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  1. nicksaviking
    Well to be fair, I think people are upset about this off season's inaction and it's boiling over with this largely benign move. Does anyone really give more than a shoulder shrug about exchanging Darnell for Strong? And frankly, I'm not upset that the Twins got Darnell off of the 40-man, good chance he clears waivers anyway.
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    I actually didn't have such high expectations for Fury Road. I loved Mad Max and The Road Warrior, but that was back when I was a kid and loved action movies without being able to discern what makes them good or where they have problems. Fury Road was getting good reviews, but so have Marvel movies and Rocky sequels, so I was expecting to see another fun but still explosion driven action movie. But it was really, really well made and I'm only surprised that it got a Best Picture nomination because I didn't expect the Academy had the capability to recognize this in an action film.
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    I guess Ryan didn't agree, but I thought Darnell handled the pressure well, he gave up nary a hit nor a run, earned or otherwise, after his highly effective call up last year.
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    Darnell has a 90 MPH fastball. I can't find any kind of scouting report for Mike Strong. I have no problem losing Darnell, but all things being equal, this guy still doesn't move ahead of Rogers or Melotakis in my mind so it seems pretty lateral. But seriously, the Brewers DFA'd this guy to clear room for the Rule 5 in which they took Zach Jones. I'd rather still have Zach.
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    I think I see where this is headed. Let's see if we can limit our disappointment regarding the loss of Zach Jones to one exclamation point.
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    Jason Wheeler, Alex Muren and Matt Summers all went to college in the LA area. The description "rising prospect" is probably loose enough to encompass all players and complimentary enough to use for a guy you're not going to name. But I'm guessing there are tons of baseball academies and training facilities in the area. The fact that other players from other teams are there suggests it may be a place where teams ask some of their players to go to.
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    Considering how much darker Man of Steel was compared to every other Superman incarnation, one would think Suicide Squad would be made pretty dark and edgy. But to me, judging by the trailer, they may be trying to make a dark comedy with more focus on the comedy part. If they want to make this work, and work with the future DC movies, I think they really have to make these guys the bad guys; irredeemable and absolutely villainous. However if they are going to be the leads in their own film, I have a strong feeling they are going to make them anti-heros, because those are all the rage right now; good guys who do bad things, or bad guys who do good things. That's already supposed to be Batman by the way. These guys are supposed to shoot your kids and eat your wife while you watch.
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    These things are going to be fun to read while this topic is still hot, but that one seems to take two huge leaps of logic, and that's aside from the giant coincidence that two separate groups did the framing independently. 1st, that theory basically assumes the cops planted the blood, the key and due to the assumption of Avery's innocence, the bullet, all to cover up for the fact that the brother and boyfriend were trespassing. Judging by the evidence that was allowed in both trials, there's no way the judge would have thrown out any evidence just because two civilians trespassed and found the car, probably not even if they were law enforcement. Also, there would have been no reason for the cops to take the key, it should have remained in the ignition. 2nd, how did the two boys contact Colborn? As mentioned in the article calling dispatch would have gotten their call recorded, so they would have somehow had to know that A ) Colborn would help them cover their tracks, and B ) know his personal phone number. It's a fun read, but I my warning lights start flashing when some nobody calls their own article, "This Is The Most Credible 'Making A Murderer' Theory I've Seen So Far" and says they saw it on Youtube.
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    I guess it boils down to the fact that I want to see the prospects as soon as possible and between Abad or a more accomplished veteran, Abad is the path of least resistance. They may not be up right away, but they'll be up a lot sooner if they aren't blocked by a guy on a less palatable contract. The Twins giving young pitchers the run of the house is out of their comfort zone, but that's what I want to see happen. Their offseason talk and their offseason inaction is giving plausible hope that they may actually be considering this option. They did it with the young bats last year.
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    Christie seems more in line with politicians of yore. You worry about his under-the-table activities and only slightly about his policies. He also idolizes pretty left-wing Bruce Springsteen so that buys him a point in my book. Not that that point is getting very far.
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    I was doing my best to be magnanimous. This topic makes that difficult.
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    Yes, and completely off topic. Thanks for your patience.
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    Bush is a strong possibility as Iowans aren't particularly radical In either direction, and I have little interest in Bush, but who is it you are hoping for? Bush and Christy, along with Paul or Rubio if you squint really hard are the only guys who are even close to reasonable and level headed.
