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  1. gunnarthor
    Good for Rooker. Hope he plays well for us.
  2. gunnarthor
    I liked this move. Little concerned with the ability of opposing offenses to run downhill like the 49ers did - I miss the Williams Wall - but pass rushing, especially if they finally scheme Barr to blitz, could be something this year.
  3. gunnarthor
    The part in the quote above pretty much sums up the problem. You don't understand why that is problematic. It's on you to learn why. Educate yourself on racial issues in America because, frankly, that paragraph suggests you are happily ignorant while talking on an issue you don't understand. Judge Frank, in his decision, stated “A comment — even joking — that infers that an African-American man is fortunate to not have been shot ‘yet’ by a police officer would be problematic. Such a comment ignores the historic context of law enforcement actions against African-Americans.” That's a federal judge calling out police behavior here in Minnesota. In my first post, I gave you a link to a very important decision that was made recently. I suggested you only read three pages. Apparently, that was too difficult for you. I'm not sure what else people should be doing for you. Your posts tonight have been willfully ignorant of the issues people are discussing, full of strawmen that others have continued to point out, and extremely defensive.
  4. gunnarthor
    QI = qualified immunity and it is one of the biggest problems we have in getting rid of troublesome police officers. The link discusses it pretty fully. My "favorite" example of QI was where a part-time police officer raped a woman in a mall parking lot (and was convicted for it!) but the court found that because of QI, her claim of unlawful arrest was thrown out. A police officer telling a person of color "I haven't shot you. Yet" is a world of difference away from a white guy telling a black guy that. You understand that, right?
  5. gunnarthor
    I disagree. I will say that the legal community has seen some amazing push back by judges on the concept of QI over the last few years that is something I never thought we'd see and this is because the public, through protests, videos of officers acting out of control, emotional pleas from victims and, yes, athletes, is making changes. Frankly, if they weren't, much of the opposition to these actions would go away. This order is 72 pages long but read the first three pages. It's devastating. That order - out of Mississippi - was huge in legal circles and is a potential bet to get to the Supreme Court. Judge Frank here in MN denied a motion to dismiss against an officer who told a person of color that he hadn't shot him "yet". The order called the officer's actions racist. I have several more cases like these on my work computer, judges taking note of current events to call into question how police treat people of color in America. These are real changes that are happening because protests have been non-stop on these issues.
  6. gunnarthor
    I have no problem calling out racist posts and racist posters. I'm a civil rights attorney. I happily do it. Our office's unofficial motto is "we'll sue the racism out of you." But why wouldn't we get those reports? ESPN reported on that exact thing on other teams. Do you think the Twins beat reporters don't want to pursue that line of a story? Or are you implying that the voices in the locker room are cowed? I'm not sure you'll find a lot of support for either of those ideas, but perhaps I'm mistaken.
  7. gunnarthor
    Might depend on what your "unpopular" or "controversial" opinion is. Some opinions absolutely deserve to be disregarded. But right now your entire argument is based on strawmen baseball players not wanting to go along with their teammates and we've had no reports that any Twins player felt that way.
  8. gunnarthor
    This is really well said, Stu. I'm extremely proud of our professional athletes - MLB, NBA, even NASCAR - who are addressing issues that need to be addressed. Good for them.
  9. gunnarthor
    The players have managed to work hard enough that the comparison to your job is completely irrelevant. You are a replaceable cog. They are not. They have power. They used it. I've been very impressed by professional athletes these last few years - they've been, often enough, better leaders than our politicians. I'm very proud of the Twins today.
  10. gunnarthor
    Apple's 4-1 stock split reorganizes the Dow. Exxon is kicked out - it had been in the dow for 92 years. Back in January I bought Exxon for my IRA because it just hit a 10 year low in case anyone wants to follow my stock picking advice. https://www.investopedia.com/shakeup-dow-industrials-exxon-out-5075621?utm_campaign=quote-yahoo&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral&yptr=yahoo
  11. gunnarthor
    So the economy was really, really bad last quarter. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/q2-gdp-us-economy-coronavirus-pandemic-consumer-171558880.html
  12. gunnarthor
    Dumb question but are the minor leagues playing this year? On Whitefield (and I know i mentioned this before) but I have a friend who is an international scout for the Royals based in the pacific. He covers SE Asia and Australia and urged the Royals to sign Whitefield. When the Twins nabbed him he sent me a note saying the Twins robbed him. He used colorful language.
