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  1. mikelink45
    I love your editorial to begin this essay. I think you are really right on.
  2. mikelink45
    The only thing I can say is that today the team shut me out as well I have nothing to add
  3. mikelink45
    Doesn't matter how many I just would love to see him succeed
  4. mikelink45
    The season must be over - this reads like an off-season dreamscape. What if we don't trade Ryan and Lopez? What if Ober and Sands are not the pitchers we have seen this year? What if Zebby and Festa can actually have ERAs under 5? What is Lee and Lewis discover the magic that we foresaw when they came up as high ranked prospects? What if we actually had a 1B and DH? What is we could field the ball? What if Roden and Outman could actually hit beyond AAA or Abel and Bradley could find the magic restart button? What if the BP had Ohl, Adams, and Lawyerson make us forget the RP that we no longer have? What is Falvey and Pohlad woke up and said, "What the Hell, let's spend a lot of money?" What if Rocco is reborn with his running offense and sparked the boys to really play hard every inning of every game? Yes, a few items to clear up, but what a nice dream.
  5. mikelink45
    There are teams like Pirates and A's, Angels, and White Sox who could use another bat - my hope is that one of them grabs him and we get to root for another Rooker type ex-twin.
  6. mikelink45
    I commented yesterday about Sands - he has taken the Ober track for the year - without those two back next year everything is even more bleak. Has Cole been a mirage or is this year just a down one? Lawyerson seems to have staked a place for 2026. Too bad we did not let other pitchers try out instead of Hatch, Tonkin and Cabrera
  7. mikelink45
    Thanks to the Vikings for losing JJ again and giving the Twins a chance for another article - a big story among the obits. Don't the Lynx know that MN sports is not based on winning? I am appalled - they might even when the championship!
  8. mikelink45
    When Julien came up he was expected to be the answer to the missing Arraez - an on base machine. But he seems to have lost it completely and I hope he is not expected to be the 1B next year. Did they tinker with him too much or did the pitchers figure him out. I tend to think they were concerned with getting more power. Miranda rose quickly and spectacularly only to have his balloon bust. I am sorry he did not pan out, but not sure the reasons - injury or just a quick peak year with nothing left. Lewis looked like Keaschall to begin - Mr Grand Slam. Enthusiasm, excitement. he it the one I most compare with Keaschall. The number one draft choice - ranked on national prospect lists. Great expectations, a crash, injuries, a slump (which he claimed he never got) and we are hoping his bat is coming alive and he might be a good - not great IF for the future. Right now Keaschall is doing great, looking great, everything seems to be in place for a star players (I do not like ranking anyone as a Superstar). But then TD writes an article about his weaknesses. Every team has that same perspective so I think he can do better than the other three - I have no assurance that will be the case. We once were excited by Arcia, Rosario, Sano, Kepler and none of them reached the limits that the first years promised - some bombed right away - Arcia, some lingered until there was no hope - Sano, Rosario was a little bit of a cult hero who had a great run in the Atlanta WS but otherwise was replacement levell and Kepler always seemed on the verge of something really good, but actually had only one really good year and a lot of average years. His 220/17/51 line this year defines his career. Go Luke - baseball is hard.
  9. mikelink45
    No mention of Billy Martin? Gene Mauch? Paul Molitor deserves to be higher than Rocco. He was steady, consistent and dealt well with the talent he had. I have him with Billy Gardner and above Rigney and Miller (the worst). I don't hate Rocco - just am not enamored with him. But some of my criticism is on the system that Falvey and his abundant coaching staff and front office have followed.
  10. mikelink45
    Interesting perspective - thanks
  11. mikelink45
    I hope and expect that he will adjust in the off-season and continue to produce. I think we have a start if he does not have the Royce Lewis, Edouard Julien, Miranda regression for year two.
