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  1. TheLeviathan
    This was nothing close to my mental image of you spycake. Learn something new everyday!
  2. TheLeviathan
    Oh please. What is an objective fact about "Hughes is clearly a guy that takes the lead on his own approach"? That's a pile of manure that couldn't be any less like an objective fact if it tried to be. "Being new to the team" is a fact but is hardly one to draw much of a conclusion from. So explain to me again all these objective facts you have lined up for your opinion? Because it feels to me you just want to bash the team and you're cherry picking some (very poor) evidence to do that. If every situation is indeed different it's further evidence that we know very little about how that breakdown happens. Certainly if all we know is that he's "new" it's hardly enough to draw the kind of conclusion you did.
  3. TheLeviathan
    TK and it isn't close. Morris says some things that make my brain hurt.
  4. TheLeviathan
    I have definitely noticed improvement with Arcia too, it's great to see.
  5. TheLeviathan
    To be serious though, most books rely on the foil characters to make these sort of mistakes. It's a bit refreshing to see the heroes have this flaw for a change.
  6. TheLeviathan
    He's new is precisely why Anderson deserves some credit. Hughes is working with new coaches and has had a complete turnaround in success. Since everything happens behind the scenes, to me, there are really only two approaches to take and maintain intellectual fidelity: 1) Always credit/blame the player alone 2) Always credit/blame the coaching for their part Picking and choosing just comes off as deliberately dishonest.
  7. TheLeviathan
    I'd argue he's only employed with the Twins because he believed he could turn mediocre talents into functional starters.
  8. TheLeviathan
    Hopefully the moment he's off the DL he's optioned down to get things right. I want to see him get as much time as he needs to be ready for the big leagues. He's got a lot to work on but it's time to show him some patience and less pressure.
  9. TheLeviathan
    If you're going to take that angle then it's also fair to note that those guys with less raw talent also were the types of pitchers that fit his coaching style. The real indictment of Anderson, IMO, was that he wasn't even able to maximize the performances of the types that fit his mantras. That said, Hughes has been an unmitigated success thus far and that should be given as a credit to Anderson.
  10. TheLeviathan
    Hicks is capable of working counts and has a great eye......and it won't matter for squat if he continues to make abysmal contact.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Yes....for the issues with Hicks and the Twins boiling over. Sometimes that final straw is something completely unrelated. I don't think LEN3 is stirring the pot. He's reporting whispers on a bizarre situation that appears to have a lot of emotion and frustration with the club and one of it's most important young prospects.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Whose had a problem with that Gardy quote? This could very well be an unfortunate injury that will force the team's hand, but there isn't "nothing" to this story. This might just have been the straw that broke the camel's back.
  13. TheLeviathan
    One caveat: "question young player's character" - it's rarely a veteran.
  14. TheLeviathan
    I don't get why this has turned into a beat writer witchhunt/conspiracy. Sorry to break it to folks but the beat writers don't have to drum up or concoct anything to make this story. The behavior of Hicks and the team are doing the work for them.
  15. TheLeviathan
    And rightly so. For a young player nothing good comes from lambasting them to the press. So we have to be content speculating, that's just how it is. For my part, I totally understand the team's frustration. I'm frustrated watching him and his decisions, I can't imagine being on the same team as him.
  16. TheLeviathan
    I'd say the coaching as a whole has been markedly better this year.
  17. TheLeviathan
    I know Pelfrey being on the DL alleviates some of my nerves.....
  18. TheLeviathan
    Well, yeah...but it's too small a sample to draw any conclusions positive or negative. It's a fair point to show just how wildly different Gibson's results have been home vs. away. All the numbers are so dramatically different it's a good place to start for his improvement.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Pat went out of his way to sign a ball for my nephew at one point and then took the ball to the pen for all the guys to sign. Nothing I've seen of him outside of that did anything but reinforce that's the kind of guy he is: down to earth and just a damn good guy. So happy he's had continued success.
