Jump to content
Twins Daily
  • Create Account

TheLeviathan

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    21,583

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    49

 Content Type 

Profiles

Minnesota Twins News, Rumors & Analysis

Minnesota Twins Videos

2026 Minnesota Twins Top Prospect Rankings

2022 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

Minnesota Twins Trade & Free Agent Rumors

Minnesota Twins Fan Guides & Resources

2023 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

The Minnesota Twins Players Project

2024 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

2025 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

2026 Minnesota Twins Draft Picks & Signing Bonuses

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by TheLeviathan

  1. TheLeviathan
    How many WS winners over the last 20 years have had runs longer than 4 years? I'd put the number less than half. I'm not sure what qualifies as a worthy run for you, but I think your standard is higher than reality has shown us.
  2. TheLeviathan
    Not many "runs" accomplish 6 out of 10 years as a legit WS contender. Seems a tad flimsy as an argument.
  3. TheLeviathan
    I am relieved by threads like this. I don't feel, under Ryan, we'd even indulge in such things. And with good reason. So I'm with you Twinsfan and Dad and yet I hope to fill the time waiting for the good news speculating about just how good it will be,
  4. TheLeviathan
    I'm fine with using that as leverage.
  5. TheLeviathan
    Anyone still want to hang on to Ervin Santana in this trade market? No? Me either. Some of us have been pleading for the Twins to sell. It looks like the awful FA market is ramping the seller's market even higher than anyone could have dreamed. Sell!
  6. TheLeviathan
    I hate you Dave. But I hope you're right.....
  7. TheLeviathan
    That Nats-Sox deal stinks of blackmail. It's the only explanation I have.
  8. TheLeviathan
    Desmond to play 1B, well into his thirties, for that much money, and losing the 11th pick? I'm not sure my fandom could survive that move.
  9. TheLeviathan
    A lot Twins fans questioned how long the Tigers could maintain their winning ways without anything resembling a minor league farm system. They defied those questions for what feels like a decade. That's what kab was saying. There is more than one way to skin a cat and Dombrowski is pretty damn good at his way.
  10. TheLeviathan
    Well, I hope we're always careful,
  11. TheLeviathan
    As a Twins fan I want them to win. I don't care that Dozier is a nice guy or the face of the team. I want wins. Short of dealing Dozier, i don't know how we right this ship for quite awhile.
  12. TheLeviathan
    And you absolutely have reasonable ground to believe so. I think, on the whole, they are doing more harm than good also. I just wouldn't demonize them quite the way they are. Same goes for the ridiculous way the right treats Obama. (Who seems to be a genuinely good person doing largely good things. Or at least having good intentions)
  13. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, the White Sox are a good example that you can try to do what Dombrowski did and still fail miserably at it. There is no one smart way other than to try and push the right pedal (brake, gas, neutral, etc.) at the right time.
  14. TheLeviathan
    I tend to believe people are never as great or as terrible as they are widely believed. The day and age we live in tends to make people into black and white and not the shade of grey we all really belong to.
  15. TheLeviathan
    The longer we go without a deal, the more my Minnesota-induced sports pessimism ramps up.
  16. TheLeviathan
    We were prognosticating the demise of Detroit on BYTO for about 5 years. And that was about five years ago. You can't just look at a farm system and say "Whelp, they're done for in a few years". Smart GMs find ways to restock, especially when they have the financial resources to do so. Dombrowski has always done that. Not having a WS title for it just shows bad luck, not incompetent management on his part.
  17. TheLeviathan
    I'd be shocked if a powerless player could directly transfer his minor league OPS to the big leagues. That's not how it works.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Can't miss a chance to bash the other side! No one looks past the surface any way.
  19. TheLeviathan
    In fairness, Obama could cure cancer and the Republicans would crucify him for it.
  20. TheLeviathan
    He'd have to put up basically the same numbers and agree to an extension at the same price for another year. So...basically impossible.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Ideally, would I like to keep Dozier? Sure. If there was a way to plant a pitching tree in target field and sit back and reap the rewards. Short of that, I don't see how this team gets better pitching the ball in the next 1-3 years without trading Santana and Dozier. We need to multiply our good assets and shift the asset Dozier represents to someone who pitches the baseball. I appreciate your position, but the sheer odds of building a winner around Dozier are basically non-existent. Keeping him is spinning your wheels and hoping that he doesn't go back to being a pumpkin before you scrounge up enough pitching help. Play the odds. Deal the man.
  22. TheLeviathan
    I can almost guarantee you that no average white kid would even care. But I can't imagine what black kids must feel when they never even see the character represent them. I wouldn't like this if it was a publicity stunt but I don't get that vibe. This was just a good person trying to bring some happiness to kids and we adults managed to *@$% it up again.
  23. TheLeviathan
    This is well worth the read also. Pretty much says it all:
  24. TheLeviathan
    Education is so state driven it's a major issue. This may help too: http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/expend.gif
  25. TheLeviathan
    I wouldn't have a problem with continuing to fund it through property taxes, but I want to decouple it as such a direct pipeline. Bad, poor neighborhoods should still have nice schools. In many places the money collected never leaves the neighborhood, so if you live in an affluent area, your schools are great. If you don't, your school sucks. So while state funds are divvied per pupil, the local revenues have no such obligation. And, in my experience, those revenues are the difference makers. Even in Minnesota, which does pool funds and redistributes them, there is still roughly 30% of school funds that come from local sources. So your local 30% vs. someone else's 30% can vary wildly. Nationally about 45% of funding is locally driven. To piggyback this post with a response to Mike, I do like free market capitalism. But I don't worship it and i think what that can look like varies wildly. (Like you, I think some sort of Basic Income idea and I think it is workable with the free market and capitalism) But one of the central pillars of capitalism is a vibrant, educated, inventive work force. Education is critical for that. By allowing many in our society to suffer under poorly funded schools is antithetical to the free market. At least one that works IMO.
×
×
  • Create New...