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  11. knothole61
    TD, thanks again for providing a place for us to lick our wounds, vent our considerable frustrations, and also sing the praises of our favorite players. At this time of year I'm always reminded of the words of Bart Giamatti, one of the greatest champions of the greatest game we know: It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Hang in there folks, pitchers and catchers report in 134 days!
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  18. knothole61
    And it's the first day of fall...could have been worse!
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    Provus is a class act...a consummate professional who is always well prepared for his broadcasts. We are lucky to have him.
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  24. knothole61
    I'm so tired of watching Lewis flail away at everything! Something has to give here. I don't think I can stand watching another year of it. It's like Royce is a character from the movie It Happens Every Spring where chemistry professor (Ray Milland) concocts something that avoids wood and he loads baseballs up with it and strikes out every helpless batter he faces. Could that be the problem with Lewis? Maybe the commissioner's office should look into it.
  25. knothole61
    This is why baseball is still the grand old game: two outs, no one on, top of the ninth, nothing on the line but pride, and the light-hitting Caratini shoots a single to right bringing the rookie with the .140 average to the plate against the fireballer Joyce..and this time Casey doesn't strike out. What a wonderful moment for the kid, the team, and the fans. This season was a rough, but interesting, rollercoaster ride but here in the midst of a fruitless September I feel genuine hope for the future.
  26. knothole61
    D.C., Interesting takes. Of them all I think that Jenkins might take the longest to ripen. I know he has potential but he looked very lost at the plate for the most part.
  27. knothole61
    Yes, and the frustration that their fans felt at blowing a bases loaded situation in extras must make it feel even better! Sweet win...
  28. knothole61
    I'm happier losing with Shelton, though I can't say why exactly. Advancing age?
  29. knothole61
    Meanwhile, east on I-94 the Brewers are celebrating another divisional crown near the end of their latest exciting regular season. I suggest that we start poaching coaches and administrators from that organization because they have the mojo!
  30. knothole61
    Despite what has been a horrible second half collapse filled with pitching foibles, batting slumps, and injuries, the Twins' quest for playoff contention was still a very near thing as late as the past weekend. If our boys had managed to gird themselves for the Cleveland series as if it was their last best hope (which it was) and had managed to sweep the fallible Guardians we'd now find ourselves only one loss behind both Cleveland and the Rangers and two behind the Blue Jays for the last wild card spot. But I didn't' sense any urgency during this last series nor were the fans willing to come out in numbers to support a last ditch effort in beautiful weather. Even the manager, rather than let the now unreliable Ryan take another shot at competence, might have chosen to throw together a bullpen game instead of allowing, a struggling pitcher loose to give up a very predictable 4 runs in 4 innings. 20/20 hindsight? Maybe...and who am I to judge "urgency" in players? Well, as a Supreme Court justice famously said regarding pornography many years ago: I know it when I see it. And I could clearly see it in the opposition's dugout this past series. I don't believe that the Guardians have a much better team than the Twins and they are certainly not being paid as much, but they have that Je ne sais quoi that will likely find them in the playoffs with a chip, chair, and a chance while the Twins are golfing!
  31. knothole61
    Yeah, we needed to sweep Cleveland just to keep the flame of hope flickering a bit. Such a sad last few weeks-eh? I know that the offensive production has been spotty of late, but man wouldn't it be nice to have some faith in the relief staff to keep us in games after the 6th? I now agree with Ash...stick a fork in 'em!
  32. knothole61
    "...not awful but nearly needless Nance." Love it!
  33. knothole61
    Are you ready for some football?
  34. knothole61
    MM, I understand your thrust here, but what better way to get this potentially valuable kid some good experience than to play him for the remainder of what is now clearly a lost season? He really does look lost and kind of clunky at bat right now, and I fully expect a strike out or a grounder to first during his at bats. He could become a star or perhaps Wallner, but let's have fun watching him develop and hoping for the best. I don't think that St. Paul has much to offer him at this point, do you?
  35. knothole61
    LOP, you should have linked up with Kreskin to do a county fair circuit after that amazing prediction. Have you tried moving things without touching them?
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