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  1. JB_Iowa
    I don't mind Hawk and Stone at all. It's blatant homerism and just doesn't bother me. I'm much more bothered by the announcers who try to appear to be unbiased but then put in snide little jabs, etc. Give me a blatant homer any day. And give me more dead air from most of them including most of the national crews (my biggest complaint about Bremer and whoever he happens to be paired with at the time is that they make my ears hurt. Yammer, yammer, yammer).
  2. JB_Iowa
    Thanks. I'm trying that. Had a hellish time logging back in. When I put my user name & password in the screen in the upper left corner, it did not disguise the password. Then took me to the you've made a mistake log-in screen.
  3. JB_Iowa
    I've had to sign back in 4 or 5 times today even though I've left the same window open (and haven't cleared my cache or anything). Anybody else having this problem or am I as unique as I think I am?
  4. JB_Iowa
    zero Thanks. I know it's not definitive -- and not the only reason for thinking Miggy should be the MVP -- but it does look like that combination of high average and HR's has become somewhat magical.
  5. JB_Iowa
    Will someone who knows how to look this up more quickly than I do please post how many hitters have led their league in Batting Average & Home Runs in the same season since 1967? To me the RBIs tend to go along with the other two stats -- and depend a lot on the quality of teammates but I just wondered if there are hitters in the last 45 years who missed the Triple Crown just because of RBIs?
  6. JB_Iowa
    Well, Cody does have to find something to write about almost every day .... and unfortunately I never underestimate the ability of the Twins front office to astonish us. But I do think that Terry Ryan is too conservative (okay, I mean cheap) to pay Capps $6 million. But that doesn't mean I think there is 0% chance that Capps is back. There's also the possibility that the Twins decline the option but bring him back for less money. He seems to be one of Gardenhire & Ryan's "guys" in terms of personality. (Okay, I'm holding my stomach now).
  7. JB_Iowa
    45 Years .... for me that says it all. I went back and looked at the list of Triple Crown winners -- and was amazed at how closely spaced some of them were before 1967. It wasn't a rarity to see several in your lifetime. Maybe that's why Yaz' TC didn't make that big of impression on me in 1967 -- after all, Frank Robinson had done the same thing a year earlier (plus I was really too young to appreciate its meaning). In a similar way, watching Affirmed in 1978, I never dreamed we'd be waiting for another thoroughbred TC winner in 2012 even though I knew there were 25 years between Citation and Secretariat. If Miggy can pull off the Triple Crown, he deserves to be MVP. If Miggy succeeds, he d*mn well is Baseball's "Most Valuable" -- not just for what he is doing for this year but for what he is doing for baseball's history.
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    Okay, now this is bizarre. I'm a creature of habit so I'm still using IE 8. I think maybe TD appears to the left of the middle but I always keep my zoom at 200% so I just attributed it to that. But the weird thing is that after I read this thread the first time, I was in another site on a different browser window and all of a sudden things that were always on the left there are now centered. Weird coincidence?
  9. JB_Iowa
    Do the Twins still do the back pack thing? Was that just for pitchers? Trying to remember what that was all about.
  10. JB_Iowa
    Well, we could just stick with what we have .... and become Kansas City without the staffing changes. I'd rather see the Twins import some new energy, talent and ideas. I prefer that be in the form of someone other than Scoscia (and other than Gardenhire and other than Kelly).
  11. JB_Iowa
    I felt this way for several years ... as though they just never hit on all cylinders (or to a driving beat if we stick with music.)
  12. JB_Iowa
    Tomorrow should be interesting. Maybe he could take a quick flight.
  13. JB_Iowa
    I really hope that Miggy passes any drug tests and can win the Triple Crown (sorry, Joe Mauer). It's just amazing to watch him this season. I remember Yaz in 1967 but was too young to appreciate the rarity of his accomplishment. Incredible to watch him -- and after the fiasco of his lost weekend and then his DWI problems in Florida, its nice to think that there can be redemption.
