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  1. nicksaviking
    I'm not sure where you found the definition of an ace being 3 seasons of 3.5 WAR. Either way, most of those teams are willing to buy an ace so it's not as pressing for them to develop one, AZ, Atlanta, NY, KC and Toronto all have or are able to buy one, heck even Milwaukee has made the attempt. I'd also be satisfied enough with Johnny Cueto to remove Cincinnati from that list. Either way, it's not like we as fans should be satisfied simply because other teams have failed in this area as well. Being one of the bottom 1/3rd doesn't work for me.
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    No one here has argued against justice for the accused, no one. Schools getting rid of students they fear may cause or have caused safety issues is the price of doing business. If the student who was accused takes action against the school, that's also the price of doing business. The government doesn't have ulterior motives when they tell schools to crack down on this non-sense, they know from decades of experiences that schools tend to cover this stuff up as a way of self preservation. The schools needed to be motivated to act against their instincts to sweep this stuff under the rug, it's not some grand government conspiracy. I agree that many of these crimes are likely born of ignorance, no better way to fight ignorance than a case as in-your-face as this. I agree, the punishments likely won't prevent this kind of action, hearing everyone in near agreement talking about how wrong it is will, and that's what's happening. Your arguments for role-modeling and talking about the issues are taking place due to direct causation of cases like this.
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    But we're just back to the differences between legal punishment and punishment by the school. These guys are getting the benefit of the doubt by the legal system. I would agree that names shouldn't be named publically if the school is going to act without the backing of a legal ruling, but as far as I can tell the school didn't disclose the identities of anyone, that would be on the Star Tribune. If these were band members no one would know these names, but they're football players which makes them local celebrities and the public has ALWAYS known the suspected misbehavior of celebrities even while not knowing what their own neighbor is up to. That's not on the school. As for the school punishments, I'm just fine if the school gets rid of students they feel are a threat to the safety of the other students. Just like in the criminal justice system, wrong verdicts will be made from time to time, just like at times employees get fired unjustly and parents punish their children unjustly that's unfortunate but it's never going to be entirely preventable.
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    I agree it will be disappointing if the eventual outcomes are still the same, but if Liriano had stayed healthy and Garza had just stayed, those two and Baker would have been a pretty decent 1-3. This team desperately needs to find a true ace though. It sure doesn't feel like other franchises routinely go decades at a time without finding one. This sure seems like a Twins problem, not a small market problem.
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    Speaking as a father of both a boy and a girl, both of whom I would like to go to college, doing "something" and doing it "now" is something I am 100% absolutely in support of. Why should something like preventing sexual assault take a long time to implement? As a society we were at fault for not doing more earlier, we could even say that we didn't know any better as deluded as that sounds. We do know better now and people are acting. And that's great. I don't know why you don't think what is happening now isn't working. With cases like this making the news we are miles ahead of where we were even ten years ago when it comes to recognizing sexual assault. Even last decade, much of this stuff would have been shrugged off and dismissed. It is working and it needs to continue.
  6. nicksaviking
    I'm on the Thorpe-wagon also. Prior to the TJ surgery he was the fastest rising prospect this team had, threatening to join the Berrios/Buxton/Sano group. The surgery is a concern obviously, but he lost his steam last year due to missing the season with mono. And I'm not going to hold mono over a guy, that only seems like it would be career threatening if he was a professional gigolo.
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    It doesn't have to be a "tough on crime" push, too many men of all ages don't realize that this garbage is illegal/immoral. I loved the movie Animal House and most of the other teen sexual romp comedies back in the day. Many are still held up as classics despite the fact that nearly every one of them portrays sexual assault as a hilarious game. Suspensions don't have to be a tough on crime situation, they need to be an eye-opening situation. I'd wager there have been more than one young men who have read the report and thought to themselves, "that could have been me" who now would have second thoughts seeing this situation from the victim's perspective.
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    I just figured I was clicking a link to porn. I didn't think you were so depraved you'd give me Rick Astley.
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    Me?! Never!
  10. nicksaviking
    Also a slap in the face for the kid who asked for a regular robot.
  11. nicksaviking
    The bad news is that I still haven't figured out how to turn off the speakers on my new computer at work. The good new is that everyone else is out for lunch.
