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  1. Doctor Gast
    Julien & Roden did such a great job last night that they're starting tonight & leading off (I don't know what it is, but Baldelli knows). Martin, you'd better clean up your act (I don't know what it is, but Baldelli knows). If the new owners take over in a few weeks, I can't wait for them to clean house from Falvey down to all that adheres to him. If they do that, they'll completely change the air of Twins territory tremendously for the better & restore hope. Otherwise, the dark cloud will continue to hang over us & continue to lose attendance.
  2. Doctor Gast
    If the Pohlads were smart enough to walk away from Falvey, I wouldn't mind if the Pohlads stayed. But they can't; instead, they promoted him. Carl didn't know how to run a ball club, but he was able to find someone who knew what he was doing, Andy MacPhail. And won 2 World Series. Joe doesn't have that knack & is easily duped. If Falvey can dupe the next owner(s), we are in deep trouble. Falvey shouldn't be in charge of a rebuild. The Falvey start is horrendous. Why keep him around to further put MN in the hole they can't get out of?
  3. Doctor Gast
    You always hear from the Twins. "Don't look at the results, trust the process". What happened to the process? The process was broken from the start. They thought they were the smartest in the room, but they had no idea what they were doing. Results do matter; the long period of bad results, you have to wonder what's going on? They can't be wrong, so it's the players' fault for not executing their brilliant plan. Get rid of all of them!
  4. Doctor Gast
    I always like to listen to Levine's interview, they are insightful, interesting & intelligent. But Flavey talks a lot & says nothing, which I can't stand, or put a lot of stock in what he says. We can't go by what he says, so we have to pay attention to what he does.
  5. Doctor Gast
    Thank you, I knew that.
  6. Doctor Gast
    What gets me is that Correa said he felt he needed to switch to 3B, 2 years ago. What should have happened was that Falvey acknowledged that & find a new SS & switch Lewis to 1B preseason. But in Falvey style, he did not believe what he said; he ignored reality & just plowed through with his agenda like nothing was said. Falvey has blinders on; he doesn't care or has any idea what reality is. He is always right, so why listen to common sense? Much of his foot & ankle problems could be related to him playing SS & the switch to 3B could greatly improve his performance & he could great help HOU at a discount at a bad time for us. If Falvey took his head out of his ,,,,,,,, computer, we wouldn't be in this situation.
  7. Doctor Gast
    Sorry, Bly! I'm going to really miss your insights & comments! I feel the camaraderie between us & thank you for that! I've cut way back on my participation & don't participate much on game threads. Everything right now seems hopeless as long as Falvey is at the helm.
  8. Doctor Gast
    Yeah, Julien was bad at 2B, not a great glove, slow reactions, not smooth at the DP & SO a lot, Gasper & Roden are AAAA players, they are Falvey's babies & will be showcased & given every opportunity for a miracle to happen. Fubberburk isn't good. Baldelli missed not putting someone in to bunt. Which CLE did correctly? So what's new? Why wasn't Eeles given a chance? He's more than deserves it, even though he doesn't fit their profile. With all the bad, it's easy to overlook the good, which most everybody did. Ryan pitched a good game, as did most of the BP. More so, Martin almost single-handedly won the game for the Twins. He did a good job at leadoff (which I've always advocated), and he appeared to have driven in the 1st run. He always makes things happen; his swinging bunt single ignited our only 2 runs. If they executed that bunt, Martin's fly ball would have been a sacrifice. The ball was really dead last night. Did Martin's fly ball have a chance to go out under different conditions? I don't know, I didn't see it & it wasn't shown in the highlights. IMO, if Baldelli did & had a little better player selection, If Kwan didn't play that ball perfectly & a little better execution on Lee going home. Martin would have been the hero. Like the author insinuated, Twins changed a lot in what was good. But what should have been changed remained the same. Baldelli's bad managing.
