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  1. TheLeviathan
    That was a friggin awesome game. Unbelievable.
  2. TheLeviathan
    Not all holes are created equal. SS is a far more difficult position to fill and one the Twins have absolutely nothing in line to even be an option. With Rosario at least there is a chance.
  3. TheLeviathan
    I think you do it when you have an alternative at second. Since I doubt that happens before sometime next year at the soonest, I don't have an issue with that. But if Dozier can play shortstop....then you make that move when you have an alternative. I don't care if that's a step back for him defensively, it is plugging a gigantic hole on this team.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Sorry meant move to SS.
  5. TheLeviathan
    You can vet most businesses fairly well on the internet now. Many companies are doing that too for that matter. If an employee walks away from a job they still collect pay for whatever commitment they gave. If an employer has an employee walk away they assume all costs of training, the hiring process, the paperwork, etc. Last I checked, you don't pay back the days you trained or sat through new hire stuff. That's all on the company's dime for the potential of you working out for them. The HR end of things ain't cheap. It's why turnover in so many fields (social services in particular) is so costly and damaging to the industry. Companies have a lot of upfront costs that can be very damaging if they get burned frequently. Over the long term the investments are probably about equal, but in the first few years the company assumes a lot of the costs should something go wrong. They have a right to protect those costs.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Alcohol is a drug too.
  7. TheLeviathan
    I honestly don't see much of any of this being feasible or particularly attractive as solutions. In my eyes, moving Dozier remains the best bet for this team.
  8. TheLeviathan
    My biggest issue with the penalty is it once again reflects the utter hypocrisy of our laws regarding pot vs. alcohol. If one of those two should be feared and harshly penalized it sure as hell isn't pot. As far as drug testing - I find it 100% acceptable for a company to vet their prospective employee as much as they want. They are often the ones taking the risk at a heavy cost to themselves for each new hire. They should have a right to make sure their investment isn't a foolish one right from the get-go.
  9. TheLeviathan
    Mauer to shortstop.
  10. TheLeviathan
    It's illegal to drive past the speed limit but I'm not sure baseball is handing out anything for that. Out of curiosity...if a 19 year old in a team's farm gets caught underage drinking, does anyone know what the penalty is?
  11. TheLeviathan
    You should go back and check how many times they wheeled that corpse out to the mound before they finally had some mercy.
  12. TheLeviathan
    I'm willing to be patient on Meyer, but I am nothing short of baffled by the notion that KC has any redeeming trade value. At best you get to throw a dart at someone's also-rans in A ball. It's not worth getting hung up about whether it's Meyer, Johnson, Darnell, or anyone else that has a chance to contribute going forward.
  13. TheLeviathan
    He also gives huge money to Democrats. I'd argue it's irrelevant. That NAACP billing should be on Comedy Central though...what a joke.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Makes about as much sense as any unwritten rule I've seen in baseball. (Not that I buy that in this case)
  15. TheLeviathan
    These are the things that happen when you develop a code that justifies petulant behavior. That's part of what makes them so obtuse.
  16. TheLeviathan
    He has been before. As have many others. In fact, as is the topic of this thread, someone was thrown at for BUNTING. IN THE FIRST INNING!!! Against a shift!!!!!!! I'm not sure I could've come up with anything more asinine than that as an example and it actually happened! That's the essence of the unwritten rules - petulant clowns trying to make a code to justify their nonsense. Personally, I think Gomez went into that second hug for selfish reasons - he was totally getting off on how much he was loved. Someone should bean him for enjoying himself.
  17. TheLeviathan
    Both?
  18. TheLeviathan
    To steal another line from that series...I have a feeling that regardless of whether it's Johnson or Deduno or whatever else...."Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle"
  19. TheLeviathan
    By all accounts what happens with Cuba is unique.
  20. TheLeviathan
    I was thinking about this the other day after reading Passan's article on Cuban defectors. I wonder if one of the reasons the Twins are never in on Cubans is the shady agents/negotating that happens? They are in on so many other countries in that region but never appear to have any interest in any Cubans. Certainly would fit with Ryan's personality/morality from an outside perspective.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Totally agree, the problem is that given the choice of playing Arcia, Kubel, Colabello, CF Guy or Pinto, Arcia, CF guy, Colabello/Kubel.... I'm not confident choice two will be the one our manager elects.
  22. TheLeviathan
    No amount of child hugging or baby kissing will change the fact that this borderline monster had the audacity to appreciate his own accomplishment for two seconds. Someone should've thrown a baseball at him during this to remind him of that.
  23. TheLeviathan
    The part that's hard for me is that I don't see any way to give Arcia playing time (realistically) that doesn't dramatically chop down on Pinto's at-bats.
  24. TheLeviathan
    This is true, but if they hold Meyer to the same standard as Gibson you could see how this might not be enough to force their hand. Just going by recent tendencies.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Isn't that pretty much why they dumped Nunez?
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