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  1. Dodecahedron
    Sure, Twins fans would do this. There is the embarrassing moment fans decided to throw batteries at Knoblauch. In the mid-80s, the Twins did a calendar giveaway at the gate. Midway through a long, boring game, fans were making paper airplanes out of the pages and throwing them onto the field. People only stopped when the announcer came on and announced they would have a contest later in the year to win a car if people could throw a paper airplane into a car parked on the turf, but only if they stopped tossing things on the field. And of course there has been the odd game where trash and other giveaways were tossed on the field when a game didn't go the right way, for all teams.
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    Shame about the Covid outbreak. For those who had Covid, we know it makes us feel like we aged 5-10 years. Let's keep our fingers crossed that it does not affect the Twins players the same way. For most of us, five years means a bigger belly, being tired, having to work-out harder while it being much harder to do so, and being a tad dumber. No big deal. Five years in baseball terms is the difference between being a player in his prime and retirement. Although some are raising the red flag on the season, the Twins are performing well overall. There are some valid complaints, but overall the Twins had a good start. The W-L could be better, but if they keep playing the way they have been, the W-L record will take care of itself.
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    Hawkins is a genius. I am surprised we never heard about how smart he is when he was playing for the Twins.
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    Good point. He sounds like he is sleepwalking when he is the only one in the booth.
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    I am a huge fan of Dobnak, but he would be my last option to put in as a closer. I don't think I would use him as a set-up man either. He would be the #3 starter on my roster. It would be his job to lose. Granted, Baldelli does not seem to believe in specialists for the 8th and 9th innings. Even still, his job as manager is to know where to put players so they can succeed. For position players, that's easy. For pitchers, not so much, but Dobnak seems like one of the easier pitchers to place given his repertoire.
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    I think the only people who think Dobnak is a reliever is Baldelli and probably the Twins pitching coaches. Even if he can perform well as a reliever, he's certainly not a closer.
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    I agree. Back when Gardenhire was managing good teams, he would give players a day off if the team won the first two games of a series. On the face of it this was a good incentive, and seemed to get great results, but there's a possibility it also prevented those teams from having truly dominant win streaks and kicking it up to the next level.
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    Ah, too bad. He will be sick for 2 days and be in mandatory isolation on the Covid-IL for at least 10 days, followed by more testing and a physical before he can return. According to MLB rules, the post-covid physical will include a heart-stress test, which you probably know* is not fun at all. If he had gotten the vaccine, he may not have had to sit around for 8 days doing nothing and would not have had to go through all the doctors prodding at him for another few days, and instead could have had fun travelling with his teammates and playing baseball. *Heart stress tests are an exercise where you work your heart to the maximum, then hold your breath and sit as still as possible so the doctor(s) can read your heart rate. As you might imagine, holding your breath and sitting still when your body most needs oxygen not much fun.
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    Kudos to Baddoo for teeing off on an 85mph meatball from Odorizzi. I admit, this gave me flashbacks of the footage of ByungHo Park teeing off on those in the KBO. Let's hope Odorizzi tosses a few of those to Sano later in the year. Too bad about Simmons. We all hope his symptoms remain mild. He sent out that tweet only a couple of weeks ago. I don't understand the "personal reasons" thing. The whole "Give me liberty of give me death!" line being directed toward a virus seems like a strange decision, given that the virus has no ears and does not care.
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    I am saying I would not make Astudillo's weight the story. It's not the story.
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    I tried out a new doctor closer to my new home. He said I no longer needed to take my stomach medication. It took 1.5 days for him to be proven wrong. He is no longer my doctor.
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    Polanco is in the middle of his 5+ year contract. He is not going anywhere, and in any case the Twins should work with people and not just drop them off on the side of the highway. (Not that this article is suggesting anything like that, I am predicting where this discussion will go.) Yes, he should be batting lower in the order and he should not be starting every game until he figures things out. I'm sure the Twins are working with him.
