Ex-Iowegian

To me, Trade Deadline day has a little bit of the flavor of Opening Day hope springing eternal. Until it doesn’t….

Best news I’ve heard out of Minneapolis in weeks.

I’ll believe it when I see it. Merry Christmas, y’all.

I get your point, but Rooker was traded, and Bader was granted free agency. Maybe they didn’t see him as being worth the 10 plus million. To me, that is different than being dfa’d. Good things can happen, of course, but I think it’s more of an outlier when considering how many players get ‘fired’. I guess it’s about where the bar should be. The Twins haven’t been good at placing any bar, for just about any aspect of professional baseball, for an awfully long time.

Not defending Clemens by any stretch, but his stats over the entire season are right there with Wallner’s. Yet Moose gets a pass? It is baffling that a guy that was dfa’d by another team, comes here and is at or above team ‘average’ (depending on which stat is chosen). Blows my mind….

Not one of these 3 players are position players that should be starting for a perennial winning MLB team. That bar is so much higher than what this FO is capable of managing it’s laughable.

Hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del could be considered ‘picking a lane’ too, I guess. From a fan perspective, this is egregiously bad. No matter how it gets spun by the current FO. Feels more like a can just got kicked down the road so the team could be sold.

Seems legit.

Stupid is. Stupid does.

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.. Nope

Nice read. Thank you

I dunno…. “The godless Chicago White Sox” has such a nice ring to it…

Both seem to have been able to reinvent or rehab themselves on someone else’s dime. Good for them. Same as Sano. Wish them all the luck. Simple as that.

Spring training in 2004… We were sitting down the 3rd base line next to the catchers end of the bullpen. Matthew was taking the day off and playing peekaboo with a couple of young Twins fans, and then gave each of them an autograph. I caught his attention and told him that I certainly hoped that he would get the chance to go “north” with the Twins that year. In his thick southern drawl he replied “so does my wife.” Always liked the guy.