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  1. JB_Iowa
    I'll take Escobar. And the adventure continues .... Plus I liked this tidbit: Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino 57m There is also concern about overworking Kubel, whose legs require significant stretching from Perry Castellano before each game.
  2. JB_Iowa
    I think Gardenhire is just doing what he can.... I don't know that we want Florimon in CF either. Escobar seems the most athletic of players available. Good road trip for Rob Antony to stay in Minnesota.
  3. JB_Iowa
    Promoted to Center Field by Thursday morning's quarterback ... oops, manager.
  4. JB_Iowa
    I think it will be Perkins, too. But I also want to say that even though I'm not a great fan of his, I feel really bad that Joe Mauer won't have the opportunity to play in an ASG in front of his home crowd. Somehow ASG ambassador just isn't the same thing. (And yes, a lot of my bad feeling comes about because of "why" he won't have that opportunity -- still, it is just sad).
  5. JB_Iowa
    LaVelle E. Neal III ‏@LaVelleNeal 10m Right now, the Twins have a one-man bench LaVelle E. Neal III ‏@LaVelleNeal 10m Meanwhile, Twins trying to get someone up from Rochester to get here during the game You just can't make this stuff up.
  6. JB_Iowa
    And today we have a shortstop in Center Field. No matter how strange it gets with this team, it seems like there is always more.
  7. JB_Iowa
    Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino 2m Sam Fuld being checked for possible concussion. Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino 3m Today's revised outfield: Herrmann right, Kubel left , Escobar center Feel like I exhaled too soon.....
  8. JB_Iowa
    I like Morris. I don't mind Bert but he's been on so long I feel like I can predict what he will say. Bremer still talks too much.
  9. JB_Iowa
    LaVelle E. Neal III ‏@LaVelleNeal 14h Twins starters have a 1.84 ERA over last four games. If May could continue somewhat in this vein (okay, add even a run or 2 to that combined ERA), it would be a significant improvement. They can't change April. They can improve for May and later.
  10. JB_Iowa
    If baseball's unwritten rules are a small set of people trying to impose their belief set on everyone else, then they WILL eventually change and evolve. You seem to be focusing on a small group -- I'm talking about the totality of the community. If the baseball community -- AS A COMMUNITY -- comes to the conclusion that a particular unwritten rule is unfair or needs to change then the rule will eventually change.
  11. JB_Iowa
    He's there. Gardenhire went out to watch him take BP.
  12. JB_Iowa
    It is a matter of common courtesy and of respect for the culture and traditions in the community. Oops, didn't someone mention courtesy above? Perhaps that is what some of you don't understand.
  13. JB_Iowa
    This is part of why you guys have trouble understanding Bert. I live in a county that has a substantial population with Dutch ancestry (some immigrant, many 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation descendants.) That means that much of the county is of a Reformed Faith. In times past, they wouldn't even cook meals on Sunday -- they'd prepare them on Saturday so that they didn't need to work on Sunday. Farmers could do only necessary farm work on Sunday (i.e. could tend the animals but not work in the fields). While the strength of those "unwritten rules" have faded, they still have an effect. In the towns in the county with a strong Dutch background, you simply do not mow your lawn on Sunday. And if you do, you are quietly told not to do so. Several years ago, a young Lutheran minister had the audacity to mow his lawn on Easter Sunday -- he quickly learned that he had violated an unwritten rule. Did anybody brawl with him? Of course not. Did the church board make it clear that he was expected to comply with the unwritten rule? You betcha. In my small town, it is rare to hear a lawn mower on Sunday. It's not against any town ordinance. It's just one of those things you learn that you don't do.
  14. JB_Iowa
    Baseball is a small community. There are unwritten rules in every community I've ever been in whether it is a city or town, workplace, church, organization, etc. And the smaller the community is, it seems like the more unwritten rules it has. Whether it is what parking spot you take or whether you mow your lawn on Sunday or what night you schedule a meeting or what happens if you miss an event. For me, unwritten rules are part of the charm of community ... and part of the charm of baseball. I'm not advocating violence here. Just saying that the unwritten rules are a part (and at times a significant part) of the fabric of the game. And eliminating them would remove a lot of the history, tradition and appeal of the game. But you can console yourself that like all traditions, the unwritten rules will evolve over time.
  15. JB_Iowa
    When Fuld hit the wall last night, I thought .... wow, it could get worse yet.
  16. JB_Iowa
    Glad you had a good time. Nothing wrong with a group date ... kind of like being 15 again.
  17. JB_Iowa
    Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino · 1h Pelfrey felt something in his left groin when he slipped on mound in first inning, Rob Antony said. No worries about his arm. Blame (or thank) the wet weather.
  18. JB_Iowa
    No. From several hours ago: Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino 2h Danny Santana is not in the lineup tonight for ROC. Meanwhile, Kenny Wilson is playing CF and batting 2nd for @RockCats, who are under way
  19. JB_Iowa
    We're waiting on the "date report".
  20. JB_Iowa
    Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino 1m Danny Santana gets the call Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino 10s Eduardo Escobar will be #mntwins "primary shortstop" for now, Antony said
  21. JB_Iowa
    Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino 1m Danny Santana gets the call
  22. JB_Iowa
    Say Guten Tag to Max -- always my favorite cast member.
  23. JB_Iowa
    Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino 1m A position player (Santana?) will be called up for Saturday's game. Going with 2 man bench tonight. Nunez still out with oblique. Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino 2m Fryer could be another option with Herrmann treated as pure OF while Fryer is up. Gardy said "it's not Arcia."
  24. JB_Iowa
    Rhett Bollinger ‏@RhettBollinger 5m Deduno to replace Pelfrey in rotation. Pelfrey will head to DL with strained groin Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino 3m Pelfrey came in today and reported a groin "tweak" during Thursday start, Gardy said.
  25. JB_Iowa
    I'm hoping that someday Mark Buehrle will be the czar of game times.
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