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  1. Mike Sixel
    Molitor and Ryan have jobs as long as they want them.........so, I'd say 2 more years. Then they'll promote a guy that believes in more strongly in the sacrifice bunt and hustle than their current manager. Good luck everyone.
  2. Mike Sixel
    Agreed, I should have been more clear on that. Again, why should people have to work to eat? Just because? you do know that the vast majority of jobs (including thinking ones, especially thinking ones) will go away in this next generation, right? What should all those people do for a living, other than fight needless wars?
  3. Mike Sixel
    The pitching hasn't been bad, but it also hasn't been good. This was the largest fear of many of us.....the pitching would be solidly middle of the pack, so they'd not fix it and make it better, leaving high upside arms in the minors........it's much better if they are really bad or really good. Then, you can feel safer taking action (or not, which is also taking action).
  4. Mike Sixel
    I don't think we should be required to work. I think that's old thinking. But, that's not what basic income is about, really and I should have left that part out. It's an idea, similar to what I've been suggesting, that even Milton Friedman endorsed.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Well, I don't think you can trade a guy that is on the DL, so it isn't Plouffe. And, if they thought they could sneak him thru, they were wrong, again. That's on them, right?
  6. Mike Sixel
    good luck getting your wish......
  7. Mike Sixel
    I think I reluctantly agree, anyone striking out half the time needs to go down.
  8. Mike Sixel
    I am cheap, so no HBO Now until we are a few weeks into the season. Avoiding spoilers (I did not read the above at all) is going to be challenging, given my FB and other friends.......
  9. Mike Sixel
    Except the Twins are clearly trying to win this year, just like last year. They didn't call up young guys last year to get acclimated for this year, and so far this year, they are going with old guys in the rotation and bullpen (and signed a 29 year old DH, and just cut their only catching depth for a 34 yo OF that can't field).
  10. Mike Sixel
    By the time they call up the young RPs, they will be out of the race. They aimed low on catcher, and the bullpen, and they are getting what they deserved. If you are going to argue they weren't ever competitive this year anyway, why sign a 29 / 30 year old DH, and not start with some youth in the bullpen?
  11. Mike Sixel
    That doesn't make losing him a good idea, in and of itself. The mistakes pile up over time, that's the problem here, imo. Too many mistakes piling up.
  12. Mike Sixel
    or than about 1/3 of the current "hitters".....
  13. Mike Sixel
    They've shown they aren't calling him up to help. Last year, for a spot start? Nope. Last year to help an over worked bullpen? Nope. This year, to give them some upside? Nope. He's not going to teach the hitters how to hit, even if they ever do call him up.
  14. Mike Sixel
    Can't tell if serious........
  15. Mike Sixel
    As far as I can tell, these numbers don't include farm and other corporate subsidies.......but here is a great article on "basic income". If you include the corporate numbers, cut defense by 5% or so, and start by giving children money they day they are born (and have that invested in markets), you have enough money for some to live on. And, is not working really some kind of great evil? really? http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/universal-basic-income/
  16. Mike Sixel
    That's a staggering number. Utterly staggering.
  17. Mike Sixel
    the young guys aren't likely to step up when the SP are mostly long time veterans, as is all but one of the infielders. Until they turn over the roster, this is the leadership you have. the leaders they loved so much, they went out and signed a guy to be a leader last year.
  18. Mike Sixel
    It simply isn't true that the hype went up after his minor league career year. He was the number 2 pick in the draft. From the time he was in the minors, he was a top prospect in all the minors (not THE, a). So far, he's been a disappointment. That will hopefully change, but it isn't like people are being unrealistic thinking he should be good. He isn't a random prospect. He isn't someone that came out of the blue. He has been one of the top prospects in the game since he was drafted.
  19. Mike Sixel
    He's just not good at the in game stuff at all........that said, their AA manager also appears to love the sacrifice bunt....and we KNOW they won't go outside the organization.
  20. Mike Sixel
    And, they refuse to call up any pitchers, so, um, why do they care if they lose the marginal ones?
  21. Mike Sixel
    Molitor.......someone let me know the first time he outmanages another manager. I can't imagine it will be any time soon.....
  22. Mike Sixel
    so, is Koch: really a Hillary supporter, proving what many of us believe about here coziness with business trying to kill her candidacy by "supporting" her Now, while the Kochs want no environmental protection, I believe they are pretty libertarian, and I also believe they fear Cruz or Trump would totally mess up either on war, or on trade.....so, I think he's serious.
  23. Mike Sixel
    So, they are willing to lose what tiny little catching depth they have, so they can call up a 34 yo corner "OF"......who else are they going to lose as a result of this? Ugh. Just. Ugh. It's just terrible roster management, imo.
  24. Mike Sixel
    Are they really going to call him up, and maybe lose a young player? Or are they going to finally go with youth?
  25. Mike Sixel
    Aim low, get what you deserve.
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