  13. gunnarthor
    Man, if I knew ... I think there will be a pretty big correction and the market will come down significantly but I could be completely wrong. But it seems like we are doing about as much wrong on covid-19 as we can, that investors will get spooked during election season, that federal efforts to keep the stock market high are temporary measures that don't address the underlying problems. We've been hoarding cash since March and aren't planning on making any large buys until after November. But keep in mind, I panicked and sold shopify so I know nothing.
  14. gunnarthor
    It's about time this happened.
  15. gunnarthor
    Way off topic but maybe someone here can throw in their two cents. I have a pretty old desktop computer (and a number of tablets which is a different issue). My kids are getting to the point that they want to play some paradox games from steam (EU IV) and some online games on the desktop as opposed to the tablets and they are saying my computer is too old/too slow, sort of like their dad. I have windows 10 and my processor is a AMD FX-6120 Six-Core, my graphics card is amd radeon hd 7450 and i have 10 GB of installed RAM. A quick internet suggests that this is enough for the online requirements for something like world of warcraft and other RPG games. I assume they are enough for the steam games but I haven't checked. Kids say minimum requirements aren't enough. So, two part question - it does seem like my processor and graphics card are a bit dated. If so, is it cheaper to try and buy updated processors and graphics cards and have them installed into my current desktop (of which i have no idea how to do) or is it better to just shop for a new "gaming desktop." And what kind of processor and graphics card should I be looking for?
  16. gunnarthor
    Actually, I feel like his character and beliefs affected baseball in MN. He kept his players segregated well into the 60s. He said such racist things that Rod Carew would never play for him again. Imagine if current ownership had said something so vile that Joe Mauer demanded a trade out of Minnesota. That's what Griffith did for MN baseball.
  17. gunnarthor
    This is pretty well said. It's 2020. We should want people to feel comfortable at the park and feel included in our society. Getting rid of a stupid statute is an easy thing to do.
  18. gunnarthor
    The fact that he was segregating his players into the 60s suggests he was racist. His comments in 1978 that were widely reported suggest that he was racist by the standards of the 1970s. I'm honestly surprised that so many people care about a 10 year old statute.
  19. gunnarthor
    This article from 2015 has a few of the concerns over Griffith's racism - including segregating players in the 1960s and some pretty ugly comments in 1978 that became a big story at the time. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7bbkq/why-the-twins-should-tear-down-their-statue-of-a-former-owner?fbclid=IwAR1csvbt1kH1PVgtGCbyKQg6IvxPJ7F2XoV54ZB8F22WEH5myykxNU8m1vQ
  20. gunnarthor
    Ramos was in Venezuela, not the DR.
  21. gunnarthor
    In that vein, Hunter was interviewed and mentioned how bad Boston was. He put a no-trade to Boston in all his contracts. https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2020/06/05/torii-hunter-boston-fans-racism-no-trade-clause
  22. gunnarthor
    This is a great read, thank you so much for sharing. You have someone like (Gary) Sheffield. He was called militant. But he told you a truth for years. And no one listened. He probably got kicked out of baseball a little earlier than he should have been. And you see those things, it’s kind of like a harness. If you do it to him, you’re going to do it to me. So, I had better be careful what I say. I stepped out and said a lot of different things. I got backlash all the time. And it kind of suppressed me a little bit. Sometimes people would come to me and say, “You need to be quiet.” I was like, “I can’t, it’s happening right here.” Hawkins: We didn’t even mention Bruce Maxwell. He’s completely out of the game, playing in Mexico. He’s the only major-league player who took a knee. Hunter: And he’s out.
  23. gunnarthor
    Probably not the best time for a 5th round rookie QB to get caught saying "elite white people" https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2894787-bills-qb-jake-fromm-apologizes-after-elite-white-people-racist-texts-leak?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=referral
  24. gunnarthor
    As I already explained, you're just engaging in "whataboutism" which isn't worth responding to. Every time someone explains to you why you're wrong, you shift the goal posts and say "but what about ..." I think you've posted enough that everyone understands where you're coming from.
  25. gunnarthor
    It would send a pretty serious signal.
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