Jocko87

This is about a hour 47 pace.

Funny you should say that, all the 12u/14u kids were saying it last year. Now that the Olds have discovered it, it seems to have gone away.

Well hello there SWR. Nice moment for Polo.

I like Nick Gordon and have always pulled for him. I'm referring to the bizarre tendancies of the Twins fan base to lament anyone gone from the organization as the one that got away. That goes for Arraez as well. Love him, but the Twins and Marlins cannot fit one tool players in their plans, regardless of how good the one tool is.

I can hear it now-"the Marlins traded Arreaz to make from for Nick Gordon, why on earth would the Twins let him go." I can't. Please no. My first thought was that Chisholm moves back to the infield but with a tanking team who knows. This whole deal just highlights how tough a roster fit Luis is, and I'm a huge fan of his. He will fit much better in the Padres lineup as all their other top players can glove and mash and a high OBP DH fits in well. You can't build around a DH with no power unless that DH fits very, very well with the rest of the roster. In that case, you aren't building around that DH. Luis will always be a complementary player, although a very highly skilled one. He may go nuts with the likes of Manny and Tatis hitting behind him. Good for him. Sign me up for that discount!

When you put it that way, I'll take me some Farmer.

Three points very near what I thought about reading this. Wallner heating up after looking like me for weeks. Crazy game. Bowen cracking the top 20 prospects would make a lot of takes look very poor. I'll get to my first Wind Surge games this weeks home stand, I've been out of town for almost month so it will be nice. I don't mind if they are struggling and don't much care about the AA bullpen as hopefully there is some learning going on. It's a beautiful park in a beautiful setting, parking is easy and its a great place to watch a game and some of my favorite prospects. Highly recommend. I'm glad I'll get some E-Rod before he ascends to greatness.

There is a lot of discussion of recent years and field results and while that is important and part of the discussion its not the whole picture. We have to take into account what they inherited and what they have done behind that scenes that will result in continuing the success down the road. Sure, they've been able to have several extra players other teams want every year but if they can do that every year that would speak highly of them, with the inbound players being a different part of the evaluation. There have been several stories over the years of different things they have upgraded behind the scenes, tech, scouting, etc. That all cost money and effort but the idea is that $3m that helps all players is worth more than one $30m player. Again, it's year to year high level results in prospects and big club competitiveness that we will see how much it pays. The main thing for me is that we are just entering a phase where they really have what they want in place. They inherited and entire system of pitch to contact pitchers and make contact hitters and both sides have been completely turned over to power pitchers and what ever you might categorize the hitters. By my rough figuring, Max Kepler, Alex Kirilloff, Jose Miranda, Griffin Jax and Jordan Balosavic are the only remaining players in the organization they have not made a stay or go roster decision on. That's quite a significant turnover in faces and features. They have a type and they collect them. This is the most talented Twins 40 man roster I can remember, or look up. We are having very real discussions of where we will play top 20 prospects regularly. For all the questions about the pitching pipeline, I'm not sure what more you want-other than a Paul Skenes of our very own. They are pitching as good as anyone. Right now they are top third in baseball or so. Three years from now they might get some Tampa respect.

Appreciate it, I just had the realization I was expanding the scope on my own. They are intertwined and similar so its good tobe clear.

It will be interesting to see Varlands locations on Savant tomorrow. He can blow AAA away in any random start but my feeling is that he needs to be spotting 95 before he comes back. 98 when needed. No need to live at 97.

We could do a poll on the percentages of blame to go around but it would just reveal the sites fundamental misunderstandings of what is happening. This site became great because we could push back against stupid narratives, now it creates them. This billionaire organization is maybe 1% of what's going on. The Dr Evil 1 billion is a laughably small part of this deal. Nevermind it's probably not more than $400m.

I guess that's an important clarification, if this question is about the forums only, but not the articles, my answer would be that the articles killed the forums. If that's a conscious decision to focus on articles, the question becomes more about the end of life for the forums. I, and from what I read, many others, have been giving feedback on the site. Which is a different animal.

If he'd have gone with the sausage angle and ten game winning streaks and baseball players doing anything to keep a streak going, he might have had something. Otherwise see comments in the open discussion about the state of the forums. Here lies exhibit A.

Santana's BABIP is the one that really stands out. Willi and Jose could stand to take a walk or two. Otherwise, keep it up boys!

What if the pre-arb writers were doing game thread openers instead of front page articles? Lots of low leverage reps and after a short, actual game related opener they could do a @Riverbrian type story. Great writing practice and with a few people doing it they can work ahead and not have to do everyday. I have no idea how long a riverbrian opener took him, but I can tell you it would take me a month. Maybe the blub could be baseball related, maybe not, who cares? The beauty of the thread, as with sitting at the game, is just nice discussion with friends filling in the dead time in a slow moving event. Topic is irrelevant and will weave back and forth into baseball anyway. My earlier point with people not able to watch is that there will be enough actual baseball talk to fill in gaps for them. Several of us regulars still have access and do talk baseball plays. It already happens a lot where someone listen to radio will ask what happened.

You were probably never properly thanked, but I also cry laughed at many game threads in those days. Thank you. Yesterday was a beautiful example of a space where a great game thread would have been wonderful distraction from the days news. I made the following comment in that thread as a response to the blind lady meme and was basically told to F off. I truly believe this. The game thread of the glory years could be a huge boon for TD right now.

Then the thumbs up would need to go away too. The thumbs down is at least a flag that tells me to maybe re-read that post again and as I continue reading maybe I'm on the look out for something else I hadn't considered. Blind agreement is no different and in the absence of a visual for disagreement, agreement is assumed. With what we have, at least there is a middle ground of MEH, don't agree or disagree enough to do anything. Here, I thumbed down a couple anti thumb down posts (because I disagree) and several posts later I am making comment on it (because I strongly disagree). It has value.

No doubt they knew it was going to get worse. Just spending whatever one time payment they got on a player would be borderline malpractice. One of the things that really bothers me about this discourse is that it is being presented like they just took the money and ran to their pockets. Listened to the new Gleeman and the Geek this morning and the insistence that "they were a free agent!!!" really does a huge disservice to the discussion. So far as I know, the options they said no to are not public. Shohei Otani was a free agent too, but was he an actual option? No. Same principal here. I need to know what they turned down before I judge the choice to go back to Bally's. If you are making a judgment without that information, take a step back.

The blackout is a simplistic symbol, but its also a very powerful indicator of the forces being dealt with. It's easy to focus on the Twins right now but very little mention of the 15 or so other teams in the same boat. Step back from the Twins a minute and try to visualize the contractual gymnastics that that it took to bring enough money to the table to make it make sense to make baseball invisible in Iowa. Literally, WTF. Then realize that's what they are trying to untangle. Unfortunately what Comcast is doing is what is right for their business. That's their job. They would all being fired for not taking notice of Bally/Diamonds failures and protecting themselves. The Twins/MLB weren't the only groups screwed by them.

Small nitpick, 69 strikes on 41 pitches would be 168%. I believe that would be a record. Also the big rally for St Paul included the two run error on a ball hit by Wallner, barely. Man he looks uncomfortable. Pulling for ya big guy.

6 innings and a three piece. Sign me up.

And lollipops.

Are you protesting Twins Daily? I'd suggest that's misplaced if so. Don't ruin their product because you are mad at the Twins/Bally/MLB/Manfred etc. TD has an opportunity to ease those frustrations, however slightly.

When we see some right center line drives, buckle up. It's always been his key.