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    I know
  10. Doctor Gast
    Thank each Twin that have left the Twins, a special thanks to those who were part of the '23 team. Correa, Castro, Duran, Jax, Stewart, & Varland, God bless you, have a great rest of the season & postseason & career. You'll be missed! Do us fans proud, I'll be cheering for each one of you!
  11. Doctor Gast
    Falvey has never been good at trying to initiate any trade & has always failed miserably. Falvey at the other end of selling is fixed, sit and wait. In the beginning he had some success but now the FOs know they don't have to offer him a fair trade & that he'll crack & settle for less. MN has become a garbage can. Where FOs go to dump their unwanted players & dump salary on worthless players & bring home some player after dumpster diving. I don't think the problem has never been Falvey fluctuating of not picking a definite lane. It's more him not adequately maneuvering in the lane he picks.
  12. Doctor Gast
    Give me a break, Mike. A good defensive potential & overall 18/19 yr.old catcher you might say you have no idea if he can make it. Tait has no potential at defense. Well-respected pundits have said that he won't stick at catcher, But leave it to the Twins & you to think he can miraculously learn to be a passable defensive catcher on his own.
  13. Doctor Gast
    You are probably right, but it doesn't make sense. France wasn't that expensive, so keep him as a platoon 1Bman & PH isn't a bad idea or even DFA him is better than giving Varland away.
  14. Doctor Gast
    This will be '22 all over again when Jeffers was the primary catcher. Very quickly, he crashed & burned. Tait isn't a catcher; he's only a bat, but that's all Twins care about. It's much too early to know how Jimenez will turn out. How MN is developing catchers, it'll be a long time, if ever at all.
  15. Doctor Gast
    Twins have been in limbo & confusion for so many years because Falvey & Co. are incompetent & have no idea how to manage a team. They have picked a lane, but it's going in the wrong direction on a one-way lane, leading to an accident. The solution isn't taking a distinct lane; it's taking the steering wheel out of their hands.
  16. Doctor Gast
    Agreed, the rebuild hasn't started because we didn't get anyone of value, Falvey just tore down. We had plenty of opportunities with trading either Duran or Jax to get great young players that helped to shore up our fragile rotation & catching, now & well into the future. Falvey couldn't be bothered to get someone of value (something he's terrible at), because his laser-focused objective was to tear down. What is the next step this next offseason? Trade off Lopez, Ober & Ryan because our window is slammed shut for years to come? Trade off Wallner & Larnach to jump start a new brand (doubt that will happen because it makes too much sense)? Trade off Jeffers because we can't afford his Boras extension (also doubt it because it makes too much sense)? More than likely, they'll make Jeffers their primary catcher & give him an outlandish extension (that's what Falvey does too well, unfortunately). Give their crown jewel Royce Lewis a Boras extension (don't get me wrong, I really like both Lewis & Jeffers). What's the outlook? Years of muddling in the cellar of a pitiful AL Central even after Falvey is long gone.
  17. Doctor Gast
    Falvey must have misread the memo by giving away some of those who should have stayed & keeping some of the players that should have been traded. Of all the idiotic transactions that Falvey has ever done (which is most), Varland's trade made the least sense. The last half of the Calvin Griffin era & the last 2 years of Falvey were pretty bad , But the last 2 days have been by far the darkest of Twins' history. It's hard to believe that the Twins would be able to give tickets away.
  18. Doctor Gast
    & get MLB pay.
  19. Doctor Gast
    No doubt he was given permission to sell, but by who? I was wondering if it was the buyer. You'd still hope to get a good return & cover yourself. Which, IMO, he hasn't done a good job. To clean house I rather they started with Falvey & those who adhere to him. Not the players! This is very sad.
