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  1. h2oface
    CRUSH IT WALLNER!
  2. h2oface
    Tough break for SWR needing to get the extra out and unearned run scoring.
  3. h2oface
    Twins need to make him work more.
  4. h2oface
    Buxton's defense since the concussion on several occassions has been uncharacteristic. He sure seems to be seeing the ball OK at the plate, however. Ironic that Correa missed the next hot grounder right after all the gushing about him. Overcame that one, though.
  5. h2oface
    What? What about the suggestions of all the trades possible? I know they're coming.......
  6. h2oface
    ALL staffs. The Dodgers have 12-16 pitchers out.
  7. h2oface
    Seriously? We are talking about complex video equipment to call balls and strikes more accuratey than the human eye attached to human emotions, feelings, moods, and pride! Or at least, I am. So no, no robots on the field of any kind. You are one of those umpires, by your own description and words. Nothing more to be said. By all means, keep having your fun. Sorry to have engaged.
  8. h2oface
    The Twins? We add guys like that all the time. Usually not by trade but from DFAs and waivers.
  9. h2oface
    Yup. Thanks for confirming my points. I rest my case. Once the retorts go to robot players, it is hopeless. Thank you.
  10. h2oface
    I did and have. Several levels and testings, etc. That is why I say..... they try to do their best, but they just can't. It is always a guess, Absolutely it is not easy. Almost impossible. But so many I met are real power trippers. They say it is because they love the game, but it really feeds their need to have a bit of power somewhere somehow. Arrogant power trippers. The only reason umpires existed in the first place was that was the best option. A suppossed impartial third party. Now we have better options. We still need them, but in a more administrative capacity, especially calling balls and strikes. They don't let "umpires" call the wall in a swim meet or the finish line in track or horse racing...... because there is a better more accurate option, especially at the professional level. It is pathetic that MLB continues to not progress on something so important and relatively simple that will improve the game and give it back to the players more. The players are the human element, it should not be the umpire. Being sick of them is not hating, and not a F the umpires. They try to do their best......but they just can't. It damages the truist outcome of every game played. Not their fault. They are human and can just guess from horrible angles and speed, and the optic nerve only fires so fast. And I like to watch "moving pictures". Where would we be if that was not the case? The speed of our human transmission allows for a set of pictures to be perceived as motion and for some things, like movies, it is great, but not so much for umpiring, espeically in 2025. Hell, since 2005.
  11. h2oface
    The thing is, other teams do it to us all the time, and we too often make them look like the next MLB ace!
  12. h2oface
    13-20 before “the streak”. 8-10 after. 16-23 >.500 Without the streak, a sad 21-30 team. . The 36 million dollar man had a chance to earn his $ today with the bases loaded And too bad Clemens didn’t pick the 4th to hit his homer instead of grounding into a double play with one out Royce said he “found Royce again” yesterday I hope today doesn’t mean he lost Royce again
  13. h2oface
    So sick of umpires. They try to do their best but they just can’t. They have ruined so many outcomes, we will never know what should have been.
  14. h2oface
    They have been. I saw a pop-up today that he was hitting over .400 against lefthanders. I just wish he could field the position better. That fly to right he just lumbered over and gave up on was certainly catchable tonight, and resulted in the runs starting Now under .500 since the streak, again. 8-9. Ober giving up 5 shows how important the pitching is to win games with this middling offense. Update: Not that many at bats. Now 3-9 against lefties for the year. .333 in a very small sample size. 2 doubles, 1 homer, and 3 BBs. 5 Ks but .500 OBP. But that earns him more in my book.
  15. h2oface
    I agree. Also could have easily been swept, as the one we won was the most unlikely outcome of the 3, eh?
  16. h2oface
    You love to dream up a trade of players that are in a role that make this team worth watching now, for someone(s) who won't.
  17. h2oface
    And that was against the Tigers, Mets and White Sox. 64, 76, and 84 pitches. 4.2, 4.1 and 4 innings. Only gave up 2 earned and that was to the White Sox when he walked three (and none actually scored while he was on the mound - thank you, Sands). 19, 19 and 18 batters. Baldelli Ball. He was lucky to see 2 total batters for the 3rd time, even when pitching like an MLB pitcher 😇. That was when not coming back from arm fatigue. Today 80, 3.2, and 19. He did real well those first 3 starts. I guess the Athletics were due to win a game, eh?
  18. h2oface
    I agree. Isn't bad. Isn't good. The very definition of a .500 team. Middle of the road. Like kissing your sister? The better teams have winning records on the road, too. Lots of time to do better and get in the playoffs. Or do worse and not. Lopez out for 3 months I bet. We will see if this so called pitching pipeline is more than hype.
  19. h2oface
    8-8 since the streak. 5-5 on the road trip. Losing close games is hard to watch, but getting slaughtered and the offense not even putting up a fight shouldn't be perfectly acceptable, even if you have to accept it. How about that famous pitching pipeline. Trade Paddack, eh? Never enough pitching, especially performing well and healthy pitching. The Twins seem to love "good stories" even more than more competitive replacements on the roster in waiting. As long as they were throwing in the towel today, it was the day for .........Clemens to take the mound. Now that would have been a "good story". Opportunity missed.
  20. h2oface
    A .500 team since the streak. 8-8
  21. h2oface
    Yup. For games that Festa and Alcala and Funderburk and a position player throw a game away. Its that pitching pipeline. Hey, it wasn't Matthews that qiut after 77 pitches yesterday. He was a victim of Baldelli Ball.
  22. h2oface
    Even a broken clock is right for 2 minutes of the 1440 each day 😇 And just like that, Lopez is out indefinitely. Good Pitching. Never too much depth. Always not enough. Jorge Lopez is available again…..🥂
  23. h2oface
    Dismissive, I get it. It just means that you would pass up way more value in return. Stephen Curry was expected to be healthy, too. Timberwolves so very lucky he wasn't. Never had an injury like it in his whole career, yet there it was. It can happen to anyone at anytime. For sure. Hope and dreams is a way to go. A common, in-the-box way to go. Lots of tickets needed for the hope and dreams group to see the HOF, and help in any playoffs anytime soon, if ever.
  24. h2oface
    Neither did Atlanta in 2021...... and they could have gotten all that value for Freeman when they were under .500 (51-54) on the July 30 trade deadline. The Dodgers have had a ton of seasoned and real good pitching the last two years, and then hardly have any that can pitch in the playoffs. There is always a chance, and pitching will be so very important.
  25. h2oface
    Finally getting the value out of Paddack, what the team always hoped for..... SO TRADE HIM?!!!!!! Yup. Fans are so loyal these days. The pitching pipeline, eh? You will want to trade the first one that is successful. Bring on more strangers. I don't really care one way or another, because there is not time to care with how the business works anymore. Not worth thinking about what Formula Falvey will do anymore. I don't trade players who are performing the best with a chance at the post season run. Neither did Atlanta, when they kept Freddie and won the World Series with him in 2021. Value. Like Pressly for the next Pressly, Alcala. 7 years of seasoning and the value is coming any day now. And Celestino thrown in was a real coup.
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