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  1. BH67
    It's presumptuous to consider the future of any Twins player right now. The team may have an empty front office in a week.
  2. BH67
    I despise "the sky is falling" thinking 99% of the time. But this is now officially transitioned from slumping to cratering. The front office along with Baldelli may be gone simply due to the imagery.
  3. BH67
    Many of us (myself included) are feeding our inner Veruca Salt in the comments. I want the Twins' malaise fixed, right now, no matter how amorphous the malaise. Like snowflakes, our individual remedies are unique even if they look alike. At this stage the only path forward is triage, not utopia. It's not glittery but it's the only way to achieve a desirable end result in 2024. For now the focus is simple: get in the playoffs. We can concern ourselves with options beyond that once the focus is realized.
  4. BH67
    "MLB’s playoff format lends itself to parity, especially with more Wild Card spots. Baseball is a game of individual matchups in the context of a team sport. In other major sports, one superstar player can carry a team to postseason success. By and large, baseball doesn’t fit that mold, although it becomes a bit more plausible in a tournament setting." Yep...and the only two factors that seem to ensure a greater likelihood of success are 1) Bruce Bochy, and 2) a good bullpen with Cleveland's depth. I think that Falvine is trying to build the latter in-house, but it's taking longer than we all hope, with dire implications when plugging holes via free agency. It's a crapshoot otherwise. I note that the 1987 Twins entered the ALCS on a 5-game losing streak. Of course, they had clinched the West title before that started.
  5. BH67
    I'd take the August 15 Twins against either. Now I'm content simply if they get a dance ticket.
  6. BH67
    Take a baseball siesta. Set your alarm for March.
  7. BH67
    Does anyone think that opposing pitchers have deciphered the Twins' batting approach and pitched in a manner to negate it? Given the Twins' effort, I'm befuddled how the entire offense has evaporated and wonder if it's primarily a mechanical issue.
  8. BH67
    KC 82-74 DET 82-74 ---------- TWINS 81-74 SEA 80-75 (leading 5-4 in 7th)
  9. BH67
    I'm fine with the entire bullpen getting a rest day. 🙂 Magic numbers entering today: Detroit 7, Seattle 6. The Twins win all playoff tiebreakers against the Tigers, Mariners and Royals based on head-to-head records, astonishing as that seems.
  10. BH67
    They wouldn't watch awful, no, but they'll go all in on above average or better. See the Chargers in the Air Coryell years as an example. Historically, sport will galvanize a community in a way no other activity does. You and I have different understandings of what constitutes a lame excuse or risk aversion. I appreciate your thinking that supports your perspective, even though I disagree with it.
  11. BH67
    San Diego has an outstanding women's pro soccer team that draws excellent crowds for its sport. The Padres' other market competition, thanks to Los Angeles, is...San Diego State University athletics.
  12. BH67
    I understand differently in terms of the talent the Marlins received. I wasn't impressed that Tanner Scott is effectively a rental, either. Minnesota sports fans of a certain age (hello) remember a gambit from 1989: Mike Lynn trading twelve Vikings players and draft picks to get Herschel Walker from the Cowboys. Worked great for the Cowboys. That admittedly colors my thinking -- more extreme than what the Padres did, yes, but of similar intent.
  13. BH67
    In three years, Matthew, you will understand how much San Diego paid for this decision in terms of its future competitiveness. As for this year, I wouldn't bet on them getting past the Division Series. These Twins, of all teams, hit well off Tanner Scott in August.
  14. BH67
    So...does a gritty, absurd 12th inning win in autumn at Fenway Park result in a winning streak as absurd as the losses of the games preceding it? It has before, though we don't favorably mention its prime catalyst here. The fight is there. Proud to see it.
  15. BH67
    There's the rub: the Falvine offensive approach is not the piranha method. When players are healthy, this pays huge dividends. When not, nine players trained differently do not immediately transform into piranha.
  16. BH67
    When he wrote the allegory of the cave in The Republic nearly 2500 years ago, Plato surely never fathomed the gut punches to be experienced regularly by Minnesota sports fans. Yet his point remains true that those of us seeing only shadows of reality and not what's actually happening are insufficiently knowledgeable about the reasons. We can see the end result. However, much opinion is given here to the why. I interpret the shadows thus: Given a slump of at least a week's duration, Rocco Baldelli's Twins are rudderless, and this happened in late 2022 as well. Yet these Twins never quit trying to play their best. The Twins of the Falvine era consistently suffer injuries to key players above the number and duration experienced by other teams. Yet they are building a deep farm system that concentrates on maximizing strikeouts for pitchers and OPS for field players. The Twins have not solved their media revenue issues durably, and that will limit payroll to below what fans here seek to remain competitive. What to do given these assumptions? That's someone else's job. Go Twins, regardless.
  17. BH67
    Kudos to the Twins for spitting into the abyss tonight. Magic numbers at 8:45pm CDT Tuesday after the Twins and Rays wins: Detroit, 9. Tied with Royals in the bottom of the 8th. Seattle, 9. About to take the field at home against the Yankees. Boston, 7.
  18. BH67
    Given Falvine's atrocious record in gauging the health of pitchers in free agency before signing them, are you sure? :-) I can't surmise the answer until I know if Rocco is returning, and by extension Falvine. I don't see how the Pohlads keep Rocco if the Twins miss the playoffs.
  19. BH67
    From Nate's summary: "What is unfortunate about this game is that the loss will be pegged on López and Jax, when, in reality, they were just unable to work within margins for error left too fine by the rest of the team. It is the road to October, and when the Twins haven't been playing well as a team, it makes these moments bigger than they should be." Then why call Griffin Jax a goat in the headline? The mood around here appears to induce seppuku. Please don't exacerbate it.
  20. BH67
    How poetically fitting that the game ended with Ricky Vaughn striking out Clu Haywood. Here's hoping for "Ricky" that this enables him to turn the corner per his confidence.
  21. BH67
    Not watching TV. Did Alcalá look scared on the mound?
  22. BH67
    Here's hoping Bailey has a no-hitter going after seven. Otherwise he might get pulled...
  23. BH67
    Magic numbers vs possible wild card teams after Thursday's (9/12) games: Tigers: 12 Red Sox: 12 Mariners: 11 The Twins win all tiebreakers against the Royals, Tigers and Mariners, or any combination thereof. That may yet include the Red Sox or any combination involving them, and two wins at Fenway would ensure this.
  24. BH67
    I'm imagining the computer analysis of 1951 New York Giant fan blogs of how Willie Mays could start 1-for-26 after having a 1.300 OPS only two weeks earlier for the Millers. The angst would be overwhelming!
  25. BH67
    The seedlings eventually sprouted in the Georgia earth scorched in 1864 by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and his troops. Here's hoping that this Twins win marks a similar moment on the Twins Daily post-game comment boards. That admonishment applies as much to me as anyone else.
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