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Well the A's parted with AJ Cole in a 3 way deal involving Mike Morse last offseason. Not a perfect comp, Willingham has 3 years on Morse and is owed more money for a year longer, but both are similarly productive, lousy defense righthanded corner bats. Might be the Ms just wouldn't have parted with Jaso to get him and so a Hammer deal never got off the ground. Twins certainly could have sweetened the pot though, and maybe Jr just wasn't willing. Impossible to know for sure.

...and the lyrics, as run through google translate I have two loves new They are going to present She lives in new york And here I am in valledupar One day I said, good morning But I did not understand Hello .. How are you Do not know what to say But to surprise I came and told him in Wayuu I said .. (this Puntu punchua) And in the guatu cun maduwi I said .. (this Puntu punchua) And in the guatu cun maduwi And I translated the language of the Americans With a translator in google alle WHILE that the language of the Indians He gave to translate in English WHILE that the language of the Indians He gave to translate in English There, I am a little surprised And he likes to chat with me Because I trame the gringa With hablao Indians Because I trame the gringa And with the Indian I syndio And I translated the language of the Americans With a translator who is very borlaye WHILE that the language of the Indians He gave to translate in English What your name ... This is pure English urumitero brother ... Everything I said, I translated it into Spanish So much so that I even said, Come to New York I said see you in Colombia, I said see you in Colombia That is a very good land We consecrate our love, in the Cabo de la Vela And do not we chatiando all the time He tells me your music if I love Is that I have the gringa in office And I send vallenato songs Is that I have the gringa in office And I send vallenato songs And I sent one of Diomedes One of Poncho Zuleta Also one of Silvestre The gringa is very happy Also Jorge Onate And Beto Zabaleta And I translated the language of the Americans With a translator in google alle While that the language of the Indians Hu huh huh ... And I translated the language of the Americans With a translator in google alle WHILE that the language of the Indians He gave to translate in English WHILE that the language of the Indians edit: blast! trolled by musica.com http://www.musica.com/letras.asp?letra=2000887 edit2: No, no I guess I wasn't trolled. These appear to be the lyrics...

Ozzie! Waldo! La Gringa - Silvestre Dangond - YouTube edit: this is Ozzie's walkup music. La Gringa. I'm guessing, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, that that's the female for "gringo."

Interesting listening to the YES broadcast tonight. Game started and there was a real subdued, almost chilly chemistry between Ken Singleton and john Flaherty. I got the feeling they weren't used to traveling together without Michael Kay and/or Al Leiter. But in the process of routing the Twins, they've really warmed to each other!

Come on Pressly. Doesn't get any lower leverage than this.

Dazzle or Provus? Because there's sort of a gap there.

This is totally unrelated but the headline gave me a chuckle Dying Kid In Houston Holding On Until Astros Develop Player Worth Meeting | The Onion - America's Finest News Source Remember, when TWins failures get you down, there's always the Astros

Sheesh, at least give us the courtesy of grunting once in a while Robinson

Are you talking to us or did Ken Rosenthal tweet that?

I have no idea who this is. Is he older or younger than Doris Day at 93?

Well Hicks swang that time. Progress

R Erney Lee is that you?

Well at least you have that mighty 96.3 FM signal to ride with you all the way down to Richfield.

Come on Sam, you know that gatorade cooler's just asking for it

Clearly Parmelee and Hicks are jonesing for more PT

Swing the bats!

1.95m into 2 players. So the balance on their pool at this point is 300,700, correct?

Timing his comeback for the 2015 playoffs. Yankees vs. The Next Great Twins Team

ARod is officially playing baseball again.

0-2 you gotta throw those curveballs in the dirt man

Don't know if anyone else caught this. Doogy says the Twins like Hughes this offseason.

Right. http://www.operationsports.com/forums/albumpicture.php?albumid=209&pictureid=16871 courtesy of Snepp

Believe it or not Florimon's strong side is his right side. According to both coaches and his minor league stats. I'm not sure if that's a really good thing, or a really bad thing.

I assume ownership aren't frontloading contracts for 2 reason: interest lost, and the potential for a snowball effect of establishing higher baselines for payroll quicker. The inflation of player salaries is something ownership wants to forestall, not accelerate.

Burton isn't the wrong guy to be facing lefties. You look at the splits of guys who are heavily dependent on changeups and they're usually nil or slightly opposite and that includes Burton. But, Burton's not had his best stuff against righties or lefties in quite a while. I'd "demote" him to 4th or 5th inning guy until/if he can get his groove back on. edit: I'd also add, that when you can't throw your changeup in the dirt because your catcher can't block pitches worth a darn, then you are sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place.