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  1. TheLeviathan
    No, what I may be confusing you with is someone that says "development be damned, if it hurts Buxton long-term I don't care, as long as I get one more 2016 win" Because that is a natural consequence of what you're advocating. There are tradeoffs for forcing your hand too soon and finding that balance is important. If "win now, at all costs" is the mantra, you are casting off concern for the negative consequences (meager or substantial) for whatever (meager or substantial) rewards you might incur. I prefer to mitigate the negative consequences while maximizing the overall rewards. So I don't want to "win now at all costs". I prefer to "win as much as I can, without hurting myself in the future". That can mean different things to different people and the job of Ryan is to establish what we "can" do and what would hurt in the future. And certainly the team could be doing more to help win now and not hurt the future. But at some point you need to let your Kyle Gibsons flounder/adjust a bit so they can be ready to contribute later. Or let your Trevor Plouffes settle in where they can contribute. That comes with the very likely result of losing some immediate success for the investment in future contributions. And you can't just get out of that need to invest in players to adjust.
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    This sounds good as a bumper sticker, but some elements of reality disagree. Sometimes, in the maturation from losing to winning, you accept a slightly lesser return immediately for a higher return in the near future. Most young players go through a rough patch early and need to adjust to the advanced talent of the big league level. The only way to make that adjustment is to give them the opportunity. The consequence of that is sometimes a lesser performance than if you went with some vanilla, no upside player that at least gives you a higher floor than the learning young player. But it's part of the process and has to be accepted if you want to really start winning. What you're advising is putting lipstick on a pig so you can say you are "winning" more than if you were playing the kids, whereas I'd rather swing for the fences and let the talent adjust for bigger and better things than a pretty pig. In other words, I want to start to really win and sometimes that requires a small step backward first.
  3. TheLeviathan
    I think it should be pointed out that lists like this are about potential and the perception of the potential, not any kind of lock. Using a 19th place finish to knock on the Cardinals is sort of missing the point. They find lots of ways to improve their club and often find people to produce that aren't making anyone's top 10 list. The Twins do that too, by the way. Dozier, Perkins, Duffy, etc. This is great news that there is still a lot of positivity about our future potential, but that's all it really is.
  4. TheLeviathan
    We also heard the bullpen was a "priority" this offseason. So far we have very different understandings of what a "priority" is.
  5. TheLeviathan
    No past, because that likely means he's kept whatever skeletons very carefully hidden. More dangerous.
  6. TheLeviathan
    It makes a huge difference. If some of those Bush and Kasich voters had stayed on the Rubio momentum than it would have mattered a lot for future states. We'd have two clear front runners. Instead the Rubiobot thing basically killed his campaign.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Glad to see Kasich get some love, he's the kind of Republican that needs to be more front and center. And yeah, it's clear Rubio suffered from those Christie attacks.
  8. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, I think that's the way I'd go too. Two new species that may unlock a lot of scientific knowledge about the past is extremely big news. Save the front page cancer announcement for when it is confirmed.
  9. TheLeviathan
    I didn't need Chris Christie to say it. But he made it abundantly obvious to anyone that didn't catch what was happening. Authenticity matters and that was a huge blow for Rubio. I guess we'll find out today how much of an impact it was.
  10. TheLeviathan
    I honestly have no clue what this paragraph means.
  11. TheLeviathan
    It's not our "infielders in the outfield" approach that we have all but slapped a trademark "Twins Way" on...but I like it. Revolutionary. It's clear we don't give a hoot about outfield defense so let's just go all-in on that puppy.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Did you watch the debate? Pandering to the base does work, but in an election in which off-beat, unscripted, and out of the norms candidates rule...it's INCREDIBLY embarrassing to be called out for a memorized line and then repeat it again several more times. What it calls into question is authenticity and that matters a lot. He'll survive longer than Christie, but he may never recover from that awful debate showing. Christie was just salt in the wound. The wound was sounding like a cyborg being fed lines. It's the teleprompter accusation on steroids.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, all the blows by Christie on Rubio landed and Rubio is reeling. I think New Hampshire is make or break for him.
  14. TheLeviathan
    I think I'd feel it at 100.
  15. TheLeviathan
    Marco Rubio with perhaps the most amusing debate disaster I can recall.
  16. TheLeviathan
    Hoping on Buxton is absolutely what every Twins fan should be doing. Counting on him being their best player is going way too far. And, frankly, it's not particularly fair to Buxton.
  17. TheLeviathan
    I'm not so sure most of us aren't a blend of morality and "survival of the fittest". Sometimes we look out for others for selfish reasons, sometimes because of our own sense of good. (From wherever that might be inspired) We're rather complicated creatures. Except for Ted Cruz of course.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Well said Psuedo. I know plenty of bad people that believe in god and plenty of good ones that do too. I've never found any particular correlation with faith and morality, no matter how much those with faith would like to contend otherwise. I've always thought, if there is a god out there, he'll appreciate that I've spent my life working with people and trying to make the world a better place. And if that isn't enough and I should've spent some obnoxious chunk of my life in a church or drinking wine and eating crackers or else all of those good deeds don't matter.....well then that's not the kind of god I want to please any way.
  19. TheLeviathan
    I agree Ben, Rubio is probably the worst offender at that phony religious stuff this time around. Carson is obnoxious about it too, but I think he's always been that way as opposed to Rubio. (Who is laying it on really thick) And Cruz goes without saying, the guy is just a fraud through and through.
  20. TheLeviathan
    I would like to have spent this season with Sano at DH most of the time and getting a day or two at third every week to break him in and feel out his defensive ability. If he ever ends up back at third, we'll have wasted a golden opportunity to ease him into the position here in 2016. (I still hope this could be a reality, but that means rooting against Park, which I'm not terribly comfortable with either.)
  21. TheLeviathan
    Easy money, sure.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Apparently they are justifying it with a twisted interpretation of a CNN report. So flimsy. Cruz is the worst. I'd rather have Trump.
  23. TheLeviathan
    They just might be doing this one right too. Though, at this point I think Hawley could do most anything and I'd give it a shot.
  24. TheLeviathan
    Well there is also the fact that one flat minimum income is hard to calculate. We aren't Sweden, where costs are relatively even no matter where you go. What it costs for education and healthcare and basic needs in Wyoming vs. New York are not even remotely the same. The basic premise I understand, I don't mind uncoupling employment and healthcare. I do worry about education and the ramifications there. We need to improve education, but I think that happens by uncoupling property taxes and school funding. And then by uncoupling government loans from colleges. I'm not sure there has to be a centralized fund for all of that.
  25. TheLeviathan
    I'm not opposed to the Park signing, I'm opposed to the idea that our DH situation got less risky. Or that Park is any less risky than Arcia. Arcia is probably the least risky with the highest upside of our potential DH options. If anything, Park complicates our decision with him.
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