Riverbrian

I have no defense of Arcia defense. I hope you didn't think I was actually trying.

Suzuki Pinch Hit Home Run instead of being pinch hit for.

Probably... No chance that we will see Yates

I wonder who is warming in the Yankee pen?

Its been quite the 2016

Yeah... It' look great... I wear it every day. However it's making my head really sweaty.

I know The bobblehead was the reason the date was picked to attend. I'll have to be happy with my bomber hat.

Should have been a 3 runner

Give some to your brother

Cancelled the plans last night. My son got home late from work and it would have been too early so we decided to rain check it for another weekend.

Look at Dozier going all Wee Willie Keeler and hitting it where they ain't. Opposite way. If the does that again... I might smile.

Considering that OF play is filled to the brim with routine plays. I'd answer that question with No. Arcia has probably missed about 3 balls this year on plays that would be made the majority of time. That isn't good but you can absorb that as long as you don't have another guy like that. We got one who is even worse in Sano.

I'm with you I've waited patiently over the years and told myself and others. Let the Man do his Job. I Can't do that anymore the mistakes are just too large and plentiful. You expressed my thoughts perfectly. Everyone knew he was out of options. Instead of giving him one last chance to show something with a ball club that has nothing to lose. They decided to take away that one last chance.

Yeah I am and I get the concept... I just don't trust the methodology at this point. I hope to trust it later when it is stabilized somehow. The sample size swings are too much for any hat hanging. I'm a big defense guy and I look at it pretty simple. Did you take away or give an extra out. The answer to that is the difference between hanging a zero and leaving a crooked number and ball games can be won or lost right there. Arcia... He certainly wasn't a take away an out guy (maybe his arm on occasion). But then again... The Current Twins don't have a lot of take away an out types of guys after Buxton.

I have a really nervous feeling in the pit of my stomach. That 40 man is overcrowded with youth. I'm worried that it will cause a corrective action from the front office. IE... Trading Youth for Marginal Vets. Which will set us back because I think Youth is the only way out of this mess.

I'm not a WAR guy

2 guys lost at sea in the middle of the ocean in a small boat. They have no hope of being found and they are dying of thirst. They float past a bottle and grab it out of the water. They open it and the grateful Genie grants them one wish and one wish only. Immediately the 1st guy says.. .I wish this entire ocean was beer. The Genie grants the wish and is gone forever. The 2nd Guy looks at the 1st guy and says "You Idiot!!! Now we have no place to go to the bathroom".

I was going to Game Thread tonight but the Arcia news got under my skin and I had to walk it off so I didn't spill any of that vile over here. I'm still not happy but... How Bout a Joke!!! 3 Friends on a desert island... They find a Genie who granted them each one wish. 1st guy wishes that he was off this island and back home. Poof... He's gone and immediately back home 2nd Guy wishes the same thing... Poof... He's off the island and back home with his loved ones. 3rd Guy is worried that it's going to be boring on the island now so he wishes that his friends were back on the island with him.

Yeah I'm not happy... The rest of this season should be about finding out what you have for 2017 and each player should get an equal shot at showing their future worth especially when you don't have those pesky little pressures of making the playoffs. I'm not happy... because I've watched nearly every game and I know that Arcia didn't play well but I also know that he wasn't beaten out by someone who played better.

Easy to see, hear, feel and smell this train coming down the tracks. Oswaldo Arcia was put to sleep... plain and simple. Healthy and he was given 11 AB's in the last 15 games. Put to sleep on a team that keeps losing and losing big. He wasn't accidentally put to sleep. He was hand selected and then purposely put to sleep. Hand selected because... I assume... an evaluation was made prior. An evaluation made by the same people who made all these other evaluations that have been... nearly 100 percent wrong since September... I would have felt slightly comfortable with this move if Arcia was given a fair chance to compete for a roster slot. I could have been slightly on-board with this decision if I couldn't name at least 7 current Twins who have performed worse this year or at bare minimum... equally as questionable as Arcia has been... yet were still hand selected to be given a chance to turn it around. I won't even try to predict if Arcia will or will not make it down the line. He's flawed right now just like the overwhelming majority of his now ex-teammates. However... he has enough pop to be something special and he's still on the young side so who knows. This team is 20-46... it doesn't need to make premature hard decisions like this one. It's bad enough that we have 20 wins and 46 losses... but now we get to watch other teams vulture over our 20-46 carcass. Mark me down for being of the belief that this might be the right decision based on absolutely horrible reasoning. Dear Jim Pohlad, In the Total System Failure Interview... Chip Scoggins asked if you were prepared to do something drastic if the team continues to lose and look so uninspired. You were quoted as saying: “Give me something drastic that — without just making us feel good by doing it – that’s necessarily going result in something better,” The resulting in something better part may be true for a short term time frame... that doesn't really matter anymore... but you have failed to consider that the lead designers of this total system failure will have many chances to make it worse for 2017 and beyond and 2017 and beyond should still matter.

