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  1. Willihammer
    Danny Valencia
  2. Willihammer
    Coupla nice sliders that inning
  3. Willihammer
    Beaver? http://i.imgur.com/YmafwpF.jpg
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    http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/trutv.com/graphics/blog/gallery/beaver-bieber/log-bieber.jpg
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    http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/9/97/Beaver.gif
  6. Willihammer
    483 foot bomb
  7. Willihammer
    Geez, this guy curses like a sailor
  8. Willihammer
    Great minds think alike? Or low hanging fruit...
  9. Willihammer
    Goddoumit
  10. Willihammer
    Alright, Gibbsie, 2nd time through the order. She us some 2ndary stuff
  11. Willihammer
    That was a heck of a grab.
  12. Willihammer
    I imagine it looks something like this: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JerhXKvlGLU/T2oHdemueiI/AAAAAAAAD3U/Gy-iJEtUI94/s1600/Elaine_benes_dancing.gif
  13. Willihammer
    Morneau's feet go one way but his hips go the other. Ugly, ugly swings.
  14. Willihammer
    That's a HR! Edit: or not
  15. Willihammer
    That umpire has taken it in both groins today
  16. Willihammer
    I got your mascot right here: http://www.andreaeurope.com/fotos/Black-Hawk-Toy-Soldier/detallegran/BH0118-1.jpg http://www.tedtoy.com/images/BH-0109.jpg
  17. Willihammer
    I agree with you 100% Dark. Pelfrey is a surer bet to shore up the back of the rotation than Deduno I think, as much as I've enjoyed watching Deduno turns things around this year. But Pelfrey's put together 200+ IP seasons before and if he keeps up the pace I think he could do it again next year. His velocity is almost all the way back now. He's throwing good games. Elbow looks fine to me. That still leaves 4 spots though. I'd like to see them make 3 additional marquee type signings. I'd love to see Kuroda on a 1 year deal, which could happen if the Yankees continue to tail off, and then 2 of Johnson / Lincecum / someone else in that tier, to round out the rotation. And then let Meyer / May / Albers fight it out for the 5th spot.
  18. Willihammer
    Deduno looks confident out there. His little 89 mph fastball seems to move like Felix's changeup sometimes.
  19. Willihammer
    I don't know whose broadcasting this game but its not the ROOT guys. I do like the Root team though.
  20. Willihammer
    Awww, Hicksie.
  21. Willihammer
    Hicksie missed a haranger
  22. Willihammer
    Ironically the whole reason Erickson was complaining was because the FO was pinching pennies.
  23. Willihammer
    How big of a leashe do you give Diamond, if you're at even a tiny bit serious about winning this game?
  24. Willihammer
    What is that I dont' even - regular tennis isn't hard enough for you? You have to add more running to it?
  25. Willihammer
    I should have anticipated the semantics. I don't particularly care they get anyone who hails from Latin America per se. My main concern is that the next manager is fluent in both languages though, in order to be able to get through to players 100% of the time. I think that should be considered a key qualification, as it is in plenty of other jobs where you have staff dealing with people who don't speak English well. It just so happens that nearly 100% of these guys in the baseball world also happen to be of Latin American decent. I'd add, in my personal experience the cutoff with immigrants who are able to assimilate easily to English happens to be right about age 16, or just before many of these Latin American kids we drafted would be getting here. You can look at a guy like Tony Oliva, who after what, 60 years in the country, still can't seem to speak English worth a darn because he didn't get here till he was about 20 or so. The Twins might want these kids to assimilate, but there is only so much they are going to be able to do in 3-5 years of minor league ball. At some point it may be more pragmatic to just get a bilingual coach for the big league club at least, so that they can shortcut to the native language when necessarily, particularly when you're dealing with the sort of egos all our top Latin players appear to have.
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