  12. mikelink45
    As a lecturer on river cruise ships I often tell stories of Mark Twain, His life was filled with amazing adventures, failures, and people. Seldom do we associate him with sports but as you can read in the newspaper account copied here - Mark Twain, while not an athlete, still had a chance to participate in the game with an umpiring experience. Add to that his Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court where he wrote: "In Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” a time-traveling American brought baseball to 6th-century England, where arguments with umpires were robust: “The umpire’s first decision was usually his last. ... When it was noticed that no umpire ever survived a game, umpiring got to be unpopular.” "His Yankee, Hank Morgan, exclaims of favored ballplaying knights: “The very best man in my subordinate nine! What a handy right-fielder he was!” and “My peerless short-stop! I’ve seen him catch a daisy-cutter in his teeth!” An armor-plated runner sliding into a base, Twain wrote, “was like an iron-clad coming into port.” At a banquet for Albert Spalding he said, “Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.” Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), April 8, 1889. And in Tom Sawyer he wrote: There was no joy in life for poor Tom. He put away his bat and his ball and dragged himself through each day.” Mark Twain, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1885. The Philadelphia Times reported him toting a package onto the field and declaring that it contained dynamite. When his decisions “gave dissatisfaction,” the article stated, “he coolly placed one foot upon it, and the hubbub immediately ceased.”
  13. mikelink45
    A bonus for the owner - a new yacht, a painting for Pohlad's fireplace, a doghouse for their pet (do they have one?)... With the Pohlad creativity guiding Falvey we can expect some outstanding DFA candidates and a pitcher who has to be on the IL for the entire year so we can claim we got him for a bargain price. I just can't wait for the excitement.
  14. mikelink45
    Two BP notes - Sands has not been the veteran BP piece we need. He has given up too many runs too often and I am disappointed since we are going to really count on him next year. Cabrera amazes me - why have we kept him. His outings and era are awful. Why not check out another young arm like they are doing with Ohl and Adams?
  15. mikelink45
    Actually, if we removed all the innings that the other team scored this year, our pitching would look amazing.
  16. mikelink45
    As all these seasons are winding down I would love to see a summary of this year's draft choices and what they accomplished in the first year.
  17. mikelink45
    I liked everything but Roden - Rodriguez takes that spot for me.
  18. mikelink45
    For the three prospects to prosper we either have to trade or move Larnach and wallner to first base and DH or trade them for pitching. And I do agree with the idea that Clemens is not the solution for the future but I fear that the team may think otherwise. You can add Julian and Gaspar to that list. Those are the type of players that fill the rosters of last place teams. Everything has to move forward if we're going to have any hope in the future.
  19. mikelink45
    There's a person with very strong feelings about political and social events in their country I really appreciate this essay. Baseball is supposedly a reflection of life in America. That's been the cliche for everyone for years it used to be when baseball was the number one sport in the country people would tell immigrants to learn baseball if they want to know America. Baseball has lost his place as number one sport and it also has moved away from being a real reflection of the nation. I'm glad that you took this opportunity to express the views that you had in this essay and I would love to see more strong editorials that can risk possibly offending some and a challenging others. This has so much more substance than they projected can we trade for dreams. So thank you for doing this
  20. mikelink45
    Not sure how this is meant but actually it is such a great essay that they could use it on one of those stations or any number of other good outlets where the truth and the ability to give perspective is welcome.
  21. mikelink45
    If I had to give odds Hill is the one I would guarantee makes it. Not sure on the other two considering the prospects that are ahead of them
  22. mikelink45
    Are they really better than Noah Cardenas, Ricardo Olivar, Andrews Cossetti, or Patrick Winkel? I don't have their stats, but I do see Gaspar and Pereda's.
  23. mikelink45
    Getting traded to a better team does not guarantee World Series glory. Is Correa going to be in the series? Did signing Juan Soto give the Mets the status as the team to beat? Duran and Varland may have the best chances for post season glory. This is the story of sports - only one champion, lots of good players throughout the league.
  24. mikelink45
    Have you looked at the career of Mike Trout. Or Ernie Banks or even Ted Williams?
  25. mikelink45
    So hard to see any positives in the BP - You are looking hard for positives. Sands is not the answer. Yes he can be in the BP in 2026 but not in the strategic roles. Cabrera offers nothing but a name. Royce and Lee don't look like players who are ready to catapult to any level of excellence and Wallner has disappointed me with his lack of clutch production. All of which means we stink, but then 65 - 84 already says that.
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