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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Rooker with the top exit velo tonight (so far)
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    I think you are thing of “Jose Can…” you see. (“by the dawns early light”🎵)
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    Let’s get a rumor started that Brent Rooker bit off someone’s ear in the All Star game tonite
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    Was his name Terry, or Eilly? 🤣
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    It is fun to do, and I’m sure the Twins are doing it too. I am on board with your idea of trying to manage Ober’s innings a little bit. I also like your idea of letting Gray start Sunday, and to add to that maybe even giving him and Lopez an extra day to report to Oakland. Maybe, dunno. In theory the starters for the first couple games against Oakland would roughly line up to face Cleveland at the end of August and then line up for the first postseason series, although it obviously gets a little sketchy trying to predict out that far.
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    There was a great article about Sonny Gray in the Strib. Sounds like he’s been a good influence on Joe Ryan. Here’s another funny story: One of the best compliments Gray received came in Game 3 of the 2013 American League Division Series. He was lights out in Game 2, pitching eight scoreless innings for Oakland against the Tigers. During a benches-clearing incident at the end of Game 3, Gray remembers staying in the background as players yelled at one another. A's interpreter Ariel Prieto told Gray, "Miggy wants to see you." Gray, who was in his first major league season, was confused. This was during the middle of the benches clearing. Prieto reiterated, "Cabrera." Gray shuffled around and didn't know what to expect. "I get over to Cabrera and he's like, 'hey, you've got good stuff, man. You've got good stuff,' " Gray said. "I'm like: 'Thank you, Mr. Cabrera. I appreciate that.' I didn't know what was happening."
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    Except for the part about people overthinking this, your last paragraph is exactly right and does not contradict the idea that he is still going to be eased back into center field at some point. A tweet from March:
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    I literally said the athletic trainer is an important job. I didn’t demean Paparesta in any way. I get that you are incurious about this and don’t want a deeper discussion to happen. However, it is worth talking about. There are lots of other angles to it beyond just Buxton. Like what changed between mid-May when Buxton was scheduled to go back out into center, and today. Why hasn’t Buxton been put on the IL. Why have other head athletic trainers taken the fall for Falvey in the past. One thing I like about Thad Levine is he is refreshingly honest in the things he doesn’t say. I don’t get the impression he wants to gaslight us. He recognizes this is a subject worth talking about.
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    One thing Levine said is they were waiting to hear from Paparesta and Buxton. Paparesta is the brand new head trainer and not exactly one of the medical professionals per se, at least not in the sense you intended. Important job, but not one of the doctors.
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    Welcome to the site! Gladden talked about how Mullins robbed Buck of that home run Friday and how maybe it would get his competitive juices flowing to go back out there, and in the interview with Levine, it was more about what wasn’t said— for example, Buxton’s knee wasn’t mentioned. So we wait.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Are you privy to some internal discussions that the rest of us are not? 🙂
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    Haven’t dived into the article yet, but this could be a diplomatic way of saying that the players are owning up to their performance, but non-players haven’t owned up. If I recall, it was over the All Star break in 2016 when Ryan was relieved or stepped down.
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    People can go back and listen to Levine’s interview with Provus yesterday and decide for themselves whether Buxton is too hurt to play in the field. And thank god for Cory Provus.
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    I would need to see at least a full season, better yet 2 or 3 seasons, like the Dodgers or Cleveland had, maintaining a spot at the very top of the leader boards, before I start calling Falvey an elite pitching mind. Hopefully with a new organization. As said, there was a cost to get to this point. Bringing in guys like Pagan, Mahle, etc, needs to be a part of the story as well, and not called quibbles. They have plenty of other whiffs on evaluations, in my opinion these are guys like Pressly, Dobnak, Wells, Thorpe, Gil, SWR, not to mention the train of fill in starters like Schoemaker and Archer, not trading guys like Jay or Gonsalves when they had a chance, and so on. All teams have misses like that, but an honest evaluation should mention the bad with the good and let people decide for themselves. I still think the bullpen is very shaky and the best thing that could happen is that we get a weak draw when we host the 6 seed and play our games in the daytime out of the limelight. Because the only reliever I would trust in a high pressure situation in a prime time game against Houston or New York would be Duran. Duran being the one really solid acquisition after Joe Ryan.
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    Also, incredible that our boys made Kyle Gibson look like Bob Gibson today. Who had Gibson striking out more batters than Joe Ryan, especially considering Ryan’s hot start? I don’t know if Ryan was upset at some ball strike calls, but you can’t let it affect you. That’s a thing where coaching absolutely makes a difference. Just sit down with him and tell him to forget it. Remind him who is coming up next inning and how to get that strike one, and put it behind you. Maybe someone like Tingler did that and it didn’t work. Not sure.
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    I’d be curious to know who was listening to Levine talk about Buxton this morning, and who was listening to Provus and Gladden during that 6-run sixth inning today. (The second big inning after the game was already out of reach.)
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    In my opinion, all that Miranda needed back in April/May was a few more days off sprinkled in, or some run at DH, to not let him get inside his own head too far. Also, last season all the writers wrote glowingly about how valuable Miranda was, rookie of the month in July, etc.
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    No, not you.
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    glad I wasn’t the only one.
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Who has worse knees, Buxton or Arraez! That’s gonna be a close one!
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    There were lots of fans opposed to trading Arraez for Lopez when it was just a rumor, but when Miami threw in an A ball player hitting a buck-eighty, it suddenly became a fantastic trade! Not to mention the fans who seemed perfectly satisfied with Rocco pulling Joe Ryan out of a no hitter after the 7th last year. (also against the Royals.) The satire pen will never run out of work!
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    It’s a good staff greater than the sum of its parts, that we have paid a high price for. Best of the Falvine era for sure.
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    It’s a team game, but individual achievements are fun, and raise a player’s stature. Fans and teammates alike want to see individuals do well. I am in favor of Twins starters throwing complete game shutouts. 🙂
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    “Pythag is a interesting stat, nothing more” wrote the internet commenter, with his mouth closed. 🙂
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    If you pitch another pitcher into a Save situation, you both get Saves (i read that somewhere)
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