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  1. Squirrel
    Maybe. There is more to being in shape than losing weight. I’ll see what he brings to Spring and how he performs next season. That said, I think your earlier 260 is completely unrealistic if not impossible. When was he 260? When he was still growing. He is not going to be 260 again, imo.
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    Back on topic. If you want to express that Nick’s blueprint isn’t financially viable, fine, you’ve done so. What I’d like to see from you is YOUR off-season plan. If you think Nick’s here is too ‘pie In the sky’ then tell us specifically what and how you would do things differently and stop the lectures about how you know more than the rest of us on running multi-million dollar businesses. Put your money where your mouth is and give us specifics of who, what and how much, if you were GM. And if you had bothered to read through all the ones posted, by the owners and writers here and other posters, you’d see a wide range of ideas with plenty of fiscal conservativism, and much more to discuss than how we don’t know how to run a big business. This is a message board, not a board room. It’s for sharing and debating ideas. Telling us all we don’t know what we are doing is neither. Yes, this a moderator warning.
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    Ditto!
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    Yes. In baseball, I think the path is revealed after you’ve traversed it not before. It seems more often than not we plan for one and get the other.
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    The tortoise and the hare might disagree with you re the Lamborghini.
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    This gets discussed on and off. The short answer is no, nothing can be done, for now. You can comment further on this subject in these forum threads in the Questions forum: http://twinsdaily.com/topic/28591-two-spaces-after-a-period/?hl=%2Btwo+%2Bspaces http://twinsdaily.com/topic/21610-why-are-my-posts-reformatting/?hl=%2Btwo+%2Bspaces http://twinsdaily.com/topic/17104-if-youre-suffering-from-the-no-space-after-punctuation-issue-please-read/?hl=%2Btwo+%2Bspaces
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    I don't think you say 'every' ... but you get so excited about positional flexibility I think you sometimes go overboard to make a point and then confuse us all, until we remember it's Brian.
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    Pfft.
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    Since his career was cut short, way short, there was no way to know when the latter part of his career was. His career ended, rather abruptly, at a young age (relatively speaking) and he's been working in some capacity ever since. He said he knows some Spanish, but isn't fluent. I'll take that as a good start. Also, as Pseudo mentioned, languages are not easy for everyone to just learn ... I had years of French, some German and some Italian ... no fluency whatsoever, not even broken conversational abilities, despite living for 2 1/2 years in a French speaking country. And I had the same SAT score! Not to mention to various Spanish-speaking countries players come from. There are likely different dialects and idioms to learn that are specific to certain countries, even areas of certain countries. While I had hoped for someone with a level of fluency, I don't fault him for this lack and I'll give him time to build on the some that he already knows. Or see who he hires to 'help' in that area of 'weakness.'
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    One of which areas? A weakness or a strength?
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    I don't know much about his illness or what treatments he has to do (if any) to keep it at bay. However, the physicality between being a manager and a player are not at all comparable. And it is probably that difference that makes his disease manageable in this role vs the physical rigors of a playing role. But ... as much as you ... I don't know; given his history, I'm sure it was addressed in the process to hire him.
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    Um, can't say I agree. I am MORE likely to buy tickets because they fired Molitor and hired Baldelli. I was disappointed that they gave Molitor a 3-yr contract last Fall. This is the kind of move they should have made earlier.
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    I knew that place well ... you a Winonan?
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    The acting is good. I like the aspect of telling the story back in time and telling the story in the present, it's 2 for 1, but also necessary to show what was to show what is. The present-day family drama is very well acted and I was very drawn in ... it felt like I was watching live theatre in some ways ... even on my little iPad because I can't figure out how to get my internet to work on my television. I also liked how the first 5 episodes were kind of spent on each child/adult couterpart and their story, kind of. There were things at the very end ... which pointed out some clues that I missed, that everyone missed, will miss, throughout the episodes. I don't know how they'll have more seasons, though, as I think these 10 episodes truly completed the story, for all of them. And yeah ... the casting was amazing ... even Henry Thomas/Timothy Hutton worked.
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    Okay ... the off-season gets off to a good start, imo.
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    Okay, finished ... glad I powered through all the scary stuff to get to the end.
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    I was going to not post for a week and have you all wondering ... I think I saw a movie version of this years ago. This is the kind of scary, horror stuff I like even though it scares me. Slasher films, however, I do NOT like and won't watch. No Freddie Kruger or Mike Myers or the like for me.
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    That is ... if I sleep.
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    And I'm sleeping with the lights on tonight. It floats between creepy, scary stuff and good family drama, like I'm watching live theatre ... but i'm still sleeping with the lights on tonight and I'm not coming out from under the covers. ****. I shouldn't watch this stuff but I can't seem to turn it off.
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    Okay ... episode 5 ... this thing is REALLY scary. Nightmare time.
  21. Squirrel
    Okay, started watching this. This is scary.
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    What series do you all watch on Netflix? I’m not into ... historical/period epic type stuff, for lack of a better way to describe it ... but curious what you all just ‘can’t miss.’
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    Pffft. Be quicker next time, old man.
  24. Squirrel
    Oh bah, humbug! Harrrumph!
  25. Squirrel
    This thread is about discussing potential candidates. Twins spending, calling the owners cheap and bringing up contraction is off topic. Period. Knock it off. If you want to mention specific candidates and the odds of them wanting to come here because of specific financial information that you are aware of that would not being appealing to them, that is relevant, but this tired, old, generalization of who would want to come here because the owners are cheap is not going to fly.
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