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And on the shortstops' page, Eduardo Escobar has a better RF/9 than Pedro Florimon.

I ran into that several times yesterday, too. And this morning, the response from the site has been slow.

It's nice to come back and read a post from someone who has a Clue.

I've got this stupid inside-out swing, and take everything to the opposite field, even when the ball is thrown right down the middle.

Your nose apparently works differently than mine, then.

You can lead a dog to water but you can't make him pee?

Careful, you'll make him appear.

For future reference, that was a setup for "I don't know. I've never Kipled." You'll find the opportunity comes up all the time. Real Life Of The Party stuff there.

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I think so too. Fortunately the rules on trolling tend to be a little more relaxed here in the game threads.

I think sampleSize was referring to this story: The Elephant's Child Do you like Kipling?

How long do you think Brian's nose will become if he goes to Derek Norris and just asks?

As for this part of your post... I think you should be able to click Edit Post, and then click Go Advanced. On that screen, the title is editable. (Unless it's a moderator-only function but I doubt it.)

I just changed it to remove the 's.

The paint is worn off of my F5 key, if that is of any guidance.

Apparently my satire of the glass-is-always-half-empty outlook didn't work so good. Oh well, live and (not) learn.

They'll be lucky if half are left. Right?

Uncle.

Where does their Pythag put them, somewhere around .500?

Just half of them.

Is stung by your blind optimism:

After watching the Twins today in Cleveland, several impressions come to the forefront. First, the pitching seems to be no better than last year, and quite possibly even worse. The starter, Nolasco, stunk it up with 5 runs in only 4 innings, and could not seem to locate his pitches to save his life. The bullpen quickly coughed up two more runs, a performance that could put a game essentially out of reach by the halfway mark. The defense was also laughable, with somebody inexperienced manning left field, after Willingham departed the game with an injury (thankfully the diagnosis was no broken bone, just day-to-day), unable to make the simplest plays. The team was fortunate to have no unearned runs to tack onto the tally against them. And the hitting? Florimon, the afore-mentioned Bartlett, Hicks and Escobar combined for 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position through the game. Factor that in with an aggregate o-fer by the 2B, LF, CF, and SS positions, and you would hardly be surprised to be told that the Twins were shut out again. I believe it was the Orioles in 1988 who established a major league record by losing their first 21 games to start the season. Though it's early, are the Twins in danger of eclipsing that mark in 2014? Based on this account of this game one would be hard pressed to say no. It would be easy to assume that this debacle in Cleveland was the nadir of the Twins 2014 season, but with 156 games to go I am not confident in predicting that this will even be their worst game this year. Yes, I am giving fair warning: IT COULD BE WORSE. Go Twins.

Fair enough. And Nolasco isn't doing well.