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  1. TheLeviathan
    Or in an unprecedented market - be aggressive when everyone else is being cautious. Give Darvish 6 years and 140 and make the move for Cole. This team would be a legit contender. Instead we're trying to rationalize Anibal freaking Sanchez.
  2. TheLeviathan
    Remember when I said this: And then I got mocked for being too cynical? Nope. Turns out I was being ridiculously optimistic. We'd all kill for Tillman and Garcia about now.
  3. TheLeviathan
    So you're saying we'll do nothing then?
  4. TheLeviathan
    Clock is ticking and now the options are thinning.
  5. TheLeviathan
    The problem with throwing 9-10 guys at a rotation to see what sticks is that in-between finding the guys that do stick (if that even happens) you have a lot of terrible pitching to get to that point. Make no mistake, this rotation and the options currently in house, are akin to giving up on the season.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Yes and in the last 3 years I've been retrained on response techniques twice. They no longer, after Sandy Hook, tell us to hunker down and hope for the best. There are a number of responses we're trained to do depending on the circumstances. For instance, I'm near an exit in my classroom and our job is to get out if we can. If we can't, we barricade the doors. And we practice this several times a year. As for the armed guard, it sounds like this was a large campus. It's impossible, in high school, to have armed personnel at every entrance. Smaller schools can funnel everyone in through one entrance, but once you reach a certain size of school that just isn't feasible. Plus, it's one step closer to basically turning the schools into a constant state of lock down. The problem isn't how locked down or safe the schools are, the problem is that those who want to cause harm have the means to cause as much as they want.
  7. TheLeviathan
    This is well said.
  8. TheLeviathan
    You seem to be under the impression that logic and facts might get in the way........
  9. TheLeviathan
    Oh? That's news I hadn't heard yet. Not that it'll stop the narrative. Guess every school need an armed entourage then. I'm sure the Republicans will have no problem handing that money to the educational system while we teachers scrape to make ends meet.
  10. TheLeviathan
    Yup. The only thing that might get done over this is to put a bunch of armed people into schools. And that will do jack squat. I shouldn't have to fear for the kids I take care of every year that we might get interrupted from word problems by a nut with an automatic weapon. It's ridiculous. But if a classroom of dead 6 year olds doesn't move the needle, I shudder to think what will.
  11. TheLeviathan
    I prefer Cobb, he's actually demonstrated success in the AL and that matters a lot if I'm signing free agent pitchers.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Are we sure it's his birthday? Stone calendars from his day are unreliable at best.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Well, we're getting a little late in the game here, no? I don't want to parse out what "priority" means, but I believe sport front offices need to say what they mean and mean what they say. If you sell hope, you better be prepared to either deliver or at least give every sign that you tried your rear end off to do it. And if you don't, the blow-back is on you. Otherwise, just don't stick your neck out into that territory. They could've just stuck with their "we're looking for pitching upgrades that make sense" schtick and we all know what that's code for. Fine. But that's not what they did and the expectations they built were evident here. Nick Nelson relied on them for a very upbeat blog not that long ago. So did several other regular bloggers here. There was clearly such a buzz in the fan base that the ownership threw a little gas on that fire at Twinsfest. People took them at their word. They started to feel hope. And now they wonder whether they ever should've bought it at all. That's fair. Hell, that kind of hope is what makes us fans is it not? So I don't appreciate the way you are bouncing from thread to thread basically insinuating we're all a bunch of silly persons for taking them at their word and holding them accountable to it. They need to be held accountable to it - it's the only way this changes. And it needs to change.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Two things: Whenever I've heard the FO talk they are careful to talk about upgrading their pitching as a whole, rather than specifically targeting starters. I appreciate that mindset because the bullpen did need work...but now it's the rotation. If he said that, that's good to hear, but it needs to happen. Maybe I'm wrong and I said something along the way that indicates I blame them personally for something, but my issues are all rooted in skepticism. They, ownership included, were adamant about their intentions. It seems odd to me that in November, when Darvish is slated by most to get 6 years and closer to 200M, that you'd balk at 5/100ish. What changed? Did they think in November that 5/110 was going to do it? If so, that seems....naive? If they were prepared to be in the 150+ neighborhood, why balk now? What they said, relative to what they did, opens a wide door for questioning. I think that's fair. What I don't think is fair is to just dismiss this disappointment and start making excuses for it. Somewhere along the lines the rhetoric didn't match the action and we do have a right to be upset about that. Personally, I was never of the notion we would sign Darvish, but comments in the wake of the signing by the FO and some here have been frustrating. I love many parts of this team right now and am pretty bullish on their chances. This market seems ripe to capitalize. I grant there is still time....but it's ticking fast.
