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  1. LaBombo
    Obi wan Sano-bi using the force to reach second safely. "You don't need to hold the big man to a single". http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/018/682/obi-wan.jpg White Sox outfielder: "You can go about your double. Move along" http://67.media.tumblr.com/4704c338af54e9aa4721f2c89d3767b4/tumblr_mqxy6op7Xj1rth2h5o1_400.gif
  2. LaBombo
    Meanwhile, halfway around the world, Vargas causes more Japanese interest in Major League Baseball than any player since Ichiro... http://cdn.history.com/sites/2/2015/06/hith-alaska-earthquake-E.jpeg
  3. LaBombo
    Poor old Jimmer Ray...
  4. LaBombo
    Jim Carrey and Kurt Suzuki: separated at birth?
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  6. LaBombo
    Little-known fact: Hawk owns a smart car that's powered by his own sense of self-satisfaction.
  7. LaBombo
    Glad you liked it. For the uninitiated, try Shonen Knife's bouncy cover of The Carpenters' "On Top of the World". It's a little bit like an American punk garage band hijacking a Manilla karaoke bar.
  8. LaBombo
    'Flying Jelly Attack' by Shonen Knife...
  9. LaBombo
    Yeah. We've survived Sano in right, Dantana at the plate, and Jepsen as closer. Polanco throwing a few rainbows to first isn't going to kill us. The Twins need to know what they have in him and in other not-yet-established players, and so will a new GM.
  10. LaBombo
    That may be partly because there was concern about Antony's willingness and ability to get a good return on expendable veterans. There's enough precedent that one could envision Antony proudly touting a newly acquired pitching prospect's AAA win/loss record. In that context the Mejeia trade is a home run.
  11. LaBombo
    This has probably been mentioned, but one of Mejeia's pluses is that his floor is projected to be reasonably decent for a guy without a high ceiling. With prospects in general and those of rebuilding teams in particular, it's easier (and more fun) to think in terms of ceiling, but with the Twins being unable to count on Hughes or Nolasco in the rotation next year and with ceiling guys like Berrios and Gonsalves in the pipeline, a floor guy like Mejeia could serve an important purpose by keeping the Twins from once again overpaying a back of the rotation free agent.
  12. LaBombo
    Good to know, but sort of what I expected. It would be fun to see Adalberto have a go at the Twins rotation, but compared to the disappointment of seeing Nunez fizzle out in a year and net nothing in return, waiting until next season to see Mejia is just waiting until Christmas morning to open presents, as opposed to getting a lump of coal in your stocking.
  13. LaBombo
    That's more or less my feeling, but if all he does is go six most of the time, keep the ERA around 4.50, and, like you said, give them the flexibility to get younger and cheaper, then job well done, Acting Captain.
  14. LaBombo
    The BProp report also places his changeup as his third pitch, rating it good but with room for improvement in deceptiveness with arm motion and in arm slot consistency. I'm not sure what Allen's track record is with fine tuning changeups, but it seems to me that the Twins in general have had quite a bit of success in developing and/or fixing the changeup in young pitchers as much or more than any other pitch.
  15. LaBombo
    No. You've still failed to make a point, or even really post anything coherent. Antony didn't know an xFIP from an Orange Whip in 2010, and had nothing but a USAToday counting stat factoid to explain the Twins' valuation of Dozier when discussing his contract extension last season. Feel free to post contrary references, but otherwise I have less than zero interest in your opinion of him, let alone your sarcasm. And then you called McPhail's five year run with a small market team that included a world championship and 90 win season a FAILURE that equates to Ryan's FIVE (since you're counting McPhail's incomplete '94) 90+loss seasons in six years, which is beyond laughable, so we're done here.
