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  1. TheLeviathan
    This is the kind of comment that will make me happy to listen to criticisms you have. Shows you haven't lost objectivity or the ability to just be rational about things. Appreciate it!
  2. TheLeviathan
    Baseball is a cruel game year to year. The Orioles being bad offensively was predicted by zero humans prior to this year.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Yup, I think the whole AL is weak. A team with a starters ERA near 2.4 ought to be cleaning up. We finally have one dude hitting and suddenly wins are stacking. The bar was seriously so low thanks to our pitching and we were still too feeble to hit it.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Sounds like no Curry until Game 6. Maybe 5, but I think that's unlikely. Seriously, they win tht game by 20 with just an average shooting night. But we've seen that sort of stupidity out of them all year. I hope the 4th quarter showed them the path: Golden State doesn't have anyone to be scared of in the paint. Go at them and force them to pack it in. Then shoot your heart out.
  5. TheLeviathan
    Don't worry, if A-Aaron signs there he's got Allen Lazard, the husk of Jordy Nelson, and wheel-chair bound Donald Driver on their way as reinforcements.
  6. TheLeviathan
    I said it two weeks ago: The AL Central (and the AL in general) is weak enough that all the Twins need is one guy to start hitting like an all-star and their pitching staff can get them to rack up some wins. Buck is making that statement come alive. This game was well managed. Something you won't see the usual crowd come to post about.
  7. TheLeviathan
    All true, but all definitely not why there are only a handful of replies, :)
  8. TheLeviathan
    They couldn't beat the Gophers shooting 10% from 3. Hopefully they saw GS has no rim protection. Take it to them.
  9. TheLeviathan
    This is an excellent post but I really appreciate the second to last paragraph. More effective vs. better as a distinction is exactly the right way to go. I don't begrudge people for missing the past when starters would go longer. It's totally ok to miss the aesthetic of the past. I miss those days too (at least as a viewing experience)! However....my personal preference is not a valid argument against the very real nature of what it takes to be an effective pitcher in today's game. And that reality is the one all teams are operating in, including the Twins. There is no putting the genie back in the bottle, so making arguments of that sort to attack a FO, a manager, an agent, a player, etc. is just being purposefully obtuse.
  10. TheLeviathan
    You wouldn't be a Minnesota sports fan if you didn't fear the worst! But I watched Adams and Senguin bully them all series long. The Warriors won because no one on Houston could score to supplement the bully ball. We can do both.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Even if they wanted to try that, the NCAA has restrictions on pitch counts and usage. Teams could try that, but they would likely get enormous pushback from players and agents. Not to mention this paradigm shift would have to be enforced as far back as middle school/high school. People can downvote and argue until they're blue in the face - reality is what it is. Teams are doing this as part of their investment in players. Players are wanting this as part of their investment in themselves. Like most things in sports - 1960, 1980, 1990....pick your favorite "back in my day" and it ain't coming back.
  12. TheLeviathan
    Definitely agree about them throwing slower. But pitch to contact went out of phase across the league because hitters are big enough, strong enough, and skilled enough to overcome it. A decent chunk of the "three outcomes" baseball is due to the evolution of athletes we have today.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Rocco isn't deciding that any more than Dave Roberts is. (You know, the guys who won the WS and average less starter innings than we did in 2024) It's an organizational/health decision. One based on human anatomy and the ability to endure the current level of elite pitching. This isn't about build-up. It's not about guts or try hard. It's not about pampering and babying. It's about pitchers are throwing with more torque and force in order to get hitters out and the human body cannot endure that level of stress to the same degree. Zero major league managers have control over this paradigm shift. No one is going to allow it to change. Players don't want it. Agents don't want it. Teams don't want it. You can "Old Man Yells at Cloud" all day long and reality is still going to be there when you get back.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Look....that's what everyone does now. Pitchers overthrow and the only way to keep them even remotely healthy by the time they're a pro is to control their innings/pitch count. This isn't a Rocco/Twins thing. This is league wide as a result of a systemic training issue I'm not sure will ever change.
  15. TheLeviathan
    It's truly incredible that you can have a rotation ERA of 2.37 and be 5 games under .500. It's such a stunning indictment of how feeble our offense is.
  16. TheLeviathan
    What I'm about to say is not an "ought" claim, merely an "is": So long as this team is in sell mode, nothing significant will change. Falvey will not lose his job. If Rocco does lose his job he will be replaced in-house by someone who implements the same organizational philosophy. There is no bold organizational change on the horizon in this atmosphere. No resources will be provided. The message the fans are sending will fall on deaf ears. It's not the priority. The only thing we might get is a complete tear down in July to strip the payroll of any significant contracts.
  17. TheLeviathan
    Nope, give me the Warriors. They're struggling with the size and physicality of the Rockets and we bring it even harder. Frankly, I'm not worried about either of them, I'm already looking at the other half of the bracket. Right now, as you said, if we can hit the broad side of a barn with our distance shooting we're going to make some good teams look bad.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Four? You greedy fool!!!! Three would have us above .500 at this point!
  19. TheLeviathan
    The anti-Rocco cult is not welcoming of logic and nuance. Such thoughts are foreign and scary to them.
  20. TheLeviathan
    This is correct. Here's my spin on it: People are constantly arguing that Rocco is a robot. That all decisions are determined hours beforehand. You know what I saw? A manager who knows his team's over/under for runs scored right now is about 1.5 because he's fielding a AA lineup. So he put his best out there in hopes of giving the offense light at the end of the tunnel that if they could just get 1, they'd have a chance to pitch with the lead and win. He swung for the fences trying to give his anemic offense a chance. I'm not sure direct steroid injections would work, but he's trying.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Another one that needs to be gold plated and posted at the top of every thread. But we've played this game before: "Well intentioned" Rocco-obsessed posters: Rocco is to blame for everything! Others: Well....data says the team is league average in starter usage, data suggests that the patterns you claim to be true are false, data shows your complaints appear to have no legs. Etc. "Well intentioned" Rocco-obsessed Posters : I'm being attacked! You can't defend anything! Prove it! Others: I....just did? Here...let me try again...*repeats themselves for the eleventy millionth time* "Well intentioned" Rocco-obsessed Posters: Nuh uh! *Repeats original claims again as if the entire prior conversation didn't exist* Rinse, repeat every freaking day.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Someone put this damn post on the main page and force everyone to read it.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Turner and Gink aren't the only options for rotations. We know that Pace is a poor pass defender. We know we blitz a lot of linebackers. There is nothing stopping us, on passing downs, from having Gink, Greenard, Turner, and Cashman all on the field. He's going to get his reps and opportunities. It's the beauty of playing such a malleable defense.
  24. TheLeviathan
    He'll get on the field, I think he's due for a big year. I bet they move Gink or Greenard inside to rush more often this year.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Bringing logic to the discussion? You poor, naive summer child.....
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