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  1. h2oface
    I heard Gibson say...... "bite me".
  2. h2oface
    The more the starters and bats can keep Rodney out of the game, the better.
  3. h2oface
    The way the game is supposed to be played is to always try your best and take advantage of the opponent's weakness! No need to be a baby about it! Should they not try to comeback, and hit a home run either?
  4. h2oface
    Awesome pitching! With pitching like this, I might forget about losing Luke and JT, who both had great debuts for the Angels and Dodgers. Funny how two contending teams can use them, but not the Twins. It's a long season, with a great start.
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    Seems I remember a team in Minnesota doing the same thing with a pitcher (or was it pitchers) not too long ago.... Pressly and Graham.... not sure if it was at the start of the next season they didn't make the 25 man..... but definitely they didn't stay on the 25 man the whole next year, and not DFA'ed I guess.
  7. h2oface
    Except the Astros' crazy Jeff Luhnow ( or is it A. J. Hinch, manager, who is responsible?), the modern GM who continues to lead off George Springer, with a career OPS of .838 (.889 in 2017), short as that career may have been so far. Hey.... that strategy won a pretty modern World Series.
  8. h2oface
    Just as Morris famously "pitched to the game", relief pitchers must. If the game is tied, and you are the pitcher, you don't throw it down the middle of the zone to Jones. Just because the offense hasn't scored but 2 runs, (it could still be tied at 10-10, and be the same situation), doesn't mean Rodney's desire to try to just blow a first pitch meat past Jones isn't solely his, and only his, fault. That and the fact that Jones didn't miss it. (The pitch to Schoop was basically the same, a little faster, but he missed it. Hardly an example of a good pitch, regardless of the result). If you are up 3 runs, and trying to close it out, then you can throw that pitch, and the one run won't necessarily hurt you and your team. Mentally, and physically, that was a bonehead decision and pitch, and not the offenses fault!
  9. h2oface
    While I agree that Castro should have caught/blocked the "wild pitch" that let the strikeout become a base runner, throwing meat to the nine hole batter that became the triple, extra batter or not, was all Duke!
  10. h2oface
    "Fernando Rodney got off to a terrible start in 2017, with a 12.60 ERA through the month of April. However, after April, Rodney was lights out with a 2.38 ERA and a .442 OPS against. This was a driving factor in the Twins giving the 41-year-old an opportunity to be their closer for 2018." Seems the same might be happening for 2018 to start the season. Keeping him in extended spring training, to use up the crud for a month, seems it would be a unique and smart move.
  11. h2oface
    How about that offense! How about that MOY! Opposing teams are gonna love seeing Rodney. I just hope it doesn't last that long... but I have been saying that since the signing.
  12. h2oface
    Ryan LaMarre did earn it, but my bet..... it will be short lived. I hope we get a good couple weeks in the few at bats off the bench.
  13. h2oface
    Good. I am sure they will just do something else that distracts from watching the game. I really dislike all the interruptive nonsense. I am sure we still won't be spared.
  14. h2oface
    Totally agree. Time to be consistent, and ready out of the gate. The guy I am really worried about is Rodney. If ST is any indication, I am concerned about how many games he will blow before he is inevitably released. I fear it will be too many.
  15. h2oface
    I know how you feel. I had to suffer through a Colon start in LA last year. I am betting that Gibson will be a pitcher we like to see this year.
  16. h2oface
    Be it that the accuser stated that she only wanted to talk about it for her own mental health, and not create problems for Sano, it seems she should be happy with the outcome, and she has accomplished her goal. I hope Sano has learned, too. As a reader, I had certainly felt that the TD staffers had already judged him and convicted him. Hopefully, we all learn from this, respect the process, and move on and play some baseball.
  17. h2oface
    Since 2010, that is a pretty lame list of opening day starters. Hopefully, Berrios will settle in after the novelty Puerto Rico thing. With nerves in the homeland, I think it is the wrong decision, and would rather he had started the opener this year. Odorizzi... not too excited about. Personally, I hate having games at neutral stadiums, no matter where they are. Do these two games count as one missed home game apiece? If so, which one is the home game for the Twins? Or is one team sacrificing 2 home games?
  18. h2oface
    Busenitz was hardly the mop-up guy at the end of the year. Like Hildenberger, he was trusted more and more. I am betting Rodney will be gone by the end of May. I fear, with the hankering to hold on to Hughes and Rodney, that April and May will be less than hoped for. Those that get the shaft to start the season should be ready and warmed up when the washed up vet experiment is over.
  19. h2oface
    I think it is fine. Especially since, it is something that all players know up front what the penalty includes for several years now (wasn't Santana's year the first year of the change?) The rule is in place in advance of the behavior. Cause and effect. Seems fair to me. It is just the last part of the sentence.
  20. h2oface
    Sounds like on schedule to me. Timeline is a little over a month out at the very earliest. A lot of healing can happen in 4 to 5 weeks. Such fuss.
  21. h2oface
    Mistake. A mistake has a motive of not wanting something to happen, but it happens anyway. A fielding error is an example. Making a left turn instead of a right because your mapping app is in a north south orientation and you didn't see it right, didn't transpose your position on the map... you do something which you did not intend to do.... that is a mistake. Deciding to do something, and hoping not to get caught, is not a mistake. It is a bad choice. Not a mistake. Bad choices are not mistakes. I was hoping for continued growth and improvement. Having this on his mind..... couldn't have helped him this spring. I will miss him. I won't miss an error (or two) every game this spring, though.
  22. h2oface
    Hopefully, this spring will save the Twins from wasting innings in the regular season on Phil. It is a sad story now, but it is what it is. Time's up!
  23. h2oface
    This is Garver's 27 year old season. He is no spring chicken anymore, not a youngster, and we all know that by 30 players are past their peak . Definitely time to swim. Astudillo. A-stud. What a great name.
  24. h2oface
    All it would take, is for Joe to join the launch angle evolution, hit .300ish with 35 homers, 100 rbi, 40 doubles, and 2 stolen bases. The perfect swing evolves in the mid thirties, grabs the power that his large strong body dormantly stores.....and he extends his career a productive 3-4 years and cruises into the HOF. Piece of cake.
  25. h2oface
    Ah.... experience.... not learn, eh? Gibson is smart. Why would he express anything but boiler plate? $200 - 300 thousand means nothing? If I were in his position, needing to keep getting the opportunities to pitch, I would do the same thing. It really doesn't bother me, but my spindar is definitely tingling. Hell, it isn't my money, so I always say spend! But what does bother me, is when I am assigned an emotion by someone else, especially if it is in a condescending fashion.
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