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  1. Riverbrian
    One site says 2... another says 4. It is different opinion or methodology and has no sway on if we make the playoffs or not. With my methodology. I will not include records from previous years because this a whole new year with new players. Even the old players are new with a fresh metrics. Record... Run Differential... Home Runs... Team ERA are just a few of the things that tell me the Twins should be near the top. If someone says they are not. OK with me.
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    I've seen Buxton over run balls before. Not only does he get to the ball. He is so fast that often times he over runs it and has to reach behind him to make the catch.
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    Pole Vaulting began a long time ago. Europeans used to use poles to cross water filled canals with the goal being distance and not height. In the late 1800's they started competing for height. They used Bamboo Poles with a sharp point on the end. The competition was held on grass and the pole vaulters landed on grass. The record back in 1896 was 10 feet 2 inches. As time progressed they improved technique and materials and the record of 10 feet 2 inches started increasing until pole vaulters were falling too far and landing on a hard surface, naturally injuries started to occur. The injuries would have stopped the sport all together if it wasn't for the... Umm... MAT and as pole vaulters continued to go higher... the mat was replaced by the full scale landing pit because they realized that the mat needed to be improved. The history of all sports is to go higher and faster than ever before. Telling a baseball player to lay up goes against the history of all sports. Improving the surroundings in the name of safety so the athlete can go higher and faster is how it is supposed to work.
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    I don't want him to stop doing that. Pad the walls with Marshmellows or something. On a hot summer day... Let Buxton come out of the wall looking like this with the ball in his glove.
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    In all seriousness... This is what baseball needs right now... this very second and shouldn't wait until tomorrow. They need to market their players and their stories. Baseball sucks at this. The baseball audience is primarily old white and male. They are not going to grow trying to get more old, white and male audiences. They will grow by reaching all the others. Telling the stories of players will help baseball reach new audiences. My wife will sit and watch Survivor, the Bachelor and the Voice just to see who gets voted off. She watches the produced biographies of each contestant and she listens to what they have to say and why these moments are important to them and she lets those production pieces determine who she wants to get chosen and then she watches to see who gets chosen. While my wife watches these shows... I tell her that Baseball has all of this ten times over. Players are voted off the island all the time but baseball does a crappy job of telling their stories and as a result... declining numbers and poor name recognition beyond the baseball fan elite. I told my wife about Smeltzer surviving cancer as a 9 year old... She listened to his parents being interviewed... She watched the game and cared about Smeltzer. I love the Smeltzer story but there are a lot of stories that need to be told. Tell them and baseball has a chance of increasing it's audience base.
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    I have no idea what is happening in that clubhouse but I do know this. I've seen Momentum. I've seen teams that win continue to win and you notice the confidence, good times and good play. All of that is a natural by-product of winning. I've seen teams that lose continue to lose as they smash water coolers trying to figure out why things are just not happening for them and I've seen the finger pointing when the missed cuts occur and all the frustration that is a natural by-product of losing. Chicken or the Egg? I have no idea but if all it takes for winning is clubhouse chemistry and happiness. Put Bobby McFerrin on a loop over the loudspeaker and go wins some baseball games with the positive mojo that you create for yourself.
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    Clearly we have a problem with the other 11 players on the roster.
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    My sense of humor is dry. So... the reactions I get are a lost stare while they ponder if I'm serious.
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    After watching Smeltzer last night. This morning I'm thinking."I really love baseball".
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    Last year the bullpen was over used. This year the bullpen is under used. I've have some friends who are farmers and it is either not raining enough or raining too much.
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    The big question for me with Jefferies is this. How in the... did he catch that ball?
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    Yeah.. Milwaukee can play. Sometimes the other team plays well.
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    No need for weekly power rankings with that format.
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    There is way too much "Oh God, Adrianza is in the lineup today" mentality taking place. I also believe we are better off with Cron but you are absolutly right... this team is a total sum of it's parts and I do not believe that Mauer instead of Cron means more losses especially when you consider that there are days when Adrianza is in the lineup while Cron is on the bench and especially when you consider that Joe is a pretty good ball player in his own right. We are not talking about Taylor Motter when we talk about Joe Mauer. The 23 Million saved didn't go straight into the Nelson Cruz bank account. Souhan wrote an article that tells me, he isn't really paying attention to things and if he isn't paying attention to things, I'll have to limit the attention I pay to him.
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    I just got a MLB At-Bat notification on my phone this morning with the fresh power ranking. Twins were 4th behind the Astro's, Dodgers and Yankees. Apparently we have to win another 5 in a row to get to third.
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    Yep... They have meetings and numerous email exchanges between the air talent, producers, program directors, sales directors. In those meetings and emails they talk about the need for even more Yankee, Dodger, Red Sox coverage because that is where the numbers that gain them a larger audience are. Bob in Little Falls listening to the broadcast waiting for a good Twins discussion just can't compete with the potential audience of Yankee fans who want Cashman fired because Arenado signed an extension with the Rockies. They all know how the bread gets buttered.
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    That’s a fair enough point and I have no doubt that many teams think (at least act) that way but I’ll continue to contend as I have over and over again. Depth, Flexibilty and multiple options are always possible and also the absolute critical duty of every front office to provide every team. Regardless if they are considered contenders or rebuilding. I suspect that signing Mauer to a one year deal would have cost us Cron and possibly Austin. But It should not prevent Cruz just like Cron didn’t prevent Cruz.
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    I work in an office with 25 people. Nobody ever goes behind anyone's back. Nobody ever points fingers at people directly. Nobody ever gets mad at anyone else. I find this video clip to be completely out of the realm of normal.
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    People like you make it hard to hate the Indians.
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    I've never tracked it and I haven't looked it up... But I'm thinking that we've had quite a few years over the past couple of decades when the team home run total for the ENTIRE YEAR would be around the ball park of where we are on May 26th this year.
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    There are no slouches in major league baseball. Every team is going to win 54 and every team is going to lose 54... The other 54 games will determine the order of the draft. The Giants can beat the Dodgers on any given night. THEY JUST CAN"T BEAT THE TWINS (HIGH FIVE).
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    I have to remind myself every once in awhile. "Oh Yeah... We got Cruz to". It's pretty incredible when Cruz on the DL is easily forgotten.
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    In a nutshell... here is what bugs me. The majority of us on Twinsdaily can call out the bull crap. When it comes to knowledge... we are the elite. Have you ever tried to talk with the average fan at our level. You can’t talk about Royce Lewis because most don’t know who Royce Lewis is. They might be able to say... I like this Schoop fella. Where did he come from? After you get through talking about his prove it contract. So here is what bugs me. A majority of people who read the column... just might believe it. Since it’s in print and all.
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