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Isn't guilt by association somewhat justified in the current situation. I realize it isn't fair or even close to researched since we really don't know anything about internal candidates but isn't it somewhat reasonable to associate anybody that is part of the process in a total system failure such as it is. Do we have someone in the Org who is loudly critical of the decisions made?

I like the precedence that has been set. It shows that even vets can get shuffled about even if it's just a little. I'm just surprised that Pat Dean was the one who caused it.

Private Message to Jim Pohlad: This is one of those moments that you don't want to screw up. Pick a good one.

Exactly

This is exactly how I feel... Right now I simply don't have the room available to care about St. Peter. I want immediate supervision for Terry Ryan and the advocates he has assembled. I don't know what the problem is exactly but there is a problem. I've personally been wrong for many years when I've stated let the man (Terry Ryan) do his job. My personal clock has run out. SP is a mess Bullpen is a mess... Actually there wasn't even an attempt to fix it. The Veterens have been average at best and well below average for the most part The Youth hasn't been ready and it has over run the 40 man roster. The enormity of the missed assessments in total is off the charts and nobody should survive it. Nobody would in most businesses. I'm simply at the point where I don't trust the collective room and the decisions coming out of that room and I want immediate outside supervision. Does anybody here feel comfortable letting that collective room make a trade in July or June to improve this club for 2017? Does anyone believe there is no way Buxton would be traded and if he was... would you trust the return with the current track record of return on trades? Does anybody feel comfortable letting this room decide when Rosario is ready to come back... Berrios... Meyer... Kepler... Any of them after looking at what the room came up with for opening day 2016? Does anybody here feel 100% sure that this collective decision making room isn't capable of setting us back even further before this season is done? Decisions for 2017 and beyond are important right now and so the search for a Preisdent of Baseball Ops must began now.

Yep The Twins have needed a big league OF for 4 years now. If they would have got one in the off season. Buxton could have started in AAA and could have been called up if he is hitting AAA like he is now and welcomed to the league with a chorus of voices saying "Finally!!!". That's what should have happened but it didn't because the Twins have horribly assessed CF for 4 years straight now.

That's what I got from Nick's suggestion. I have no idea about St. Peter and what he does and he isn't really a part of my equation. I like Nick's idea because I like the idea of immediate supervision while being able to take some time making important assessments about who and what went wrong. Bottom Line for me... This current front office got a lot wrong to be asked to make it right. I'd rather bring in an outsider for clean up supervision. This has nothing to do with St. Peter in my mind. Unless he meddles and if that's the case... the new guy can make a note of that.

I have no problem with the call up. This is how the 40 man is supposed to work and I'm hopeful Buxton impresses and sticks. I also agree with Tobi... Our front office has a terrible track record with OF assessment.

Jackie Bradley Jr. looked lost at the plate and K'd a bunch as well. Then he stopped and all is well.

He may or may not keep Terry. More importantly... A new Pres of Baseball Op (From the outside... please) could take the time to look at the entire operation to determine the right changes needed and he could start that process right away but he doesn't have to move immediately. He can take his time and do it right. I'd appreciate that he could immediately serve as checks and balances for any decisions that will need to be made this season. I'm not trusting of the front office right now and I'd appreciate someone who could stop them from making a serious mistake like moving Buxton to the Brewers for Jimmy Nelson or something. This front office made some serious assessment mistakes this off season and I think a supervisor ASAP is a great idea. The other alternatives are: Replacing your GM right away or replacing him in the off season or not replacing him at all. Which Would Mean: Interim GM while a rushed search is conducted or interim GM eventually becomes the GM. New GM hired after the season and he walks into the job cold and has to rebuild a front office while all the other teams don't have to do that. and of course... the easiest answer of all of them... not replacing Terry Ryan at all.

Leg Kick... Ok Fine. In my opinion... I'll be watching the swing. If he levels it out... I believe he will look real good real quick. If he's still upper cutting he will be striking out too much again and be heading back to Rochester amongst much hand wringing from us on TD. Level it out... Keep the bat in the zone longer and once his contact rate goes up as a result... His feet and talent will do the rest. In my opinion of course... I think Buxton is an easier fix than Dozier is.

I've missed most of this game. Storms rolling through... reports of hail so we decide to move our outside cars to a parking ramp. Get back and we need hamburger buns so I go get them and then I get back and sit down and it turns out we need something else at the store so back I go. I'm back again and sitting down and I'm hoping to see the last inning but I'm guessing we will have to go pick up the cars soon.

