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  1. LaBombo
    Was there Sliding involved?
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    Probably, but my guess is that what will turn out to be the worse news for Morrison is that his 2017 ISO of .270 was not only his career year for power, but also a pretty big fluke. That's coming from someone who at least sort of liked the signing. If he gets AB's, his BA and OBP will probably rebound to near 2017 levels when his BABIP overcomes some first half bad luck. But his 2018 ISO of .174 is much closer to his career mark of .187 than to his stellar 2017 plateau of .270, and power is pretty much his only marketable baseball skill, sooooopp...
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    http://www.goodwill.org/wp-content/themes/GII/images/template/Goodwill-logo.png
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    What's with teh crazy talk? Next you'll be claiming this game is only in the 6th inning.
  6. LaBombo
    Like me, you are clearly a fan of consistency.
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    http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PgoP0RSKgl0/TqSAe1uy6fI/AAAAAAAABig/FykBBvlTWzE/s1600/Star+Wars+6+No+Moon.jpg "That's no bullpen, it's a lead-crusher!"
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    Steve likes this
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    Whoa, slow down there, Mr. Oracle, not everybody has your eye for faint signs and subtle trends.
  10. LaBombo
    Hide Belisle's glove so they can't send him in?
  11. LaBombo
    Her face lighting up was the highlight of the game so far.
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    Hey, that Mauer guy is still with the team!
  13. LaBombo
    Nice try. You almost suckered me into burning a 'Like' on a post about something good happening to the Yankees.
  14. LaBombo
    Because milking the last ounce of baseball from a 35 year old quad A catcher might make the difference between 90 losses and 92 losses? This is the kind of answer that happens when you just ask "why...?" instead of 'is there a good reason why...?'. 'Cause then I got nuthin.
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    Grouchy political analyst and terrifying Gollum lookalike James Carville? http://oi68.tinypic.com/2en8ghl.jpg
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    Electricity has been restored in my neighborhood, and with it my ongoing internal debate about how much time and interest this Twins team deserves to have invested in it. But hats off to the xcel employees who got the power back on so quickly; it's not their fault the Twins are meh.
  17. LaBombo
    Every time they tell us Magill is warming up, I catch myself hoping for a second that Tess from Working Girl is about to make another attention-grabbing entrance, but no luck so far.
  18. LaBombo
    The generic FS1 broadcast team is unintentionally hammering home a point tonight that should be very concerning to Twins management, which is that in the absence of the usual blatant homerism, human interest minutae, and Rosario's All Star snub stuff you get with the standard FSN broadcast, the product that the franchise put on the field tonight is virtually impossible to sell to an audience as a team worth watching.
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    Don't make the first or last out at third? Pffft. Conventional baserunning wisdom doesn't apply to a meteorite in very near earth orbit like the 6'2" - 240 lb. sLoMo.
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    Jim seems like a very decent guy and he and his family have been extremely active and generous philanthropists over the years, and the Twins moved into a very nice new ballpark during his tenure as CEO of the Twins executive board. But if memory and a little internet research serves, Jim and his brothers had very little to do with the WS titles, which are now over a quarter century behind us. They really didn't become active in the decision-making process until their father's health declined in the year prior to his passing in 2009. I don't know about anyone else, but I would be hesitant to seek attention for a medical issue from someone whose main qualification was that their dad or mom was a doctor. Owning a MLB franchise may not be brain surgery, but it's certainly demanding enough that simply inheriting a team is not a sufficient qualification for success. Under Jim's tenure as CEO, the Twins have squandered nearly ten years in their new ballpark with nothing to show for it but a couple of pretender-not-contender seasons and potentially one of the most disappointing slow-motion rebuilding efforts that I've seen from a Minnesota sports franchise in my adult lifetime. The current front office should probably get another year or so to sort things out, but it's hard to feel optimistic about the direction of the franchise after what amounts to nearly a decade of futility under Jim Pohlad's leadership.
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    CaveMan, unfrozen! Our world no longer frightens and confuses him.
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    If that reason is "His defense will be so poor as to play a significant role in holding back the team from improving from 4th worst in the American League to a playoff contender" or "The 35 year old, .347 OPS, -0.6 WAR journeyman's defense is better", then I'm withholding my support for the 'good' part of it.
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    "And with that last Littel shot, the mighty Twins juggernaut succumbed. The bleary-eyed TD patrons bade their good-byes and trudged out into the night feeling empty inside, yet already resigned to the fact that they would return the following night to witness the same sad spectacle all over again..."
  24. LaBombo
    Next you're probably going to tell us that a hollow counting stat that predates the first manned landing on the moon is not a great gauge of reliever performance.
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    Yup, you can see him loosening up already:
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