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  1. TheLeviathan
    I agree, but part of the problem is the west/southwest has been in a drought for some time. That's complicating matters. But, yeah, the rest is right. Politically I feel like I'm in Mississippi compared to Minnesota.
  2. TheLeviathan
    There was a good chunk of us that thought it was too soon and unnecessary, but the board had routine threads suggesting we extend him.
  3. TheLeviathan
    There was a pretty vocal group that thought between 6/40 and 6/52 was a good idea. There are a variety of problems with this analysis that were pointed out at the time - whatever money the Twins "saved" was going to be a tiny fraction of payroll. Now, not only are we not saving money, it looks like a sinkhole. And that contract may be the only reason Brian Dozier is not in AAA right now. But the biggest problem is the idea that it is ever genius, or even a good idea, to extend guys you have 3-4 years of control on unless they are a truly unique talent. Let their arb. years play out and spend money when you need to.
  4. TheLeviathan
    If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. Generating a list of shaky reasons to call it a chicken doesn't make it a chicken.
  5. TheLeviathan
    Or, as I've found in the short time here in Phoenix, you either by a big, expensive machine to fix your water or you drink a combination of chlorine and sand in your tap water. (I think I can literally chew the water at times) I hate bottled water and it looks like it's now become a necessity.
  6. TheLeviathan
    That extension never looked genius IMO. It was too soon with too little reward possibilities. I was in the small minority saying that at the time, so this isn't hindsight. What they agreed to I felt was acceptable, but it wasn't genius. Though it was WAY smarter than some of the extension talk around this board prior to it.
  7. TheLeviathan
    I don't disagree about distractions and Brock is right that politicians use them all the time, but many of these online outrage orgies are non-political. If anyone is using something like the gorilla shooting as a distraction, it's ourselves.
  8. TheLeviathan
    That pretty much sums up the arguments made on the other thread, well done.
  9. TheLeviathan
    No, I think some idiots actually believe that's an issue. And, even moreso, they believe it's something that will rile up their base to support them because they'll believe it's an issue. I just bristle every time someone uses "the elites" in a sentence. You lose me immediately.
  10. TheLeviathan
    I need an update on this issue - can we include last year now? Or do we have to wait until August so there is enough sample size?
  11. TheLeviathan
    The "goal of the elite" stuff I'm going to ignore because it leads down all sorts of silly paths. Whatever Cabal of Evil you speak of is probably not worth the conversation unless you have a tinfoil hat to share. Hundreds of thousands signed those petitions and have blown it up. Doing little things every day does help and it will be somewhat of a slow burn to get things changed, but at the same time we need some really significant changes (and relatively soon) and we seem to generate little to any passion to do that. Myself included. I don't know what sort of catalyst it will take to get hundreds of thousands of us to suddenly stop driving gas vehicles. Or downsize our houses.
  12. TheLeviathan
    That's what your entire post was.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Passion need not manifest only as protest. Passion/care/concern/attention is what turns something obscure into something common. We need people to care about what will help the earth in more than just a cursory way. We need them to act on it and not just talk about it and that's where most climate initiatives seem to fall down. Yet one justified gorilla death gets people acting, talking, caring, etc. Hell, we can't even get that faux outrage connected to the very real environmental issues that are killing the gorilla species! I just lament not being able to connect that passion/care/concern to something even vaguely important rather than utterly stupid.
  14. TheLeviathan
    People might care in some vague way, but they don't generate even a fraction of the passion. I guess my point was that moving things forward on climate change is going to have to generate real passion at some point. So it's strange to see so much of it wasted elsewhere.
  15. TheLeviathan
    I agree, it's just fascinating to see it happen. Literally hundreds of thousands of morons flocking to a non-issue when there are so many pressing ones. Every time it happens it absolutely baffles and depresses me.
  16. TheLeviathan
    It's sad that the only climate/environmental stuff that can seem to generate any kind of major emotional outpouring involves individual animals shot for a myriad of reasons.
  17. TheLeviathan
    What might have changed is his exposure to what worked, where to find it, and other factors that made it more effective. But I have no delusions that the Twins had juicers too. I believe the biggest boost he got going to Boston was freedom to be himself as a hitter.
  18. TheLeviathan
    I'm sure they knew each other. I also don't really care since it's not important. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that being teammates day in and day out may substantially change a relationship. We'll never know what he was doing, when he was doing it, or how much Boston influenced that. What we know is that he was, in fact, on drugs that would've qualified for a PED test failure in 2003.
  19. TheLeviathan
    The point was flukey play coinciding along with known users is about as damning as you can find without administering the tests yourself. We KNOW Ortiz was on what would eventually be PEDs in 2003, so I'm not sure what the mystery is. There's a better than decent chance that expanded with his introduction to Manny Ramirez.
  20. TheLeviathan
    We know that Manny and Ortiz were taking things that would later be banned by the sport in 2003 and that Manny continued to take them. Giambi was taking them. Millar, Muehler, Varitek, and Nixon had career home run hitting years. Damon's power numbers spiked the next year. Mark freaking Bellhorn in 2004. I largely think that team was the result of some rampant PED use, but it's speculation purely.
  21. TheLeviathan
    It's impossible to know, it's also just really alarming the kinds of career years those Boston teams had in those eras. Millar, Muehller, Nixon, etc. - either it's the most amazing collection of career years at once or something fishy. Since we know several guys from that team were caught later, my money is on fishy. But it's purely speculation.
  22. TheLeviathan
    At this point I'd like to see a three man rotation in two spots - LF/DH with Park, Arcia, and Grossman. Grossman is young enough to not totally abandon playing him, especially if he's hitting well. But Kepler needs to play every day.
  23. TheLeviathan
    I think Fenway helped him some, but I think the rampant cheating on those Boston teams at the time may have helped him a lot. Some of the stats on that team indicate it was a damn pharmacy in that clubhouse.
  24. TheLeviathan
    I agree with this paragraph completely, but the context of his release doesn't lend itself to the narrative that the Twins gave away a diamond. They couldn't trade him, he signed for less than his likely Arb. figure, and he made less money than middle relief guys and utility infielders. He had pretty poor value and all the context supports that. But it doesn't change that it was a mistake. Jake Arrieta had crappy value too and it doesn't change the fact that it was a mistake. So, to put it simply, you don't have to argue about the context to make your point about the mistake. The context isn't your friend and it's still a mistake. What was dumb about it was that they gave up a very high ceiling player that they jerked around for nothing. That's what makes it a mistake - they destroyed his value with their stubborn approach and failed to recognize his ceiling, then they compounded that by giving him away for nothing.
  25. TheLeviathan
    I installed adblock - it was that or I can't come to this site without it crashing other tabs or windows and generally slowing my browsing elsewhere.
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