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  1. TheLeviathan
    Honestly, I think that's just cover for not wanting gays to marry. I think you could pronounce that until the cows come home and it won't change a lot of minds.
  2. TheLeviathan
    Couldn't agree more, it's highly disrespectful to someone's beliefs. You don't have to agree with them, you can even not like them for their beliefs. But to try and legally upend their belief system? I really, really don't like that. On top of, as you said, the whole idea of it being confusing to even attempt.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Yeah and while I'm a strong advocate for gay marriage, it is totally inappropriate to legally force churches to marry anyone for any reason. But that issue is separate to allowing states to recognize married couples who are homosexual.
  4. TheLeviathan
    I feel ike the first amendment sort of covers it.
  5. TheLeviathan
    Have you seen what we plan to do in the outfield this year? I honestly think that emphasis may be a thing of the past.
  6. TheLeviathan
    I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure any church can deny a service in states where gay marriage is being recognized. Is that not what's happening?
  7. TheLeviathan
    As a kid in the prime of comic book collecting age when it really got huge (late 80s-mid 90s) it will never cease to amaze me how common these characters are now in the public eye. It is almost certainly not all a good thing, but I'm dumbfounded that by the end of summer in 2016 we'll have seen a second avengers movie, Ant-man, the Suicide Squad, and friggin Deadpoll all with major movie releases. Unbelievable.
  8. TheLeviathan
    That's significantly less than Kipnis, like almost a 25% discount on the total value. If that's the case, I can get behind it.
  9. TheLeviathan
    Not a whole lot to see there.
  10. TheLeviathan
    spycake sort of answered that. Conceding slugging % means conceding your comparison wasn't all that great.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Not all third year players are almost 28 with team control through their prime years. Given the combination of production, age, and team control - anything approaching 6/52 would be totally unnecessary. He has been healthy thus far but halfway through a six year deal his risk of injury and dip in performance will increase substantially as his costs escalate. I'd probably do something like 4/28 with an option in the 8-9 range.
  12. TheLeviathan
    That's the weird thing tobi...the Twins appear to be ok with this type of extension but are loathe to sign extensions for soon-to-be FAs. I'm not sure this is really changing an established pattern in any way, more of a continuation of a known one.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Precisely, so suggesting that it is "fair" to give a guy a deal based on some abstract idea of his worth seems kind of silly when, in reality, no one in Dozier's situation makes anywhere near that amount. The better question is, who does Dozier compare to and what do they get paid in their situation? To spycake's point, Dozier is not on the same level as Kipnis, so paying him that much would be an overpayment, not a bargain.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Dozier isn't a free agent on the open market. Do players like Dozier make 20M in arbitration? If not, perhaps the comparison is flawed.
  15. TheLeviathan
    I think it would be helpful not to use those kinds of hypothetical numbers. You're arguing that last year Dozier would have fairly been paid 20M. There are 20 players in all of baseball being paid that much, that would seem to indicate your numbers are a bit wonky. Dozier will be 32 when the team has to face a decision with him. Anything other than a steal of an extension (6 and 52 is not even remotely a steal for him) is a bad idea. Way too fraught with risk.
  16. TheLeviathan
    If it is, then that mitigates the risk significantly and I'm on board. As a general principle, however, I think extensions with this much team control left are bad ideas.
  17. TheLeviathan
    Span outplayed his contract, in part because the one he signed was ridiculously team friendly. The assumption that he will have better trade value is built on the assumption that he'll be worth at least as much, if not more, than the dollars given to him. That's an awfully big assumption and, therefore, an awfully big risk to take for a guy that wouldn't see FA for a very, very long time and at a time he'll be past his prime anyway. To put it simply, the risk/reward here is very lopsided towards risk.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Not a fan unless the contract is ridiculously lopsided in the Twins' favor. And since I doubt that's the case - I'm not a fan.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Yeah...but then you had to deal with digital dysentery.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Since when did anything anyone posted on Twitter accomplish a god damn thing? It's the reality we live in that people post things like this to reflect the things they are saying and feeling in their life. Schilling posted an expression of love and saw it turn into a series of vile, offensive, degrading responses. It's disgusting and I'm glad his actions resulted in some real consequences for these clowns. You should look in the mirror about how you just defended that clown behavior.
  21. TheLeviathan
    No. No they are not.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Since Hicks plays an average CF at best, the downgrade to Santana was more than made up for by the offensive difference. If Molitor thinks things have changed, fine. But given the roster construction he has very limited options regardless of what Hicks does.
  23. TheLeviathan
    He "won" the job like Bill Belicheck wins "best head coach named Belicheck". They literally cleared the roster of any relevant competition two straight years.
  24. TheLeviathan
    What's sad is the solution of "Let Superman take care of it!" is only slightly less plausible than "Let the other Muslim nations handle it!"
  25. TheLeviathan
    I would love nothing more than Hicks playing his way into CF job by June 1st. But he needs to demonstrate he's put things together in AAA. His September improvement was minimal and still filled with weak contact and then he went down to winterball and stunk. He needs a period of sustained success with more power/hard contact in AAA. Then let's see him make the jump to the big leagues and that challenge.
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