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  1. big dog
    Sorry, it's a great question but I was listening to the radio in the car during the first.
  2. big dog
    Young Josmil has really flattened a couple of balls tonight.
  3. big dog
    Not if I'm in charge. I reject the question! Hah! My game plan? Pinto catching, Sano at 3rd (hey, Harmon did it), Arcia in right, Vargas at DH. Dozier, Mauer, Buxton, etc. Then I try to win games 10-6, with quality pitching doing the best it can under the circumstances and settling for some weak fielding. That would be a lot like the Twins of the late 70s, when they were not bad- hitters like Bostock, Hisle, Ward, Carew, and some fielding challenges. Ideally, we will have several pitchers at least as good as Dave Goltz. If I have to, absolutely have to trade one, I wait at least a year and see what their best possible fielding position is, and how it fits with plans. I'm not ready to give up on Pinto behind the plate, not yet by any means.
  4. big dog
    Yeah, agreed, but it's just one more stick on the enormous flaming bonfire of lost time for our top prospects. By itself, this is not a huge deal, but in combination with Sano/Buxton/Meyer/everyone else, it's just starting to get really, really old.
  5. big dog
    Yeah, and the second time was really more bad luck than a terrible idea. The overthrow hit something and bounced straight back to Konerko, hard. Dozier's made some decisions this year that were a lot worse than that one (and I'm a huge Dozier fan). He's definitely got rough edges, but he reminds me of the Twins' version of Carlos Gomez- if he can just learn to control the physical tools, he might really turn into something.
  6. big dog
    I understand why Jim Thome killed us. I understand why Frank Thomas killed us. But why does Tyler Stinkin' Flowers have to kill us???
  7. big dog
    Welcome to the Twins, Oliveros. I suppose someone's going to blame Anderson.
  8. big dog
    5 hits, 4 walks, 3 ER, yanked in the 4th and bacon saved by Swarzak. Not an impressive job.
  9. big dog
    I really hope you're right. Heaven knows we could use him.
  10. big dog
    And here comes Casey Fien. I would really like to put Oliveros in this situation, personally.
  11. big dog
    Hey look, Schafer's caught in his second rundown of the game. How many Twins have made 2 outs on the bases without attempting to steal? That's got to be a small number.
  12. big dog
    All right, whoever picked Chief in the pool for "who's the first person to quote lyrics from My Sharona", please come to the courtesy counter to collect your prize.
  13. big dog
    OK, I was going to write something funny, remembering the scandalous story about why Garcia was traded (perhaps), but I probably just shouldn't go there. Imagine it yourselves, please.
  14. big dog
    I don't see how anyone can blame Anderson for Millone's struggles. He was on the team for about 15 minutes before he threw his first pitch. How about a month's worth of food poisoning? That might work. Hey, Swarzak's out and Burton's in! Shouldn't we be evaluating some of our new relievers in pressure situations? No, I guess we'd rather use Swarzak and Burton. OK, good plan. I know Gardy likes to let new guys watch a game before they play, but several of those guys have been up before, at least two of them earlier this year. Let's start that whole evaluation thing, please.
  15. big dog
    Ode to Tommy Millone (chorus): I use the bullpen to play, Just like yesterday, Then I get on my knees and pray, We won't get fooled again.
  16. big dog
    I assume you mean the coaching staff rather than the pitching staff? I'm tired of the pitching staff (starters, anyway) AND the coaching staff. Hey look! Swarzak got rocked! Too bad there's no one left in the pen, Well, Dick, there seem to be about 15 pitchers sitting out there...
  17. big dog
    At the time, I was really surprised we got Millone for Sam Fuld. I thought Ryan had really fleeced Beane. Now...not so much. I don't want Fuld back, but maybe releasing him would have been a better idea.
  18. big dog
    OK, that's not a bad idea, but I forgot to mention that I heard all of Ed Farmer's stories five times in his first two years, and now I find him completely annoying. He's not as bad as Hawk, so your suggestion is probably the right one, but I just can't stand him. Personal bias, not rational thought. I would love to hear Steve Stone and Darin Jackson call a game, but the Powers That Be have determined that the two good broadcasters have to be split up. I don't understand Reinsdorf's perspective, that's for sure. The White Sox had a TV rating of something like 0.4 a couple of Saturdays ago, while the Cubs pulled a 2.9. And Harrelson is still the lead TV guy. I don't get it.
