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  1. TheLeviathan
    You might well be right about him being buy high. But for all the talk of Vogt's age, he's only a year older than Lucroy and probably cheaper in terms of contract you owe him and he has more team control. I still favor Derek Norris by a mile over both of them though based on price to acquire, ability, and other factors. (Not to mention San Diego is much more likely to move Norris than either Milwaukee or Oakland IMO)
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    If anyone is expecting to find the golden catcher that is perfect for this team, good luck. Warts are going to be the name of the game at this point. The only option I really like is Derek Norris, but I'd call about Vogt and gauge what they want. He's not ideal but the catching market is terrible.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Nailed it.
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    If they can get some of these guys - Hicks, Santana, and the bullpen - turned even slightly in the right direction they could push hard.
  5. TheLeviathan
    No one is an angel, they have and continue to contribute to the problem. Let's just not pretend their contribution weighs equally.
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    I agree that shouldn't have happened, but I would suggest that the anger in Israel about this is at least justified. I think most Americans have no concept what it would be like to be Israel - we struggle with terrorism and other threats that pale in comparison to what Israel is literally surrounded with. I wish Israel would show more good faith in diplomatic efforts, they have a lot of room to do that, but too often they are held to a ridiculous expectation that no other nation is held to about their own security.
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    They should damn sure call and find out where the conversation starts. If it's Stewart or Arcia or Kepler...then I'm more than happy to keep talking.
  8. TheLeviathan
    It's not going to help a bad defender to get better, but I agree - he was slow footed and had poor instincts from the get go. (Something I've been plenty vocal about, even while loving the kid's potential with the bat. He's a DH, plain and simple)
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    We should have less unqualified support for them for sure, but it's hard to call them the "worst" ally when you look around at some of the countries we're friendly with.
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    I don't mind a rape claim in a university setting using preponderance of evidence. Afterall, we're not talking about judges and lawyers here - we're talking about some person hired to handle these matters investigating them. What credentials they have to do so is completely unknown to me, but let's be clear that we're not talking about a court here. We're talking about a tribunal appointed by a college that will effectively be assuming the accused is guilty. There are high stakes, for a variety of reasons, for universities to appear to be tough in these situations. In some ways that's good, but it is much like other "tough on crime" methods in that it likely hangs justice out to dry in the name of appearances. Crako said it well, we can continue to act with a presumption of innocence on the accused. What we need is to make sure the accuser is never put on trial and we review real evidence. That's the real issue.
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    Fun be damned!
  12. TheLeviathan
    Maybe, but let's be honest - that isn't why it happened. Not passing judgement but let's not be naive about it.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Great post Jim. Id suggest the real source of this is one side has turned abortion into a right (read: good thing) and the other into an unquestioned evil. Neither allows room in between.
  14. TheLeviathan
    My point of asking was more to explain Irans motivations. We can say all the nice things we want about their populace, but I think that is somewhat irrelevant. It's their government that is concerning and they have long bucked any progressive or reasonable sentiments of their populace.
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    That's the method, yes, but the actual methods are effectively to reverse the assumption. The inquiry starts with "Can you prove you had consent" rather than "Can it be proven you didn't".
  16. TheLeviathan
    I guess I don't see how a presumption of guilt changes things for people coming forward. What has to change for that is how we allow defense lawyers to treat victims in criminal trials, that would seem to be far more effective.
  17. TheLeviathan
    I think the opposite may be true. The Israelis just saw a coalition lead by their strongest ally make peace with one of their most vocal security threats. It might make them dig in even deeper to the idea of handling their own defense. In addition, there is a naive belief around the world that Israel over sells their security risks and Israel is quite aware of it. This may deepen that divide between perceptions as well.
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    It's certainly not a totally irrational fear. It makes for poor diplomatic efforts where they should be better attempted and with more good faith, but not a totally misguided belief.
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    That's highly unusual, even moreso since they'd likely be able to strong arm some sanctions being lifted once the nuke program was operational. Interesting.
  20. TheLeviathan
    As a general rule any expanded diplomatic relations with countries is a good thing, IMO. Shutting people out and cold wars are generally ineffective. It's interesting what Iran's motives might be - is it that the sanctions have been THAT effective? In general, that isn't the case.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Format was great! Now get rid of Berman.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Wow. Just...wow.
  23. TheLeviathan
    He's going to have to turn some things around before that. Berrios has been far more dominant to this point.
  24. TheLeviathan
    If the key word is "next", I don't see how the answer to this is anything but Berrios.
  25. TheLeviathan
    That's a fair point and one I agree with, but there is something to be said for not all 500 PAs are created the same either. The problem, for me, with Hicks was that he wasn't doing anything that was going to make him a sustainable big league bat. He was making weak contact and was much weaker from the left hand side. These were things we knew about him and he had long since established. (The platoon splits for sure and his career OPS in the minors is hardly setting the world on fire.) Personally, I relegated him to likely 4th OF status because of that platoon split and the horrendous contact. Now maybe these last 40 PAs are just a flash in the pan (we've seen it before), but at least they have reversed both of those trends. I hope they continue so I end up wrong - won't be the first or last time I'm sure.
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