Thread: What is up with Plouffe?

Originally Posted by twinsnorth49

we're talking about baseball, not the cure for cancer.

What if baseball IS the cure for cancer? Hmmmmm??????

With Burroughs and Valencia hitting, Plouffe's days of starting are numbered. It would be nice for him to be the RH bench bat, but instead of homers I imagine it would be strike out after strike out for the most part.

Plouffe has the pop. He just needs the discipline. It seems he did not adjust well to bein a utility player, so he's getting his chance, largely at third. But he has to produce or be one. If he can't crack the starting nine (and you can POSSIBLY carry a dead bat - one dead bat - each year)...then he's gone or...that unproductive utility guy because so many others are outplaying him. Remember, he signed out of high school. He could be a leader, but he is still young at heart, spending his prime growing years trolling the minors with the rap of high draft pick with talent but not blowing people away. He does seem humble, frustrated......

I do remember a couple of TwinsFests ago when he was sitting at the farm club table and talking about his goal for his next season at Rochester was 25 homers and 24 steals. Didn't quite do it....but he was going to try.

Maybe he'll be Luke Hughes in a couple of years.

Originally Posted by snepp

I find your references to "sabre dudes" to be, quite frankly, stupid and just plain ******* ignorant.


And I say that with the least amount of tongue-in-cheek possible.

I remember my Grandmother who was 95 years old at the time had just baked some Cookies. I stopped by to visit and she asked me if I wanted a fresh baked Cookie right out of the oven and she set down a glass of milk for me and gave me a kiss.

I replied... "what the hell you old bat... Are you saying that I look like someone who needs one of your Cookies. My god... raisin Cookies... You put raisins in everything... Cookies... Stuffing... Hamburgers... Look... Take a look... See this... you have raisins in this glass of milk. Get a clue... Can I just stop by without you peddling your raisins and smothering me with your Grandmother breath".

In retrospect I may have over reacted to my Grandmother but thankfully not as bad as you just did with this post.

Originally Posted by CDog

What if baseball IS the cure for cancer? Hmmmmm??????

I will be drinking, smoking, eating asbestos, bathing in formaldehyde and strapping a transmitting cell phone to my head permanantly because Baseball will have made me invincible.

Originally Posted by Game163

He's making my "You can't handle the Plouffe" tshirt kind of sad.

Funny shirt... I'd wear that... If I had one.

I'd get stared at... But I'm used to it.

Originally Posted by twinsnorth49

Oh, I'm ignorant? Nice post, as the saying goes, people in glass houses.....

Clearly you are one of those guys who takes himself Waaaay too seriously, if you're that easily offended, you need some medication. Chill out bud, we're talking about baseball, not the cure for cancer.

Hey North... You know what your biggest problem is? POUTINE!!! its almost criminal what you do to your french fries... Other then that... I find no traces of ignorance.

French Fries, Cheese Curds, Gravy.... yummmmmmm

He's still young, has some potential (where, I don't know), out of options, and the Twins did invest in him. Buts shades of B.J. Garbe amongst others, when will they throw in the towel........

Originally Posted by CDog

What if baseball IS the cure for cancer? Hmmmmm??????

A tear drops Dave Dravecky's eye. Harmon and countless other baseball players who did not survive cancer would be very disappointed in you for you comment.

Originally Posted by Riverbrian

Hey North... You know what your biggest problem is? POUTINE!!! its almost criminal what you do to your french fries... Other then that... I find no traces of ignorance.

The only issue with poutine is the people who insist on putting ketchup on it, those people should be arrested, I am not in that group. Really RB, you don't like Poutine? you seem like a well travelled guy, you must have had some good poutine, what's the issue? It has 4 of the same letters as Plouffe.

I hear you though.

Originally Posted by Rosterman

He's still young, has some potential (where, I don't know), out of options, and the Twins did invest in him. Buts shades of B.J. Garbe amongst others, when will they throw in the towel........

Plouffe vs B.J. Garbe... Huh?

Originally Posted by Bark's Lounge

French Fries, Cheese Curds, Gravy.... yummmmmmm

You got it, what else is there to say?

Originally Posted by Bark's Lounge

Plouffe vs B.J. Garbe... Huh?

I don't get it either, I don't believe Garbe ever played an inning of AAA let alone majors. Plouffe is worth waiting on for at least this season, if he can learn some discipline and find his pitches he has a good swing and has flashed some power. Quote all the metrics you want, it's yesterday's news, he's a young guy who if he figures it out, has some raw tools to do well.

Originally Posted by twinsnorth49

The only issue with poutine is the people who insist on putting ketchup on it, those people should be arrested, I am not in that group. Really RB, you don't like Poutine? you seem like a well travelled guy, you must have had some good poutine, what's the issue? It has 4 of the same letters as Plouffe.

I had to google poutine. Is there such a thing as "good" poutine?

Originally Posted by glunn

I had to google poutine. Is there such a thing as "good" poutine?

Oh my, you are from Beverly Hills! Tell you what glunn, you seem like a good egg, when I open my Poutine stand at Target your first order is free! You'll be converted.

Now if I can just find an angle on that work visa thing........damn you Yankee protectionists, don't you know what you're missing!?

Originally Posted by CDog What if baseball IS the cure for cancer? Hmmmmm??????



"A tear drops Dave Dravecky's eye. Harmon and countless other baseball players who did not survive cancer would be very disappointed in you for you comment."


On a website replete with logical fallacies, this comment has to be inducted into the Non-Sequitur Hall of Fame.

Originally Posted by twinsnorth49

The only issue with poutine is the people who insist on putting ketchup on it, those people should be arrested, I am not in that group. Really RB, you don't like Poutine? you seem like a well travelled guy, you must have had some good poutine, what's the issue? It has 4 of the same letters as Plouffe.

I hear you though.

I actually kinda like POUTINE. Its just that over the past month. I'm kinda running out of things uniquely Canadian.