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  1. gunnarthor
    This is a great read on racism in the NFL and the cowardice of white players. https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2020/06/04/martellus-bennett-drew-brees-nfl-racism-twitter-thread
  2. gunnarthor
    Annnnnnnd, Drew Brees is still a dick https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29265750/drew-brees-completely-missed-mark-comments-flag
  3. gunnarthor
    Just to keep some of this sports related. Eric Reid has been pretty open about the NFL's race issues and it has cost him, although not as much as it cost Kaepernick. The other day the 49ers, like many teams, used the hashtag 'blackouttuesday'. Reid criticized them and called it 'blackball tuesday.' It's kind of funny and the sort of story that gets picked up since Reid had sued the NFL for being blackballed after taking a knee. Several outlets picked up the story including yahoo sports, SI, TMZ, bleacher report, etc. https://sports.yahoo.com/eric-reid-criticizes-49-ers-for-blackout-tuesday-post-i-think-you-meant-blackball-tuesday-192410371.html ESPN and NFL.com did not cover it.
  4. gunnarthor
    Assuming you want a real answer to this question it is because the phrase means something in the public conscience now. It's been co-opted by those who don't want to value black lives. It's also such a singularly strange phrase that is not realistic that someone can say "I've been saying that my whole life." We've had this stupid argument for ages over racist symbols. "All lives matter", confederate flag, confederate statutes, "boy" when referencing a black man, "blue lives matter," fried chicken, blackface, etc. Someone uses or references a charged term or phrase, gets called on it, and then claims ignorance of its social meaning. The Sacramento Kings suspended their play by play man for tweeting "All Lives Matter", recognizing the phrase doesn't reflect the values of their organization. It's a racially charged phrase now. If the speaker doesn't recognize that, it's on the speaker, not the audience.
  5. gunnarthor
    Just now seeing this thread. I think Nick should be thanked for his well thought out post.
  6. gunnarthor
    Sacramento Kings suspend their play by play guy after he says ALL LIVES MATTER in response to a former player asking him his take on BLM. It's good that the Kings recognize ALL LIVES MATTER as divisive and not reflecting the values they want.
  7. gunnarthor
    Twins are pushing Black Lives Matter. #BlackOutTuesday on their facebook today. Good for them.
  8. gunnarthor
    SI article on this and sports - https://www.si.com/nfl/browns/browns-maven-features/colin-kaepernick-took-a-knee
  9. gunnarthor
    I really want to believe Kepler wasn't trying to be a dick. He said police colors in Germany are green. And he probably gets free stuff sent to him fairly often. So it's possible that he didn't realize it had a racist sub-text to it. I just don't believe him. Darn it.
  10. gunnarthor
    Hunter is really interesting. In 12 of his 17 seasons he was good for 3+ WAR* each year. That's actually kind of rare both in actually number of seasons but also in % of seasons played. Tim Raines - who earned 20 more WAR in 19 seasons - only had 11 seasons of 3+ WAR (58%). (I am not saying Hunter was better than Raines). Hunter was a solid starter for a very long time but he never had those dominate seasons - Raines had 6 seasons better than Hunter's best. I think Hunter is a solid Hall of Very Good type. I also think Hunter's personality and obvious leadership will help him a bit in the voting. He was the big personality on all of his teams. I also liked that he talked about race in ways that made white audiences uncomfortable. One of my favorite Twins of all time. * It's also worth noting for Twins fans that WAR really changed how people viewed Hunter. IIRC, when he was leaving the Twins to the Angels, Aaron Gleeman said that the Angels paid too much, that Hunter wasn't that valuable and, as evidence, pointed out that Hunter had yet to have a 3 WAR season. But b-r changed their WAR calculation and Hunter was one of the biggest beneficiaries, gaining 11 WAR in their new formula.
  11. gunnarthor
    I'm glad you did well!
  12. gunnarthor
    Yeah, I keep seeing things I missed but I have no idea what to do right now. All this unemployment, significant chance of a second wave, election year craziness. And the market is rocking? I've talked to some investment guys and they don't know. One guy thinks everything is ok but most everyone else says it's crazy. I dunno. I've definitely missed out on some buying opportunities but my wife and I will just continue to hoard cash for a bit.
