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  1. LaBombo
    Long odds,. but maybe the new manager will have a thing for nicknames based on Lord of the Rings, and next year we'll see 100 games caught and 500 AB's from ' Josmeagol'.
  2. LaBombo
    Apparently it's ok to sit on your @ss for a half hour every day in spring training, as long as you practice throwing to first from that position.
  3. LaBombo
    OMG, is he still alive? Picture him being eaten by a bear... in his bunk.
  4. LaBombo
    Pinto Talks Funny Near Gardenhire?
  5. LaBombo
    Or.. a deluge of guns?
  6. LaBombo
    That's more exciting than mine, which is that Gardenhire was driving a certain model of Ford from his home town on OK back to UT Austin, it died right in front of a biker bar in a small Texas town, and it all went reeeally downhill from there...
  7. LaBombo
    Yes, Bert, Gibson needs to put a zero on the board. As long as it doesn't have a one in front of it.
  8. LaBombo
    Googling that phrase reveals that A) there may be a big sale on leaf blowers at Team Menards; even without the legendary 11% discount. and/or they are widely thought to be a bad team. Bad Twins team, not Menards team. You ready to take the heat for pointing the sharp stick? If not, forward it to me. And yes. Blows.
  9. LaBombo
    That's the bodily collection point for all the sensory inputs to the brain. Can you narrow it down?
  10. LaBombo
    We are all happy that you speak pseudoFrench, etc. But that SPR terrifying screech you just heard from the Tiger tank, followed by its dragon belch and lurch to the right down your street, means that it's time to shut off the Edith Piaf record and make sure the detonator wires are connected...
  11. LaBombo
    You rang?
  12. LaBombo
    Fair enough,and thanks for the backing. Maybe we can either sit together behind home plate to show support for a team with a new, winning philosophy, or at least compare lost follicle totals regarding the continued mismanagement of what's going on now.
  13. LaBombo
    Yes.
  14. LaBombo
    Kick some with cookies, foot, or... both?
  15. LaBombo
    Can partially confirm this. Had a summer job helping Jawas scavenge pickled aircraft inside the Davis-Montham boneyard. The cargo cave wall of an early B model bore two elaborate illustrations both signed by an artist named 'USAFChiefSomeday'. One commemorated the Argonauts' final, game-winning touchdown plus the date and final score, and the other appeared to be testament to the otherworldly, uhh, 'flexibility' of a young lady named 'Monique'. Three French words spelled phonetically in English followed her name. Not sure whether to wish or fear I will remember what they were.
  16. LaBombo
    Yeah, left that one off just because of how much better the bullpen has looked than the rotation on a macro level, but the bullpen thing makes me crazy too, especially the purely tactical component of it. Seems like there have been many weeks-long stretches (maybe a little more in 2012 and 2013 than this year. yay!) where the Twins wouldn't play a three-game series without me reacting to a Gardy bullpen decision/non-decision with something ranging from "huh?" to "oh, you gotta be bleeping me" and of course the occasional "WTF, dude!" And that those were just the games I was able to watch. Who knows how many of those episodes it was my good fortune to miss?
  17. LaBombo
    Younger millennials in the food service industry seem hardest hit around here. Hand sanitizer shortage, maybe?
  18. LaBombo
    That's a two way street, and the burden of 'proof', such as it is, officially passed from the 'fire Gardy' sentiment to the 'don't fire Gardy' sentiment when Gardenhire was retained for 2014 after 3 consecutive 90+ - loss seasons. That just doesn't happen. As Gleeman noted again recently, non-expansion managers since WWII don't get to come back for another season after that. Pretty much ever. Yes, TK did, but he had more WS rings than Gardenhire does playoff series wins. And what's been the result of every manager in that span returning after three 90-loss seasons? Another 90+ loss season. Even so, if you want my reasons why he should go, they're probably pretty unsurprising and perhaps even unconvincing, but here goes: Irrational contempt for sabremetrics, lineup- and roster-debilitating pathological fear of losing the DH, obsessive/compulsive hoarding of light-hitting middle infielders, and my unprovable suspicion that while not a leading cause, Rick Anderson's mandatory presence beside Gardenhire really is part of the reason the pitching has been inconsistent and then consistently awful for years. He's probably a good manager even with those faults, and a likeable fellow in any case. But he's had thirteen seasons and some talented rosters yet gone nowhere in the postseason except the year he inherited the team from Kelly. Still, if there are compelling reasons the Twins, not known as a terribly cutting-edge franchise, should ignore 70 years of virtually unanimous conventional baseball wisdom by bringing him back yet again, I'm all ears. Or in this case, eyes.
  19. LaBombo
    Enough to not worry about which way to drive to work based on the price of gas?
  20. LaBombo
    That's when/where you find the best ones. Transgender logistical issues aside, your life is a moral beacon to TD posters everywhere... If that's possible. And I can't imagine how it is. But in fairness to that confusion conclusion, it didn't occur to me until pulling out of the parking spot outside the theater eons ago (well, an eon, anyway) that Nat Portman was both the servant and the princess in whichever Star Wars sequel we were supposed to feign surprise that she was both the servant and the princess.
  21. LaBombo
    Another Twins season ends with the faithful challenged to dream big... Not arguin', just sayin'.
  22. LaBombo
    He checked out. But he can never leave...
  23. LaBombo
    No worries. Wardrobe malfunctions reduced from felony to misdemeanor after that 'Super' Bowl thing. And context aside, it's ok as long as you didn't watch your offspring (no, not The Offspring) step to the plate with the score tied in the 9th and yell 'This is your time to shine!'
  24. LaBombo
    They probably all had their junk, but based on the box score, apparently nobody had their stuff besides maybe Duensing or whoever pitched the ninth that I didn't watch in much the same way as the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and all but the last two outs of the eighth that I didn't watch. The lineup says Pinto caught, which for me more than makes up for a crappy team losing by a touchdown and a field goal on Sunday of NFL's week one.
  25. LaBombo
    Probably not, but like Matt Damon's flight attendant joke in Good Will Hunting working better in the first person, snepp's bit works partly on artistic license. Sort of like when most standup comics do jokes about girlfriends they don't have.
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