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Nunez > Dozier At this moment

Next time a ball is hit up the middle... Tell me that the grounds crew didn't design a middle finger into the grass. Right above 2nd Base.

I was singing "Start Me Up" over and over again and I told the Doc that I don't even like that song. He said it was a case of Mick Jagger syndrome and I can't always get what I want.

I'm thinking about getting up at 6AM and just going to the game tomorrow. Get one of those Bomber hats for myself

Morris was suggesting pitching around Mauer to face Sano. Sano with the bases loaded? I think I'd face Mauer... May not work out but yeah... I wouldn't want the bases jammed for Sano.

If my wife would let me... I'd be naked right now.

Yes.. yes it does But... It also makes you normal so it ends up being OK.

Sebastian Bach Lead Vocals... He's Crazy and he's Canadian. His Brother Played Goalie in the NHL

Listen... it was a mistake from my youth. Now that I'm older... I know how to better handle that situation... I should have waited about 15 minutes and then jumped out from behind the bush and yelled SURPRISE!!! I bet the Girl would have made a noise of sorts. If I only knew then... what I know now.

The Twins locker room must be like Panama City Beach during spring break. Joe Mauer probably sits there, looks at it all and shakes his head. Then he puts on his suit and tie... grabs his briefcase... and heads for home after a long day at work. He's hoping that supper was kept warm... he wants to put on his slippers, read his newspaper and enjoy his pipe in his favorite chair. Of course... June was waiting for him to come home... because Beaver has locked himself in the bathroom because Eddie Haskell told him he looked more like a capybara. The issues of youth... Joe is in the middle of it all and he needs to be Ward Cleaver right now. "They call us problem child... We spend our lives on Trial... We walk an endless mile..." The Twins are the Youth Gone Wild. Here are some things to think about: 1. Berrios and Duffey and Meyer -- The Pitching Staff underwent a bit of an overhaul... a youthening... if you allow me to make up my own word. One 16-inning loss (that we should have won) and we are shoving vets on the disabled list like it's the Sunshine Meadows Nursing Home. It was exciting to watch Berrios no matter the result of his first start... we all want to believe that he will become that Ace this organization has needed since the mortgage crisis. It's good to see Duffey back... he was incredible in the back half of 2015 and I'm hoping he can be incredible again. Meyer... haven't seen him yet and some are concerned about his lack of mound work since coming to Minnesota. Although... keep in my mind... that last time Meyer was handed the keys to the car in a Twins Uniform... he drove it straight into the river and messed up the interior pretty good. Papa Molitor probably remembers that and is probably nervous about giving him those keys again until he shows more responsibility. 2. Youth -- The birth of a child is always an exciting time. You never know what you are going to get but anything is possible. This new addition to the world could grow up to rule the world (maybe International Falls) or grow up to be the person who stole my car stereo in the middle of the night. Nobody thinks about the car stereo scenario when you are changing diapers, but it happens. One morning I got into my car and couldn't turn on my tunes; just a bunch of wires where a stereo used to be. 3. Octomom -- One baby is great... two is a nice conversation piece at parties... three and people whisper, "I don't know how they do it," behind your back. Eight... well... you need to hire help... now. Strained green beans everywhere, crayons on the wall, a massive cell phone bill and one of the eight... maybe two out of the eight... or three... isn't going to get enough attention and will surely grow up to steal my car stereo. When you are over run with youth it's hard to see the potential they possess because they think that it's possible to jump from the roof of the house into that chair by the pool. When 8 of them are on the roof at the same time and about to make a contest out of it... you start thinking about trading a couple of them for David Murphy. 4. Michael Fulmer -- The Tigers on the other hand... they are not that young... they are actually kind of old. Except on the mound tonight... young Michael Fulmer will be making his first major league start. I know a little about Michael Fulmer because I lived in Michigan last year. Last September... I would nicely remind the Michigan people... "Not only are the Twins killing the Tigers this year... our farm system is ten times better." And they would say... "We got... umm... Michael Fulmer." And I would reply... "Yeah... Fulmer... All those young Met arms and you got the guy that they didn't want." The Twins were in the race... the Tigers were out of it... the Vikings made the playoffs... and the Lions were out of it. It was a great time to be in Michigan... just so I could let them all know. I still don't understand why they fired me. 5. The Things I did when I was Young -- True Story... A Game of truth or dare with my friends. About 6 of us... 3 guys... 3 girls... and a lot of alcohol... just entertaining ourselves. It was my turn and I didn't have my brackets so I couldn't choose truth so I picked dare and this evil girl dared me to run naked around the block. It was like 2AM... it was dark... nobody was around and I had like 4.8 speed and I had drunk an entire bottle of whiskey... my powers of reasoning were very sharp at that moment. I ran around the block without issue. However... I had an issue getting back into the house. It was hard to imagine how, but the door got locked... I'm not sure, but it's possible that my friends had something to do with that. I knocked on the door... all naked...talking in that loud drunk whisper... you know the voice you use when you have to raise your voice for someone to hear you and you don't want other people to hear you. "Let me in! C'mon... let me in!" That's when the neighbor's porch light came on. I looked around... saw a bush and dove into it. That's when the neighbor came out... with a date... and they walked down the sidewalk and stopped by the bush that contained me. And they made out for about an hour. An hour... an HOUR... They stood by that bush and kissed for about an hour... with no idea that I was approximately 2 feet from them... naked. I could see my 5 friends in the window laughing so hard that they were crying. True Story. Ah... Youth... Welcome to the 2016 Minnesota Twins. -------------------- Lineups: TIGERS Ian Kinsler(R ) 2B J.D. Martinez(R ) RF Miguel Cabrera(R ) 1B Victor Martinez(S) DH Justin Upton(R ) LF Nick Castellanos(R ) 3B Mike Aviles(R ) SS Bobby Wilson(R ) C Anthony Gose(L) CF Fulmer(R )P TWINS Danny Santana(S) CF Brian Dozier(R ) 2B Joe Mauer(L) 1B Miguel Sano(R ) RF Byung-ho Park(R ) DH Oswaldo Arcia(L) LF Eduardo Nunez(R ) 3B Eduardo Escobar(S) SS Kurt Suzuki(R ) C Hughes(R ) P Game-time forecast: clear, sunny, 57 deg F, no chance of rain (so says the weather report ... I'll believe it when it doesn't rain), winds at 3mph from the ENE. Thank you all for coming ... now ... GO TWINS! WIN!!! Click here to view the article

