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  1. Nick Gordon had two 0-4's and now hasn't played in a couple of days. Do you know if he's got anything wrong?
  2. If the autograph comes from Eddie, my guess is it will be sent Special High-Speed Delivery but end up at the wrong house. <rim shot>
  3. Best wishes to Brandon- a great story, and I wish him all the best. Here's to working hard! PS, I hope I get to see you pitch in the Series this fall.
  4. Phil Cuzzi and Paul Molitor should both be on the unemployment line tomorrow. Neither one can do his job.
  5. As the discussions about who was first kept going, I found myself more and more convinced that the right answer was "not a pitcher". I was surprised but not unhappy that they took the HS field player, who I think may not have the highest possible upside of all picks (Greene, no doubt), but also has the highest likely floor (very low chance of career-ending injury at very early age) and really good tools. Tyler Jay's injury, the latest in a long line of top pitching picks who have had similar results, just makes me more convinced. Cost savings or not, I like the pick. And I do think they saved some money by drafting a player higher than he expected and paying him less than slot, spreading it around to get more signings from better players than otherwise would have happened. Maybe it could have worked out better, but my guess is that five years from now this is going to look like the best Twins draft in quite a while.
  6. I am sick and tired of seeing Rosario throw to the wrong base, or throw to no base at all. He's made mental mistakes at least twice in the last week that have given runners a chance to move up to scoring position for absolutely no reason. He just got his second stolen base of the year last night, which puts him one ahead of Gimenez...except Rosario has been thrown out three times. I'd love to give Granite a shot. Maybe it sparks Rosario to think a little more carefully, or maybe Granite does well.
  7. Mmmm....Hamm's..... RB, that was a great explanation of South Dakota politics, where everything definitely tilts to the right- turns out it is the southeast, too.
  8. I don't know that they have the same routine, it does seem like we are hearing about more and more variations. One answer, which I don't mean to sound snarky, is that perhaps a lot of pitchers have the same routines for the same reasons a lot of players don't believe in them fancy new-fangled nerd stats.
  9. It also may have been an easy way to end the distraction of someone hanging around waiting to see what happens. I wonder if a player would prefer to be traded to a team he may not have chosen, or released to sit in limbo and hope for offers from places he'd like to be. Depends on the situation, I suppose.
  10. Perhaps it was the Babe's physical conditioning playing a part in that? I'm not sure the way things were done during Prohibition means it has to be the same way today.
  11. Isn't his routine right now being a two-way player? I guess I don't see why that would be such a huge stretch to do the same thing in the minors and try it out. Of course that might be a reflection of why my baseball career ended at 15 (actually it probably ended at 12 but it took me three years to recognize it).
  12. He is still swinging at some of the good pitches, though. I've noticed him foul off several pitches straight back. It's not just standing there with the bat on his shoulder. Much better judgement, not laying off obvious strikes but not flailing away. I like what I've been seeing.
  13. Hopefully he gets more time in the outfield than Danny Santana between now and then...
  14. So we now have as many wins as we had last year at what, Memorial Day?
  15. You know, there is both winning and losing in baseball. I prefer the winning.
  16. Buxton is so deep in center he could probably buy a hot dog.
  17. Hit a line drive to deep left field, very nice running catch. Buxton would have been standing there waiting for five seconds and caught it behind his back, though.
  18. I think Bert was joking about being on vacation, not actually suspended.
  19. Yeah, I really thought that had a chance. Even though it stayed in the ballpark it took a very good catch to turn it into an out, too. Would have been fun to watch Buxton fly from first.
  20. Buxton's pushing that OBP up. Triple Digits, Baby!
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