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  1. Boom Boom
    I apologize for raining on your parade, but the thread and the poll within asked for my opinion. From what I've seen from Walters, and based on his minor league track record, he looks like another Anthony Swarzak to me. A marginal starter or long reliever. I don't think the Twins should cut him, but I'm expecting the AL to catch up to him quickly.
  2. Boom Boom
    Towards the end of the game he was leaving a lot of pitches up and missing his spots frequently. He may have been just gassed, but the White Sox did not have a very good approach last night. It looked to me like he was very lucky.
  3. Boom Boom
    Considering all the garish and cheap advertisements plastered all over MLB stadiums, it seems awfully petty to take issue with this. I didn't even notice it until I read this post. Where was this guy when the Twins put up that obscene milk jug at the Dome?
  4. Boom Boom
    The Twins sure do have an awful lot of outfielders.
  5. Boom Boom
    Despite some lucky numbers, I think Diamond is here to stay. I'm not so convinced about Walters. And now I'm afraid the Twins are reaching to the well too many times.
  6. Boom Boom
    I can't explain the pants, but at least he had the good sense to take public transportation. Not that he deserves a medal or anything. Anyway, before everybody and their grandma had a blog, this kind of stuff happened with our MLB heroes all the time. We just didn't hear about it because no one had the soapbox to shout it from.
  7. Boom Boom
    Getting drunk and hitting on girls makes you a scumbag? I wish I'd known that earlier.
  8. Boom Boom
    They haven't done much to address the SP in the last five years, and it seems like you're still emotionally invested anyway. I get where you're coming from, but I just don't believe that Grienke himself is the answer. Going "all-in" will require the Twins to sign more players than just Grienke. If they did that, I'd be happy about it, but I also don't want them to throw money at big-time free agents when they're a bad team and become the Seattle Mariners, who are still a bad team and have to ride out bad contracts that keep them from rebuilding properly.
  9. Boom Boom
    This is my point - signing Grienke would be one of those "put you over the top" moves that the Twins were so hesitant to make while they were a very good team. It would have made a lot of sense a couple years ago. But the Twins need to commit to rebuilding now, and handing out big contracts at this point would be a mistake.
  10. Boom Boom
    I like Grienke, and the Twins also like Grienke. If they were one good pitcher away, like they were in 2007-2010, I'd say go for it. But they're not that close to competing.
  11. Boom Boom
    Marquis needs to work faster. Maybe he should move a little bit more on the rubber. Also he's got a tight quad.
  12. Boom Boom
    If Gardy is going to play Plouffe in the outfield every day now, isn't it rather redundant to be carrying three other outfielders on the bench?
  13. Boom Boom
    Carl Pohlad, Bill Smith, Dan Gladden, and Wally the Beer Man.
  14. Boom Boom
    I voted for fewer than six games. What he did was dumb, but there's no way he intended to hit the umpire with his helmet. Obviously the suspension is justified but I don't believe Lawrie had any intention to physically assault the umpire. I don't agree with appealing the suspension, though. Just take it and move on.
  15. Boom Boom
    Yes, as established pitchers often get the borderline calls, the inverse is also true. An unproven starter isn't going to get as many calls when he's pitching to a big-time hitter. I don't think that should be the case, but it is what it is. When Joe Mauer takes a close pitch he's more likely to get the ball call than Drew Butera. If the umpire doesn't have a great look at the pitch he might defer to a hitter that he thinks has a good eye. Come to think of it, that may be an interesting research project. What % of borderline pitches go the way of the hitter when the batter is Derek Jeter, for example, as opposed to Trevor Plouffe?
  16. Boom Boom
    I guess I was thinking the batters in the HR hitting contest get to choose who throws batting practice to them and usually go with a coach in their organization. But come to think of it, they might just pick Marquis. Also, about Dozier, rookies often have the inside track on the final selections if there's no one substantially ahead of the pack.
  17. Boom Boom
    I would imagine that this has more to do with the individual pitchers than the teams. Pitchers with long track records of success will often get the benefit of the doubt on close pitches, while green rookies and journeymen will not. It may also have something to do with the catchers and their ability to frame a pitch. If a catcher has to move his glove much to catch a pitch, even if the pitch is caught in the strike zone, the umpire may have a more difficult time making the correct call because of the extra variable of the moving target.
  18. Boom Boom
    New word is that Doumit is not going on the DL. Revere has been called up and Blackburn has been placed on the DL.
  19. Boom Boom
    With the Twins carrying 13 pitchers they need to be more assertive about putting position players on the DL if they're hurt. Hamstring strains are notoriously slow to heal, and I have a feeling Span will be on the DL before this is resolved.
  20. Boom Boom
    So how many days of sitting on the bench will it take for the Twins to retroactively place Span on the DL?
  21. Boom Boom
    The Twins absolutely should trade Span for pitching prospects. There are no established starters that will turn this team around quickly. The Twins need pitchers that will be around for a while, not one that will be here for a couple years and then be gone. They're just not that close to competing.
  22. Boom Boom
    Fans can boo whomever they want to boo. In a year when the Twins slashed a payroll that they admitted was more than they wanted to spend, his contract is obviously hurting the team. Mauer should be held to higher standards than anyone else in that Twins dugout. In most other markets the fans wouldn't have waited so long to boo him so aggressively.
  23. Boom Boom
    The nicknames are rather childish. Some of the players, the young ones especially, need the manager to be an authority rather than a buddy.
  24. Boom Boom
    I'd like to nominate Marquis to pitch the Home Run Derby. But seriously, Willingham is the logical choice unless Diamond or Dozier continue to play extremely well.
  25. Boom Boom
    This IS the youth movement. If you don't think the Twins are giving enough playing time to their young players, it's because they don't have many young players. Revere will be up when Span is eventually dealt. The only other thing they can really do is dispose of Marquis and replace him with Swarzak or Duensing.
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