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  1. Mike Sixel
    My bad, thanks......
  2. Mike Sixel
    And people think Seth and I don't agree......I agree with this 100%: "The inherent problem with the Twins’ spending isn’t the lack of it. It’s the systemic problem that seems to pervade the organization: complacency. The Twins have a profound lack of ambition in virtually everything they do." and especially this: "don’t get me wrong, signing Hughes or Santana or, hell, even Nolasco isn’t enough to hamstring even a team that pretends they can’t spend money, like the Twins. However, Minnesota stacked these signings on top of one another, reducing their flexibility this year to the point where there isn’t room for more than one of higher-upside" I almost feel like this isn't coming from Seth, but then, he's no more an all in apologist, than I am an all in hater* *we have both been called these things.....
  3. Mike Sixel
    Fair.
  4. Mike Sixel
    Title inflation......nothing more to see there.
  5. Mike Sixel
    Entrepreneurs generally are not good at running a business, and Ops people usually are not good at building new stuff. Maybe this is the same? I had not thought about it that way.
  6. Mike Sixel
    He's 30.....let's hope he's not 31/2 before he debuts. That would be unfortunate.
  7. Mike Sixel
    I am not a huge fan of TR the closer.......he seems to build well, but in his last iteration, he, imo, did not close the deal by signing FAs or trading minor leaguers for veterans that could close holes. IF baseball is cyclical, and they were fated to stink after their run, that is 100% an argument FOR trading prospects at that point....since those prospects won't be part of a winner anyway....... Having Becker and Tyner as your DH, on a championship potential team, was not, imo, acceptable. So, I like Terry to build the team, I am not sure I like him to take it to the next level or not. We'll see.
  8. Mike Sixel
    I too would appoint someone "just left of center" over someone super liberal. The goal is to get the person confirmed. A secondary goal is to get the Republican Senate to harm their brand by not holding hearings. But, the main goal should be getting a 9th Justice on the court. 2 sessions with only 8 members is not good for the country.
  9. Mike Sixel
    I'd vote lower end of medium, or higher end of small, because what matters is the number of cable subscribers.........that get FSN or whatever. Everything else in market size is probably not super relevant, imo. Heck, maybe they are small.....I don't have the data.
  10. Mike Sixel
    No, you called me a liar. You said you didn't believe what I typed. Let's be clear here. And, I was asking, will the Republicans rubber stamp whomever she chooses, since she won?
  11. Mike Sixel
    Based on what, do you think I am lying? You just called me a liar, right? and, what does the second line mean? Like, if there is a liberal appointed, the SC will somehow be ruined?
  12. Mike Sixel
    I don't begrudge them making money. I want them to make money. I want the team to be successful on and off the field. But, when they are competitive, I want them to fill the holes with difference makers, who will likely cost money/prospects.
  13. Mike Sixel
    Don't you understand, this will ruin 'merica, and the terrorists will win if we can't detain people without due process, torture them, and do it on foreign soil..... Hey, that's sarcasm, btw.....
  14. Mike Sixel
    If Obama is a lame duck, what is every single house member right now? should they all stop voting on everything? What about the Senators up for re-election, should they stop right now?* *putting aside that that might be good if they all just quit.....that's not the point at all. If by a miracle, the House passed a budget, should Obama just look at the paper, and do nothing?
  15. Mike Sixel
    I think I'm free to use principle here all day.....I'd say the same things to the Democratic Senators if needed. Is anyone under the delusion, that if Hilary wins the election, and Reps control the Senate, they'll say "the people have spoken, we'll approve Hillary's nominee"?
  16. Mike Sixel
    What are you talking about? I don't give a crap what the parties would or would not do (even though we know that democrats have approved justices in the last year of a presidency). Congress should do their job, not leave the Court w/o 9 justices for 2 years.
  17. Mike Sixel
    if you aren't willing to have "dead money" basically, you have to practically admit you will never sign a free agent. Also, that you will never sign your own players to long term deals to keep them past their FA time frame. No team does that and wins. Teams build the core thru draft, trade, development, and fill the holes with free agents. *those are some terrible sentences, I hope my points are clear.
  18. Mike Sixel
    When Tyner is your DH, a hitter. When you are flush with number 3-5 starters, a number 1/2 type. When you have a lot of 1B/DH types, not another DH...... FA should, imo, be about filling a hole or three......with big time, elite, players, occasionally.
  19. Mike Sixel
    A 4th number 4/5 starter? No.
  20. Mike Sixel
    Did that make it right? do you really think that in the 2 elections where people elected Obama, that they didn't think maybe he'd have to replace another justice? What is RIGHT for the country? He's not a lame duck, he's the elected PoTUS. He has almost a full year left. If only Congress would pass a budget, and do their jobs.........but they are too busy trying to make Obama look bad, at the expense of the country.
  21. Mike Sixel
    Evidence that protection exists?
  22. Mike Sixel
    I'm not sure what that has to do with the point I was making........has TR ever brought in a big time FA or traded top prospects for an elite player to close the gap? Tyner DH'd one of the years they were in contention, IIRC. McPhail brought in FAs to close the holes. But, changing the topic was great for not talking about the topic......will this FO close the holes, unlike they did in the last run, or not? That, to me, will answer the question about the system, because that is what was broken in the last run.
  23. Mike Sixel
    I'd think that only writing this article with hindsight would get ripped to shreds.....
  24. Mike Sixel
    I don't see a lot of disrespect on this thread......
  25. Mike Sixel
    The Souhan article is based on number 3 hitter being your best hitter.......math shows that there is the TINIEST upside to that actually being your number 4 hitter. I don't agree that the series of RH batters is a problem, in terms of how to use THIS group of players. That is the group to work with, artificially moving Mauer around to get a LH bat in there for the small number of times it will matter seems like a bad idea to me. What I liked about the article, though, is that it was a real baseball article w/o a bunch of hyperbole.....
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