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  1. big dog
    If only...
  2. big dog
    OK, KUDOS to Danny Santana- pinch-running for Vargas, he managed to score on Eddi'es homer without getting thrown out on the bases. #babysteps
  3. big dog
    Boy, how often do you see that- a guy makes a great play to end an inning, then the team gets two outs, a different guy gets a home run, then someone gets on with an error, then the guy who made the great play hits one out? Man, that happens all the time.
  4. big dog
    Vargas with the swinging bunt, F-Rod throws it away. Probably in shock watching Vargas tear down the line. Or something.
  5. big dog
    Hah! Grossman doesn't catch Kepler's ball either!!!
  6. big dog
    Das est mein Home Run Bat!!!
  7. big dog
    Watching on desktop- great, great catch by Rosario. He tore off to deep left-center, then at the last second adjusted back, caught the ball, and hit the wall hard. Sano barely missed the pitch that he fouled off, right before he froze on strike three. Hopefuly Dozier yanks one here.
  8. big dog
    Send Verlander out there for the 9th...I dare you. I double-dog dare you.
  9. big dog
    Watching on the desktop- looked like Verlander was going to hit Ausmus if he took him out. Let's go Joe
  10. big dog
    Tigers announcers speculating that they will take Verlander out so he doesn't have to face Mauer. Long time since I heard that.
  11. big dog
    Verlander is looking very verlanderish today. Sorry to see it. Good thing Santana is matching him.
  12. big dog
    Way to go Joe!!!
  13. big dog
    One hundred big dog dollars to every player who bunts for a hit against Verlander. Of course, you can only spend them in the big dog store, which is currently closed for renovations, but still.
  14. big dog
    Well, Ozzie got his first July homer. Now 1-23 for July, with 12 K's and 0 BB. He also managed to get thrown out trying to steal a base, presumably after a fielder's choice. I feel for the guy, I really do. Maybe someday it all comes together for him. Hopefully in the National League.
  15. big dog
    Preach it, Brother!
  16. big dog
    How tall was Jonathan Swift anyway? And why is there now a HEIGHT REQUIREMENT? Man, the mods can be so demanding.
  17. big dog
    -- Are you suggesting that the Pohlads told the AL who they wanted as the Twins representative in the All-Star game???
  18. big dog
    If that is true, why do I keep running into so many terrible employees (including at my own workplace)? I agree with your sentiment, but it isn't nearly as true in business as it should be.
  19. big dog
    What I'm anxious to see, but unfortunately don't expect to see, is Polanco getting 200 at-bats in the second half.
  20. big dog
    Pointing out the value of rankings...that's a top 100 prospect who never made it above AA and has been in independent leagues since age 26. That kind of thing makes me feel even more that I probably overvalue prospects like Hu. Garza and Bartlett for Young struck me at the time as a worse decision than releasing Ortiz, and far worse than Ramos and Testa for Capps. Abad, Kintzler, etc: just flip 'em. Do it.
  21. big dog
    Agreed on Capps/Ramos. Ramos also missed most of the 2011 season and almost half of each of the two following seasons with injuries. Even if he'd been here he wouldn't have been a full-time replacement for Mauer (unless he'd stayed healthy because of clean Minnesota living or something). I hated giving up Hu, but I also wonder if I am way too high on our prospects. Having Jepsen this year pitching a little worse than last year would have been a lot better than having Jepsen the current train wreck. We could have handled a little regression. I am not so convinced that it's as much of a coaching issue as some argue. Look at Hendriks. He's been gone for 3 years. 2 of the 3, including this year, have been really bad. We haven't missed much. Manship has put together a good year and a half with Cleveland after two dreadful years with two different teams since leaving the Twins. Not exactly an instant turnaround, a painful process other teams had to live with. I'm more convinced by the argument that mid-level RPs are mainly lightning in a bottle. Don't overpay, don't sign to extensions, just keep looking. Heck, Joh Rauch had a good year and a half here.
  22. big dog
    Yeah, good point. I was just trying to clarify whether the pool under discussion were free agents, or free agents plus waiver claims. Agreed, I hope at least the RPs get traded for guys wiht a shot who don't have to be on the 40-man next year. Well, OK, I'd trade all three of them for a starting ML-average catcher, but that isn't going to happen since we no longer have Brian Duensing to include as a sweetener.
  23. big dog
    You have priority over waiver claims, but everyone has a shot at free agents, right?
  24. big dog
    No. He was the union rep, but not an all star.
  25. big dog
    Somehow it feels like Texas switched uniforms with the April-June Twins.
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