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  1. twinsnorth49
    Which one are you? Chicken Little? Ducky Lucky? Henny Penny? Certainly not the fox.
  2. twinsnorth49
    It was a beauty, I feel shame.
  3. twinsnorth49
    Dear Danny Valencia, that is how you hit a baseball.
  4. twinsnorth49
    Ok I'm hallucinating, the Twins are up 3 and Drew Butera just got a hit.
  5. twinsnorth49
    If that comes back to cost them they really have to evaluate him a whole lot harder, to have an at bat like that with the way Haren is pitching is just ridiculous.
  6. twinsnorth49
    Valencia is a joke, what an undisciplined prick
  7. twinsnorth49
    Ummmmm, 21, is that a trick question? I didn't even need my calculator, where did you go to school?
  8. twinsnorth49
    Classy, celebrating people losing their jobs.....classy.
  9. twinsnorth49
    Which would have been another knee-jerk bad decision.
  10. twinsnorth49
    Let's go Diamond! Let's have a Canadian get this done!
  11. twinsnorth49
    Debatable. I highly doubt he's on the bench for missing a throw. If that was the case Komatsu should be there for dropping that fly ball, it was far worse.
  12. twinsnorth49
    The nostalgia goggles you get today are crap; they were so much better back in my day.
  13. twinsnorth49
    Part of the debate in this thread centers around what constitutes success, some, if not most, seem to think the Twins haven't been successful for many years because they have not reached the WS since '91. I think that is very short-sighted. I admire the way the Pohlads run this organization, the stability they establish is reassuring to the people who work for them and it breeds loyalty and a commitment to success. To suggest stagnation is to just make a broad assumption in the absence of any real knowledge or facts. I think the Pohlads are smart enough business people to recognize if their organization was stagnating and no longer growing, you don't get to where they are by coasting. They are also smart enough to know that there are ebbs and flows to everything and over-reacting when things ebb doesn't necessarily make things flow again any faster and perhaps comes with a heavier price. I agree with you John, I think the Pohlads would be right to stick with them, we're not the bloody Royals after all.
  14. twinsnorth49
    I stand corrected, forgot about the WS loss before I was born and 2002 was under Gardy, I meant other than him. 2002 was an accident though because they originally set the bar at a 3, damn overachievers.
  15. twinsnorth49
    Doubt it but there might be a little more plate for the pitcher to work with.
  16. twinsnorth49
    Agreed, it's mainly about the players, as long as we were giving so much blame to the manager I went along with too much credit. I don't believe the manager has that much to do with the outcome of the game once it starts, it's overblown. I'm not saying anyone can manage a playoff team or a regular season team, I'm saying the overall impact from one good manager to the next is negligible and mainly lies with who he has playing for him.
  17. twinsnorth49
    I respect your opinion and as long as I follow your "perspective" chart, of course I always want to be 5, to suggest any fans desire anything else is patronizing. The Twins have only been 5, twice, when exactly have they been a 4? They've never lost a WS, did I miss something? Just because this team hasn't had as much post season success as they would have liked does not mean they set the bar at 2-3, that is ridiculous, I'm pretty convinced their goal is to win. By my math you've been satisfied with the philosophical direction of the team for a combined total of 2 years, most other years prior to 2002 they have been a 1 or 2.
  18. twinsnorth49
    Not just because he's a rookie, a bit of a cocky rookie, also Washington is threatening the Phillies superiority, they are the up and comers so Hamels wants to point out that if they want to play with the big boys there is going to be a price. He chose to send that message to the guy who might not quite appreciate that yet, the golden child. The Angels and Weaver have nothing to worry about from the Twins or Dozier (who also doesn't have a reputation), not that the Angels are scaring anybody right now either.
  19. twinsnorth49
    Wally Backman is a lunatic and Gardenhire has been ejected from 62 games, fire and energy? Like what,pacing up and down the dugout screaming? Throwing bats? What?
  20. twinsnorth49
    I couldn't agree more, all of this self-righteous "wait until someone gets killed" grandstanding is a bunch of hyperbole, get over your indignant selves. If it bothers you so much then stop watching, take an actual stand, not just cry about how wrong it all is. I certainly don't know any better than anyone else but I think you can infer by Harper's non response he didn't think it was such a big deal, I'm sure he's not spending too much time making his funeral arrangements in the event it happens again. The player's don't blindly follow this, they accept it,if they didn't then the collective will would win out, it always does, no different than fighting in hockey. For the record he didn't get beaned, he got hit, bean is a metaphor for head, he got hit in the back, that's being plunked. And for those who fancy using drunk driving analogies, try to find a better one, one where people don't actually lose their lives.
  21. twinsnorth49
    What bar and perspective are you referring to? I've followed the Twins since 1975 and while '87 and '91 remain the pinnacles of success that does not diminish or change the perspective of what has been accomplished recently. Tom Kelly had 2 winning seasons in the 10 years he managed the Twins after they won in "91, are those the memories you are referring to? They had 2 winning seasons in the 10 years prior to winning in '87, are those the memories you cherish? In the 10 years since Ron Gardenhire took over this team they have had 8 winning season out of 10 and finished 1st in their division 6 times. The World Series will always be the bar for any team that has ever won it but it is not the only indicator of success. In my 27 years of being a fan of this team I have not witnessed a more consistent stretch of quality baseball but I have witnessed baseball just as bad as this, save a few more wins here and there, at that point its semantics. In my mind winning the World Series as a manager exaggerates your ability, it's about the players at that point, not the manager. Bobby Cox won 1 World Series and 15 division titles,he was a crappy manager because he only managed to win the big one once? I thank Ron Gardenhire for providing me with them most consistent stretch of winning baseball I have witnessed in 27 years. It's been a lot of fun.
  22. twinsnorth49
    Doesn't ever happen much though does it? Curious. What Hamels did is part of the code of the game, some feel that the code isn't as strong as it used to be and the game in a certain sense is less respectful. Guys like Hamels and Verlander want to protect the code, it's their code, not yours, who are you to judge? I'll lay you 100-1 Harper had no issue with it, he knows why it happened and he took it, lived with it and made them pay. My money says Hamels respects him for it. Not sure where all of this 50's nonsense is coming from, the code and it's many facets have always been around, batters getting hit isn't some 50's throwback, it's always been the way, as have many other "in house" rulings. You think Bob Gibson, Nolan Ryan or Jack Morris never threw at guys intentionally? Damn right they did and they'd be the 1st to admit it and wouldn't have any time for critics who never stepped foot in a major league dugout. Baseball is a child's game played by grown men, the whole thing is childish, why should this be any different?
  23. twinsnorth49
    They don't call it THE DREADED VOTE OF CONFIDENCE for nothing. I'd like to believe it is what it is but I'd also like to believe it is what isn't....but I can't. Hard times for sure.
  24. twinsnorth49
    Yes he "is", present tense please, the man is still alive and very much Canadian...................much like Scott Diamond.......GO DIAMOND!!!!!!! Go easy on him.
  25. twinsnorth49
    HA HA HA HA HA HA HA .......................HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....................WHAH HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's gold.
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