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  1. Boom Boom
    Let's go down the list of players the Twins have put on the field most often: Suzuki - For all the Twins have raved about his catching, he doesn't throw well at all. I'm frankly surprised that teams don't run on him more often. I'll have to take their word for it on the game-calling. Mauer - He's getting better I think, but for much of the year he looked uncomfortable over at first base. I think he'll be a more than adequate defensive first baseman, but the trade-off is that Vargas will have to DH, and Sano better stick at third or be moved to the outfield. Dozier - He makes some nice plays, but the numbers don't like him defensively as much as the broadcasters do. Plouffe - Probably the biggest bright spot, he's turned into an above-average third baseman after wandering in the wilderness for so long. When Sano is ready, will the Twins decide to sacrifice Plouffe's defense to put what might be a square peg in a round hole? Escobar - He can play shortstop and not embarrass himself. Probably best suited for a utility role, though. Willingham - Since being traded to the Royals, he's been almost exclusively used as a DH, which is probably what he should have been doing while he was a Twin. Left field is a big question mark going forward. Santana - Well... he's fast, I guess. Arcia - Sometimes when I see Arcia in the outfield, I think I'm looking at an old replay of Delmon Young reflected through a mirror.
  2. Boom Boom
    Nowhere did I call for criminal investigations. I think these discussions are nowhere near as silly as a 40-some year old man, who coaches kids who largely aren't old enough to drink, to run out on to a playing field to throw fisticuffs. To me, that's extremely silly, and what's more silly is the implication that we should have a special set of rules for sports personalities. What's even more ridiculous is that Mientkiewicz isn't even involved in the physical play on the field. He's supposed to be a person of authority in the organization and he set a very bad example. Would it bother you if Terry Ryan ran out from his suite to start throwing punches at Billy Beane or Brian Cashman? I understand there's a lot of cases of this happening in the past. In my opinion, it was always wrong, and fans who hold those kinds of behaviors up as positive or commendable are also wrong. Just because something has always been wrong doesn't mean we shouldn't fix it when we can.
  3. Boom Boom
    I'm mildly amused by the idea of a Liriano reunion, but I would guess that it wouldn't happen if Gardenhire and Anderson are still holding the keys to the car.
  4. Boom Boom
    I'm too young to have followed Martin's career, but from what I understand, a lot of people hated Billy Martin.
  5. Boom Boom
    I thought he should have been fired, as a relatively new minor-league coach without a great track record at the time, and I stand by that. His punishment was his punishment, and that's not exactly what I'm taking issue with here. What bothers me now is the sentiment that the fight somehow makes him a better candidate than others for the Twins job. "That's the way it's always been" and "it adds something to the game" is the same reason that the NHL hasn't banned fighting, which for the record, I also think is ridiculous.
  6. Boom Boom
    I guess I see a difference between "dirty play" and fighting - fighting isn't dirty play, it's not play at all. The line between "illegal contact" and "assault" in an NFL play is blurry until the whistle blows. Regardless, your analogy is missing the point, because what Doug did would be more like an NFL coach getting into an altercation on the field.
  7. Boom Boom
    Usually by the bottom of the second inning I've moved on to paying bills, folding laundry, or taking a nap. In a rare instance of watching almost an entire game yesterday, I had to laugh out loud when Bremer announced that there's a discount for college students on standing-room only tickets.
  8. Boom Boom
    birdwatcher's post hits at the heart of the matter for me - that violence is brushed aside, or even glamorized, when it involves men in the professional sports industry. I'm not saying Doug can't learn from his mistake, or that he should be banned for life. But "having been involved in an on-field fistfight" shouldn't be a positive mark on his resumé; it should be quite the opposite.
  9. Boom Boom
    This is correct, even at the time of the incident I am on record saying he should have been fired. Reasons to fire an employee are always subjective, but IMO, getting into an on-field fistfight should be grounds for a manager's dismissal.
  10. Boom Boom
    I got into this a bit in Nick Nelson's thread about Mientkiewicz as a potential new Twins manager, mostly in response to his statement about how "Eye Chart"'s on-field brawl last year was kind of awesome. Rather than hijack that thread, I thought I'd make my own and open up the question here. To be sure, fighting and immaturity go back forever with professional sports, and I don't deny that. What I have a problem with is a culture of acceptance that I feel enables further knuckleheaded (or worse) behavior. Sometimes that acceptance wanders dangerously into the territory of approval or even celebration. The sport has changed a lot since the days of Ty Cobb deliberately spiking fielders. Umpires give warnings for throwing too close to a hitter. Most recently a rule was put in place to deter collisions, incidental or deliberate, with the catcher (see Hunter, Torii). We've often been told about professional sports that the culture is different, which is true to a degree, but also true about every other individual walk of life. The culture of my job is different than the culture of someone else's. For how many occupations is fighting considered acceptable? Are there any fields for which it should be?
