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  1. big dog
    Twins Affiliates 37, Hapless Opponents 13. Bring on the next sacrifices! I hope Ryan Eades has a good year. Free Max Murphy! (ok, maybe that's a little premature...)
  2. big dog
    StubHub has tickets for today's game for as little as $10.50. Could be a great year to get cheap seats!
  3. big dog
    Fire Gardy!!!! Fire Rick Anderson!!!! Oh wait. I thought May did a pretty good job today, but his infield and his outfield let him down. Suzuki caught most of the pitches, anyway.
  4. big dog
    Joe West. When will our national nightmare end? I would like to go see Joe West umpire in an opposing team's park, and then yell at him the whole game every time he makes a call against the home team (even if it's correct). That could give the Twins a real advantage.
  5. big dog
    Were they employees, or looters who saw you and asked for a job application?
  6. big dog
    Given the state of our staff right now, I'd rather have Milone than Fuld, too. I'd also rather have someone better than Fuld in CF. Somehow I don't see why that appears to be so hard.
  7. big dog
    It is also worse offensively, at least in this very small sample size. So I think it's worse so far than even some of the most pessimistic thought it would be. Hopefully at least the hitting turns around a little. I doubt if Hunter will get faster, and I'm starting to wonder if Arcia will get even a little better (though at least there's some possibility of that).
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    159-3

    big dog replied to DaveW's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk

    Reminiscent of last week: "The only way I got to keep those Tigers busy is to let them shoot holes in me." This week: "Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves! ... Why don't you say something righteous and beautiful for a change!" Good call, Dave. 159-3 is gone, but 158-4 remains a possibility. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyh-JpWdGmQ
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    1. I don't know what's going on with Arcia. Not a great spring training by any means (.269 OBP, .692 OPS, 13 Ks, 0 BBs, fielding that seemed to range between indifferent and bad). He needs to do something well, whether it's getting on base, slugging, or fielding. Anything. 2. I wouldn't restrict the outfield conversation to CF, seeing as how we had Nunez playing on roller skates out there yesterday again. Just befuddling. 3. Nick Burdi has 6 walks in his first 1 2/3 innings this year. I don't think his problem is that he was blocked by older relievers. Let's see if he can maybe dominate AA for a month or so before we toss him into the bigs. I bet he can, but it would be good to actually see it happen rather than assume he could and move him up first. So here's my silver lining- at least a couple of issues are sorting themselves out quickly. The outfield is even worse than we thought, so I don't see how we can just ride it out. Something will have to happen, and right now just about anything is better than status quo. And the bullpen has such clear problems that again, I don't think it will be a long wait before things change. And May is up. That is good.
  10. big dog
    So the answer to "who wins the last starter job, Pelfrey, Milone, or May?" turns out to be d. All of the above Who had that in the as the outcome in the first freaking week of the season?
  11. big dog
    Traffic isn't that bad around the Cell, although they may actually have a decent crowd today. Everything else, however, is pretty bad there.
  12. big dog
    My fearless AL Central forecast was that the Tigers would collapse. In my defense, that was based on expected injuries. They look pretty good right now, especially when you don't have (I mean "get") to face Verlander (the new version). I still think they are going to have too many people on the DL for too long. Hopefully we don't play them again until that happens. Milone v. Noesi...set your DVRs, you aren't going to want to miss one exciting moment!
  13. big dog
    Yeah- 35 years old! Got into a couple of ML games last year. I wonder how long he'll stay in the game? Gose with a gift extra-base hit there- popup that drops in between Santana, Dozier, and Shafer. All three of them were within a couple of feet of the ball.
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    Wow, I saw this and got all excited, ready to post my own theory. Turns out it's Theory #1. Scooped! Not that I believe it, but it's fun. Perhaps Dougie will land on Target Field in a black helicopter for his press conference.
  15. big dog
    Wait, we really lost that many games? Whoa, why didn't anyone mention it? The combination of negativity and sarcasm together gets particularly old. Especially when the same topics pop up repeatedly in thread after thread. There are many ways to discuss baseball and the Twins, but having someone scream "and the front office sucks", even if you are discussing the possibility of rain during a game next week or the possible signing of an international free agent or the color of the road jerseys (all hypothetical, don't search past threads in order to prove me wrong), just becomes really grating to anyone interested in anything else.
  16. big dog
    I thought they had banned chewing tobacco from the minors long ago- just during the game? Why not everywhere on the grounds?
  17. big dog
    Walter, put the piece away. Do you really think Shafer couldn't hit a Little League lefty? It's only a game, man. Don't shoot Smokey because his toe went over the line. They're calling the cops, man.
  18. big dog
    Steinbrenner hired someone described as a gambler to investigate Dave Winfield, after Winfield sued the Yankees for breach of contract. Fay Vincent wanted to suspend him for 2 years, Steinbrenner negotiated an agreement to step away from the Yankees instead. I've never been sure how much of the suspension was related to the actual investigation, vs. the use of a gambler, vs. just wanting to get rid of Steinbrenner for various reasons, but your point stands in any case. This wasn't long after he got his felony conviction, called Reggie a liar, apparently put a fake cast on his hand during the World Series and claimed two Dodger fans had attacked him, etc. So anyway, I agree with your point- if contracts are to be voided, the process needs to be extremely clear and narrowly focused.
  19. big dog
    Further proof that there was a dinner reservation...
  20. big dog
    Wait-- there's a roster full of retreads??? Why didn't anyone tell me about this before???
  21. big dog
    Glad to have back in that conversation!
  22. big dog
    Oops, I thought you meant David Ortiz, not Daniel. Daniel I have no opinion on. I couldn't believe David would try for a triple. He turns doubles into singles.
  23. big dog
    I would think that was a pretty good rule for him to live by, not just specific to any one situations.
  24. big dog
    Oh, great, we get to play the Red Sox! I think Manfred ought to be using his commissioner's powers to move 3 teams out of AZ and into FL.
  25. big dog
    Thanks a lot for this- much appreciated.
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