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  1. Mike Sixel
    spoliers! jk..... But I did not watch the previews, never do.
  2. Mike Sixel
    The pacing of the Hound's story was slow.....but it was a good story, with possible growth (and real consequences for not doing what he knew was right). Arya? Years of nothing happening, show us some shots of her really growing in skill, as Levi suggests.
  3. Mike Sixel
    That's not the argument I'm making........so, if I had left off the "mistake" part, that would have helped. Once you have a high priced player, not before you have them, but once you have them, cutting them is about courage and trying to be better. Most teams just can't do it, they just keep holding onto unproductive assets.
  4. Mike Sixel
    Hard to say, for sure. If you never sign any FAs because they don't return the same WAR/$ as rookies....you probably won't ever win many playoff games. It isn't about win/$, it is about wins. At some point, most teams need to sign a FA or three to close holes, or stagnate.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Probably, yes. But, we will never really know for sure. Not every player is the same.......but in retrospect, yes, Buxton should not have been up last year for more than a taste.
  6. Mike Sixel
    And the Twins have found how many of those in the last 10 years? 80% of their starting rotation was NOT drafted by MN this year.....and those that were? Duffey, for example?
  7. Mike Sixel
    Interestingly (to me), when we moved, we found old coasters from my trip to Europe some 30 years ago.....(who knew I collected them, I didn't). I've been grabbing a coaster at most breweries we visit the last couple years, but I didn't remember those old ones. My wife decided to put them on the wall of one of our rooms as a decoration. There was actually a 30 year old one from Shoffenhofer. edit: man, I took what could have been a nice story, and made it boring......work. sigh.
  8. Mike Sixel
    In the last 10 years? Wanna take that bet? And yes, the last 10 years matter more than guys drafted 25 years ago. The game has changed.
  9. Mike Sixel
    Elite players come up when they are 22 or so.......as a rule. Of course there are exceptions. I don't think rushing guys thru AA and AAA is a good idea either. But, if you are going to stall them in EST, low A, high A for three years......then they are likely to get rushed thru AA and AAA since they are peaking in athleticism already. And, for RP, I'm not sure you can ever get "enough" innings in AA and AAA. BTW, their "draft a bunch of RP' strategy has been AWFUL so far. Awful. It has delivered zero players. Zero.
  10. Mike Sixel
    Partly that is because the TWins drag their players thru the lower minors, then rush them thru the upper minors. 100% opposite of the Cardinals.
  11. Mike Sixel
    But the FO had NO CHOICE. They were literally forced to do this. They are the victims here. .......
  12. Mike Sixel
    Not gun shootings. If you read freakonomics 2, you'd know that shootings are up, deaths are down. Why? Because so many ER professionals have returned from combat that we are now better at saving shooting victims. The numbers and data are clear, we have a gun shooting problem here. Are you really denying that? That the US isn't more violent with guns than other first world nations?
  13. Mike Sixel
    A sac bunt in the 2nd? No wonder the MLB team isn't baseball smart. Unreal. As for Chargois....there were 100% other ways to handle this, they chose this route, 100% TR chose this route. No one tied their hands. They weren't forced to do this. This was their decision. I'm tired of the "we had no other choice" way they treat their prospects.
  14. Mike Sixel
    I can think of like 4 different ways this could have been handled, if they didn't want Chargois up......and yet, they called him up. Then, they put him in against one of the best lineups in the game, and he got bombed. Then, rather than say "hey, tough outing, but we still believe in you", they seem to have decided to say "you weren't ready, we called you up anyway, but that wasn't our fault".
  15. Mike Sixel
    I just want the white walkers to make it to Lannister territory, is that too much to ask?
  16. Mike Sixel
    I was not impressed with that episode...... The Arya story still seems like a waste of precious time..... My son thinks Cersei plans to burn King's Landing, or something, based on the visions of Bran Riverrun was both the best, and typically annoying, part. At least we totally understand that jamie is a sociopath who will kill everyone just for the love of 1 woman.....but the two Tulley lords, could they be more stupid? Mereen was very week. That part was good, better than most of the rest of the story.
  17. Mike Sixel
    It saddens me the number of people whose first response when 50+ people die....that their first response....is about themselves, and their guns, and not about the people that just died. The US has a gun violence problem. Denying that is like denying the earth is round. The facts are very clear, gun violence is a huge problem here compared to other parts of the world. The question is, should we just point at a piece of paper written over 200 years ago, when guns couldn't fire fast at all, or should we acknowledge there is a problem and try to do something about it. "thoughts and prayers" don't save lives. All they do is make the person saying that feel like they actually did something.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Crap.
  19. Mike Sixel
    Where are all those RP they have been drafting?
  20. Mike Sixel
    I would guess she is more qualified than Trump..... Since he has no experience. If being Secretary of state doesn't help, not sure what would.
  21. Mike Sixel
    I turn the channel when a progressive ad comes on. Cannot watch another one. EVER.
  22. Mike Sixel
    Wonderful debut......when does this farm system actually offer help? Unreal.
  23. Mike Sixel
    I am seriously considering writing in Cthulu in November....
  24. Mike Sixel
    Uh.....that was sarcasm on the quality trade part.....
  25. Mike Sixel
    Tough bunch of hitters to debut against.....
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