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    I think the Twins straddled the fence in 2015, they got some free agents and relied on some prospects. As it turned out, the guys, both the bats and the arms, outplayed the vets in nearly every way. To me the youth movement was by far the most encouraging part of 2015, the free agent movement was disappointing. I'm ready to go all in with the part of the plan that worked. If the Twins fail at the drafting/developing angle, I would be upset if they didn't go nuts and do the free agent thing and I wouldn't settle for a Bastardo, I'd want a whole lot more. I'm all for changing a losing strategy. In 2011 I was all for going big in free agents, but the team didn't do that and instead implied a rebuild was the plan and a focus on restocking the system was made. Deviating from that now would be like watching the build up during Star Wars, but instead of showing the scene of the attack and blowing up the Death Star, at the last moment they decided they'd show us a scene of diplomatic relations attempting to end the reign of the Empire. This is what they said they were going to do, I want to see them follow through. As Mike or someone else said somewhere above, I don't want them to be able to fall back on an excuse that they failed because some veteran didn't come in and do what was expected of him. I want them to man up, take the plastic off of these guys, put their necks on the line and try to prove that they can draft and develop players.
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    I don't want May to stay in the bullpen, but I actually think this works out better for a team, because I'd think a scuffling Abad would more likely mean the team gives Rogers or Melotakis a shot. A scuffling Bastardo means more struggling Bastardo because the Twins have him on a multi-year deal. They'll pull the plug on a guy on a minor league deal much sooner than a guy under contract in 2017.
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    Chattanooga's rotation is looking a bit suspect though. If any of those four guys end up starting in AA, I'd have to think it's Gonsalves.
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    I agree, other than the fact that he wasn't mentally capable, the only reason I can think of that he wouldn't say the cops fed him those details was because then perhaps the videotaped interview may need to be played, and if I recall, both the prosecution and the defense agreed not to show it for some reason.
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    But does that mean a longer film? Or less screen time for Luke and the villains? Not that either option is necessarily wrong.
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    I would like your post out of commiseration but I didn't want to send the wrong message.
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    You're probably right. I'm just hoping for the days when electing a George Bush Sr, Bob Dole or John McCain (the original, not the post Bush era version) didn't seem like it would risk re-setting socio-economic issues back 50 years. Those guys weren't radicals, and they were pretty recently relevant. Heck, they are all still alive in fact.
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    Bob Dole is now going after Cruz. Seems the party has now decided that Cruz is more dangerous than Trump, as Trump is a sideshow but if Cruz starts winning the primaries, he's going to continue with his lunacy well beyond 2016. http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/20/politics/bob-dole-ted-cruz-donald-trump/index.html "One leading GOP strategist involved in the effort put it this way: "If Trump loses we wash our hands of him. Cruz will think we need to be more crazy and be a long-term nightmare." That's an unnamed GOP strategist, not the other side of the aisle. I'm glad to hear that, at least it sounds like the level heads of the party know they can't go nuclear on social issues and still hope to be relevant again. Someone's making an effort in there to coral the Tea Party damage and bring the party back to within shouting distance of the middle.
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    That rotation is becoming very underwhelming. It used to be a group of fireballers that would make the batters walk back to the bench with bat in hand a dozen times a game. Adding Norris, Zimmerman and Pelfrey promises those days are gone. Verlander's 95-97 MPH heater is gone and because of this, his once killer changeup is also done and rarely used last year. Cabrera had a history of playing hurt and still playing well. That ended last year as he finally missed significant time due to injury. He's still a great hitter but his power is fading, we've been saying he's a time bomb for years, one of these years it's going to be true. I think they're trying to patch a sinking ship. Good for them, they haven't given up, but it looks to me like they are just drawing out the inevitable.
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    Perhaps not, but the odds keep improving with fewer 30-year-olds vets on the roster. And I'd rather see these guys in May and June than September.
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    Right, these guys weren't Antonio Bastardo or Tyler Clippard. They're Burdi, Chargois, and I don't know, Milone would be the Davis comp I guess? Not in ability but in the method of acquisition.
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    How do you figure the Royals strategy is different? Holland, Herrera and Davis as a reliever were all unknown commodities when they got inserted into their rolls. The reward for rolling the dice is much higher than the reward for hedging their bets. Even if the roll of the dice doesn't pan out, the consequences aren't that great unless someone actually thinks the difference between Bastardo and Abad/Rogers/Melotakis is the difference between making or missing a playoff spot. I don't think Bastardo in any way puts the team over the top.
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