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  1. Squirrel
    This team is all peaks and valleys.
  2. Squirrel
    I <3 Esco!!!!!!!!
  3. Squirrel
    I <3 Rosie!
  4. Squirrel
    I don’t disagree with wanting truth and transparency and I don’t disagree with the feeling that we are owed that level of honesty. But I also think there is a limit to how much of that they can give publicly and I don’t think we are owed specific explanations into each move and/or player. I also think that if they did give us truth and honesty to that degree, there would still be a large portion of fans who would still feel that the FO is lying to them because they aren’t being told what they already think the truth is.
  5. Squirrel
    This is where I’m at. The explanation I’m owed is two-fold: 1. Having the FO acknowledge what didn’t work and trying to move forward through the actions of trades, signings and off season moves. 2. Managing my own expectations through acknowledging this is just a game. I can roll with the punches when **** happens because I have absolutely no control over it. Same with the angst/anger over what is or isn’t done along the way the way I want it to. I mean, am I really going to pout and not watch the Twins anymore because they don’t trade for Realmuto and don’t sign Machado and don’t re-sign Escobar? Well, okay, maybe a little, but I’ll get over it.
  6. Squirrel
    I know someone who works for 60 Minutes and when I showed him this he said that’s not a story they would do.
  7. Squirrel
    Thank ashburysteven for helping you get this posted.
  8. Squirrel
    Yeah, that's part of why you are my number one worst student ... fear of technology.
  9. Squirrel
    Yeah ... we're being less formal with game threads these days. Those who have signed up to do them, still will. For the other dates, Tom will put something up. Or, if Tom can't, it'll just be up to whomever wants to get it started. And we aren't pinning or archiving them any longer. But since you asked I guess glunn obliged. It's not like they can't be found. If they are active, they'll pop up anyway.
  10. Squirrel
    We aren't necessarily pinning or archiving threads anymore.
  11. Squirrel
    omg ... all the how to's I've given you over the years and you don't know how to do it???? Sheeeeeesh ... you are my third worst student! (yeah, glunn is first, followed by Chief.)
  12. Squirrel
    It was on the internet. Someone somewhere has a record of it ...
  13. Squirrel
    Sano being promoted to AAA.
  14. Squirrel
    Actually, that’s not true. Game Threads were raucous fun even during the bleak years.
  15. Squirrel
    Going to the Cubs game this afternoon. No, I most definitely am not becoming a Cubs fan ... free tickets, are free tickets! And they're playing the Cardinals, so should be a fun baseball game to be at. It's a pretty heated rivalry. Maybe I'll watch the Twins game tonight if I can stand two games in one day!
  16. Squirrel
    Re #7: Lol Re #10: Concur; we've tried, but ... suggestions welcomed.
  17. Squirrel
    Yeah, I know, I’m asking too much. Maybe save the 40 for a season recap then. The only reason I threw out the 40 is because that’s what TD does.
  18. Squirrel
    Machado to the Dodgers makes me so sad on so many levels.
  19. Squirrel
    And now trump says he misspoke????????
  20. Squirrel
    Right, the candidate does matter. People want to be inspired, at least on the left they do. Obama was less progressive in terms of voting record than Hillary, or at least very similar. The first thing he did when he got to the Senate was to cozy up to Kennedy, Kerry and Reid, who were the insider party leaders at the time. That is party politics as usual. But he himself was why people voted not because he was some progressive outside the party norms because he wasn’t. He just made people believe he was.
  21. Squirrel
    Okay ... now we are circling back and rehashing and rehashing the 2016 election. And there will be no agreement there. I think Bernie was an extremely divisive candidate ... extremely. I know a lot of people, both from the middle and the coasts, who said Bernie or no one, and either voted Stein or didn't vote. And there are many who wanted Bernie and sucked it up and voted for Hillary ... but not enough did that. Not like the masses who sucked it up and voted for Trump. We can go over it and over it and over it and find all kinds of nuances of why it failed, and continue to blame Hillary, or the Russians, or look at the bigger picture ... and we are always go to come back to this impasse. The liberal voters need to all, no matter the candidate, suck it up and vote. That just doesn't happen on the left side like it does on the right side. It just doesn't. And never has. And the Dems that do get elected president, get elected largely because of the middle of the road independents. They are the swing.
  22. Squirrel
    I’m not even suggesting that. But compromises need to be made. The conservative left voters won’t turnnout if the campaign is deemed ‘too liberal’ and the liberal left won’t turn out if their ideals aren’t met, either. The more inclusive the left tries to be the more fractured it becomes. At some point everyone all around needs to do what republicans do and that’s suck it up and vote even if your ideals aren’t being met completely. You can blame Pelosi and Schumer all you want but if you aren’t going to turn out and work hard to change from within you are always going to be outside looking in. And the best compromise is usually somewhere in the middle and neither side of the party is happy and a lot then turn their backs because it’s not ‘their way.’
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    Further ... I think the only way Dems flip the House and/or the Senate, is not because they themselves rally the vote ... because I think they will do what they always have ... been indignant and not turned out in the same way ... but because the Republicans will be indignant enough to either cross over or not vote, but I don't count on that because they do what they do. I don't know if what's happened with Trump will be enough to do that, but ... The short of it is ... I really don't have much hope of anything changing, hence my 'doomed' comment yesterday. Or the day before. Or whenever it was. Time keeps marching on.
  24. Squirrel
    Never mind then. I'm not talking just about this past presidential election here. This goes more toward my hope at the midterms. Democrat voters really do not turn out in the manner Republicans do. They just don't. And they don't fall in line in the same way Republican voters do, for the reasons I said. And yes, I know people outside of Illinois and have friends elsewhere who did exactly what I said.
  25. Squirrel
    I disagree with that. Again, it’s finger pointing and excuse making. Did it play a part? Yes, but it was not the reason on its own. If every Democrat and Liberal voter had ‘towed the line’ like Republican voters, and, well, no Russian interference, we’d see a different result. I know a lot of liberal voters in my part of the country who didn’t vote. I know a lot of Bernie supporters who voted Stein, because they just couldn’t vote for someone who wasn’t ‘their kind’ of liberal. And I’ve seen that time and time and time again. The ‘Oh I can’t possibly’ snub.
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