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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    Personally, I was hoping Friedman would have needed to step away for a couple weeks and name Dave Stewart as his interim GM....
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    I wonder how much playing in the FSL with all those prospects affected things. I'm guessing the Twins got to get a lot of looks at Haley. He's kind of the forgotten man here, as I never expect rule V guys to pan out, but he seems to be one more talented option that can be kept in the pen this season.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    I'd be happy with a few guys throwing 180. Personally though, I think Trevor May is the best bet for that. He was a workhorse in the minors. I don't see it happening this season, but 160+ is fairly reasonable I think, and I think he can get up to that magic number by next season. As for Gibson, I suspect his problem is the pitches he throws in 2 strike counts. Hopefully a new regime will change that a bit. He was an 8+ K/9 guy in the minors, and when he was hot, he was doing similar work in the majors. Yeah, I get the lack of patience, but that margin for error is much lower in MLB. Gibson has shown he can do it for some period of time. Hopefully, things click for him. In my opinion, Gibson will be the difference between a decent rotation this season and a crappy one.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    If I remember right (and I could be wrong), May had the most WAR in the rotation when he was demoted. You may be right that the value is overstated in the short term, but I don't think he was the 5th best starter on that team when he got banished to the pen. Now you could definitely argue that some time in the pen would be beneficial to his development (St. Louis loves to do this with their pitchers if I remember correctly), and perhaps that came into play here.... but May was pitching quite well at the time, and I'm not sure that helped us win more. From here, it sure looked like he got moved b/c he was the low man.
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    To me, this is a flawed argument. While I certainly agree that the risk of injury for pitchers is much higher, that shouldn't be an reason in my opinion to bring a guy up before he's ready. What's the point in bringing him up early to see him struggle only to blow said arm out. Now he wasted a bunch of his service time on the getting shelled and then followed on the DL. I'd add that confidence (or a lack of it) can certainly contribute to those injuries as well, particularly if the kid thinks he needs to throw every pitch at 120 MPH, and you start losing lots of it when you get shelled repeatedly. I'm not pretending these kids are fragile as flowers, but I think you have to recognize the possibility. I suspect most of us have been overwhelmed at our jobs at one point or another, and in the process we've made mistakes. It's really not that much different. I don't have a problem bringing Jose up if the FO thinks he's ready for another try. I know this... Last year, he was NOT ready. I'm not convinced that an offseason is all he needs. If it is, great. But one of the big reasons I suspect Santiago was tendered was b/c the front office is not planning on going north with Berrios this spring.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    I'd swap Santana for Vargas as well. We don't need two middle infielders. Still not 100% sure Dozier doesn't get traded yet this spring, but that's a different issue. On the pitching side, May I suspect will be in the rotation. Berrios or Hughes will not be there unless there's an injury that was unexpected. Perkins will be on the DL most likely, which puts Chargois or Melotakis in the pen along with (most likely) Hughes. If Hughes in the rotation, you may see both of them or a Hildenberger dark horse pick. I'm not sure Boshers will be there either. Not too excited about that personally. I'd probably roll with the following pen (assuming Perk is on the DL): Kintzler, Rogers, Pressley, Tonkin, Chargois, Melotakis, and Hildenberger.... yeah, that's 3 rookies. I'm not expecting much anyways and may as well let these guys take some lumps. Wouldn't be surprised if there's a bit of a Rochester shuttle going on with them, but I really don't see the point in handing Boshers a spot over any of those 3.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    Personally, I'd be willing to give Duffey another shot at starting. He might need to start in AAA at the beginning of the season, but I'm not quite ready to give up on him there yet. My problem is that I don't want Santiago in the rotation.
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    Good Lord. Can we please stop resuscitating that dead horse so we can beat it dead again?
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    And Dozier and Nunez are the same too? I think the point being is that if Nunez can fetch Mejia at the deadline, Dozier at the deadline should still get something pretty good.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    he'll come around though. Look at Gonsalves and Berrios. He had very little nice to say about either early in their careers.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    Yeah, I agree here. It's one thing to require background checks of incoming refugees. It's another to close your borders. I guess we need to remove Emma Lazarus from the Statue of Liberty as well.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    Unfortunately, I think the news has done a pretty good job of delegitimizing themselves. Their bias is ridiculously obvious at this point, and I suspect most people are tired of it. News today is nothing more than click bait lacking any substance at all.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    Having watched my fair share of Maher on HBO, I'm simply going to say that he treats the left with kid gloves. He's better than most when it comes to attacking their own, but an impartial observer he is not.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    I did read what you wrote. Perhaps I misunderstood you, but the study you cited about one side having more intellectual capacity than the other was meant to build up the left, not the right (or at least the version I read was). Now perhaps you were being sarcastic, and if so I missed that completely, or perhaps you're referencing a different study that says otherwise; but again, I very much take issue with the idea that the right is the only side consuming propaganda. Everyone is susceptible to it. You are. I am. And there's plenty of it on both sides. People on both sides need to wake up to that because neither party has represented them well. The fact that you'd cite that study (if you meant it) is proof of precisely that. If you really think that people on the left are just that much smarter than the people on the right, then you sir are a big part of the problem and not the solution. It's the very definition of SCAPEGOATING and rather ironic given your stance on that issue. Now perhaps I misunderstood you, and if so, please clarify. But my original point still stands. I'm rather tired of one side labeling the other as stupid. It's propaganda. It's a mechanism for ignorant people to sound intelligent to themselves while outshouting their opponent. Real problems get lost in that context, as do real solutions. When Obama got elected, I reminded all of my Republican friends that they had rolled out the red carpet for him. Trump's election was the Dems doing the same. The left needs to wake up to that, or they'll be outraged again 4 years from now.
