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  1. TheLeviathan
    I'd take a gamble on either of those pitchers. Preferably Lester with the shorter deal.
  2. TheLeviathan
    Don't you think if you want to be controversial...you should at least make sense?
  3. TheLeviathan
    QB elite play is pretty much essential to win now....BUT, I don't think there is any question that their first championship was won by a defensive line that ravaged an undefeated team in a way they hadn't experienced that season.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Most of the time - "buy lows" are low for a reason. I think you're vastly underrating the value of pitching in general and specifically of Romero. Morneau is not going to be enough to get that deal done.
  5. TheLeviathan
    I go back and forth on this particular point, but I'd argue we aren't talking about different issues. There is a systemic tendency right now to manipulate the government's policies rather than valuing hard work. The amount of disposable income the middle class has relates to the overall success of the economy - which is gong to get better the more people we have spending their own hard-earned money rather than essentially money laundering tax dollars.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Too soon. Just like it is too soon to rush to the "Plouffe is our starter at third now for the next decade", it's too soon to judge based on the last dozen games. But frankly, his herculian power surge was always most likely to be a fluke - we can hope though.
  7. TheLeviathan
    As Brock points out - 15M is probably our most likely number for available funds - and 15M doesn't go very far in FA when you want to add even one good starter much less two. You can probably get one, but then the second one is Jason Marquis. We don't need to get into the "well they COULD spend more" - if they do, great, but let's face it - that isn't likely. So the idea that you can patch this list up with 15M and FA seems very implausible to me. And again, I don't think Span has nearly as much value as people think. Especially when you're shopping him for major league pitching.
  8. TheLeviathan
    Couldn't agree more. Yes and no diehard. You're right that available jobs are few and far between, but again it's because we aren't training people to fit the actual needs in the system. The laziness angle is systemic in a very expensive government program - if we could take those dollars and help train people for skilled positions it will do two things in my book: A) It will give people a higher quality of life and turn them from tax recipients to tax payers and it will reward hard work and the middle class attitude. I don't think the economy will start churning merely with job creation, it also has to come from people spending disposable income. Right now most blue collar, middle class families have little to none even though they're working hard. When we start incentivizing that attitude and not the mooching attitude with the money we save, I think we can really get the economic pistons firing again.
  9. TheLeviathan
    I'm probably bullish on Diamond and Gibson going forward, but of the list you provided we have two of the four coming off of major surgery, another pitching way beyond career norms and probably due for regression next year, and a guy we're hoping becomes a quality back-end guy. Nick has been one of the vocal optimists about 2013, I just don't understand how anyone can look at this list - even if we add two starters in the offseason.
  10. TheLeviathan
    I'm not sure what you read in Brock's remark - but I don't think you're disagreeing with him at all. Or maybe I read his post wrong. I think both sides can agree that funneling money into job skills is the way to go. The problem is that the left wants to pull that money from the tax base rather than from the existing expenditure.
  11. TheLeviathan
    How can anyone look at this list and still sanely believe contention is a possibility in the near future?
  12. TheLeviathan
    Too bad Mastro doesn't have what it takes, would've really helped this roster's glaring holes. Oh well.
  13. TheLeviathan
    I think that's the problem glunn - when there is compromise it is "We'll give more social programs if you give more on tax rates." We keep moving in the wrong direction in both ways rather than thinking practically. I will say this, if we could do something like you're talking about to cut benefits if people aren't working a certain amount it will do two thing - it will incentivize those that are working to continue and it will push those that would slack if allowed to keep at it. It has to come with an increase in taxes and a closing of loopholes, but what worries me is that almost every left-wing driven policy in this country right now is actually making matters worse (long-term) for not only the lowest rungs (in the name of short term gains), but also for the entire middle class.
  14. TheLeviathan
    The posts I wrote a week ago? Oh right. I admitted to that hyperbole, but the most recent exchange of posts have (I assumed) been about my post yesterday, where I tried to be thoughtful and resisted hyperbole, even if I was snarky. I'm not stopping discourse from happening, in fact, another poster took the time to respond to each of my points.You've spent three or four posts trying to shame me; I'd say it's you who's being pathetic. What's your angle? My posts generated the admission. My angle was to call you out for the pompous fallacy of belittling jocko when, to that point, your contributions had bee slimy moral high-horse grandstanding with an insulting string of hyperbole. Pot calling the kettle black. Don't present yourself as some moral beacon with nonsense like that. I don't hate the welfare system in the name of tax breaks or hating the lazy. I want it gone because it is eating away at the middle class. You have no moral highground and should be ashamed for the insulting manner in which you tried to present that you did. Carry on with diehard to your hearts content.
  15. TheLeviathan
    If you question that the medical staff can be this bad because no team would stick with such ineffective garbage for this long to their own detriment: I offer Nick Blackburn as a rebuttal.
  16. TheLeviathan
    Dont remember your own posts from page 2 and 3? Not only am I not mischaracterizing......I'm quoting!!!! This is a really pathetic attempt Psuedo.
  17. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, it would crush us to lose him for an extra week. We may not finish ahead of the Royals!
  18. TheLeviathan
    Apologists? I'd really like to hear the people who bristle at every criticism try and defend this. Not only are we already at a week and still performing tests - we happen to have a kid in AAA that is destroying the pitching down there. I just can't wrap my head around this.
  19. TheLeviathan
    Throw in Duensing. I did get a good chuckle out of that "idea" though.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Burnett huh? My money was on Burton. or Perkins again.
  21. TheLeviathan
    I'm sure if the Mets want to hand away Santana for little value they can do better than Blackburn and Nishi.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, curious for sure. Pitchers will adjust to him, but his defense is really smooth and doesn't look like he has any physical weaknesses to be concerned about either. (Strong arm, good range, good instincts) As long as that continues I see no reason not to throw him out there the rest of the year and see how the league handles him here.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Sure, but people aren't waiting more than a partial season of success to declare him part of the long-term solution. That road goes both ways.
  24. TheLeviathan
    Man, I really like what we've seen from Florimon so far - I'm getting more and more optimistic about this kid every time I see him.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Did ya miss RP and I? You were welcome to weigh in, instead the bulk of your remarks have been moral high-horse crap about people dying in the streets. Like I said this reflects the national conversation. Well meaning people get nowhere because yhou hyperventilate about nonsense to take false moral superiority. That smug grandstanding not only contributes nothing it derails the conversation.
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