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  1. Yeah, you can see Bell's positive interactions in the dugout, etc. He really seems to be a veteran leader, and man is he big: 6' 3" and close to 270, I think!
  2. Clemens is a gamer and a valuable, versatile player who flashed some serious leather in center at a crucial point in Sunday's game. Keep him around.
  3. Correct...my bad! I was at the January 4, 1970 game against Cleveland (W 27-7) but it was obviously the 1969 title.
  4. I like this team...20 hits on Saturday and on Sunday they start out like a typical "phone-it-in-get-away-day" loss (with Buxton waving at junk in the left-handed batter's box his first couple of at bats) only to catch fire later on and take the series. Maybe LA pours cold water on the fire, but man, it's been fun of late.
  5. I haven't seen the chicken meme in a long time...mmmmmmm!
  6. The Vikings were the 1970 NFL champions...that's something-eh?
  7. So much pain for so many years...I could have cried in '67 when the Twins lost the last two games of the season in Boston to finish one game behind them for the A.L. crown. Kitty popped something in his arm in the first game or we might have won it...and the beat goes on.
  8. I can't have many years left Apple, so please stop the on-field interviews with players during play...for the love of God please wait until I'm gone. It is ridiculous: it's distracting to the viewer who has to watch the game on split-screen and also listen to the inane concomitant banter, and it must also be distracting, to some extent, to the player himself, and for what? I suppose the idea is to interest young people in the game, you know the generation that never had to sit patiently in the backseat of a car looking out the window fashioning their own thoughts and using their own imaginations to fill the time, rather than sticking their noses in a screen or having a video playing in the Dodge Odyssey. Buy hey, there's no way you are going to entice those with short-attention spans into the love of baseball anyway--baseball is largely a slow, unfolding process that takes patience to appreciate. Please stop...
  9. Keep Ryan, he's very good, attractively quirky, and young enough to be worth his weight in gold...build a rotation around him and Lopez, if he returns to form. Ryan might even start to smile if the team keeps up its winning ways! Regarding Larnach, I've never know his hot streaks to last very long and his improved defense is still nothing to write home about. If trading Larnach can deliver a viable bullpen arm, pull the trigger and thank him for his contributions over the years.
  10. Unlike last night's sad display, Pirate Rip Sewell, the master of the Eephus, was hard to hit. The only homer he gave up with the pitch was hit by Ted Wiliams in the 1946 All-Star Game.
  11. "Happy days are here again The skies above are clear again Let us sing a song of cheer again Happy days are here again" Sorry...I just finished a documentary on FDR!
  12. The Four Hit Wonders! Nice win, and how about Morris painting the corners...dare we hope that he is closer material?
  13. No, don't trade Buxton, I'm a big fan and he may be an All-Star this year...I mean, he could have 30 homers at the break. If I were an opposing pitcher with two strikes on him, however, I'd just throw something off speed low and outside by about a foot and I'd have my K nearly every time. He's a great player and a sucker for that pitch, time, and time again!
  14. Yes, one strike away...but then he became our Babe Ruth League pitching machine! Go figure...
  15. Yeah, let Martin bat there...maybe he works a count, maybe he beats out a roller (try that with Caratini!) and maybe he gets a hit. Counting on Caratini in that situation is quite a long shot.
  16. Shave off the hair and I'm pretty sure that I shared a barracks with guy in Ft. Polk long about '72.
  17. Three possible reasons for Lewis' resurgence (so far): 1) The staff in St. Paul made some adjustments on his stance and/or swing. 2) His new eye-black pattern is more effective. 3). Having served some time in St. Paul scared him straight, and for now his head is screwed-on properly. I pick #3! As Yogi may have said long ago: "Baseball is ninety percent mental, and the other half is physical"
  18. Wow, the polar opposite of the 11-0 fiasco. This is the exciting team that we've had a few glimpses of this year! Please get these guys a somewhat reliable bullpen...is that too much to ask?
  19. Peter, can you can you summon up enough mojo (and special icons) to give the Twins a bit of a winning streak? I request that they play .700 ball for the rest of the month...see what you can do.
  20. Love Buxton...super-talented player and a future Twins' Hall of Fame inductee. But he looks like an overmatched rookie on many of his strikeouts. If pitchers conspired across MLB to refuse to throw him hittable balls I think he'd end up with 4 BB and 6 K for every 10 AB!
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