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  1. D. Hocking
    Yes - whenever he retires there probably won't be an announcement until he cleans out his locker for the last time. They can have a Joe Mauer night at one of the home games the following season. The beginning of the year I would have liked to see him play another year or two, but after the concussion this year, I am leaning towards where I was with Justin at the end and thinking it might be better to retire now to protect the health long term. I suspect having a new baby and the girls entering the age of school age activities might also factor in to his decision.
  2. D. Hocking
    His little (and creepy) video about Mollie Tibbets' death was even more brazenly political than I would have predicted. It is a big surprise that his first tweet about an injustice in Africa was in defense of the white landowners in South Africa. I know it is a complicated issue and am assuming he studied it before replying and it was not a knee jerk reaction to hearing Tucker Carlson on a rant or knowing it is something the hard alt-right support.
  3. D. Hocking
    If I remember correctly you got a neck tattoo in honor of one of your favorite Twins at the time.
  4. D. Hocking
    I am not completely surprised that Trump does not really seem to think tax evasion is a serious issue or a crime. He probably thinks it is a right for anyone in the upper tax brackets.
  5. D. Hocking
    With the Manafort and Cohen news today, I suspect Trump might not exactly be understated, coherent, and linear at his rally in West Virginia tonight.
  6. D. Hocking
    With this game the Tigers will score enough to trigger the Twins having to bat in the 9th. If that happens I will not be here to see it.
  7. D. Hocking
    Mauer could drill a tight pass in the end zone with ease.
  8. D. Hocking
    Who do you think spent more thought on their tweet? (RIP Aretha).
  9. D. Hocking
    They are not a great team, but they did not completely implode or start phoning it in when a good portion of the team was shipped out and it was clear that management had written them off for the season. I am going to choose to believe that is a good sign of the character of some of the future building blocks of the team (I have a fairly low threshold where I lean towards being a homer).
  10. D. Hocking
    This is getting a little intense, it is like the Cola Wars of the 1980's again, but without Michael Jackson's hair catching on fire. I guess as long as it does not trigger the return of Crystal Pepsi we will be able to get through this.
  11. D. Hocking
    Isn't everything fighting words down there? http://yosemitesamquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/bugs-bunny-rides-again-300x225.jpg
  12. D. Hocking
    I think the video game issue is that people in their late 40's probably first played Atari, and everything today pales in comparison when it comes to graphics.
  13. D. Hocking
    Someone told me these new portal devices called Walkmans have better sound than my transistor radio, but I am skeptical. Can anyone confirm this?. Look at how small my radio is and I can get WCCO almost anywhere - (if the weather does not cause too much static).
  14. D. Hocking
    I am not sure if it is too young for Pokemon Go, but I hope you are not allowing your six year old to read Twins Daily.
  15. D. Hocking
    I think in a lot of ways she is like Trump - impulsive, self-serving, narcissistic, capable of lying as she is breathing, losing track of past lies, and probably not going to listen to someone who is going to tell her to show some restraint and think beyond her impulse to draw attention to herself. I don't trust anything she says. That said, nothing she has said would shock me if it was true.
  16. D. Hocking
    Of his NFL tweets, this new one might bug me more than most. He is dismissively telling these players that they do not know what they are outraged about, even though it has been explained and many of them have most likely personally experienced these issues. I hope Omarosa really does have tapes of him saying the slur that see the light of day (although I am not holding my breath), because too much of the media is still too gingerly walking around his racism when discussing him. On another note, do you think he gave Melania's parents a lecture on chain migration before their swearing in ceremony?
  17. D. Hocking
    It has often been said on this board you are a sensitive soul who cares too much.
  18. D. Hocking
    Before this season, I would have said 60 to 70 % he would be back. Now, with a new concussion, a new baby coupled with the twins approaching school age, and the Twins being a contender again kicked further down the road again, I am starting to think fitting Mauer on the team might not be an issue. I can see why Mauer's style at the plate might frustrate people. I do disagree with the argument placed that him appearing stoic on the field reflects that he is a black hole in the club house or that he does not care about the team or the game. Watch, Mauer will retire and they will end up signing some 36 year on the back end of his career because he will have a veteran presence in the clubhouse...
  19. D. Hocking
    I don't think Trump will be quiet or restrained on twitter the rest of this week.
  20. D. Hocking
    Is it a ten game stand with Kansas City? (fingers crossed).
  21. D. Hocking
    He finally is commenting on the CA fires. Notice his compassion for the dead residents and firefighters and his empathy for all of the homes completely destroyed. I am guessing his next tweet will bring up climate change and how it has been affecting these things. He must not listen to anyone at all any longer, because there used to be more attempts for him to occasionally have a tweet that showed some signs he was a human being (although they always seemed a bit generic and written by someone else).
  22. D. Hocking
    I know they are playing the Royals - so it is not a good benchmark of how they are playing - but they have not completely collapsed since the trades. If they could play semi-respectable the rest of the year and not completely mail it in after the clear message of "you don't have it" for the front office at the trade deadlines, it would at least be something to hope for that the team is not quite the negative environment that has been discussed (I have low standards for triggering hope).
  23. D. Hocking
    It seems like these never end up being that "mild". We can't even have mediocre things at this point.
  24. D. Hocking
    I was talking to a friend a couple of weeks ago, and she said while her paycheck is a little higher, it is more than offset by increased food and gas prices. My company certainly did not bump our annual raises and it was after the tax law was passed. I am not a great economics mind, but it seems like a number of mistakes that led to the housing crash ten years repeated and they removed many of the safeguards set in place after the bank bailouts. It is not like these events are in the distant past, most of these people were in power when it actually happened.
  25. D. Hocking
    I heard some clips from his campaign rally tonight (spoiler - he mainly talks about himself and how great he is and is still cannot let go of the election). I am no expert but I don't think he gets through those on just his natural adrenaline - one of the clips he was pretty slurry. He basically does the same bits for every show -- except he gets a little more manic and more disparaging to the people he felt wronged him each time (and further from any semblance of the truth). I am sure once he gets back to the plane he will be focused on how he can help people with the fires out west and the floods in the southeast, and not be watching Fox News to see how great he did. His poll numbers went up again this week, I know the economy is holding up, but it just boggles my mind how that is enough for people to ignore everything else he is doing.
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