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sat·ire | (/'sa?ti(?)r/) | noun the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, blah, blah, blah My second cousin overheard the checker at the market saying she knew someone in the Twins organization that said they were going to fire ALL of the club house attendants and two or three of the bat boys/girls as the main cause of the poor level of play. I'm glad they finally found the root of the problems.

The Star Tribune said Ryan, who said on Friday that he was sick but still hoped to pitch Saturday...... For whatever that's worth. Flu sick? Cold sick? Sick of the losing Twins?

More like this masterpiece.

A Statue of Limitations.

Isn't that a different sport? It's still a ball so maybe...

If they could get The Professor that might be good. He always knows what to do. But they'll probably get multiple clones of Gilligan and the Skipper. Oh wait. I thought you said Castaways. On the other hand maybe being on the Twins is like a being stranded on a desert island.

Clearly they can't. Plus if a "prospect" does actually become an average MLB player, let alone a great one, when they reach that point and are arbitration eligible they will be traded for more "prospects". Where is the future?

Was he losing it? Maybe they thought he's implode on the mound. Strange. I wish we could see/hear what's happening in the dugout and club house.

OK, is Ryan acting more than a little strange.

Up till now this is the only kind of Salary Cap we've seen.

Hopefully someone with better info than me will answer but the current Collective Bargaining Agreement between the MLB and the players expires at the end of 2026. I don't know what actual inside info is out there and how much is supposition but the owners have wanted a salary cap for decades. The biggest attempt was 94-95 when they locked out the players. They were not successful. The general buzz is that a lockout is a certainty. If this is where things are going it's fairly certain the owners are getting together and building a strategy. The Pohlads would certainly be a part of this. Since the Pohlads are salary averse I would think a salary cap would be less important to them but the owners may well try to implement other forms of salary control. A lot of comments I have read here talk like a lockout wouldn't be all that long but I think solidarity would be tight on both sides and both sides would be unwilling to make concessions. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

I was a kid, when Top Cat was on TV, but it's only now that I am very old I refer to TC as Top Cat. I guess that's age regression.

The proper name for bat crap is guano.

I think they make No Salt lead paint chips.

The Defence rests.

What fans?

For just awhile I looked at the handful of people behind home plate and they seemed frozen. I really thought "They've put card board cutouts out so it looks like people are there". Then they moved but for a sec I thought that was real. It may come to that.

11 - 7. A lucky score. I think we got em.

11,000 were Casper the Friendly Ghost and his friends. They're there they just don't show up on camera.

It's kind of like a gory car accident. You don't want to look, it's sickening to look, but you can't not look. It's just in this case it's every night.

I've not understood who calls what shots. To what extent are Baldelli's actions dictated by Falvey. How involved is Pohlad other than maybe dictating "Cut salary". But what you describe sounds like Falvey isn't worried about his job at all. There are grooves in my head from all the scratching.

I think it's mostly that you're a grownup now and it's really hard to "look up to" a 25-year-old when you're over 50. Definitely not that. Clearly it's easier idolize players of the past remembering mostly the good parts. I'm doing that. It's easy to forget that Tony O was laid up with knee problems repeatedly. But also he played through a lot of that. By today's standards that doesn't make sense but at the same time it was easy to admire. Back in that time the salaries were ridiculously low the owners did not have the players welfare as a priority. Players were expected to put out more. Today salaries seem ridiculously high. Players are probably seen more as financial assets than humans by the owners. Some players can sign long term high $ contracts and still perform at their top level (Judge, Ohtani) but so many struggle living up the expectations of their contracts. Not questioning the character of the players you name. Lopez is clearly a leader and has gone a long way to be a part of the community. He had a really good year in 23. He struggled since then. His maturity is evident. I admire how he can get himself in a jam and get himself out where others would fall apart. Still he was not great in 24. I often wonder what the effect of having so many "Pablo Days" has. I would think the pressure would be enormous. The way teams market the stardom or intended stardom of players can be shameful. Look at what the Twins did to hype Lewis. My comment was mostly focused on the past few years. I wasn't thinking of people like Mauer. I don't think things were great back in the day and awful now. But things are very different. Sometimes changes are both good and bad.

Social Media has probably had a negative impact on all of life. My impression from the 60s, 70s, 80s was that if there was something like George Brett hitting 400 the press would be all over him but otherwise the demands on players wasn't so great. Our expectations would have been less, more like hopes than expectations. Easier to look up to someone who has more than half his life a secret. Certainly true.

I had to look it up. According to Artie... "Dog's breakfast" is a British informal idiom referring to something that is a messy, disorganized, or poorly executed mess, or a confused mixture of things. It can describe a chaotic physical space, a badly organized project, or even a general state of disarray." The Twins certainly played like idioms. Maybe producing something more like the by-product of breakfast. Dis array of players is definitely a confused mixture that does not play as a team. More like individuals that don't have full awareness of themselves let alone that they are supposed to be a part of a unit intended to function together.

Do the dogs have to buy a ticket? Do they get a seat of their own?