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  1. Mr. Brooks
    Twitter has suspended the user who tweeted the original, misleading one minute video. A spokesperson for Twitter told CNN Business, "Deliberate attempts to manipulate the public conversation on Twitter by using misleading account information is a violation of the Twitter Rules."
  2. Mr. Brooks
    It's not an assumption. It's been reported. Not being able to find a link is not the same thing as not existing. I don't know if or how much savings they reinvest in the organization, but as far as actual payroll, they've explicitly said they do not carry over savings to future years.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    It turns out the initial video lacks the vast majority of the context of what happened there: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/21/us/maga-hat-teens-native-american-second-video/index.html
  4. Mr. Brooks
    Fair.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    But those 2 positions (I'm assuming you mean OL and QB), are probably the most important to get right. Just look at the final 4 teams. Assembling a good defense is nice, but doesn't appear to have too much correlation to getting to the Super Bowl anymore.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    Nationals; 7 years with Harper: 637-497 7 years prior to Harper: 492-642 21 more wins per year with Harper. Orioles; 7 years with Machado: 566-568 7 years before Machado: 480-654 12 more wins per year with Machado.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    My philosophy is that if you ever have such little faith in a coach, that you are entering a season with an active plan B, you should probably just cut the cord.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    Spielman assembles the team. I find it odd you are still in his corner, given the article you just highlighted showing how important it is to identify and acquire good offensive linemen.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    The most simple explanation is that refs are human and miss calls. That likelihood overwhelmingly dwarfs the almost impossible explanation that there is some grand conspiracy to make calls for/against certain teams.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    Why not? Why can't they find better people? Other teams do, are they cursed or something?
  11. Mr. Brooks
    Sure, all of that. Which makes it all the more perplexing to me that Spielman and Zimmer are still here. I was hoping I'd cool down as the emotion of the season got further in the rear view mirror. Instead, it just keeps burning a bigger and bigger pit in my stomach that these two are still around. Obviously ownership doesn't agree, as I do believe they WANT to win, but I'm convinced we're throwing away another season by keeping them around. I don't believe they have any chance to win a Super Bowl.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    Which misnomers?I thought the piece pretty definitively pointed out that you need a good o-line to succeed. If you mean that those teams didn't spend a lot of high draft picks on o-line, ok. I'll give you that, but they found them somewhere. The Vikings haven't done that. If the Vikings were finding good linemen other places, I bet there wouldn't be many people in here urging them to draft more linemen. If anything, I think this piece disputes some of your points you always make. Clearly it's not as hard as you suggest to find good offensive linemen, given the varied avenues that these well run teams have found them. This piece just makes me even more infuriated at how poor of a job Spielman has done in this regard.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    I'm certainly in the vast minority, but I actually think this has a chance to be a sneaky good move. I'm guessing the FO sees something, be it mechanical or pitch selection, that they think their guys can get turned around.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    That's what ESPN 1500 rebranded themselves as.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    SS requires a stronger arm than 3B. Throws from deep in the hole are actually further from first than throws from third base are. Plus the SS has to make more throws while moving away from 1B than the third baseman does.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    Winnetka average temps:June: 78/57 July: 83/63 August: 82/62 Also, climate and weather don't get caught in traffic. So your 2 hour and 1 hour examples are meaningless in this context. The Chicago metro area is about 60 miles by 45 miles. That is big, but not big enough to have a significant disparity of climate/weather.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    If it's neither of those things, then why do you keep saying them? This isn't the first time you've suggested either of those. Having criticisms of decisions they've made is both fair and warranted. Suggesting they are plants here to undermine the Twins for another team is beyond believable. And it likely makes most posters immediately discard any salient points you might otherwise have.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    Unfortunately for him, it doesn't really matter. He spoils anything intelligent he has to say later by starting off with a preposterous straw man argument. If Mackey is being taken out of context, can you theorize why he'd even make that Yankees/Phillies comment at all?
  19. Mr. Brooks
    And this is why that station couldn't even stay on the air for most of the day. Beyond unlistenable.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Do you really think Mackey can be convinced that anyone is as smart as him? Good luck with that. LEN III on the other hand, seems like an affable guy, but the next time he gives an actual hard hitting criticism of the Twins will be the first.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    You are contradicting yourself. Before you said they were here to intentionally sabotage the Twins. Now you say they are using the Twins as a stepping stone to bigger and better things (that would require them to do well with the Twins). Which is it?
  22. Mr. Brooks
    Well, two posts after this one you claimed you were convinced on BJ Garbe after 4 at bats. So, you're contradicting yourself a bit when you say the FO can't be convinced after 15 innings.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    It only takes 2 wins to get to the Super Bowl, with a first round bye.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    It doesn't matter what "tweaks" they make. This is, and will continue to be a mediocre team until Leopold hires the best guy for the job, instead of his puppet.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    Sure, they deserve some credit, but I still don't see how it can be considered a success if never ends up impacting the MLB team.
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