Mike Sixel
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I'm currently reading some light, humorous, apocalypse books....pretty easy reads, and entertaining enough.....the point is, they start with quotes from the hero about the past. Book three starts like this: "There was too much division for that. They gray area had disappeared. There was right, wrong, and no other option........<there are then 4 paragraphs basically saying, if you believe something, you are evil, no matter your belief, like this "If you thought some people shouldn't have guns, you wanted criminals to kill and rape everyone. If you wanted a gun, it was because you had a small penis and the other side ....">....And everyone was Hitler. Part of the problem was that everyone was an expert on everything so any chance for debate was quashed by superior credentials such as, "I read it on Wikipedia" or " the TV station that thinks like I do agrees with me and told me everyone else was too stupid to understand." Too true.....we are somehow becoming more knowledgable, and more stupid at the same time. Maybe Dune was right, maybe having computers is actually a bad thing. I don't actually think that, I maintain hope that people are good, but I also maintain fear that those that want power win too often, since the rest of us don't want it.....and sometimes that winning comes with every bad consequences for those of us that just want everyone to be loved and happy.
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People have been trying to exterminate the Jews for 2000+ years....you might be a bit paranoid if that was your lot also. You can try to remove religion if you want, but that's naive, and I've met you, and you are smarter than that...sadly, religious hatred still exists. Brainwashing your citizens (saudi arabia, I'm looking at you) tends to do that....
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welcome to the site!
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I'm with you, though SPs can increase in value during the year more easily than hitters....since you need 5 SPs, and only 1 2B.....
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But people are arguing "don't trade him"......literally, people are suggesting keeping Dozier into the year is a good idea for a 59 win team.... Also, just curious, who the heck is going to offer more than a top 10 pitching prospect (top ten among pitchers) and other stuff?
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His point stands, if you don't sign your first round pick, you don't get the money for signing others....
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Santana is gone in two years, right? I think even you said next year is pretty much lost for the playoffs....so not sure how Santana plays into long term competitiveness at all...unless you trade him, but trading him seems to say that Dozier isn't good enough to keep them in contention, so why keep him?
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Agreed, a bad trade won't help....but until just today, it has NEVER been a 1:1 for trade, in any rumor. that said, are we sure that De Leon+Polanco at 2B < Dozier at 2b and no pitcher? In 2019 and beyond?
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Good luck in 2018, 19, and 20 if you won't trade your assets for prospects. THIS is how bad teams stay bad, they refuse to worry about the future, when the present looks bleak.
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come on, one side literally has said they want to wipe the other off the face of the planet......Israel is not w/o MAJOR issues, but have they ever said they want to exterminate the other side?
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2016 Report Cards: Rotation
Mike Sixel replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
You realize these are grades for what they did last year, right? Not the future, last year. Nick, spot on.- 39 replies
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If the Twins win 25% more games than last year......they win 73....are people here really suggesting winning 88+ is realistic?
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But, again, why is gold a safe haven? Other than it is shiny? And, would you have felt that way when it plummeted? I just don't get it. I mean, it's not like gold held its value and just goes up all the time....
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How is Dozier's value going to get higher?
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Isn't 2018 year 4 of the Sano era?
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Fangraphs says he doesn't have much of an arm at all, and is slower than you, Nick...that said, if he can hit like a DH, he has real value.
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I still don't understand why gold matters as some kind of safe haven......it's shiny metal, with no real intrinsic value (ok, that's not true, but we don't make MUCH with it other than decorations). The emotional attachment to gold, it just seems odd to me in 2017....
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Really? How did you know those guys couldn't hit, and how do you know Calhoun is going to bust? I'm genuinely curious, because I have no idea how good Calhoun will be or not.
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so, um, who has the two you are looking for? I'm assuming the dodgers don't, given your criteria.
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And what is good or bad, to you? Two top 75 prospects enough? If not, what is? They aren't about more than 1-5% likely to be good with him next year......trading your best (older) players is how you get better, faster, over the long run, when you are a 100+ loss team...
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And, NVIDIA ends up for the day.... Pretty sure I'm going to lock in some gains next week. Maybe. Buffet would be annoyed with me...
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I would be ok with this approach, if they feel Alvarez is the real deal. I am not certain that JDL is better than Stewart, because results do matter....
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That is right on the border for me.....but if the Twins think De Leon is about Ervin Santana, I do it. Sheffiled moves to the bullpen, and is up fast. Could maybe be a closer type, imo. I'd hope Calhoun hits the bleep out of the ball, and you flip him for someone that is faster than a Molina brother....
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2016 Report Cards: Outfield
Mike Sixel replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
And yet, he is still on the 40 man.- 65 replies
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This made me laugh, thanks!
