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  1. big dog
    I would say that Gibson's pitching ability has not yet caught up to the quality of his pitches.
  2. big dog
    Yeah, I'm thinking Mrs. Gibby believes that in spades.
  3. big dog
    Oh, you've got that cookbook too?
  4. big dog
    Deep, dark depression. Excessive misery.
  5. big dog
    The correct phrase is "Hey Grampaw, what's for supper?" The number to call is BR-549.
  6. big dog
    Chief, please discuss how I have zero chance to ever win a lottery and I might as well quit trying.
  7. big dog
    Friday night's Reverse Jinx against Colabello will go down as one of the top 3 reverse jinxes in all of history. I believe he's 4-5 with 2 HRs since then.
  8. big dog
    So Maddie's the MVP of the twins, but Deduno is the MVP of the Twins.
  9. big dog
    Now that you mention it, who else is there? Nothing against Mauer, who probably deserves it the most, but SamWell could lead the team in wins, era, whip, and BA against. What do you suppose the Vegas line would have been for that back in December? Perkins would have a claim, too, but I'll take a very good starter over a great closer.
  10. big dog
    I'm certainly not opposed to trading veterans for highly ranked prospects. But being in a team's top 10 doesn't necessarily make you a good prospect- think about who was in the Twins' top 10 a few years ago. Matt Moses...Adam Johnson... The reporter asked Ryan for a retrospective look at his best trades. In retrospect, we got nothing. They may have seemed like a good bet at the time, but they certainly didn't work out. Not one. When we traded Aguilera the second time, we got Lohse. That's a vastly better trade than any of these (even if I do risk hurting Coomer's feelings). Saving the Pohlads money has never been a high priority of mine. I don't blame them for wanting more, but I really don't see cutting payroll as a benefit to the team itself unless the money is spent to improve somewhere else on the field. And it didn't keep Carl from offering to contract the team a few years later.
  11. big dog
    Those were dark days, no question about it. I was stunned when Guthrie was more or less thrown in with Tapani and sent to the Dodgers for practically nothing. Losing both in the same trade felt like just firing the pitching staff and completely giving up. When he first came up as a starter, I thought Guthrie was going to be a very good pitcher- I loved his stuff. He never became what I hoped for, but he was definitely a valuable major league pitcher, before and after the trade.
  12. big dog
    That's basically what I remember, although I think the gist of it was that he thought they ought to be spending as much as the Yankees/Dodgers/etc- his scale did seem a little off. Going to the WS as a rookie can skew expectations, I guess.
  13. big dog
    Another significant problem was that Erickson was really complaining. Decent track record (high ceiling, high variability), but pitching poorly, paid well, and carping. I remember at the time thinking he had to go just to help the rest of the team concentrate on baseball. Still, to claim that's your best trade? It's kind of like saying you had that used car that had been on the lot for years, people thought you would have to junk it, but you persuaded someone to give you $500 instead. I suppose you could say it was personally satisfying, but I don't really see how it helped the team other than addition by subtraction. That was a ridiculously discouraging set of trades. Aggie made 30 appearances with Boston and was 20/21 in save opportunities- of course, people thought Frankie Rodriguez was actually a real pitcher. Oops. Tapani still had some gas in the tank, too.
  14. big dog
    Hey, where's everybody going? I thought maybe we could go out and have a couple beers. Hey- oh well good night.
  15. big dog
    Jeez I love baseball.
  16. big dog
    Or as Bert would say, what a great trip to the mound by the pitching coach. Holy *$&$%^ what a play by Florimon!!!
  17. big dog
    A double play would be nice here. Hint, hint. edit- holy crap, that NEVER works! Sweet!
  18. big dog
    It reminded me of something my coach would say when I made a good defensive play: even a blind dog finds a bone once in a while.
  19. big dog
    I guess I picked the wrong game to quit sniffing glue.
  20. big dog
    Chris Freaking Colabello!!!!!
  21. big dog
    The Twins pitching staff tonight has not sucked even a little bit.
  22. big dog
    This has been a pretty quick game- 3.5 hours in and we've played 11 1/2 innings. But it still feels like 3 am inside my head.
  23. big dog
    Yeah, he's giving up a quarter-million dollars in game checks to hang with Maddie and the babbettes for a few extra days. He gets 3 days via MLB, but wants 3 more (missing 2 games). The paper says the Twins are supportive. I assume they mean the club rather than the kids.
  24. big dog
    Smalley just said one of the dumbest things he's said, a high bar. I would summarize it here, but you would all hate me.
  25. big dog
    I gotta ask- what's the cat doing?
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