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But I also remember he sometimes comes out in the first inning with no command. Bad trait for a starter. (Even worse from the bullpen of course.) I rarely chalk things up to mental unpreparedness - I think there is something physical where he can't get the grip and the motion to work together for a while, and eventually he finds it. Longer preparation during warmups? Even if it limits him to 5 innings for a while?

I... just remembered... I have a daughter too... yeah, she's living at home I just remembered... she has a dance recital dress rehearsal too... I can't stay for this game either... yeah, that's the ticket...

If I were hiring a GM I would agree with the assessment, but fail to see it as a blueprint.

YES!

Quite a while back, you're saying.

Inconceivable! Never go in against a Black Knight when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha... [black Knight stops suddenly, and falls to the ground armless and legless]

The answer somewhat depends, IMO, on whether you think another organization could fix someone like Gibson. Is there something in his physical makeup that causes him to be inconsistent from game to game? When he's on, he's good. Today, like so often, he can't hit his spots, and he either walks guys or gets tattooed.

/ obligatory // seems to come up way too often

There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.

And just like that, he doesn't throw it where the catcher's mitt is, and out of the park it goes. He can't hit his spots.

I'm not liking Gibson's command at the moment. It seems to come and go for him, during his career.

I think that's how it works, yeah. Go Twins!

Sounds about right. I remember seeing him two-hop it to his cutoff man. Imagine if Revere ever gets the Yips.

http://baseballanjou.ca/ It's an actual thing, apparently. I didn't see any pictures of their delicious pears, though. http://baseballanjou.ca/images/logo.png

Moderator's note: In a heated topic like this, keep incendiary terms like "Goober" out of it, please. Even if only one side seems to be discussing it at the moment.

Actually I also found that part of the interview difficult to process. He says literally, to the worst part of owning a sports team? "The importance of winning is so highlighted in our market, it takes the fun out of the actual game." And then he goes on to contrast the situation to the Yankees. He apparently doesn't realize the baseline of the typical Yankees fan going into each season is for that team to win the World Series. The difference, he implies by mentioning the "much bigger population", is that they still fill up the ballpark even in bad seasons, Thus, he is still trying to find a way to sing the Small Market Blues, without coming right out and saying it. The weird part is that he asked for it. In answer to What’s the hardest part? he closed by saying "You should have asked me what’s the worst part of owning a sports team." So he apparently thirsts to be asked that, then he dances around his real point. As for his clean whiff on the question What do you think is the best seat at Target Field? IMO he should take a page from Bill Veeck and go sit in the cheap seats (or some good ones) with random fans. Best way in the world to take the pulse of his customer base. And he'd gain an opinion on the seats, as a bonus. Honestly, I'm not slamming Pohlad as a bad owner. I'm sure an interview with me could be picked apart. Kudos to him for sitting down with the boy. But the funny thing is that if I did get picked apart, it would be an opportunity to re-consider the things being mentioned, and see if I might not want to modify what I'm doing. At the very least, he should consider getting a refresher course in "Public Relations for Accounting Majors". I think we should replace our world of journalists with 11-year-olds. Interview subjects might let down their guard more.

Most likely a Proctologist is called for, to cure this case of cranio-rectal inversion.

"Sometimes you just can't give your money away." -- Anonymous MLB GM

A moderator-to-be-named-later is about to give you a bannin', son.

Or, the huge manatee!

Ortiz is batting? I thought he retired tonight.

I make my own water. Two glasses of H, one glass of O.

"Um, Pinch, that's Emily Litella." "Oh. That's very different. Never mind."

There's a big difference between partly conceivable and all inconceivable.

Oh.