  19. big dog
    As an out-of-town Twins fan I watch all the games on mlb.com. Except when they play Chicago, since that's my home market. That means that I get to watch the Twins on my TV (very good, compared to my tablet), but I also have to either turn the sound off or listen to Hawk Harrelson, The Biggest Homer and Greatest Doofus of All Time. It's a tough call. Another option is to watch the TV with the sound off, and listen to Gladden on the radio via tablet, but the synchronization is never as good as it could be (plus Danny isn't exactly Vin Scully). So I reach out to you, my brethren and sistren- what is the best option? What would you do, the four of you who still follow the Twins?
  20. big dog
    My main point is that you are not the fan MLB is trying to please- you go to a ton of games, and they should send you a thank-you card. Did you go to more games because of interleague play, or did you just choose different ones? Suppose you were an Atlanta fan living in San Diego. Now the Braves visit SD fewer times because of interleague play. Would you go to more Padres games now, to see Miggy or Mike Trout, with the Braves visiting less often? I'm not saying you won't- it's all up to individual preferences. I'm just saying that I don't think it can amount to that many more tickets sold, though it might change the mix of games people choose to attend. One statistic is that attendance at interleague games is somewhat higher (though until recently they have tended to be weekend series during the summer, a big advantage). If those gains come at the expense of reduced attendance for other games, because I can only afford 5 games, can we really say that interleague games increase the interest in baseball? No. So my point is, some people like it (you, mike), some people don't, some people are indifferent. We're all entitled to our opinion. But has it improved baseball's marketing or bottom line? I don't see any evidence that it has. But then I don't think having the Yankees play the Red Sox every Sunday night makes sense either, so it's entirely possible I'm a complete outlier.
  21. big dog
    Sure, if you go to 60 or 70 home games, you'll get to see Goldschmidt. But I won't, and neither will most of the casual fans. And if you go to that many home games, you are not the one baseball is trying to attract. The odds that the D-Backs are going to be one of the 5-8 games I get to see in a year is extremely small. And interleague play cut my chances of getting to see Mike Trout in half. So I don't see how it makes the casual fan any better off. I've been to some interleague games, but they were just the games that happened to be being played the night I was available to go to a game. The Twins are the draw to me (sad as that sounds), money and time are the constraints. The likelihood that I'll make a special effort to see one player from the NL is just too small to matter. Is a casual fan going to check the schedule so they can go see the Dodgers game? It's great for Dodgers fans who live in Minnesota, but it hurts any Angels fans who live in Minnesota. To me, the best way to see if interleague games are popular is to look at TV ratings for interleague vs. non-division intra-league games. My guess is that interleague was a lot more popular the first couple of years, and now it isn't helping. I suppose walkup sales would be another way to do that since I doubt if interleague play sells any season tickets. I doubt if Bud Selig's team has really evaluated this, but perhaps they have.
  22. big dog
    I like the idea of this, but it just doesn't work out in practice for most fans. This year we got the NL West once. Suppose you have a fan who goes to 10-20 games per year. They might get to see 2 of these teams. So you are seeing 2 of the entire NL. In exchange, you only have one series with the Angels, Blue Jays, etc. And 2 of the teams we got to see were the Padres and the D-backs. No thrill there. If you go to every game, or most games, this works pretty well, or at least it will over a 3-year cycle. But if you don't go to a lot of games, you won't get to see those players anyway. To me the big problem is that baseball thrives on rivalries and on getting to know players. We play within the division a little too often for my taste, but we play the other AL teams too infrequently. Interleague play is the main cause of that. Just my personal preferences.
  23. big dog
    If I can correctly interpret what Gladden was trying to say just there, Mauer is only one double behind Rod Carew on the all-time team doubles list. That's pretty high ground.
  24. big dog
    ...Delmon Young...hee hee hee...
  25. big dog
    Tried watching the game on mlb.com but it kept freezing up. OK, that's off the theme but at least it's true.
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