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  1. big dog
    I wouldn't mind it if major league player salaries were cut by 20% or so. They could still get along.
  2. big dog
    Who knows? Willy wasn't much of a dh, neither was Morales. CF wasn't exactly a strength last year. It's all just guessing.
  3. big dog
    So: Mauer, Plouffe, Arcia, and Dozier have better years (Dozier's "career year" came in a pretty brief career). Vargas is better than Cola, etc. And Hicks/Shafer '15 is better than Hicks '14. And Nolasco reverts to career average. That should make some differences, too.
  4. big dog
    I'd like the "under", please.
  5. big dog
    Yup, it's a Twins Tradition.
  6. big dog
    Re the initial set of predictions: you forgot to predict the day the comet destroys Target Field.
  7. big dog
    Yeah, but almost everyone gets picked up by either the Jays or the Orioles, so no money is paid out on this bet. I thought Parm had a good chance with the Twins, but he didn't string enough good games together to stay on the field. I hope he has success with the O's. More success than Alexei Casilla, anyway. Maybe he'll follow Valencia and Hendricks and someone can hit the Orioles/Royals/Jays trifecta. Still not a lot of money there.
  8. big dog
    Wait, can a White Sox fan have a soul? Maybe the young ones, I guess.
  9. big dog
    The woman he ended up marrying was not a baseball fan, but she was a gamer. He landed on his feet.
  10. big dog
    A friend of mine took a long-time girlfriend to a doubleheader and stayed all the way through, even though the first game went 18 innings. He insisted on staying through the end of the second game. This was at Candlestick Park, a bad place to watch 27 innings of baseball in one day. She broke up with him within 48 hours. Some people wanna leave, some people don't. Good to sort that out early in a relationship.
  11. big dog
    So the Nationals gave Scherzer $30 million per year. Either a) they clearly overvalue pitching, so trading with them doesn't make sense; or they are completely nuts, in which case let's lowball them and see what happens. This could easily replace Mike Hampton as the poster for bad contracts.
  12. big dog
    Logan Darnell and Yohan Pino as well.
  13. big dog
    Can't help but reminisce about Harmon. I remember listening to the radio in 1972 when he hit #535. Herb Carneal and Halsey Hall made the call. They were really excited. One of them, Herb I think, said "And Harmon passes Jimmie Foxx!". Halsey was unusually quiet, for him, and said "I didn't think anyone would ever pass Jimmie Foxx." It was really memorable, hearing how impressed those two astonishing announcers were- made a big impact on this little kid. Foxx was the second-leading all-time home run hitter for over 20 years, until being passed by Mays, Mantle (by only two), Aaron, and then Harmon. Frank Robinson passed him the following year. Harmon was at one point fourth on the all-time board, behind only Ruth, Mays, and Aaron. I have big hopes for Sano, but passing Jimmie Foxx? We'll have to see.
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  15. big dog
    Wait- we could get Thome?
  16. big dog
    Noted. Nice narrative.
  17. big dog
    You have earned a plentitude of points for posing such a powerful, if perhaps pretentious, presumption of perspicacity. However, your masterful alliteration was mildly marred by marrying a media meatgrinder metaphor with shellshock, mostly mentioned as a military malady. Please revise this essay and resubmit if you hope to earn an A on the assignment.
  18. big dog
    I got a huge smile and a warm feeling from this- before I even saw the money. What great news.
  19. big dog
    I think his best bet to start the season in the bigs IS an injury, but to someone else. I think if the other starters are healthy they'll be up and he'll be starting at AAA.
  20. big dog
    "Plus, maybe Hicks goes on a nice roll, regains confidence in swinging from both sides and turns into an everyday player. With his patience and defensive prowess, he only needs to hit a little bit to be a valuable starter. I haven't given up on him by any means." I really hope this is true, and I believe it could happen. However, reading it reminded me of the Calvin and Hobbes strip where Suzie Derkins is sitting alone, sad, saying she wished Calvin wasn't so mean to here and she wished he would play with her. Then she made a face and said "while I'm at it, I might as well wish for a pony". Here's hoping there's a pony under the Twins' tree.
  21. big dog
    I'm personally not attacking the Sox (though the best days of summer are the days the Twins beat them). I just think that whatever they do isn't likely to work out, partly because they will probably do the opposite thing at the worst possible time. All these moves make some sense to me, more or less, and I'm impressed by what they've gotten, but I just feel confident that they will still find a way to screw it up before the season is over. It's funny, as a Twins fan living in the area for 25 years, I just don't know many people who care about the Sox. Even going to a game there I'm more likely to run into the young professionals there to drink than people who actually care about the team. The TV ratings are completely in the toilet, and this probably won't help. Despite winning the Series in the very recent past, there's just no passion. Maybe there is on the south side, but I don't get that sense. Even Chris Sale doesn't draw a big crowd. Still...Brad Penney??
  22. big dog
    Whoa! The Sox just signed Brad Penney!!! Start printing playoff tickets! As a long-time Chicago-area resident, I just don't understand them. They always seem to be fine-tuning to make sure they end up in second or third place, except when everything broke right and they won the Series. They hang on to players for puzzling reasons, they'll empty their farm system at the drop of a hat, they are always kind of old...I never feel like they know what they are doing, they just cast about for ideas. I don't think Ventura's much of a manager, but he's a Reinsdorf favorite so he's probably here for life, just like their goofball broadcasters. It feels kind of pleasantly dysfunctional, sort of like the Cubs were but without the lovable loser stuff. Perhaps their goal was to always have a better record than the Cubs. Now it might not happen, so the new plan is Buy Everyone. Including Brad Penney.
  23. big dog
    Dayton Moore trying to catch lightning in a bottle with ex-Twins? Morales, Pino- now he just has to get Valencia and Hendriks back from Toronto for another tour. Maybe Young and Casilla, too.
  24. big dog
    His hesitation is entirely understandable, I completely agree. To me, it's just a question of whether I should look for a candidate that doesn't hesitate. No reflection on Doug as a person, and maybe I'm willing to wait a year. That would depend on how the other dominoes are stacked.
  25. big dog
    Lots of people, including me, have made the decision to keep a job for family reasons rather than take a promotion or a new job elsewhere. That's a wonderful choice, but it's a choice. We also have to face that perhaps that better job isn't going to be there next time we want it. If that job happens to be one of only 30 such jobs in the world, then perhaps we'd better set our sights lower. If someone doesn't want to manage the rising studs at AA or AAA I would have to question whether they were willing to do what is necessary to succeed as a major league manager. Not a value judgement, just a concern. Players need to be hungry to succeed, so do minor league managers. Nobody's going to go from Fort Myers to Minneapolis. And if Smitih sees Fort Myers as a landing place, rather than a temporary spot, that's even less likely to be in the best interests of the organization.
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