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It's not the way the game used to be played, nor was it accepted to play it that way, regardless of the norm now. Jeffers' mission was accomplished. The play is still live. There are only 2 outs. Things can happen if you force the other team to make a play. Not likely, but sometimes it is successful if a player makes the action happen. This is no different than a runner not running the ground ball out, or watching a fly ball from the plate that you think is a homer and only getting to first instead of a double because it bounced off the wall. If that is stupid baseball **** to talk about it, then I plead guilty.

Me too.

I had to go back and watch the play where Jeffers enticed the cut-off rounding 1st so Buxton would have better chance of scoring. Was Jeffers afraid to get hurt? Pull a leg muscle? I get that he had a mission, but it was completed and then he just gave up. Didn't make an effort at all to get in a good run down, Conceded the third out by standing there. And this game Toronto (other than Varsho robbing homers in center) is throwing the ball away on multiple occassions. Sure, it wasn't likely for him to find a way safely to a base now, but a professional MLB player should at least try. I mean, these guys are in their 20s. And even minimum salaries (which is way lower than Jeffers is paid now) are comfortable compensation for giving it 100%.

Yes. The rest of his season speaks way less than this one outing, eh?

You think the Twins actually give a ****? And would actually trade for a player that can help the team NOW?

It’s past the middle of August. Time for the culture to take hold. Just give up. Buxton now infected, as is Ryan. This is a horrible baseball team. As shown by losing to Colorado, White Sox, Washington, and Oakland, they are the worst team in MLB. No question.

As much as Trout struggled, looks to me like Roden was WAY worse. Not even a good comparable.

When there’s nothing left but to hype, no matter what.

I had an MRI yesterday. The operator was perfect. She had a magnetic personality.

Followed by bonehead base running. Bi-polar. I think he is so slow because his ears create all that drag.

Wake up Lee. These guys are minor league.

6 hits (albeit one was a Delman Outman blunder) 2 walks and 6 outs. 6 runs in two innings. Not Abel.

What quotes from Lewis exactly? Is it a secret? You mention it twice with no specifics. Why?

Seriously? He still lives in Houston. He didn't uproot anything. Houston said "good luck, see you later, we aren't paying that pipedream". He bailed out (self uprooting?) of the first deal even after only giving his 3 year contract one compromised year! He wasn't "investing" in a culture in Minneapolis. He was going anywhere the Dior money came from, and overvalued himself as was played out by losing 2 larger contracts. Many teams that had money would not sign the infamous cheater. He only ended up here because the Twins were the last team to offer to pay him way too much, and the season(s) were starting. And then he sucked for the first part of both the signing years. And he was only on the field half the time. He ran as soon as he could. Sure he wanted to win. Who doesn't? It was only always about the coin. Actions say it all. The rest was the sideshow that so many Twins' fans were suckered into believing. They would boo Altuve while admiring Correa! How does that even compute? He played his part, but uprooted his entire life? Hardly. Now he has run home, taking another $33 million from the Twins culture as he parted. Returning to his true culture, where he can be a clog and not a leader, and let others take him to the playoffs, instead of him taking others. Maybe a person shouldn’t be defined by a snapshot of one bad decision. The cheating. But the decision wasn’t just one time. It was hundreds and possibly thousands of times being a part of the same repeating decision.

All supposition with no real knowledge of what is actually happenng, or did actually happen in the clubhouse. Some incredibly long winded, albeit an interesting if not vain excercise. Actions. We all saw Correa loaf to first. Often. Has it changed? So many of these guys don't even run to first. They loaf. And I don't mean on only grounders. A healthy Buxton doesn't give up on an infield grounder, but Larnach and Wallner and Lewis and Julien and Castro (did) and Jeffers and Lee do. Hell, Lee even watched his post Correa Grand Slam land only a couple seats back in the right field seats, and didn't run first. Just admired the hit that might have bounced off the sandstone. Countless (and Correa was guilty often) batters missing a double or triple, or getting thrown out trying too late, because they watched and loafed, and didn't run immediately full speed out of the box, admiring their hopeful contact. Shameless and shameful. That is the culture, and it is still here. Keaschall looks like he wants to change it, and not by being long winded with words, but by playing the game with lust and desire. It seems the "core" is the problem. They are still here, and Correa was a big contributor. Blame it on the FO and Baldelli. They deserve it for so many reasons. But I blame it mostly on the players that don't seem to even enjoy the game and how lucky they are to do it for a living. Regardless of all the crap they they might have to put up with in the background, it doesn't stop them from playing the game with passion and fire.

Luke Keaschall is liking comments on the facebook site. But then, the one I saw shows he liked ALL the comments, concerning dead weight. So who knows. Ballsie, though.

Should have traded him for Hunter Greene, Correct that. Should have drafted Hunter Greene instead.

Better to listen to you cry, eh Terry? In that inning you are just in denial, then. Sure the team is crap and by your repetitive comments of you don't care any more it shouldn't matter to you, but you just are in such denial about how it affects the game that you want to control my behavior. Power trip,

1-0 to the bottom of the 1st if the ump makes that call correctly. It always matters. Most of the time it is buried in the game, but they all matter. Hard to even out 4 additional runs scored.

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Ramirez wild pitch made the fly ball a sac fly.

Both Morneau and Cuddyer won NL batting titles after Twins cheaped out on them for the next bust coming along.

Royce Valencia.

That was a check swing ball for Mookie Betts. Announcer said the difference in this game was the sac fly. But the real difference was the wild pitch by the aging fat guy. Could have happened to any pitcher…..

Just more contrived BS. Content calls, I guess.