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  1. BeenHazy
    Obama's speech shows the Dems that it's a good idea to attack not only Trump the self-centered sexist braggart, but the pessemistic, angry, bigoted movement of Trumpism as a whole. That's how to win the center without abandoning the left. Trumpism also lets the left define itself as patriotic in a way that it never quite could versus old-school right-wing jingoism. If the undecideds eventually feel just a little bit better about Hillary, she'll win in a landslide. If they don't, attacking Trump and Trumpism is still very likely to be enough.
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    What do the Wolves do if Bender is available? A number of mocks now have some combination of Hield, Criss and Brown going 3-4. They also have the Wolves passing on him in favor of one of the guards. He's the best match for what the team needs - a 4 that can shoot a little, pass, and defend the perimeter. He has a Thibs-friendly work ethic and BBIQ. Negs are rebounding (likely fixable), slashing (doesn't matter with Wiggins and LaVine) and finally (and especially) youth. He'll need some time. If Bender can match the LaVine timetable and contribute by the 2nd half of his 2nd year, I think that's soon enough.
  3. BeenHazy
    Bernie pays no player more than the MLB minimum, but also pays ticket takers and peanut vendors the same MLB minimum. Every seat in the stadium is priced at one hour's pay, but it takes 6 months to get tickets while your income is verified. Cruz immediately fires the analytics staff and replaces them with VP of Prayer-based Revelation Franklin Graham. Kasich sells out all of the games against the Indians and the Reds, but only 500 people show up for all of the others. Hillary more or less follows the policies of the Pohlad administration, hires proven old baseball men and young Turks, and the team wins a few more division titles, but loses half of its fan base when the Koch brothers convince them it is in their best interest to root for the Yankees.
  4. BeenHazy
    Just finished it. I thought it continued to be sub-par for the first half of the season. Very good, but not great. Then there's a major pivot and it's excellent the rest of the way, even while reaching new heights of implausibility and cynicism.
  5. BeenHazy
    Season 2 starts Monday night. Season one is on Netflix for anyone who hasn't seen it. My wife and I planned on spending a couple of weeks rewatching season 1 mixed with our usual assortment of video entertainment, but we blew through it in four days. We both really liked it the first time, but absolutely loved it all the way through the second viewing. I think it helped a lot to watch it without any expectation that we'd get Saul Goodman at some point. It's a great show, and I think it will be considered the best thing on TV over the next few years.
  6. BeenHazy
    19-year MLB shortstop. 3-time All-Star. Patron saint of underwhelming pennant race acquisitions. Chris Speier.
  7. BeenHazy
    Garry Templeton is the only other live-ball era player with more triples than walks as a full-time player. He did it twice - 18 3B / 15 BB in 1977 and 19/18 in 1979. It's been a remarkable year for Rosario...one of a handful of recent players with more 3B than SB, the second player in 100 years with more 3B than BB, and oh yeah...he leads the league in 3B and OF assists, too, despite not playing enough to qualify for any of the rate stat races. And he's a rookie. The strange thing is his skill set isn't especially unusual. He'll probably never do any of those things again, even if he becomes a much better player.
  8. BeenHazy
    I now realize that the answer to the OP's question was staring me in the face last night and I was too dim to notice. It's been done three times before by a Twin. Zoilo in 1963, Rollins in 1964, and John Castino had a league leading 9 3B and only 4 SB in the strike year of 1981. It happened at least once between the two leagues every year in the 60s. There were 4 occurrences in the 70s, with George Brett's 20/17 in 1979 standing as the greatest such season in the expansion era. It happened three times in the 80s, then only once in the 90s (David Dellucci 12/3 1998) and twice in the 00s (Jack Wilson 12/8 2004, Curtis Granderson 13/12 2008). The last player to do it was Dexter Fowler...but it wasn't his 15/12 in 2011 that I mentioned in my previous post (he finished 3rd in 3B). Fowler led the NL with 14 triples on 2010 and had 13 SB.
