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  1. mikelink45
    I hate to disagree with bighat, because most of what he says I agree with. My disagreement is on 7 inning games. I am actually growing to love them and with the fact that the games keep pushing into my bedtime I would think that maybe the way to control time is to have seven inning games all the time (or start the games earlier).
  2. mikelink45
    Love the win, the fielding and the pitching. It was great to see Arraez step up, but where are the bats? Of course having Adrianza and Vargas in the lineup together was not going to get the hitting started. But we have to start scoring more than 3 runs a game.
  3. mikelink45
    Actually it is time for both - Wade and Cave are not moving the bar. We need to kick start this season and Rooker/Kiriloff are the answers. And if Donaldson goes down again it is Blankenship and before there is another BP game it is Duran and Chalmers.
  4. mikelink45
    sorry but it is not a marathon this year. Time is running out and the team needs to get its acts together.
  5. mikelink45
    I really want a youth infusion - I want Larnach and Rooker and Lewis and Kiriloff - all of them. I want Duran and Chalmers. I do not care who gets cut. Just get some excitement onto the team.
  6. mikelink45
    Luis Robert is a reminder to all of us of what we had hoped to see in Buxton.
  7. mikelink45
    Don't forget the wonderful bullpen games. Wearing out this oversized bullpen is really bad managing.
  8. mikelink45
    No action in the trade market - time to move up the prospects - actually past time. Let's do something.
  9. mikelink45
    Well that was boring. At least for the TWINS.
  10. mikelink45
    Maybe the batters just stink this year, maybe the ball is not as juiced as last year. contact is not bad, but somehow this does not look like the same team as last year. if Kepler is trying to make more contact is .224 BA is not much of a positive.
  11. mikelink45
    The Padres have me in shock - talk about aggressive. Of course Preller went wild a few years ago and nothing good came of it. This time could be more successful for them. At this point Rooker, Larnach, and Kiriloff are probably hoping for a trade since the Twins have left them in St Paul all year.
  12. mikelink45
    I do not want to get into a long political discourse here, but perhaps you would like to read this article from the History Channel - https://www.history.com/news/how-the-party-of-lincoln-won-over-the-once-democratic-south This paragraph from the text captures the beginning of the change in 1948. "These defectors, known as the “Dixiecrats,” held a separate convention in Birmingham, Alabama. There, they nominated South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond, a staunch opposer of civil rights, to run for president on their “States’ Rights” ticket. Although Thurmond lost the election to Truman, he still won over a million popular votes."
  13. mikelink45
    I am really tired of the who cares we will be in the playoffs posts. Getting in the playoffs and going home immediately is not something I want to see or will celebrate.
  14. mikelink45
    the most frustrating part of this season is the FO lack of effort when it comes to utilizing the 60 man. if we have the wrong men on the second 30 - that too is on the FO. Cave, Wade, Adrianza are not the subs we want or need.
  15. mikelink45
    The fact we have not moved anyone from the 60 with a bat other than Jeffers is really frustrating to me. Not having a starter to remove the BP game is another frustration. It is time to look at the manager and FO for some change.
  16. mikelink45
    I have to make a general comment - Jackie Robinson spoke up and suffered a Court Marshall. He refused to take a back seat on a military bus, https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2008/spring/robinson.html We can never know what he would do today, but I think we can see his resolve and I suspect that this article about the friendship between Martin Luther King and Jackie might indicate that he would step forward again. https://www.mlb.com/cut4/mlk-jr-and-jackie-robinson-were-good-friends-c162102154#:~:text=Robinson%20and%20King%20became%20close,been%20traded%20to%20the%20Giants. As to lifetime republicans/democrats - the parties continue to switch and the resemblance between Lincoln and TR with today's republicans is in name only. The same as the resemblance between democrats and the politics of Buchanan and Wilson. Times change. Parties change. The Republicans became the pre-lincoln democrats when the dixie-crats walked out of the 1948 convention when Humphrey declared there was no room for racists in the democratic party. Do not mistake names for current reality - labels change.
  17. mikelink45
    NY Yankees - https://www.espn.com/mlb/team/injuries/_/name/nyy Ten players - including Stanton and Judge. I know we have suffered a lot and it is frustrating, but other teams are also in this situation and some worse than us. We need to make adjustments. The Yankees keep bringing in new players and they keep producing. AZ - 10 injuries AT - 8 (all but one starter) BAlt - 9 Red Sox - 8 Cubs - 10 WS - 7 Reds - 5 Cleve - 2 CO - 10 Det - 9 Hou - 13 KC - 11 Angels - 7 Dodgers - 10 Miami - 23 Mil - 8 MN - 12 Mets - 10 Yankees - 10 Pitts - 16 SD - 12 Seattle - 18 SL - 14 TB - 14 Tex - 18 Tor - 11 Nationals - 10 https://www.espn.com/mlb/injuries Not all injuries are equal, but this year has been hard on almost every team and while MLB has some lessons to learn, it cannot be an excuse for any single team.
  18. mikelink45
    If they are watching this year's team we do not have any healthy trade candidates. Thorpe is a candidate for a DFA not a trade.
  19. mikelink45
    I understand the reaction and as someone who posted a not very optimistic prediction for the rest of the season on another TD article, I can only say that those who keep telling us not to panic, not to over react can enjoy a winter trying to figure out when it is appropriate to panic. Dobnak could not keep going on forever, but what were the impacts of Rosario and Kepler and Polanco's fielding on his results? I do not know it is a real question. How many of Dobnak's runs were the result of Thorpe (and why is he back with the team?)? Another Bullpen game - so our BP which at least got rest the last two days is now stretched again and we will be playing the White Sox. The last BP game came before we played the Indians. How did that work out? I hate BP games. Vargas batting fifth? What is that all about? Adrianza PR for Rosario - did Eddie break a leg? Oh the questions I have. Will we wake up against the White Sox? I do not like third place.
  20. mikelink45
    I feel stronger with my prediction (which was made before the DH) - Let's see the Twins are now 5 - 7 vs Detroit and KC. Yup, those are bad teams and we will feast on them. Time for the team to wake up.
  21. mikelink45
    This season is so erratic that you could reverse your predictions and have just as much chance to be right. I have no idea what will happen, who will recover and be good (recovery is not enough), who will get injured next, if our BP can stand up to the overuse - even with so many arms. I will predict a 500 record the remainder of the season until these players come back and perform at the level that we expect. If they are all back August 31 and playing well I will still hedge and say 16 - 12. Watch out for the White Sox and the Indians - not only are they good clubs, but we have created a Romo backlash that helps motivate them.
  22. mikelink45
    Nice work, but I don't want any of them.
  23. mikelink45
    Why the desire to punish the players - listen to the message - that is what counts. Who do you want to have the money? The owners? By not punishing the players the teams can express support and that is essential.
  24. mikelink45
    I will defer to you because none of these arms interest me and I do not have your acquaintance with lesser known relievers. It would seem odd that Philadelphia has been trading to shore up its relief corp and we would find a good one in their scrap pile.
  25. mikelink45
    I will take them - Sano would not make it because of the slow start, but right now he is what we dreamed of. The obvious other list is those are the five we thought would be all-stars - Berrios, Rogers, Donaldson, Buxton, Oddorizzi. Also a case can be made for Rosario - his HRs, and his ARM!
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