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I mean. It does feel like this team has been wandering in a desert for 40 years. Wait, wrong book, that's Exodus, not Genesis.

I would have said the Replacements, but that gives a feel-good connotation when the Hollywood story suggests that they learn to play and gel as a team and eventually get to a winning form. I don't see any Hollywood ending in this story.

Someone please explain to me why Clemens is positioned so far inside the RF wall. We always hear about the famous short porch of Yankee Stadium's RF. You would think that they would position their fielder a little bit farther back so those balls don't go over his head.

I wish I would have been. It would have been a great thread to contribute for tomorrow. Alas, as much as I am willing to endure watching this game until the end. I'm not rewatching it in order to record all of the great Morneau observations espoused during the game.

He possesses those skills? Your observation skills are right up there with Justin Morneau. 😉

Morneau: "The Twins have gone after it the last couple of years." The rest of us with eyeballs: Justin, go back to making maple syrup or vodka or whatever retirement business you do, because the power of observation is not in the cards for you.

I'm sure there is a Canadian joke waiting to be unleashed here........

Pre-deadline: this pitcher would have been out an inning ago when it looked like he was getting fatigued. Post-deadline: leave him out there to die. he'll sink or swim.

It all just looks tepid. Like the team as just given up and waiting to leave NY. Every other team, being down 5-1, you could look at say there could be some fight and come back in this team. Not when playing NY.

I wouldn't bring Pablo back unless you're showcasing him for a potential offseason trade. Why risk another injury for a 90 loss team?

C'Mon Jazz. Please steal home. I want Gasper to look befuddled when you land in his lap.

So am I. But it is reassuring to hear it from someone who doesn't follow the team and asks why we are crazy.

I agree. I don't see the Yankees as a playoff team. They seem to be closer to the 2024 version of the Twins. Hot start and a slow decent into madness.

Seems sad, but accurate, when even the NY Post writes a story suggesting that the Twins are the fix on what is ailing the Yankees. Yankees' woes disappear as they top Twins for much-needed win

We are seeing in real time what the pitching "pipeline" has produced. A slew of pitchers who don't have the stamina to get through five innings. This includes Adams, Ohl, Raya, Prielipp, SWR, Festa. We at least now know that the piggy backing pitcher experiment is failing. Snark comment #1: Can we trade Julien to the Winnipeg Goldeyes for a container full of walleyes? Snark comment #2: I almost believe that the Yankees AAA team (Scranton/Wilkes-Barre) could beat the Twins at Yankee Stadium.

I understand that this isn't a satire column, but I would have given the award to the wet paper sack. The Twins certainly couldn't hit out of one this past month.

I watched a couple innings of the game today on Roku and it looked like he had really good movement at 3b making one good play where he charged in on the ball. His power arm will definitely be an asset over at the hot corner.

FWIW, Correa went 3-12 over the weekend in Boston with a HR and 3 runs scored. I haven't been able to see whether he is running out at bats or not, but I could see an uptick in production. It seems like he was trying to manage his body in MN at the cost of offense and the immediate shift to 3rd has done wonders for him.

I was actually semi-hoping that Urena would hit Ramirez in the pocket. Not that I want anyone hurt. I just want some excitement in this game and plunking someone would certainly help that.

This loss should be directly laid on Rocco and the coaching staff as well as the FO. Definitely an execution problem early when they couldn't get Clemens in from 3rd with nobody out. Even that I put on the fault of Baldelli and the coaches for not having the players prepared to actually execute a small-ball strategy. We all noted how well Cleveland executed their opportunity in the latter half of the inning. I kept watching Ohl and it appeared he stayed in one inning too long. I was hoping he would complete his duty, which was one trip through the order, which he did. Just two outs short of finishing the 8th inning. Ohl did his job. This is one of the few cases where Rocco needed a quicker hook to prevent damage. I would have liked to see Austin Martin actually PH in the top of the 9th instead of being the PR. Rocco suddenly goes off-script again and attempts to make Keirsey Jr bunt the runner over. After the entire season of not prioritizing or using the bunt, you decide to use it here!?!? Yes, it made sense, but, no, you failed your players in preparing them for the situation. As other commenters have suggested, this is a failure all the way up the developmental process where they focus on hitting with spreadsheets in their eyes rather than watch the game situations. Speaking of spreadsheets, maybe in all of the fire sale chaos, the Pohlads didn't renew Rocco's Microsoft 360 (and Excel spreadsheet) subscription and didn't have everything moved over to a lower form of Google Docs at the time of this game. I'm sure that Julien will get some sort of extended run, but I think I've seen enough of him. His poor defense and even worse offense are just becoming a dark hole in the lineup. His 9th inning hit that he barely ran out of the box for kept him from reaching 3rd and forced another bad move in having Martin pinch-run vs pinch hit and may have given us a better chance to at least tie the game. Rocco & Co will need to take a more hands-on approach as there's hardly anybody left among the players to help guide the younger players like he has been depending on ever since he was hired in 2019. I don't see him up to the task and it doesn't seem that he reprimands players at all, doesn't force them to have fundamental drills like bunting, PFP, base running, etc.

You forgot to include that they rehomed TC Bear to an undisclosed location to keep those pesky insider sources from leaking out and King Emperor Falvey won't have to answer so many questions.

When I heard of the quote about Correa wanting to transition to 3rd base, it made a lot of sense since we can see that his range has been declining and it probably doesn't put as much stress on his feet as short would. The FO had an entire offseason to work it out and shift Lewis to 2nd base or 1st base and have Lee play short. Whatever issues you would have had with Lee at short, working with Correa on footwork, mechanics, and ball placement would have done Lee wonders. In the end, we still have Lee at short, just without the training or insight from Correa while he was still with the team. I honestly do believe that Correa wanted to build a winner in Minnesota. I think he, like the rest of us, got a slap in the face in learning what "competing" means to the Pohlads in late 2023 and has likely been looking for a way out ever since. I do think we will see a Correa resurgence back in Houston and that if they were going to go full rebuild, then Correa had to go somehow and I'm fine with Correa leaving. I'm curious what your opinion was on the Rafael Devers situation. Devers was originally told he would be a permanent DH, then told he needs a 1B glove and to get out there and play. In today's age of advanced metrics where WAR, OAA, and DRS are being used to value a player as well as SDI, which is used to help determine Gold Glove winners (and potential bonuses). I too would be concerned that switching positions so quickly would hurt my value, especially in a player like Lewis, who will be going through the arbitration years and everything that can be used to hurt a player's chances at arbitration can and will be used against them. Very few people are like Cuddyer, Punto, or Astudillo that just says "F it, give me a glove and I'll figure it out".

Cory Provus does a weekly chat with Dom Izzo on WDAY in Fargo. When Izzo asks for Cory's reaction, you can hear in Cory's voice that he is just as stunned and surprised as we all were. Although I believe that Cory is a consummate professional, it sounds like he really does get to know the players and even a little bit of a fan himself on wondering what the hell just happened.

"Joe Ryan appeared disinterested initially." - This makes sense for a player who is likely confused why he is still in Minnesota when everyone else of any intrinsic value to another organization was traded off in the last 48 hours.

In a related move, I heard they were able to rehome TC Bear to the Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot, ND as a way to keep him quiet and to stop the leaks coming out of 1 Twins Way.