TheLeviathan
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Twins select RHP Austin Adams
TheLeviathan replied to Otto von Ballpark's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
The rest of the community should be more careful not to hop on that train then. -
Twins select RHP Austin Adams
TheLeviathan replied to Otto von Ballpark's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I might take the "I worry about the bullpen going forward" criticism a bit more seriously if those same posters didn't turn every hit a reliever gives up into a national crisis. The bullpen has been pretty good so far. I can see the fear about it going forward and that's why I would like to see an acquisition made to help it. But the hyperbolic meltdowns every day or two has no merit and damages credibility to comment on the situation. -
The evidence being cited is primary voters, so that doesn't appear to be true. That may change, but right now Democrat primary voters are in his camp. Also, I'd argue people are rarely paying close attention. I'm not sure if an extra spotlight will matter, winning elections is more about speaking to what people really want. And what many people seem to really want is a guarantee Trump loses.
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You are absolutely right, but that wasn't the point of the article. Many further left people told us Biden was dead in the water now. That was clearly wrong, so the question is.....why were they so wrong? And is that mistake one that we should be wary of? Perhaps he goes the way of Rick Perry. Perhaps not. But he's clearly relevant now and there is a large appetite for him as a candidate right now.
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The right has been working their way up to this kind of legislation for decades. This is a long game plan that is evil, it really is. But it is totally unrelated to the Electoral College. States rights are an important part of our Republic, but this isn't states rights. Those citing that as their reason are bastardizing what that means to apply it here.
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That's some impressive gymnastics to pull the electoral college into that argument..... Sorry, but that's not a particularly close issue to this one.
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I hear people argue it's a "state's rights" issue. Screw that. If that's true let's make the same penalties for firing a gun in another state. See how that holds up. When people celebrate things like this for "their side" they are truly undermining the basic foundations of our Republic. It's repulsive and it damn well better be a rallying cry the Dems beat over and over again.
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We'll see if he can hold the position. But when progressives/liberals dismissed him time and time again, told us all that his time has past, etc. You sorta have to concede you read that wrong. Maybe you'll still be ultimately be right, but so far that wing of the left has been very wrong about Biden. Perhaps there is a deeper error at work than something as simple as "it's all name recognition". I think there is, but we'll see what happens as the debates fire up. I really like that comment in the article about how fear drives people to be risk-averse. That is a very poignant observation.
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Exactly. People focus on 5 runners scored, but somehow can't see that he's leading the league with having 19 on base when he came in. His April, you could argue, saved us 2-4 games. (And blew one) The situations he was put in were extremely tight. He was also very good in May and most of June last year too. So, as I see it, Hildy's real problem is that he pitches well enough for stretches to earn manager trust and then spectacularly collapses. And his managers don't seem to see that and keep rolling him out there even though he's lost what he had. He needs to be in AAA, he's been terrible lately. Why that causes people to completely misrepresent how well he pitched in April is baffling. You can hold both thoughts in your head - he needs to go and we need to upgrade, but dude was a major help in April. If you're somehow one of the people denying that I implore you to look at the stats. It's just a very misguided stance to have.
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Essentially it's someone with a gift that is trained to use that gift to help stave off the Others. Green-seers have significant power and that power has a tradition to it. The term is coined by the nickname of the original person in this position who was a Targaryen with a nickname of Raven. That's the cliff notes version at least.
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LAA 5, MIN 4: More Missed Opportunities
TheLeviathan replied to Andrew Gebo's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
I don't think enough was said in this thread that our bullpen did a pretty good job giving us a chance. We're quick to rip them when they blow a game, but with how bad Berrios was we only had a shot because the bullpen held down a big chunk of the game.- 54 replies
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100% with you. But those are challenging things to internalize and I think, for many people, it's best to be supported through that process rather than berated. Too often I think berating is the method being used on this and that is causing blowback and stalling.
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As horrified as Jon is, I don't think that changes his stance. He's still Ned's honor-bound son. I don't think he allows a rift to form to allow that. Tyrion's sense of loyalty is pretty strong too, but I guess we'll see!
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I expect him to be in a jail cell quite frankly. Freeing Jamie Lannister will not be looked on kindly by Dany. I hope he survives this to be on the council of the next king. Being the hand of the queen to Sansa would be an interesting way to close things.
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People, for good reason, have been building a Messiah-like image of Dany for a long time. The signs were always there that she was worse than we though, but many saw her as the heroine of this story. She wasn't, this is Jon's story at heart, but people aren't going to let that perception go easily. They needed to let people see she was changing but hold on to the hope that she was still their Messiah until the moment she wasn't. It would have been a bitter, harsh turn, but this abrupt makes people feel betrayed as viewers. That's unfortunate, they let something brilliant slip away.
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I agree, the problems of this season are on the show runners. I think this episode could have been an epic, beautiful spectacle......had it been earned by the story telling.
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I think it is a pretty hard generalization, but my god does being a "pantser" fit GRRM. And Brock and I have described his writing as creating overgrowths all the time, which I find to be a funny similarity.
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With only 80 minutes left, I can't see how they'd introduce something like that. If there were 4 more episodes...alright, but this just can't be true. I imagine Jon gets torn in different directions by Arya, Davos, and Tyrion in one direction (I assume he's about to be arrested for treason as well) and in another to his love for Dany. In the end, he chooses to be a Stark and kills her. There is the bitter....so what could be the sweet? Jon reluctantly takes the throne? Sansa?
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I have the same struggle as Smerf.
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I imagine in the books the breaking points for Dany will be in his Dance of Dragons war he is building towards. Her descent from well-meaning savior of the North to Mad Queen is whip-lash inducing.
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I think Dany's betrayl is more intimate than that. Jon will have to kill her. It's the only way this can still be saved as bittersweet. The question is who rules after that.
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Personally, I think this is exactly Jaime's character. Try as he might to be a better man, he can't escape his sister. The turn by Grey Worm and Dany is more troubling. This needed much more time to simmer. There are going to be a lot of people that love Dany as a character (hell, the actress even seems scorned) that will not feel this is earned. I can't say they're wrong.
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Week in Review: Firing On All Cylinders
TheLeviathan replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
I had no idea Smeltzer was performing like that, wow! That is some good info and really encouraging. -
Pelosi's position as a power figure for Democrats is reassuring. She gets it. Brand and fight intelligently.
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I have no issue with most of this. However, MOST of this season he has been reliable for this team. Hell, I don't think it's hyperbole to say he came in and bailed us out of several losses in April. He was getting thrown into a ridiculous number of high leverage situations too. (He leads all of baseball in having had 19 inherited runners) Edit: He only really cost us the Toronto game. 3 of the 5 inherited runners scored in NY when we were already down 6-1. We rallied a bit to make it look closer. He's been brutal in May so far and you're right - when he's brutal - stop putting him into anything resembling a high leverage situation. He's streaky, so ride him when he's hot and bury him when he's not. What I take issue with is the idea he wasn't good in April. He absolutely was.
