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  1. h2oface
    Cahill is the only one I would give a shot.
  2. h2oface
    Stop rubbing his history, or lack of it, in, please. I am talking myself into being hopeful!
  3. h2oface
    There certainly must be something more convincing that is seen in his (Alston's) results than this. Surely. I hope. Must be. Work with me baby... work with me.
  4. h2oface
    I think I heard Gibson say "Bite Me" all the way out here in LA.
  5. h2oface
    That's what you get out of my comment? Oh, let's see. Why do people switch jobs? They get fired. Disagreements with the people who don't play, but run the team and are newly hired. The Manager is no longer with the team..... a good chance to rejoin a managerial team that has has success in the past...... for change sake.... because they wanted to do something different....... because the Cubs' job is available........... give me a break. I said wait and see. If they aren't fine, tell me why they aren't. Why are they available. Why will players be available as free agents? Lots of reasons. And many will still be quite fine in an evolving game. Why are Managers fired that win 90+ games a year? Because they are not the power. And the power gets to do what they want, until an owner fires them.
  6. h2oface
    Even with the fuzzy math, this is so true..... Of course, in 2006, the Cardinals (who were on the bottom end of the previous worst world series champions) became the "worst champion" ever, coming into the playoffs as the National League Central Champ at 83-78 (didn't even have to play 162 games and qualified) and took home the gold. Our Gardenhire led Twins were 96-66, won the Central on a furious September and a Tiger collapse down the stretch, but were swept by Oakland 3-0, even with the MVP, Cy Young, and Battling Title winners.
  7. h2oface
    So the GG brain trust is 1-3 when it comes to the Twins, with what should be a sure thing, a blatant snub, and a total overrating of a second baseman. Such a misguided award, but it keeps getting notoriety. This award has been a joke for decades. Someone needs to create a new award to take over and make it right.
  8. h2oface
    Watching all the fine pitching coaches become available, and then not be signed by the Twins..... but Alston is.... well........ all one can do is "wait and see". Some were interviewed, but either passed on the Falvey pitch, or just had a better option. I can't really like it, because how do you like someone you have never heard of and don't know? I guess one can pretend, and convince themselves.... but all I can do is wait and see. That's all we all can do now.
  9. h2oface
    Maybe not, if the guy is a clone of Andrew Miller.
  10. h2oface
    Do The Twins Need A Proven Closer? Yes. Absolutely. And two setup men that are lights out. Not soft tossing arms. Not Tonkin and Pressly, Not Kintzler and Belisle. We have to do better to be a team that will win come October. If you just want to get to play in October, they will do, probably. If you want to win in October, not a chance.
  11. h2oface
    How impressive would it have been for the FO to have dropped De Leon, and trade for Bellinger, 1 for 1, instead as a secondary add on? It would have made them look like geniuses.
  12. h2oface
    Whoops. Nope..... Maurer is...... Brandon Maurer. No back editing allowed. The good humored "gotcha", gotcha! ;-)
  13. h2oface
    Looks like Boston doesn't have the same perspective on management. Farrell gone after American League East titles the last two years and World Series championship in 2013. Maybe if Molitor takes them to the division title........... This is a real catch-22 now. If the Twins continue to improve, and with the core and better pitching, there is a high probability of that, with or without Molitor - are you stuck with him until he retires? Or do you make a bold move to make the team even better in the relatively short window (2-3 years if you are lucky) that is upon us? We all want the Twins to succeed. Nobody really roots against the Manager. What if the team only improves to 86 wins (the last two year pace of +1 game a year, 83 to 85 wins), or to 90 wins (the last 3 year pace of +5 games a year, 70 to 85 wins)? Is 90 wins, and a Wild Card game exit satisfying? How about 90 wins and a Wild Card game win, and a ALDS exit? What are the expectations now?
  14. h2oface
    3 years is a long time. I hope the boys learn to bunt better.
  15. h2oface
    And there you have it. I hope the boys learn to bunt better.
