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  1. LaBombo
    Like French military uniforms, Suzuki batting 6th or higher is a universally recognized sign of surrender.
  2. LaBombo
    They found a Baby Plouffe bar in the town pool one summer when I was in grade school. Dang thing was shut down for a week. http://i0.wp.com/mlpguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Pool.gif
  3. LaBombo
    Commemorative postcards suitable for framing already at the print shop waiting for Twins promo dept. to pick up. http://www.navycthistory.com/images/tray2_058sml.jpg
  4. LaBombo
    http://www.momsteam.com/files/images/Safe_Batting_Practice_Pitching_Position.jpg?
  5. LaBombo
    Solo home run to one of the hottest hitters in baseball? OK. Han Solo and Chewbacca waving goodbye as the Millennium Falcon heads for the upper deck home run courtesy of a decidedly unhot .200 hitter? Not OK.
  6. LaBombo
    Nor do I, not right away at least. But given how much they invested in continually overestimating Hicks, it seems to me like they probably still valued him highly enough even after last season that they wouldn't have traded him if they felt they were getting just a disposable 'Butera 1.1' catch-and-throw guy in return. My guess is that they hoped JRM would learn from Suzuki in 2016 while giving them enough production to only ask Suzuki to catch 100-110 games instead of the absurd 130 he had in 2015, and then cross their fingers and hope that he might develop enough at the plate to take over for Suzuki before Zukes flamed out entirely. That's not to say the Twins were misguided enough to see JR as 'The Answer' at catcher, either right away or in the long run as the 120 games/year guy for a contender. Then again, it's the Twins, so who the hell really knows what they're thinking at this point.
  7. LaBombo
    On the other hand, Aaron Hicks was Plan A for two years running, when his floor/worst case scenario/tenth percentile projection was worse than it is now. I completely agree that Hicks would have been a less-than-ideal 'break glass in case of spontaneous prospect combustion' option this year to placehold in CF if Buxton needed to brew longer. But Hicks would also have been, at the very least, a step up fom the heady days of Clete Thomas trying to put out the fire in center field when Hicks himself flamed out in 2013. And yet despite the Twins ending up turning to a worse option in Mastro again, it's hard for me to be very down on the Twins for trading Hicks. But it's not because I don't think they gave up a strong 4th OF candidate in Hicks. No, my reason for being ok with the Hicks trade was that it showed a realization (albeit an awfully belated one) on the part of the Twins that their faith in Suzuki as a starter was dreadfully misplaced. That's how low my expectations have sunk with the Twins: didn't like that they gave up Hicks, didn't like who they got for him, and yet happy about the trade because it meant that the Twins had finally realized Suzuki < MLB starter. Baby steps.
  8. LaBombo
    Another point in favor of Hicks as the 4th OF would have been that he's already a pretty good hitter when batting right-handed (.257/.347/.418). That made him a good choice to platoon with Arcia and pinch hit for him, in addition to his ability to serve as an excellent defensive sub for him. It would also make him a good choice to spot start for Rosario occasionally against tough lefties.
  9. LaBombo
    Unlike most of the crazy things I say, that was on purpose. Hence the reference to having to 'turn away'- the play by play was so cringe-inducing that it made me deliberately stop picturing it in my head. Good to know someone was paying attention to what I wrote, though . Normally I would at least feel a little disappointed about not watching the Twins to get yard work done, and probably more than a little tempted to procrastinate or take a long 'water break' in front of the tube if the Twins threatened a big inning at bat. Today it didn't occur to me to get the game on the radio until the first inning was over, and pruning shrubs and splitting hostas never once proved onerous enough to tempt me to take a TV break. Normally I do just enough yard work and landscaping here at Casa de Bombo to avoid dirty looks from the neighbors, but the 2016 Twins seem bent on driving me to compete for some sort of non-existent 'Most Improved Yard' award this year. And if they keep getting swept by teams who stunk last year, I might finish adding on a room by the All Star break.
  10. LaBombo
    Yard work this afternoon so I was only able to watch on the radio, and even then I had to turn away when the baserunning, passed ball/wild pitch, and fielding hijinx were happening. About the only time the Twins were the good kind of surprising to me during this second sweep by the Crime Sox was when they managed both a reprisal plunk and then to pry themselves off the bench to respond to the display of Royals-esqe fake outrage by Chicago's second best team. Ugh.
  11. LaBombo
    D " There was something in the air that night, the lights were bright, Fernando. But it was not the ball, my friend, hide in the pen, Fernando".
  12. LaBombo
    Ftfy.
  13. LaBombo
    Yup, except if they were pulled off the field before finishing the game, NOBODY would chant "Let them play!" http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qYyQGkX4aVA/VcSgL2Hr7sI/AAAAAAAAtAA/8891VumwRes/s1600/LET%2BDEM%2BPLAY.png
  14. LaBombo
    And more to the point, are there openings next semester and can I count it toward a master's degree?
  15. LaBombo
    If we had a different Ryan running the Twins.... Dear Robin, Please stop whining about your guy getting plunked after you plunked our only guy who can hit, or else I'll come out there and put you in a headlock again. Sincerely, Nolan http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--qUq3OUhb--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/1370958576900849808.jpg
  16. LaBombo
    From the Twins own website recap of the game on Wednesday: Dozier's homer not enough after pitchers falter In case you're one of the lucky people who had already forgotten, the Twins lost that game 16-4.
  17. LaBombo
    Yup. The games are brutal enough without any friendly fire casualties.
  18. LaBombo
    No need to worry. You're home, twinssporto. You're home.
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  20. LaBombo
    Tentative 'like' given, just in case... ... inadvertent schadenfreude.
  21. LaBombo
    Three bunts a week, or you're on the regional jet to Rochester, in the smelly seat closest to the lav. Just ask Buxton.
  22. LaBombo
    I'm leaning toward hoping they push him instead.... ...but it's probably a little early in the season to DFA a guy who would have been the staff ace 3 years ago. But if he can't be effective in the pen, well.... On a team that could be just a few weeks away from being virtually eliminated from the postseason and as a result, in need of many, many innings to audition and season young pitchers, Milone is just a luxury they won't be able to afford.
  23. LaBombo
    #%@^& pressboard baby grand. p.i. t. a. assembly required, more swaybacked than an old grey mare, and now I find out that it doesn't even count for nullifying jinxes. @#$%^!
  24. LaBombo
    Surviving bad Twins games is a team sport, so we'll take our share of the blame for a lack of knocking on wood like you asked. Btw, does Ikea stuff count?
  25. LaBombo
    Well, they're still not the 2012-14 Twins' brand of bad, which were both bad and hopeless teams. I'll give ya that. But the 'Stros nabbed 2nd to last in the AL from the Twins fair and square tonight. Guess we just tip our caps and wait for these two titans to clash again tomorrow.
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