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  1. h2oface
    Sure it does. It means they didn't give up, even though the manager had earlier.
  2. h2oface
    Thanks, again, Baldelli. Great choices. NOT
  3. h2oface
    Atta boy, Jeffers!!
  4. h2oface
    Even giving up 2 hits, Jax would have had a 0 run inning without the fake baseball rule. I hate that rule. Siri hit a pitch that was at least 3 inches outside for a protect the plate single on the 8th pitch. Sure, he shouldn't have to swing at a pitch like that to protect himself from a bad call by the umpire, but it is a better hitter that can do that, and knows to do that, than watches the close one that the umpire misses like Jeffers earlier. Last chance now.....
  5. h2oface
    Santana CAN grab a bad throw!
  6. h2oface
    When he started with the string of yesterday's relief repeat, the game was tied. He has to use Jax in a tie game, now anyway! If they held the game at tied for the 8th and 9th, the game would be over with a Twins win. They weren't losing when the towel came in.
  7. h2oface
    I can't help you, man.
  8. h2oface
    MIRANDA!!!
  9. h2oface
    Baldelli looking even more like a total fool, now.
  10. h2oface
    And that is why you don't throw the bullpen towel in, Baldelli.
  11. h2oface
    Between Baldelli giving a tied in the 8th game away with his relief choices, resting hot bats, and guys like Jeffers hitting worse than Wallner/Farmer/Margot/Santana at the beginning of the season.......... surely not playing to lose, but not really playing to win. Richardson and Ryan get screwed, but Lopez gives up another 5 in 4 and gets the A team. At least they won that won with the bats not disappearing. Oh.... that's right, they actually got to play that game.
  12. h2oface
    Yeah, Lewis' throw wasn't perfect, but man, I have seen a lot of first basemen dig a throw like that and make the play. I mean, it hit the base of Santana's glove. Ryan deGrom'ed again. They just don't seem to be able to score runs for him. Bummer.
  13. h2oface
    Single handedly? And I thought baseball was a team sport, and the most runs win. Somebody got those hits. And Sonny won game 2. Don't forget Sonny! Thanks for fansplaining me. Welcome back. It has been a combative aggressive name calling re-entrance for you, eh? And you love whine and its derivatives. 6 in 4 comments. "I like my wine too, but I stop drinking it sometimes."
  14. h2oface
    OK. I was a little cruel. Must have gotten over influenced by how horrible he is pitching now with the 7.75 ERA in the last 7 games (31 earned in 36 innings, with 10 walks - still bag worthy), and the now 4.04 career ERA. I don't know that it makes it any better, though. I think Ace's usually even go sub-three. Impressive win. Even Lopez couldn't sabotage it in the end.
  15. h2oface
    Twins are not learning well. Immediately promote Wallner. Utilize him when he is hot. Don't waste it in AAA. He should have started the year, when he was awful in ST, in AAA. He has options. Down quickly when sucking, Up quickly when he starts to hit. He will hit in the show, too, when he is hot. Wasting a hot hitter is just dumb. While he has options, use them.
  16. h2oface
    Twins have no one in the top 5 of all categories. None. If Santana is an all-star for this year, baseball is in a sad state. It isn't. April counts. No. Absolutely not. Even with a tear for the next 3 weeks. No way. No how. NO No NO No.
  17. h2oface
    That was an impressive win, with an unlikely walk-off hero. The upside of Pablo Day Lopez now pitching like he did all career (maybe even worse) except last year, is that now his yellow souvenir jersey comes with a free matching yellow paper bag with the holes pre-cut to watch the games he pitches in style.
  18. h2oface
    All over the league this is happening. Truly not allowed by rule. But the umps don't enforce it, just as they don't enforce where the base coaches roam. I think that the managers don't object because their guys like to do it, too, to get a better grip on the timing, etc as they bat. Someone is going to get hurt really bad before it is reigned in, I fear.
  19. h2oface
    The upside of Pablo Day Lopez pitching like he did all career (just a bit worse, now) except last year, is that now his yellow souvenir jersey comes with a free matching yellow paper bag with the holes pre-cut to watch the games he pitches in style.
  20. h2oface
    Said it in ST when almost all he was doing was striking out. when most were talking about and defending him being a lock and ST doesn't matter, anyway. Send Wallner down to start the season, I promoted. Let him strikeout for a month in AAA until he gets hot later like last year. Slow starter. He just should play year round somewhere so he stays at a keen level. Sure enough............ waste of time to have had him up until about now. Banking on a half year rookie to be there the next year is folly. They have to earn it. Over and over it happens. In the past and in the present. Valencia, Diamond, Miranda, Julian etc etc....
  21. h2oface
    Never liked the trade. I was glad he had an outlier 2023. Lots of innings. Pitched well in the playoffs. I would have kept Gray. I like the trade even less now. His career ERA is 4. That is who he is.
  22. h2oface
    Great to see the guys hit, today. I will really love it when they do it consistently in close games. Can't have too much positivity. 😇 The pitching was horrible. 5-1 to 10-8 after 7. You could think this was a blowout by the final score. Bye bye Caleb. Every pitcher gave up at least one run. You say Duran didn't? Well, inherited runners scored count in my book. (Although Vazquez throwing into centerfield and Correa's boot costing a couple of runs didn't help) 9 runs on the pitching staff. Easy to not pay attention to the need to address when your offense piles on 17 in the rare offensive stat padding burst. But a great day for fans at Target. They deserve it. After Gomber gave up 11 hits and 8 earned in 3 innings, his season ERA is still a run better than Pablo Day Lopez, at .4.26, playing for the Rockies. Maybe he's an ace, too 😵
  23. h2oface
    Took some liberties.. 😇 I totally agree, now.
  24. h2oface
    How is that working for the hitters? Do they get confidence from getting 2 or three hits and then the manager's reward is to sit them the very next game? Or a couple hits early in the game, seeing the ball well, and then get pulled for a guy that is hitting .110, and never getting the chance to hit oppo pitchers? Do they say to themselves "great, at least I didn't have to take another at bat and maybe strikeout. I'm so condident, now."? Would Varland have more confidence, and be way better for it, if he had, this time, while he was pitching well, been rewarded with the opportunity to add the 6th, and maybe the 7th, and DID take the order down the 3rd time? Pulled for Thielbar, and his horrible year, is like Larnach getting pulled for Margot in the 6th, after Larnach had 2 hits early in the game. Really building confidence for Larnach. No one knows if Varland pitched the 6th & shut them down. Now that'd be a flying high moment for Varland. If you baby players, like if you baby children and don't give them the opportunity to fail, they will always be babies, and not grow up. Now Varland is confident the manager has no confidence in him. How is that a good thing for confidence building? This was a time that a player deserves the opportunity to grow, and break on through to the other side. A good manager would see that and take that chance, rather than banking on this year's Thielbar in a tight game, the game he had only given up one hit and one walk on 63 pitches through 5. How did it all work for Thiebar's confidence? What if he brings Thielbar in and he fails miserably again? Right. Who cares, eh?
  25. h2oface
    I was saying it this off season when all writers were declaring Thielbar a lock and a rock for the back end of the 2024 bullpen. His end of season performance and playoff outings convinced me he was toast. To count on him another year was a bad move. I was saying it in ST, I was saying it as the season started. Not bragging. I just knew. I don't know why. And I hope we all know now, including a manager that is really making me sick. 63 pitches and a one hitter with one walk....... through 5. What a _________.
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