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  1. Blyleven2011
    I'm listening right now to gladden giving the lineups ... I'll be listening and maybe watching all the way to the final out tonight ... Let me tell you about the best game I ever saw as a youngster ... Doubleheader at the old met stadium , twins are playing the Oakland A's 1971 ... Twins win the first game 9-8 ... Nightcap , twins are losing 8-7 two outs bottom of tge 9th with rod carew at second base , and who is up to bat but Harmon Killebrew , who do you want up in that situation but Killebrew , Killebrew gets the pitch and the fans roars as the ball is heading for left center and looking like a homerun , Joe rudi climbs the fence and takes away a homerun with a fantastic catch , twins lose but that was the best game loss I ever seen , Why was it the best game I ever saw , Killebrew gave it his all that night and almost won the game , his all just wasn't quite enough with Joe rudi a great left fielder catching it .... Greatest loss , I tell that story alot to baseball fans .... Best win I ever seen was 1991 , game seven of the world series ... other great memories and stories and there are tons but a few here was Jim kaat hitting homeruns to win the game he pitched all nine innings , a game with Tovar and carew stealing 5 bases in 1 inning and that includes both stealing home in the same inning ... Not to be negative of today's game but that was some exciting baseball back then ...
  2. Blyleven2011
    The dog days of summer , Go get em twins ...
  3. Blyleven2011
    Oh I do listen and watch and yes I would like to get to the playoffs and play quality baseball , but I would rather have a team that is hitting on all cylinders and that hasn't been the twins way of late .... I am a loyal twins fan and don't miss alot of games , I dont like posting negative responses but the past 3 years there hasn't been alot of positive baseball from the twins organization , therefore I won't get my hopes high for a central division crown only to have those hopes come crashing down .... If they win , great and anything can happen , see 1987 twins world series winners .... I hope you can tell me at the end of tge season that I was wrong ... Go twins ...
  4. Blyleven2011
    I just can't raise my hopes only to be let down , so if they do win the division and finally win a playoff game, I will tip my hat to them ... I have been a life long fan since the old met stadium days and the last 3 years it has been a nightmare stuck on ground hog day ....
  5. Blyleven2011
    We have to get past the deadline first , Before we can talk , are the pitchers built for October ... A couple of starters could be traded at deadline for a return of prospects ... I see us seller's with no chance they can even win the division ... The hitting has not performed well enough as the pitching goes to waste .... I would rather not make the playoffs only to embarrass us once again ....
  6. Blyleven2011
    This front office has tried and tried to build the twins , they have really failed , they fix the starting rotation , but fail to fix the bullpen .... They trade a great hitter ( spark plug of the team ) and lineup falters in 2023 ... They are not good in free agency ( adding below quality arms ) because they dont want to spend big money and they haven't done to well in the trades ( some good during the off season , but most trades have been a disaster especially the deadline acquisitions ) ... We should be sellers at the deadline , the twins can't right the ship by August 1st to be contenders because they can't score runs ... Last night's allstar game the players all had fun and laughing. , something I have not seen from our club the past 3 seasons ... Yes a change is necessary , for some players but mostly the coaching philosophy on their interpretation of baseball needs to change .... TIME FOR DIFFERENT VOICES ...
  7. Blyleven2011
    Push overs usually do ambush us ...
  8. Blyleven2011
    Week in reverse ... Win 3 and lose 3 , will hover around 500 for the remainder of the season and finish below 500 and for 3 seasons in arow the window of opportunity has been wasted ... For years we have had no pitching , now we have the pitching but no hitting , hard to believe the lineup will turn it around in the second half and be contenders ... We've seen 80 plus games , they are who they are unless some changes are made in their philosophy of baseball .... I don't think the FO really has a plan anymore because the lineup definitely doesn't show like it has a plan ... Another week in reverse and more to come , a 15-2 loss going into the break just killed any momentum ....
  9. Blyleven2011
    You got to know when to trade them and know when to hold them .... This is time to sell and reset for next year ,,, This is not quality baseball and we are wasting the starters ...
  10. Blyleven2011
    This has to be the worst game of the year .... No momentum coming out of the Allstar break ... This game shows exactly what we are going to get in the second half ... Sellers at the deadline and cleveland will be 5 games up and leading the division ... I had doubt that lineup was in trouble this spring but never expected it to be this bad ,,,
  11. Blyleven2011
    I'm still listening and I don't know why ...... I'm a loyal fan but man that is getting very difficult to be ... There better draft someone today that can step right in and help ....
  12. Blyleven2011
    If the twins didn't want to play this game , they should of just forfeited this game and started their vacation ... No harmony to this team ... Not a good outcome going into Allstar break
  13. Blyleven2011
    I'm just going to wait and then bash or praise the pick ... Get it right and I agree don't get cute , we have to build our mid market team with high quality players ...
