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  1. Melissa
    I wondered the same thing about Kep, Jocko. Hard to tell from watching on TV. I think people (including me) tend to undervalue Max’s defense and its impact.
  2. Melissa
    I so appreciate these detailed summaries of our minor league affiliates! Thanks! Keeps me more informed and thus more interested in these teams and players. Great to see the strong pitching from Louie Varland for the Saints and David Festa for the Wind Surge. Putting a report like this together and making it interesting the way you do must take a lot of effort - thanks so much, Sherry!
  3. Melissa
    Thanks so much for this, Melissa! A mixture of factual description of new features like the scoreboards and sped-up entry process with reflection on your experience. I also really appreciate the personal perspectives you share with us by meeting and talking to other fans - that’s such a great way into the experience, too, for those of us unable to attend in person. [One typo I noted - Target Field opened in 2010, not 2013.]
  4. Melissa
    Fair enough, especially as Correa wasn’t able to come through in several tries today!
  5. Melissa
    Though BSN did show that Correa batted .335 with RISP last season. Up and down months at a time, as I might remember.
  6. Melissa
    Ouch!
  7. Melissa
    I often enjoy those in-game interviews from the dugout, and I like Pablo, too. But that was so distracting during the Astros rally in the top of the third. No wonder Houston scored!
  8. Melissa
    Sonny’s got it going!
  9. Melissa
    Two pop-ups and a K swinging for the home team. …
  10. Melissa
    2 Ks and a weak fly ball (and pitch-around BB to Alvarez) for the Astros in top of the first - good start!
  11. Melissa
    Bremer is home with COVID.
  12. Melissa
    Let’s hope Sonny Gray has better “feel” for his pitches this time! Can’t tough it ought every game.
  13. Melissa
    Completely off topic remark - need to be quick with the mute button ! The Kinetico water treatment commercials drive my dogs nuts. Doorbell! Doorbell! Doorbell!
  14. Melissa
    Watching the game on BSN from the comfort of my den.
  15. Melissa
    Watching the games on TV, as contrasted with relying on batting stats and box scores, it is clear how elite Correa’s work at shortstop is. More than once it was his strong and accurate throws (to a defensively strong Gallo at first base) that bailed our pitchers out of sticky situations.
  16. Melissa
    This! I have already noticed that I’m paying more attention to NL teams, starting with the Marlins. This is all sorts of new fun. My spouse and I have cheap SRO tickets to see the Padres - really looking forward to that one! otherwise so far we have tix for the Yanks and the suddenly interesting Orioles.
  17. Melissa
    From what the BSN TV announcers said, lots of those in attendance were Twins fans.
  18. Melissa
    Odd timing with this story, posted after Mahle’s first start, but written as though that hadn’t yet happened. Maybe the draft article could have been updated with a bit more positivity after Monday’s game??
  19. Melissa
    Done! Fun game, though Pagán raised my blood pressure.
  20. Melissa
    I’m not on board with all your criticisms of the front office, but I have agree with your comment about Gladden. I listen to the Twins on the radio when I’m driving, so the timing can be random. If it’s Danny’s turn to describe the action I often, quite often, have no idea of what inning it is, what the score might be, even which team is at bat. Gladden will say “he hit that hard!” Who? Where? With what result? Corey constantly updates information, which I appreciate. I imagine his level of detail might be overly repetitive if you’ve been listening to the game from the start, but it’s a great approach if the listener has to come and go. another pet peeve of mine is why in God’s name Tim Laudner keeps getting trotted out as a TV commentator by Bally before and after games. He very rarely adds any real content to whatever his broadcast partner has just said. He calls every Twins player “that young man,” even those in their thirties. I guess you’re right about name recognition- Gladden and Laudner part of the World Series teams a generation ago.
  21. Melissa
    Hmmm … there was a kid named Holman I knew in college … didn’t know he was a baseball fan!
  22. Melissa
    Thanks, Steven, for this informative post! Hard to know what to make of all the hitters with few appearances against the pitchers (and vice-versa), but your emphasis on how tough the Royals can be at home on the Twins is well taken.
  23. Melissa
    Actually, yes please! My only Twins branded shoes are flimsy canvas cuties not suitable for outdoor baseball in April.
  24. Melissa
    This observation proved prophetic in the opening day game today!
  25. Melissa
    Nice first-game summary, Sherry - thank you! All those runners left on base was a little anxiety producing. Might have to get used to it (?). As you said, Michael A. Taylor looked smooth out there in center. It was good to see how smoothly Farmer and Solano pinch hit and filled in so seamlessly on the right side of the infield. But like ashbury suggested, it was way too scary to watch Buxton slide so hard into third. He had the throw beat anyway.
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