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  1. Mr. Brooks
    I'm glad someone brought up Polanco. He's certainly done enough this year to earn a mulligan from me. And there is certainly plenty of blame to go around today (Hello bats, just because you assumed the game was over when you handed Dyson a 3 run lead with 3 outs to go, doesn't mean you pack away the bats), but if Polanco wasn't afraid of getting his uniform dirty we might have held on in the 9th.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    I don't want him in the field in October either. Preventing runs matters. It's why we needed pitching at the deadline. Cruz plays the position of DH for good reason. He can pinch hit.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    I'd say a more comparable package would be: Larnach Enlow Gonsalves Cave
  4. Mr. Brooks
    Only one of their prospects was ranked in the top 100, and he was exactly #100. They slotted in at 4,12,13 and unranked in the Diamondbacks system. And one of them is out for the year with Tommy John. So, if that is really where they ranked in Houston's system, then Houston's system was awful.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    I agree. However, the domino effect was that Taylor Rogers had to be used on consecutive days, in what was once a 7 run game. Are we not worried about Rogers getting gassed? I understand that Rocco didn't plan it that way, but as we saw in the Yankees series, no lead is safe once it's turned over to the bullpen.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    I could really go for a maserattiwhich right now.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    Cruz has never played an inning at 1B. I don't think I want my team teaching a 39 year old dog new tricks during a pennant race. If our two biggest complaints are that we've made the World Series, and we have Nelson Cruz to pinch hit in a big spot, I can live with that.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    The Marlins got back the #42 prospect for Anderson, and the #59 prospect for Gallen. Assuming they'd also want position players from us, we can only top that with Lewis and Kirilloff. That's an overpay, IMO. Sometimes you just don't match up in a trade.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    Wait, you want Rocco to manage for players meaningless personal stats at the expense of winning the game?
  10. Mr. Brooks
    Well, except when they only care about the money.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    This post took...quite a turn towards the end.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    He put himself in a situation where he pretty much had to bring in Rogers. You can't blow that lead to that team. His mistake was allowing Poppen to let them within 3 runs in the first place.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    There is a difference between high prices and unreasonable prices. Again, the Twins aren't the only contender who needs impact arms. You saw the Yankees pitching staff when they were here, are you suggesting they also don't have what it takes to pull the trigger? It seems quite evident to me, that if players that every contender could use don't get moved, then the prices weren't simply high, they were unrealistic.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    No. That is way more than Houston gave up, waaaaay more.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    I mean, perhaps they were technically available. But doesn't the fact that they weren't moved imply that the prices might have been unreasonable? It's not like the Twins are the only team that could use impact arms.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    If your point is that choosing to buy more things costs more money, then technically you're right, but that seems self evident.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    Ok, but what's your point? I'm saying that's an option, if people want to pay less. I thought your point was that it's getting to be just as expensive as cable. To which I pointed out that it doesn't have to be.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    Regardless of the reason, if he wouldn't waive it, then we couldn't get him. Who knows why any particular person wouldn't want to come here. It could be one of many different reasons. I'm not sure there is any evidence that it's for a reason that the FO could have prevented.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    I don't think the Twins would be substantial underdogs against the Yankees or Sox. I think we'd be slight dogs against the Yankees and slight favorites against the Red Sox.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Do the Yankees have enough space under the luxury tax threshold to take on that contract? I know they could always change their mind, but I think they've been pretty adamant about staying under the harshest threshold.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    Yep, by rotating you can really get almost all of them for the price of one, just as long as you don't mind being behind the rest of the world when new shows hit, which doesn't bother me one bit. And it's maybe 15 minutes per month of work to add/drop them.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    Well they wouldn't have to do BOTH 1 and 2, just one or the other. But otherwise I agree, getting Grienke would have been a long shot, even without the NTC.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    Maybe not, although it doesn't take much. But I mean, that's a choice. That's an easy option if people want to save money.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    It depends. If you're not on social media, as I'm not, and are patient enough that you don't need to see a show right away, you don't need all of them at the same time. Unlike cable, there are no commitments with streaming services. So I drop them when I don't need them. Then, when I have a month's worth of shows on say HBO, I'll add that for a month, then drop it again, then pick up Hulu, then drop, etc.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    Since this post: 11 games .279/.380/.720 (1.100) 5 HR, 8 R, 13 RBI 14.0 bb%, 26.0 k%
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