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  1. TheLeviathan
    You hand one of them the closers role, hope they run with it, and trade them in July. Rebuilding teams should look to add upside where they have available roles. Why double down on a 103 loss team?
  2. TheLeviathan
    Need? No. But might it help politics be more viable and be less obnoxious and money driven? Yes. That's the reason.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Id take a scholarship and play QB for the gophers if I get all these excuses too. I will be crappy at it too.
  4. TheLeviathan
    I sort of have. 1) Trade Dozier, Santana, and (if anyone will have them) Plouffe and Santiago. That's the priority. What you can acquire there makes your decisions the rest of the offseason other than investing in someone like Holland, Feliz, or Storen. Any plan that wants to retain most, let alone all, of those players is a huge mistake IMO.
  5. TheLeviathan
    So, basically, we keep a 103 loss team around and add Castro? Um...no thank. No offense, but I hope to god our offseason looks nothing like this.
  6. TheLeviathan
    I don't think we need to have Rizzo to justify reducing Mauer's playing time. And it's going to be hard to see what kind of replacement we have until they can actually play. Mauer's not going back to what he was and what he is isn't worth holding on to any more. Time to see if we can catch some lightening.
  7. TheLeviathan
    I think, money wise, yes. It depends if the Pirates want to make that gamble.
  8. TheLeviathan
    And as a Twins fan, seeing the Yankees go down like that only added to it. I'd also put that as my second favorite game seven. The problem with this game was that the drama never really started until Davis' homerun in the 8th. Then we got about 3 innings of really good drama. Here's my standard - if your baseball/football/basketball game can make me compare it to a tight Game 7 in playoff hockey - then you're in the conversation for best games. Only 1991 and 2001 fit that for me. Otherwise I'd take any 2-1 NHL playoff game every time.
  9. TheLeviathan
    1991. I think a lot of people perceive here has more to do with what was on the line for the two teams than the actual drama of the game. That gets to count too, but in terms of tension and that sort of thing, I'd for sure put 1991 ahead. Better series, better finish.
  10. TheLeviathan
    One might hope for that, but would it happen? That's a very utopian idea, one I'm not sure is even a part of human nature. Though, I guess we wouldn't find out until we had to. We've had this discussion before and I'm absolutely ok with developing a system of guaranteed income to ease the demands of working but there are a couple factors to consider: 1) Work, in an abstract sort of way, is social buy-in. It's perhaps the main way we contribute to one another in a meaningful way. If you suddenly stop that, does that lead to a break down in social structure? We see some of that now, but imagine if large cross sections of the populace have no connection with one another and rely on those, out of the goodness of their heart, providing for them? A system where we replace have vs. have not with a sort of contribute vs. not is not one I see being successful. 2) Many (most or all?) of the very innovations we see as making this no-work-world possible are born out of the very concept we're trying to get rid of. My hesitations about the conversation are about fundamental issues of human nature and society. I agree that changes will come as technologies advance, I'm far less convinced human nature will change along with them.
  11. TheLeviathan
    I should know the name well and yet I have had it confused for decades.
  12. TheLeviathan
    There is a serious lack of Jason Tyner references in this.....
  13. TheLeviathan
    Well, yeah, it's not physically taxing. It's taxing on your time and your mental stamina.
  14. TheLeviathan
    The problem is that it's a very taxing "side job". The hours aren't exactly flexible.
  15. TheLeviathan
    Doh. Waseca. I am sentenced to confuse those two forever.
  16. TheLeviathan
    I'd be good with that. I think spending on one of the guys who wants to record saves is the way to go too. Like a Cecil or a Holland or a Feliz or a Storen. We'll have to pay, but those are the guys that have upside.
  17. TheLeviathan
    My caution, however, is that we often misjudge the speed of advancement by the initial ones. Read fiction or science fiction from the 60s and 70s and they talk about Mars colonies and flying cars as a given by this time. Sometimes our initial advancements stall out before we take big leaps and predicting what the future of the economy looks like is extremely difficult. The lesson you're talking about may be right, that eventually we will see shifts, but the nature of those shifts is pretty dubious because predicting the advancement of technology is extremely dicey. I agree that things will continue to be more automated and that is a threat to the number of jobs out there. I'm less convinced it's a threat to the nature of work for our society.
  18. TheLeviathan
    That's exactly what I was taking from that. Your first post was more assertive in my view. I would just suggest that we thought machinery would eliminate the factory several generations ago and we're still here. Having the conversation about what it might look like is important, but it's so difficult to actually plan for it. And there will always be a sizable workforce needed just to service each other. At least for a long, long time yet.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Except I said nothing like that. I said it might say more about you. (That's up to you to decide) But it's really no different than you making the assumption that people generally are miserable going to their job every day. Many people love what they do. Especially those of us that work with people. I have no problem centering my life around my family and my career. I love it. You seem to be dismissing my point of view whereas I'm suggesting it isn't that easy. Also, I'd add that what we do for work has changed many times over the course of human history. There might have been people during the industrial revolution making your argument as well. We always sort of morph into what we need and the jobs come with it. This could be different, but it's also very difficult to say with any certainty. You seem to be stating it as a certainty and I just don't agree with that.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Right, they sort of want him to burn it to the ground.
  21. TheLeviathan
    I think we're sustainable. We're working out so many social and racial issues, moreso than the vast majority of countries on the planet. No one has as much of a challenge and, when you consider that, we're doing pretty well. Lots of room to do better, for sure, but we have to keep in mind the scope of the challenges we face as the most diverse, free, democratic society on earth. It's no small feat that we don't have open war constantly, much less continuing to make progress. I think we sell ourselves short a bit by holding ourselves to false ideals.
  22. TheLeviathan
    I could see him getting something even bigger than that. Closer to 3/50 or 4/60.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Exactly. For the love of god look at that list and realize Ervin Santana and Brian Dozier have to be shopped aggressively. Anything else is just a mistake. There is minimal talent and even more minimal upside on that list.
  24. TheLeviathan
    I was speaking more generally. Bernie name drops Europe every six and a half seconds. People seem to think we're like Western Europe, but it's only superficial. There is no whiter place on the planet than Western Europe and as soon as diversity or some of the other issues we face every day become even a small issue they start to unravel. Our issues are unique, I'm ok learning from Europe, I'm just tired of hearing how they have it all figured out. And that's largely a refrain the left is accustomed to making. (The right thinks they have everythign screwed up, which is equally asinine)
  25. TheLeviathan
    I think you can defend as "not illogical" everything Maddon did. And yet also say his team definitely overcame some bad decisions on his part to win this series. I'm sure he was a difference maker over 162 games, but in these 7 games he was a detriment.
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