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[ATTACH=CONFIG]3999[/ATTACH]Aaron and John talk about why their Minnesota Twins podcast was dumped off of the radio this week and whip through several dozen small topics. These include a discussion the Twins winning pace, the debate the meaning of "lucky", Joe Mauer's slump, the tragedy of losing Nick Punto, why Aaron likes girls who make bad decisions, road tripping to St. Cloud and Kevin Correia, Mike Pelfrey, Ryan Pressly, Kyle Gibson, Aaron Hick, Oswlado Arcia, Justin Morneau, Joe Benson, Clete Thomas, Brian Dozier and Trevor Plouffe. Whew. Here are: the podcasts the rss feed if you want to subscribe and the podcast on iTunes. Or click on the link below:

Brad, I'd also encourage you to have links back to your blog in your stories.

Yeah, when my wife first suggested a "couples shower" I was 100% on board, but it turns out that it is an entirely different kind of shower. I'm pretty sure they've been invented simply to extend a dreadful tradition which most women hate to my gender. My condolences.

You forgot the part where, as Diamond returned to the dugout after being pulled in the fifth, Anderson wailed "Not you too Scott! Why? WHY?!" and ran away weeping until Scotty Ulger brought some cold post-game dinner to his room.

It looks like Seth has opened this thread. Let the adoptions begin!

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First, please keep in mind that this is a hyper-sensitive subject. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it. But if you don't think you can keep a respectful tone, if you find your emotions running high, please think twice before you post. My sense is that baseball is less "white" than it's been for years with all the latin players that are in the big leagues. Does anyone have any statistics on that? The question that everyone seems to be wrestling with, but nobody is stating, is whether baseball has factors in place that discourage African-Americans from playing baseball? And if so, what are they? One concern is that maybe baseball is too expensive with traveling teams and such. Or, do African-Americans just find inspiration in a different area or sport? Perhaps this isn't so much a problem of baseball integrating as baseball just no reaching people the way it used to.

Well, I'm surprised. No, Hendriks has not put everything together at MLB, but Hernandez hasn't really put things together at AAA. It's not an egregiously bad move, but I was surprised. Especially after Hernandez was used in the game last night. Here's the thing - immediately after Hernandez' first game in the postgame interview, Gardy hinted that Pedro was going to be the one to be sent down. So either Gardy didn't understand the rest of the organizations' thoughts on that or Hendrick's second game somehow swung the balance. That doesn't seem like a particularly wise reaction.

Chris Jaffe of the Hardball Times researched something that Bert Blyleven talked about the other day on FSN.... Bert not only charged the mound, he did so with a bat? There must be some news accounts of this, right? Bert Blyleven tracer

That that's where the hope is?

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Jeff Manship

We're live!

Interesting. This gives me a little hope that what we're seeing isn't a mirage.

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Starting at 10AM CST on Monday 4/23, you can adopt a Twins prospect in this thread. Just put down the players name and submit it and THEN CHECK TO MAKE SURE NOBODY POSTED THAT NAME BEFORE YOU. If someone has, you didn't get that player, but it's not big deal - just submit another post with someone else's name - and then make sure nobody posted THAT name before you. Lather, rinse and repeat until you get a name that nobody else did. Once you reserve a name, you can start a thread. Just title the thread the name of the prospect like "Miguel Sano." First post must be an introduction of the player. The format of the post is up to the individual, but please be sure to get all the important information needed on the player. For Example, Name, Position, Handedness, Drafted/Signed/Acquired (out of where/what round), Previous Stats, etc. Feel free to make it as detailed as you want. (There are a lot of websites you could link to such as their Baseball-Reference, The Baseball Cube, First Inning, Fan Graphs, etc.) Ready, set, go....

(Note, there have been a couple of small updates to the Rules of Adopt-A-Prospect for 2013. Edited 4/15/2013.) Rules of Adopt-A-Prospect: 1) Twins Daily members can only ‘adopt’ ONE prospect at this time. Each Twins prospect can only be adopted once. It will be first-come, first-serve in a new thread here that will be opened at 10:00 a.m. CST on Tuesday morning. (There may be a second adoption between the MLB draft and the start of the short-season leagues.) 2) Once you have confirmed that you have that player, you can post a thread. The title of the thread you start should just be that player's name. First post must be an introduction of the player. The format of the post is up to the individual, but please be sure to get all the important information needed on the player. For Example, Name, Position, Handedness, Drafted/Signed/Acquired (out of where/what round), Previous Stats, etc. Feel free to make it as detailed as you want. (There are a lot of websites you could link to such as their Baseball-Reference, The Baseball Cube, First Inning, Fan Graphs, MiLB.com, affiliate’s websites, etc.) 3) After the initial post (and throughout the season), you MUST update the thread AT LEAST once every week. If you fail to do this, the prospect can be taken away from you. [if a player is inactive due to injury or suspension, this requirement is waived as appropriate.] If you would like to update more often, please feel free. Updates should, at least, include Year-To-Date numbers for the player. The more information given, however, the better. Brag up your prospect! 4) Any major event (i.e. Promotion/Demotion/Trade/Perfect Game/4 HRs in one game...) must be reflected in the thread within a day of the event. Failure to update for this purpose may result in losing your adoptee. 5) Threads will be closed one week after a prospect has been traded out of the organization. However, if the player is traded back to the Twins (for some reason), the member who had the prospect will have the option to regain the prospect. 6) If a player is placed on the 25-man roster, this is wonderful news and you can continue that player’s thread. Reward for your player getting to the big leagues is that you can adopt a second prospect at that point. Even if the first player is eventually sent back to the minor leagues, you can maintain both prospect threads. 7) All other rules which are enforced on the main board will be enforced here.

I suspect Gardy planned on starting Burroughs at 3b today long before yesterday's game, but the timing couldn't be much better.