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  1. TopTwinsFan
    Could the Twins win a WS with a good manager. Of course, any playoff can. But not with a historically bad manager. The worst game day manager I have ever seen in baseball. Not even close. To be clear, it would GREATLY increase their probabilty. Putting guys in situations to succeed is incredily important. Baldelli has no concept of this. AND I MEAN HE HAS NO CONCEPT. Its stunning how little he understands human emotions. His management is so bad he has sucked the life out of the team. They walk out on the field now and expect to lose. BALDIBALL. Sucks to be us.
  2. TopTwinsFan
    Being shrouded in a cloud of mystery is how accountability can be avoided in Twins management. Even Baldellis contract is a mystery. Business keeps things secret when they dont want you to know. Especially convenient when you get no sense that anyone in the Twins ownership/upper management really cares about winning.
  3. TopTwinsFan
    I will be rooting for them tonight but I love the Twins to much to watch unless they are winning big. Rocco has abused me enough for one season. I have devoted hundreds of hours in 2024 to this season. This should be the most fun part of the year. Instead its an intelligent Twins fans worst nightmare: Baldiball. Crushing your team and fans with gut wrenchingly bad decisions until watching the Twins feels like watching a car crash in slow motion. He is every bit as bad a game day coach as PJ Fleck. Maybe worse One day, probably many years from now, all we can hope for is a manager who helps us win. Rocco has become an expert at the opposite.
  4. TopTwinsFan
    Baldiball: When management gives its fans the middle finger. Come on down and watch how the worst manager in Twins history breaks your heart and your team.
  5. TopTwinsFan
    You just need to dumb yourself down a bit more and you will grow to love Baldelli.
  6. TopTwinsFan
    The only surprising thing about Baldelli is that he is still the manager of the team. What a shame that he has destroyed another baseball season. Its stunning to believe that his bosses and many on this site love him so much. Do they love Baldelli more than Twins success. I pointed out about 2 weeks ago that he had harmed the Twins beyond belief this season. Watching it play out before my eyes is disgusting. What to do when you love your team and baseball but your team has no interest in winning? Baldiball is a daily pain. I know, a lot of you love it. But for those of us who want the Twins to win, its extremely hard to swallow.
  7. TopTwinsFan
    Rocco Baldelli has ruined the Twins and the 2024 season for me.
  8. TopTwinsFan
    I remember when the Vikings had their worst coach in my lifetime, Leslie Frazier, that I was calling for a new coach towards the end of his regime and many Vikings fans felt similar to the Rocco lovers on here. Many of them would still have Frazier as the coach regardless of how the team did in the meantime And they hated me for pointing out that the franchise was being hurt by his poor coaching. The good news for the VIkes was that he was a terrible coach of a terrible team so it didnt really matter if the VIkings were 3-13 or 5-11. However, with the current baseball playoff format and fact that you just need to get in, be well managed and play well and you can win it all, we are forfeiting our chance to win a Championship with the worst Twins manager I have ever seen. And for you trolls out there, i have watched nearly every Twins game for 40 years. so I know a bad manager when I see one. I have never seen a manager comparably bad in my lifetime. Its why i started this thread. Seeing some of the Pro-Rocco side on here has also shown me how emotional engament and complicity become one thing for some fans.
  9. TopTwinsFan
    SInce i save myself the agony of watching Baldi ball tonight, i have a minute to answer: Duran has said that he prefers closing. The Twins have created a huge marketing campaign/show surrounding his closing abilities and statistically he is far superior as a closer. ERA of just over 1 as a closer. ERA of over 5 in no save roles. Jax has been the setup man and been overall very good in THAT role. So you take Ober out- stupid. Then you dont put Jax in- stupid. Then when Duran has predictibly been less sccessful than if you had put him in in the 9th to save the game- you put in Jax. Its sort of the defninition of wasting good pitching. I could type more but my fingers are getting sore.
  10. TopTwinsFan
    Its not satire and I am not a troll. I am a HUGE Twins fan. I know, its not easy to hear that the emperor has no clothes, but he doesnt. All you have to do is look to see how naked he is. Disliking me or calling me names wont make Baldelli a good manager.
  11. TopTwinsFan
    Unlike you, I think the manager is an exremely important part of the game. At least if he is truly allowed to manage, which the very carefully protected Twins front office says he is (i can only guess if thats true). A great manager can help a good or very good team, which this Twins team could be this yeare, to win a Championship. A manager with a poor skill set like Rocco can keep his team from making the playoffs or kill a playoff run before its started, or during. Great leaders make a difference. Horrendous managers make a difference.
