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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Pulling for Cuddy!!
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Gladden would do great, he can outmanage the current manager any night he wishes.
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    The idea of bringing Jake as a bench coach next year is fabulous, if he's as smart as his brother is good. Also we need some (more than a token one) Latin guys (but who, I have no idea). I don't think Molitor's lack of experience disqualifies him -- he's been in enough clubhouses where I think he could do just fine.
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    After 2001, TK left with class, acknowledging it was time for him to step down. Gardenhire could have done this same thing after 2012. He could have taken a paid year off (2013 final year of contract) and even as an old school type, could probably have come back fresh with another organization if he wanted. Yet by most accounts he has kept a white knuckle death grip on this job based on some prior promise made by Pohlad long ago. So I've got to think Gardy's put himself in a box if he is finally forced out -- other organizations will really think twice before hiring a guy like this. Plus, he screams at his players. Maybe one of these days he adapts, who knows.
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    It would be epic, but in a sad way, if Gardy was coaching for his 1,000 win on the final day of the season.
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I think you are on to something. Gardy has always said Anderson will be his pitching coach but maybe the Front Office tells Gardy he is more than welcome to manage another year, but without Anderson and with whole new coaches of the FO's choosing, to include Molitor (who Gardy has always seen as a threat) and a couple of Latin coaches (who by their absence apparently make Gardy uncomfortable). I think that's an offer Gardy can't refuse/accept.. quite a state we are in, with the field manager driving the direction of the whole organization. This would be a natural progression from last year's coach firings. I've gotta believe the status quo this year is untenable.
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I thought it over. I think part of it is Gardy is just out of things to say.
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    anyone have any thoughts?
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    +220 for you if he stays. I'm getting vibes that he's done. I'll take the -100, in other words I'd bet $220 to win $100. ----- all gaming here hypothetical, of course!
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    My take on Sano's incident: praise in public, punish in private. With the background you gave us it just doesnt seem like the showboating was such a big deal. Just what we need is Sano resenting the Twins organization for a perceived embarrassment.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    No trade value, but at this stage he would be a very good bench/utility guy for a contending NL team - pinch hitter, fourth or fifth outfielder, emergency catcher only, and the guy has baseball sense if nothing else. But Terry Ryan must know something we don't, because last summer he signed Doumit through 2014. Your guess is as good as anyone's what we are going to do with him next year.
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I'm sorry they couldn't work something out with your fairly reasonable request. No doubt they are turning down other existing season ticket holders for similarly minor reasons. Twins ownership must still think it has the leverage, even on those empty seats you asked about.
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    How would you rate Herrmann and Pinto as far as pitch calling and the pitcher-catcher relationship?
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Fair enough, and I did not dig for details prior that post, but the Morris signing definitely passed the WOW! test at the time, if not for his stats (but those too) then at least for his competitiveness and you banked on him pitching every fifth day. ...and it's always nice to read old quotes from Patrick Reusse, the eternal optimist.
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I think it's ok to include the 87 and 91 teams as part of one sustained run. More up and down seasons in that stretch, but it was the same core group of guys who put together the fun 1984 run and several of the clutch guys were part of the 87 and 91 teams (Gagne, Gladden, in addition to Puckett and Hrbek). Signing a big name free agent pitcher is what put us over the top in 1991 -- go figure!
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Not sure why its controversial to fire an underperforming manager.
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Larry Dierker came directly from the broadcast booth to lead the Astros so having no coaching experience is not unheard of... and I think there's still Molitor love left over from 2001-2002 when TK stepped down and Molitor and Gardenhire were considered to be the front runners. Also, Sid Hartman -- leave it to Sid -- made a pretty blunt statement about a month ago that Dave St. Peter wants Molitor to manage (I'm sure that eased the tension in the front office).
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    People who listen regularly to the radio broadcasts of games and the complementary radio programming will have heard some really petty back-and-forths between Mauer and Gardy about why or why not Mauer was in the lineup after his Bilateral leg weakness. Mauer saying he was sore, Gardy giving him day off, Mauer coming back and saying yeah he was sore but still wanted to play, Gardy saying he let's Joe tell him what to do, etc. So when I read the "irritability" story, that whole backstory came to mind. Maybe concussion symptoms but hard for me to take Terry Ryan at face value after what he said about the Scott Baker injury. Also what an earlier poster in this thread said about having two young newborns and lack of sleep could make a guy irritable
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I'm not sure how to read it. True, the concussion is a critical fact but don't overlook that Mauer and Gardenhire have an unflattering years-long history of back and forth bickering about whether Gardenhire was going to write Joe into the lineup on any particular day. A minor story, but I do think it's news that the GM and manager told the media that the team's mild-mannered star player was so irritable that he was excused from the park -- sure does violate the "keep it in the locker room" code.
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Understood.
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    How unfortunate. I've never understood the Twins fans who defend the manager more vehemently than they defend the players, especially considering the successful guys we've seen come through here. Let's give Gardenhire some credit for managing during the good years but keep him around and we will be seeing attendance in the single thousands a year from now. Folks who care more deeply about Ron Gardenhire than they care about the team itself should ask themselves if the inevitable losing season next year would leave a permanent stain on his chances to ever manage in any other organization. One bad year is an aberration, two bad years might be excused. Check out the story today in the Pioneer Press about Mauer getting "irritable" whenever Gardenhire comes to talk to him. Link . This franchise is overdue to decide if they want to rebuild around Mauer and their top prospects and new leadership in the clubhouse, or if they want to maintain their job welfare program for Gardenhire and his good-ol'-boy network while guys like Gibson and Hicks wither on the vine. So yeah, I have an opinion about this. It's got to be someone other than Gardenhire and someone not currently on the coaching staff.
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Do you believe or have evidence the overall organization is getting stronger?
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Well said. I feel the national media's love affair with Mattingly and all things New York cost Hrbek those Gold Gloves, and having said that, I would venture out to say that Meintkiewicz had a better glove even than Herbie.
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Love the photo You are recognizing that the Morneau trade is the news of the day.. this is a trade that will be compared against every lineup Gardenhire draws up the rest of the year, a trade that will be rightly held up against every transaction Terry Ryan makes heading into next season.
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Fair, but Winning can come about suddenly and turn arounds can be quick. (recent examples being Tampa, Pittsburgh, Washington, Baltimore). I think the Twins have expected to be competitive these past few seasons, if not strong contenders. They certainly didn't expect to be strong contenders heading into 2008 yet they were. Twins have some fantastic prospects almost ready. Do you have an idea about how seriously the Twins might be considering bringing in some new coaches who might guide the young guys along into the Major League level?
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