TheLeviathan
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You can invest that money in pitching. As well as use any asset we obtain to that end. This team has young hitting, but it desperately needs arms.
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It'll be hard to ever prove with 100% accuracy who was guilty, but the timing and data are either the craziest coincidence ever or a pretty damning indictment.
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Curious...Maeda clearly brought the Dodgers' cheating schemes with him. Are any other Twins being outed as clear cheaters by their spin rates?
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Rogers or Berrios are the most deserving regardless. Crazy thing, given the title, Trout was on the 60 day IL and still will have more PAs by the All-Star break than Buxton. -
At the same time....haven't we spent most of Donaldson's time as a Twin finding another 3B?
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Game Recap: White Sox 8, Twins 5
TheLeviathan replied to Matthew Taylor's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Good god what a hideous baseball game. -
I think the TVA is all a villainous front meant to serve a big villain on the horizon. The multiverse is about to get unlocked and open (literally) an infinite array of possibilities. But that post credits tease was super cool. Can't wait to see Richard Grant more.
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I have found it best to wait until the series ends to draw conclusions. For example....I really dug Falcon and Winter Soldier but it didnt stick the landing. I continue to be entertained and curious and in today's landscape I call that a win.
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I disagree.....Rask is garbage. He literally does nothing well.
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Quality of Articles Going Way Downhill
TheLeviathan replied to Vanimal46's topic in Twins Daily Issues & Suggestions
The article on self scouting was hollow on analysis and felt like a regurgitated bleacher report slideshow. The trade deadline article was literally incoherent. There was no clear thesis or argument and the title was misleading. It would fail a fifth grade essay rubric. And Donaldson? Woof. Bad thesis. Bad arguments. Lazy nonsense. Van is right. -
The only unlikable thing about Donaldson is his inability to stay on the field.
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Well, race and demographics are a huge part of the problem. It's bad enough that your average (average!!!) TV watching fan is 55+. It's even worse when you consider those near-elderly folks are almost exclusively white. Anyone with any business acumen or ability to project trends should be quaking at that thought.
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I looked it up and appreciated it for sure! Thanks!
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I don't think I ever heard the term "boiling the frog" but it is perfect.
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I can get behind your ideas! Reach out to someone under 50 and white somehow. Anything is better than the increasing speed of death currently.
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Heh, well I meant a disproportionate number of young people do so relative to other age groups. (It's how I do it too and as my kids will tell you, I'm anciently approaching my 40s)
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This is precisely how young people engage with sports. That and video games.
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No....but if you have a serious problem with fans you cant be like everyone else.
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The school idea would have problems with play space and supervision. I pitched and we used a wiffle bat and tennis balls but most kids didnt own a glove. But this idea is key. Families should be the priority of ballparks but instead it feels catered to kid-free folks: beer drinking 25 year olds or beer drinking 55 year olds with a lot of disposable income. Ballparks are simply not kid friendly. That said....kids don't care and don't want to be there.
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Yeah...you are part of a segment that is doing that. I apologize, didnt mean to imply anything other than that the scale of the apathy problems are simply not comparable.
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The NFL is not hurting for attention. Kids playing the sport as a safety concern is a problem, but not apathy or inattention. The NFL's constant news cycle is robust evidence of the appetite.
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I'll just say this: technology has made it so that kids take in/engage with sports in a very different way than in the past. Any league that wants a healthy future should be attentive to those new avenues of engagement. Baseball is not. And, given the state of the game, I'm not convinced it would even matter if they were. You are certainly right that pricing at baseball games can be pretty absurd for a family. (Just took mine last week, so I hear you) But the butts that sit in those seats are cultivated for months and years prior to that decision. Right now, kids just don't care about MLB like they do the NBA and NFL. And more and more of us that were lifelong fans are finding it harder and harder to want to watch baseball. That means we're less likely to buy those expensive tickets, especially when our kids could care less about the game. That's a toxic combo.
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This is the part that the "well, baseball is local so apathy is due to poor product" is missing. Yes, Twins fans are probably more checked out than most, but people are willing to check out MUCH faster than they used to be. Even in the 90s people would talk themselves into rooting for Steinbach or Cordova or chucking stuff at Knobby. I went to games to watch Mcguire and Sosa and eat cheap hot dogs. Games had huge kid populations. But now? Kids just don't care about the league. They play the sport to a degree, but couldn't give a rip about MLB itself. That's a major problem. I would just suggest that those underlying things: kids at games, genuine interest in out of market ball players, knowledge of the league....is drying up fast as hell. I have lived and worked with kids in three different markets now and since that started 20 some odd years ago the decline in baseball and the rise in football and basketball is dramatic. NBA video games outsell baseball games (14M to 1M...and the Show is a damn fine product). I won't even tell you what Madden (a crap franchise) is doing. Hits on social media aren't even close. Twitter and other platforms (where younger fans are more likely to invest their eyeballs) are laughably out of balance. Kids don't know their own teams or players, much less the league. It's a lot easier to check out on a sport you aren't all that invested in or entertained by.
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Just be happy you have a grandson playing! Participation in all youths sports are down, but baseball has a real crisis. Some of us were talking about this three years ago though.
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You guys think you have apathy? Talk to your average 11 year old about baseball.
