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  1. The Great Hambino
    After watching Correa full out sprint there, I'm not as convinced as before that he dogs it on the basepaths. He's just that slow
  2. The Great Hambino
    "Rocco and the staff keep showing up ... That's what I'm focused on" Without context (I'm not scaling that paywall), this doesn't exactly sound like a ringing endorsement. It also invites troubling parallels between the manager and the great Brick Tamland: "People seem to like me because I'm polite and I'm rarely late." The standard is the standard!
  3. The Great Hambino
    Correa used to have them, but they somehow ended up in the trash can
  4. The Great Hambino
  5. The Great Hambino
    Twins new strategy to limit stolen bases: permanent defensive indifference
  6. The Great Hambino
    How's Hank Conger's glove at 2nd?
  7. The Great Hambino
    At least Varland had a clean throw to first. That qualifies as a highlight
  8. The Great Hambino
    That really sucks for him. On the bright side, he's now rocketed to the top of the list of Twins' offseason acquisition targets
  9. The Great Hambino
    Walk Nolan Jones so you can strike out Kwan. Just how you draw it up All 3 Ks with the curve
  10. The Great Hambino
    Oppo Eddy! This rain delay brought out the bizarro Twins
  11. The Great Hambino
    Hmmm. I don't know, sounds made up
  12. The Great Hambino
    Congratulations on being the first person to ever utter this phrase
  13. The Great Hambino
    Is there a reason he wasn't available yesterday?
  14. The Great Hambino
    Gasper, DUH
  15. The Great Hambino
    Fun fact I learned while trying to figure out if Clemens is currently slugging his weight: Every player with the first name Kody in MLB history is currently on the Twins' 40 man. All both of them
  16. The Great Hambino
    Oooh, I think France might've gotten away with admiring his handiwork there
  17. The Great Hambino
    Harrison Bader is good at catching the ball
  18. The Great Hambino
    Guards got on Buxton with the Knoblauch/Gagne deke there
  19. The Great Hambino
    This is one of the better getaway day lineups we've seen lately, given who's available. Helps when you do the getaway day lineup the night before. Some real 3D chess right there
  20. The Great Hambino
    Nice. Missing the Bankrupt panel
  21. The Great Hambino
    Fair. I agree that most of both teams' success was due to league rules stating that someone from the central has to go to the playoffs
  22. The Great Hambino
    They've been a slightly less talented, better managed version of the Twins of the 2000s
  23. The Great Hambino
    Just got home and turned the game on, literally the first pitch I see…
  24. The Great Hambino
    I think that's a pretty fair assessment of the local teams. I'd say the Timberwolves are similar to the Twins in that regard, while the Loons and Lynx are similar to the Wild - a passionate niche fanbase, just with a smaller niche than hockey. Based on how you laid out the LA teams, it seems to me that to get sustained passionate support two ways: service a passionate niche, or have a long run of sustained relevance. You earn that unconditional support that the Vikings, Dodgers, and Lakers (and USC football) get. Those teams aren't all pumping out dynasty after dynasty (I suppose the Lakers kinda have), but they don't have sustained stretches of irrelevance either. The Clippers were run like a dollar store for decades, and their interest relative to the Lakers reflects that. They've actually been pretty competent lately, and they're still just beginning to develop that goodwill with fans. And you can't get much more irrelevant than ceasing to exist like LA football did. So yeah, it is a tougher job to be an owner of a team that doesn't get passionate engagement win lose or draw. But that engagement doesn't just get bestowed upon certain franchises, it gets earned with competence over time. New owners would have some work to do to earn that for the Twins
  25. The Great Hambino
    Does he save these inflexible plans just for Paddack? Because in the two games before last night, the starters were allowed to finish the seventh, with one being allowed to go to the eighth. Only one reliever was used each game. The last non-Paddack pitcher to not be allowed the sixth was Pablo coming off an IL stint and sitting at 101 pitches through 5 innnings. Doesn't really follow the narrative of sticking to the plan to a fault. I watched the game last night. My eyes saw a pitcher who was allowing more and more hard contact in the fourth and fifth, and was in a lot of ways lucky to get away with allowing only one run. Paired with a bullpen as about as rested as it could be without a recent off day, the decision was made to pull the starter 23 pitches short of his last outing's output because it was the most prudent thing to do in the situation, regardless of any plan.
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