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[Donn Beach]

Especially considering that Chris Rock famously said, "The only two black people in Minnesota are Kirby Puckett and Prince". When you add George Floyd to the mix you wonder why Buxton would want to live in a state where he's virtually guaranteed to die at a young age.

Im going to guess because it's not about how many blacks live in Minnesota as it's about getting traded is a pain in the fucking ass. If he's reluctant to go through the crap that getting traded involves I'm sure he'd be really excited about doing it in the middle of the season. Getting Buxton to agree to switch teams isn't a deadline kind of a deal. If it was possible it's the sort of thing that get engineered over an off season.

The deadline is mostly a hype job to begin with. What it's not about is trying to reengineer an underperforming team. It's about trying to add a piece to complete a team. This is what I brought up before. It's not about trying to compensate for a team of underperforming players. That's for the off season.

And why would the Twins be interested in trading Buxton at the deadline? The deadline is about trying to leverage guys on expiring contracts to teams trying to make the playoffs. The twins would want as big a field of interested teams as possible. That would mean teams looking to rebuild their rosters, that's done over the off season.

Your inability to get jokes aside, you're correct on looking at it from the Twins point of view. They're going to want good players, and good players that they'll have a few years control over. That probably eliminates our entire starting rotation although maybe they would say yes to Woo or Miller, but then that probably wouldn't be a good trade for us unless we at least win the pennant. They'd probably want Sloan- and Montez-types.

Yeah, the talk about trading for Buxton doesn't seem to be a joke. You rolled your eyes when I brought this up before as if it was obvious. This is what I was getting at. There are deals you can make at the deadline and there are deals that get made over the off season, there's a difference.

[TLO Idaho]

Was just reading an article on Dan Wilson's possible replacement if he is fired. I didn't notice any forum members names on the replacement list.

[DavidGee24]

Was just reading an article on Dan Wilson's possible replacement if he is fired. I didn't notice any forum members names on the replacement list.

Of course not, there's not much job security when you're constantly saying to your boss, "What are you, STUPID?"

[bpj]

There's no way Dipoto should get another chance at a new manager.

HE is the problem. Dan just puts the players in Dipoto gives him and tells him to.

The Twins would get more trading 1.5 years of Buxton than 1 year, that's why. If he's not signing an extension now, why would he in a year and a half?

And if they're not offering him one now, why not?

Every year we get told how this player or that player won't get traded, then half the time they do.

This reminded me of Donn for some reason:

[Michael K.]

This reminded me of Donn for some reason:

LOL, which reminded me of....

Social Media Post
"I prefer apples to pears..."

Random Person replying on Social Media:
"So basically what you're saying is that you hate oranges? You also failed to mention pineapples, mangoes, strawberries, and marginalized fruits of citrus. Educate yourself."

[D-train]

This reminded me of Donn for some reason:

LOL, which reminded me of....

Social Media Post
"I prefer apples to pears..."

Random Person replying on Social Media:
"So basically what you're saying is that you hate oranges? You also failed to mention pineapples, mangoes, strawberries, and marginalized fruits of citrus. Educate yourself."

And most importantly "Be better" and don't be a HATER of ORGANGES!.