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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    That's almost literally unbelievable. Thanks for sharing.
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Maybe, maybe not, but the article didn't say anything about policy or issues, or which way to "move" on issues.
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Walker concedes.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Exactly. She's obviously skilled and qualified but she is too much of a lightening rod, and that's an understatement.
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    ....yet Kansas rejected the Republican for the Democrat, and by a wide margin. Politics is local, Mike, at least for this cycle it appears that way.
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    ..but yet wields incredible influence on the Democratic party.
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    And the other is a clueless, corrupt political site that predicted with 98% certainty Hillary would win in 2016 and openly mocks anyone who doesn't live in the NY-DC corridor, or LA.....
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    well, Huffpost is still calling it a blue wave, so there seems to be some dispute
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Predictions? I don't think voter turnout is predictive, but that's just me. If Huffpost is predicting a "blue wave" then I will predict the opposite I wouldn't mind see some mixed results tonight nationally but I don't want the Minnesota government to get in the hands of the Trump types or us to turn into Wisconsin. Here shortly I will be going to my usual poll place at my usual poll time. Even in presidential years that usually means walking right up to a booth, or a two minute waits, tops. But as the above poster said and I have heard elsewhere, wait times are a little longer this year.
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    If the vote returns start looking ominous for them, I don't know what would stop them from manipulating the results. Sounds cynical but I really don't know why they wouldn't rig it for themselves.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    At least we'll know who to blame when it all goes to the dogs
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    acquire at least one! A very good free agent or trade acquisition combined with Berrios and Gibson as the top 3, followed by Odorizzi, and then the other guys. That's not an unreasonable ask this year. (Although Odorizzi for $9 million might not be worth the price, since twice-through-the-order is as much as you get from him.)
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    The cons of my strategy? My strategy is to fill out a rotation the same way every other team does. The biggest risk is in free agency, signing a guy to a big contract that he can't perform up to. The biggest "pro" of the stacking strategy is that these 4/5 types really are best suited to pitching three innings at a time, rather than straight starting or traditional short relief.
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Here’s my response to that: scrap the stacker thing and go out and sign a good starter.
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Another thing I want to point out: The in-game managing situations is where the clean and theoretical will become problematic. Sure sometimes stacking will work well, or at least not interfere, but not always, and mybe not even a majority of the time. Let’s say the first “stack” pitcher has made it through four shutout innings and no one can touch him. Do you leave him in for another inning? Or what if the second pitcher guy comes in and immediately shows he has nothing that day. Does Baldelli* still commit to the second guy for three innings? At that point it’s a matter of consulting with your coaches and going to the bullpen and just making pitching changes like any other manager has done for the last 30-40 years. So nothing unusual or surprising is really happening on the field, except that the front office has spent time, hours, and made personnel decisions introducing a new concept and expecting to change the game, except that the game didn’t change and a gut call still needs to be made. I just don’t see the advantage. * Edit: that's assuming the manager still makes all the in game decisions. Maybe front offices are directing more of the in game substitutions nowadays, don't know
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I’m trying to come up with a concise reply to this. Until then, what to you are the “cons” against this idea, or reasons it won’t work?
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Ok well postseason is a completely different beast. You won’t see those teams do stacking by design during a regular season.
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    It would be futile to argue against any of this (after all, you’ve been watching baseball for all that time, ba-dum tschhhh.) I’m just skeptical that the Twins will discover any great advantage to doing these things. If the two guys in the stack can make it work, great, but then that’s two guys on the roster taking the place of one. I’m also not sold on the abilities of the guys listed who are candidates to take part in this. We hear a lot about the “pros” of doing these things, not so much about the “cons”.
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I think there are costs or cons (pros and cons) that will come with experimenting with the pitchers. Some costs we can anticipate, like the roster constraints mentioned above. My blueprint would be to do the traditional five starters though it does seem like the Twins are going to continue experimenting with a couple of those starter spots. Heck, I'm not a Pineda fan, but I would even prefer "start Pineda when he's heathy, call someone up when he's not" to having too many rotation spots given over to experimentation. Although having Kohl Stewart as a "primary" did show limited success.
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I respectfully disagree. (I may also disrespectfully agree. We'll see how this goes. ) I've been trying to figure out how to say this. Basically, I think if all of those alternative pitching models had been the norm in baseball for a hundred years, some clever team by now would have decided it was better to have a small number of really good pitchers who can pitching 6 to 9 innings every time, and then have a few extra guys to come in to finish the game if the first guy had to come out. In other words, starters and relievers. Other teams would have followed suit, and that's where we would be today, with starters and relievers, a rotation and a bullpen.
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    In my opinion, that makes no sense. That somehow Kluber or Carrasco might be traded. They still have fairly friendly deals in my estimation, and for the most part aren't in line for any big salary increases (though Klubers goes up 6+ mil in 2019 -- and he's worth every penny). My guess: saying Kluber or Carrasco are on the trading block is Cleveland's (cheap?) way of fishing for phone calls for the other guys.
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Of course there's the whole thing about whether ESan can even be effective anymore. I think he can. Seems like some team will sign him back but not at $15 million.
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Friends of the court.
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    For myself, I'm sorry to see ESan go. I don't think his 2019 option would have been too much more than any other one year contract they might pick up this season (Lynn was 1/12). Adds to my suspicion that they are going to dip low with the payroll for 2019.
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Bartman, Sammy, Soochie and CT would be totally on board with whatever Trump needed to do, however I think J-Rob, as chief broseph, would really hate being the tie breaking decision on something like this. We shall see! /snark
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