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  1. Old Twins Cap
    What other team, battling to make the playoffs, would run a Correia out there every five days and know that there is a very small chance of winning that night? It truly is pathetic. The sooner they trade him, the quicker they dump his salary. I went to the game last night not knowing who was starting and I got on the concourse just as our pitcher was warming up. I see its Correia. Groan. Even after Arcia's slam, I turn to the Brewer's fan beside me: "I guarantee you that Gardy will leave Correia in this game until he coughs up the lead." And, it didn't take long. Cross this year off the list.
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    Someone has to say it: what other team, with one of the worst starting staffs in all of MLB, would sit on a top AAA pitcher and keep him from helping improve the big league club? Why? What possible reason, once past Super Two, is May not up here? That's an unconscionable lack of "feel" for the team, the fans and the future of a franchise. Yet, with the Twins, making poor roster decisions -- this is what they do. From Bartlett, to Kubel, to Guerrier, the Twins are not trying to build a team that can compete now and in the future, but are on some weird nostalgia-driven "Lost in Space" mismanagement exercise that is not going well and will not end well.
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    Truly pathetic. Western Wisconsin, sunny day, driving around. Pretty much impossible to listen to the Twins on 96.3. Someone needs to say it: this is a weak organization. The quality of their decisions, their ability to hold people accountable for poor performance, their response to criticism -- if they didn't have a monopoly on baseball in this region, they would have been drummed out of town a long time ago. Luckily, they are the kind of team the last few years where, if you don't listen to them, you don't miss anything.
  4. Old Twins Cap
    And remember, just like last year with Robinson Cano, when he single-handedly was allowed to beat the Twins each game of a four-game series at Target Field, Gardenhire's pre-series talk with the team started with this: "We will not allow David Ortiz to beat us." And true enough, the Twins have lost only one game to David Ortiz so far.
  5. Old Twins Cap
    Didn't look like Hughes was throwing the looping curve ball in Detroit on Friday, but rather, back to the hard slide-piece as his "off-speed" offering. Either way, he is doing more with his fast ball by moving it around, in and out, up and down. Good for now, and hope he can keep it going, down.
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    Maybe he's quicker to the plate than Burton, or better able to induce ground balls. With the Twins, there's always a reason. The problem is their reasons are not always very intelligent.
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    How dumb. A 19-year-old smoked a joint. Big deal. MLB has no business, and certainly no right, to suspend a player for that level of infraction. Time to get a lawyer. Really, what harm did Rosario bring to himself, to others, or the sport of baseball? Marijuana has been proven to be less harmful than drinking alcohol! The Anti-Trust exemption is a big deal for MLB, and arbitrary rules like this that violate a person's right to work and make a living are eventually going to be weeded out (sic). By force of law if need be.
  8. Old Twins Cap
    Meyer's problem is that the Twins have 11M into Pelfrey and 5M into Correia. Why that's a problem for his Twins debut says everything about the Twins FO.
  9. Old Twins Cap
    Colabello is actually a decent 1B. And, you can't tell me Mauer would not be better than Colabello in RF. Why not put the athlete in the outfield and use Colabello at 1B? Oh wait, the Twins way.
  10. Old Twins Cap
    Snowing? Sheesh. All we got was a driving rain at 35 degrees.
  11. Old Twins Cap
    Almost a .300 OBP and he hasn't figured it out yet at the plate. I say, let him play. He's got a MLB body, arm and speed. He does look a little non-chalant on defense, and I have no idea about his desire to win. No way can Twins give up on someone that young. The league is full of players the Twins have given up on. Concern? Sure. Even Mauer merits concern. But none of this is about giving up on what amounts to a "kid" that has all the tools to be a successful player.
  12. Old Twins Cap
    Definitely needs some time at 1B to learn the position. Could have and should have saved a run the other day on a grounder with the bases loaded. As a hitter, he is what he is. Remember the Twins signed him the year after he hit 27 HRs at the Metrodome in an injury shortened season. But, it is galling to have your 3-hole hitter bunting, and a natural 1B like Colabello playing RF. Not sure there is a good answer except, once again, the Twins find a way to lose their way in fielding a decent squad.
  13. Old Twins Cap
    Beaten by Clete Thomas. Oh the indignity!
  14. Old Twins Cap
    13 pitchers, 3 catchers, seven on the field, leaves us one guy, plus Bartlett. That's the big bench that Gardy was talking about in Spring Training.
  15. Old Twins Cap
    The Twins, Gardy, Ryan, they don't have to make sense. They are a private baseball club. They answer to no one, though, in theory, fans can go to see the team or not and that provides valuable feedback. I believe they are hearing it now, but it's too late. The Bartlett and Kubel thing, someone thought that nostalgia for the glory days of recent Twins history would be a way to generate interest. The good old days when we could win a weak Central Division by pounding KC and Cleveland series after series, and then of course, get swept by the Yankees in the playoffs. That's what the FO is pining for, but, alas, so much has changed. They actually need a rotation, some hitters -- and now the other teams are not doormats anymore. The Twins business model has passed them by and there is no easy way to get back on track -- in terms of players, or payroll, or attendance, or even self-esteem. Folks, we are looking into the abyss and it is a long way down, and dark.
  16. Old Twins Cap
    I say "Good". This is what the Twins deserve. A rotten team should not be supported, and that's what we've got. Put a decent product on the field and people will come back. But, the truth is, the Twins are not capable of holding themselves accountable. Showing up is not good enough. Putting nine warm bodies on the field does not make a team. Giving Gardy two more years after an historic run of losing baseball is not the way to build excitement. I ain't going back to Target Field until there is a reason to cheer. Let the Pohlads taste the bitter dregs of "worst attendance" in baseball for a few years and see if they can tear themselves away from hedge-funding long enough to actually deal with the reality of owning a MLB franchise.