Ahh... You got cold with a couple of hills. In Grand Forks... It's Cold with no hills for miles and miles.

I'm with Willard Scott 72 Degrees is perfect.

There's 50 feet of crap... and then there's us. http://worldcricketwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Brad-Pitt-Moneyball4.png

I remember those youth hockey trips coming back from wherever in Winter My wife is cold so she is cranking the heat up and I have meat falling off the bone.

It’s a Father’s day weekend and the Yankees have come to town to provide entertainment for all of the fathers who want to spend Father’s day at Target Field. The total number of Fathers that would consider attending has been in a free fall as the season has progressed. Thousands will stay home and mow the lawn instead. Everyone knows that I am the biggest (not in circumference) Twins fan in the world and… I’ve elected to not spend Father’s day at Target Field. You have fallen from lofty heights if I’m making the decision to not attend on my special day. My recently graduated son and I will be attending on Saturday instead to get some Sano bobble heads. Woo Hoo… Go Twins!!! For the Father’s… here are some things to think about: It’s a Father’s day weekend and the Yankees have come to town to provide entertainment for all of the fathers who want to spend Father’s day at Target Field. The total number of Fathers that would consider attending has been in a free fall as the season has progressed. Thousands will stay home and mow the lawn instead. Everyone knows that I am the biggest (not in circumference) Twins fan in the world and… I’ve elected to not spend Father’s day at Target Field. You have fallen from lofty heights if I’m making the decision to not attend on my special day. My recently graduated son and I will be attending on Saturday instead to get some Sano bobble heads. Woo Hoo… Go Twins!!! For the Father’s… here are some things to think about: 1. John Adams – We all remember the drama that John Adams caused a young boy named Elliott. This courageous young lad who had to escape the feds on a flying bicycle with a funny voiced extra-terrestrial blocking his view… sitting in a crate strapped somehow to the front. It was John Adams who set everything in motion when he signed the Alien and Sedition Acts into law. That’s why the Feds were involved and that’s why Aliens are very careful to avoid detection when they visit… That’s why when they are discovered… they are rarely seditious. It’s all because of John Adams and the story doesn’t end there. John Adams is… the most fatherly American of all time. John Adams was the father of John Quincy Adams who was our 79th President of the United States… John Adams was a Founding Father of our nation as a signer of the Declaration of Independence and because he was such a strong supporter of national defense… John Adams has been called the father of the U.S. Navy. He built a bunch of boats and after you took the time to Adam all up, the numbers suggested that we had enough for a navy. 2. Gomez Addams – Another important father in our history. Always dressed in a double breasted pin stripe suit… Gomez liked to hang upside down and dynamite model trains. He kept lit cigars in his pocket and was easily distracted by his wife for whom he had great fondness. Gomez and his importance can’t be understated. Without Gomez as a father… Tuesday would roll right into Thursday when the clock struck midnight. 3. Adam West – Not many people know this but Batman is the father of 6 children. This has always been a closely guarded secret because he had many enemies who would have loved to have that information for selfish evil blackmail reasons. He made the tremendous sacrifice to live the solitary life of a billionaire playboy while his children… Pow, Bam, Biff, Whammo, Zap and Zonk lived in the countryside outside of Gotham undetected and in total poverty. 4. Darwin’s Frog – Native to South America… this species of Frog plays a very unique role as the father. The female Darwin's frog will lay her eggs in water like most other frogs but when they are tadpoles… the dad Darwin's frog protects them from predators by putting the tadpoles into his mouth and storing them in his vocal sac until they are fully developed frogs. At that point… he regurgitates them out and they are introduced to the world. If the Human male had to do that to keep our species alive… it would be the end of the human race. 5. Father’s Day Gift – I’m not sure what I will get for a gift on Sunday. Two years ago… my sons got me a coffee cup that said “#1 Dad” on it. Last year… I got another coffer cup… This one said “#87 Dad”. ____________________ Lineups: YANKEES Jacoby Ellsbury(L) CF Brett Gardner(L) LF Carlos Beltran(S) RF Alex Rodriguez[R] DH Brian McCann(L) C Starlin Castro[R] 2B Didi Gregorius(L) SS Chase Headley(S) 3B Ike Davis(L) 1B CC Sabathia (L) P TWINS Eduardo Nunez[R] 3B Robbie Grossman(S) LF Brian Dozier[R] 2B Trevor Plouffe[R] DH Byung-Ho Park[R] 1B Eduardo Escobar(S) SS Max Kepler(L) RF Kurt Suzuki[R] C Byron Buxton[R] CF Kyle Gibson [R] P Game-time forecast: Clear and sunny (until 9:02 pm when the sun sets), 78 deg F, 1% chance of precipitation, winds from the E at 8mph. Go Twins! View full article