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  1. h2oface
    It's not an argument. It was just an observation on the batting order tonight. But the rosters do change drastically from year to year now, and it is not just this team. Tonight we see 7 first year in the order. That is pretty drastic. But it is now common all over sports.
  2. h2oface
    One batter late but we'll take it, considering the alternatives.
  3. h2oface
    I'd say unbeliebveable, but it is sooooooo believeable. Only the Twins can't score with the bases loaded and no outs.
  4. h2oface
    Right. I agree. But they are not. Would be could be, but reality...... is what it is.
  5. h2oface
    That was cheap.
  6. h2oface
    K works. 2 down.
  7. h2oface
    That works. GIDP time!
  8. h2oface
    If this was the Twins at bat.... no problem to get out of the inning. Bases loaded and no outs. An almost sure no score set up 😇 Sonny could very well give up 3 earned now and not actually let a runner cross the plate as baseball scoring goes.....
  9. h2oface
    Gray looks finished. Tough inherited runner situation with 2nd and 3rd and no outs.
  10. h2oface
    Only 2 of the 9 in the batting order aren't first year "strangers". This is one of the reasons that baseball is beoming less intersting for long time fans. 3 of 10 if we add Gray as he has been here for a while now. Julien is from the farm, but still first year. It is harder to love and get excited about your team when so many are sort of rentals and just passing through.
  11. h2oface
    Flexibility in playing multiple positions is great, until it starts to make the team worse. Watching Castro in the outfield get jumps that make fly balls/line drives hits in the box score, and same with balls hit to Solano playing any infield position....... and watching guys like Larnach give up on the fly balls that could be caught hit the fence, and even Taylor is having struggles with reads and taking a first step the wrong way too often, is case in point. Does Kirilloff playing right instead of first and Gallo first instead of right weaken the team at 2 positions? Just because a player will play multiple positions for the now dreaded platoon fixation doesn't mean it helps the team win. Not everything (ever) has shown up in the box score.
  12. h2oface
    YES!
  13. h2oface
    Well, I have no problem looking at it from the other perspective and seeing what you are trying to get at. Sorry that it doesn't work both ways for you. Kirilloff and Julien are not in a position to really do anything but nod yes at this point in their career, especially if they want to play, and sometimes just saying no is received as complaining. But you can be right if you like. I'm pretty sure someone as smart as you is getting the drift. Kinda silly to pretend you don't.
  14. h2oface
    I do believe Winston's comment was dripping with sarcasm, John.
  15. h2oface
    Absolutely not!!! I know the question was rhetorical, but what the heck.....
  16. h2oface
    ....no complaints in the dugout from players....? Right. That means nothing. Nothing at all. How do you think it would go for the players if they complained? So they don't. Hell, even if a player doesn't complain, but doesn't sign an undervalued extension, they are consistently traded. Luis Arraez was the most recent that said no to the extension offered at the time and terms, even though he was under control for more years. Of course there were no complaints from the players, especially from the prospect/rookies/newbies. It doesn't mean that they think the plan and decision was total ...........
  17. h2oface
    That must just crush you. I hope you can still sleep well. 😇
  18. h2oface
    4 hits and 2 errors? did i miss a good one?
  19. h2oface
    So tired of this BS. Baldelli is out of control.
  20. h2oface
    It is a crying shame that protecting the plate means you have to swing at pitches out of the zone to try to continue an at bat because of the inhuman aspect of the game that still hasn't been corrected - the umpire calling balls a strike when it isn't.
  21. h2oface
    That would be 0,0,0,1,1=2 total runs. Not much. Barely. Insignificant.
  22. h2oface
    Jorge Lopez' Monday blow up heart break in the 12th and gifting a loss to Pablo today seems to get ignored. Larnach just seems to give up on fly balls that look very playable. Didn't Buxton use to slide gracefully?
  23. h2oface
    Agreed. Too quick. My feeling as it happened, too. It is not a hindsight call to write about your feelings as they happened later. It was still one's call in real time. One more batter wouldn't have hurt, and he deserved it after his 6 previous innings. He certainly didn't deserve the other Lopez to blow it up. He was at 94 when he started the inning. Taken out at 101. The next batter was righty/righty for either Lopez. The wrong one got the ball. Middle middle. Couldn't have been served up more middle.
  24. h2oface
    It looked good until September last year, and we ended up 14 games or so behind. But I agree. This is maybe a .500 team. You are your record.
  25. h2oface
    Pablo, our so called pitching savior we sacrificed Arraez for, now 2-3. His Fault? He does the best he can.
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