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  1. jokin
    According to the resident physicist, USAF Chief, I believe he would call this a space time convergence
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    Spycake- did you actually hear the little bit that DicknBert perpetrated? No "echo chamber" effect in this particular case. I was actually embarrassed for them- bush league all the way.
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    Buh-dum-dum....
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    Mn Twins Starting Pitcher strikeouts: 20 Aaron Hicks strikeouts: 20
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    How professional standards change. Trying to think of similarly embarrassing bits by Herb Carneal, John Gordon, Jim Kaat, Ray Scott- or even Joe Angel......Nope
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    I only turn 29 next month. I'm pitching for $750,000 this year on a one-year deal. I have nearly averaged 6 IP in my 3 starts this year, and with a pretty shaky and inexperienced defense behind me, I've still compiled a 2.04 ERA. The teams I faced in those 3 games? Glad you asked. 3 of the better hitting teams in baseball, including 2 of the favorites to win it all. I am fairly confident that all 3 of these teams will finish higher than the Mets. I parted ways with the Twins awhile ago on less than amicable terms, I've moved on- and yet DicknBert are still taking shots at me from the cheap seats. Whatever.... Best of luck to you all, and I won't be as catty as Chief and Glunn and heartily remind you to cheer up! Minnesota does NOT have the worst weather in the country. Thanks goodness for Alaska! See you next week, and you all are welcome to come down to South Beach and party (but don't bring Gardy), in June. Kevin Slowey Stats, News, Pictures, Bio, Videos - Miami Marlins - ESPN
  8. jokin
    Not all of the great talent has been sent yet. Chargois, Kepler and Berrios still have their debuts on hold.
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    People once described Parm's RF defense as Delmonesque, I think he's on the brink of easily surpassing the Kubelesque standard. That, how Diamond did and Morneau's first dinger were the only things remotely interesting today. I have a sneaking suspicion it's going to be a long, hard slog to make all my game commitments this year .
  10. jokin
    On a positive note, in a sorry blowout, Hicks had his best single-game K% performance of his young major league career, only 20%!
  11. jokin
    "Gunn?" "antifree?" "thiss"? I think we do have different perceptions of reality and altered states. My alternative was a thermos of coffee and some of that delicious wild rice soup in the concourse, how about you?
  12. jokin
    Warning....Warning....that kind of talk could raise some dissenting opinions....
  13. jokin
    We're not supposed to get it....North Dakota humor....RB actually thinks this a splendid night for baseball....
  14. jokin
    Did somebody hurt his feelings?
  15. jokin
    Is it too late to punt yet, RB?
  16. jokin
    Just gifted that way...
  17. jokin
    Strange, how it suddenly feels a lot warmer....
  18. jokin
    Speaking from Section 211, right now you and Glunn are on my "need ban-nation for taunting" list (Is that one of the TD rules yet?).
  19. jokin
    Everyman Bill Veeck kept his team, the White Sox, who were lucky to draw 600,000 fans some years, in contention year after year by renting FAs with talent and then either flipping them or moving to the next available players with talent.
  20. jokin
    The evidence for that is...?
  21. jokin
    Hindsight does make you look like your vision is 20-20. So many other scenarios that could have played out if someone like the Twins had made a solid offer before February 15. I have a strong feeling that Bourn would have preferred another city than Cleveland if he had had more choices on long-term deals. Boras is a walking conflict of interests, he could easily tell his client to take the deal because the Yankees/Red Sox/whoever... will be back in the hunt for him in 2014. Again, I'm not saying Ryan would ever do what I would want him to do. I started this by saying if the Twins were actually serious about being competitive in 2013- they stripped the top of the order and their only proven CFers- and needed to replace the holes- they had the room in the payroll to make it happen, but they needed the wherewithal to plug those holes- either on the cheap with a Torres or Morgan- or to spend like Cleveland did and acquire actual talent and options for Plan A- and fallback Plan B- to make any legitimate case for staying in the pennant race.
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    Chief, you do remember that Boras was in full-panic mode on the horrible servitude imposed on the players union by the incredibly barbaric CBA- in direct commentary on the difficulty in Bourn and Lohse getting signed? TD had many pages of commentary devoted to Scott Boras on this very topic. On the CF options, we are in agreement, there were, and still are, other CF alternatives available. Regarding holes, I'm not in one at the present time, although it might be a little warmer than where I'm currently sitting at Target Field.
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    It might have taken $20M, as I said, we'll never know for sure- and $20M would have been very absurd. But you never know about a game of poker, and if the Twins could have landed Bourn and then flipped him for a decent prospect, I think it would have been money well spent.
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    Perhaps not, but we'll never know for sure, it's tough when everyone's playing poker and you never get to see what was in each player's hand after the fact. Here is an example of what was going on though, last December: "Did Michael Bourn and Scott Boras Wait Too Long? ......bloggers like Martin Gandy of Talking Chop, the SBNation Braves blog, are starting to wonder whether Bourn will need to take a one-year offer and wait ’til next year for his payday. So did Bourn wait too long? Did Scott Boras, gasp!, make a mistake?" As I stated, it's happened before, and I for one, think it's worth it to throw an offer in at the best talent out there, you never know who might blink and then bite-
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    Speaking of fantasy, you might want to get out a little bit more. There were multiple stories about the possibility of Boras and Bourn not getting what they wanted and settling for a one-year deal- believe it or not, they happen rather frequently.
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