  14. Blyleven2011
    Yes it has ended similar to last year only earlier this year.... Worst plan I have ever seen , FO is trying to follow the plan like the movie moneyball and they aren't succeeding, but the aberration is they believe it IS ... WHAT A CROCK ...
  15. Blyleven2011
    In most cases for talented players you need 3 years to evaluate what kind of player he might be offensively or defensively ... With injuries of course it can take longer to know if he can fill out his projections or not ...
  16. Blyleven2011
    Atlanta's pitchers also have had time on the IL , some long , some short .... Injuries ; My impression is depression ...
  17. Blyleven2011
    Seth , Could you please state what the development list really is ? ,,,
  18. Blyleven2011
    A gem of a pitching performance , truly dominated a poor royals team ... Starting pitching is definitely our strengths this year unbelievablewe have seen 2 shutouts pitched in the same season ... Hitting still has a ways to go , we'll see how it plays out against Baltimore , we need to at least win the series at home against a better team like Baltimore ...
  19. Blyleven2011
    A gem of a pitching performance , truly dominated a poor royals team ... Starting pitching is definitely our strengths this year unbelievablewe have seen 2 shutouts pitched in the same season ... Hitting still has a ways to go , we'll see how it plays out against Baltimore , we need to at least win the series at home against a better team like Baltimore ...
  20. Blyleven2011
    to early to say on trade value ... Martin was doing well in 2021 and finished well with the twins , then the team asked him to change his style of hitting for power and he wasn't the same player he once was until later in the season he converted back to his regular style of Hitting in AA and in the AZFL , now 2022 he has had multiple injuries and his season is just beginning , yes the twins staff has been slow at finding him a position other than at shortstop ( another head scratcher from the coaching ) ... If there is blame on lack of production with Martin it is on the front office ... Pitcher SWR Richardson was the other player in the trade and was an Olympian at the time of the trade , he was in AA but did not pitch much after the trade in 2021 , 2022 he was a solid starting pitcher in AA and moved up to AAA and had a 1 solid start at the end of 2022 with the twins ... what has happened to him this year as he has regressed , is he injured , maybe ? , did he not do the proper training during the offseason to stay in shape , maybe ? , was he rushed to the major leagues or have the coaching been responsible for his ugly numbers in 2022 , could be ? .... SWR is young and there could be a future , Martin has the remainder of the season to show us his hitting style is for real and then back to the AZFL and be ready for spring training .... Wouldn't hurt if the front office paid for both players to go to DRIVELINE and get their confidence and listen to other voices of opinions , because it just might be the plan the twins have just might of screwed up their heads alittle ....
  21. Blyleven2011
    Strikeouts creates a breeze , We are stuck in the 2019 season most definitely .. Put that in the Groundhog day movie ...
  22. Blyleven2011
    I vote Brandon manager of the twins , at least he's trying something solid for two week's ...
  23. Blyleven2011
    Yes I'm excited we won and that we are 1 game over the pathetic 500 mark .... Maeda went 7 innings and 9 strikeouts ,,, that's a good game , but it's also the Kansas city royals ... Yes we got hits and homers but again it's the Kansas city royals and greinke at the end of his career ... We are supposed to beat these teams , and we do beat the Kansas city royals but we can't beat the rest of the sub 500 teams out there ... Sweep Kansas city tomorrow and win the series against Baltimore and then maybe we can relax some , but consistency is what we need ... Sure would like for the twins player's to go get a killer instinct and playball hard ... I want a 10 game winning streak or more , even several winning streaks would be nice ...
  24. Blyleven2011
    When they signed Gallo I was not sure why , they just paid off Sano to go away ... My thoughts were all Gallo is is a left handed Sano with better defense , and that still rings between the ears ... Sano has no mlb or minor league job , Gallo is lucky to be employed in mlb baseball , I would have preferred a younger player taking his roster spot ... It was a gamble and so far twins are on the losing end of it ... Gallo has never been a clutch hitter , around 200 homers with around 400 rbi's in his career is not very productive ... He does strikeout well and strikeouts must be contagious because all the hitters on the team are projected to have a career percentage of strikeouts ... Not money well spent but who knows what the second is in store for him , find a taker at the dealine and package pagan with him please ...
  25. Blyleven2011
    Correa with a 4 hit night , if he can be the spark leading off the game , so be it ... I also said the same thing about the pinch hitting , was nice to see they got 2 hits in 3ctries with a pinch hitter , Julien ignited the eighth with a blast , the ball off the bat was loud and I knew it was a homerun by the sound ... Good game , only 1 homer so the others runs came by walks , singles , doubles and some stolen bases and a uncharacteristic bunt in the eighth that scored a run , strikeouts were down so contact was made as the twins had 14 hits for their efforts ... We need games like tonight on a consistent basis , still would like a 10 game winning streak before I get to serious ...
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