  16. LaBombo
    First, at no point did I say that hiring outside is "a sure answer", so you're just dead wrong there. Second, you've again failed utterly to explain how two unsuccessful outside hires prove anything, or even why you brought them up. Third, you still haven't even acknowledged that you don't have a SINGLE example of an assistant GM from a failed front office who's succeeded as GM of his team or even been promoted to that team's GM position for that matter. Fourth, what's your source to dispute the multiple interviews with Antony in which he displays a clear lack of knowledge of relevant, widely accepted baseball metrics? Other than that, though, spot on reply.
  17. LaBombo
    Three years ago Joe Mauer was an .880 OPS catcher and arguably still one of the 10 best position players in baseball. Two years ago Joe Mauer was recovering from his brain injury and playing his first ever full season at first base, where he proved much less valuable than he had been at catcher. One year ago, Joe Mauer played a full, mostly healthy season at first in which he consumed over 20 million dollars of payroll and played at the level of a replacement player at age 32. This year he appears to be establishing that last year was very likely his true level of value as a player, meaning we know now for the first time that the Twins will almost certainly play the next two seasons with roughly twenty percent of their projected payroll committed to a player who will do almost nothing to help them win. While I can certainly see not wanting to talk about that, it seems at least somewhat relevant to me when discussing how one of the worst teams in baseball is going to go about attempting to turn things around.
  18. LaBombo
    It's not that I missed your point. It's that your point is a flawed, straw man argument and that you failed to back it up with relevant examples. And now you've done so again, but at least you switched to bad baseball examples, so that's something. You found two examples of relatively unsuccessful outside hire GMs. And? Given that just based on odds alone, GMs in general are not successful in MLB, what does that prove, especially when I can effortlessly name two recent outside hire GMs that are currently among the more successful in MLB? So my previous question remains unanswered. How many MLB teams have hired a GM from within who was a part of a run of futility like the ones the Twins have seen since 2010? And if it is in fact a rarity to promote an assistant GM or the like from within an endemic culture of failure, why is Antony the man to break out of that pattern and set a new precedent? The only reason I can imagine would be his ability to bring something new to the table, like... oh, maybe the rigorous application of new analytical tools to player evaluation. Antony's most notable difference from his peers, by contrast, is probably his apparent disinterest in analytics.
  19. LaBombo
    Oh, c'mon, Mike, don't not hire Antony for that when there are so many even better reasons not to hire him! That's like filling up on salad and dinner rolls at OCB!
  20. LaBombo
    So that's... one example of an organization, one that's not even a major league baseball team, that hired an 'outsider' and failed. And it's interesting that you chose an executive whose most noteworthy and defining trait was not that he came from outside the organization that hired him, but rather that he came from outside the ranks of executives with player personnel experience, and with predictable results. Maybe it would be more compelling, or at least relevant, to list the major league baseball teams that have achieved noteworthy success with a GM who was promoted from an executive spot that he held through over half a decade of averaging more than 90 losses per season. Finding those names may take a good long while, but my guess is that typing them all probably won't.
  21. LaBombo
    Duuuude! Putting a fantasy hitter on the bench vs. the Twins is like storing fireworks in a bucket of water.
  22. LaBombo
    Wanted to laugh at this, but not sure if... http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12089630/images/1284526412078.jpg ... anti-sexism sting operation or not.
  23. LaBombo
    Dick: "The Twins' bullpen has undergone a major facelift since the start of the season". True, but with the trade deadline and roster expansion, we probably haven't seen the final version yet... http://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/02-botch-plastic-surgeries-donatella-versace-lifestyle-1.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&w=780
  24. LaBombo
    Doing the job, just not in the "classical sense of the word 'job' ".
  25. LaBombo
    I knew I had seen that Vargas 'run' from third to home before, and I finally tracked it down on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFufoOgCMW8 Below: An opposing catcher having a quick bite as he holds the ball and waits for Vargas and a play at the plate. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-veSEU_UNGGQ/VcaTCGShDRI/AAAAAAAAlc4/caMmCdokL1I/s1600/MontyPythonHolyGrail_181Pyxurz.jpg
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