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  1. TheLeviathan
    So....everybody's got plans eh? From the looks of his plan, he intends to use a lot of GardySpeak to show he "gets it"
  2. TheLeviathan
    No one WANTS stupid policies, but no one seems to care whether they are stupid or not so long as the packaging they are presented in sounds good. From Bush's education policies, to the current gun control proposals, to anything from this last SOTU - people don't seem to care about nuance. They care about rhetoric. I'm not saying anything revolutionary here, but I think the degree to which people are willing to overlook things has gotten worse. For example, I don't think Bill Clinton was corrupt when he signed in many of the housing initiatives 20 years ago. I think it was a genuine, principled act of trying to make the American dream happen for more people. Except the policies were toxic and made things much, much worse for the very people he intended to help. I don't know where in that process things broke down, but they did. We should be more careful to demand good solutions, not ones that sound good. My instinct on the minimum wage laws is that it is likely a zero-sum game for those we intend it to help. More than likely the careers that would see a boost in income are in the same sectors of the economy in which the impoverished spend their money. Meaning any benefit in their spending power may be reduced or eliminated by increases in the costs they most associate with. (For example, fast food sales are dominated by the lower class) If there is real, substantial benefit - then yeah, sign me up. I just want to see that analysis first.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Hey.....I'll gladly get hosed for a Tony O's sammich. But if you're going to hose me at least give me some quantity. My wife and I were so excited to hear those would be at the games and then our pickles were soggy and massively overpriced. That was a sad day.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Fried pickles are awesome. But 8 of them for 6 bucks? I'll pass.
  5. TheLeviathan
    My point is you don't know that by pulling things out of your rear-end. Neither do I. It certainly could be the case but I am not such an expert in how the markets would shake out that I pretend to know this would certainly happen. Hence why I'd like to see some numbers before I throw my opinion behind it. Far too often these days, in my opinion, we are just doing things on principle and not making a concerted effort to figure out the right way to achieve what we want. We make things sound pretty and nice, but the actual laws or changes are toxic, back-breaking, worse-than-what-we-had-before nightmares. Anywhere from the housing problems caused by policies during the Clinton-Bush years to Federal Loan programs dating back to LBJ. It's high time we start holding the rhetoric accountable to the policies passed and whether or not they actually made the world a better place. From where I sit both parties have been destroying the economy for years and keep feeding us the same rhetoric wrapped in the same sappy packaging you just gave us. We should demand actual, effective policy for a change. That would be nice.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Cleveland's version of LoganJones just ignored you. Strange how anything but optimism about our team is frowned upon by you, but nothing short of rampant pessimism about another team is shunned.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Call me when it's when it's early April and this is still true. "Player X feels stronger and healthier than ever!" is stock material for journalists. I'm glad he's on the mound and throwing though.
  8. TheLeviathan
    Right, hence why any comparisons are ridiculous. In a longer season a team's major, glaring weaknesses get exposed more often. Hell, there are probably at least a dozen reasons this comparison is ridiculous. If the Twins are somehow able to compete this year it will share nothing with how the Vikings did the same. The two sports are apples and oranges.
  9. TheLeviathan
    As long as we don't give Gibson the "Ol' Slowey" with this bullpen thing I'm at least open to it. Much rather see him starting somewhere though, he needs to build back endurance in a regular fashion rather than spot opportunities.
  10. TheLeviathan
    I can tell you as a former season ticket holder that seat demand for games I had to sell got really, really ugly about halfway 2011. As someone earlier said, you sometimes have to wait more than a season to see the full effect - after people have started to drop their season ticket packages and you are relying on day-of-game sales. I expect 2013 will be a very cheap time to catch a game at Target Field unless the team does something wholly unexpected. And when you have penny-pinchers for owners, it's a tad disturbing to think about future payroll decisions when you pull significant revenues from their ticket sales.
  11. TheLeviathan
    There is a pretty big difference between football and baseball. Teams are regularly swapping spots in football and there is almost perennially a team that goes worst-to-first in a division. It's just apples and oranges and I wish people would stop making that comp.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Correia may just be the most appropriate pick methinks. Very representative of what to expect.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, spelling their name is as difficult as their brats are delicious.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Parmalee and Hendricks for me.
  15. TheLeviathan
    The difference between rhetoric and effective action is akin to the difference between the federal government saying "let's make college more affordable!" (via loans) and what actually happens "colleges milk loan system to ever increasing tuition rates and soak the public for their extravagances, thus making college LESS affordable overall". So hence why I want to see the results of the rhetoric before I praise too much. I'm assuming you just pulled those numbers out of your rearend, but that's what Pseudo was asking and I'm cautious about....how much of an impact will there be? I guess I haven't seen any balanced perspectives on this.
  16. TheLeviathan
    Nor was Carl Pavano....but how did this organization consistently label him when they talked about him to the public? I would suggest our favorite phrase "bulldog" is just code for this.
  17. TheLeviathan
    I guess the conclusion I'm drawing from drjim's argument is that we have to wait to sign players that are 5-6 WAR before we bother? I'm not sure what qualifies as more than "marginal".
  18. TheLeviathan
    I'm always wary of raising the minimum wage too significantly because the cost of doing that will impact consumers. I'm not sure there is much of a net-gain there, but I'm far from well-versed on the numbers.
  19. TheLeviathan
    This response was pretty predictable. Calling them "marginal" upgrades is a bit silly not because they are great players, but moreso because our options last year really were THAT awful. Even signing an average pitcher is more than a marginal upgrade. Much less Marcum who has been well above average.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Just go to Kaczmuracks.....a brat from them and you can even withstand feeling sorry for the poor children they march out in small bear costumes that invariably look miserable and uncomfortable.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Sadly, I don't think it's about going cheap. If it was that at least I could hold out hope of that tendency changing in a few seasons when the prospects are coming. I think it has much more to do with the Twins prizing reliability/durability so much higher than talent/ability to dominate. They get caught up in a few pitcher tendencies (200 innings, walk rate, "sink") that everything else is ignored. At least that's my working theory.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Haven't been able to pay attention much, but it's about time someone started holding colleges accountable for college costs. We'll see how much of that is rhetoric, but it baffles me to this day how people don't understand why college costs are rising. The federal government has borderline given them a blank check.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Speak for yourself on that one.
  24. TheLeviathan
    Does anyone understand why we should be entertained by the "Under Water" cam that doesn't do anything on the big screen? That one baffles me.
  25. TheLeviathan
    So yeah, it's not just some of us that are pretty down about this squad.
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