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  1. Not even close. You were very vocal about it. Also not even close. Just because you can’t do or see something doesn’t mean no one else can. “Easy to be wrong” is not the right way to explain it. It’s a shame that base hits and table setters are overrated in today’s game. It would be nice to know what the Twins saw in Margot and Julien as leadoff batters this year. Any ideas?
  2. Surprised no one commented on Goff’s perfect night. He went 18-18, with 292 yards, and 2 TD Which did not earn him a perfect passer rating, believe it or not.
  3. “Thrilled”.. You also called Jose Salas a stud. Anyway, the incompetence of the Pohlads would be easier to digest if we had smarter people running this team.
  4. Agree wholeheartedly, but it's not just the Twins. I think it's endemic to all of the mediocre teams competing for that 5th and 6th wildcard. Example. Can't remember the situation, I think it was the Miami series, but I do remember Trevor Larnach not being held at first base and being allowed to just trot down to second base late in a game in a not insignificant moment. Even on his bad hamstring. I may be wrong here again, but I would like to see the stats on 1st & 2nd, no outs, or even 2nd & 3rd, and not scoring. It seems like this has been a huge problem for a lot of teams, not just the Twins. Batters just don't change their approaces. Swing your swing and see what happens. Well I will tell you what happens: strikeouts happen. Or popups. At least against the better pitchers. ...Rant over.
  5. AL Central 2-0 after first day. You need to be able to win low scoring games in MLB.
  6. I dunno, I guess I would keep giving Buxton an Incomlete until he plays a bigger chunk of the season? Its such a strain to have so many guys who need backups and constant moving around, and that doesn’t really show up in the stat lines, imo. So they need to find the 2025 version of Michael Taylor or Manuel Margot again and cross our fingers.
  7. Buxton? Buxton scored 62 runs, Anthony Santander was 10th in the American League with 91 runs scored. Just thinking someone upthread got their signals crossed
  8. My thinking is that the KC game was the turning point. I am fine if people disagree with that and call the Texas loss or Miami loss the big ones, or one of the Cleveland losses. Heck the Twins would still have been mathematically alive on the last day of the season, had they won that KC game, if everything else had played out the same (which it wouldn’t have, but still). Everyone in the game thread was asking for Ober to be allowed to pitch the 8th that night; Ober was breezing, and the bottom of the order was coming up. Ober knew the deal and wanted to stay in. You gotta roll the dice at some point for your starters. You need to save your bullpen guys in that stretch. Etc etc. Rocco compounded the mistake by bringing in Duran as you said.
  9. Now if I’m the Mets, with a playoff clinch and in the drivers seat, I look at the matchup and ask if Milwaukee is an easier opponent than San Diego? Not fair to the Diamondbacks but they had their opportunities.
  10. then Mets stunned in 8th, then Braves stunned in 9th Great game! MLB got the Game 163 they did not want. 🙂
  11. Hi Chief. I remember too — we were having this same conversation about Rocco already back in 2022, if not earlier.
  12. 2001 was a ray of hope, not a disappointment. 1992 was a victory lap season. Incredible that leadership of this team, at all levels, in all aspects baseball and non-baseball, could look at the last few years and say to themselves “yes this is good for our brand, give us more of it.”
  13. I have always seen Levine as more the assistant; the Rob Antony to Terry Ryan. But who knows. Maybe not. Levine might play the "why-would-they-even-want-to-stay-here" card and leave of his own accord. But maybe not. Who knows.
  14. A thank you to Bailey Ober for taking the ball today. Ober was lined up to pitch on Tuesday. Ober did keep his ERA under 4, which is nice little achievement and will look better on his baseball card. Correa and Buxton. Any fan willing to attend this game in person today deserved to see Correa and Buxton in the lineup. I guess they were feeling a little sore or didn't see a reason to play with nothing at stake. But most of all, congratualtions to DaShawn Keirsey Jr. for the home run - maybe he is our center field backup going into 2025
  15. Well, right. If Josh Donaldson was hired to manage the Twins or be Baseball Operations VP, and this same collapse happened under Donaldson year after year, we wouldn't blame Donaldson. Donaldson is just being Donaldson.
  16. Rocco hit the lottery when he was born with elite athletic talent. Then he hit the lottery again when he made the major leagues with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays as a center fielder. (a lot of work went has to go into that one, to Rocco's credit) Then Rocco hit the lottery for a third time as a major league manager. Anybody affiliated with MLB in that capacity like Rocco, Falvey, St. Peter, has already hit the lottery.
  17. It's a small number of people on each side. A majority of individuals who post on this site just ignore it, to their credit. There are better things to do.
  18. or possibly July or August
  19. It's an "anti-anti" culture taken hold around this. They are not really Rocco fans, but are opposed to people who take positions against Rocco. Why this is, I have no idea. I don't get it either.
  20. Well, no. It's called interviewing.
  21. The NFL has played on Thursday and Saturday for a long time, since the 80s at least. the Fog Bowl was a Saturday morning game. But your second point was exactly what I was getting at. It feels like too much. Maybe I’m just a crank, and don’t understand The Kids anymore. I don’t know but I doubt it. The NFL going out of its way to schedule a game on Christmas when it’s on a Wednesday, combined with the tight relationship with the gambling industry, it feels out of control and not good. I guess that’s the bigger issue.
  22. pretty much the whole radio broadcast that I heard, Gladden and Atteberry talked about “hard evaluations will be made a few days after the season ends.” They kept emphasizing that. “Tough decisions, honest evaluations.” Don’t know if they have inside information or who’s fooling who. I guess we will find out soon enough.
  23. It was 14 years ago when the Vikings played in Philly on that Tuesday night, because of a snowstorm. It was the first NFL game on a Tuesday in the modern era. Now, the NFL has taken over every day of the week, including the important days, and rumor has it the SuperBowl will be pushed back to the end of February pretty soon. It didn't really hit me until I was looking at KC's schedule this morning, that the NFL is basically everywhere now, all the time.
  24. The correct answer is false, but not because of the Brazil game. Trick question, because they do play a Friday and Wednesday game. Wednesday: Christmas day game at Pittsburgh Thursday: Season opener Friday: Day after Thanksgiving against Raiders Saturday: Week 15 against the Texans Sunday: Sunday games of course Monday: They play a couple Monday night games.
  25. That 1994 team was real hard to watch, after about August 12th 🙂
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