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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    yeah, given the Twins dearth at the position, giving him 30M if they were convinced he'd stick would be a pretty good deal... Drew would be looking for a similar amount with likely one less year. I'd do it.
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    I think this is a 2 birds/one stone issue. I think he earned a look last year, but I do think it's fair to say he's still has to earn the job this year. He'll have it eventually, but I fully expect Suzuki to have those honors initially.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    If he can stick at SS, I'd say go for it.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    That... and at the time we had an overabundance of starting pitching and desparately needed hitting... so we traded our two best starters and Jason Bartlett for Delmon Young, Brendan Harris, Carlos Gomez, and a bunch of filler... Now I'm having flashbacks... and not the good kind.
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    With Stewart, there really wasn't a lot better out there. Sickles liked Frazier a bit better, but yeah, I just don't see this as a gamble. He was the best guy left, and could potentially end up being the best guy in this draft... who knows. Given his age, there was more risk there, but if they wanted less risk, they needed to lose more games.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    for reference sake, I think a lot of folks had Buxton in the 30s last year... Sano too for that matter. A lot can happen in a year. Hopefully that happens with guys like Stewart, Gonsalves, and Thorpe.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    From a fundamentals standpoint, I put a lot of that on coaching.... up to a point. There's obviously an intellectual quotient needed and some people are smarter than others... that's just life. The problem with this team in the last 3 years though is that there's an ability issue here too, and on this team, there aren't a lot of guys who have an ability that far exceeds that of their peers. We have those guys coming up in the minors, but there are 6 levels they have to rise through to get it. We unfortunately cannot plug an A baller into the lineup and expect him to do well, so until the guys with ability mature, we are stuck with what we've had.. As for sucess, I'm with Levi and the others. Not expecting a ring... or even playoffs. But I do expect progress and hopefully a lot of watchable baseball.
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    I still hold out quite a bit of hope for him, though I do think that regardless of how he does this spring, he starts in Rochester and gets the call after he's earned it. I'd rather not have a repeat of last year.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    To be clear, most of the moderators are split on the pro-anti crowd just as most of the board is. If you are curious about me, I wanted Gardy let go this offseason. I was of the opinion that Ryan needed to hang around for another year or two as he is the right guy to do a rebuild and then it would be his time to go due to his refusal to do the FA thing (though this offseason has changed that with me). I don't care for the Pohlads, hate Bud Selig, and can see both sides of the argument on the FA spending/lack thereof debate. I've moderated individuals on both sides of the debate, most of which has had to do with posters refusing to make their arguments in a respectful manner. There's no reason why anyone would need to refer to Selig as "Pud Selig", Ryan as "Curly", Gardy as "that fat garden gnome", or the GB Packers as "peckers", and while some of these might be funny, and I might share that disdain, I don't think it's unreasonble for the admins and site owners to expect people to be able to voice their opinion in a way that doesn't make them come across as childish and immature. I get the humor aspect of things, and I agree that this is where the line gets muddied. Dave's post is a good example of that. Bottom line though. This is their site. It isn't my site, it's theirs. If the guys that run this site want people to behave in this manner, then so be it.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    Again, you have every right to address this. You can create a thread addressing it, or as threads are created where this topic is relevant, absolutely. I'm not sure if you frequented TD last July, but where this particular issue turned into a hornets nest was when a few posters decided to hijack every other thread with this stuff. This was in my pre-moderator days, but I'd go to the minor league forum to read up on what Miguel Sano was doing (or something like that) only to find these same posters derailing those threads (and very rarely was it respectful conversation). It made it real difficult to continue posting here. Admins of the site were publicly complaining that they didn't like going to the forums on their own site. There's nothing healthy about it.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    I'll use myself as an example on the game threads. I didn't participate in them much at all in 2012 and in 2013 I was more of a hit and run guy. Never felt unwelcome, and honestly, I find it to be some pretty amusing banter for most games... but I was hardly a regular. It was something to do when I didn't have much going on and wanted to veg... What it did do is allow me to build a relationship with a few individuals on this board. Without a doubt that wouldn't have happened in the other threads. I can see how some would find it intimidating, but I never felt unwelcome.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    Hmm... success: 1) Willingham bounces back and fetches a nice piece at the deadline. 2) Nolasco and Hughes both pitch like what we hope they will do. 3) Gibson is eventually able to claim a spot in the rotation. 4) Dozier proves the last 4 months of 2013 were not a fluke. 5) Hicks breaks out in AAA and forces the trade of Willingham. 6) One of Parmelee or Plouffe really breaks out with the bat. 7) Pinto has a successful rookie season. 8) Sano and Meyer transition quite well into starting roles, forcing a trade of KC. The Twins break the .500 mark and give a reason for everyone to be excited in 2015.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    A good friend of mine told me (in the late 90s I might add) that the Twins had a better shot of winning a world series in his lifetime than the Cubs... for the simple reason that it doesn't matter what they put out on the field, it will draw. The Cubs have mastered marketing this as an experience. If you go to Wrigley, you'll see lots of people drinking a beer and chatting, but not nearly as much watching the game... Had a WhiteSox fan friend who absolutely hated Cubs fans for that reason... Honestly, I think I'd rather the fan base be a bit more fickle... More incentive to put a winning product out on the field.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    Something to chew on... For all the talk about the Taliban in Afghanistan. They had banned the growth of opium right before we took them out. It was a death penalty to grow it. The US came in, and Afghanistan is back to being one of the top global producers of the drug.... Think about that for a second...