  12. TopTwinsFan
    Maybe time to go back to the 70's and have Correa as player/manager. -Correa couldnt put together worse lineups. Guessing soon the lineups would have a regular, comfortable feel to the, not something that looks like it came out of a computer program. He is emotionally far more engaging than Rocco -The guys would play their a** off for him. -I would be shocked if he managed the bullpen as poorly (ive never seen a manager manage the starters removal and bullpen entrance/usage worse than Rocco)
  13. TopTwinsFan
    And when you do pitch like a complete Stud- Thank you Bailey Ober- you have to look over your shoulder to see if your manager will try to ruin it again. Guys like that who pitch their a** off make baseball so fun to watch. I love the individual competion. But its a team sport and the manager has a knack for hurting our team.
  14. TopTwinsFan
    Baldelli couldn't explain to the press or the fans why he made his stunningly horrendous decisions on Saturday night. Obviously. However, has he had to explain to anyone why Ober was taken out after 83 pitches or why his closer who is an excellent closer but struggles in non-close situations was brought in. When your manager makes decisions that delight the opponent, well, that Baldi ball. Some markets wouldnt stand for getting no answer to why Rocco made these choices. Why? because some fans like me who are extremly emotionally invested like to be invested for a reason. Not just a mindless member of the Twins cult. Or pretending like the last of these horrendous decisions is just around the corner as long as Rocco is still manager. Here, were just supposed to forget about it and buy tickets for tonights game. Like forced amnesia. Mark Rosen was on Common show earlier and in his gentle, easy going way said the Twins are unwatchable. i agree. Baldiball.
  15. TopTwinsFan
    The Twins are not an organization that allows much discourse. However, I remember seeing Maki beg Baldelli to take Alcala out after he had given up 3 or 4 runs. Baldelli, in his infinite lack of wisdom refused. Alcala hasnt been the same since and the Twins have only won a couple or so games since that day. We will never know how the Twins would have reacted if they had a good manager that night. Or what would have happened if we had a good manager Saturday. The Twins are still seeing the reverberations of his crushing- manager guided- loss Saturday now. And one way or another, it could reverberate through the rest of the season.
  16. TopTwinsFan
    For some reason I don't see it. Which guys?
  17. TopTwinsFan
    I'm self diagnosing: PTBD Post Traumatic Baldelli Disorder. Enjoying baseball when someone who is supposed to help your team has hurt it one too many times. I was so traumatized by what Baldelli did to my beloved team on Saturday that I haven't been able to watch since. That's a first for me. He gave me a disorder.
  18. TopTwinsFan
    If these Twins were as devoid of talent as the 90s Twins, it wouldn't matter if Rocco costs us 6 or 7 loses. It matters when you are in playoff contention. And when you are (hopefully) in the playoffs. God help us then. Trying to win despite the manager is really hard. See Saturday.
  19. TopTwinsFan
    But they won it all 100 years ago! And damn do I hope I am wrong , but Rocco will NEVER even take us to the World Series. Its also possible he ruins our season like he ruined any chance to win Saturday or in the 'Alcala game' with incompetence unmatched in my Twins lifetime in a playoff game. Look at me as your Twins angel trying to save our season while we still can. Even if this team can crawl into the playoffs after this rough Baldiball induced stretch. Can you really trust him to make the right calls when it matters most? Of course not. That being said. I have been a Twins fan for 40 years. There is no chance to they would get a new manager to save the season. There is a better chance we don't make the playoffs and Rocco returns. 😞
  20. TopTwinsFan
    I just keep fantasizing about having a good team AND a good manager. Preparing for the moment Baldellis does something you or I would never do in the 8th inning of a playoff game is no fun. We have seen his playoff managing in 2019, 2020 and last year. It was nice he didn't over manage those 2 wins he finally got us. But with the display of incompetence he has shown recently, I'm prepared for the worse.
  21. TopTwinsFan
    That was a huge moment. Another moment where Rocco's decision making defied all common sense. I'm sure some of the players went home that night wondering what he was doing. On Saturday, if you didnt know any better you would think he was trying to lose. Then he wouldn't address the media and apparently snapped at the team and blamed them when his incompetence was the shiny centerpiece of Saturday's debacle.
  22. TopTwinsFan
    No, if a team has playoff caliber talent, I want them to get the most out of it. You know like winning a world series as Kelly did- twice. Does anyone really think Baldelli is getting the most out of this club? The team holds a playoff spot despite him, not because of him.
  23. TopTwinsFan
    He's before my time, but it's fun to think of Martin in a modern clubhouse.
  24. TopTwinsFan
    Baldellis lifetime record is far superior to Kelly's. Doesn't anyone think that makes Rocco a better manager?
  25. TopTwinsFan
    The Twins were horrendous most of the nineties, but in my opinion more fun to watch. A manager who gets the most out of his players like Kelly who puts their players in a position to win and succeed is so much more fun than the opposite - Baldiball.
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