  14. JB_Iowa
    The assessment seems pretty fair to me. When people post optimistically about the Twins being competitive in 2013, it always seems like there are a lot of "ifs" attached. Unfortunately in most years, the answer to some of the ifs is going to be "not happening". When you are as bad as the Twins have been the last couple of years, there's not a lot of margin for error when it comes to showing real improvement. On the payroll question, I'm starting to wonder about being locked into a certain percentage of payroll. While there needs to be a floor and, from ownership's standpoint, a ceiling, I think I'd rather see a bigger range than has been talked about in the past. It would seem to me that in true rebuilding years, you could (maybe should?) underspend somewhat because you are using younger players to rebuild. But then I would want the "surplus" reserved for years where you are truly competitive so that you could overextend somewhat to add the missing piece (s) -- something the Twins really didn't do in their division championship years. I realize that this would be a radical change in organizational philosophy, and at this point it would require a lot of faith by fans but maybe a locked in % just isn't the best thing.
  15. JB_Iowa
    At least they have company in numbers this year. There have been times when there were very few.
  16. JB_Iowa
    Oakland helping Miggy. Intentional walk.
  17. JB_Iowa
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/TBR/2012.shtml Well, it appears that financially it would work for Tampa as well (not to mention that it is Denard's hometown). Span's $4.75 million in 2013 and $6.5 million in 2014 compares favorably to the $7 million they paid Upton in 2012 and the $6 million option ($1 million buyout) that Scott is signed for in 2013. It helps that the $9 million for Span in 2015 is a club option with only a .5 million buyout
  18. JB_Iowa
    I like Denard Span and in reading tweets among him and the younger outfielders/outfield prospects in the past, it seems like he was probably a good influence on them. But I agree with this question from mikewantswins: how do you expect this team to get better if it will not trade good players? Thinking back to the Bill Smith tenure, it seems like one of the big problems was that they traded primarily for short-term "chips" to improve the immediate hand. That may have not been stupid in the sense that the rest of the team was good and they only need certain chips to keep them "contending" in the A.L. Central but it does seem to have hurt the long-term health of this team. Even though the Twins now have more money to spend than they did beforeTF, they still need to replace aging players with younger, less expensive players -- and the most significant place they have an opportunity to do so is the outfield. Replacing Span isn't a huge cost savings .... but trading him to fill more significant positions of need is important. I feel the same way about Willingham and Morneau (although the timing may be better for Morneau at the deadline). It's good to form attachments with players -- but you also have to let them go sometimes.
  19. JB_Iowa
    Please let Duensing stay in the pen next year. No more yo-yo
  20. JB_Iowa
    From time to time. Mostly watching the Tigers & A's
  21. JB_Iowa
    I just don't see it working without the option. I think there's a huge question about when Baker might be ready to pitch next season. Given that it could be late summer before he's ready, there has to be some added incentive for the team. And that comes in the form of a 2014 option (that option could easily be in the $8 - $10 million range -- the team's control is actually more important than the exact amount as long as its not exorbitant).
  22. JB_Iowa
    Depends on what you are looking for. Do you define staying in the A.L. Central race until August as competitive? Then I suppose there is a chance (probably less than 30% though). Is it staying in the A. L. Central race until September? Still probably a chance but less than 15% I would think. But then, I never discount the ability of other A.L. Central teams to implode. Being truly competitive in the sense of being able to compete with the best teams in the league? Less than 5% (maybe less than 1%). I know the added playoff spots make 1 more team "competitive" in each league -- and while there is some angst over the N.L. Wild card race, I don't see that happening in the American League. There will still be 3 or 4 playoff-type teams in the A. L. East and probably 2 in the A.L. West. I definitely don't see the Twins in competition for a Wild Card spot. If you think of "competitive" as being in the playoffs, the best bet is for an implosion of other teams in the Central and for the Twins to somehow squeak by. Part of baseball is thinking that there is a chance at the beginning of EVERY season. I just don't see it as a very big chance for the Twins.
  23. JB_Iowa
    Hats off to you, JC, for staying on top of this story all summer/fall (okay maybe not fall by the calendar but it feels like fall tonight)! And LOL, I just realized that it is further for me to CR than for TC residents but definitely closer than Beloit.
  24. JB_Iowa
    I think that "fielding the best line-up against a contender" thing actually matters if he fields his best line-up against Detroit and NYY. On the other hand, the "Twins best line-up" probably doesn't matter under any circumstances.
  25. JB_Iowa
    Tell me again why I torture myself by watching this? Honestly, I didn't think I was a masochist.
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