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  1. TheLeviathan
    Of course! Until there isn't. Then we can talk about how death by shark isn't as bad as you've heard. There's always another way to spin things!
  2. TheLeviathan
    "Don't worry about the ship sinking, I hear the life rafts stay afloat for at least ten minutes!"
  3. TheLeviathan
    Only to be beat out by Cleveland's 5 year 110,000,000.05 offer and we'll be told how no one wants to live where it's cold, we got beat out by a big market, and that 5 cents would have crippled our future.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Now you're not even trying. Or trying too hard.
  5. TheLeviathan
    Fair enough, your last paragraph is a part people really don't seem to get: The big markets were largely non-factors this season. It's not like we went into the usual FA fight armed with a butter knife against the tanks of NY and LA. Everyone came to this fight with sporks and we couldn't even muster up the courage to get out the butter knife.
  6. TheLeviathan
    What does it matter? If philosophically we seem opposed to even treading in those waters we have our answer either way. And look, the team can draw the line in the sand where it wants and if we find where that line is we can discuss it then. What I'm done hearing is the same old song and dance about how players are turning down our superior offers because it's Minnesota. The only thing about Minnesota that makes players turn down offers here is our consistent approach of offering inferior contracts. Period.
  7. TheLeviathan
    Doesn't this all but settle the fact that the Twins knew they were offering a lesser contract (by not offering the opt out) and did so anyway?
  8. TheLeviathan
    Oof, just give him the 6/150 and make it happen.
  9. TheLeviathan
    They're good about knowing when to be aggressive. Brazen aggressiveness is sometimes what fans clamor for, but realize later how foolish it is. But smart, percentage-driven aggression is the best kind of coaching and Doug Pederson certainly gets that.
  10. TheLeviathan
    Until baseball starts sharing revenues, im done giving the league my money. Its already nothing more than a feeder system for big markets. A breaking point is coming, i hope the fans win this time. The health of the game demands it.
  11. TheLeviathan
    I never said that. The exchange between you and mike was about bidding on Cubans in a thread about bidding on a high end free agent. In those two fields, we absolutely have "never succeeded". We've had many other successes, but I'm done hearing about trying hard in those two areas. To me, I've heard the pat on the head talks long enough. I'll believe the effort is really there when the organization finally makes something happen. (In those two specific areas)
  12. TheLeviathan
    At some point "you tried hard" loses it's luster when you never succeed. Either you are the most miserably unlikely group ever, or perhaps the claim you were trying hard is a bit dubious.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Also, without Sano, this is not a terribly prolific team. They have a good balance of power throughout their lineup, but Sano's 35-40 homerun power in the middle is a key cog in why that's workable. I think point 5 could be broadened out....we have a number of regression candidates. Rosario, Santana, Polanco, Rodney, Reed, and others that might regress. They may also establish that last year is a new norm, we don't know. But I am especially worried about a dip from Santana and Rosario.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Good thing no one said that. Baseball is concerned about their demographics and about the sport getting a rep for being slow and dull. And they should be. Those aren't things you wear like a badge of honor if you want to stay relevant.
  15. TheLeviathan
    I didn't say the number of people playing currently, I said the people watching on TV. That article is rich with a lot of information, none of it particularly encouraging for baseball's long term health. And you can bet MLB knows it too. So you're welcome to your nostalgia, but my love for the game tends to make me favor it's success over nostalgia. Heavy-handed nostalgia could suffocate the game to death and we might eventually be nostalgic for the days when baseball was relevant.
  16. TheLeviathan
    You may not take interest in it, but baseball is. And I believe rightly so. RB listed a number of concerning demographic trends that baseball is also likely taking stock of. This is not a problem you address after the situation has become a red alert. It's wise to try and get well ahead of the issue, because if the symptoms manifest as a full blown disease, it'll be hard to ever recover. The symptoms are different, but boxing would be a cautionary tale.
  17. TheLeviathan
    There's a thread with poll numbers on it. There are actually a number of alarming trends in baseball. Like, for example, the vast majority of people that watch baseball today will likely be dead by the year 2040. And virtually all of them are white. You should check out the thread and look into things a bit, it might explain why baseball is taking the matter so seriously. I think showing an effort to fix this is a good thing. Too often, baseball players seem to give no care at all to how much they are dragging things out. spycake's post seems to indicate they have more than doubled their lollygagging between pitches in just 30 years. We should be looking to reverse that for the health of the sport.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Baseball is going to romanticize itself into oblivion. Some of these changes are of the same kind of necessity as switching from radio broadcasts to cable TV. At some point, the status of society, fan interest, and technology necessitates willingness to change.
  19. TheLeviathan
    I'm glad it only took two pages for some acknowledgement that...gee, interactions aren't "simple". That inevitably grey areas will arise that threaten the momentum of the movement if handled poorly. If only someone had been trying to point that out.....Alas. In any case...of course nuance doesn't change the point....but it might change our tactics a bit. That's the thing you and others appear to continue to miss. There is some need for defintions and what-not, but largely people agree on the "what". It's the "how" that matters. "How" is what changes zeal into results and we need results from this movement. And that is where it is vital to be clear and nuanced before you get people abandoning the movement before it accomplishes anything other than a few tarnished careers. I'm not sure what happened to Aziz Ansari Sunday night in many circles is the best way to have this conversation. He shouldn't be plastered all over every news site as having been accused of sexual assault. His actions are a reflection of a paradigm in need of changing, but (quite frankly) so are her actions. (Or lack thereof) We need to change the idea that men need to push and women are playing hard to get. We need women to be able to speak up and speak out and for men to hear that and respect it. But all parts of that are vital. That conversation is a tough, sensitive one that will buck long established cultural norms. Humiliating a couple men over it as a tactic to achieve that doesn't help. And the fissures that will be created (enflamed is probably a better description) in the wake of moments like this will be far more likely to kill this movement than anything else.
  20. TheLeviathan
    The chatter online about this is really going strong. I think this was a provocative take. A similar one from Vox.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Absolutely, we need to change the idea that you "keep pushing" as Ansari did. That's been pretty engrained for awhile in our interactions. Men need to be less pushy and put the brakes on more often. Men and women do what Aziz did, but the difference is men are more comfortable stopping unwanted advances by women of this sort, but not the reverse. I think it's also deeply, deeply unfair for this to be characterized as an "assault" as it is being done in all the headlines. Aziz is guilty of being boorish or a pig, but he did not assault this person. I think it's important for the survival of the MeToo movement to draw a sharp distinction here or it may be a death nail.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Atlantic article on Aziz Ansari.
  23. TheLeviathan
    The bullpen is often a numbers game, it's nice to be on the right side of that, but you're right that there is going to be quite a crunch for roster spots. I don't see how Rogers and Hildy are left off unless they implode this spring, but I guess we'll see what happens.
  24. TheLeviathan
    This team can afford 150M if they are actually serious.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Good move, good terms.
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