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  1. TheLeviathan
    Going with your gut is fine, I get that. People citing the schedule have very clearly not looked at the context of that claim, that's what I'm pointing out. Frankly, the sample is too small to draw much of any conclusions. I only feel confident in mine: they've done pretty damn well through 20% of the season all things considered.
  2. TheLeviathan
    It's too early for me to draw that conclusion. This team is young and has had superstars hurt. I'm not ready to draw conclusions...I'm taking issue with the assertions being made and the reasoning for it. If you didn't want to put so much emphasis on the schedule you...shouldn't have put so much emphasis...on the schedule?
  3. TheLeviathan
    The Twins are a bad team because they don't have all sorts of injured players including their two superstars. Since we have less injuries than them, we're actually worse than them so we beat a team better than us! Logic! Stacking the deck of an argument makes it so easy!
  4. TheLeviathan
    If the measure for every AL team is their schedule than the conclusion has to be that virtually no one in the AL or NL is for real. The Yankees, Dodgers, Twins, Brewers, Rays, Cardinals, Padres, and several others are also "not for real". The Mets, Angels, Astros, and Giants have had "meh" schedules. So not for real too? The Blue Jays and....(checks to be certain)...the Arizona Diamondbacks are the teams who are for real this year. Or....maybe in a small sample like that using the schedule as such a major part of the argument is a flawed methodology.
  5. TheLeviathan
    The Twins were playing like garbage going into the ChiSox series as well. The White Sox ARE a good team, playing the "how were they playing when we played them" game because an unwinnable condition for anyone that complicates everything.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Please correct me if I'm wrong because I don't get to watch a lot of full games.....but it sure seems to me that they are running more than last year? Or is that just because "more" than "never" is a pretty low bar?
  7. TheLeviathan
    They beat Tampa 2 out of 3 and helped bury the ChiSox. They didn't fare well against the Dodgers but there were a lot of weird circumstances there too. Basically, they can only play who they play. This is what the AL is....a couple challenges and mostly cupcakes. This team is winning while missing Correa, Buxton, Arraez, Sano, Bundy, Gray, Ober, Kiriloff, Alcala etc. I don't know if they're for real, but it's real that they have done one helluva job 20% of the way in with the circumstances.
  8. TheLeviathan
    This would be pretty exciting.
  9. TheLeviathan
    This article deserves serious promotion. Well done.
  10. TheLeviathan
    I also had Jhoan Duran in my head as I was posting. Some of the same people who were stomping and whining at that trade sure aren't complaining as he buzzes through hitters out of our bullpen right now.
  11. TheLeviathan
    The Twins are 18-11, sport an exciting group of young pitchers acquired in all sorts of ways (including trades in several prominent cases), and have called up a host of exciting young hitters that are developing nicely despite a pandemic really screwing up their timetable. But the usual suspects? "ThE FrOnt OfFicE is DumB. Derp" One year of a reliever for three years of a starter is a gamble I'll take every time. I hope Paddock has a quick recovery and I hope Taylor Rogers continues to have a great year. More than that, I hope the FO keeps taking bold swings at upside without letting injuries deter their process.
  12. TheLeviathan
    You and your reasonable take arrived at the wrong thread methinks.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Yup, they are struggling too but without the 25M pricetag now and next year.
  14. TheLeviathan
    We were 5-8 coming off a series in which we lost 2 of 3 to the hideous Royals when we played the 6-6 ChiSox. Presenting that scenario as us, the mighty Twins, beating on the bad ChiSox is obviously a misrepresentation. It's stacking the deck for your argument. It was a battle of two struggling teams and we righted our ship while burying them. The Twins don't get to decide when teams show up as a clown show. I don't think Boston is a 10-19 team like the other four you mention. And if that's right, that means that 17 of the team's 29 games have been against teams who are roughly .500 (Seattle, Boston) or better (ChiSox, Tampa, Dodgers). That's what I think we can typically expect: about 40% of our games against trash teams, 30% against teams under or around .500, and 30% against legit competition. Meaning, this wasn't an easy stretch....it's what playing in the AL in 2022 is going to be like. If we take care of business, the path forward is pretty good.
  15. TheLeviathan
    Your second paragraph is once again misrepresenting the situation, as you did with the White Sox example you tried earlier. The Twins have played 29 games. At least 12 of them have been against meh to good teams. Another 4 depends on what you consider the Boston Red Sox. You continue to misrepresent how bad some of the teams we're playing are based on a small sample so it can feed your argument. I don't think that's fair.
  16. TheLeviathan
    I like Josh Donaldson a lot as a player, but time catches us all. I said it at the time and I'll say it now, he could be a complete albatross before the end of this year.
  17. TheLeviathan
    Well, for one, your first point is blatantly false. We are partly responsible for their lousy record. It's why the teams with the best records 25 games in also have the easiest schedule....the sample is too small for it to be anything but their doing. To me, an easy schedule implies that much more difficult times are ahead. Based on what we see in the AL, that doesn't appear to be the case. This is likely about what they should expect.
  18. TheLeviathan
    The AL just might be mostly bad. I'd say they had a fairly typical schedule so far. Also....we were 5-8 and the Sox were 6-6 when that series started. Some of this easy schedule is baked into the Twins wailing on teams.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Live sport viewing numbers are also way down. Betting people are so desperate and hardcore that they'll pony up is a business model that isn't going to work in today's TV market. Young people catch highlights later on twitter, anyone with the ability to use google can pirate with ease, and older folks aren't getting out of their comfy dish/cable packages for this. Streaming app? Sure. $20? You priced yourself out of a massive portion of the audience that would even consider this.
  20. TheLeviathan
    I don't think so at all. 1) Bally/Sinclair have done nothing but fail at everything they've attempted (including the buggy app) and 2) The structure of this is much less valuable than competitors. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But so far I predicted there initial price point would be negatively received and they'd drop it (they did) and that their entire model is based on leveraging predatory behavior. (It is) I'm going to stick with my analysis on this because what Sinclair does is irrelevant to me. I don't have to deal with it, viewing it purely as an outsider.Arguments predicated on "Well I like it" aren't a valid counter argument. I'm happy for you and Otto that it works for your viewing habits. Nevertheless, I think any kind of sober analysis on what kind of numbers/reception to expect at this point has to be incredibly pessimistic. As evidence, feel free to scroll through the majority of responses on TD and the STrib about this. (Reddit too if you want to peruse the random fan bases on that front. Free sample, but go ahead and peruse) It's overwhelmingly negative. As it should be - $20 is a ridiculous price. It only appears less ridiculous because the other options are even more ridiculous.
  21. TheLeviathan
    What a rocket by Wallner, my god. Dude looked safe, but wow.
  22. TheLeviathan
    I'm old enough to remember when "Austin Martin" was spelled "Royce Lewis" in this cut and paste article...
  23. TheLeviathan
    I don't think we've had an easy schedule at all.
  24. TheLeviathan
    Picard Season 2 is not just the worst Star Trek season ever, it might be the worst ten episodes of anything I have ever watched. How do you screw up the Borg and Q with a nonsensical, plodding story?
  25. TheLeviathan
    Agreed, I liken it to Falcon/WS....there are many parts to like but it didn't come together, especially in the end.
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