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  1. knothole61
    Wow, I thought they had this. Exciting baseball again, but the Twins have too many awful arms on the roster to win in a shootout. Historical data indicates that an MLB team that scores 8 runs has an 85,6% chance of winning...but we have Cabrera as a late inning option! I hate to be an optimist in the midst of a disaster, but I do look forward to seeing Keaschall and Lee develop further next season and begin to make this their team. I also hope that the flawed owners will make some effort to assure that the Twins will be viable in '26. Now that they are no longer lame duck owners maybe they'll be interested again in improving their on-field "product." Maybe? "The hope which springs eternal in the human breast"?
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    Thanks…so pretty easy to differentiate by an ump or robo ump?
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    Great One, I like the 10 pitcher limit option! That would also open roster spots up fir more specialized utility players and maybe a speed merchant primarily for stolen base duty. Regarding the slider ban: might it lead to some consternation over whether a given pitch was actually a slider? I’ve never pitched and frankly other than a fastball, knuckler, or changeup, it’s hard for me to detect other pitches precisely. I mean, isn’t a slider very similar to a curve ball? And yes, I’d never want to move the mound back. Interesting thoughts…
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    Gasper might be a modern day Lazarus? Probably not, but you never know.
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    Yeah, what a horrible year for a guy with some really good stuff, except unfortunately between the ears at times! I’m pulling for him but he’s his own worst enemy.
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    What other game can offer the unexpected (unimaginable?) more so than baseball. Gotta love it! Mickey Mantle Gasper, who had been destroyed by MLB pitching all season (destroyed) becomes a hitting savant on 8/26/25! It may never happen again, time will tell, but those of us who have kept watching this team clop through the muck and mire of a dismal season were rewarded with the improbable Gasper bomb for the tie and the less surprising shot by Wallner that led to the win. ...just a lot of fun tonight!
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    I'd take a shot at it!
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    TO, you've caused Minnie and Paul to shed a tear or two, but I can't say that I blame you at this point. I have a feeling, however, that you will never stray too far from your first love...home is where the heart is, baby!
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    Great experience...can Target Field ever get rocking like that?
  10. knothole61
    Cubs and Brewers race is shaping up to be of some interest (potentially) these last weeks...pick one?
  11. knothole61
    Right...and I don't know why he's so irritating. He's knowledgable, and all, but his tone is kind of grating--like everything is some grand pronouncement or something, you know, like it's delivered from the mountaintop. Is that the problem? Maybe it's just me?
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    Agree...but this was a real kick in the ass tonight!
  13. knothole61
    Been there-done that with my dad. If you are a Dave you've probably done it as well...I think our name peaked sometime in the 1950s! Did you have to get up and turn the channel and adjust the rabbit ears too?
  14. knothole61
    Well put...
  15. knothole61
    That was fun. I hope this works out...fingers crossed..
  16. knothole61
    No, they are not up to the task! The salary cut following the hopeful 2023 season is all that you need to know about Pohlad priorities. I sometimes hear people say: "Look, it's their business and they have every right to make sound business decisions. They owe us nothing." And I cringe every time a "rational" apologist starts down that cut-and-dried road. You see, it's not really that simple if one cares anything about ethics and decency that is. What they "owe" us, and what every owner of a major sports team owes all of us, is to make a decent effort every season, and within reason, to win it all, even if that means a loss of profit form time to time. They owe it to the folks who bring their families to the game at the cost of 100s of dollars; to the little kids with pennants on their walls and a schedule pinned up next to the bed; to the cities and states that are proud to lend them their names; and to deeply-loyal fans, (many found on TD, myself included) who live and die a little with the team each game and each season...and on, and on, and on. To answer such devotion with disregard is an damnable offense.
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    Fight On

    knothole61 commented on jorgenswest's blog entry in Blog jorgenswest

    I'm sorry to hear about your struggle. You believe that the odds are against you, and I suppose I'm being presumptuous to say this, but with the combination of recent scientific advances (and the as yet largely untapped potential use of AI in treatments) and your own indomitable will, I fully expect you to be posting on TD in 2030 and beyond! I wish you all the best...
  18. knothole61
    It's hard to argue with you on this. I'd feel better about Wallner if he were 23...but he's not! 10 games under .500 and counting. With all of the playoff possibilities in MLB these days it's really disappointing to have lost all hope in August--or was it in July?
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    The Twins have a ton of problems but presently I'm fixated on the enigma that is Royce Lewis. How the hell did the "Grand Slam Kid" become a bottom-of-the-order disappointment in such short order? I keep waiting for him to find the magic again...and I wait, and wait, and wait. That towering 20 foot popup in crunch time last night was almost the last straw for me--he's so likable, he's so brash and enthusiastic, and for some time now he's just so bad. Last of the 8th, Lewis strides to the plate as the potential tying run, our own "Casey at the Bat." He lets a center-cut fastball fly by, then swings at a pitch out of the zone in on his hands, and then with a crushing blow he pops the ball up between the plate and the mound to end the threat. He could soon end up on the Miranda/Julien scrapheap, but we need to give him a little more time I think. Yet how much more time is reasonable?
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    S.B., that was a great and highly detailed account--thanks.
  21. knothole61
    Nice win! Paddack is an odd one...very inconsistent to be sure. In the 4 starts he's had since the trade, the Twins have handed him his lunch twice but in the other 2 starts he has a 1.54 ERA, I think they said. He still can be very good at times and I think he will help the Tigers more than he hurts them the rest of the season.
  22. knothole61
    Yeah, the first coast-to-coast tv coverage was of the Bobby Thompson “shot heard round the world” game in October, 1951.
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    Yeah, it was tough listening to that on the old RCA.
  24. knothole61
    Not only is Cochise dead, but he had lots of trouble hitting breaking stuff they say.
  25. knothole61
    Ham, you have no chance!
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