Kenneth Kitsom

With the next group of prospects coming up, will Ryan add the final piece when they're ready to contend? He pretty much wasted Mauer and Morneau's prime years when that window was open. Instead he chose to hoard his prospects and predictably none of them turned out anyway. In 2004 the team could have used a bat and and arm. Instead they went to the postseason with Lew Ford and the terrified rookie Jason Kubel at DH, and the hittable sinkerballer Silva as the 3rd starter. In 2006, Ryan's major acquisition was Phil Nevin to join Jason Tyner as quite possibly the worst DH platoon ever assembled. Not to mention nothing done to bolster a pitching staff with Brad Radke's shredded shoulder hanging on by a thread. In 2007 he said they were buyers and instead traded Castillo for nothing. That was officially the moment where Santana basically said "get me the hell out of here". When you're good, you trade prospects and go for broke. When you're bad, you trade veterans for prospects and rebuild. The Twins? They do neither. They just kind of wallow around in the middle, unsure of what the hell they want to do, so they just do nothing. NO DIRECTION WHATSOEVER. Doesn't there just come a time where you gut the front office and coaching staff and start over? I've never seen an organization so stale. So behind the times. They need new blood. New ideas. New philosophies. IT'S TIME.

The Twins jerking around a prospect? Well that's unheard of. Way to create bad blood, Mr. Ryan. Gibson will NEVER give the Twins any sort of future discount when he's the one in a position of power. More nice work from one of the most arrogant, worst run organizations in baseball.

Twins/Yankees rivalry? Don't both teams have to consider it a rivalry for it to be a rivalry? In all four major sports, us Minnesotan's invent our rivalries, problem is no other teams consider us their main rivals. We thought we had a rivalry with the Canucks. That was news to them! Green Bay far and away considers the Bears their main rival, not the Vikings. Face it Minnesota fans. We're irrelevant.

I woudn't be opposed to Dozier moving back to SS next season and keep it warm until one of the SS prospects is ready.

What about Levi Michael? How does he project?

Another throw away game. I can't wait. Bring on the rain.

What in the sam hill is wrong with Morneau?

It makes all the sense in the world to trade him. With his concussion history, giving him a multi-year contract would be a disastrous mistake. I wouldn't over pay him with that one year qualifying offer either (which is probably what Ryan will do). His time is up here. Time to move on. It was a nice run. Or atleast it was a nice run up until he took the knee to the head in Toronto.

But he did draw an important walk in game 7 against the Cardinals.

If Parmelee's ceiling is Randy Bush, he's gonna be a helluva player. Bush is one of my all time favorites.

That's gardy's mode of operation.

I wonder if they're gonna get this one in.

Play him everyday for the entire season. They can afford to do it. They're not contenders. They're rebuilding. Then maybe they'd see what they got. He's gotta get regular atbats. I've got nothing against Doumit, but he's not the future. All Doumit should be doing is backing up Mauer. Doumit is a dreadful outfielder anyway, and younger players should be getting the atbats at DH.

I refuse to pay $7 or $8 for a beer.

The only thing good about Revere is his defense. I'll roll with Hicks and his potential over Revere any day. I'm happy Ryan was able to get ANYTHING for Revere.