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  1. terrydactyls
    The sad (or sickening) part of this is that $100 million isn't considered "enough" by players or agents. The average US two-income family makes about $5.5 million over a 45-year career (assuming $60,000 a year for each person) and they are very content. Players get that much for part of one season. And the two-income family (assuming they have children) can hardly afford tickets to more than one or two games a year. The entire system is perverse. And before I get jumped on for being "jealous", I don't begrudge the players for taking what the owners want to hand out. I just wish that the owners would use a lot of this money and give away tickets to low-income families, lower tickets prices for families, and just donate half of what they spend on players to charities.
  2. terrydactyls
    Isn't the splitter thrown edactly like a fastball, only with fingers split apart? Why would that make it more harmful to the elbow? I always thought that any pitch that involved snapping your wrist put more strain on the elbow than a straight pitch.
  3. terrydactyls
    Unbridled optimism? Aren't you a Twins fan? Mildly hoping for a pleasant summer is more our style.
  4. terrydactyls
    So you spend $400 million on Price and Greinke; lock them up for eight years; and what would have happened? You go from a 70 win team to a 85 win team? Still might not be in the playoffs. And you've financially put yourself in a major bind when their skills are rapidly dimishing and Sano, Buxton, Perkins, etc are looking at new contracts. Bad, bad idea. Skip the spending when you aren't winning and possess a great farm system. If Sano and Buxton hadn't both missed 2014, this might have been year 1 of a long reign. Instead, start planning for 2017 and the free agent class of 2018.
  5. terrydactyls
    I agree and for that reason, I can't understand why so many posters hate Milone. Just because he doesn't throw in the mid-nineties doesn't mean he can't be a very effective back-end starter.
  6. terrydactyls
    Let Buxton have center field from day 1. His defense alone makes it worth while and when he adjusts to ML pitching, he'll be there for years.
  7. terrydactyls
    I'sure glad they play baseball games on a field instead of a computer. All these projection models and fancy statistical models don't show heart, hussle, and attitude. I'm just hoping the youth movement progresses rapidly and the kids play their butts off. It should be a good 2016 and possibly a wonderful 2017.
  8. terrydactyls
    I'm hoping that by mid-season, we see a starting rotation of Santana, Gibson, Duffy, May, and Berrios and a bullpen of Perkins, Jepson, Burdi, Chargois, Melotakis, Fien, Meyer, and Rogers. Hughes and Nolasco either are traded or Sent to Rochester. Get the rebuild into full blown mode.
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