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  1. big dog
    Here's where the Yankees are right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoDh_gHDvkk
  2. big dog
    Mauer pre-game, ALDS Game 3, Target Field 2017. Awkward Minnesotan crowd response. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcQ1tX6V_x0
  3. big dog
    Yeah, it was worth watching the video just to see Joe with a big grin doing the most awkward man-hug I've seen in a while. Go Boys! Check out the third link in this article, the five-minute season to date retrospective. Chills, baby, chills. http://m.mlb.com/news/article/256480336/big-turnaround-leads-twins-to-wild-card/
  4. big dog
    If given the choice between a player scoring more runs and scoring fewer runs...I'm going to have to go with more runs. I didn't realize 100 runs in sequential years was that uncommon- thanks for the initial post. Kirby only topped 100 three times in his career. Harmon only twice (though he was in the high 90s a few times as well). Rod just once (with a 98 and a 97), all in many more years.
  5. big dog
    Kipnis hit that ball in the 8th and my immediate thought was "Rocket- Buxton's got it". He's unbelievable. This was one of the most exciting Twins game of my nearly 57 years, most of them slavishly watching the Twins.
  6. big dog
    Foreshadowing, the sign of a quality motion picture!
  7. big dog
    Kevin Tapani
  8. big dog
    Nice work, thanks. I was hoping for one win in New York. Now let's just win tonight. One win at a time. Oh, and I hope Yankee Stadium is condemned some time in the next week due to a massive sewer line break.
  9. big dog
    I'm starting to think the only way this team could beat the Yankees in NY is if the Yankees had to wear roller skates. Even then I'd probably bet the under. What a putrid series, even given the traditional beatings they take there. This team has outperformed expectations, not given up, keeps fighting back- but get to NY and its baby seals vs. Norwegian fur merchants once again.
  10. big dog
    OK, Kep just dropped my blood pressure 20 points. Thanks, Kid.
  11. big dog
    Yes, he's obviously bored with doing what's expected wants to see if he can just shrink that strike zone a ways. Maybe he wants a Lackey-style meltdown to tell his kids about.
  12. big dog
    I don't understand how Eddie Ro can keep making the same stupid freaking throws time after time. I blame Molitor.
  13. big dog
    Berrios has the Yankee Stadium Yips. If Ellsbury reaches back and taps giminez' glove for catcher's interference again we should just start making him dance. Ridicullous.
  14. big dog
    Berrios was trying to hit corners. Trust your stuff, dude.
  15. big dog
    That's what she said.
  16. big dog
    Man, we finally hit the ball to Sabathia and he doesn't have to move his feet or even bend all the way to the ground. Bad luck there.
  17. big dog
    OK he's safe. I still hate that.
  18. big dog
    Jorge, swing away. That is all.
  19. big dog
    Doug confirmed something I have suspected for years. My thinking was someday, potentially soon, Molitor is gone, and Doug assumes he'll be the new manager. If he doesn't get the job (and I didn't think he should or would), there's going to be bloody *$ to pay, all played out in the media and distracting everyone from the new manager. This avoids that problem, and in fact seems to provide a preview of what might have happened. I'm glad to have avoided it this way, especially given the pitch count avoidance- if that's true, it could have happened earlier. And whether his players like him or not, I don't care. Some great managers haven't been anyone's friend, some players have loved totally clueless managers. Doesn't matter.
  20. big dog
    Terrible call, but Lackey was totally out of control. You let a player rant and yell and physically confront like that for very long and then not only is it ridiculous, but then you have other players and eventually fans getting out of control. Baker let him go farther than I could imagine after the walk, and then Lackey escalated after the hit. Completely unacceptable and unsafe. Bad umpiring does not excuse players going completely nuts, or we'd have George Brett pine tar incidents every night. Lackey would probably try to beat up a robot, too.
  21. big dog
    My recollection is that he had a good hot streak, everyone got excited, and then he dropped into a chasm somewhere. It was fun while it lasted, though.
  22. big dog
    Roger Erickson, pitcher, whose biggest fan might have been Roger Erickson, WCCO announcer. Man, do I miss Boone and Erickson. 'CCO sounds like a college station now.
  23. big dog
    And my Buxton mancrush now threatens the sanctity of my married life. On a different note, all those thoughts I had about how we might be able to get Vargas in the lineup have pretty much gone away. His last home run was dismissed by my brain as meaningless, since it was the seventh of the game. He has not shined in the meaningful moments.
  24. big dog
    Bill "Soupy" Campbell. Check out this line The year, 1976. Soupy has a 17-5 record, with no games started. 20 saves. 120 ERA+. 78 appearances, 167 innings. He became a free agent after earning $25,000 in 1976. He asked Griffith for $32,000. Too much for Cal, so he went to the Red Sox (5 years, $1,000,000). One All-Star year with the same kind of now-insane workload, then blew out his arm.
  25. big dog
    Steve Braun (1971-1976) and while I'm at it, Steve Brye (1970-1977).
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