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    I think for the most part, the dealers go away. Keep in mind, if it's legal, it isn't terribly profitable for them. They lose tons of business. I do agree that a black market can form due to over-taxation, but as it is right now, buyers pay an inflated price due to the inherent risk associated with it. Pot is cheap, if it was legal and untaxed, it would be much much cheaper than it presently is. If you legalized it and taxed it, I don't think the prices would drop much for your average user. What it would do is provide a safer means for them to get their supply, eliminate billions spent yearly on fighting the "war on drugs" which quite frankly is a huge waste of money, and bring in extra money to the states. This is true of many illegal activities, and in a free country, I just don't see how it is we should be able to stand up and tell people what they can and cannot do so long as they are not depriving other citizens of their own rights...
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    You'll see them from time to time. I put one together towards the end of last season. It's interesting to see what people value. I tend to value results a bit more than most, so I had Logan Darnell, Vargas, and Walker much higher up on my list, and Kepler a bit lower. There really isn't a right or wrong way to do it (unless you want to go back and grade the lists later to see who made it and who didn't, but even that is a bit subjective).
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    They aren't demoting Rosario 2 levels He will likely start in AA or AAA depending on several factors I'm sure. That, and given what we keep reading about Rosario, the doubters about him sticking at 2nd are fewer and fewer.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    I think the NFL is a good barometer for that. I don't know why (and perhaps it's perception and not reality), but it seems as though the NFL produces far more trouble makers than MLB. I cannot help but think that the instant success that is not found in a typical MLB guy at such a young age tends to be a big culprit here.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    He's considered top 5 talent right now, so if he's available in the 2nd, something happened to make him drop considerably... and that far, it's most likely injury. Personally, I'm not high on him. His main game is speed, which is something that tends to go away quickly. I'd rather have Kolek... All that could change by June though.
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    I would say it's a tough call between Kirby's game 6 home run and Morris' performance the following day.
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    I don't remember if it was Sickle's site or BA, but someone with a scouting background said 1st rounder if he was in this year's draft. The hype is legit. Continued success in the MWL, and he's going to be top 100 next year.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    I like him better if he can be a SS. I think he's a bit high on the ranking right now as a 2B... We will see. I hear he's going to be a primary SS this season.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    He's far enough away that I think you can say potential ace. What I've read is 3 potential plus pitches though needing refinement. He's a lefty already throwing in the low 90s and can hit 95. He could add a few ticks to that as he ages. Scouts have said he'd be a first rounder this June if he was in the draft, so he's a good prospect. He's 17 also, so dominating the GCL at that age is impressive (though GCL dominance doesn't mean what it would had he dominated the MWL). He continued doing this in the Aussie league where his competition is much much older, and some of them have succeeded at higher levels. So in a nutshell, I have a mancrush on him.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    If it makes you feel better, we did not seem to know either. But that guy had such an irrational hatred for Mauer...
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    I think the thing that gets me at the end of the day is that no matter how hard society tries, people will always find a way to fry their brain if that's what they want to do. Meth was invented b/c we made drugs harder (but not impossible to get)... how do we respond? We punish law abiding citizens making it hard to get pseduafed. It's dumb. Now I have to find a 24 hour pharmacy if I come down with a cold in the middle of the night or risk potentially having my door kicked in b/c I bought too much... and what have we gotten for it all? Nothing. I say legalize and tax it. You cannot stop it. I'd add o Pseudo's comment. Your friend is escaping. That's it. His drug is where he goes to cope with whatever issue he's dealing with... I get that, I have my own demons that led to some poor decisions in life. There's a lot of psychology out there on this stuff, but I find it very interesting that some are far better than others at treating it.
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