  20. Doctor Gast
    This is a clown show just like last night. Who open the asylum to sell off the Twins. Falvey actions just made a lot of teams happy, except the Twins. Hurry up & lock him up before he burns down Target Field. He must think you get a boobby prize for the worst team in baseball. Are the Twins not eligible for the draft lottery next season because they haven't made it to the playoffs for years? Has this been all for nought next year or the year after? Brace for the worst, Target Field will be empty. After all this, Falvey has done very little to really help the Twins in this mess. But we can't blame Falvey because we are in a rebuild, Don't expect much for years. When you want to sell a car & after you show the car & make an agreement. You don't strip down the car, replace the expensive tires, battery, and stereo with cheap old ones before you sell the car. Or you buy a new house & someone else selects the paint, carpet & some accessories. Why don't the new owners get to choose how to change the team? It's obvious that Falvey has no idea what he's doing. Could it be that the next owner is as dumb as the Pohlads? And let Falvey do whatever he wants,
  21. Doctor Gast
    I was hoping that the Twins weren't going to tear this down because I still have faith in the core & didn't trust Falvey to trade them. But I'm not surprised because Falvey was running out of excuses, so hey, it's not my fault, it's the core. I was hoping that Falvey & Co.would be gone so the team could run correctly. Since they are still here, they aren't going to make in the playoffs so just as well blow it up, like I've said before but I'd rather someone else doing the negotiations. How long will it take before we have a team that can compete again? Depends on how fast the crew that comes after Falvey can clean up the mess & put things back in order. IMO, it'll be a long time.
  22. Doctor Gast
    I targeted moving RP (Jax or Duran) & an OFer (Wallner- Bader) to PHI, but the return we got was much less & less relevant. I also targeted moving RPs Stewart & or Coloumbe to LAD, I'd be happy if we at least got #3 catcher Hunter Feducci & a promising MLB-ready LHP. Then, I'd upgrade this deadline from failing to D+. I was really banking to have my sox blown off with a nice relevant return from Duran instead of losing that trade.
  23. Doctor Gast
    Makes sense, Duran & Bader were good fits for PHI, but what MN got back were underwhelming, overvalued, far less valuable & won't help MN much if any at all or any time. Just what MN needs another LH OLFer. Falvey helped out PHI lot more than MN. Falvey is long overdue to be out the door. They probably worked out a post MN deal while they were finalizing.
  24. Doctor Gast
    You care nothing for the Twins so what do you know about the Twins except what you get from big market social media? Big market wanted Duran on the cheap; they got it. If Falvey can't get a good deal then wait until we get someone who can. You complain that the Twins aren't spending enough, then turn around & you say they shouldn't spend the money to keep Duran. Maybe Duran would get $12-15M in NY but not here. If we bring someone in who can get a good deal on Duran this offseason, then News Flash, we don't pay his salary. Yes they stunk last season, they stink this season and they'll continue to stink under Falvey. If you like Falvey, great you can have him. You hate Twins, fine, But don't stick your nose where it doesn't belong.
  25. Doctor Gast
    Pohlads are stupid but they spend more than the other teams in our division & more than half the teams in MLB. The Pohlads won't give me enough money is one of many excuses that is propagated on social media by Falvey & his minions to persuade the masses. It's not about how much money you spend, it's about how you spend it. Throwing it away in FA doesn't help the cause. They gave too much $ to Donaldson that other teams didn't want to pay, they threw a lot of $ at the Paddack extention to sit around in hope later he'd show something instead of nothing, they wasted $ on so many worthless FAs we didn't need like Gallo, Accepted salary dumps like DeSclavani & Margot. We won a playoff series not because of Falvey but inspite of him. A big reason was because the players that fell into his lap. I never said that we got nothing of value. What I said was what we got was far below of what we should have got for a impact high demand elite closer that did nothing for present situation. If I have migraine headache (fragile in SPs & catching) I don't take medicine (prospects) that might or might not help years from now. You take medicine that you know that will alleviate that problem (promising young MLB-ready players). I've had my eye on Tait for a while now, & I can tell you that he's years away from MLB & his talents don't line up to the hype. That was the best he could get (he's too incompetent) so he hopes that he'll workout, but hope doesn't cut it.
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