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  1. USAFChief
    Hu is it?
  2. USAFChief
    No, Van. We did not. Please, do tell.
  3. USAFChief
    The problem with kleptomaniacs is they take everything literally.
  4. USAFChief
    "Is Toronto north or south of Minneapolis?" the correct answer: "No."* *"West" is the answer we were looking for.
  5. USAFChief
    I'm confident students in those programs have been suspended, we just don't know about it. And unless I'm mistaken, most if not all of the athletic budget at the UofM is self generated. Point being, "drop sports" is a pretty silly argument. A pretty decent argument can be made that people and students get as much out of athletics as they do music, for example. And I'm not arguing to drop music.
  6. USAFChief
    Sure As I'm Sittin' Here, at least One person will Try A Little Tenderness by bringing a Three Dog Night reference to the table, attempting to tie the whole music and cold long night theme into the season and bring a little Joy To The World. But as true as it is that I've Never Been To Spain, it'll be as plain a Black and White failure as The Family Of Man has ever seen on the road to Shambala. I shouldn't complain though, Mama Told Me Not To Come to game threads. Oh well. The Show Must Go On. Pieces of April opening day can't come soon enough I Can Hear You Calling. We'll just have to get through the winter somehow, dreaming of an Eli Whiteside comin' to help out the catcher situation, and Celebrate where we can.
  7. USAFChief
    Abolish the music program, too. And the arts department while we're at it.
  8. USAFChief
    Information is hard to come by. But just because there weren't criminal charges doesn't mean there couldn't be violations of student standards. Cheating, for example, isn't criminal, but could get you kicked out of school. It's possible the EOAA office acted irresponsibly. The timing is suspicious, and these sorts of extra-judicial offices with few boundaries and the presumption of impartiality are always susceptible to agendas or abuse of power. But I'd need to see some evidence to buy that. For one thing, I'm sure the President, the AD and Claeys were all extremely reluctant to take this action, so my default position is, there's gotta be at least some evidence that warrants it. We'll see. Whatever ends up the case, it's a damn shame.
  9. USAFChief
    The DA office declined criminal prosecution, months ago. This appears to stem from internal investigation and recommendation from the U's Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action office.
  10. USAFChief
    Odd that I wasn't aware of this.
  11. USAFChief
    And volleyball. Gopher Volleyball.
  12. USAFChief
    And now 10 players suspended. It's like being a fan of any MN sports team is a curse or something.
  13. USAFChief
    A couple things I find interesting. 10 years, 30 teams, five rounds each. 1500 players, plus however many comp picks were added. But we'll just stick with 1500 draftees over 10 years. 299 of them have achieved 2 WAR. 20 percent. 167 have 6 or more WAR. 11 percent. 116 have 10 or more WAR. Less than 8 percent. Fewer than 4 per team since 2003. My take: every team needs talent, but depending on drafting any significant portion of it is asking for failure. You need to bring in talent through other means. International FAs, major and minor league FAs, trades. And of these, trading is the best bet. I would look to sell unproven minor league talent for proven big league talent at virtually every opportunity. If you think a Buxton is next to a lock to reach stardom, hold on to him. Anything less than that level, look to use it to acquire proven players. You can't sell everyone of course, but when offered proven talent, think hard about taking it. You'll win that bet more than you'll lose it. And that's just the first five rounds. There were 9000 players drafted over those 20 years...the numbers don't support "draft and develop" as any kind of reasonable primary strategy.
  14. USAFChief
    So why not just take the guy with the first pick?
  15. USAFChief
    I thought there was also a PTBNL coming the Twins way in this transaction, from the Padres. No?
  16. USAFChief
    Perhaps I over-generalized. Let me restate...of the friends and family I have in MN who are to some extent Twins fans, none would view a Dozier trade positively, or be more likely to buy tickets to a game (which is the context of this discussion.) They would view it as "why are they trading their best player? Same old cheap Twins. They just don't want to pay him."
  17. USAFChief
    Most Twins fans are casual fans, and I guarantee those fans would view a Dozier trade negatively. I agree they need to win to turn around the attendance decline, but I also believe a Dozier trade would negatively impact interest in the Twins, at least for 2017.
  18. USAFChief
    I don't think removing Landa from the 40 man means any of the following: - "the Twins have fireballers to spare" - "so do the rest of the league's teams" I think it means the Twins needed an open spot on the 40 mand, and a 22 year old who has been in the organization since 2011 and not advanced past A ball was a logical person to drop, because he has little chance to help the Twins (or any other team) in 2017. The Twins, like every other team, will still be looking at velocity as a desirable trait for their pitching staff, because velocity, in and of itself, is a weapon. Not the only weapon, but a weapon, and a valuable one.
  19. USAFChief
    I am in the camp of "why would we add any reasonable pitching prospect?" in a deal to acquire pitching? Unless the new brain trust is convinced Stewart is a non-prospect, he stays.
  20. USAFChief
    If framing numbers depend on the pitching staff--and they might--they're not really measuring framing.
  21. USAFChief
    I would think these decisions were already made when Plouffe--and only Plouffe--was released.
  22. USAFChief
    The current players are mostly Kill recruits. I will give him a partial pass on last season, but so far this year's class is abysmal. And I don't see him changing that.
  23. USAFChief
    A real AD already has made those calls, and has the new head coach verbally committed. And if not, an extension needs to be in place, very soon. Recruiting is tough enough, trying with a lame duck head coach is suicide.
  24. USAFChief
    SO...it wasn't the 14 int's?
  25. USAFChief
    Interesting to see if Clays is fired, or extended. IMO, he should be gone by Monday. He is not D1 head coach material. Recruiting is abysmal, ticket sales off. Zero buzz around the program. 8 wins, but none that count, and it's tough to see any improvement on the horizon. We learn about the new AD's goals this week.
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