The Great Hambino
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Gasper, DUH
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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
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Oooh, I think France might've gotten away with admiring his handiwork there
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Harrison Bader is good at catching the ball
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Guards got on Buxton with the Knoblauch/Gagne deke there
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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
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Nice. Missing the Bankrupt panel
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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
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They've been a slightly less talented, better managed version of the Twins of the 2000s
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Just got home and turned the game on, literally the first pitch I see…
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A Letter to the Minnesota Twins Next Owner
The Great Hambino replied to Matthew Lenz's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
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 -
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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You said the eye test should've had him pulled in the fourth and left in for the sixth. So yeah, at least in the ballpark of what you said.
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Wait ... so he left him in too long and pulled him too early? Schrodinger's Manager
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Straight from the Miriam-Webster dictionary: Analytics (noun) 1. The method of logical analysis 2. Anything Rocco Baldelli does that I don't like
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Usually France retreats better than that
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I did not have hustle double from Correa on my Twingo card tonight
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I'm starting to think they forgot to write a script for this season and just turned in last year's at the deadline
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Well this was a nice surprise. Feels like a season's worth of runs against the Redacteds I know position players pitching is ick, but a doubleheader followed by two straight games of double digit runs allowed puts Vogt in a bit of a pickle
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Took the family to Sunday's Angels game, and it wasn't as desolate as I expected. I even had to wait in a line or two! I was expecting a higher announced attendance than 18K But keeping the Tony O's stand closed is a crime against humanity that needs to be reported to MLB, and perhaps Hennepin County authorities as well. It was open on opening day; if they've been closing this regularly, then I think we've found the primary source of the attendance woes
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That's all true, but the Mets were planning on moving Correa to 3B when they tried to sign him. Mark Vientos and Brett Baty have taken all the PAs there for them this year; both have an OPS that begins with a 5 The Mets are also probably the team most likely to ignore its own budget If Correa can show some life, that would be a (still probably pretty unlikely) possibility.
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I see a light at the end of the tunnel Unfortunately, I also hear the whistle of a train I have a bad feeling that at least one of the top three starters will be gone before the end of the season. Then it's on to rebuild mode
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Appropriate for it to end like a regulation high school game
