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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Is this supposed to be a rebuttal to the opinion that the Gallo signing makes no sense? Heh.
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    No but we’ve seen guys practice and get better.
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    We have heard “don’t trade Kepler when his value is at a low point” plenty of times in the last 18 months. Now as of today, with the Gallo signing, we have two starting right fielders. So, yeah. Follow up: so on double checking, it looks like Gallo has played a lot of left, too. At bats taken away from younger players? Or “you can never have too many good players”? I agree with you @Sherry Cerny that dealings Urshela was a huge disappointment, for the reasons you stated.
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    So our shortstop will be a concept called Best Efforts. Can I just shorten it to ‘E’ in the scorebook when a ground ball is hit there?
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    Dodged a bullet, though not for lack of trying. Lewis or Lee will be putting up fairly comparable numbers in a few years.
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    “his UCL is only 60% torn. You promised us it was 75% torn! @!#%”
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    and rename the infield Dior Diamond!
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    Easy peasy, right?
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    Signing Correa to one-year options made sense last year. Correa is very good but I have performance questions about his time in Houston, and am worried he would be a candidate to really fall off at some point. We should give him the benefit of the doubt for his injuries, but there is a history there. Signing him to a lifetime deal makes me really uneasy. What happens to Lewis and Lee then? What am I missing?
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    Don’t forget to select “Auto-renewal” on those podcasts, doc, cuz after about a week you’re gonna forget you ever subscribed, theyre gonna keep pushing you the product anyway, and you don’t want those nasty umpires sending you to collections after 6 months plus 90 days ?
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    There are some nice suggestions in this article, but at this point, even Tommy Herr would be the first to tell you that only God can help this Twins team!
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I wonder if the Reds would have considered trading Castillo last winter for a package of Petty, Steer, and the other prospects we sent off at the deadline. Or throw in Rogers, since they seemed set on trading him, or throw in a Varland/Ober/Wallner since those guys are the new heartthrobs. And then the extension Castillo signed with the Mariners was in the ballpark of the Berrios and Wheeler contracts. From my point of view, the Twins usually pass when there are chances to get guys better than Gray.
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    My second thought after seeing the lawsuit (my initial thought was wtf?) was that some attorneys are looking for a payday. I hope you stick around to discuss. I am also going to read the complaint; maybe that will help me see some nuance. I agree if it does settle we probably won’t hear what the terms are. One wrinkle from an NPR article i just read is that Magnus is seeking to buy chess.com so not sure if the terms of a settlement will actually let Niemann come back there.
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Brian Allmendinger's Ford Fiesta was parked next to Jim Anchower's Ford Festiva. That was not a cigarette he was smoking out there, to be blunt with you.
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Yikes. This feels like the Astros suing MLB for accusing them of cheating in 2017. What do you think? Any background in this area? I think when a side uses the language "speaks for itself" it's not always a good thing for your case, but I don't know.
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    Pressly have worked back to back days, so I imagine he is shelved for the rest of the ALCS ?
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    I am glad you see the value of catching lightning in a bottle for one magical season, especially in this market, would elevate them to the status of Gods forever. Wrongly, in my opinion, but whatever. It would be a fun ride. I think where the front office needs to place their faith is in their very first real success story, drafting Royce Lewis as their future shortstop. and best case scenario, a potential star. That was the original long term plan, so if I were advising them, I would say their best bet is to go back to that plan. But if this front office is anything, it’s unpredictable.
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    I think the much better time to spend would have been prior to 2018, 2019, and 2020, with Mauer coming off the books and the core entering its peak seasons of performance. That said, I would not be disappointed if they re-signed Correa.
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    Luis Arraez has been compared to Tony Gwynn, but Gwynn wasn’t used in the super utility role like Arraez is (the good news is that moving him around the diamond doesn’t seem to affect his hitting). Gwynn, Carew, whoever, Probably some one will dig up some examples of great hitters who played various positions during the course of a season. That’s fine. I respect your posts highly but I would suggest that this front office get back to basics and start fielding a baseball team the proper way— with tobacco spit, nut cup grabs, choking up with two strikes, and everyday ballplayers. As for next year, I think they can use Polanco at short until Lewis returns.
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    On the other hand, couldn’t you build a team the old fashioned way, and name Arraez as your full time second baseman, and work from there? My impression from reading Twins Daily is that Arraez is a below average fielder, but we’ve seen enough to know that he is plenty competent to play second, regardless of where his ranking sits on a given metric. Any flaws in his fielding record are more than made up by his hitting record. I think the best thing for the team is to pen Arraez into the lineup as leadoff hitter and second baseman.
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    Well said, Mike.
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    The Mets did what now in 86 you say?
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    I liked the Yoo game as well and love the Tal reference. AlphaZero is the best chess engine we have seen to date and a lot of those games look like Tal games, in sacrificing material in order to gain positional advantage, which was a radical style in Tal's day.
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    I am trying to come up with a good rebuttal, but don’t have one. Niemann cheated in the past but no one can really point to anything specific in the recent OTB games. The best case that Niemann was cheating comes from Magnus I think, when Magnus says Niemann’s body language was off and he just didn’t seem engaged in the game or in calculating positions, yet somehow he was making winning moves. Another site I just watched had a good breakdown of Niemann’s behavior too. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hiaWVcjiMBo This is probably enough for me to take Magnus’s side, but it doesn’t help that Niemann seems to have the emotional intelligence of a two-year-old, which makes reading behavior and body language that much harder. It’s not impossible to be all of those things at once: a past cheater, a complete jerk, and also a brilliant genius chess player.
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Anyone any thoughts on Hans Niemann? @gunnarthor
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