  11. Boom Boom
    No, I would have preferred he be fired for it. And saying "professional sports isn't the real world" is ridiculous, because it is the real world, and these are grown men we're talking about, not little leaguers. And that'll be my last post on the subject.
  12. Boom Boom
    I don't care. You don't do that. In any other occupational walk of life besides professional sports, he would have been canned for that. I'm not a fan of the double-standard that exists in regards to sports vs. the real world.
  13. Boom Boom
    I don't think it's awesome at all that he got into a fight on the field. I think it's immature and irresponsible, especially for someone in a position of authority over some of the youngest and least mature players in the organization. I don't care if "boys will be boys" and "there's a different culture" and bla bla bla. It reflects very poorly on his character.
  14. Boom Boom
    In the last two weeks, hitters are batting a robust .308/.333/.615 off of Glen Perkins. I don't think you can argue that Perk's been overused. I think the answer to the original question is a bit of both - but I don't have that option
  15. Boom Boom
    I'm not going to defend Worley, but there's two sides to every story, and once Worley was gone we were only going to get the Twins' side of it.
  16. Boom Boom
    Coaches the Twins have held accountable: Jerry White Steve Liddle Rick Stelmaczek (though I'm pretty sure he was planning on retiring that year anyway) Now... for the last four years we've been hearing "What's Gardenhire supposed to do with the awful, ratty, scummy roster he's been given"... but if anything, the guys the Twins did hold accountable had substantially less to do with the success/failure of the team than Gardenhire. IMO, Gardenhire and Anderson should have been gone already, but I'd be shocked if the Twins actually cut them loose. The Twins FO is married to those two guys.
  17. Boom Boom
    Sorry to be a buzzkill, but I've watched the Twins for a long time, and my spidey-senses tell me the rotation will be: Hughes Nolasco Gibson Pelfrey Milone
  18. Boom Boom
    They've brought it up on the broadcast before, and you can see it in in the second clip, that Arcia has been starting with his hands at his shoulders and dropping them as the pitch is delivered. It's not nearly as evident in the first clip.
  19. Boom Boom
    Olbermann picks a "World's Worst in Sports" on every show. There's also a runner-up, and a 3rd place, and they're not typically related to each other except for that it's a sports story that happened in the last couple days. So no, he didn't go down the line of marketing departments and find the Twins to have the worst - he gave them the World's Worst prize for the day for the marketing survey.
  20. Boom Boom
    There's a reason the A's were willing to trade Milone, a starter who still has options left, for a guy they had already taken off their roster once this season. They saw that his relatively shiny ERA was not much more than a mirage. Milone looks like another Scott Diamond to me, which is fine until things go bad and he falls off a cliff.
  21. Boom Boom
    I wouldn't even suggest signing a long-term right fielder... but I would be interested in signing a right fielder to a relatively short contract and make Arcia earn his way back on to the team.
  22. Boom Boom
    162 games is a lot of time to ask your fans to invest, especially in the modern world when they have so many more options than they did 60, 70, 80 years ago. It doesn't take that many games to determine which teams are playoff material.
  23. Boom Boom
    I like him too, but his play has been awful and not deserving of a major league spot. He hasn't even shown any improvement since last year. While we're on the subject of outfielders, the Twins are still lacking a left fielder for 2015 as well.
  24. Boom Boom
    I'm not sold on Oswaldo Arcia and I think the Twins could do better in right field. He's hitting .220/.288/.429 with 101 strikeouts in only 81 games... and not to mention the bad defense. I know he's young, and I know he's conquered AAA already, but he needs to step back and collect himself because I'm not impressed with how he's played. I'm also not sold on Trevor May being part of the rotation immediately in 2015, leaving Nolasco, Hughes, Gibson, and... Mike Pelfrey? I guess what I'm saying is that I disagree with the premise that the Twins don't need to make any major moves in the offseason.
  25. Boom Boom
    The buck ultimately stops at the GMs desk on player trades. Smith deserves some criticism. However, the GM is often working at the recommendation of scouts and other advisers, and the ones that Smith had to work with are largely the same ones that are still working under Ryan, including Ryan himself.
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