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  1. TheLeviathan
    The Sox should just embrace this. I'd love to see a team that displayed inane nonsense for every at-bat. I'd be far more likely to look at it that way anyway.
  2. TheLeviathan
    Your refusal to separate the aspect of physical play in football and hockey from baseball is just ridiculous. It really is, I don't know how to phrase that any more kindly than that. It's a fundamental misunderstanding how of the games are played and a completely inept analogy. It makes a rational conversation on the matter intractable. Physical violence towards other people is an accepted aspect of football and hockey - it's part of the average course of play. There are times it steps beyond that (largely because of difficulty in awareness/controls of all aspects of extreme physicality) and is punished accordingly as part of the rules of the game. A dude charing the mound is injecting violence into a game that can be played without it existing. It's apples and oranges. Can we please be done with this silly analogy? As for all those rivalries - I remember a 3-0 rally by the Red Sox more than anything dirty. I remember big homeruns, big wins, and tight contests far more than isolated dirty plays. Why? Because the dirty players come and go and the rivalries endure. They wouldn't do that if the dirty plays were the focus. Do they add a little pepper to a rivalry for a short time? Sure. But the stakes are what makes it a rivalry.
  3. TheLeviathan
    "Looking clueless" sounds like the kind of token nonsense you use for a symbolic firing. It's certainly a pretty silly "cause" to line up behind.
  4. TheLeviathan
    On field buffoonery of that sort should never be celebrated. The earlier post does nothing but list a bunch of tired old cliches to justify someone acting like a clown. The great rivalries I know have been built on a tradition of fierce play with high stakes, not back and forth dirty play. I'm with bird watcher in being done with that thoroughly preposterous notion.
  5. TheLeviathan
    I was also under the impression that Molitor wanted to stay home. I'm not sure the charge that no one else has hired him is a fair point in that light.
  6. TheLeviathan
    You're absolutely, 100% correct. Players acting like spoiled buffoons does nothing for baseball. Rivalries are built by the stakes that are being played for, not the childish nonsense people try to disguise as being "tough" or "great".
  7. TheLeviathan
    Good thing for him other teams don't take the approach with their managers that countries do with their kings. Wait......Gardy has no sons right?
  8. TheLeviathan
    Then no manager should be fired ever because they are completely dependent on everyone else on the team to do their job. Nothing they do is an independent, measurable action that results in wins or losses. Essentially, your position amounts to the title manager being a meaningless symbol of organization that is unassailably worthless.
  9. TheLeviathan
    So he's widely popular for the same reasons that you're touting Dougie. Dougie's AA results as a manager don't mean much to me good or bad given the huge number of factors that go into managing there as opposed to the big leagues. Frankly, his won-loss record there matters less to me than how players develop as they stay with him. So far that's a positive trend as well, so in my eyes Molitor and Dougie would both make fine choices.
  10. TheLeviathan
    Whose arguing that the sole reason to change managers is to win more games? This is the same tired scarecrow this topic gets into every time. Do I hope it could result in more wins? Sure. But the reason to move on is more symbolic - so can we be done with this and drop that line of questioning?
  11. TheLeviathan
    I loved Passan's article. I thought it was one of the best pieces of baseball writing I've read in awhile.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Regression for this group just hit really hard, really fast, but it has been due now for awhile.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Hopefully people remember that next year when they want to project Vargas, Santana, Escobar, and Trevor May to all roughly hit like David Ortiz and pitch like Clayton Kershaw. Last year we had people stumping hard about how amazing Arcia was going to be this year and utterly ignored that rebuilds take time not just to get prospects to the big leagues, but to get them adjusted and thriving in the big leagues. Start tempering your expectations hard for some of these guys and hope they exceed them. But good god let's not spend another offseason putting these kids on goofy projections. Realism about rebuilds is twofold and many of those that preach patience on the level of guys getting to the big leagues are the first to rush projections once they get there.
  14. TheLeviathan
    I know this much....if this staff is retained, the Twins can talk until they're blue in the face about not being "tone deaf".... But actions speak WAY louder than words. And they have for quite some time now. I like Gardy, I don't think he's a "bad" manager. His time, however, has come and gone for quite awhile now.
  15. TheLeviathan
    Hmmm...there almost looks like there is a trend there.
  16. TheLeviathan
    I wasn't suggesting he's done or anything. I'm still a believer he can be part of the future. However, it's been a handful of games and your statement seemed to go way past what we could glean from that small a sample. Look, we've seen him do this before and people declared the corner was turned then too. Just a week or so ago he was in AAA sporting a thoroughly unimpressive OPS. So some perspective here I think is important. Personally, I don't believe the corner is turned yet and it might take more time in AAA before it is.
  17. TheLeviathan
    On what do you base this?
  18. TheLeviathan
    So rather than discuss the thread you decided to pick a fight with a scarecrow.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Clearly this formula just has it out for the Twins.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Absolves them of an absurd survey question ripe for mockery. You know, the kind of stuff a segment of a show that mocks absurdity relishes having gifted to them. St. Peter's mind-boggling response was icing on the cake.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Except they didn't ignore it. They responded like that straight man in a comedy sketch. Either way, the Twins paid for that third party and put their name on their work. I hardly see how that absolves of them of putting out a comically lame survey.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Or they could have avoided sending out a stupid survey question that could have just as easily asked "How badly do we deserve to be made fun of for this inane attempt at cleverness?" Genuine survey questions to gauge the fan base is something all of us would understand. What they're being mocked for is nothing of the sort.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Congratulations, you're apparently the only one who feels that way. I love how the kid is still opening up to punish pitches. The hands are just going to expand the zone in which he can do serious damage. Awesome to see from the Twins' coaching staff.
  24. TheLeviathan
    I guess most baseball broadcasts I watch do exactly this kind of "jazzing up" before and during games as the other leagues. It's pretty standard sports broadcasting fair as far as I can tell. Either way, I don't think baseball is going to improve it's standing by having better on-air talkers. No matter how interesting the story is, if the sport itself isn't captivating you'll lose people.
  25. TheLeviathan
    The Twins ran a pretty good ship back in 2000 in terms of marketing locally, but the car thing is just dumb. It's something I'd expect a lazy kid in high school to submit because they think it's cool and different but it's really just thoughtless and lame.
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