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  1. CDog
    I'm obviously quite pro-Kid St. Paul. I am on record that thinking people often go way, way too far in trying to knock him down for whatever reasons I can't even fathom (as stated in another thread). But I think "almost guarantee" is a little (or a lot) strong there. Especially with the noted (also elsewhere in many places) frequency of ground balls this year. I feel like it's gotten better in just the very recent past, but haven't looked to see if that's true.
  2. CDog
    I hope and have hoped and continue to hope that it's C). I don't think anyone (maybe even Morneau himself?) knows which is true. So I guess I'll keep hoping.
  3. CDog
    Couldn't the answer be neither? As has been stated many places, the entire flock of position players is under contract. There's a ton of money coming off next year and the year after. Could the strategy be to take the lumps the rest of this year, trying to stay competitive and find people that can help around the fringes, and then go after two really good starting pitchers in the offseason AND a few other smaller pieces? I know a lot of people hate that strategy thinking things need to get blown up. I'm honestly not sure which would be more effective. But it's possible that they neither buy nor sell as part of their long term plan, no?
  4. CDog
    I know exactly what you mean and don't think it's that small of a minority opinion. It makes me think of the Seinfeld bit that at some point we're just cheering for laundry. I very much like the idea of building from within, staying with "our guys" at the core, and making minor changes at the fringes. That's the ideal for me, so you're not alone. We also have to understand that sometimes there are situations that dictate a move that doesn't go along with that idea. Sometimes it's hard to like, but we move on.
  5. CDog
    Keep in mind, of course, that not speaking (or even not speaking enough or even not saying precisely the words that "they" decide should have been said--often after the fact) will get the same response from many of the same people. BUT...in the interest of self-fulfilling prophecies, I now HAVE been able to find some examples in this thread of people going out of there way to complain and whine where there really was no reason for it. Which is interesting. I won't mention which posts or who they were...
  6. CDog
    Every one of those seems like someone analyzing what they do for a living and nothing more.
  7. CDog
    Of course there are. The leap to "drastically wrong" for people that don't follow the team in the same way or react as you might that was my point.
  8. CDog
    Would be more interesting if you could find where anyone made that leap in this thread.
  9. CDog
    That's just a big leap, if you ask me. Why can't some people understand a down year or even two or even more, while still wanting and hoping for better? What makes that "drastically wrong?" Or enjoying the little things that happen day in and day out even on a bad team without being upset about too many losses? Or even just liking baseball so much that it's a treat just to go out to the ballpark, watch elite athletes compete at a wonderful and historic game, pulling for one team to win (because they're the home squad or you like their uniforms or have your favorite player) and not getting upset if they don't happen to win even while you hope they do?
  10. CDog
    Agreed that it shouldn't be huge. But the aforementioned wall extends an awfully long way toward center and makes homers in a certain trajectory very, very rare. The thing I think is strange is that there are very few that go out to center (has the batter's eye ever been hit? Thome's two OVER it are all the more amazing when considering that maybe nobody else has even pelted it), and even the bullpens haven't been hit that often. That alley-to-alley range has played deep, and the dimensions aren't likely the cause. As you mention, it's not much different distance-wise than a lot of other places.
  11. CDog
    Just let the game come to you. You're pressing. Trying a little too hard. Understandable, though.
  12. CDog
    Why can't someone else think a different way than you without it being drastically wrong? I found this especially strange since the rest of the post this came from was basically saying the complete opposite.
  13. CDog
    This sentence got me thinking about something I once pondered probably entirely too much once upon a time. And that's the psychology of the fan that loves to bag on the superstar athlete. I never could understand why a person who purports to be a fan of a game and even a particular team would go on and on and on at times about how much they despise someone who is fantastic at that game (and often for their team) for no apparent reason. During the time I really gave this a lot of consideration, I tried to notice what it was people had to say. The overwhelming thing I kept seeing and hearing and reading was essentially an attempt to inflate themselves in the way of the, "Back in my day..." personality. The "I'd be so much tougher/better/etc" if I were him or the "my expectations are so high" to imply that they're somehow morally superior. Naturally, they don't often quite phrase it exactly that way, but the motivation appeared the same an awful lot. I guess you may be putting that in the brain dead moron category.
  14. CDog
    Absolutely true, although I feel like 2011 was...well, I'll save the 15000 words or so and leave it at what we all know it was. Just...blyack.
  15. CDog
    Agreed. Like I said, I just went to check one thing that was fairly easy to find and something that is often linked to "little things."
  16. CDog
    Nobody cried. People were able to discuss things at an adult level with some thought. Well...some people.
  17. CDog
    What a jerk saying something nice about a teammate!!! What a lousy clubhouse guy. Or....something.
  18. CDog
    Just as a quick test, fewest errors in the majors in 2010 and 2009, Twins were 5th and 2nd.
  19. CDog
    Or you shouldn't use 50% categories to criticize that are you simply basing on things in your imagination. Perhaps we should compare to Roy Hobbs' stats?
  20. CDog
    It was even more bizarre than that description, I think. The thing took a path much like a pool trick shot where they put the english on it so it bends around in an arc. The ball did the same thing on this play. It nearly went out the back of the left handed batter's box, heading toward the backstop before reversing course and curving first toward the Twins dugout and then continuing the turn all the way back into fair territory. Isaac Newton rolled over in his grave.
  21. CDog
    Well now that's interesting. Hadn't really thought of it until you pointed it out. It very well might mean what you say it might mean...but regardless if it means anything or not, it's interesting (to me).
  22. CDog
    I didn't look at that nonsense even once...Did that really happen? Seriously? HOW?!?
  23. CDog
    Fairly sure you meant to have <? Gibson will be well past that by June of next year, if I'm not mistaken.
  24. CDog
    Do you have the statistics to back that up? (That was the first time I've made myself giggle in a while.)
  25. CDog
    At least you're getting better at illustrating where and how your lack of understanding and ability to interpret are rooted.
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