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  1. LastOnePicked
    Agreed. This is a 90-loss team that has occasional flashes of being something better. Those flashes fade as soon as any pressure is applied. It's a sloppy team, an injury-prone team and a team without leadership or spark. Clean house and start the long climb back to relevance.
  2. LastOnePicked
    I hear you, but I think we need a championship run more than we need one nice thing. There isn't enough of a team here to surround him with. Plus, if he drops a bit in velocity it'll be the Ober situation all over again. It's time for the Twins to actually sell high on some players.
  3. LastOnePicked
    Sell, sell, sell. There's not nearly enough here. Let's get this long overdue rebuild going. I wish ownership even cared enough to simply push the overhaul button.
  4. LastOnePicked
    If they're spending more money than their competition and they're failing to win divisions and playoff games, then the answer becomes fairly clear. Results are a the best yardstick.
  5. LastOnePicked
    I don't think the Twins organization is even vaguely aware of the idea of "fans" at this point. We simply don't factor into the equation. No organization who cared about their fans would subject them to low quality output with no recourse or accountability.
  6. LastOnePicked
    It looks like the organizational dial is still stuck on the "maximum fan pain" setting. Hope they get that fixed.
  7. LastOnePicked
    Trade who you can. Fire Rocco. Send the signal that a full cleaning of the slate is underway. This isn't major league quality baseball at this point.
  8. LastOnePicked
    Hard to know what to say at this point. Whatever momentum they had built is long gone. If the clubhouse sinks that deeply from the loss of their ace, then they probably didn't have much to propel them in September or October. I want them to win, sure. But I'll take a total rebuild of the organization as a consolation.
  9. LastOnePicked
    This whole post was just perfectly stated. It's sad to see the Twins continue to lag in development, coaching and execution, with no meaningful changes to their approach.
  10. LastOnePicked
    I mean, the win streak was real. Each win is as real as each loss. There are some plusses on this team, but they collapses are just confusing. Either they're pretty easily scouted and their weaknesses can be exploited, or they just can't sustain any real momentum. When the pressure's off, they seem to be fine. When the spotlight gets put back on them, they fold.
  11. LastOnePicked
    Easy. It's garage sale season. Lots of people are out looking for local bargains.
  12. LastOnePicked
    Might want to get that checked. That's a symptom of Twins fever. I might be coming down with it, too.
  13. LastOnePicked
    I'm right there with you.
  14. LastOnePicked
    I'm not quite following the argument. Orioles have won 275 games over the last three years. The Twins have won 247 and played in a much weaker division over that span (but it is heating up now, yes). Both teams have won three playoff games in that same span. We're only a quarter of the way into 2025 - we'll have to see where things end up this year and perhaps the next few years. The story of this comparison might be that a total rebuild (like the Os) - if done correctly - helps you rebound more quickly after a bad year. Or it might be that it's far better just to steer towards .500 each year (like the Twins) and see where you can get from there. Or, if the Orioles rebound in 2025, the real lesson might be that it's wise to fire an underperforming manager as soon as you sense stalled momentum. But I wouldn't draw too much of a conclusion from any of this yet.
  15. LastOnePicked
    When I was a kid in St. Paul, if you ordered a dozen cookies at a local bakery, you'd get a few extra in the bag. Too much to hope that this also happens in Milwaukee?
  16. LastOnePicked
    I am almost ready to touch grass about Baldelli. Almost. Maybe.
  17. LastOnePicked
    Articles like this always make me chuckle. They pull me in with the promise that the Twins just found gold in their pan, and by the last paragraph it's always, "Don't get us wrong, this guy still pretty much stinks and will only play a few games here and there. But he might be okay."
  18. LastOnePicked
    "The team had some rotten luck early that made them seem worse than they really are. The team is now having some crazy good luck that makes them seem better than they actually are." About this "crazy good luck" you mention. Is it possible to get more of it?
  19. LastOnePicked
    Can anybody explain to me what the h%ll is going on?! I had just settled down to hate this team until at least September.
  20. LastOnePicked
    I was pretty sure the week would happen. I just didn't think the Twins would win all of the games in it.
  21. LastOnePicked
    Basically, since that unfortunate comedy post about the dearly departed Pope Francis, the Twins are on fire and the new Pope is a White Sox fan. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
  22. LastOnePicked
    They should really make these guys a deal: lead the AL in pitching and you can burn these horrific jerseys.
  23. LastOnePicked
    Haven't the last three seasons been like this, though? I love the winning. Let's hope it continues. But they dug themselves an early hole that gives them much less margin for error than their competition. I'm not at all certain that, even if the team rights the ship in May-June, we won't see a similar out-of-gas ending in August-September. But that's why we play the games anyway. Let's see what happens.
  24. LastOnePicked
    Huh, similar roster construction strategies and similar organizational philosophies, and yet vastly different results? I think we should look at every possible factor why the Twins constantly fall short against them except managing and coaching. Clearly, that can't possibly be an issue.
  25. LastOnePicked
    There are many problems with this team. Rocco is one of them. Many larger organizations have a "front office philosophy," sure. But there are always managers in those organizations whose divisions/departments consistently overperform. And then you have others who consistently underperform. Rocco has often been given a highly-touted farm system and a top AL Central payroll. And yet, after last season's collapse, here we are again - a team that should certainly be better than what they are. Managers matter. It's time to find a better one.
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