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  1. TheLeviathan
    For one, I don't buy the 1:1 deal. That isn't the offer on the table. Your sense of value seems to ignore the enormous risks in holding on to Dozier. I understand the risks with DeLeon, I accept them because we need upside. He flops and we suck. We keep Dozier and we suck. But if we deal Dozier we might net a stud. There is a solid chance of that. Far more solid than some mythical better deal we can't even imagine coherently much less actually attain.
  2. TheLeviathan
    Part of how you are determine bad deal is, in part, on the basis of expecting similar or better future offers. You don't get to do that and then hide behind future uncertainty. That's my whole point about probability and the probabilities are decidedly against your position.
  3. TheLeviathan
    To me he is both, which is ideal. But if it's high ceiling vs high floor, I pick ceiling everytime.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Ok, maybe Newcomb could fit as a centerpiece. Now tell me why the Cardinals don't care? They don't appear to have any interest and their roster doesn't scream need either. Could that change? I guess, but you have to admit how flimsy the odds are right? You are several layers down in your hypothetical better deal now.
  5. TheLeviathan
    Not in the same realm as DeLeon. And your explanation emphasized floors over ceilings. Maybe that's the real impasse. I'm long done with that thinking.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Why are we aiming for high floors over high ceilings? Have we still not learned our lesson?
  7. TheLeviathan
    Prior to the offseason a top 50 prospect was the ideal centerpiece and now that we have that (top 25 even!) we bemoan it as not enough. And we heap on top of that the weird (and rampant) belief that Dozier's value will endure and that some mythical better deal awaits us. Don't like DeLeon? Alright, I get it, shoulDer injuries are scary. But he is a near ready, top 30 prospect. Who is going to top that? Because if you can't actually identify them, we should drop the "better deal in the next year" talk and get real.
  8. TheLeviathan
    We should have dumped Plouffe for anything. Waiting for a sweetheart deal is as big a mistake as anything.
  9. TheLeviathan
    Most of the "bad clubhouse guy" nonsense stems from overly senstive "jackwagons" who get pissed that a dude is excited to hit a homerun. On the list of reasons not to pursue Jose, his personality doesn't crack my top 10.
  10. TheLeviathan
    I get the feeling people that want this think "he hits so well at Target Field! This will be great!" And fail to remember who he was hitting against. It ain't the ballpark that he likes folks.....
  11. TheLeviathan
    Other teams love to stuff their stat lines against them.
  12. TheLeviathan
    I was intrigued, I always like to give a show 3-4 episodes before i decide anything.
  13. TheLeviathan
    This thread took a weird turn.
  14. TheLeviathan
    I don't think so, I think it is based during the time when the East India Company was basically ruling an entire region of the world as a company.
  15. TheLeviathan
    Looking forward to Taboo.
  16. TheLeviathan
    Well, and you can actually make the case that midseason deals for pitching hold some promise to recoup value. It's still risky, but less so than the case of Dozier. Still, I'd hope he's traded at some point in the calendar year.
  17. TheLeviathan
    Storen 1 year and 3M makes me sad. We should've doubled that.
  18. TheLeviathan
    So everything then?
  19. TheLeviathan
    I'm sure there are plenty of smart kids playing football, but that doesn't change my belief that most of them aren't all that smart and are generally pretty impressionable. (I could probably cite GPAs and that stuff, but lets face it, a lot of those kids are at the U for athletics, not academics) I'm amazed how effective drivel like his is on people. I don't doubt his ability to make this schtick work though, we have a long, sad history of buying into this kind of nonsense in droves.
  20. TheLeviathan
    I'm sure the kids would eat it up. I'm also sure anything more than 4 years of it would lead to a homicide. I get that football players are largely not that bright, you'd almost have to be sort of dumb to put up with this schtick.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Words can't do it justice. If you had to take a shot every time he said something bat s*%& crazy you'd be blind drunk 3 minutes in to a 40 minute presser.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Tim Brewster seems like a humble, soft spoken man of the finest articulation and grace compared to that schlockfest I just listened to. He might be a great coach, but I don't want to hear him talk. Ever again. Ever.
  23. TheLeviathan
    I don't think I could spend more than 10 minutes with this guy talking without feeling the need to assault him. Good lord. Brewster has nothing on this guy.
  24. TheLeviathan
    Fleck doesn't run a Big Ten style, this is going to be interesting for sure.
  25. TheLeviathan
    I'm telling you hoping for a hot streak AND a totally out of character mid-season haul is probably just being silly. Again, there is over a decade of evidence that hoping for a big haul from a hitter is folly. Not to mention the gamble that Dozier will choose to not suck to start the year. Hoping for highly rated prospects to pan out is not in the same league. That's not a double standard, that's just recognizing probabilities.
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