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    If you ran a survey on the most popular and/or most known players in Twins history, most people would list Puckett and Killebrew in the top 3, if not the top 2. Most of us remember Puckett's "bubble butt" rounding the bases in his prime, and Killebrew was a very big guy in his day. Heck, Babe Ruth was a big guy too. He is said to have weighed 260 pounds, with very thin arms and legs, or "toothpicks on a piano."
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    Astudillo has done amazing things in the MLB. He hasn't unlocked anything! Flavors of the month usually don't do jaw-dropping things for ~3 years. He is the most exciting "replacement-level" player we will ever see in our lifetimes. The Twins hit the jackpot for the last spot on the roster. His yearly WAR may hover around zero, but his entertainment value is in the stratosphere. Besides, any positive WAR from the last spot on the roster is a bonus.
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    They probably watched that carnival of a press conference before making the decision. If there had been an actual train wreck at that moment, our eyes still would have been on the news conference because that's how bad it was. Anyway, this is more about the safety of people while travelling than it is safety at the stadium. The Twins are good citizens.
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    As I said, I can't help it if you don't remember the 2019 and 2018 bag policies for the MLB and NFL. I know you can google them to refresh your memory, though.
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    It's not. This has been the policy for a couple of years. Every major sport event, concert, etc., nationwide, has had this policy since the Las Vegas shooting in 2017. Concerts and other similar events have had this policy for a couple of years, too. Note that Target Field is just following the MLB policy. One pandemic and we forget stuff, I guess.
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    Diaper bags and medically-necessary bags are allowed. Is this still a stupid policy? https://www.google.com/search?q=target+field+bag+policy&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS897US897&oq=target+field+bag+policy
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    I guess the only thing to say is Sano is starting the year as most of us thought he would. This won't be much of a story unless he is still struggling in another 6-8 weeks. Nothing can be done about it, he isn't going anywhere. My condolences on your grandma.
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    The thing about Buxton is his approach at the plate looks the same. He did not reinvent the wheel, so he might not regress. He is seeing the ball better and his timing is better. When he was struggling before, to an outside observer it seemed like he just wasn't seeing the ball.
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    The only good thing about Gladden is he will occasionally drop truth bombs out there. They are very short and sweet, and if you miss them you'll never hear them again, but he can give some good insight about the team and players that is happening behind the scenes that no one else will say. You could call this "putting his foot in his mouth" if you like. The biggest example I can think of is when Mauer was telling everyone in spring training one year about how he was seeing the ball better thanks to his new Nike shades, and Gladden pointed out Mauer's big endorsement deal with Nike was what was really going on....
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    I don't think this rule is new this year. In any case, this means I still don't have to take my mother in law to any games.
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    You need to post here more often. Cool info.
  24. Dodecahedron
    Twins hitting rankings, including both leagues: OPS+ 4th Batting Average 6th Runs 5th Home Runs 7th Runs Per Game 4th This is not an anemic offense. How's the pitching? ERA+ 3rd ERA 3rd Strikeouts 5th FIP 7th Walks 4th Runs Allowed Per Game 9th The Twins seem OK to me. If anything, their defense is bad. Their 8 unearned runs is the worst in the league and has caused at least two of their losses. Game mismanagement can probably be blamed on the other two losses. If the team begins to execute defensively and Baldelli gets out of the way, good things will happen.
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    I have not seen such negativity about a team doing well since the yahoo forums 10-12 years ago. I will admit, this is slightly less annoying than the throngs of people in the following years saying Terry Ryan was doing a good job after he came back. Less annoying or not, it's equally daft. It's a long season. Baseball players are streaky, almost all players are mediocre or bad for at least a month or two over the course of a season. If the Twins were 2-5, then there'd be something to gripe about. The Twins losses have been close, and the Twins are doing a good job plating runs. The starting pitching is playing as well as I expected them to (which is to say, much better than most others expected). I agree that a couple of the losses, if not most or even all of them, seem to be due to Baldelli's midgame decisions. I'm not sure if he is executing a pre-game plan, and thus not analyzing the game as it unfolds, or if he is very poor at analyzing what is going on. Either way, his decisions border on being bizarre. Molitor may have been bad at knowing when to make pitching changes, but he would never march Dobnak out to close a game. Twice. And I like Dobnak!
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