  17. Old Twins Cap
    Why should Twins pitchers be held accountable? Why? When the FO gives Gardy two more years after three 90 loss seasons? This makes no sense. The Twins have no accountability, anywhere. Not the Front Office, not the coaching staff, not the training staff, nowhere in this organization is there accountability. So to go off the rails on the starting pitching is ridiculous. Get some perspective people. This is an organization without any expectation for excellence, and no ability to ask for it. From anybody. So, sit back, and enjoy. And stop complaining! It does not help. Nothing does.
  18. Old Twins Cap
    Math aside, I would like to hear of the signature moments from Mauer's career. What did he do in a game that shows everyone what Mauer is about? Boil all the statistics down, the OBP, the WARs, the Gold Gloves, throw them all into a cauldron and somebody tell me of one thing, one moment, one game, one at bat, that is a signature Mauer moment. For me, there are two: Mauer fields a line-drive deflection off some flunky Twins pitcher, he was playing catcher, and ran up the first base line, gets the ball and then races back and dives to tag out Brett Gardner at the plate in Yankee Stadium. Not often you get that level of exertion out of Joe, but a singular play, athletic, heady and strong. The other moment was also at Yankee Stadium, in the playoffs in, what was it, 2009? Phil Cuzzi just blows a call on a ball Mauer hits down the left-field line. Not only did the ball land fair, it was deflected toward the line by Melky Cabrera (?). And the money shot is Mauer checking up at 2B and looking somewhat indifferent as he heads back to the plate. Of course, the Twins lose again in New York and end up getting swept. Mauer or no Mauer, a leadership guy has to provide something. It ain't going to be on defense anymore, so Mauer needs to do something more than pepper the LF of opposing teams with a series of bloops, flies and liners.
  19. Old Twins Cap
    I got Gardenhosed.
  20. Old Twins Cap
    Hey, I don't have a TV. At all. And, I ain't going to get one. And, I love baseball. And, I have no way to get my favorite team into my home, via MLB, or cable, or by circumventing the law. (Well, apparently, I could do that, and maybe I will, if the Twins ever get good enough.) The point is, a lot of things are changing around how people access information. I have a computer, an MLB account and I am willing to pay money. How is it that we can't find a business model where people like me get to watch my team's baseball games, I pay money, and everyone goes home happy? It's wrong, it's un-American, it's anti-market -- and it's the way it is right now. Something has got to give.
  21. Old Twins Cap
    I can appreciate the sentiment. I was warned for deriding a poster's complaints about keeping Aaron Hicks on the Twins roster as sounding "like a high school guidance counselor". That assumes there is something inherently wrong about being a high school guidance counselor, which I thought, by itself, is an act of pre-judgement by Twins Daily. And then, I was cited for "being a prat" for calling the Twins decision to keep veterans Kubel and Bartlett for nostalgic reasons -- "stupidity". Sorry for my foul language guys. The Twins are a lousy team again this year. If we aren't allowed to say that, or question the team's decisions in any meaningful way, what exact purpose does this website serve? Lighten up. I actually think this is an improvement on other Twins' sites. It's not like we are swearing or being misogynistic or racist or even off topic. I'm a senior citizen who is losing his last baseball years to ineffectual Twins management, and can't even complain about that because overzealous moderators are somehow invested in controlling what visitors say in comment threads. You don't have a great product guys, i.e. the Twins. As time goes on this year, it's going to be "beggars can't be choosers". The team is that bad and no one is facing up to it. Roll with the punches, it makes it more interesting. And everybody understands that comment threads are a random toss of humanity on a computer screen. It is not a reflection of the fine efforts of your blog team.
  22. Old Twins Cap
    If the Twins wanted to inject a new sense of optimism this year, the solution was very simple: replace Gardenhire. They did not do that, so it's same old, same old -- and we know where that leads. I'm surprised, shocked really, that all the complacency and poor results in Spring Training are never associated, in any way, with the manager. In my world, when the team looks terrible year after year, veterans underperform, rookies don't reach potential, and the team plays with no energy, heart or sense of purpose -- at that point, you go to the top of the food chain and start over. That was not done, and I think the Twins are reaping the rewards.
  23. Old Twins Cap
    Wow, great article. Nice to have the inside view of Ron Gardenhire's mind. And this: “Believe me, I love to look at numbers,” he said in his Hammond Stadium office. “I’ve always been into numbers, I go with match-ups and all these things, I also believe in a starting lineup trying to put a consistent lineup down. But I use match-ups all the time. I’ve been a little more old school as far as the lineup, one-two-three, that type of thing, they way I grew up playing ball and these things. I see a lot of different lineups nowadays and I’ve been reading into it a little bit more, talking to our people -- it can come up interesting sometimes.” I hope Twins FO looks at numbers, too. Like wins and losses. Gardenhire may not be the problem, but he is certainly not the solution.
  24. Old Twins Cap
    The Twins have an accountability problem. No question. It starts with management and keeping Ron Gardenhire despite an historically abysmal record and performance of his players. In this particular case though, I see it differently: They gave Worley multiple chances, he got shelled. They have cut him loose because he is a young man whose career is in danger of total collapse. They are doing the compassionate thing here and basically saying: "It didn't work out for you with our organization, but, for your sake, we are going to give you away for basically nothing and hope that something good comes of it for you." I kind of respect that. Go get 'em Vance. I hope you pitch against us soon.
  25. Old Twins Cap
    Colabello been flashing some leather this spring at first. And, I think Parmelee has thrown out a guy or two on the bases. Give 'em some love my friend.
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