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    The 2 a.m. infomercial clearly stated that the next 10 franchises to call could double their order of washed up simulated vintage relievers and pay only the extra shipping and handling, so I'm not sure how we could fault them.
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    Tim Wakefield isn't doing anything terribly important when he's not color commentarying for Baahhston, and Garver has the shifty look of a knuckleballer to me.
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    Wasn't 2017 supposed to be the year that our bumper crop of college relievers was harvested?
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    It's not bad enough they're getting blown out, you gotta remind me I'm due for a colonoscopy?
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    Funny you should mention that, since there was recently a rumor that Jason Marquis was seen reconstituting near the employee break room at Target Field... http://www.oafe.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/t2d.jpg
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    That seems to have been the preeminent recurring question for the greater part of the past half decade.
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    Another good option to duplicate the Rubechat experience is paintball without eye protection.
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    He at least seems fairly clear on the important point that the players are not being made to serve in the military, so that's something.
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    Nice to see the boys lift Mejia out of the early hole he found himself in. Santana, Berrios, then it's precarious.
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    Willingham was regarded as a potential trade target going into the 2012 winter meetings when he clearly had actual trade value, but Ryan stated publicly that he would not even listen to offers. Doumit and Willngham had both cratered prior to their trades, and managed fewer than 250 combined post-Twins plate appearances before they were out of baseball. They were not dealt, they were disposed of. That's not embracing a commitment to rebuilding, it's just cleaning up the mess left over from not rebuilding.
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    I have no idea what the hostility is about, but your insistence that Willingham and his 2012 3.4 WAR held trade value equal to that of Ryan Doumit and his 2013 0.0 WAR to support your defense of the Twins' alleged rebuilding effort tells me that we are done here.
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    So you're asserting that Willingham had no trade value, but with no rational argument to back that up, it seems like the sort of claim you've reverse engineered solely from the premise that if he did have value, the Twins would have traded him, because, as you also asserted, they were rebuilding. But that's small potatoes compared to your claim that the dumping of Morneau, Liriano, etc when they were at or near the point of zero value to the franchise represented any actual commitment to rebuilding. They were not even remotely in the same vein as the trades of Revere and Span. And it's tiny potatoes compared to implying that those minuscule moves are relevant in any way to the potentially franchise-altering trades of Dozier or Santana.
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    I don't see Castro and Willingham as having remotely similar value to the franchise as either players or trade chips. And by your own all-or-nothing standard, you're essentially arguing that the Twins never chose to retain veteran contribution over the prospect potential it could have brought in trade.
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    You argued that the Twins have been diligently committed to rebuilding during the past several seasons, and I gave an example of a conscious decision they made to act very differently from a typical rebuilding team. I'm not sure how your rhetorical question is supposed to refute that. Your second paragraph makes it clear that you feel that my acceptance of the possibility of a Dozier trade and my disagreement with some previous personnel decisions by the Twins' front office equates to unrealistic and bizarre expectations for a total roster reconstruction, but you're not explaining why. And with regard to the Castro example, he would likely net relatively little in a trade, but more importantly, he serves what I guess the Twins regard as a fairly critical role in working with a pitching staff that ideally will be largely composed of youngsters who need help from a veteran behind the plate. Rebuilding isn't a single-minded purging of age and/or salary, and again, I'm not seeing where I've suggested or implied it should be.
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    If you agree with the Twins' apparent belief five years ago that they were poised to contend in 2013 and that Josh Willingham was essential to that effort, then we have very different impressions of the organization's makeup and direction at that time. And I don't understand why you're deliberately conflating the purging of cost-controlled young stars with the actual rebuilding tradeoffs being considered.
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    The Twins have the largest positive difference in baseball between actual and Pythagorean W/L record. They're 5 games worse by run differential than their record suggests, and since a stellar bullpen is one of the most common ways for a team to sustain a record that outpaces their Pythag projection.... well.... yeah. I'm not saying the Twins should trade Santana or Dozier for a lowball offer, or with a sustainable division lead. I'm just pointing out that they're likely a weaker team in the long run than their record suggests, and need to factor that in to their personnel decisions. Yes, it's great to see the Twins finally play even average baseball, and yes, there's an intangible cost to trading away a veteran or two when the division crown is even superficially within striking distance. But the Twins have already squandered the better part of the first decade in their new ballpark with its larger revenue stream by both failing to contend and refusing to rebuild. They need to commit to one, and fundamental analytic evidence strongly suggests they're still just not ready to compete with the genuinely good teams yet.
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    Man, can they hypnotize these guys into thinking they're on the road when they come back to Target? And I can't help but think of how bad last year got when I imagine Giants fans going from breathing a sigh of relief as Santana came to the plate with two outs to then debating the merits of throwing their televisions out the window.
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    Well, a CGSHO in mid-June never hurts when you're in the hunt for starting the All Star game.
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    The mild-mannered seminars about depreciation and 501©s are just an elaborate cover for what goes on after dark. Glunn's postcard tells only part of the story...
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    Not sure, but I'd be willing to bet that one of the ten lowest totals was set while pitching against the hacktastic Loserville Twins teams of the mid-to-late '90s.
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    Agreed. Have a close friend from high school who lives there and every time I've been out to see him over the past 20 years he's always surprised me with his knowledge of the remarkable experiences the greater San Diego area has to offer...
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    And when you visit, don't forget to set aside a late night, early morning, and some bail/bribe money to broaden your cultural horizons across the border!
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    Good, I was hoping there was at least one GWH fan on the thread who likes apples.
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    Without my being able to resort to random .gifs to distract from my appalling lack of knowledge of hardcore baseball strategy, it would be sort of like having Harpo Marx on the radio. Sight gags only work during booth shots.
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