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Same could be told for Pavano or Livan

Yeah... I get the point (esp after Seattle and Oakland started playing ST games after their openning day) but opening day for me is when the Twins play their first game. That would be friday

Please explain. How did they ruin it exactly?

I guess it is New Britain then since Marquis said so to Rosenthal... He has to know where he is going

Rosenthal said New Britain so he can commute to see his daughter.... I guess we'll find out who is correct

Really scary. The whole story is here. And also mentions the involvement of a Twins' minor leaguer Just glad that the kid is ok. And still do not believe that all of the local writers (with their "access") could not write something like this up, but it took a national reporter...

Does anyone else remember the Drive Time 1991 song? [video=youtube;HmqOlyknUsI]

Interesting to see Sam Deduno and Cole DeVries starting. I suspect when Liam Hendriks returns Sam Deduno will go to the pen and when Aaron Thompson fulfills his 50-day suspension (if still in the organiation) will replace DeVries.

Not really. Rochester is about 6 hrs by car from his Long Island home (that's like MPLS to CHI) and there are only like 2-3 flights a day to Laguardia. There are many more direct flights form MLPS to NYC than from Rochester. So distance is not an issue...

Based on the radio broadcast it was Liddle who waved the stop sign. Gladden couldn't believe it he did not wave him through...

Another thing about the Marquis situation: With him the 25-man roster is up to 26. So, unless Marquis is optioned, our friend Alex Burnett will start the season in Rochester...

I would argue that many of the Gardy teams have had better SP than the '87 Twins who were Viola, Blyleven at the end of his career and Les Straker... esp. looking at the Santana-Radke-Silva-Lohse teams.

22-5, 2.13 ERA, 215 IP, 245 K there

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch --- Here is this week's installment: I cannot believe that Spring Training is over tomorrow and that the season begins this Friday. Orioles' Jake Arrieta (of the 5 some ERA and 1.5some WHIP in 2011) was named opening day starter agaist the Twins. Hope that the Twins' bats beat him up pretty nicely. Last November we heard that Plouffe was finally just an outfielder/DH. Unfortunately, Mr Gardenhire decided that "Plouffey" is the backup shortstop as well and he will have a "super utility" role. I think that this is a fairly unfortunate thing to do with one of your worse defenders, but Gardenhire has been doing it for years with Cuddyer... Despite this (which, thankfully, was valid only for the day that was posted), I am happy to see what is probably the strongest openning day bench for the Twins in recent memory. Ron Gardenhire did not crack the top ten in this top MLB managers list. A former Twins' player who has retired a while ago, is still active in his community. Looks like Jason Marquis' seven year old daughter who had a serious bike accident thankfully is doing better and Marquis will return to the Twins shortly. And it looks like Hammond Stadium will be upgraded after all (last paragraph of the linked article.) I hope the Twins give it the Target Field dimensions, because now it is 330-405-330 symmetrical. The answer to the Twins Trivia Contest about who is different that the rest in the Twins' Hall of Fame and Why, was Jim Rantz because he is still in the same position he was Elected in the HOF for. Even though nobody got the why exactly correctly, LeCroy24fan was the first one to get Rantz so he wins a game used bat of former No 1 Twins' draft pick BJ Garbe. Please e-mail me your snail mail address at thetenthinningstretch.at.gmail.com to mail it to you. The new Twins' commercial is a hit The Twins' product of the week, in honor of the new season is a book: 162 - 0: The Greatest Wins in Twins Historyhttp://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=biowriters&l=as2&o=1&a=1600783260 Would we all love an 162-0 season? The parting shot today is of the most unlikely man to make the Twins' 25-man roster: Sean Burroughs http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7267/6894005960_3e7cc7ed59_o.jpg

Originally published at The Tenth Inning Stretch --- Here is this week's installment: I cannot believe that Spring Training is over tomorrow and that the season begins this Friday. Orioles' Jake Arrieta (of the 5 some ERA and 1.5some WHIP in 2011) was named opening day starter agaist the Twins. Hope that the Twins' bats beat him up pretty nicely. Last November we heard that Plouffe was finally just an outfielder/DH. Unfortunately, Mr Gardenhire decided that "Plouffey" is the backup shortstop as well and he will have a "super utility" role. I think that this is a fairly unfortunate thing to do with one of your worse defenders, but Gardenhire has been doing it for years with Cuddyer... Despite this (which, thankfully, was valid only for the day that was posted), I am happy to see what is probably the strongest openning day bench for the Twins in recent memory. Ron Gardenhire did not crack the top ten in this top MLB managers list. A former Twins' player who has retired a while ago, is still active in his community. Looks like Jason Marquis' seven year old daughter who had a serious bike accident thankfully is doing better and Marquis will return to the Twins shortly. And it looks like Hammond Stadium will be upgraded after all (last paragraph of the linked article.) I hope the Twins give it the Target Field dimensions, because now it is 330-405-330 symmetrical. The answer to the Twins Trivia Contest about who is different that the rest in the Twins' Hall of Fame and Why, was Jim Rantz because he is still in the same position he was Elected in the HOF for. Even though nobody got the why exactly correctly, LeCroy24fan was the first one to get Rantz so he wins a game used bat of former No 1 Twins' draft pick BJ Garbe. Please e-mail me your snail mail address at thetenthinningstretch.at.gmail.com to mail it to you. The new Twins' commercial is a hit The Twins' product of the week, in honor of the new season is a book: 162 - 0: The Greatest Wins in Twins Historyhttp://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=biowriters&l=as2&o=1&a=1600783260 Would we all love an 162-0 season? The parting shot today is of the most unlikely man to make the Twins' 25-man roster: Sean Burroughs http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7267/6894005960_3e7cc7ed59_o.jpg

He still has to serve part of his 50 day suspension from last season...

Interesting... so it looks like Nick Lockwood will be repeating (or rather three-peating) E-town...

There has been a lot of talk about Capps developing a split finger FB this Spring and he admitted that it was not quite there. Maybe he was tossing few of those in the HRs. ST numbers are fairly meaningless for established pitchers who do not have to face competition. Let's see how he does a week into the season...

Thanks. That was a weird tweet

He just tweeted this. Does anyone know whether there were more MiLB releases today?

If I thought that the Twins did not have a chance to win the division (and a good one) I wouldn't have picked them... I just don't like the Tigers this season. And if they win the Division, everything can happen.

Did not realize that the index finger was not there. That is a funky breaking ball grip... Change has at least 3 fingers on the ball

No satire; just optimist

Last week Romero was heating cleanup, Herrmann 3rd and Hicks like 7th ...

ONE thing? Does retiring count? I think if I had to chose ONE thing, it would be not to give away outs by playing small ball and trying to move runners up. The scoring probability of a runner on 1st with 1 out is higher than that of one on 2nd and 2 outs...