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  1. Dantes929
    Well if mentions in songs count then "my brothers lives were different for they heard another call. One went to Chicago and the other to St. Paul" Point for the first to name the song. If mentions don't count then there is this one.
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    Are we just giving Perkins a pass here? He has been out for a really long time, pitched 7 innings with a 6.14 ERA in the low minors.
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    87 Twins had 85 wins vs Tigers 98 wins and Blue Jays 96 wins and were 7-17 against them during the season. Didn't seem to bother them much. Of course there is anecdotal evidence the other way as well and the better team usually wins but the underdog winning is more fun. In other words, worse odds but better payoff.
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    2-5 against the Red Sox, 5-9 against Cleveland, 1-5 against the Astros makes a total of 8-19 against those teams. I don't like the odds of playing them in a playoff series but I like the odds a lot better than not making the playoffs. A good game by Berrios and a good game by Santana or Mejia is all it takes to have a chance. If we happen to face Cleveland they would have home field advantage where we are 5-1.
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    Again, no problem with the last sentence. Burdi was drafted in 2014 and et al were drafted then or near then so anyone saying they were the bullpen fix for 2014, 2015 or even 2016 were unrealistic. Just like Buxton and Sano injuries have made us wait an extra year but they may still be the fix for 2018 or 2019. I haven't seen them pitch so I really don't know. Maybe we really do need to get a lot of outside help. I just never liked the argument referred to in my other post. Fans before the season were saying how can a team do basically nothing and expect not to lose 103 games again. Well, we let talent develop and we would now have to go 0-46 to lose 103.
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    I really have no problem with that but at some point internal options have to step up especially if you have been drafting for the intent purposes of having a great relief corps. Quite possibly May, Burdi and Chargois were 3 of the top 5 guys we were counting on in the pen. What team wouldn't be hurt pretty severely to have their top 3 relievers out before the season even started? I only say possibly because there was a chance May was going to start. You can only plan so far. If KC's elite 3 relievers had season ending injuries before the season started would it have been fair for the fans to say "hey, they should have had 3 more elite relievers in reserve" Where would the early decade Twins have been if Rincon and Hawkins had gotten hurt? Later Twins if Crain and Guerrier got injured a week into the season? I am fine with investing in quality relievers. I just don't like the argument that relying on internal options for next year is identical to relying on internal options in other years. Different levels of talent and stages in development make that point very weak, imo.
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    Not sure how it is any different than "lets count on x to step up and buy m and n, and who could have known that a, b, and m would get hurt". I have no problem with buying depth and quality but the idea that it hasn't worked to rely on the minors in that past is not proof that relying on the minors in the future won't work. Feels like we have drafted hard throwing relievers the last 3 or 4 years and we are starting to see guys like Busenitz and Hildenberger come up and contribute and also seems like there are other guys ready to step up so the plan of having minor leaguers step up is a better plan now than when it failed in the past. Like I said, I am all for quality and quality depth but injuries are not respecters of how a player was acquired. Burdi and Chargois were supposed to be our hot shots this year. It is just as likely that whatever free agent quality we get this off season go down to the same injuries..
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    Here is my favorite bit on contraction though you have to wait to the end to hear it. Only posting because this guy is how I picture Riverbrian and how his mind works
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    I think manager position is overrated mostly. Batting and pitching coaches are probably more important. A manager is only as good as his players. To wit, I know a manager who was AL 3rd place and 5 times runner up manager of the year and won manager of the year (IMO, his worst year) all in an 8 year period, That is 7 top 3 finishes in 8 years. I think he is still available. Wouldn't mind Doug M or Mauer.
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    I am ok it he doesn't hit for power until he loses a few steps in speed. If he can get on base at a .380 clip he will be an awesome force and I would not care if he hit any home runs (though I think he will). I would like to see him bunt for hits down the third base side every once in a while. Still bat reminds me more of Molitor but I can see Span also.
  11. Dantes929
    Its like Dozier starts every season saying I'm going to pull a bunch of home runs to left feild and then takes a half season to realize he can go with the pitch and get a bunch of hits. He then also realizes that by going with the pitch he still has enough power to hit home runs to right and center and that when he does that he gets better pitches to pull also.
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    I don't know why but the loss yesterday made me think of late 2004 when the Twins were in contention and Viola was staked to a 10-0 lead and we lost 11-10. Lost our last 6 in a row to finish 81-81 and 3 games out. Very happy to pull this game out, again showing the resiliency of this team.
  13. Dantes929
    I see the longer term value in it and for the sake of one start I think it better to wait. Will be disappointed if all three don't make the September call up. Does that burn an option.
  14. Dantes929
    Not a pun guy and it may have been used before. Molitor could have left Enns in but he had a lead to protect so he pulled him. Classic case of the Enns justifying the means.
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    I would like to see Gonsalves because we have read so much about him but Enns AAA stats are really good also. One game samples don't mean much.
  16. Dantes929
    Smalley was saying his best pitch was his change up but that he wasn't throwing it. Then he threw a couple but without good command. I don't think we saw the best of Enns but not sure of it.
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    Possibly he saw Enns make an error and walk in a run and thought he might be rattled and wanted to get him out of there with the lead. Minus his own error Enns might have been ok. He got out of there without it being a total disaster and I am ok if we see him again. Might just be nerves.
  18. Dantes929
    Nah. The Nationals luck that we beat Kinsler in the 7th game. Nats don't resign him, he comes back to the Twins and he gets the save for us against the Nats in game 7 of next year's world series.
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    Whoops. 2006. .
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    All we do is read about these guys so absolutely it is fun to see the debut. May and Berrios were fun to see because we got to see what kind of stuff they had and whether it was something to look forward to. Both could have debuted better but for nerves and not everyone has the same response to those nerves.
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    I predict he will improve on this pace also. Is that what you meant?
  22. Dantes929
    KC appeared unbeatable for a while and now has gone 3-7 . Anyone else remember when the Twins went 21-2 and only gained 2.5 games back in 2016. Twins have gone 6-4 in their last 10 games which isn't even that great and they gained 3 games. You just never know.
  23. Dantes929
    Starting pitching was not the reason for the Twins postseason woes so I will say it took them to the playoffs where they had a chance and going way back to 87 a below average rotation took them farther. Of course it would be nice to have more pitchers better than Berrios.
  24. Dantes929
    "The Brewers took a 1-0 lead in the second inning on a squeeze bunt. How adorable." Love that line. Reminds me of when my golf opponent hits a good drive but mine is farther and I tell him "Nice little drive". Doesn't matter if I out drove him by 3 feet or 30 yards and the most important part is that it is after the fact. The way we had been hitting the last month, the adorable squeeze bunt could well have been the difference in the game. In retrospect only we get to mock it.
  25. Dantes929
    I compare it to cribbage. I might be on 3rd street and thinking skunk odds are 50/50 and winning it a sure thing if my opponent is early on 2nd street and those odds are probably pretty accurate but it only takes a couple 12 point hands while I come up empty to eliminate the skunk odds and put a win in jeopardy. For example just two days ago our odds of making the playoffs was just under 5% so with two wins we just went from a worse than 1 in 20 chance to a better than one in 7 chance. Win two more while others lose and we probably move closer to 1 in 3 or 4. Still not bet the house on it but hardly microscopic territory. Of course they have to actually win those two for this scenario to play out. Forget about the World Series Odds. Get in the wild card and win it and your odds for winning it all jump up dramatically.
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