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  1. The Great Hambino
    Not a good sign when over half your lineup has an OPS under .666
  2. The Great Hambino
    They must be on metric time
  3. The Great Hambino
    I don't put as much weight on that as others. Teams across all sport seem to avoid letting a coach's contract expire, and when they do it seems to be more related to a contract negotiation. For better or worse, they don't seem to like having a lame duck coach. I don't have data on this, just something I've noticed. I could see a scenario where they did that figuring it will be the new owner's decision to make, and their energies were best spent not trying to find a new manager for the team they were about to unload. But you could be 100% right on this
  4. The Great Hambino
    It took me a minute to figure out what was going on here ... well done. Maybe even a little profound
  5. The Great Hambino
    Yeah, there's two ways an ownership group can react to sagging attendance 1. Increase payroll in the hopes that it generates enough revenue to make up for the increased spending to maintain their profits 2. Cut spending even further and collect more revenue sharing to guarantee their profits Which option would any of us expect the Pohlads to take?
  6. The Great Hambino
    I mean ... how's that grit working for the young lineup now? When he was helping the team, it was because he was mashing the ball, not because Keaschall and Lee saw him get his uniform dirty
  7. The Great Hambino
    I believe the decision to retain or move on from Rocco has, or at least should be, already made. They are in full-on experimentation mode with the major league roster. The results in that two month stretch of time shouldn't outweigh the rest of his body of work. Short of an active mutiny on the roster, I don't think the results of a team that has thrown in the towel on winning games should move the needle. Having said that, I think we're all in agreement of what that decision should be. I think we're all also afraid of what that decision will be. I suppose one caveat would be if they want to give Tingler a run at an interim role to see if they'd want to promote from within. But that might be worse than retaining Rocco
  8. The Great Hambino
    I'm not sure by what measure they're hitting better than last year. They're slashing .237/.310/.394/.704 this year vs .246/.315/.411/.726 last year - worse across the board. They're striking out slightly more this year (though not nearly as much as in 2023, which also happened to be their best offensive season since the Bomba Squad). Their runs per game has certainly taken a nosedive from 4.58 to 4.13 [4.18 at the deadline, so you can't say it was better relative to last year before then]. And since Popkins is having immediate success somewhere else, then he probably wasn't - or shouldn't have been - the one to blame
  9. The Great Hambino
    I have some theories about who Joe Pohlad's burner account might be around here
  10. The Great Hambino
    I'll meet you halfway - I'd take it over butter pecan
  11. The Great Hambino
    Cover the rest of the shirt in butter pecan so it matches
  12. The Great Hambino
    Nuh uh! I had it this weekend at that overrated seafood joint next to Minnehaha Falls! I was like "WTF?" when my wife got it for me - but it was yummy
  13. The Great Hambino
    Enough about the goddamn spreadsheets already!
  14. The Great Hambino
    Rocky road, cookies n cream, chocolate, salted caramel, strawberry I say nay
  15. The Great Hambino
    You're gonna have to show your work on how the offense would be better with Vasquez instead of fill-in-the-blank DH in the lineup
  16. The Great Hambino
    Graceful Matt Wallner is having himself a game that won't matter
  17. The Great Hambino
    No wonder this Twins team is so screwed up - they got their Genesis after their exodus
  18. The Great Hambino
    Jeffers actually caught 6 of the first 11 Ryan starts (if you count his "start" in the resumption of the suspended game against Cleveland), but Vasquez caught the rest of the first half starts starting in June. Ended up catching 13 of his 19 first half starts
  19. The Great Hambino
    Ball don't lie
  20. The Great Hambino
    Just flipped it on, any fun interactions with our old friends?
  21. The Great Hambino
    That one wasn't solo
  22. The Great Hambino
    Apparently Bradley has reverse splits in that he's much better the third time through the order. 6 up, 6 down
  23. The Great Hambino
    Man, that's cold to pull Gomez here
  24. The Great Hambino
    You think Roden gets DFA'd before him? That's who he's getting compared to here
  25. The Great Hambino
    Out Man. At least he'll get DFA'd sooner
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