Hosken Bombo Disco

You are right-- It reminded me of all the Gatorade baths back to 2013. It was usually Plouffe and Arcia dumping the bucket on Dozier.

It could work, and Mauer's mini-resurgence perhaps has coincided with taking more days off, so there's more playing time for others. If Sano was hitting better in this time share arrangement I might feel better about it. I'm ready to jump off the deep end with Sano at 3B full time and give him a lot of rope. If at some point they decide it's not working, you pick up a guy like Plouffe in FA or trade or try Polanco or a minor league guy might be ready.

Ted, do you know the family personally? In that case I can certainly understand this being a little bittersweet for you and/or other folks who have really gotten to know him and like him over the years.

Good question. With Plouffe's poor season, it would be hard to imagine him winning an arbitration ruling.

Surely you realize that Brooksie's defensive metrics are better than Plouffsie's, right?

?? Are you saying Antony was offered Trout for Buxton? I'm not sure I would make the trade for those pitchers anyway. Better to develop your own draft picks, as you implied by mentioning Sanchez.

As was pointed out in the article, he traded Syndergaard.

I feel like he would trade Buxton or Sano, though.

Thanks jokin! I'm guessing a lot of the clicks are from people who already commented on a thread. After commenting on another person's blog, I have clicked there dozens of times afterward just to keep up with the discussion. (Maybe not dozens but a lot.) I was posting the above in the forum thread but it started to feel and look like complaining, so I took ChiTowns advice and moved it to a blog--and made it longer

Can we compromise on N/A ?

Dozier BABIP today = .000

The Axe needs sharpening.

the writing for this one looks to be on the wall

dislike

foul ball or as Carneal would say "count rides along at 2 and 2"

Two balls, two strikes, two on, two out or, as Scully would say Deuces Wild

Well, Kendrys goes boom, unfortunately. I still like what Berrios did today. He is building a mental book on the KC hitters which he will add to in the future.

So Rosario snuck home from second on a sac bunt? There was a successful sac bunt????

que paso?

maybe he's interviewing for president of baseball operations after the season?

If this game is rained out before five innings, I will confront the god of thunder and lightning personally, and then punch him in the face.

I am almost lock step with this roster. I do like Centeno and how pitchers seem to do well with him. I would also like to see a nice bullpen arm come in from the outside. The pitching staff still needs work.

In the spirit of putting stream-of-conscious rants in the blogs section, where nobody will ever see them or have to look at them, I submit this frustrated piece of work in response to the insanity thread poster Shane Wahl started. You have been warned! Another angle I come at this insanity from is the public messaging; in other words, the people who cover this team for the public. Let's start with the television guys, the guys with the most reach. I didn't see any of the broadcasts Jack Morris worked this spring when Dozier was slumping, but reading through the game threads you get the impression Morris's criticism of Dozier was bordering on abuse. Not sure what the purpose of it was. Then you have Dick in the other chair praising whatever the front office does. Yes, Dick, Robbie Grossman was a nice waiver wire find. But Fangraphs also has him ranked 87 out of 88 in UZR150 for outfielders with 550 innings, so maybe Cleveland isn't pulling hair and gnashing teeth about losing him, after all. Another example. On the radio, after each game, the producers and broadcasters (usually Kris Atteberry and Dan Gladden) rehash the biggest moments of the game, conversation style. It's entertaining and smart. Last night, however, the big play was Polanco's sac fly in the fifth, when Buxton scored but Dozier was thrown out trying to advance to third base. Hey wait a minute: Dozier didn't even make the first or third out of the inning! But according to Atteberry, that was the turning point of the game somehow. I like Atteberry and it's obvious he's an extremely hard worker and good at his job but he is way off base much of the time. There were two other plays last night--occuring later in the game-- that had a higher impact on the win expectancy than Dozier being thrown out at third. The liner Schafer misjudged in the sixth (didn't see it) that would have been the third out was the difference maker by far, and the low throw behind the runner by Wimmers after the sac bunt that Plouffe should have caught but didn't. That was in the eight and it was a one run game. It was a tough play but very makeable and I feel like Mauer with his experience, stretches forward to make that catch. (I could be wrong and welcome input from experienced first baseman who have read this far.) However, the camera did show Molitor glaring out to first base at the conclusion of the play. Atteberry didn't even mention that play in the post game. I also detect a very strong pro-Plouffe bias in Atteberry, which I don't really care for, and practically all the broadcasters and journalists on all broadcast outlets pin as much blame to Rosario whenever possible, which I also don't care for. I'd go to war with Rosario. There's a lot of energy there that will contribute to a championship if harnessed correctly. Of course, I also said that about Arcia once. Then there's LaVelle. Enough said. One of the first things I would do as a GM/POBO is suspend his press privileges. I am also worried about Phil Miller slipping to the dark side. Please don't! The last thing this front office needs is for their broadcasters and journalists to keep telling them how smart and right they are about everything. I assume that's what's happening. That's how it looks from the outside. I assume it began as a benign effort to keep everyone cheered up, but has evolved, or devolved, into a performance art. "How well can we spin this poor turn of events" has become the name of the game. Fun for a while, and anyone who has worked politically will recognize it, but it's no way to go through life, year after year. And you never hear anything in the media, from anyone, ever, about how or why Danny Santana plays full time, or about all the base running blunders he regularly makes. Think about how the fans turn against this team's best players. At least that's what I'm seeing. Think about "bilateral leg weakness" and how many people in this market genuinely dislike Mauer. Think about the dislike for Gardy (I plead guilty). It would have been better for everyone and a really obvious, non-controversial move to part ways with Gardenhire after 2013, but they let him linger on. Then you had Morris attacking Dozier earlier in the season, causing many fans to become enraged by Dozier's long slumps. And now, the weight jokes about Sano are of course great sport for the LaVelle and Reusse types--black pots and kettles if there ever were any. The work ethic and weight gain whispering campaign against Sano in the media has taken the desired effect, and many fans have now taken the sport up themselves. Or maybe this is how the media and the fans are. I just don't know. I don't get it. I don't get any of it. Rant over. I agree completely--it's insanity!

I don't like that you did that because I like the original one. Or something.

I suppose in an abstract, existential way, a person could be satisfied with something they posted?