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  1. Mr. Brooks
    I've heard Jason Kubel comps. I'm not sure if that's pre knee injury or post, but I'd take another Kubel in this lineup.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    You'd be surprised how far you can reach with the indoor HD antenna. I'm about 50 to 60 miles out and I get all the locals and I didn't even buy the one with the longest range. You just have to play around with positioning. The way I did it was run my auto scan in several different placements( to make sure you get all the channels), then through trial and error you can find a position that works for all of them- or at least the ones you watch. It took me a few days messing with it here and there. One spot I'd get all but NBC, move it a bit and get NBC but not Fox, etc. until I eventually found a spot that worked for all of them. Haven't had to touch it since. Luckily the spot that worked for me is behind the TV so I was able to tape it to the wall.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    The biggest contrast last night was our continued black hole at the PG position compared to a team that has one. Any good to elite PG's due to hit the FA market this offseason? If not we might have to move Levine or Wiggins to get one. That is a tough pill to swallow, but this team is eventually going to need one if they are ever going to be a contender. We'll be a perennial playoff team once Towns hits his peak, just like we were with KG. But, just like with KG, we'll be pretenders and not contenders until we can get our Sam Cassel.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    I think you have to be careful with any multi year deal though. I'm all for the 3 or 4 years that it will take to get Castro, but that's because I don't think Garver or Murphy project as above average starters. You might sign a guy not intending to block someone, but you can't predict future performance. What I mean is, you might sign a guy to a 3 or 4 year deal because he's not blocking anyone yet, and he's a good enough player to flip once he is blocking someone. But you could end up with a dud who is healthy enough to play, but not good enough to trade. As long as the new FO is open to dumping multi year guys when they don't work out, I'm all for it, but Ryan never was, and that is what I'd be worried about when it comes to multi year deals.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    Because Gomez has all-star ceiling. We have nothing to lose by being the team to roll the dice with him. If he starts the year hot you flip him for a B prospect plus a lotto ticket or two.I guess I don't see how more time swinging at every pitch within 2 feet of the strike zone is going to change who Rosario is. He's an asset as a 4th outfielder, we should be happy to see him in that role.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    That SLG is barely higher than the OBP so it sounds accurate to me.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    Rosario's ceiling is 4th OF'er. That OBP doesn't play everyday as a corner outfielder. The only reason he's a starter now is because we don't have better options and are a 100 loss team.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    This is just factually wrong. Dozier's second most used place in the order was cleanup- where he had higher AVG, OBP, and SLG than he did at leadoff.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    Vielma: "punchless leatherwizard"! I love that description.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    Murphy is an inch taller than Rod Carew was.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    You're right, it is just one game. Probably just frustration on my part. I might have skipped a couple steps as well. Superstar players in the NBA don't have a game like that. Not even 1 in in 82. Sometimes I forget how young these guys are. Hopefully Wiggins can take those next few steps over the next couple of years into that territory.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    Maybe too soon to say that Wiggins has taken that next step? Ouch. Also, the Wolves need to find a PG next year that is at least a token threat to score. I get there are more important factors to a good PG, but come on, the PG play this year has been awful.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    And it's not just the strikeouts. Carter put up a .364 OBP in the high minors. Walker is a touch over .300. His K rate and on base skills were simply not improving. A lot of guys around his ranking are lotto tickets, but Walker is an even bigger longshot than most.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    Yeah that is my line of thinking. I'm giving Levine the benefit of the doubt, because of what we've heard from ownership and at the introductory presser regarding his and Falvey's strong character. I'm thinking that once Plouffe didn't answer his phone, he was either going to find out via voicemail or social media. And that Levine figured it would be better he hear it from him personally, even if by voicemail, than from fans on Twitter.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    Someone said he wasn't a professional because of this. That is absolutely a judgement of his character. If the article had said he found out via social media, would you call that a BS move? Because it's possible that is exactly what would have happened had Levine left a message saying "Trevor call me back", and then was too busy making other transactions to answer Plouffe's return call right away. I just think you are ignoring that there might have been other circumstances that could make this not a BS move.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    I just find it amazing that people can make judgements on a person's character, when they've never met the person, and only have heard one side of the story, without even being willing to consider that there might be extenuating circumstances or missing information.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    So now Levine is not a professional? I figured these guys would have a short leash with some fans, but I didn't think it would be this short.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    Just out of curiosity jimmer, do your standards work both ways? If a player had an opt out and exercised it through their agent instead of calling the team directly would you be as bothered by that?
  19. Mr. Brooks
    Well if you consider a business relationship to be the same as a marriage then yeah, there is really no point in further discussion.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Sano wouldn't be the first young player to improve his defense from bad to acceptable or better. I really don't understand why you are so sure that Sano can't improve. Especially considering between injury and DH/RF its been almost 4 years since he's had a chance to get any regular reps there.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    I don't think Plouffe is still in Minnesota, the season has been over for almost 2 months now. Yeah he could have said that, but maybe he had a lot of calls to make at that time (it was a busy day for roster moves), couldn't be sure he'd be able to take Plouffe's call back, and didn't want him to find out via social media. I mean maybe he did it this way because he's an a-hole who treats people like crap, but I don't know why you would assume that to be the case when there are other possibilities. I also doubt the Pohlads would have hired someone like that.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    Well I'm guessing they didn't necessarily want to do it via voice mail, but I guess I don't understand what you expected them to do if Trevor didn't answer his phone. I would imagine they figured he'd rather hear it from a voice mail rather than find out from social media.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    Grossman gives all that OBP, plus some away in the field. In my opinion, he literally cannot be allowed to play in the field, not even for 1 game. That leaves DH. Do his hitting numbers look as pretty at DH? Do you keep him over Vargas and Park? I don't know the answers to those. But if he's allowed to see 1 more inning in the field then I've already lost faith in this FO.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    Nobody was going to pay him $8- $9 million next year, which is what he would have gotten in Arbitration. Now, any team that would have been interested can just sign him for $3- $4 million and not have to give up a prospect. Of course, we might have been able to get a C prospect if we kicked back a few million bucks.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    If you believe Palka is going to make it then Walker was never an option. This team, with so many options at 1B and corner OF and DH was never going to roster both players.
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