about 3 days, and then fourteen new threads about rumored moves were started, each one left standing. I don't frequent the Twins forum as often as most here because I find my way here as a member of the community who is here more for the community members than the Twins specifically, so I get that I'm rather an "odd ball" on this forum, but when I want to discuss Minnesota Gopher football with the handful of people here who I know enjoy discussing such, I get private messages encouraging the discussion on another site, which for me really defeats the purpose of my being here. I have LOVED the recent political discussions as they add a better spread discussion on the site, and it's okay to allow for more than baseball discussion to happen in a message forum setting, even if that said forum is titled and primarily focused on baseball. Okay, that was more like three cents, but you get my drift...
  11. biggentleben
    WAR really has one tremendous usage - being able to compare value of players across positions and eras with different skill sets. The back of a baseball card statistics of my youth would have told me that Cal Ripken was a much better shortstop than Ozzie Smith, but in "real" baseball, that wasn't exactly true. I love using it for comparison with my favorite player, Andrelton Simmons, across eras against historically defensively-reputed shortstops. All those comparisons should be viewed through the lens of the comparison being imperfect, but if Andrelton's DRS was 21 last season and the best that Ozzie ever put up was a 13 or Mark Belanger could only put up 15 or Omar Vizquel's best was 11, then that is notable on how great Simmons' 2014 was. If each of the four put up a 20- to 25-run season, it puts that season in an upper-echelon category, but comparing the exact runs and ranking them is where the farce enters in. A WAR of 9.8 shows more value than a WAR of 8.2, but 9.8 vs. 9.5 is fairly negligible due to imperfections in the measures in the system. Once that is more understood by the Average Joe fan, the statistic will start to be used more responsibly and accurately.
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    Mike Huckabee also went full on bat**** today on his blog. One of the best articles I've read on this discusses how this could be very freeing for the evangelical church: http://edcyzewski.com/2015/06/26/the-supreme-court-just-gave-american-evangelicals-a-gift/
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    I guess I would add that it's a great way to realize the politicization of Scalia and Thomas. Incredibly disappointing to read their comments.
  14. biggentleben
    The TWolves started offering 31 and 36 for Tyus with Houston and finally Cleveland bit. Excellent draft for the Wolves getting Towns and Jones.
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    These are the types of comments that warrant a "dislike" button...or at least a sad trombone icon.
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    Until it's put through as a reason for banishment from the game (and there is a point where it does become that now), PEDs are not a reason to exclude from the HOF.
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    Rose is in the Hall. I was just there. He's in at least three different places in the Hall. Just because he doesn't have a plaque in one room of the building doesn't mean his playing career isn't remembered.
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    I think that's part of the misnomer. At the exact same temperature, humid air is less dense. Atlanta in the summer is about as hot as anywhere in the majors. Aaron talked about how by the time his third at bat came around, he was so physically exhausted that it took finding an absolute perfect pitch to even drive it.
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    Andrelton Simmons. I'm never disappointed watching him defensively, if even for a single game. Every game, he makes a play look routine that at least 25 other shortstops in the league couldn't even attempt because they can't even get to the ball, let alone have the cannon Simmons does to get it across the diamond. Of course, the Braves are my favorite team, so to pick one from non-Braves, in the spirit of the question, I would have to go with Albert Pujols. He's been such a good teammate over the years on top of his tremendous talent, and he and his wife do some incredible things off the field as well. That said, in spite of all the crap he gets (and much of it self-inflicted), seeing Bryce Harper twice in the last 10 days has really changed my opinion of him. The home run he hit today was a no-doubt home run, and he put the same amount of effort into that swing as I do into blinking.
  20. biggentleben
    No. Just no. For one, Aaron played 2/3 of his home games in his career in Milwaukee, not Atlanta. One of those wonderful farces about Fulton County was that it was a hitters' haven. Not exactly. Until late June, the air is so thick that balls simply died on the warning track due to how wet the air was. Aaron himself once stated that if the team didn't move to Atlanta and had instead stayed in Milwaukee, he would have eclipsed over 800 home runs. You could make a number of arguments against Aaron, but his park doesn't hold weight.
  21. biggentleben
    In my humble opinion, it cannot and will not ever be for me a player who played before integration. If I want to be considered the best quilter in all the world, but I exclude anyone over 55 from the consideration, that drastically skews who I'm competing against. If I want to be considered the best ice skater in the world, but limit the geographical constraints of "the world" to within 10 degrees of the Equator, it eliminates most of the best competition for such a title. Ruth never faced Rube Foster, Joe Williams, Satchel Paige, etc., and his own feats at that time were matched and/or surpassed by a hitter in the Negro Leagues by the name of Josh Gibson, who played out his career at one of the most physically demanding positions in the game. Walking through the Hall of Fame last week gave me my insight, though I would have been biased this way anyway. The largest individual player display in the entire Hall of Fame*? Hank Aaron. *Contents of the Hall of Fame are subject to change without notice. Any and all exact measurements of size of display were not taken into context, merely the amount of floor space occupied by any individual player.
  22. biggentleben
    I was there. It was amazing to be part of that history. I would have loved the perfect game, but Scherzer was very off in his location that entire at-bat. Once he lost the perfecto, it was if a weight was off his shoulders, and he focused much better to finish the no-no.
  23. biggentleben
    Agree at the plate, but A-Rod was an elite defensive player. Correa won't hurt them at shortstop, but he won't be making anyone forget Ozzie Smith or Andrelton Simmons.
  24. biggentleben
    No, he was not. He was the consolation prize when the Braves came in and said they'd like Domingo Santana/Preston Tucker/etc as an MLB-ready OF along with a high-upside pitching prospect lower in the chain. Houston came back with Foltynewicz as the MLB-ready piece, a high-upside hitting prospect (Ruiz), and a wild card pitcher who has dominated before being injured as part of a bus crash. Ruiz was the secondary piece in the deal that did happen, but he was definitely not who the Braves were pursuing in that deal.
  25. biggentleben
    Velasquez has been pretty darned good, but it sounds like his is more of a one-start fill in, and he was on schedule to start anyway. The guy's put up a huge strikeout rate in AA with not-horrible control as well.
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