  16. h2oface
    Time. Right, initially I quoted and posted, and agreed with Thyros' take. I still do. And IF it is a one year offer...... like a qualifying offer..... it save's face, and now it is up to Molitor to accept or reject (or to counter and negotiate), and in his hands... his ball park. When there was no word of it on Friday press day, as suggested when those who like to be first (and maybe correct, maybe not) had reported, and quite a bit of time has now passed, it is getting to be quite interesting, eh? It is kind of like buying a house. The offer has been made. If one does anything other than completely accept the offer, and makes one slight change, they have rejected the offer and made the seller an offer, and there is still no contract. And so forth. Perhaps he is contemplating retirement, which was also part of the 4 point Thyros take. Perhaps he is negotiating and there is some countering going on, and he wants more time or money. So we should know this week, one would think. Sooner than never.
  17. h2oface
    I think you know what I was getting at comparing the Twins progression to the Astros...... but if not, I can't help you. We can go ahead and include 2015 and say +15 games in 3 years. Fine. I think much more was expected. I know I did. I know I certainly didn't expect a 103 loss season in 2016. We will continue to disagree on our opinion about keeping Molitor, and we with both live with the eventual result, whatever it is.
  18. h2oface
    Then lets look at it. From 2011 to 2014, the Twins won 63, 66, 66, 70 games. (The Astros, 56, 55, 51, 70). Many on these boards thought that the Twins should have improved to 74-76 wins in 2014. 2014 ended with the Astros and Twins having identical records of 70-92. The Twins were getting better each year, no? Very slowly. Then, in 2015, an improvement that had been in the works (surely, right?) and the Twins new manager inherited that, and improved 13 games to 83-79. Probably unfair to continue to look at the Astros as a comparison from 2015 on. I don't know why, but let's drop that. I still find the 59-103 2016 hard to ignore. And I don't, just as I wasn't ignoring the history of 2011-2014, even if it was not reviewed, again, here. So now it was, again. The point to me is, that Molitor is having difficulty accepting the offer of employment, for whatever reasons. It seems to be his hand to play, and there was a net gain of 2 games from 2015 to 2017. That is history.
  19. h2oface
    Nobody said anything about lowballing Molitor. Unless you consider one year a lowball. The money is probably in line with mediocre managers that took a team from 83 wins to record 103 losses (59 wins) in the span of one year, and then back to just a net 2 game gain over two years at 85 wins. One year is not lowballing. He has not earned anything more (if that), as much as a manager likes to have more than one year. This fascination with the improvement between 2016 and 2017 I find ridiculous. It is like bringing in your closer in the top of the 9th, handing him a 3 run lead, and he gives it up, loads the bases throws meat that results in a grand slam and 1 run behind...... and then he gets the win with a walk off two run homer by the home team in the bottom of the ninth. To me, it is a performance that is hardly something to get excited about.
  20. h2oface
    It is like a qualifying offer, except a hell of a lot cheaper. The plot has already ben executed. Molitor is taking his sweet time. He may not like the 1 year offer. It would seem that if he is thinking about it this long, that there is a good chance he will not accept and then the Twins didn't fire him, they didn't not make him an offer, and they can move on gracefully with the least amount of guff from fans if he makes the decision, and not them.
  21. h2oface
    The perfect scenario.
  22. h2oface
    Well... they did improve all of 2 games in two years. From 83 wins to 85 wins. On pace for another game improvement next year? If 2016 was an aberration, as many want to suggest, and I will say it is for the benefit of the doubt, then the progress has still been very minimal for two years.
  23. h2oface
    Nobody knows except the front office at this point, right? I haven't seen any plan. Have you? Does it matter? I stand of the same opinion. I think Molitor had his three years.
  24. h2oface
    If true, being good news is definitely a matter of opinion.
  25. h2oface
    I'm all for replacing Molitor. The virtually inactive new front office needs to implement their own system as soon as possible, and DO IT! Molitor is not part of that. I don't know or care who it will be, but they have been cleaning house in their way from the bottom up. Molitor got his three years. There was no excuse for last year. That counts. I am excited for the future, and hope the new regime surprises me, and actually starts to do something.
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