My guess is that this is usually the case. The details are left out and that's the hair curling stuff. You don't get a lot of details so I was curious and read about it myself. 2500 Men from North Dakota made up the 164th and after 6 months on the island... think about this... they were no longer battle ready because over one-third of them had died and the survivors had lost at least over 20 pounds each. Malaria was almost as big an issue as the Japanese were. I like to think that my 9 months in Michigan was an experience and I got some stories but it just wouldn't compare to 6 months with the 164th in 1942.

Memorial Day isn’t just a day off from work… The Memorial Part is quite important. Those who served and sacrificed have earned that respect and they deserve the honor. It’s also a day to remember the loved ones that you’ve lost. Today can also be a day to remember the Twins players that are no longer with us: Bob Allison, George Banks, Earl Battey, Reno Bertoia, Bub Bloomfield, Walt Bond, Lyman Bostock, Dave Boswell, Ken Brett, Fred Bruckbauer, Terry Bulling, Bobby Castillo, Carmelo Castillo, Dean Chance, Jackie Collum, Billy Consolo, Jerry Crider, Bert Cueto, Joe Decker, Mike Fornieles, Paul Giel, Ruben Gomez, Herman Hill, Steve Howe, Riccardo Ingram, Lamar Jacobs, Pat Kelly, Harmon Killebrew, Ron Kline, John Klippstein, Jack Kralick, Craig Kusick, Charlie Lea, Jim Lemon, Joe Lis, Dwight Lowry, Danny McDevitt, Georges Maranda, Billy Martin, Marty Martinez, Danny McDevitt, Bob Miller, Don Mincher, Dan Monzon, Ray Moore, Joe Niekro, Ed Palmquist, Frank Pastrore, Wally Post, Vic Power, Kirby Puckett, Jim Roland, John Roseboro, Ted Sadowski, Al Schroll, Chuck Stobbs, Frank Sullivan, Danny Thompson, Cesar Tovar, Bill Tuttle, Ted Uhlaender, Elmer Valo, Zoilo Versalles, Bob Veselic, Jay Ward, Vic Wertz, Pete Wisenhant, Bill Whitby, Don Williams, Jerry Zimmerman. This list was compiled by Jim Thielman and posted on his website cooloftheevening.com. It would have been much easier to just provide a link to his website but I felt it was more respectful to type out each name myself and so I opted to copy the names by hand and not link. I just want to make sure that Jim Thielman gets full credit for the listing the names. Here are some things to think about: Memorial Day isn’t just a day off from work… The Memorial Part is quite important. Those who served and sacrificed have earned that respect and they deserve the honor. It’s also a day to remember the loved ones that you’ve lost. Today can also be a day to remember the Twins players that are no longer with us: Bob Allison, George Banks, Earl Battey, Reno Bertoia, Bub Bloomfield, Walt Bond, Lyman Bostock, Dave Boswell, Ken Brett, Fred Bruckbauer, Terry Bulling, Bobby Castillo, Carmelo Castillo, Dean Chance, Jackie Collum, Billy Consolo, Jerry Crider, Bert Cueto, Joe Decker, Mike Fornieles, Paul Giel, Ruben Gomez, Herman Hill, Steve Howe, Riccardo Ingram, Lamar Jacobs, Pat Kelly, Harmon Killebrew, Ron Kline, John Klippstein, Jack Kralick, Craig Kusick, Charlie Lea, Jim Lemon, Joe Lis, Dwight Lowry, Danny McDevitt, Georges Maranda, Billy Martin, Marty Martinez, Danny McDevitt, Bob Miller, Don Mincher, Dan Monzon, Ray Moore, Joe Niekro, Ed Palmquist, Frank Pastrore, Wally Post, Vic Power, Kirby Puckett, Jim Roland, John Roseboro, Ted Sadowski, Al Schroll, Chuck Stobbs, Frank Sullivan, Danny Thompson, Cesar Tovar, Bill Tuttle, Ted Uhlaender, Elmer Valo, Zoilo Versalles, Bob Veselic, Jay Ward, Vic Wertz, Pete Wisenhant, Bill Whitby, Don Williams, Jerry Zimmerman. This list was compiled by Jim Thielman and posted on his website cooloftheevening.com. It would have been much easier to just provide a link to his website but I felt it was more respectful to type out each name myself and so I opted to copy the names by hand and not link. I just want to make sure that Jim Thielman gets full credit for the listing the names. Here are some things to think about: 1. Memory – I have a theory that eventually you just run out of RAM. You reach a certain age where your brain just can’t hold any more and when you learn new things… something has to fall out to make room for the new information. For example… I was surfing the web this morning and learning some new things and right now… at this very moment… I can’t remember where I put my car keys. 2. – Post-It Notes -- These little things were invented right here in Minnesota by Romy and Michele. My wife likes to post them honey-do style on the fridge. If a few days go by and they are still on the fridge and still unacted upon. She will take them off the fridge and stick them on my forehead. I tell her that this makes them really hard to read but she still does it anyway. 