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    I can't determine when a player may have led the league in triples with a lower SB total, but I can see when a player had a certain number of triples and fewer steals. It used to be quite common for players to have 15 or more triples with a lesser number of steals. Stan Musial did it three times. Enos Slaughter, Arky Vaughan, Johnny Mize, Joe Dimaggio, Hank Greenberg, Tony Lazerri, and other HOFers all did it. Lou Gherig did it, too...and so did Wally Pipp - once as a Yankee, and again after he was Wally Pipped, as a Red. It has become increasingly rare. It happened several times every season through the 20s, 30s and 40s, but Rosario will become only the 7th player with 15 triples and fewer steals in the expansion era. Dexter Fowler in 2011 is the only other player to do so since 1979. Eddie will be the first Twin to do it with 15 triples. Drop that requirement to 10 and he has the company of five others - Zoilo Versalles 13 3B / 7 SB 1963, Rich Rollins 10/2 1964, Rod Carew 10/6 1971, Disco Dan Ford 10/7 1978, and Ken Landreaux 11/8 1980.
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    That O-line is horrible, and the injuries aren't much of an excuse when your 2nd and 3rd stringers should still outclass the opponent. At least the defense dominated Kent St, as it should. I think the Gophers might beat that team most of the time if they were only allowed to punt or try a FG on 1st down.
  11. BeenHazy
    by definition, a game 163 means that all the games leading up to it are every bit as important. a wildcard game might not be played until Tuesday or even Wednesday, so then they may have options.
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    Fun fact: In the last game he ever started, he gave up home runs to Matt LeCroy and some rookie #8 hitter named Morneau.
  13. BeenHazy
    Move him to 7th in the lineup, and remember that the money he's paid now was earned under a Teflon sky when he was grossly underpaid.
  14. BeenHazy
    Per Cot's: If a player’s optional assignment(s) to the minors total less than 20 days in one season, an option is not used. I Think we'll see Buxton again in 19 days or so, after he's done paying for Perkins and Dozier's all-star bonuses.
  15. BeenHazy
    I agree they are safe from Cleveland, but didn't they just get passed by three teams in less than two weeks?
  16. BeenHazy
    Been a couple days. This calls for... Bump Wills.
  17. BeenHazy
    Jepsen is in, Danny Santana is out, and we're back to 13 pitchers again. The 1967 Twins used 12 pitchers the entire season. One of them pitched 1/3 of an inning, another worked 3 innings in 2 games. The team played 18 doubleheaders, including 7 games in 4 days August 22-25, with two of those going extras.
  18. BeenHazy
    It's rather amazing just how unproductive the Twins' international scouting and development of pitchers has been. Unless I'm missing somebody (and I might be), Carlos Pulido's 14 starts in 1994, Juan Rincon's three starts in 2002, and Pulido's one-start encore in 2003 make up the entire body of work of Twins-signed-and-developed Latin American SP's. That's quite an irony for a team that was anchored by Camilo Pascual and Pedro Ramos when it arrived from D.C. Pulido and Rincon were Venezuelans. Could the Twins be the only franchise to never have a game started by a Dominican pitcher who came up through its ranks?
  19. BeenHazy
    Hu's great start to the year really put him on the radar of a lot of people, but he's just been a very good A-ball pitcher since that... Emphasis on A-ball. if this deal had gone down this past offseason, the reaction wouldn't have been as negative. none of the players in the deal have changed much fundamentally since then. a better return might have been possible, but this is still a deal that could work out well for the twins.
  20. BeenHazy
    why? Do you know that his mental approach to the game ( and possibly to life in general) hasn't changed? Do you believe that there isn't enough evidence to make that assessment? Or do you think it just doesn't make any difference?
  21. BeenHazy
    The change between that young man's ears dwarfs any change that we can see on the outside.
  22. BeenHazy
    The last time that Perkins faced Rodriguez, he was a starter and the Twins played in the Metrodome. Those stats are meaningless.
  23. BeenHazy
    Koos got replicated too. This will only work if Dave edits his first post with an alphabetical listing every couple of hours for the next few months. Back on topic with an ex-Twin who I didn't know was an ex-Twin until a few days ago...Charley "Shooter" Walters.
  24. BeenHazy
    I'll taken one-season Twins with drug problems for $200, Alex...Who was Steve Howe?
  25. BeenHazy
    The only other UM-Morris Cougar, who returned to start a chain of events that contributed to my lack of a college degree, Jerry Koosman.
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