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  1. Mr. Brooks
    Romero.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    I assume this means you have time to come over and clean out my garage?
  3. Mr. Brooks
    I don't know why a human would have to set the zone for each batter. I would think that the same type of scanning and mapping technology used in autonomous driving could be used to set the upper and lower boundaries for each player.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    As did I. Even before his Twins career, but especially here. He was really good for us, and well worth the contract. But, eventually you just don't have it anymore.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    Just speaking for myself, if I had to support everything that a candidate stands for, I'd never be able to cast a vote. I understand that for Trump, many of those things you mention are more of a central part of his agenda, and perhaps that is the difference. But still, I'm not comfortable suggesting that 45% of our population supports those things. Because if that is true, we are hopelessly doomed anyway.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    I wouldn't have guessed you as an arbitrary line kind of guy Mike. If it really is just because of that line to you, perhaps a solution would be to stop declaring a moment of adulthood altogether. Just assign each right, privilege, and responsibility on it's own individual basis. I mean we actually already do that. We have different ages for when you can start working part time, when you can start working full time, when you can drive supervised, when you can drive unsupervised, when you must pay taxes, when you can be sentenced to prison, when you can vote, when you can drink, when you can rent a car, when you can run for president, when you can get a senior discount, when you can collect benefits. Let's scrap this silly idea that you suddenly morph into an adult at midnight on your eighteenth birthday, and keep using common sense like we mostly already do, just without the official title.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    People under 18 are held as adults as well in their social obligations. They have to pay taxes and can be sent to prison. Yet we deny them benefits of adulthood already. And yes, 18 year olds can die for their country. But only if they choose to. Although you still must register for the draft, it is no longer used.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    I assume that means you think the drinking age should go back down to 18? Prohibition doesn't work. Restricting to 21 is a good compromise, IMO, to keep tobacco and alcohol out of school. Like you, I don't expect people to agree with me either. Hopefully just enough to someday pass a law like this. IMO, the best fix we could hope for is that tobacco companies go out of business on their own, no prohibition needed. Every time you deny them an adolescent starting tobacco, the closer we get to that. People rarely start smoking after 21. Is 21 any more arbitrary than 18? What specifically are your concerns with 21 year olds having rights that 18 year olds don't have? Is it just because that's the date they are tagged as legal adults? Is it really more disempowering for a 21 year old to have a right that an 18 year old doesn't than it is for an 18 year old to have a right that a 17 year old doesn't? If so, is it only because of that arbitrary "legal adult" application? I could understand if the draft was still being implemented. But as it is now, you pay taxes at 17, you can be sent to prison at 17, etc. So 18 year olds already have rights that 17 year olds don't, even though those same 17 year olds can face the same responsibilities. How is that substantially different than 21/18?
  9. Mr. Brooks
    I really hope we do. What's the all time record for HR's hit id one pitcher in a game?
  10. Mr. Brooks
    Well smoking rates are going way down. Part of that reason is targeting youth the same way the tobacco companies do. If you can help keep them out of the schools, there is a good chance that it will lower it even more. Plus, I was more speaking philosophically to Mike, regarding the personal freedom aspect of it than whether it would actually work or not.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    I now respect Chicago. IMO, anything is acceptable on a hot dog, as long as two rules are strictly followed: 1) No ketchup. 2) Mustard is mandatory. And it must be yellow mustard. No dijon, brown, spicy, honey or any other fancy mustard. Mustard, onions, pickles, jalapenos, bacon, lettuce and hot sauce is my personal preference.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    Everyone pays for the health effects of tobacco use though. And 21 keeps it out of schools, or attempts to at least. When your personal choices start to impact everyone else, it's no longer personal freedom. We don't allow people the personal freedom to drive drunk, or to enroll unvaccinated children in public schools (though there are loopholes on that one), or any number of other things that affect everyone else. The data proves that the older children get without trying cigarettes, the less likely they are to smoke. Which makes it less likely that the rest of society has to subsidize their health care for the last x years of their life.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    Yeah it's early, yeah it's one series. But losing 3 of 4 at home to a terrible team isn't encouraging.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    He does a karate kid thing? Ok, now I've changed my mind, I want him at any price.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    Because it's so epic that it would be unfair to the other avatars. Avatar mercy rule.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    Especially when at least one of the posters siding with Chief had criticized the previous FO for not selling high on a guy like Glen Perkins during a lost season.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    I think they are trying to win every year starting this year. I want it to be both. Keep feeding the pipeline even while trying to win. That's how you build for sustainable success as a mid budget team, IMO.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    Teams aren't trading good prospects for bad players though.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    It is. But don't you want them to build a sustainable winner? I know I do. When you have a mid market budget, the way you do that is with a pipeline. I know you dismiss prospects, but nearly every good player was once a good prospect. If you were trying to build a sustainable village, you wouldn't dismiss the value of seeds for crops.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Polanco had a day off, the day after his cycle. And why would Cruz have to sit to give Rosario a day off? I no longer expect guys to necessarily play all 162, but no way should Rosario be drained this early, with a ton of scheduled days off already.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    Nobody is telling you how to enjoy the game. Why are you allowed to respond with your counter opinions, but when others do the same they are telling you how to enjoy the game?
  22. Mr. Brooks
    Then you are essentially saying that ball/strike recognition isn't a skill, because anyone can recognize that a pitch 6 inches off the plate is a ball. The skill IS on the margins.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    Right, those things get corrected, they aren't shrugged off as human error that is an enjoyable part of the game. The umps sole purpose should be to ensure that the humans actually playing the game do so by the rules, IMO.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    Sorry, the following made me think that wasn't your only point: "but it is interesting how much they'll give to fix a building, compared to helping people."
  25. Mr. Brooks
    Since when does Castro not frame pitches? I thought he was the pitch framing wizard.
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