  13. gunnarthor
    I wonder if more hurry-up offense tempo, more 3 step drops, less direct under center will be implemented this year. I know Cousins is pretty good at play action and being under center but if the middle of the line is caving, maybe it makes sense for a change in philosophy.
  14. gunnarthor
    I'll probably wait for the draft to finish before being too up or too down but I thought day one was good enough. I didn't think Jefferson would fall to us and we added a solid looking CB. I trust Zimmer enough on DBs. Let's see what they do tonight. There are some rumors about trading for Trent Williams and moving Reiff to guard.
  15. gunnarthor
    WR Jefferson. Seems like a good pick. I dunno. I'm ok with it. I was hoping a top 10 guy would fall but that was probably wishful thinking.
  16. gunnarthor
    My father in law actually has told me a (supposedly) true story of a friend of his that was trading in cattle futures. He made a bunch of trades and a lot of money but you are supposed not be left holding the trade when it comes due. He was on vacation and forgot about it and got a call asking where he wants all this cattle to go to.
  17. gunnarthor
    Jesus, I should not have sold my stake in Shopify
  18. gunnarthor
    Good article - not sure if had been posted already - on the risk to rural America for COVID-19. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/15/coronavirus-rural-america-covid-19-186031 Smithfield packing plant in Sioux Falls was closed because of the virus. It does about 4-5% of the countries meat production, so that's fairly large.
  19. gunnarthor
    I thought this article was about right - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-15/all-the-views-of-how-the-stock-market-lost-its-grip-on-reality I think there will be better places to buy in the next few months but I've been pretty good at not timing the market so what do I know?
  20. gunnarthor
    Not sure if there's a better place for this but I really enjoyed the article on ESPN about Antoine Winfield Jr. https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2020/story/_/id/29011535/antoine-winfield-jr-unique-2020-nfl-draft-path-5-foot-9-first-round-bloodlines
  21. gunnarthor
    One of my favorite baseball memories was the Hunter/Burke collusion in 2004. I couldn't find the video but there's a nice picture in this link - https://toptenchicagosports.blogspot.com/2008/01/top-ten-chicago-rivals.html?m=0 Cleaning up the game by taking out some of the traditional roughness (HBP, take out slides, blocking the plate, brawls) has had the unintended consequence of making baseball a bit more boring. Sports - not just baseball - are better when fans know that the players hate each other, too, and we can see the players emotions. Most of us have very fond memories of things like Hunter's take out slide, McHale's clothesline, Nolan Ryan or Pedro intimidating hitters, 70s Steelers/Raiders, etc. The early 2000s Red Sox/Yankees were great - you always knew some **** was going to happen. A fan trying to hit Sheffield in Right Field, Zimmer v. Pedro, crazy Clemens. Say what you want, it's been 20 years and we still remember it. Twins/White Sox was nearly as much fun. We had three straight series where the benches emptied in 04. Good times, good times.
  22. gunnarthor
    Any of Carew, Mauer and Killer would be a valid #1. Great seasons by all and all three are legit HOFers. I'd probably give the edge to Mauer because I saw him that season and it was an amazing feeling seeing it all come together.
  23. gunnarthor
    I had heard a little about the misleading graph FOX put out but hadn't seen it. Thanks for sharing, I guess.
  24. gunnarthor
    Realistically, significant upgrade of unemployment benefits and govt stimulus directly to individuals and families are going to have to happen with some frequency if the stay at home goes for months. Congress should work more from a bottom up idea - get money to individuals - rather than a top down model - rescue businesses so they can maybe loan money or pay workers if they had workers. The news out of Singapore - they had the virus, isolated, stopped isolation and the virus returned - is pretty frightening.
  25. gunnarthor
    Some idiot crashed a train because he thought the Mercy ship off of LA - put there to help COVID-19 response - was part of some strange deep state conspiracy. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/us/train-derailed-mercy-coronavirus-trnd/index.html
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