  20. TheLeviathan
    You're putting the cart before the horse. A lot of these suspensions exist because of the faulty notion that players police themselves effectively. How about, if there weren't unwritten rules and we behaved like adults, the batter would get hit, drop his bat, and trot to first without thinking the most grave atrocity to ever befall a human being has happened? It was just, you know, human error. Nothing to throw an adult tantrum about. I'd like to see passion in baseball not be so damned contrived. If your sport requires you to become a two year old over a bat flip to celebrate an accomplishment......then how sad for your sport. If the only way rivalries and passion can be forged is in inventing slights to hate other players for? How sad. It's a reflection of personal selfishness that YOUR butthurt over a hit by pitch or a tag to the gut or a bunt against your shift requires all-out warfare on the field. How about you drum up that energy just to win instead?
  21. TheLeviathan
    I think the problem you're having is you don't even understand the fundamental piece about what an "unwritten" rule is. Any time I ask you for examples you list of vague, completely irrelevant points that do nothing else but say "Did you know physical stuff happens in physical sports?" Um, that isn't an unwritten rule. Nor is physicality during a play that extends after a whistle anything to do with an unwritten rule. Perhaps you should go back to the 7-8 examples of apples to apples that would have to exist in other sports and find me a single example of that. The only time you got even close, even on the same planet as "bunting in the seventh requires a 90 mph baseball in the ribs" was football and running up the score. Except, when Belichek and (I believe) Keith Brooking both were subjects on this matter....it was largely laughed off by the populace as whining. Rightly so on the professional level.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Perhaps rather than speaking in generalities about their rosters you could provide examples. The one so far was poor. And I admit to having no idea what your point is. You arent articulating it clearly.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Except baseball is not physical. I only condone this kind of behavior if, in a physical interaction, there is something done wrong. Like steamrolling a catcher, spiking a 2B, throwing something at someone, etc. But these are exceedingly rare. Otherwise the behavior just remains stupid. The unwritten rules are (and you see this in the player comments in Kurkjian's piece) designed to ADD physicality to a game without any. Basically, they exist to allow baseball players to be violent when they otherwise would have no reason to be. Violence is inherent in football and hockey, it has to be concocted by macho softies to exist in baseball. So it doesn't get to escape the loop of stupidity it is founded on. If you want more proof of that - go read everything Johnny Gomes says in the Kurkjian article in defense of them.
  24. TheLeviathan
    And much of that bad blood stems from invented slights. You keep saying these things but when I ask for examples - you can't come up with any. In the NFL - does being up by 21 mean you can't throw 20 yard passes anymore? In hockey do they stop making two line passes when up by 4? Or stop checking when they are up by 6? In the NFL do guys just finishing a sack dance get attacked for celebrating their accomplishment? And nowhere in the real world do we allow jerks to take perceived slights and act on them violently or aggressively. We put people in jail for that and think of them as clowns. In baseball, the clown behavior is justified by the unwritten rules. That's what they are - arbitrary exemptions to feel butthurt about nothing. You're describing a cultish way of thinking. I find nothing poetic about it. I certainly find no poetry in a guy eating a 90 mph pitch because he had the audacity to try and bunt for a hit.
  25. TheLeviathan
    So we agree....yet somehow you made an ordeal out of it that I didn't give enough examples? I gave a handful to indicate the direction I was going with it and the rest of the names that fit that should've been fairly obvious. You don't HAVE to research it, but I don't have to list every single one to make my point either. A contention you apparently think is a fair one. Complaints like this with the roster have been ongoing for about 10-12 years. It certainly MIGHT have cost the Twins some success that they so frequently populated their roster with flotsam. The Rays and A's populate the rosters more intelligently and utilize them more intelligently. That was and has been the point - I clarify because you've really made it difficult to stay on point with your responses. Most of them have been too obscure or muddled to even understand what you're getting at.
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