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  1. TheLeviathan
    If Nolasco makes the rotation I will.... ......check to see how many of the other contenders suddenly came down with mysterious ailments, injuries, sicknesses, or victims of random Tanya Harding-like assaults.
  2. TheLeviathan
    This is the crux of it for me. In terms of upside, only Berrios exceeds May among guys likely to pitch for the Twins this year. We're trading that upside in to patch something we could've solved in other ways. I just can't get behind operating like that.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Boy, the more this story unravels the more Adam Laroche seems like a strange dude with some strange ideas.
  4. TheLeviathan
    6th or 7th huh? Well then....
  5. TheLeviathan
    So what I'm hearing is that we need a no side burns rule?
  6. TheLeviathan
    That we did nothing via trade or free agency to bolster the bullpen and that we loaded our rotation with a number of overpriced FA signings. So now we move arguably the 2nd or 3rd best starter in the rotation out to the bullpen to compensate.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Do you toss everyone out for their stats the first go around in the big leagues? Watch out Byron Buxton..... The freaking kid had 25 starts under his belt and was starting to show EXACTLY what you want from a young starter when we flipped him to the bullpen. It's patently absurd to argue that May's move to the pen had anything to do with his inability to be a starter. It had much more to do with the team's inability to field a competent bullpen and overspending on mid-tier FA starters. We should be investing in players like Trevor May for the future of this rotation, not using his talents to put a band-aid on roster blunders.
  8. TheLeviathan
    I think this is an important point for any holding hope that May can return to the rotation in the future. It's just so uncommon for guys to flip back and forth successfully that we can pretty much mourn May's potential as a starter today. I hope he turns into a brilliant reliever, but I can't help thinking the team made a mistake here.
  9. TheLeviathan
    I'm glad they didn't carry on the ruse of him competing any longer. I'd rather him start preparing for his role now if that's what the decision was always going to be any way.
  10. TheLeviathan
    Yeah.....sorry Laroche, the team isn't in the wrong in that case.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Is it just during the spring or all-season that this happens? That wasn't clear to me.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Because the thought of voting for Hillary and another dynasty name is plenty yuck too.
  13. TheLeviathan
    I may be inclined to vote Ryan over Clinton, just saying.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Locker rooms are still one of the most backwards and immatures places around. It's sad it takes so much effort to change that and even more sad are the consequences on those that suffer it.
  15. TheLeviathan
    He may be "too conservative", but the Republicans are going to latch on to his history with guns and that is going to get hammered again and again. Nothing rabble-rouses the right like a totally baseless "They're takin' our guns!" rant.
  16. TheLeviathan
    I like your points Glunn, and I agree that state funding cuts have only driven the problem further....but I think that takes colleges off the hook too easily. I'm glad we're no longer handing institutions money if the first place they spend it is to, essentially, advertise for more money. Colleges have become far too profit driven. Any university that promised to slash costs, direct the bulk of spending to education, and trimmed the growing bloat of non-teaching staff would immediately have my vote for restored state and federal funding. But they need to budge first.
  17. TheLeviathan
    The second point is valid, and I would argue, largely already the case. Your first point boils down to this: delay starting your life and career so you can cobble together money to pay for over priced college. Could everyone do your plan? Maybe, but that seems like an obnoxiously cumbersome response. Instead, why don't we start holding colleges accountable for their exploitative tuition hiking?
  18. TheLeviathan
    Trump wins everything but ohio tonight, further cementing this is a done deal.
  19. TheLeviathan
    But throwing bats at people over a fist pump is just preposterous! *head explodes*
  20. TheLeviathan
    I'll use my wife and I as examples, she it's a behavior analyst for austistic children and I'm a teacher, so we are solidly middle class. Even under an income based repayment schedule we pay about 25% of our take home pay each month in student loans. Money we would be spending on cars, home remodeling, or even traveling. All points where that money goes into the actual economy and not to federal loans. There are many in the under 40 crowd that share this reality. It is of monumental economic impact. 20/30 years ago we were the people buying houses and cars and now many wait years to start families or make major purchases because large shares of debt, that is inescapable by any means, hangs over us.
  21. TheLeviathan
    I agree that him bringing the issue forward was both smart on his part and absolutely necessary for the country. I just can't support any plan that gives the real culprit in this a golden parachute. Give me a bad plan that screws the colleges hard, I'll sign up for most anything that begins with that.
  22. TheLeviathan
    This thread is seriously lacking in Louis CK.....
  23. TheLeviathan
    I'm going to bounce off of Chief's post here which I largely agreed with. Many places in Europe have very cheap or free college education because they have already weeded out a significant portion of the population as unfit for college. Bernie's plan allows everyone - college capable or not - to get free education. That's nothing more than a dumbed down second high school. College and higher academics were once about some pretty lofty standards and about creating capable minds in challenging fields. Just look at some of the absurd class offerings you can get any college. And let's also end this "perfect plan" nonsense - how about one that doesn't suck terribly? Bernie's plan is to gold stamp the funding of colleges - the same ones exploiting young people out of tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars with no remorse. No plan about higher education should even be entertained without two things first - every college that doesn't cut it's tuition rates to inflation levels from 1965 to present day (we can be flexible, but the rate of increase today is laughably insane) - is immediately going to become a taxed entity with no support from local or federal governments. Colleges HAVE to reign their spending and tuition increases in. Second - all available money to students who want to go to college is based on a combination of merit and financial need. No longer is the ability to print your name on a FASFA sufficient for being a college student. Bernie's plan is literally the opposite of both those things. It's terrible.
  24. TheLeviathan
    It's true that we might do things more like Europe in the future, but there are a lot of differences in the U.S. that Europe and others simply don't have to deal with. We also handle a host of things differently than they ranging from education to tax policies. There is a lot of nuance to a discussion of comparing ourselves to other countries and (much like everything else) you don't get a lot of nuance with Bernie.
  25. TheLeviathan
    I think most of us agree that there is probably a threshold that becomes too much. That will be different for different people. What I don't understand is allowing the players to police that. Decorum/professionalism should (and can!) be policed the same way in baseball as it is in the real world. Have your boss or a teammate sit you down in the dugout and chew your ear. Just like a boss reigning in an employee. But I've never worked somewhere that solved a decorum/professionalism issue by hucking a stapler at the offender. In my opinion, there is more room for fun and exuberance than is currently allowed.....but I'd gladly trade that for getting rid of the unconscionably stupid unwritten rules.
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