3. Bedtime – If you have to memorize something… experts say that the best thing to do is to study right before bed and right after waking. In a nutshell… too much crap happens during the main waking hours of the day to keep you from retaining new information. I can personally say that this method does indeed work because every night I read Twins Daily and every morning I read Twins Daily and can easily remember that the Twins have won 4 games in a row. 4. Good Times Bad Times – We do seem to have a tendency to remember the bad times more easily than the good times. I… on the other hand… only remember good times because I try to turn the bad times into good times and therefore only remember good times even if they were originally bad times. 5. Russ – I met Russ back in the 90’s when he was a young 70 something. I worked alongside him for maybe 10 years at the scorer’s table of many Basketball and Football games. I gave him crap and he gave it right back and I enjoyed every minute. It must have been 5 years into our working relationship that I found out that he was a Veteran of WWII. It took maybe 5 years because he never talked about it. It wasn’t that he couldn’t or wouldn’t talk about it… it just never came up in our conversation and that’s probably because I was more apt to talk about the flavor of a Banana then something important like this. Russ was a Lieutenant with the 164th Infantry. The 164th was the first Army unit to engage in offensive action at Guadalcanal in the Pacific providing reinforcements for the Marines already onshore and at the time in a deadlock with Japan in a battle for control of a strategic location in the South Pacific and the airfields on the island. The Island was nicknamed “Green Hell” and the 164th were green themselves and barely unpacked when the Japanese attempted to reclaim an airfield and ran out of the jungles in the middle of the night backed by air and naval support. The unit bent but did not break and they held the airfield despite overwhelming Japanese numbers. Taking a look at the scoreboard from that night… there were over 1,700 Japanese casualties while only 26 killed from the 164th. It was quite an introduction to the War for the unit and it impressed the Marines so much that the unit received the nickname the 164th Marines from the Marines. Russ made it all seem routine as he talked about it. The complete darkness of night, heavy tropical rain while holding off a full scale assault on their position, battling for control of an airfield and pushing back opposing forces to provide a safe distance from artillery for the airfield, followed by jungle patrols and offensive sweeps of the island to find remaining Japanese resistance hiding on the island… fighting in jungles and up mountainsides at the same time while also battling… malaria, heat exhaustion, exotic tropical diseases… it was all pretty routine stuff I’m sure… like a Saturday night in Mayville, I suppose. 6 months after arriving on the island the 164th was no longer considered combat ready. The unit had buried too many of its men on the island and the majority of those who survived had lost 20 plus pounds but what they managed to accomplish... was a turning point in the Pacific Theater. As I tried to imagine what the conditions were really like… all I could say to Russ was “Thank You” and I truly meant it. I heard of Russ passing last year and I heard of it too late to attend the funeral. I missed my chance to say goodbye. Today… just might be a good day to find his final resting place and say “Thank You” one more time. Twins: SP Ervin Santana 1. Eduardo Nunez 3B 2. Brian Dozier 2B 3. Joe Mauer 1B 4. Miguel Sano DH 5. Robbie Grossman LF 6. Oswaldo Arcia RF 7. Eduardo Escobar SS 8. Juan Centeno C 9. Danny Santana CF A's: SP Graveman 1. Coco Crisp CF 2. Jed Lowrie 2B 3. Stephen Vogt C 4. Danny Valencia 3B 5. Khris Davis LF 6. Billy Butler DH 7. Yonder Alonso 1B 8. Marcus Semien SS 9. Chris Coghlan RF View full article

It looks like Sano is being positioned in the RF Stands.

Get the stuff on the left

I'm boycotting Twins replays until Jokin is happy with the Twins.

Half Right is my guess. Hughes DL'd... Gibson off the DL. I'm almost willing to bank it.

I don't know if you realize what you've done. When Brock reads this... Because of what you've done. Whenever someone types awesome... it will look like this *******

I'd sign up for some adjective practice immediately.

If Bark was here... I'd ask him to put a bunch of famous Mary's on that.

Rasmussen: Phil... just a small suggestion... I'd avoid loading up the bases before you get anyone out. I've worked with many young pitchers and I give that advice to all of them. Hughes: Neil was telling me that I was working in the zone too much... So... I'm trying to work out of the zone. Allen: That's right... That's what I was telling him Rasmussen: How'd you get in here. Allen: Remember the Dennis Hopper character in Hoosiers... I'm walking on the field next... Gonna talk to that ump.

Hughes must have a WHIP of 90.47 tonight.

Bummer