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  1. Mr. Brooks
    Trump told a 7 year old caller that believing in Santa at 7 is "marginal". I assumed it was going to take me to an SNL skit when I clicked the headline in my notification bar, but nope, it's real. What is the matter with this man?
  2. Mr. Brooks
    The guy who scouted Nishioka is currently suing the Twins for age discrimination.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    Same story as the last 4 weeks of Flip. The offense was downright nonexistent in the first half, save for a miracle Hail Mary that 2 Lion defenders played horribly.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    Ok, unconventional, but it works I guess we had them right where we wanted them.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    LOL. No words for this 2 minute drill.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    Last week was a fluke. This offense is awful, doesn't matter who the coordinator is. It shouldn't be, but it is.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    If the FO doesn't have short, mid, and long term financial projections, then, again, they are incompetent and we're screwed. They knew if they'd need the money or not. They could still shock the world, and sign Machado or Harper. But that's highly unlikely, and it seems like they won't come close to needing that 7.2 million dollars.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    That's true of any investment. It'd be practically impossible for them to find a bigger return on investment than they've gotten from owning the Twins.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    No. What I'm saying is the owner could have said, "I understand that you can't play Hughes any longer, he's hurting the team. But, I'll ask that you try to find a team that will give salary relief before you cut him outright." Purely blows my mind that people think that isn't plausible, based on what we know of this ownership. The salary relief that SD is paying is for the 2019 salary, not last year's. We paid his full salary last year. So it had nothing to do with flexibility for a trade, should they have gotten into contention. The savings was for this season, a season they, at this time (could change), don't appear set to spend anywhere close to the top of their budget. There is only one logical reason they would do that, and it's not to benefit them.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    A 10th round pick isn't going to get as many opportunities as the #1 pick in any organization, nor should they. Plenty of low round picks have risen to the mlb roster for this organization.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    It's fair to ask then, how Dave St. Peter still has a job if he can't even manage to outpace league revenue growth with Target Field, compared to the monstrosity that was the Metrodome.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    Daniel Murphy signs with Colorado, 2/24.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    It looks like you spelled pie in the sky wrong.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    This ownership demanded that the FO keep the manager. Yet people insist it's not plausible that they demand the FO get money back instead of outright releasing Hughes. Those two ideas aren't compatible. And once again, you didn't directly answer my question. You laid out how it could have went down, but you still don't tell me what benefit the FO gets by saving that money.
  15. Mr. Brooks
    Personally, if I have possibly the best player to ever play the game, I'm not trading him until I absolutely have to.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    The Angels were 2 games below .500 last year, with a crazy amount of injuries. They aren't that far away. Plus, Trout is such a generational player that they can wait until the last minute to trade him without losing much value. Mainly because a single team couldn't even offer fair value at this point, it's impossible, every single prospect in the best farm system isn't enough.
  17. Mr. Brooks
    I said a quarter of a million.
  18. Mr. Brooks
    Thanks for the responses bird and Brian, but neither one of you answered my question, at least not directly. Why would it benefit the FO to send good assets away to save money THEY AREN'T GOING TO SPEND, when they could have simply cut him? Either they had to, to satisfy ownership, or they are just incompetent, in which case we're in big trouble.
  19. Mr. Brooks
    I'd guess for the purposes of this article, anyone outside the top 100 has yet to break out.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    I agree. I'm not asking for him to master any level. But he's not close now. I don't care if he hits 100 HR's at AA, he's simply not an MLB caliber player until/unless he makes very dramatic improvements in k and bb rates.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    Would I need my employer's permission to push a quarter million dollar dump truck off a cliff? I mean the money is already spent, whether I destroy the dump truck or not.
  22. Mr. Brooks
    As it could have by simply cutting him. Again, what benefit does the FO get by sending SD very good assets to take on some of his contract? Neither one of us have evidence, nor will we ever, but it simply defies logic that the FO would give up good assets in order to save money that they don't get to use, unless they had to too appease ownership.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    Rooker needs to make huge strides before he's even a consideration to face MLB pitching. I don't get this idea we occasionally see on here that guys who have yet to figure out minor league pitching will somehow figure out MLB pitching (I also see it with Gordon.)
  24. Mr. Brooks
    He has to be added to the 40 man regardless of what month it is. Is there a reason why that's easier in September?
  25. Mr. Brooks
    Well they certainly don't appear to be using the salary savings. So, how does it benefit the FO to give up a pretty good asset (draft pick, PLUS draft pool money), with seemingly only any benefit to the Pohlad's pocketbook?
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