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  1. big dog
    1. I love baseball. I'm excited for the season. No matter what anyone says. Hell, I listened to most of the games back when our pitchers were people like Brad Havens, Pete Filson, and Frankie Rodriguez. You are all welcome to your own opinions, and I actually share some of them, but you can't wreck the Twins for me, no matter how hard you try. 2. I feel sorry for Pinto. And if I were pitching for the Twins, Adam Jones would have left his next at-bat to get his ribs taped up. Sorry, that's how it should work. No head-hunting, no cheap shot on the bases, no "unwritten rules", just something to think about next time you consider having a long, looping follow-through. 3. I love baseball. Go Twins!!!
  2. big dog
    Holy crap did Walker hit that ball hard. Wow. I bet it's flat on one side.
  3. big dog
    I say "metrics, shmetrics". I am really happy to have Ervin Santana on the twins. Even if the act of typing that caused him to give up his first hit- it's the fifth inning, after all.
  4. big dog
    Let's go Joe! Let's go Joe!
  5. big dog
    Wow, is this a long half-inning. Nice steal by Schafer there.
  6. big dog
    I was reading posts in sequence. I thought you meant you'd had a lot of runners. Wasn't quite sure where you were going with that.
  7. big dog
    Very nice top of the second for Ervin. Riverbrian, you should definitely get the same hair. Definitely.
  8. big dog
    The Tigers fall apart, the Royals quit overachieving, the White Sox beat themselves, the Twins surprise everyone and a meteor (or 2 Tommy Johns) hits the Cleveland pitching staff. Hey, we got a chance! I'm good with that.
  9. big dog
    Yeah, well, you know, that's just like your opinion, man. F and G. Definitely F & G. Probably the others, too, but definitely F and G. A Dude aside to angry posters: It's just a game, Walter. Put the piece away. They're calling the cops, man.
  10. big dog
    Chris "Take Me North Instead of Fryer" Hermann with the RBI single! Twins 1, Dreaded and Despised Yanquis 0! And THAT's your Circus Boy Score Update!
  11. big dog
    I thought Boyer looked pretty good last night against the Red Sox. My hope is that after 3-4 weeks, the Twins are aggressive in making any moves that seem necessary. If the bullpen's done the job and no one in the minors is lights out, fine. But if the pen is struggling, and/or a couple of the young guns are on fire, I sure hope they make changes fast. I can live through April to see how things sort out, given that there are uncertainties in the majors and the minors. But don't make me wait until June.
  12. big dog
    True, and that's one of the things about the Sux- the team always seems to be less than the sum of the individual parts.
  13. big dog
    My plan was better than giving him a single. More fun, too.
  14. big dog
    I vote for throwing one into Ortiz' armor, just to see him get mad. It's not like he can get hurt through that.
  15. big dog
    Like I said, I hate Pedroia.
  16. big dog
    And the Red Sox play another round of Green Monster Bingo! Duensing isn't fooling anyone tonight. I hope the Twins aren't too crushed about losing the Mayor's Cup. My guess is, not a problem. I forgot how much I dislike Pedroia. It's all coming back to me now. When you're done with Napoli, Chitown, you can go after him. Duensing stops halfway through his windup for a balk. I guess he didn't want to look over at the dugout and ask why he was still in the game, so he's trying other things. If Pedroia gets on Duensing might fake a heart attack.
  17. big dog
    Still thinking about going all Delilah on Napoli there?
  18. big dog
    That was a nice play by Arcia to keep that ball out of the corner. Didn't prevent Victorino from the double, but it would have made a difference on a slower runner.
  19. big dog
    So after Hunter's 410 foot double, Napoli breaks his bat on a pop-up that just barely gets over the Green Monster. That one might have gone all of, I don't know, 305?
  20. big dog
    Hunter just hit a double that went about 410 feet, bouncing on the track in front of the 420 sign for a ground-rule. I think that Ortiz single would have been an out if the Twins had been in the same exaggerated shift they usually use for him. Or if I were running, because the right fielder could have jogged in and tagged me before I got to first.
  21. big dog
    Right, when I typed "looking" I was thinking "swinging". Low pitch in the dirt. I wondered if Pedroia running on the pitch made Ortiz trigger-happy. And then I typed "looking". Thanks for the correction.
  22. big dog
    This game is part of the series to determine who wins the Mayor's Cup. Hunter made a terrible baserunning play.Not sure the third baseman applied the tag in time, but the ball beat him, it's spring training, and he deserved to be out. I thought Boyer looked pretty good. Kept the ball down, good movement. The Sox fouled off quite a few pitches, but the only two baserunners were a Santana error and a Napoli opposite-field doink. He struck Ortiz out looking.
  23. big dog
    Yeah, this is like the international signings- the union negotiates things that work out to the advantage of various groups under various scenarios. Players don't come up as soon as they might without Super 2, but some of them probably wouldn't be up until the following year if there were no Super 2 rule. Beats the crap out of the reserve clause. I don't feel too badly for the very small number of players held down a few extra weeks so that the club only has to pay them a few million dollars for one more year before they hit free agency. The vast majority of ballplayers have much bigger financial problems than that. If you want to complain about something that holds down salaries, having a draft is a good place to start. And frankly, anything that keeps a little bit of money out of Scott Boras' pocket is ok with me. Kris Bryant picked his agent, he can take the negatives as well as the positives.
  24. big dog
    It's always interesting to follow the journey and see where it goes, no doubt about it. Best of luck to Joe. In somewhat related news, the Orioles sent Parmelee to the minors.
  25. big dog
    sorry, my 7th inning stretch lasted until the 9th
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