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  1. TheLeviathan
    Well now the only question is can we make this thread beat Dave's fake Dozier predictions.....
  2. TheLeviathan
    Luis Castillo's filter was brilliant. Burl Ives was a favorite of mine as well. But TROLPO? Damn I loved me some TROLPO. The wiki site, short lived as it was, also contained some absolute brilliance.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Scarlet BYTO labels for us all huh? *Eyes suspiciously*
  4. TheLeviathan
    I miss BYTO, there was a little bit more of an "unhinged" element to the conversations and I miss that. Things wheeled a bit more freely and as a result there was some pretty awesome stuff we came up with over the years. We were our own little whacky society of Twins fans with our own language, memes, etc. I miss the hell out of that. That said, I see the vision for Twins Daily and I've come to appreciate it's existence as well. Like Pseudo said, most of us have known each other for a huge portion of our adult lives so the sense of community from BYTO is still here. And the baseball content here is really, really good, so it's been fun to merge those elements.
  5. TheLeviathan
    Huh, yeah, not sure where I pulled Grossman from. My bad. Park I understand misgivings about, he's 29.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Well, I don't like Grossman much, but if we're going to heap praise on Mauer for his OBP it's worth pointing out that Grossman did provide that skill in droves. Even if he also was a butcher in the field. With Vargas, I see things to like. He's a player who looks willing to learn, adjust his approach, and try to get better. I try not to judge players who aren't given adequate, consistent playing time too harshly. And with young players I'm even more cautious. I know you feel good about Max Kepler (and so do I) but if you started watching Max about halfway through August through the end of the year you'd also wonder why anyone would be high on him. He was brutal in all phases. Those things happen to young players. I'm wiling to judge Vargas can't play or isn't a part of this team's future when I've seen a good, long stretch of playing time. And he's only had one of those two years ago.
  7. TheLeviathan
    He has to have opportunity to do so.
  8. TheLeviathan
    I would argue virtually anyone should've been starting over Plouffe. Yet another victim of that decision. So, yeah, he should have kept playing. And he damn sure should be playing over Adam Lind or the husk of Justin Morneau. The kid has hit in the minors, he's not even a fluke like Dozier. There is a history there of production.
  9. TheLeviathan
    He was on a tear in July and then inexplicably stopped playing with any regularity for all of August.
  10. TheLeviathan
    I'm not sure I care all that much about pedigree. All of your concerns, except for defense, are as much or more so issues with Buxton. I suggest the issue is unfairly holding limited initial results against a player. Especially one given limited consistent playing time. Vargas may well be a non-factor, but like all young hitters I don't measure them by the sum total of their early at bats but by the growth they show.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Quite possible, but his playing time also became inexplicably sporadic.
  12. TheLeviathan
    I get that you don't like Vargas, but this is far from even-handed analysis. Do you treat Buxton's production the same way? I see Vargas having changed his approach significantly last year, I'd love to see what he could do with a full season of ABs. If he can't produce, then we move on, but this team needs to invest in players like Vargas.
  13. TheLeviathan
    I wouldn't call him injury prone, but we're close to that. Some bodies absorb impact and avoid injury better than others. So far, his track record isn't very good on that front. It's a major concern i have about him.
  14. TheLeviathan
    With his bat I sure hope so....
  15. TheLeviathan
    Is he actually good at it though? Sure, it's his primary position, but from what I've read he's hardly shown wizardry there. If you've got a .600 OPS, you better be a wizard.
  16. TheLeviathan
    Is he a legit defensive SS though?
  17. TheLeviathan
    I hadn't even noticed that, good catch. There are times to be vanilla and conservative and this team kept going for a jugular it already had firmly in it's teeth.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Right, they could have lost 3 yards on both run plays, still kicked a field goal, and be celebrating today. That and the 3rd and long, play action deep play call was terrible. On your own side of the field, with 7 minutes and up by 16....why the hell take that chance? You had to give it to them to lose it, just to give it to them. And I agree about game quality. The last 7 minutes were pretty awesome, but the previous 53 sucked.
  19. TheLeviathan
    This kind of "crowded" isn't inspiring.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, none of the commercials did anything for me. I was already hyped about GoTG 2 and Stranger Things 2, they were fun, but I'm already sold. And yeah, I don't understand Gaga's appeal. Or why I should be more than "meh" about that halftime show.
  21. TheLeviathan
    A deep shot on 3rd and 1 up by 16? Absolutely stupid play call. Shanahan is lucky he already has a job lined up.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Right, at the very least we should be looking back at this and asking why the university now feels like doing an almost 180 from what one department determined. If there is going to be such a stark difference between fair due process and Title IX, shouldn't we have some hard questions about what, how, and why the decision by Title IX was determined in the first place? I sure as hell do.
  23. TheLeviathan
    You're right, probably not the end of it. Where did you read that her story changed again? The real shame here is that the four players who had, at best, tangential involvement in the actual act were dragged into the paper as if they were also perpetrators.
  24. TheLeviathan
    Some final fallout from the scandal: http://www.twincities.com/2017/02/03/gophers-winfield-jr-says-hes-been-cleared-in-school-sexual-assault-case/
  25. TheLeviathan
    31-27 Pats is my prediction as well.
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