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  1. h2oface
    You could always write one yourself and let others complain.
  2. h2oface
    "Trading Bailey Ober or Joe Ryan would not be a comfortable move, and maybe not a popular one. But as we think of the challenges and constraints that lie before the front office, these are the kinds of moves we're going to need to view within the realm of realistic possibilities. I'd almost say the odds are better than not that one gets dealt." Just sell and move the damn team. Seems that writers and FO employees don't care about people anyway. All are just a piece of chattel to them, apparently. Teams don't ever get better by getting rid of the best players. 5 years down the road? Maybe? Hardly counts in my book.
  3. h2oface
    Or he is very highly valued, as teams always want to trade for him! What it really shows, is there are a lot of incompetent executives hired by MLB teams who think they are smarter than most, but the results rarely lead to successful teams. And a lot of writers that will write stories about ridiculous moves, that also feel they are smarter than most.
  4. h2oface
    "The Twins do some nice things with their Twitter account, which expresses a fun personality and engages in various ways with the denizens of “Twins Twitter.”" If the marketers (and writers) are catering to the Twits on Twitter, there is a real problem, especially since there hasn't been a Twitter for a long time now...... and there is less and less using what is left.
  5. h2oface
    Or at least the first 30K. Even the Dodgers, don't risk a silly surplus. Better that way, too, for Ebay etal. But I get your point. DON'T BE A CHEAP OWNER!
  6. h2oface
    So……. twice as bad. Please tell me you are not inferring two wrongs make bad calls more tolerable.
  7. h2oface
    I hope the second paragraph does as well! The most important. MLB teams are not a regular business.
  8. h2oface
    If the Pohlads were smart, they would sell the team and take the money and use it to make more of their precious fortune in a different "business". And sell it to a guy that has even more money, and wants to have fun and doesn't need it to be a "business" of this sort, and makes it a hobby to have fun with until he dies....... and spends for enjoyment, and to win.
  9. h2oface
    Duran wants to start, too. Throw him in the trade. Duran and Jax will both go to free agency, and then sign with a team that will let them do what they want with their life. And it will probably be a playoff team, unlike ours.
  10. h2oface
    When each year's all-star selections are based on about 12 weeks of a season only, and only hot starts, it is really ridiculous. But you can't really make up your own rules. Or maybe you feel you can. Correa will only ever probably be selected by his teammates or former teammates. The rest of the players really will not ever forgive him. The fans, like you are a fan, are smarter than, I think, you give them credit for, but many are maniacs and vote soooooo many times, which is also ridiculous. I don't even vote anymore. Can't get into it when each person can vote so many times, and I don't have time for that. The fact is, Correa was the best the twins had to offer, at the time, and they are required to pick someone. He was not one of the best 3 shortstops in the AL, even so. A mandatory pick. Compared to the best options in the league at the time, he was still not worth the all-star title, or he would have been selected the other ways. If you are given the spot on the team, it hardly means you earned it, in my book, which was the direct question. Same with Castro. Cuddyer. Suzuki. etc etc...... Fair? Life is rarely fair, eh?
  11. h2oface
    Are appointments by the commissioners office to be a mandatory member from a team that the fans and players didn't want any player from really "earned"? Or is that type of All-star appointment (and injury replacement of another player to replace a mandatory pick that is not going to play because of injury) a gift?
  12. h2oface
    I really don't care about the trade. A writer is allowed to have fun and write. But I can read, and you might want to re-read a bit..... "No. 27 overall prospect in baseball, according to FanGraphs."
  13. h2oface
    Great summary. 6-7 wasted money. at least 5-7, as some were enamored by Romo. 7-7 if you consider how horrible Perkins was at the end of his last season. Twins fans get excited about some pretty pedestrian results. They really strain to elevate some players sometimes with hope that they can be better.
  14. h2oface
    I don’t remember last year, either.
  15. h2oface
    Cowardly. Falvey makes everyone manage and coach this way, and when the results suck, it is the fault of the guys they picked. But it is the philosophy that stinks. If your coaches suck, in mass, then it is the guy that hired them all that should go with them. Falvey and Baldelli are in arrogant denial. And Watkins not fired? I guess Falvey and Levine don’t watch the games, either.
  16. h2oface
    Well, I know what I like. These days, WAR lovers will be WAR lovers, I guess, and define worth through those special WAR glasses.. I do hope that a top of the rotation pitcher standard for all Twins fans will become better than a 4 career ( and this season) ERA pitcher. This season, again, of course, it wasn’t.
  17. h2oface
    Maybe. I never like or liked it. Even when they win. I absolutely hated the classless sausage and the selfies. Just like I don't like cheaters being heroes on our team. I never like bad umpiring, never ever, even if it goes in our teams favor. But yes, I have to put up with it. That's what you get when the new set of strangers are hired and in it for the personal reasons and to improve their career resume when you have been a fan since the Senators became the Twins and came to Minnesota in 1961.
  18. h2oface
    Hey! But we got a somewhat erratic career (and this season) 4 ERA pitcher for the batting champ, Arraez (who won 2 more titles since). And they still tell us that Lopez is an ace, and give him Pablo Day every time he pitches at home and sell two different colors of jerseys to the suckers followers. That's some kind of keen maneuvering.
  19. h2oface
    I just really don't enjoy the brand of baseball these guys want to play. Shifts, platoons, not caring about Ks, multi positioning that players really aren't a benefit at any position but play them anyway, rental over the hill vets, dumpster diving for spare parts, no stealing bases, not bunting, horrible 3rd base coaching.... really sick of it. They can blame it on the players, but it is really their system that isn't letting players excel and become who they could be, and they pick them. I find it quite cowardly to deflect so much, and am really tired of it, and now don't even get excited to see them live in visiting cities. Pitching pipeline? Another year of mediocre success if any from the pipe. Pohlads and this quasi business. He should sell it to an owner that wants to have it as a hobby that doesn't mind using his other riches to subsidize his fun and spend the $ he can't take with him to enjoy himself while he is still alive.
  20. h2oface
    And that is BS. It may have been his 2nd officially scored error by the charity workers that are called official scorers, but that is only because they hardly ever score blunders errors anymore. I saw plenty more than 2, that's for sure.
  21. h2oface
    We sure could use a lot better and consistent performance for a year. Maybe next year, when he starts getting paid the 22 million. He was a classy just over 4 ERA pitcher, right there with his career average. Nice guy? Sure. Articulate? Yup. We sure could use a $22 million year in 2025 on the field.
  22. h2oface
    One at bat to "show their appreciation"? Talk about lame. Fans and posters have been trying to get rid of Kepler for the last 5 years or so. Ungrateful in general. Most would rather have 1 year strangers than a team that can gel and stay together. Always talking about getting rid of someone for unproven prospects that usually bomb and suffer the yoyo of the AAA train, or vets for a year, strangers, that are a shadow of what they once were, or just plain dumpster dives, especially when it comes to pitchers. Sure. Show your appreciation as you kick him out the door. Real sincere.
  23. h2oface
    I hope hardly anyone shows up for the last two games. Fans need to send a message to the players, manager, FO, and owners.
  24. h2oface
    What? No mound selfie?
  25. h2oface
    Good thing Buxton and Correa took half the season off to be ready for the playoffs........
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