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    Yes. For now at least. I think I'll need more than one data point to come to that conclusion.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm not disagreeing to be clear. It's a tough boat to be in. Things need to change and the Dem/Rep establishment wasn't going to do it. I didn't vote for Trump, but I'm not going to argue thus far that he has no problems destroying sacred cows or upsetting the apple cart. To an extent, that's badly needed. I'm not quite sure he's as economically illiterate as you think. He's a billionaire real estate developer and has done so on a global scale. I think he knows a thing or two about things that happen behind the scenes. The real question is whether or not he's draining the swamp or creating a new one. I don't know about Dodd-Frank that much, so I don't know if that's responsible for said bubble or not, but the Fed has been creating Bubbles for some time. The real estate bubble was largely engineered there, and you can argue some Fed responsibility in the dot com and current market bubbles as well. The worst might be the government bond bubble. Look out when that one pops as there isn't enough money on the planet to fix that one. I'm not sure if Trump is going to fix this stuff or quite possibly just accelerate the outcomes. Personally, I'd like to see Glass-Steagle brought back. I know Trump talked about that one on the campaign trail. That would be a nice start. Wall Street would hate it though.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    You can tell yourself that all day long. Your statement is just another form of Scientific racism, which has existed for hundreds of years. And I'd add that it should be given even less merit given that the people producing said data are the same ones claiming to have more intellectual capacity. Seriously, you can do better than that. The left consumes propaganda just as much as the right, and I sure as hell not going to allow you or anyone else to decide what is 'dangerous', 'irresponsible', or who should be 'reprogrammed'. Some guy named Hilter already tried that. I'd rather not repeat it. I am very much taking a stand.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    It's probably worth noting that this is a family friendly site and that plenty of drunk purchases are probably best forgotten.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    Yeah, but the worst part is having your character played by Hayden Christensen.
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    You've got marry Fin to Rey... He's not allowed to be in the friend zone.
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    Hmm... maybe that explains the Kevin Correia contract.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm so tired of the "the other side is just stupid" arguments. It pretty much ends any real discussion on real issues, not to mention the irony of such statements from a crowd that prides itself on being open minded. It's precisely what the author of drjim's article was saying. The right's rejection of postmodernity has a whole lot more to do with their beliefs that there is truth that isn't relative. It has nothing to do with icky smart people or bizarre artists. You may not agree, and that's fine, but failing to understand is a much bigger problem.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    Well, he's already talked about dumping Yellen (which I agree with, it's her replacement that would concern me). I waffle on a lot of it. I agree it's complicated and there are tradeoffs. Then again, he's been in the business of international trade his entire life and may know a thing or two about it that I sure don't This protectionism as I see it is going to cause the price of imports to rise. People who rely on them certainly won't like it. The Walton family in particular is going to be hurt by it. On the other end, it may mean more jobs. He wants to stop outsourcing jobs to other countries. It's hard to argue with that (though I have no idea if it will work), and I'm a bit surprised of the negative reaction here given that this has been a constant talking (and not doing) point of the Democrats for decades now.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    Honestly, this is something people need to understand. On your standard 30 year fixed mortgage, you'll pay the price of the house in interest over the course of that loan. I get the need to live somewhere, and that a mortgage payment is cheaper than rent (or can be at least), but as soon as people get more stable they want to upgrade... banks of course want to loan you out about as much as you can possibly pay, leaving little room for everything else. Kudos. As to Mike's comments on housing, I lost money in 2008. That also leads to opportunity if you have cash. I picked up a 3 bed rental property for 10k at auction around 2010. Paid a couple more K to fix it up and I've been renting it at 600/mo ever since. It's paid for itself and then some. My current place in Indy was at the exact bottom of the market. I got lucky there as timing is everything. If you're concerned about buying and have cash, I'd wait until rates rise. Prices will drop when that happens and you can get a better price point.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    You're in Portland, right? I was looking at relocating that way prior to 2008 and it was bad. Even after that, I'd think housing has caught up.
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