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  1. LaBombo
    A little hobby of Joe's mom when she's not thwarting Agents or evading jimbo while riding against traffic. http://www.matrixfans.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/matrix-debbie-evans.jpg
  2. LaBombo
    And the Homeland is all the more secure for his bravery. http://www.movieactors.com/images-3/john-belushi/john-belushi-1941-pic1.jpg
  3. LaBombo
    And also his brother Mo'. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s2TJWkQMLI8/VUfisEo355I/AAAAAAAAk4E/_ReptYdtX6s/s640/Moe-Howard+(6).jpg
  4. LaBombo
    And that's where it all went wrong for you.
  5. LaBombo
    Hey, take it easy. Just yesterday I was wondering how much California hospitality Alex Meyer must have inhaled to end up in one of the other team's uniforms.
  6. LaBombo
    The answer is almost entirely dependent on how you define the word "flying" in your question... http://i.imgur.com/Fcmd7R8.jpg
  7. LaBombo
    I didn't even know he had finished med school.
  8. LaBombo
    Another brilliant play in the field by Mauer. He continues his bid to become the first 5+ WAR first baseman with a below-average OPS.
  9. LaBombo
    Watching Gibson pitch to Pujols as he sits at HR #599 is like watching a drunk college kid run through a fireworks warehouse while wearing a vest made of lit magnesium flares. It's just a matter of time.
  10. LaBombo
    Their average height is really driven down by that little reserve player with the white hair...
  11. LaBombo
    This is exactly the point which I argued, to no avail of course, when defending my appropriation of my dad's Visa card to pay for a home massage as a college graduation present to myself.
  12. LaBombo
    http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q685/amplesalty/Christmas%202013/8%20-%20Grinch%20-%20Mr%20Bean/1_zps2fc67f76.png
  13. LaBombo
    If you've managed to avoid being caught up in the unrealistic expectations for Twins pitching, that's very commendable, but it doesn't change the fact that those expectations have been a staple of the false hopes for this wounded franchise for some time now. Or maybe I just imagined those hopeful posts about Andrew Albers after his lottery-winner CGSHO, right up until he was unceremoniously FedEx'd to Korea. And while I would point out that I'm not comparing Mejia to Albers, given the weird, uncomfortable, legal deposition tone of the conversation, I feel certain that it will do no good. In summary, if you see no connection between past Twins pitching disappointments/unmet expectations and the rush to board the S.S. Mejia and its 5 xFip and six starts averaging just over 4 innings per, then I'm both envious and, like you, mystified.
  14. LaBombo
    Well, when you use a banned substance, even if only accidentally, in order to control your weight, you've opened the door to concerns about body mass. The Giants had him on a weight limit during his time in their minor league system, but the Twins have not. The unofficial version of their stance on his spring training weight was that they were pleased he was 'less roly poly' than in 2016, which is simultaneously mildly encouraging and not a ringing endorsement. On the other hand, CC Sabathia has pitched extremely well throughout most of his entire 17 year MLB career with a physique that suggests he may have eaten a major appliance for lunch, and he seems to have adapted quite nicely, other than his infamous tantrums over not being allowed to use his Sail Barge to field bunt attempts.
  15. LaBombo
    Since I specifically described the operative Milone comparison as being a MLB 4 ERA and 6 IP/start, I'm not sure why you're on about me painting Mejia as an AAAA swing man. And while any ball player about to turn 24 probably has upside just by definition, Mejia was very specifically labelled by an assessment I read about the trade as being available partly because he didn't have a pitch that projected as a plus MLB offering, other than his nice (55) but not brilliant fastball. That's not a lot of upside despite his youth. At any rate, despite the deconstruction of the details, I think the pushback against my brake tap on expectations for a young pitcher with a 5.01 MLB xFip and just 27 innings pitched in 6 starts has justified my actual point: Mejia right now just generates a sense of deja vu for me, in that we've been down the road of unmet expectations for Twins pitching prospects seemingly a thousand times in this decade. Despite that, I'm optimistic about Mejia, but only within the context of the fact that the Twins have been at the Mendoza line of pitching development for a long, long time.
  16. LaBombo
    I agree that Mejia is much younger, a fact I hinted at vaguely with the cryptic phrase "Mejia is much younger". But the point of the admittedly ill-advised Deduno comparison, who in fairness I said Mejia is only a little like, was the idea of how badly the Twins have struggled recently to harness the raw stuff and/or the minor league success of pitching prospects and turn it into major league success. As for the Milone comp for Mejia's ceiling, Mayday churned out multiple 100+ inning seasons of 4.00ish ERA/xFip starts and average a bit over 6 innings per start in doing so. Not only do I stand by that assessment as Mejia's likely top end, I think the Twins, in their present state at the very least, would consider a 4 ERA, 6+ IP per start lefty a godsend, if not literally a gift from God himself.
  17. LaBombo
    Fair enough. Maybe I'm just a little less high on Mejia because he's seemed at least temporarily jinxed in my eyes by the supremely odd Molitor endorsement, "I think Mejia is attractive". There's a better name than Deduno as a comp, but I'm too lazy to think of it. He's just a recent example of a guy who Twins fans tried to will across the finish line but who turned out not to have "it". I have higher hopes for Mejia, and his youth alone assures that he'll get plenty of opportunity to translate his fully realized pitches and his minor league stats into major league success. At any rate, I agree with much of what you said, though I would say I see Mejia as a "stable lefty rotation staple" in the foreseeable future rather than for the foreseeable future. And I will stand by my assessment that the Twins have struggled to develop pitchers until the day I tip over.
  18. LaBombo
    Yes. More like 'Let's chug two!'
  19. LaBombo
    http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wRwVC6eAVZU/VgTh53gFR8I/AAAAAAAB14Y/H17sBu_Qjqc/s1600/1057579212.jpg
  20. LaBombo
    The Twins went into this series outperforming their Pythagorean projection by 5 wins, and the two most commonly credited reasons for wins exceeding Pythag are an exceptional bullpen and brilliant managerial maneuvering. Therefore we can expect the good ship TwinkieTown to right itself any moment now...
  21. LaBombo
    The Twins might need to up for a series or two just so league allows these games to remain valid wins for the Astros.
  22. LaBombo
    Fortunately, the sparking peripherals are still intact.
  23. LaBombo
    I think the late Bill Paxton summed up the current state of the Twins bullpen pretty succinctly as Pvt. Hudson, after the dropship crash in Aliens: "We're in some real pretty $#!t now, man!!!"
  24. LaBombo
    See, there's a positive! You just have to know where to look. And be able to squint so hard your eyelids ache.
  25. LaBombo
    Sadly his triples count has not kept pace with his torrid walk rate this season, so there's little chance he'll be able to match his spectacularly odd 2015 feat of matching triples and walks totals. 15, I think it was.
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