TheLeviathan
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Your comparison with Milwaukee is obviously flawed and I think you know that. It'd help if we dealt with things as they are rather than twisting them to fit a narrative. I don't think it has anything to do with buying "sustainability" and everything to do with wanting a FO that recognizes when to act based on statistical analysis and not best case scenario fan hopes. Selling on Escobar is the kind of move that landed us Escobar in the first place. Investing playing time in lost seasons are how we ended up with Dozier and Pressley. Maybe we'll be lucky enough in a few years to say selling on expiring players landed us the next Escobar. Or the time invested in Austin, Cave, Austidillo, or others will land us the next Dozier. Maybe not. None of us know. Yet you insinuate we're all being suckered by the FO, but this is exactly what most of us wanted when we asked for Ryan to be fired. All we're doing is being consistent with our views. We want a FO that will act aggressively and wisely. Plain and simple.
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Sickels top Twins prospect list for 2019
TheLeviathan replied to gunnarthor's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
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The truth is that both rural America and urban America know nothing about what's best for the other. The disconnect in lived experience is incredible. (I've had first hand experience rectifying this in my own head) But it's not impossible to keep both white rural folks and black urban folks in the same voting bloc. You just have to be very crafty in what you talk about and how you talk about it.
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He was an after-thought we acquired to dump an expiring player. Not everyone has to be a big name prospect or Top 100 guy to end up being a valuable acquisition.
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Wow....well, he picked a good week. I hope he's ready. (And I mean that genuinely as a human being. I hope he got himself right and didn't rush things for his profession)
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Trades like this are how you land guys like....I don't know.....Eduardo Escobar. The irony is rich.
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It's possible that the decision was less about money and more about playing time. Maybe AZ promised him 2B or 3B going forward. Maybe it's just a much easier flight home to Venezuela. I'm surprised he isn't reading the tea leaves there - it's a long, rough rebuild on the horizon.
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I can't disagree with any of this. Though, I would hope that candidates like O'Rourke who are talking about it would have better counter-arguments. I think you're right strategically that you're best not to upset the apple cart in an election you'll almost certainly use to turn one house of Congress your way. But I would offer one argument devil's advocate style: Wouldn't now be a really good time to be experimenting with how to argue for this? Maybe not in the tight races, but what about in ones where you're trailing? I look at the race in California with the a-hole Duncan Hunter. Why not use that one as a test case for arguing for universal health care? Or in a rural, generally Republican area? I guess I'd rather not try some stuff in 2020 that fails, I'd rather go into 2020 locked and loaded with arguments that can win. (And a candidate that can sell them)
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Escobar is going to be stuck on a bad baseball team the next three years in all likelihood. I wouldn't be shocked at all to see him moved again in the not too distant future.
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Your Turn: What Do You Want From A Manager?
TheLeviathan replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Embrace analytics, steady personality. (What type...I don't care) Beyond that...throw a dart.- 49 replies
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I don't know if I want to walk into a universal health care option offering tax protection to anyone. Someone smarter than me would have to figure out how much each segment of the economy will have to pay in to make it work, but I have a hard time believing middle and lower class Americans and small businesses would be on the bad end of things. I know that even under Bernie's plan (with an assumption that he was lowballing the tax rates), my family would still come out hundreds of dollars ahead per month. For my father (a farmer) he'd come ahead by over a thousand dollars a month. People are ready for this. I wish the Dems weren't such cowards about it.
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I agree. And certainly corporate greed is an enormous part of it, but many people are not employed by those companies. I look at the costs for public service employees and the strain that is putting on governments all over the country as a quick example. The overhead wrapped up in medical benefits has to be simply enormous.I wonder what a well put together argument by the Dems could do to get people to realize how much healthcare costs are crippling so many facets of our economy. On the flip side, we shouldn't kid ourselves, universal health care would kill a LOT of jobs.
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Your Faith in Humanity During an Emergency
TheLeviathan replied to Vanimal46's topic in The Sports Bar
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That's true, they also gave up 31 to a pretty bad Seahawks team. What happens against the Packers and with both of us against the Saints will tell a lot. I think they're a poor defense that has been able to mask that due to getting big leads against bad teams. But their offense is second only to KC and the dropoff from them to the next tier is significant.
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Right and own the fact that everyone's taxes will go up. But small business owners....imagine not paying to subsidize health care? Farmers....this is an EASY win with that demographic. And most Americans will still have more take-home money even with a tax increase because your paychecks will increase when you (or your employer) aren't allocating so much of your compensation to benefits. I'm starting to wonder how much the lack of wage growth is being caused by companies having to off-set their compensation packages with ever increasing contributions to medical benefits.
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I can't remember where I read it, but universal health care has 68% approval among Dems and 36% (in the ballpark on both of those) among Republicans. That's...what? Half the electorate without even considering independents? I think Dems should be careful about how left they appear on all issues (especially in some places) but when you have a winning issue.....go all in. Be authentic. I hate hearing Cruz pound O'Rourke on "massive tax increases" - the Democrats have got to develop a better counter punch to that. Their limp-wristed, talk around answers to that hurt them. Embrace the reality, talk about what it would do for average Americans.
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When someone keeps saying "Hey...how about this! No wait...Just kidding", but then they bring it up again and again and again......at what point do you stop believing the "just kidding" part? Either you want a serious conversation with serious answers, at which point you'd stop trolling out the same thing both yourself and others have dismissed. Or you'd just admit you have no interest in the conversation. I guess I'd prefer you be more open to the conversation. And if you truly don't believe dividing the nation is a constructive point of conversation.....stop talking about it.
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I'd have been willing to pay him more. I hope he and his family are happy in this boiling sun,
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At what point, when you reject everyone else's contributions, and keep bringing it up.....should I stop believing this?
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I would suggest the Rams schedule has been pretty favorable to judge by points. When they've faced competent offenses, they have put up a lot of points on them. (The Vikings have also faced some bad offenses, so I understand that, I'm only talking about the Rams)
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Why would anyone want to continue having this discussion with you? Ok, Mike wants to break up the country. Let's just be done with this conversation, you evidently don't want to have it.
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And again and again I point out to you that this 30% has always been there. And the Dems have won many times during their existence. So that point is just plain irrelevant. Their existence is a separate, unrelated, and irrelevant one to the problem that faces Democrats. Worrying about that 30%, rather than the people they could turn out, but don't.....is wasted energy.
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Then perhaps more time and effort should be spent answering that question. It is simply a fact that the requisite voters exist. Simply because they didn't turn out last time, doesn't follow they never will again. If you drop some of the mellodramatics it might help. There is a problem, but the path to a solution is investigating how to invigorate turnout and then stabilize it. Republicans know fear works for them. So what did Clinton and Obama share? What resonates? I don't know, but that's where to start.
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Towns needs an offense built around his skill set. Smart coaches do that.....which is where our problem lies.
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You admit that Obama turned out voters and won, but you mock me for suggesting voter turnout is important? C'mon man. The voters are there, why the Democrats can't turn them out is the problem. Is some of that nefarious Republicanism? Sure. But not all of it. Not even most of it. We should worry about something that is not only demonstrably true (turn out voters = win), but also attainable. Worrying about divorcing from the Southern states is just nonsense. You'd be better off divising some elaborate strategy to create a plague that only attacks people with stupid accents. You want to win local races, states races, and Senate races? Get more people to the polls. It's really that simple. And not all that daunting if we quit the "Woe is Me" act and start actually doing something about it.
