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  1. jkcarew
    Except for the 29 postseason hits, 17 postseason runs, 15 postseason RBI…all ranking at or near the top in team history…also, the two rings…and making the play that won the greatest game 7 in WS history.
  2. jkcarew
    I think suburban stadiums for Football are entirely viable from an attendance standpoint…maybe less so for baseball. I think the bigger issue is the magnitude of public funding involved these days. Tremendous political pressure for the money to go downtown.
  3. jkcarew
    The more a fan base loves a team, the more that team will be hated/despised when things go south. You’re supposed to occasionally despise your team. It’s called caring…the emotional attachment upon which fandom is built. And while you’ll feel it among TD denizens, among the general/broader fan base, the Twins can only dream of ever being as “hated” as the Vikings have been at various times during their existence.
  4. jkcarew
    I tip my 🎩 to you, Max Kepler.
  5. jkcarew
    Baltimore needed a win to clinch home field in the wild card round…(over Detroit who is playing the White Sox)…so, actually a pretty big deal. NOW Baltimore has nothing to play for.
  6. jkcarew
    You spend 10 years lowing the bar, and 100 games is celebrated…86 games started in CF…just over half a season…but again, noteworthy for Buxton. And apparently, just in time to be moved off CF if some rumors are to be believed. This was the most consistently good offensive season for Buxton, IMO. And the first season EVER where he’s been a fully-functioning offensive factor coming down the stretch. So, YAY to that.
  7. jkcarew
    Maybe not in importance (this is just a wildcard), but in pure magnitude this collapse dwarfs 1967, 1984, 2022, etc. 12-24…12 wins over 36 games! And a collapse this long and this complete, not only is allowed, but deserves, multiple causes of death when the autopsies come in. Flawed roster injuries player underperformance, all phases bad managing lack of support at deadline Something this monumental and complete can’t happen with just one or two things going wrong. Now…what can be fixed by 2025?
  8. jkcarew
    No…unless you believe Atlanta is a 70% probability favorite in every matchup. The Royals will be scratching for a win as well…if the Twins are winning. Baseball Reference has the Twins in playoffs at a fraction over 2% probability. And based on momentum and body language, that’s probably 2% too high.
  9. jkcarew
    Nope. It takes a LONG time to be eliminated when you start with a 10-and-a-half game lead on the competition.
  10. jkcarew
    Do everything you can to lock a win down today (yesterday)…and hope you get lucky tomorrow (today). That’s all you can do at this point. Maybe the offense explodes today.
  11. jkcarew
    Couldn’t get 4 outs, either. But who’s counting?😉
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  13. jkcarew
    Umm…did anyone have them winning the last 5 in a row to avoid the record??
  14. jkcarew
    SWR unhittable since 6:45
  15. jkcarew
    Are the Marlins REQUIRED to have a Conine on the roster?
  16. jkcarew
    You are correct, Sir! 😢
  17. jkcarew
    I don’t know if they’ve quit…maybe a few have. Hard for me to distinguish between folding under the pressure/stress, just plain failing, and giving up. The sheer completeness and all-encompassing scale of the collapse suggests almost everyone is experiencing at least one of the above…but impossible for me to tell who falls where. I get the frustration, that’s for sure.
  18. jkcarew
    IMO, there’s a rational argument to be made for those that DON’T want the Twins to make the post season at this point. And it has nothing to do with getting clobbered in the first round…as likely as that is. It has to do with the incentive for change. If they stumble in, is it an excuse for validation of the organization’s leadership? A cause for celebration…”look what we did despite the injuries!” ?? Something that can be sold to a largely casual and gullible fan base? If they fail, does it force the org to come clean on a significant sliver of reality? I don’t know, but it’s a legit question, IMO.
  19. jkcarew
    It’s the kind of thing that gets written when having to cover a non-serious baseball team day in and day out. Right up there with “Randy Dobnak has a good chance of controlling the Yankees” in game 2 of a playoff series.
  20. jkcarew
    To be fair to the Twins, Miami came in with 40 wins against +500 teams…one MORE than the Twins. Now they have 2 more than the Twins. A couple of evenly-matched teams. Twins battled well and just couldn’t come up with the big blow. Perspective is everything.
  21. jkcarew
    That ball would go further if Buxton would hit it to the right side.
  22. jkcarew
    Why was Miranda hitting there? Brings one of his 4 available left-handed bats off the bench (Wallner), then leaves Miranda in to K. Dart board analytics?
  23. jkcarew
    Although, anyone would seem able to improve on what we’ve been seeing lately, Polanco has been bad…slightly better in the 2nd half, but the numbers are still very ugly.
  24. jkcarew
    I think he’s probably the next most deserving behind Eeles. Fwiw, Eeles was better than Keirsey at St. Paul….higher OBP, even a higher SLG. And Eeles is 3 years younger. Keirsey probably much more valuable defensively, though? Great season for Keirsey…don’t want to take anything away from him. He’s been grinding it out for some time now.
  25. jkcarew
    Why would they do that?? A complete mystery.
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