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I was referring to how this situation is about to get worse for Sano and the Twins.

The law makes no such distinction. https://jux.law/practice-areas/criminal/aggravated-battery-assault/ This incident would be classified as fifth degree assault in either scenario. If she ended up in the hospital -- again under either scenario -- it would be third degree assault. Note you also won't find anything in the law about "ten minutes." The only thing that matters is the amount of harm caused, or even simply threatening harm. Time is irrelevant for assault.

Ugh.

He's untradeable until the dust settles and his punishment, if any, has been decided.

It was great to finally see some of these guys. Mostly I liked what I saw!

I think if you read past the first sentence fragment of what I wrote this information will be revealed.

I agree that 10 minutes sounds unlikely to impossible by a factor of ten, but the time involved is not the point at all. It's never OK to lay your hands on someone else. Assault is assault. We're going down a rabbit hole by thinking about a detail that isn't important. Note that when the "fight or flight" response kicks in, the perception of time changes. Time slows down. The point is -- she was scared out of her mind and felt she was fighting for her life. Sano is a BIG GUY! To her, it clearly felt like an eternity, this is why she wrote "10 minutes." This should be our takeaway instead of using this detail for to attack the victim's story.

I disagree. If someone punches someone once, that's assault, and that only takes one second. Laying hands on someone is never OK. Time is not a factor, you're overthinking it. As for his "punishment" -- I'm not thinking in those terms. It's not my place. But let's be real, regardless of whether it was 1 minute or 30, the punishment will be the same: a short suspension, public service, and sensitivity training. He's not going to jail, he's not getting sued, he's not getting fired, he's not getting deported, etc., etc. Only if multiple people step forward will this become anything more than an embarrassment for him and the club.

Whether it was 10 minutes or 1 minute, does it matter?

Dozier is massively underpaid, but it's partly his fault. He signed a contract that he knew was underpaying him to help out his favorite team. Let's hope the team returns the favor.

I'm sure not everyone knew about it, but the fact that someone here did but carried on as if everything were normal is unsettling to me. I really hope this was kept quiet at her request.

If this was a pattern, yeah. But it may not be a pattern. We'll know more as time goes on.

No excuses/no words. We are talking about Sano almost exclusively in these threads, but this is about Betsy. Sano's punishment and future as a Twin can be decided later. We support you, Betsy.

You say "of course they are" as if it's obvious, forgetting that I"m responding to you where you were saying something different.

If you were a recruiter at Microsoft, would you tell the person you wanted to hire to go ahead and talk to Apple and Google first, and you'd beat any offer? Or would you just hire them by having a good faith salary negotiation between you and the employee and no one else? If your guess is true, the Twins would have been smarter to sign him at the start of the process. Likely those other teams he talked to over the past month were willing to pay him more than the Twins wanted, so now if the Twins want to stay in the game they also have to pay him more. There would be no value in letting Darvish play the field for better offers. If the Twins were serious about him and used this tactic, this would be an incompetent move. Likely what's actually going on here is Darvish (and his agent) are the ones in control. They are the ones setting up meetings. They will talk to the Twins just to see if they have a bigger offer. We of course know the Twins won't have one because if they did, they would have already spoken. And that will be the end of it. The other possibility is that this is a "meeting between friends" where Darvish will get the opportunity to tell the Twins his plans before the Twins hear about it from someone else.

I'm worried about signing Darvish. I think he is injury prone and thus overvalued. I would rather the Twins pursue other options. If the Twins bet the farm on Darvish I think they are in for disappointment. Darvish + Arrieta, sure, why not.

Sano makes less than Archer -- a lot less -- but who knows what Sano will get in arbitration in a few years. Perhaps not much as a DH, but I don't know.

Also, remember this is a sports team. A game. None of this actually matters to any of us, excluding anyone reading this who might be on the payroll. We have to remember to not take this stuff too seriously. It's fun when the Twins win, but we have proven we will stay interested even if they don't, so it's only ourselves we are fooling when we go off on a tangent like this. (And yeah, this goes both ways, there's also no reason to blindly support the bad decisions either.)

It's still winter. At least wait for the Vikings to implode before turning on the Twins. The Twins have time to make moves that matter (though let's hope they start soon).

Did you skip some of the discussion? Not talking to him until the start of the year while other teams have been in dialog with him for a month would be an incompetent move. He could have signed weeks ago, then where would the Twins be if they were "serious" about getting him? Have you ever been the last person to go to a buffet? Ever been the last person in line at a doorbuster? How were these experiences? The logical conclusion is that the Twins are not serious about it. It's possible they told him months ago to "shop around, and we'll pay you more than your best offer" but does that really sound like the Twins (or any team in baseball)? Most likely the conversation they will have will be more along the lines of, "If you didn't get a serious offer yet, remember we're here." (Since Bill Smith is gone, they won't add, "So catch ya on the flippity-flop!" before paying the check and hopping back in the limo.)

This sort of makes it worse. I would rather have them not pursue him than pursue him incompetently. But, as the philosophy goes, "wait and see..."

That's your first problem right there. Most websites break even at best, and most that make cash do some pretty shady things to make that happen. Web hosting has to be treated as a labor of love. This thread was started about blogging/writing and not about cash. If you want cash, get the mailing list going, partner with some Twins or baseball businesses, and market Twins Daily-branded deals to people who opt in. I used to get TD-branded digest emails but I haven't seen one for a very long time. The other thing to do -- and you should do both -- is find sponsors. Call the marketing teams for the Twins and other baseball companies. Ask for $10K or so. You will be surprised at how many bites you will get just by asking corporations for cash if you commit to doing nothing more than mirroring press releases. Just make sure you have a good presentation which includes how much traffic you get!

Warne makes it clear that he is just tossing ideas around, but if the Rays plan on being thrifty the next few years, Sano could fill some seats for pennies on the dollar. They won't be able to replace Archer at his cost though. But yeah, this is purely hypothetical. We don't know if the Twins want Archer, we don't know if the Rays want Sano, and we don't know any scenario in between.

Duffey was good at the close of 2015. As a starter in 2016, he was good for about six weeks. As a reliever in 2017, he was serviceable for about half the year. Time will tell if this is him wearing down or if it's batters figuring him out. He could still be a good reliever, but I don't see him slotting as a regular starter again, especially seeing as he is a two-pitch guy. In 2017 he was terrible at changing speeds which is the kiss of death for any pitcher, though he can still touch 95 which doesn't hurt.