LOL When it is all said and done. This past off-season will be remembered as the time when Terry Ryan tried that dartboard theory out.

Interesting viewpoint. I wish the Twins would have used that very same logic when they over valued the backup catcher position and made a trade in the off season.

Agreed but I think the value of relievers is going straight up and straight up quickly. GM's are going to look at that Yankee Pen and say... I'd like one of those and start competing for players. Those who don't have the stomach to compete for the top arms will have to build their own.

Loved your post I've heard it pronounced Buh-Ree-Os

Yep... and we will need to figure out how to get him in the lineup when we go visit those National League Cities.

The strange thing is that... I think I've been fairly supportive of TR and forgiving of the front office over the years. I think Chief is one of the great human beings on this planet but it feels real weird to be on the same page as him. This one is just too messy and it was too easy to fix in the off season and to easy to trace back to it's origin. We were in the race until the final weekend of 2015 and if you just looked at our off season following. You would have never been able to guess that we were that close.

Sending him down Plural would be cruel and unusual.

Thank God they are reading TD. Could you imagine how bad it would get if they didn't know where the internet was?

OK That's what I would have done with that newly created 40 man spot. Cool

It's pretty easy to criticize the organization for that. They didn't need to send Kepler down. They should have started him in CF last night. Are you sending Kepler down because Buxton struck out 50% of the time and it's just enough of this rookie stuff in total? I hope that's not the case because that would be very unfair to Kepler. Are you sending Kepler down because Molitor won't play him? Well... then I've got a problem because he was the only option for CF on the 40 man and that's just bad 40 man roster construction and you don't seem to have a manager and GM on the same page. It is my opinion... The Twins lost their collective mind when the sent down both Buxton and Kepler at the same time. And then didn't even use Meyer because.... it was a close game last night. Which again suggests a desperation because you called up bullpen help that the manager doesn't trust enough to use. I'm really not seeing same page right now... but I could be wrong because I'm not in the room and I'm just as goofy as everybody else on this site.

I can't speak for the others... but part of my outrage... actually concern... I'm really not outraged. My concern is that that they shouldn't be in this position where they have no decent options. It was just Santana and Plouffe on the DL and it's just Plouffe on the DL now. The well went dry too quick and too easy.

Very Plausible... I certainly won't argue any of it. However... my Spidey sense is detecting a ball dropping. I just don't know how to swing across town to check it out. And I still don't like the CF Plan cuz... Umm... Well... I'm right.

Yes but don't tell Chief He won't find out for a couple of hours when a Pacific Time hits.

I'm always a fan of any attempt to humanize players. I get bothered when some reduce them to a pile of numbers.