Game Thread: Twins (Lopez) @ Cardinals (Mikolas), 8/1/2023 @ 6:45 CT

[Schmoeman5]

5 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

I ******* **** hate that ******** ***** ***.

******.  *** ******!

I'm pissed!

I tried to read your post but I can't read encrypted messages. My ultra machine blew up crunching that data.

[Tlaker]

7 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

I ******* **** hate that ******** ***** ***.

******.  *** ******!

I'm pissed!

Missed it … what did the guy in over his head say?

[USAFChief]

Just now, Tlaker said:

Missed it … what did the guy in over his head say?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

[Schmoeman5]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

War. What is it good for? 

[Tlaker]

1 minute ago, USAFChief said:

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Why am I not surprised……

[Nine of twelve]

5 minutes ago, Schmoeman5 said:

And I knew management was going to come out with that "we believe in our guys" line

What do you expect Falvey to say? "We know our team sucks but nobody wanted to trade their good players to us."? "We don't care about our record, we only want to stay in the black."? "We don't know what the **** we're doing so we figured it was best to do nothing."?

I think he could or maybe even should have made a comment to the effect of challenging the roster to step it up, but it's good for employees in any organization to have the feeling that management supports them.

 

[Tlaker]

2 minutes ago, Nine of twelve said:

What do you expect Falvey to say? "We know our team sucks but nobody wanted to trade their good players to us."? "We don't care about our record, we only want to stay in the black."? "We don't know what the **** we're doing so we figured it was best to do nothing."?

I think he could or maybe even should have made a comment to the effect of challenging the roster to step it up, but it's good for employees in any organization to have the feeling that management supports them.

 

You must work in the front office,

 

 The management of the Titanic, with a smile on their faces….told the orchestra to keep playing 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

22 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

winnah.

My winnah has a first name...

[IaBeanCounter]

16 minutes ago, Tlaker said:

You really are a bean counter!! How many soybeans in a prime Iowa 80 acre field? Huhmm?

At 70 bu per acre there would about 840 million individual soybeans in 80 acre.  

[Schmoeman5]

5 minutes ago, Nine of twelve said:

What do you expect Falvey to say? "We know our team sucks but nobody wanted to trade their good players to us."? "We don't care about our record, we only want to stay in the black."? "We don't know what the **** we're doing so we figured it was best to do nothing."?

I think he could or maybe even should have made a comment to the effect of challenging the roster to step it up, but it's good for employees in any organization to have the feeling that management supports them.

 

It's a politicians line. Last week he said specifically that the Twins needed bullpen help and that they were looking for a RH corner bat. So what changed in the last week after 5 consecutive losses. You can buy his story. I'm not. And multi million dollar players don't need encouragement from their bosses. 

[Sutter50]

1 hour ago, Schmoeman5 said:

That's what I was thinking.  But on the appeal the umpire ruled safe. So the Twins reviewed the play and the appeal was overturned

No the appeal was made and the umps called him out. ST Louis challenged and the lost the challenge 

[Sutter50]

1 hour ago, Schmoeman5 said:

That's what I was thinking.  But on the appeal the umpire ruled safe. So the Twins reviewed the play and the appeal was overturned

No umps called out in the appeal. Cardinals challenged and lost 

[Schmoeman5]

1 minute ago, Sutter50 said:

No the appeal was made and the umps called him out. ST Louis challenged and the lost the challenge 

Pablo stepped off. Time is in. He threw to 1st. The 1st base umpire ruled safe. Rocco came out and the umpires conferred.  Then he was called out. I don't remember them doing a replay review until St. Louis challenged.  And I don't even know what their challenge was. 

[Nine of twelve]

1 minute ago, Schmoeman5 said:

Pablo stepped off. Time is in. He threw to 1st. The 1st base umpire ruled safe. Rocco came out and the umpires conferred.  Then he was called out. I don't remember them doing a replay review until St. Louis challenged.  And I don't even know what their challenge was. 

The net outcome was that the Twins appealed the play and the umpires called the batter-runner out at first base on the appeal, ruling he did not touch the base. St. Louis challenged the call and the call was upheld.

[Nine of twelve]

11 minutes ago, Schmoeman5 said:

It's a politicians line. Last week he said specifically that the Twins needed bullpen help and that they were looking for a RH corner bat. So what changed in the last week after 5 consecutive losses. You can buy his story. I'm not. And multi million dollar players don't need encouragement from their bosses. 

It probably was a politician's line. And I feel certain that he did try to make the changes he hoped to make. Sometimes one succeeds and sometimes one doesn't. But I'll disagree with your last sentence. I think employees do better in a workplace where they feel that management supports them, no matter what the level of compensation happens to be.

[Schmoeman5]

Just now, Nine of twelve said:

It probably was a politician's line. And I feel certain that he did try to make the changes he hoped to make. Sometimes one succeeds and sometimes one doesn't. But I'll disagree with your last sentence. I think employees do better in a workplace where they feel that management supports them, no matter what the level of compensation happens to be.

Yeah. Maybe. I was born and raised on a dairy farm with 200 head and we had 1600 acres under plow. I never got an atta boy in my life. Nor did I ever expect one or need one. In fact I'd probably laugh if I did get one. I'd start looking around to see if there was a camera.  And I don't think players need that either. If Joey Gallo gets told by Rocco that he believes in him is Joey going to turn into a 270 hitter. Cmon

[Schmoeman5]

20 minutes ago, Nine of twelve said:

The net outcome was that the Twins appealed the play and the umpires called the batter-runner out at first base on the appeal, ruling he did not touch the base. St. Louis challenged the call and the call was upheld.

Yes. No doubt. I wasn't disputing you. I was more or less trying to understand how they came to that conclusion.  I mean the call was right. It just took 4 different turns. 😆 

[USAFChief]

1 hour ago, Nine of twelve said:

I think employees do better in a workplace where they feel that management supports them, no matter what the level of compensation happens to be.

Do you think the majority of Twins players feel like management supported them by NOT adding obvious needed help?

I don't. I think most Twins players are disappointed. A couple are breathing a sigh of relief to still be in the big leagues.

[insagt1]

So, as the song goes, 'there has to be a morning after'. What we learned is that the results after the no-moves Twins at the deadline:

a shaky win against another last place team which ended our 5 game losing streak. And the gods of baseball continue to watch over the Twins as Cleveland was no-hit and now our lead is 2 games incredibly.

A guy who has lately disappeared from the radar comes off the bench to drive in the ultimate winning runs. Our boy Gallo is still among us, striking out like nothing has changed. Twins just CAN'T keep running him out there. (I remember O's fans asking similar questions when O's kept playing Chris Davis...all boils down to $$$..they HAD to justify the contract) Thats Gallo today.

Duran got the save, but only because he had a two run cushion. He isn't engendering a ton of confidence. But here we are. Can this team manage to figure things out?

Two months to go,