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    And in this case, the video may as well not even exist if it's only 90 seconds long since affirmative consent is an ongoing process and the process surely didn't take 90 seconds. If the video doesn't show the whole act, it's pretty much useless. Except to ID some of the parties involved.
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    Because I like to keep trophies from my victims, duh. And it's waaaaaaaay more than twelve.
  14. nicksaviking
    Just because the police didn't charge anyone doesn't mean no crime was committed. I'm not the one making assumptions, we don't know what happened, nor likely do the police, which means they CAN'T act. The university and the police don't have to have the same burden of proof standards nor should they. The school doesn't have to have proof beyond a reasonable doubt to flunk a kid for cheating on a test or to ban a guy from the women's dorms if he's suspected of stalking. I'm not assuming anything happened and legally the police cannot either but the University can. Going to school there and partaking in their activities isn't a constitutional right, it's a privilege that can be revoked upon their discretion. If they think there is reasonable enough suspicion of improper conduct they have a right to act in the best interest of the community, the other students and their brand. The university has bungled this and just about everything else, but they do not have to act with the same standards as law enforcement.
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    Kidnapping jokes are the best!
  16. nicksaviking
    First, I'm guessing you have not seen this video. Second, no video evidence of rape does not mean the absence of rape. I'm not saying it wasn't all on the up and up, but you're making assumptions likely based on hearsay from parties with a vested interest in the outcome.
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    I'm hoping we see Berrios at the MLB level. However after Neil Allen's fairly scathing assessment of the organization's lack of vision and in particular their lack of enforcement of the young guys commanding their pitches, I think we may see a lot of pitchers go back a level and get remedial work. I hope it doesn't happen, but I won't be shocked if we actually see a couple of the guys in AA we were hoping to see soon actually go back to get extra attention with the instructors in Ft Myers. If the front office didn't take Allen's organizational denouncement and the pitching plan he created as a result seriously, I just can't see any other reason that they would have retained him.
  18. nicksaviking
    If Falvey is putting his rotation together based on his experiences in Cleveland, one would have to think May will be in the rotation and Hughes in the pen. Cleveland appears to value velocity and an assortment of pitches from it's starters; most of them have an average velocity over 92MPH and/or regularly use four different pitches. Hughes 89 MPH FB and three pitch repertoire doesn't look like what Cleveland does. On the other hand May can meet both of those criteria.
  19. nicksaviking
    The one that always gets me is that London is further north than Winnipeg.
  20. nicksaviking
    Confusing for sure. I understand in Canada night is about four months long this time of year?
  21. nicksaviking
    That's true, but that's no different than with free agency. At least now the top 10 players from Cuba can't all go to the Dodgers because they won't have the cap room.
  22. nicksaviking
    A high tide floats all boats. The MLBPA wants any and all contracts to be high as it always helps the players when negotiating new deals via free agency or likely in this case arbitration. Except for those 25-year-old scrubs down in A ball with a wife and young child who likely will never get to the MLB. Screw those guys, they should be happy to play for way less than minimum wage. No need to try to help them with the new CBA.
  23. nicksaviking
    I don't think I care for that package nearly as much as any rumored Dodger package. I'm not big on Weaver, he looks like a back of the rotation guy at best. He's a very slight right hander with a 91-92 MPH fastball and doesn't have a breaking pitch. He belongs in the NL.
  24. nicksaviking
    I'm glad the Twins are more active in the DR and Venezuela the last 5-6 years but that was at least a decade too late. Where were they in the late 80's and 90's when the league first started bursting with Latin talent? I'm also glad the Twins have signed some high upside international guys recently but we can't pretend that they are doing all that they can when half of the league was blowing past their draft allotment and made raids on the market. For a team that has been a bottom feeder the last half decade, they should have been doing everything they could to get prospects including going over budget, they absolutely did not do everything they could. That's history now though, the team has new leadership and hopefully less restrictions. We don't need to dwell on past failures if they actively try to rectify them, it doesn't mean we can't acknowledge that these areas used to be past failures though.
  25. nicksaviking
    Nice research. Those results are about what I would have expected. There seemed to be a shift in philosophy around 2010-11, specifically they tended to draft "safe" picks early, mostly college pitchers. Seth's results above certainly look like a high floor/low ceiling approach by the Twins.
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