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  1. TheLeviathan
    I say this as respectfully as possible, as someone who grew up in super rural Minnesota myself.....this is nonsense. Your world-view could stand an injection of empathy and understanding. I hope you find it someday, you'll be surprised at how it softens you to the real world rather than the hardened one you've imagined.
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    Devil is certainly in the details. I'll continue to root for the players to get a 60-40 split of revenues. Putting aside the legalise and PR shenanigans, any proposal that does not include a cap and floor is going to be swimming upstream on public sentiment. The Athletic's fan poll has some interesting elements but it's pretty clear that what the players are willing to hold out for doesn't align with what fans want. Especially since I'd argue sports fans reading the New York Times are probably about the most player-sympathetic data-set you could possibly hope for as players. The average fan is going to be (in my opinion) even further towards the ownership argument that any agreement without a cap is not good for the game.
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    Can you elaborate on the payroll/revenue point please?
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    People are right that this is a culmination of a series of terrible decisions. "Right sizing" the business was the thumb in the eye that I think caused many fans to finally tap out. I'd bet good money the Bananas pack the house in August. Baseball needs to start leaning in to being a fun sport to spectate. Our European friends have come over here and shown that you don't have to sit on your hands - you bought a ticket, have some life! Have fun! At some point some daring ownership group is going to let their major league team buck all the fuddy-duddy nonsense and have some damn fun in the stands. Would do the Twins some good to consider that.
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    You have so many ifs in here I couldn't possibly calculate the odds of all of it happening plus no other setbacks. You are engaged in wishful thinking. That's for lottery tickets not MLB front office work.
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    Gulity as charged for strongmanning his position. Low 70s still feels righr to me too.
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    I also share some future optimism....all the more reason to sell high or on assets with less team control to build around the future. Passing on future assets for an 81 win team seems silly.
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    Two things can be true though....was it manipulative and meant to garner public support? Of course, public relations spin will be constant. The players gave phony lip service about caring about fans too. What is common sense is the hard cap/floor where there is decided fan support. On the central issue the owners are more aligned with fans and their initial salvo backed that. Then they lost the plot.
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    The owners started with a super common sense proposal. It has been straight up nonsense ever since.
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    At some point, if most of a forum has you on ignore, it may be time for it to go past everyone having to select that function.
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    I have skepticism about advanced defensive statistics. However, these say we suck. We definitely suck. So that works in the favor of this model.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Being the best of the worst is basically you're argument....I find that to be a low bar for "contender"
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    You absolutely get to include NAW. (Though you do need to include Gobert on the other side) Some of the picks used to get Ayo came from that sign and trade. Choosing Randle over him was the second biggest mistake of his tenure IMO. I think I'll always hold Chris Finch in a high level of contempt because he talked this team into targeting Randle in that KAT trade. Had they decided instead to move him for picks this calculation is much, much different. It simply can't be overstated that you turned a top 25 NBA player, who was young, into a negative asset, a 6th man, and Beringer. Given the price tag guys like Bane, Bridges, Beal, etc. commanded you could have absolutely sold him for much, much more. Just for reference - a few months later a player with a worse contract (Fox) got traded for Lavine, 3 firsts, and 3 seconds. Pascal Siakam that same year netted 3 firsts. Harden went for 4 firsts. Mikael Bridges went for 4 firsts. We got Julius ****ing Randle. It's malfeasance.
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    I love the aggression....but the calculations aren't adding up so far. The KAT deal can't be seen as anything but a blunder at this point. I love the Ball trade though.
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    Below .500. Terrible defense. Inconsistent. No bullpen.
  18. TheLeviathan
    The one thing I'll give both Bell and Larnach a slight bump for value is that one is a switch hitter and the other is a lefty. Those can be valuable mix-and-match pieces for contenders. They won't blow your doors off with the value you get back, but I bet we can move them both.
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    We're rope-a-doping the Dodgers right now! Austin Voth lulling them into thinking we're a team that throws out an array of terrible dudes from the bullpen....then pounce in October! Last week's vibes made it two days this week before reality set in for most folks it seems.
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    I'm just not sure you can learn your way out of having a noodle arm and bad instincts by playing more. Middle infield is the top of the defensive spectrum for difficulty, I think he could become a solid defender but it's going to have to be somewhere lower on that spectrum. Like left field.
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    He has a ton of trust in sports media in the Minnesota market....but I'm starting to think he may not be the wizard we think he is. It's been whiff after whiff after whiff for about 3 years now.
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    I will be more than disappointed. I'm really tired of the team pretending to be something it is not.
  24. TheLeviathan
    We may just need to ride it out a month. Larnach, Bell, possibly Clemens, and maybe even Caratini could (read: should) move at the deadline and that should free up two months to let these kids show us what they've got.
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    This team is not a contender. If they want to sign Jeffers to a short extension I'd be open to that possibility given the dearth of catching options on the team. I'd rather deal him to a desperate team and find a catcher via another sell move.
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