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  1. USAFChief
    Pizza: Jake's, downtown Willmar walleye: my nephew's house.
  2. USAFChief
    The basis of that premise is in the first sentence of your cited article: "In baseball, teams have little control over the clustering of hits." That sounds to me like an unsupported theory, rather than proven fact. I'd go so far as to say those who assert such a thing should provide some level of proof, rather than asking us to take on faith that results which do not line up with their theory are due to things that are not controllable. Not to mention, if this actually is a "thing"--if a month-long run of "cluster luck" is enough to throw off the projection system for multiple teams, every year--the projection system is, by definition, useless.
  3. USAFChief
    Has anyone actually taken the time to figure out if the Twins got crazy lucky with chaining together hits early in the season? Or is "sequencing" just the latest buzzword used to explain away results that don't jive with theory?
  4. USAFChief
    You mean projections, amiright?
  5. USAFChief
    Never had mandu, I take it. Or Kyeongju bread.
  6. USAFChief
    Dude, the American League did not have a .500 winning percentage last year. Nor the National League, for that matter.
  7. USAFChief
    The floor for any minor leaguer is "minor leaguer."
  8. USAFChief
    I stand corrected.
  9. USAFChief
    President Bush had two nominees. On July 1, 2005, Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement. On July 19, Bush nominated John Roberts as her replacement. On Sep 3rd, Chief Justice Rehnquist passed away. On Sep 5th, Bush made Roberts his nominee for Chief Justice. Roberts was confirmed Sep 29th. On Oct 3rd, Bush nominated Harriet Miers as O'Connor's replacement. On October 27th, Miers withdrew from consideration, because of REPUBLICAN objections...she wasn't right wing enough. On October 31st, Bush nominated Samuel Alito, confirmed on Jan 31st, 2006. In so many words...your post is ... Invalid.
  10. USAFChief
    Ditto. Dittodittodittodittodittoditto.
  11. USAFChief
    The longest time in history with an unfilled SCOTUS seat: 135 days ( 4.5 months -- from seat opens until nominee confirmed.) Obama has 11 months left in office. 8 months till the election. 6 months till conventions. What is it that Obama would be "doing" by nominating? Fulfilling constitutional obligations?
  12. USAFChief
    May 21st..."Joe Mauer Whiffle Ball Bat." Sometimes the jokes write themselves.
  13. USAFChief
    Nice dodge. As to the topic, Here's noted left wing outlet Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/15/in-complete-repose-scalia-died-natural-causes-investigators-say.html The "pillowcase" and "murder" crap are only found on the likes of WorldNetDaily. You know what's really disrespectful to the Scalia family? People fabricating crap like this. And the Republicans in the Senate politicizing his death before his body was cold. THAT's what is disgusting.
  14. USAFChief
    I think it's beyond possible that a MLB player "doesn't understand the risks. " He has access to the best doctors available and almost certainly has heard, from several of them, what the risks are.
  15. USAFChief
    "Hopefully it wasn't a murder"?? JHFC. You are upset about the tone of a thread on Twins Daily, but ok with Senate Republicans politicizing it hours after his death? And now you're pimping National Enquirer. Holy cow. EDIT: I stand corrected...National Enquirer would be too respected. WorldNetDaily.
  16. USAFChief
    I read the second amendment as defending the need to defend the nation, and the government, rather than FROM the government. "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state..." A new nation had to have the means to protect itself, and depended on its citizens to do so.
  17. USAFChief
    I'll admit to happiness and relief that Bin Laden was killed. He was an evil man, responsible for much death and suffering around the world. A man who deserved no sympathy or reprieve. He was nothing at all like Ted Kennedy, or Antonin Scalia, flawed but ultimately decent and well meaning humans, like most of us.
  18. USAFChief
    I confess to not understanding the question...how are they linked? Who is proposing both?
  19. USAFChief
    Try the beer vending area through the first six innings, the last stall in the rest room the last three.
  20. USAFChief
    We'll see. Maybe a few Senators from moderate states. Maybe itll get out more voters, never a good thing for Republicans. But my guess is most who vote R won't see stalling as a bad thing. Ends justify a lot of means. I hope you are right.
  21. USAFChief
    My guess: Senate Republicans will find a way to prevent this seat from being filled until after the election. And their base won't see the irony in claiming to be about the constitution, while simultaneously putting cheap politics above the constitution.
  22. USAFChief
    You've never heard of smart guns? I find that hard to believe, but ok. You should do some research. Such guns exist. They would prevent at least some of the deaths associated with guns, while preserving individual ownership rights. Of course the NRA opposes their sale. Not opposes making them mandatory...opposes even selling them. A gun shop owner in VA was the last to try offering them for sale, and within hours was forced to barricade his shop over death threats.
  23. USAFChief
    I don't think it matters, really, what is going on. Whether it's concussion related, or not. What matters is, if the Twins are to be a WS contender, I don't think they can accommodate a first baseman sucking up 650 PAs with a sub-.750 OPS. So either the production returns to .850 plus, or the uncomfortable truth starts to force some reluctant hands to make some painful decisions about playing time. Probably sooner than later. What he WAS isn't the issue.
  24. USAFChief
    And I thought Mauer was healthy based on his own statements: http://www.foxsports.com/north/story/minnesota-twins-joe-mauer-hopes-to-reap-rewards-of-healthy-offseason-022815
  25. USAFChief
    Reasonable like the NRA's opposition to "smart" guns? Guns which could only be fired by the owner? That kind of reasonable?
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