  15. TheLeviathan
    Sure, but as an agent and a player, if a team comes in that low you have to negotiate them a long way up. And really, why would you? Either they need to come up close enough to make the conversation interesting, or you need not care.
  16. TheLeviathan
    The problem is that if we're going to rely on drafting and developing starting pitching....that might take awhile. The current offensive core is here right now. I'm all for this FO really investing the time and effort into fixing the structures that develop young pitching, but that investment isn't bearing fruit anytime soon and we're talking about upgrading now. Part of what made Darvish appealing is that he's a significant, immediate upgrade that wouldn't necessarily hamstring the team's future. Trading for Archer requires pulling from the farm. Signing Darvish only requires pulling from the wallet. I don't think anyone disagrees that this team is primed to have a nice run here.....but only if they acquire pitching to help right now. So talk of the farm is just not applicable to this conversation.
  17. TheLeviathan
    I'm guessing something in the neighborhood of 4/50 or 4/60. I always thought Cobb was the more likely target and possibly even a better value, but we haven't seen the team particularly attached to him so far this offseason. I think signing him could still do a world of good, but I would probably still get at least one other arm.
  18. TheLeviathan
    We balked, at least partially, at an opt-out clause did we not? On the basis of it being too "advantageous" for the player. We also balked at a 6th year, but that was the expectation for Darvish in November and we didn't seem to be balking then. Neither of those strike me as particularly courageous. They made good signings with Pineda, Reed, and Rodney. I tip my cap to them. But they deserve no shade here - their comments before and after have made this situation very questionable and should be approached with skepticism that reflects that rather than lining up excuses.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Whatever other outcomes this weird market produces, I hope it opens the doors in MLB to contracts with a more varied structure like Darvish. Other leagues do it and the players are just fine, it's long overdue for players to start accepting it in baseball.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Less crappy outcomes do not equal "positives". You construed our best pitcher being out for April to help with September as "That's Good". Myself, and others, are responding to your arguments. We're responding to the blatant contradictions in your own blog posts on Darvish. We're responding to your manufactured, poor arguments as some desperate attempt at a silver lining. Sorry Nick, the landscaping doesn't look nice with the house on fire. The house is still on fire. That is not "good", no matter how many ways you want to spin it.
  21. TheLeviathan
    I don't see any hitters that are any better investments than Yu Darvish. Mike Moustakas? Maybe. But that again requires us to swim in the deep end of the pool and it feels like we're still holding on to the ladder for dear life.
  22. TheLeviathan
    We won't participate in free agency because things are "very, very advantageous" to players and we won't trade because that requires moving something to get something.......how exactly are we planning to get better? Maybe it'd be wise if Falvey and Levine stop talking to the press until they accomplish something to improve the team. The quotes that are coming out do no favors right now.
  23. TheLeviathan
    He had way more solid ground to stand on in that argument though.
  24. TheLeviathan
    Many other fan bases should also be upset at what is happening. I don't win brownie points with my wife when I tell her it's a priority to get her wine for V-Day at the store and all I muster up the ability to do is park in the parking lot. I'm not even really all that outraged at missing out on Darvish. What outrages me is the excuse parade after the fact. The bizarre, nonsensical arguments to spin the disappointment. To defend opt out clauses. To make a month of our best pitcher being down a "good thing". How we just couldn't compete in the most depressed contract market of our lifetime. On and on. That's what has me outraged. Not getting Darvish is just disappointing, but I had low expectations. But for the posters and bloggers here I'd expect more than this onslaught of nonsense.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Right, the human factors behind the free market are still there and will continue to be there. It's naive to think greed isn't a significant role in economic actions of many. Likewise, free market worshippers are naive to think it's the only thing that drives human behavior. I think I've had to say this too many times lately, but human beings are complicated. We rarely make things fit nicely no matter how hard we try. I tend to think a true free market (which can't exist, frankly) is a sustainable economic model, whereas I think socialism is almost certain disaster. But since a true market can't exist, we have to accept a hybrid. The problem is the future hybrid that is on the horizon will look and feel so different, while the human components stay much the same, that it makes bracing for it very difficult. It's the industrial revolution on steroids.
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