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  1. LaBombo
    Good add. He's over .260 now.
  2. LaBombo
    Dozier's hair went deep. Other than that, you really nailed it.
  3. LaBombo
    The bullpen will rightly take the brunt of the frustration from this series, but seeing Santiago get slapped around again should help the more optimistic fans continue to grasp the absurdity of the notion that the rotation is just a fifth starter away from leading the charge to a Central Division crown. Sorry if that sounds overly negative, but I promised Aggies yesterday that I would stand in for him with some negativity in today's game thread. Unfortunately, it's also true.
  4. LaBombo
    So do I, and thus I find myself asking the question "What is he doing on a team that lost 103 games last season?"
  5. LaBombo
    http://media.ifunny.com/results/2012/11/18/dohj2qdcpf.jpg
  6. LaBombo
    I should be here for the second half of the game tomorrow if you'd like a breather.
  7. LaBombo
    Look at the bright side. Being swept by a contender at home will make the overhaul of the bullpen less of an emergency priority, like fixing a leaking roof, and more of a summer-long project... like wiring the storage shed for a refrigerated beer tap.
  8. LaBombo
    Agreed. http://i.imgur.com/2gKeadU.png
  9. LaBombo
    Mauer's had a great year in the field, but you could hear the ball clank against his Gold Glove on the one-hopper from Polanco.
  10. LaBombo
    Probably whoever started our tab when the Twins lost the lead...
  11. LaBombo
    Try not to think of him as even having a batting average against the Twins, and instead just think of it positively: "Remember that time the Twins got Altuve out?" http://cdn.meme.am/instances/59052020.jpg
  12. LaBombo
    The creeping onset of a seventh straight year of irrelevance can tax even the most diehard company man.
  13. LaBombo
    I love visiting there, but my job prevents me from moving to live there full time.
  14. LaBombo
    Five innings, 4 Ernies, 4 BB's, 104 pitches. That's not good, but it could have been sooooooo much worse if he had unraveled.
  15. LaBombo
    This is a team that had a neutral run differential before the 8 run drubbing today. It has one good starter and two good starts from a very nice prospect. It has two position players who are more than one win above replacement, one of whom is a journeyman outfielder who can barely play the outfield. In other words, the Twins are ALMOST EXACTLY what you would expect that a young 100-loss team which stood pat in the off season should be. They're better, but they're still not good. And giving up a prospect or two for 30 innings of middle relief isn't going to change that. It might make a 78 win team (Fangraphs' projection prior to the loss today) into an 80 win team. I guess my question would be 'Why would you want to?'. In any case, this is a franchise that, by its own admission, went heavy on college relievers in the draft. As disappointing as the yield has been compared to the investment, a rebuilding franchise needs to promote prospects, not trade them for meaningless wins.
  16. LaBombo
    The discussion of whether/when Mejia will become a major league starter and what his ceiling might be reminds me a little of the debate about Deduno, and the ongoing candlelight vigil for his Twins career that lasted right up until the moment he was claimed from waivers, made three starts for the Astros, and then vanished from the majors. No, they're not terribly similar pitchers, and Mejia is much younger than Deduno was when the Twins go hold of him. But like Deduno, Mejia is more promise than pitching at the moment. and the Twins have been largely dreadful at converting the former to the latter as of late. Any projection of Mejia's ceiling beyond a Tommy Milone-type pitcher at this moment is strictly a product of his youth.
  17. LaBombo
    He might also end up being the first guy ever to be thrown out while advancing on defensive indifference.
  18. LaBombo
    C'mon, Rosie, at least add a virtually meaningless RBI to make the Rays sweat a little!
  19. LaBombo
    Earthquake prevention?
  20. LaBombo
    Rifle shot right at the center fielder. Damn your perfect swing, Kepler!
  21. LaBombo
    Rays going for the four out save with Colome. Next you're gonna tell me it's legal to use the closer in a tie game...
  22. LaBombo
    Oy K.
  23. LaBombo
    Sano with some lumberjack cuts lately. If that lumberjack were trying to chop down a highly elusive and agile tree.
  24. LaBombo
    It was so bad that even he had to laugh at it. It sounds like he might be the kind of guy who'd rather see a silly highlight of himself after he retires than none at all, which is the way I'd want to think of if something like that happened to me. Come to think of it, something like that does happen to me, usually at least once a week, just not on a baseball field.
  25. LaBombo
    His ERA is a hefty 7.80, but his xFIP is a comparatively svelte 5.89. So Politifact rates this Dickensian fact http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/08/03/tom.mostly.art.jpg , and yet utterly meaningless.
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