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  1. Mike Sixel
    I didn't like that Jepsen was the only real move (imo), that was always my issue. Jepsen, for all his faults, was very helpful for this team last year, and that was great!
  2. Mike Sixel
    Maybe he didn't want to live in OKC half the year anymore? You really don't understand a player wanting to increase his odds of winning?
  3. Mike Sixel
    Valid take that OKC is now lesser, and the Wolves have one less great team to contend with, btw.
  4. Mike Sixel
    I didn't compare them to other teams at all.....I clearly stated which MLB players they have to show for their international signings. I don't know if it is better or worse, and I never made any statement in this thread about that at all.
  5. Mike Sixel
    I knew that, but I think he was a FA, i was trying to give them credit ......
  6. Mike Sixel
    I don't complain about RPs spending too little time down.....they are inconsistent and prone to injury. I would move them faster (as a group) than any other group. As pitchers, they also have less to learn, since they are likely relying on the skills they already have. It isn't that he wasn't brought up, it was how he was brought up and then cast aside right away. I can certainly understand the argument for giving him more time in AAA......and it's not like they haven't found ways to clear 40 man spots since his call up.....so their were options about how he was used.
  7. Mike Sixel
    OTOH, he finally was free to choose what city is his primary home during the season, and who he works for and with.........so for him, I think it is great. For the sport? Not so much.
  8. Mike Sixel
    I imagine it is very hard to cover this team right now, both in interacting with the team, and the lack of interest in your work from the public.....very tough spot for sure.
  9. Mike Sixel
    Forced nationalism in sports has been part of how governments and sports work together to distract us for thousands of years, quite literally.
  10. Mike Sixel
    The agreement doesn't say you can't do it......it clearly states you can do it, but then you can't sign more players for 2 years. That was the agreement. There is nothing unethical about doing what the agreement allows, is there? "You can go over, but if you do, then you can't sign expensive players for 2 years" .........that is very different than, "you can't go over, if you do, you are breaking the rules". Either way, they have almost nothing to show for their international work other than Sano, Polanco, and Kepler (all signed the one year they spent big) and Vargas and Danny Santana.
  11. Mike Sixel
    So, everything going wrong.......you actually believe, since the odds of that are so small that they are hard to calculate....you think bad luck had nothing to do with that? I'm struggling why this is even debatable, frankly. Even a terrible plan can have some good outcomes.....this has had almost none.
  12. Mike Sixel
    Not to mention Chargois.
  13. Mike Sixel
    I hate the blackout rules....and I really hate them when they are stupid bad, like Iowa and blacking out an opposing feed when the game isn't shown locally. I am amazed there are any young baseball fans at all, given how hard they make the product to see.
  14. Mike Sixel
    you can't believe that people that have been told for 20 years that this woman is evil aren't buying it when someone says she's not?
  15. Mike Sixel
    According to my friends on the right, this just proves all democrats (not republicans at all) are corrupt, btw. Innocent until proven guilty be damned, they (without seeing much evidence, really) know she is evil and broke the law.
  16. Mike Sixel
    I am prepared to be disappointed, frankly. They've done pretty much nothing the way the Astros or Cubs have in the last few years, and appear to be on the Pittsburgh/KC approaches instead. I expect that to continue.
  17. Mike Sixel
    Figured we agreed on this....... Given the current roster, not sure how they do this now, though. They may have lost their shot at this being a valid approach. Unless we think they are still short an OF, only bullpen would appear to have openings (not lack of talent, other spots have that) where you could still use this approach.
  18. Mike Sixel
    but we only get a lot of HRs because of steroids............is it almost time to put that to rest now?
  19. Mike Sixel
    Patience and trust seem to be sorely lacking in this management, yes.
  20. Mike Sixel
    I was responding to "why would any team every sign an old player in a rebuild".........and I said earlier I'd not do it because of the QO. If you took it to mean THIS EXACT scenario, I failed in my communication, clearly.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Well, let's also admit that both sides have spent years trying to brainwash people into fervently believing in certain things as gospel.......like government is evil, or the rich don't care about you. Some of this has evolved into worshiping certain ideas as being as true as your beliefs about God. And, for many, they only talk to people and watch/listen to news that reinforces those beliefs as gospel (in some cases, literally gospel). That tends to lead to what we are witnessing in terms of the divide culturally right now. To me, the saddest is the poor on the right, who love the idea of the USA, but for some reason can't see that every time we lose freedom, or we blame "others" for our problems, we are actually fighting against what the USA is supposed to be.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Easiest way to attract fans and keep them interested.....don't make your product available!
  23. Mike Sixel
    In a rebuild, like the Cubs did it.....teams sign older players to 1 year deals TO DEAL THEM LATER, it is one way to buy prospects, basically. The Twins, otoh, signed guys to 1 year deals, then re-upped them......and did not trade them. So, if you think the team is rebuilding, you might do this. Also, since they have had zero good CF since they decided to trade Span for nothing, it seems reasonable that you might sign a guy that can play CF and SS and 3B (maybe), in case your Buxton and Escobar plans went south....... not saying I'd do it, but I can understand why you would.
  24. Mike Sixel
    at 22? he's supposed to be emotionally mature? But yes, some of the blame goes to the players, is anyone saying it doesn't?
  25. Mike Sixel
    Uh, that is what I said, right? In the next sentence?
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