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  1. big dog
    He can thank Swarzak for saving his ERA. I watched him in the 4th and 5th, so I only saw about 50 pitches...got some swing-and-misses, but too wild.
  2. big dog
    Patterson, the Devil is in the dugout. Your deal is over. Hand over your soul. Here's your contract in Korea.
  3. big dog
    I think that's actually the grenade catching guy.
  4. big dog
    I thought Juan Uribe was done five years ago. He's still a competent ballplayer. At the major league level. Drink! My walk up music? "I've Always Been Crazy", Waylon Jennings
  5. big dog
    Adrian Gonzalez has quite the cold-weather gear on today. He looks like he just walked off the night shift on "Most Dangerous Catch".
  6. big dog
    Deduno's getting shelled too. He's not making much of a good opportunity.
  7. big dog
    Though DickBert are still trying to figure out if he caught the ball in the pocket or not. Anyway, my comment was more about replays in general. Too much like the NFL- calls you expect to see upheld, calls you thought were good overturned, neutral play-by-play people shaking their heads (ESPN, not home team callers).
  8. big dog
    No, I didn't see that game.
  9. big dog
    I was thinking that too, but he's probably running in an outfield that's basically a peat bog right now.
  10. big dog
    The justification for allowing review was that it would let them make sure they got the calls right. So far I'm not convinced. Maybe Dozier was out, but there was zero evidence that clearly showed they made the wrong call. Way too many cases when replay doesn't seem to do what we wanted it to do- overturn obvious mistakes. --this refers to today's changed call on Dozier getting doubled off, not the steal mentioned above.
  11. big dog
    Way up. When he's not up, he's missing outside.
  12. big dog
    Mike Pelfrey pitching, Drew Butera batting. Who d'ya like?
  13. big dog
    Well, some pitchers have personal catchers. Pelfrey has a personal reliever. It's innovation.
  14. big dog
    89-90 mph.
  15. big dog
    and Hicks looks at strike three down the middle. I still have hope for him, but some days are harder than others. Pelfrey's either hurt or he's done. Or both. We gotta make a move.
  16. big dog
    Crawford has to be one of the poster kids for bad FA signings. OPS of .800 or better 5 of his last 6 years with Tampa. Since then: 2011, Boston, .694 2012, Boston, .785 (31 games) 2013, LA, .736 (116 games) 2014, LA, .501 (22 games) 7 years, $142 million.
  17. big dog
    I did not object to re-signing Pelfrey. Now I want him to return the favor and resign. This isn't good, and it isn't getting better.
  18. big dog
    Drew Butera would not have thrown that ball into right field.
  19. big dog
    Stay tuned for Tripleheader Thursday!
  20. big dog
    Boras does have that track record of his clients hitting free agency, but maybe we can arrange a conversation with Alex getting life lessons from Kendrys Morales, and Stephen Drew. Take the $$!
  21. big dog
    That's fair. I agree that the money isn't a huge problem; I just don't think he's a very good bet as a reliable SS and would rather look elsewhere, ideally via trade for someone else's decent but younger SS. We have to do something before Florimon is hitting .050. I won't hold my breath until I turn blue if they sign Drew. I also won't expect anything more than a short-term stopgap. If they do sign him I will certainly hope to be wrong.
  22. big dog
    The various posters here and in other threads seem to hold one of three views: 1. The Twins are going to be historically bad and need to get rid of all veterans and build for the future (that camp seems to have diminished since spring training). 2. The Twins are going to be a decent team this year but they still need to figure out who to keep for the next couple of years. 3. The Twins are much better than expected and a quality shortstop will push them into the range of being a possible playoff contender. I think you can only justify signing Drew if you belong to group 3. He certainly doesn't fit with group 1's expectations, and if you are in group 2 you ought to be nervous about how he will be (or if he'll be a Twin) in 2015 or 2016. And if you are in group 3...well...all I can say is I hope you're right, but I'm not going to Vegas to bet on it.
  23. big dog
    Triple quadruple like. It must be a lot easier to lip-synch when you have a quarter-pound of mustache covering the bottom part of your face.
  24. big dog
    So we have "the glass is half full and rising", "at least the glass is half full" and "well, the glass isn't cracked like I thought but it ought to be really really full".
  25. big dog
    Even if all it does is get Hicks to hit home runs- great pickup!
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