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  1. Unwinder
    I have MILB.tv and love it, sometimes I really want to watch a particular prospect, sometimes I just want baseball on in the background when I'm working on something in the garage (or the kitchen). I subscribed during the offseason when it was going for even less than the 39.99 price, and used it to catch up on archived games with Balazovic, SWR, Martin, and Varland, who I hadn't had a chance to see in action yet. Only problem is that it has bad-to-no closed captioning, particularly in the lower affiliates, which is annoying because I often want to watch it while putting the baby to sleep.
  2. Unwinder
    One thing I really like about baseball in general, and the Twins in particular, is that old design elements are never really lost. Take the "m" emblem, for instance. The Twins phased it out of their everyday look, but it's still all over on merchandise, all over the graphics the Twins use on the scoreboard and on social media, and the Twins wore it on their hats for spring training this year. Or take a look at the original loopy "Twins" script with the big underline. This was updated in 1987, but since then, it's reasserted itself on retro uniforms, and appears almost as often as the "current" wordmark. I welcome a new take on the brand, because I know that the interlocking TC emblem, the hand-shaking Minnie and Paul, the underlined wordmark superimposed over a baseball, and all the other current brand elements that I like are always going to be in use on some level, and there will always be plenty of retro merchandise and throwback uniforms to showcase them. Nothing's really going away. so why not add something new to the mix?
  3. Unwinder
    I think that dropped fly ball was more of a no-brain problem than a no-heart problem.
  4. Unwinder
    I like Ohtani better and think that what he's doing is more special, but both are very good. Historically good. Since MVP is voted on and doesn't have standardized criteria I'm actually OK with it being awarded to Judge simply for the sake of variety, considering both have earned it.
  5. Unwinder
    Nothing left for me to look forward to this season except going to see Shohei Ohtani.
  6. Unwinder
    I have now given up on this season. I was a holdout and I give up.
  7. Unwinder
    I do feel like it's fishy that the Twins seem to be suffering disproportionally so many injuries over multiple seasons, but I have no idea who, if anyone, has dropped the ball. Are they drafting and trading for more risky players than other teams? Is it poor conditioning? Are players not being trained to play in ways that minimize injury? It seems like it's a too much to attribute to just bad luck, but I'm not totally convinced that it's a problem that requires tearing down leadership and starting over. People love to assume that Falvey, Lavine, Baldelli, etc. are completely set in their ways and can never fix anything wrong with any part of their system and I just don't have the depth of knowledge to know if that's true of this problem. This year they did try pretty hard to avoid injuries with the off days, and we wound up with another very bad injury year. Does this mean they're out of ideas and we can't get any more ideas without getting new management? I have no idea. As for the Mahle and Paddack trades, I don't have complete information, but I still view them as risks worth taking that did not break in our favor.
  8. Unwinder
    I feel like Ryan, Mahle, Gray, Ober, Winder, Maeda, Varland, and Paddack (though he'll be coming in later) make up the best starting point for a season that I've seen in a while. Don't see any room at all in there for a bargain-bin reclamation project. Obviously this isn't bulletproof since we have all these guys now and a bunch of them are injured, but if I'm the front office I'm spending my 2023 Happ and Shoemaker money on some relievers who can pitch more than one inning to make up for all these guys who are only going to cover five innings.
  9. Unwinder
    Sadly this FO treats position player pitchers as fungible. I knew this would happen when they let Astudillo go.
  10. Unwinder
    That ending was chaos. Madness. I'm not even really mad they lost because it was so wild.
  11. Unwinder
    I'm always interested in reading articles about Baldelli, but more than any subject in baseball, I need to skip the comment section for the sake of my sanity.
  12. Unwinder
    He needs some time to sit back and go to the state fair.
  13. Unwinder
    OK, yes, I've found it just as difficult when I have to lock down a specific date and time.
  14. Unwinder
    It's not actually that hard to get people to go to ballgames. I don't think of myself as an "influencer," but I posted some comic strips on Twitter where a guy goes to a St Paul Saints game, and some people went and checked out their own local MiLB teams because of it.
  15. Unwinder

    Sano related moves.

    Unwinder commented on Doc Munson's blog entry in Fantasy GM

    Man it's a downer to see Sano go out with a whimper, would have loved to see him go out in style with some fireworks before ceding the Twins Slugger throne to Jose Miranda.
  16. Unwinder
    I would take pretty much any of Sano's previous seasons with all the ups and downs if I knew for sure that's what we were getting, but there's no way to tell if the next slump is just another temporary slump, or if he's truly cooked this time.
  17. Unwinder
    I've said this before in probably these exact words, but Twins fans are so beaten down by so many years of playoff failure that when they finally land a star free agent, all they can think of is what they can get for him. They're scared to even make a playoff run until the team is completely unbeatable.
  18. Unwinder
    I believe I saw an article somewhere on the Athletic that said the White Sox have the trade deadline advantage of more glaring weak points that can be upgraded for cheap, while the Twins' weak points are more mediocre than bad, and are in areas that are more expensive to upgrade (they see starting pitching as a big one). So I think the trade deadline outcome is a huge factor in how the rest of the season plays out for the ALC.
  19. Unwinder
    Small sample size against a bad team so it probably means nothing, but it looks like the all-star break recharged some pitchers who needed it. It's a relief to see Ryan and Gray come back strong, not to mention a good inning from Smith. Also: it's almost hilarious to see Kepler get injured just when Sano needs a spot. These roster decisions really have a way of taking care of themselves.
  20. Unwinder
    I hadn't thought about this complication before. Obviously it's rough for the Twins to have stiffer competition for trades, but if expanded playoffs mean more contenders, and more contenders mean more buyers, and more buyers mean that the sellers get a better haul, then bad teams that sell at the deadline get stronger sooner. Could it be that expanded playoffs are (gulp) good for baseball??? (for the record, I hate expanded playoffs)
  21. Unwinder

    I've been to five Twins games this year, and all five have been Twins wins, who wants to buy me tickets?

  22. Unwinder
    Hey, anything can happen. He is raking in St Paul. Usually when he sucks he's just as bad in the minors.
  23. Unwinder
    Yeah, there were plenty of empty seats for sure. I assume the announced "attendance" is based on ticket sales? I know they routinely sell more group tickets than actually get used, plus there are always plain old no-shows. I was down in section 112 and there were only six seats occupied in my row.
  24. Unwinder
    I took the day off yesterday and biked down to Target field - Glad I didn't drive, I was able to chain up my bike to the parking space marker right across the street from gate 34. I bought my ticket at the box office, good thing it wasn't sold out yet. It was really fun to have a crowd with a lot of opposition fans present. Lots of applause for almost every play. With so many Brewers fans closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee, the Twins could sell a lot more tickets if the divisions were realigned to put Minnesota and Milwaukee in the same division.
  25. Unwinder
    Remember during the offseason how people here kept projecting that Austin Martin was going to become "better Arraez"? No offense to Martin, but it doesn't appear likely that anyone's going to be better than Arraez at being Arraez anytime soon.
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