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  1. Thundershirt: Much like the dog in the image, mine went from panicky to comatose almost instantly. Be sure to set your home defib rig to 'low'.
  2. In my day it was the chafing of the bearskin, but it took your mind off the physics-defying up hill both ways walk to the ball field/gravel quarry...
  3. Sorry, slow internet and other pesky real life issues. Image ok for now? http://www.debunking911.com/deathstar_jpg_w300h265.jpg
  4. Despite my love of bunts, no objection to 3-run homers. He still looks like a combine in the field, but if the bat is working...
  5. Nice, but totally an exaggeration, by a factor of two, or maybe even three.
  6. Yeah. But in purely sabre terms, it's a 1.1 WAR player replacing a -.3 one. And in player terms, it's a mediocre but defensively serviceable veteran offering the Twins a chance to temporarily demote or sit a struggling youngster who, at the moment, has half the Old Country Buffet on his plate.
  7. Kevin Correia has been better than his ERA in almost exactly the same way that my oral surgery last week was less painful and time-consuming than I had expected...
  8. Not sure if May is ready for the majors, but totally certain that when he is, there's room for him in the highest xFip and lowest K rate rotation in MLB. The optimal developmental course for Trevor May and the future of Kevin Correia have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
  9. Maybe something to write on will help... http://yourkidsandsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/LineupCardswithRoster.jpg
  10. Hello, fellow Twins fan! And Woody Allen,
  11. And now my dog and I are little bit closer, knowing how the whole tickle spot thing works... 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  12. Yeah, and all we got in trade was Gomez. Who we traded for Hardy. Who we traded for Hoey. Who put Minnesota on some sort of U.N. sanctions list.
  13. http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/ypp2-w_lf_Q/hqdefault.jpg Wait! What color was the poodle? What happened to the blonde female's clothing? Good night to invoke the Bill James rule about pitching, which is that at any given time, about a tenth of the pitchers in MLB have been left for dead at some point in their careers. Routing for him.
  14. Was looking up the translation of this, but had to stop when my dog asked to go out...
  15. Settlement. Avoids. Trial?
  16. Converted to Twins metric system, great hitting. Tough loss. Gomez didn't announce that he cured the common cold, so Hardy's primary legacy as the guy who brought us Jim Hoey is intact. Go Twins, and person in costume of cheese and beer-infused tube of nasty meat!
  17. http://cdn.bloguin.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/2013/10/bored-baby.png + http://mlblogsourgame.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/abbott-and-costello-naughty-nineties-1945.jpg + http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130312014242/starwars/images/a/ae/Hyperspace_falcon.png Dozie keeps the inning alive!
  18. http://skymovies.sky.com/image/unscaled/2013/01/17/Goodfellas-DI-DI-to-L8.jpg Funny... how? Thanks, for real. Whatever sense of humor might be in my possession is the gift of two parents who were kind of like Carson and McMahon. Then there's my Nick Punto funny work ethic, sliding hard into first to be the first to jab at pitch-to-contact. With a .gif. Game thread is my PED, but trying to cut back. A friend recently told me that my throat area is starting to look like Mcguire's.
  19. Message received. Not willing to work for free any more. What's it gonna take?
  20. Sometimes people wander into the showroom, survey the options, and ask the salesman/new best friend, 'Tell me about this magnificent mechanical horse named... Pinto'. Who is not in the lineup. Again. But because NL park, right?
  21. Garza failing miserably to pitch to contact, yet Twins scoreless. Am confuse.
  22. Look at the bright side. At least it didn't bounce on home plate...
  23. Alan Melvin, aka Sam... Franklin(????, wrong, last name 'Butcher'), 1923-2008. Like to think that when they married, Alice went with 'Alice Maid-Butcher'
  24. Thanks to a late flurry of playing time, Pinto averaged one plate appearance per day over the last two weeks of May. Will be the first to admit that my fear that the Suzuki signing would empower Gardy to ignore Pinto was totally unfounded. And when even fans who don't believe in three catchers want a third catcher to modify the behavior of the manager, well... new manager. Or maybe they just need more Cowabello...
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