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June 8, 2020: Biased Rewind

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The Twins have been around since 1961. Not counting this year, that's 58 seasons of baseball. This version of the basement has been around since 2011, meaning we've been around 9 seasons, or about 16% of the Twins franchise.

Very strangely, only 7% of the Random Rewinds have been from a season where we've been baking things halfway in this basement. Something fishy is going on...

 
 
 
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    1. If I've learned anything from social media, this isn't true. It has to be a conspiracy!

        1. But any day that picks one from the 16 percent era, that sample is 100 PERCENT FROM THE 16 PERCENT ERA!!!111ONE111!!! REVERSE CONSPIRACY!

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        2. There's also the fact that, historically, the Twins are below .500, but the Random Twins are above .500 (so far. anyway).

  3. The boys started summer child care at the school today, and this will be the first full day I've been apart from them since March 13. I have got A LOT of work to catch up on, so here goes . . .

    1. We have neighbor kids providing a few hours each day starting today and like you, it is going to do wonders for my ability to focus on some work projects.

      Not off to a great start as the kid is screaming out "It isn't Monday!!!" from his room, we are now listening to Bob Geldof in response.

      1. Runner daughter has been called back to working at the office this week, even though both of her bosses were fine with her working from home.

  4. The original basement started in 2004. Combined, that's 16 of the 58 seasons, or 27.5%.

    Weirdly enough, I was thinking Saturday night about a related thought. I was wondering what percentage of the existence of the US as a sovereign nation I have been alive for. It's about 22%. Then, I thought, I wounder about my great-grandmother, who was born in 1893 and lived until 1987. At the time of her death, she'd been alive for about 44% of the US. This lead me to think about the fact that both of my parents have been older than than the sitting president of the United States for going on 28 years, but are both younger than Joe Biden. It got me to wondering if ever a person has been older than the sitting president for 28 years and then became younger than the sitting president. I'm pretty sure that the answer to that is no. Then I thought about how my mother 47 when Bill Clinton was inaugurated, but I"m 55 now and would be 60 at the date of the inauguration in 2025. Assuming Trump or Biden win and serve our their term, I would be at least 60 before I was ever older than the president. So, I wondered how old has someone been and never been older than the sitting president? George Washington was 65 when his presidency ended, so anyone born the day after Washington would have been 65 before they were older than the sitting president. But, they also spent over a half century with no sitting president. So, I'm going to have to qualify that with some sort of caveat that such a person would have had to have lived during a time when there was always a sitting president.

      3. About the only notable thing from that encounter was when I convinced him he should play the Super Bowl. 🙂

    2. Barack Obama is 1,262 days older than me. All of the people that are between him and me are (a) older than me and (b) have never been older than the president of the US. The oldest of these people will be 63 on January 20, 2025, nearly as old as someone born the day after George Washington was on the day that John Adams became president.

      1. The only similar stretch I’ve found is this:

        If you were born between 28 October 1858 — 03 March 1861, you lived at least the first sixty years of your life without being older than the POTUS. That’s 14 presidencies, accounting for three assassinations and one death in office. The full window is 28 October 1858 (the day after Teddy Roosevelt’s birth) to 01 November 1865 (the day before Warren G. Harding was born), so there were people aged 62 years, 142 days–55 years, 123 days who finally became older than the President when Harding took the oath.

        Decades without a future POTUS’ birth (starting w/Washington‘s birth in 1732):

        - 1810s + (Lincoln, 12 Feb 1809 – Grant, 27 Apr 1822)
        - 1930s + (Carter, 01 Oct 1924 – incumbent, 14 Jun 1946)
        - 1950s + (Clinton, 19 Aug 1946 – Obama, 04 Aug 4 1961)
        - 1962–present

        Decades with only one future POTUS’ birth:

        - 1740s (Thomas Jefferson)
        - 1770s (William Henry Harrison)
        - 1840s (William McKinley)
        - 1860s (Warren G. Harding)
        - 1890s (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
        - 1900s (Lyndon Baines Johnson)
        - 1960s (Barack Obama)

        2. If you were born the day after John Quincy Adams, you did not become older than the president until you were 69 years, 7 months, 2 weeks and 6 days old.

          1. That's because JQA was younger than all previous presidents (and so you would be, too) and Andrew Jackson was next. He was older than JQA and that's how old he was MVB took office.

            1. Well, that sounds like the record. I was so focused on longer duration that I discounted a shift that substantial happening within the span of three presidencies.

              1. Another date is the day after Jimmy Carter was born. Both Reagan and Bush were older than Carter. Jimmy Carter was 68 years, 3 1/2 months old when Clinton was inaugurated.

                1. I'm curious how many generations have never had a president. I'm guessing we'll go right from Baby Boomer to Millennial and skip Gen X.

                  1. I'm curious how many generations have never had a president.

                    ballparking generations as every 20 years, I'd guess about 15,000.

  6. My more careless brother is begging my more sensible brother to go golfing. 90+ with tons of wind? I’m not sure it’s the time.

  8. So anyone have thoughts on MLB/Player's negotiations re: a season?

    Latest news.

    I have to expect that, although ticket sales is usually something like 30% of revenue, revenues from other sources could be increased in the current environment. Given that, I don't see why a straight pro-rating of salaries shouldn't be expected. Moreover, don't the owners kind of naturally bear the risk of something like Covid? Why should some of that loss be pushed onto the employees? Especially if they're the ones bearing more risk by playing? I'm regularly on the players' side in MLB labor questions, but I think the owners' position is beyond the pale here.

      1. At this point I'm starting to think the owners want them to strike in 2021.

    2. I find myself starting to not really care all that much if they play in 2020 or not. I mean, if there are games, I'll pay attention to them. I'm not saying, "I'm done with baseball!" or anything like that. But I won't be as passionate about it as I've been, at least not this year. I have other things to do, time is moving on, and baseball is getting passed by.

      1. Yeah and considering you are around the median age baseball fan they could be in trouble.

    3. I agree that it is poor form from the owners, but really, what else would you expect? The owners want to socialize losses without even proving actual losses. And this is after how many years of many owners using the teams to drive non-baseball revenue near/around the stadiums, team-owned media outlets, etc--how much is the debt service on those activities driving the poor financial picture?

      Seeing that in addition to the pay cuts, the players are being asked to sign a liability waiver is pretty gross too.

      I got through March fine without an NCAA tournament, if there's no baseball because the players won't give in to the owners BS demands then so be it.

      1. I will absolutely stand by the players. I just wish there were a way to send a message to the owners that didn't involve me forgoing baseball whenever it comes back.

      2. if there's no baseball because the players won't give in to the owners BS demands then so be it.

        Hey, now.

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