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  1. 70charger
    Time for a "Mauer in the 9-hole" thread?
  2. 70charger
    Both Eduardo Escobar and Pedro Florimon are leading the team in batting average with .500.
  3. 70charger
    On the bright side, we know that the Twins will win 81 games this year.
  4. 70charger
    Very generous offer. I'll be off at work, but I'm sure someone'll bite. Right, guys?
  5. 70charger
    Terrible. I assume he's getting the best medical care money can buy, but still a scary thing. Best wishes to him from Twins Territory.
  6. 70charger
    Silver linings to the fact that the Twins aren't winning much these days: standing room tickets aren't really standing room anymore. In fact, after a couple innings, the ushers don't even check ticket stubs on the field level 100s (though they always seem to when you get very close to the dugouts, but that's a separate section). I've used the tickets - that I do pay for - to get in and just moved myself up on uncrowded days.
  7. 70charger
    Actual baseball is actually happening. Makes me smile.
  8. 70charger
    We were trying to be respectful of your mother. Hey-ooo! (Okay, I'm sure she's a lovely woman.)
  9. 70charger
    I'm gonna guess Burnett. Anyone want to put money on it?
  10. 70charger
    Kramarzcjczcjuiukczcjuczk's. Duh.
  11. 70charger
    "Demand" a trade? Ha. Giancarlo Stanton can "demand" a trade. Joe Benson can whine like a bitch from the minor league bus. Edit: while Anthony Slama sits behind him and nods approvingly.
  12. 70charger
    Good poutine would be amazing. Especially in the cold month of April. Also, I'm not really a pizza eater anymore, but Papa John's is pretty bad. I agree with the idea of providing some of the good local options, like they did with the beer. The only issue that I can see is the method of cooking. The best pizza in a roughly 194,000,000 square mile radius of Minneapolis (Punch, duh) would require a wood-burning oven, and that's not going into Target Field. Far easier to truck in a bunch of frozen plastic discs and microwave them. Gross. But easy.
  13. 70charger
    I'm the only one who thinks that kind of thing is fun? It's like a self-justification game for your own biases, and I think it's fun to play. Fine, I'll just go into a corner and play with myself. (Phrasing.)
  14. 70charger
    I think you might be a little down on Parmelee, but it's true he's a wait and see kind of guy. I also had some issue with the idea of "hitters" versus offensive players. Mauer is very much a better hitter than Prince Fielder, but Fielder is a slugger par excellence and Mauer's slugging doesn't match up. Maybe there are two lists to be made. Maybe that's why I love lists like this.
  15. 70charger
    Well, I'm just an amateur, but I take my food very seriously.
  16. 70charger
    There isn't any. The thing is, EBITDA is sort of a blunt instrument if you're comparing one company to another in a completely different industry. For example, a manufacturer which replaces an expensive machine every 5 years is going to have quite a lot more depreciation than a services company. That "D" in the EBITDA is going to have a big effect. EBITDA can be useful, but it has to be viewed in the proper context. Frankly, I think it's most useful in the context it was originally used in, which was to determine whether distressed companies could timely pay their debts, or whether a company that you were planning to pile debt on top of in an acquisition (leveraged buyout) would be able to service that debt going forward. I don't tend to like it in other contexts, at least not without having a lot more information.
  17. 70charger
    I​ would love that kitchen.
  18. 70charger
    I think this kind of misses the point. If you're attending a classical music concert, he's not saying you should be there if you're not an expert, he's just saying that the philharmonic probably shouldn't employ clowns to go up and down the aisle to entertain people while the orchestra plays. It kind of defeats the purpose. Or, to quote Ultima Ratio, it "encourages already low-attention span folks to remain unfocused." If you're there for music, pay attention to the music. If you're there for baseball, pay attention to baseball.
  19. 70charger
    As long as both chicks are hot?
  20. 70charger
    This. Baseball, beer, hot dogs, organ music. Done and one.
  21. 70charger
    Actually, just out of curiosity, I did some back of the envelope math on our 5 projected starters going in to 2012: Liriano, Baker, Pavano, Blackburn, and Marquis. In terms of expectations for an average starting 5 rotation, you'd be looking at something like a 4.50 ERA over 800-ish innings. (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong - I didn't look up the averages.) Our starting 5 gave us a 6.52 ERA over 296 innings. This includes Baker, which may not be fair, but I know a lot of us were counting on him going into that year. Has there been a rotation that bad in recent memory? Where does it rank all-time?
  22. 70charger
    Save for Worley, I was kind of thinking the same thing. I'd love to see Hendriks figure it out, De Vries continue his (to me inexplicable) streak of solid pitching, Pelfrey recover in record time, and Correia actually be serviceable, but realistically guys like Gibson, Harden, and Diamond are probably just better. Then again, that's a good problem to have. Talent pushing upwards from Rochester (regardless of how marginal some may think that talent is) is something we didn't have any of last year. And in any case, improving on Marquis and Blackburn, as well as fringe-starter Liriano, hopelessly injured Pavano, and lost-season Baker really isn't that difficult. The "production" from our 2012 projected starting lineup was historically bad. We won't be good in 2013, but we won't be worse.
  23. 70charger
    While this makes sense, you might think that his price tag would be a reason. The Jays added a lot of players this season for their title push - maybe having $7.5 million come off the books for a guy who isn't on the major league roster would be good enough reason to move him? And for a team like the Twins, with money to spend, "buying" him wouldn't necessarily require a good prospect in return.
  24. 70charger
    I think I'm going to give this a shot, although I wonder about how easy it might be to "game" it by just playing the averages - i.e., rather than sitting down and thinking "hmm, will Jamey Carroll's matchup against pitcher X, who is x-handed, and has .xxx career stats against Carroll at home result in many hits today?" wouldn't it be easier to just pick Mauer every time because he's pretty much a hit machine? Over the course of the year, I wonder if (/doubt that) anyone has enough knowledge to overcome the odds in this way.
  25. 70charger
    Oxtung, I read that whole thing. I thought you'd want to know, as you clearly spent some time on it. Frankly, I'm not sure what to think.
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