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  1. Mike Sixel
    Starting the games earlier is a great idea. Live music really needs to learn this lesson......badly. Charging me to listen to a free radio broadcast when I live out of state is really stupid. It's free in market, but not out of market? They can't make much money in that.....I might have it as background of it was free. I used to in Minnesota some....
  2. Mike Sixel
    The batter has to stay in the box then. I mean really, you have to adjust gloves and look at a sign with no one on base? So. Damn. Slow. It gets to my point earlier about action. The ratio of activity to nothing is way too low.
  3. Mike Sixel
    If they want those guys in Minnesota next year, they should be in Minnesota now. How many terrible outings, in addition to his time in Detroit, do they need to see? Great play by Sano!
  4. Mike Sixel
    Guess we can kiss the idea of Winder being in the rotation day one goodbye. At this point B also looks out. Not looking good for the start of next year already, alas.
  5. Mike Sixel
    21-22 for a pitcher to be an ace? So, zero college pitchers are ever aces? Every HS pitcher is up in 3-4 years, or not even a number 2? I'll take that bet.....
  6. Mike Sixel
    Looks like it isn't a long-term thing......phew. The young man is a special talent, and despite my feelings about the team, I'd love to see him be everything he can.
  7. Mike Sixel
    right.....as long at nothing is broken....
  8. Mike Sixel
    Jefferson hurt....no idea how badly yet.....hoping it is nothing really....
  9. Mike Sixel
    Insane. Remember when A Lot of people said he wasn't worth drafting?
  10. Mike Sixel
    Remember when this was a thread about optimism?
  11. Mike Sixel
    That is me, 100%. I'm really down to the NFL, and even that is not every week anymore.....Along with the occasional golf or soccer match (mostly weather dependent, though not totally). To be clear, I want the Twins to win, and I find that more fun, but I have little need to watch a regular season game. I can see what is happening on gamecast....and let's be honest, 80% of pitches are as exciting on gamecast as they are in seen.
  12. Mike Sixel
    I don't, but then I live in OR and have zero interest in paying to listen or watch sports at this point in my life...... If I had access to watch MLB more often, I'm not sure I would. Partly because I've gone from watching a ton of sports to doing more fun things with my life. But, mostly, as has been pointed out, the excitement of the game is greatly reduced. I'll use soccer as an example....the issue isn't lack of goals, it is lack of real scoring opportunities (this is the issue for those that say soccer is boring). The same is happening in baseball. Steals don't make sense, so they don't happen. Teams know that HRs lead to more runs scored than 2 singles, so they teach hitting HRs. Pitchers and teams have figured out that using math and science makes them better at their job. There just isn't much action, and there often wasn't before either. Now it is just worse. Finally, games last too long to hold my interest. Other than a great book and sports I do myself, few things hold my interest for 3+ hours these days. Hitters step out of the box, look for the sign (which is silly, the sign is hit the ball hard), the pitcher shakes the catcher off, about a million seconds later there is a pitch. Then do it again. And again. I don't know the fix, frankly. Bad announcing isn't it. Whining about the game isn't. Bad mouthing the sport by owners, ex players, and announcers isn't.
  13. Mike Sixel
    I want Burrows off the roster, and someone up from AAA that is part of the future. I really don't understand the plan right now. It should be about preparing for next year. Especially the pitching. I want to see if Rob, the OF, can be the fourth OF next year. I want to see at least one more starter up and pitching, preferably Strotman or Ryan or both. I want Kepler to rebound..... I'm interested to see if Rooker can be part of the future.
  14. Mike Sixel
    In the one thread asking for optimism.... We get negative posts and heavy analysis. This site sucks sometimes.
  15. Mike Sixel
    Having zero minor league pitchers in the pipeline that they inherited has nothing to do with the current staff?
  16. Mike Sixel
    As much as I want youth to be. served....Gordon needs a reset. I am ok with this. Plus, they need to find a legit OF ....
  17. Mike Sixel
    They have plenty of good on their mid twenties in AAA. .. Options are irrelevant for them..... So evaluate them. Burrows? Move on.
  18. Mike Sixel
    Cytodyn. I rode it up... Bought more.... And somehow it keeps going down ...
  19. Mike Sixel
    Except we aren't talking about signing him... We are talking about not dealing him for a prospect. For half a year, where three rotation spots are being used by rookies. I also would not sign a bad player to be a mentor. Of course, he's not a bad player. I'm not sure anyone is saying he's a major component to their long term success, just that there is some value in having a good, veteran, pitcher on the roster to help the rookies.
  20. Mike Sixel
    I share that frustration, but that is 100% not the same as your original post. But yes, I agree, they should have been more aggressive in 2019 at the deadline.
  21. Mike Sixel
    I'm curious, but how does this post add value to the conversation?
  22. Mike Sixel
    No. Massive. Not sure they could do it even if they wanted. Almost certain they could not.
  23. Mike Sixel
    No idea, but my preference is a guy they are confident can stick at SS, or the best college starting pitcher (assuming he hasn't been over used by his college manager.....). After that? HS SS or CF, someone that can play D and hit. I don't want anymore bat first corner OF that probably can't field at the MLB level.....
  24. Mike Sixel
    So much logic here......great post. If anyone thought they were worth trading for, then someone thought they were good prospects, and the FO wasn't the only team wrong. If everyone agreed they weren't good, you can't trade them. Also, I'd think they'd need a year to watch and assess players, so no one was going to be traded in year one most likely. By then, did anyone think Stewart, Jay, or Gonsalves were good prospects other than people on TD? Finally, there is a big difference between NO BLAME, and the blame mostly being on the FO that drafted those players. The Twins blew three top 10 picks. That almost seems impossible.
  25. Mike Sixel
    By sheer numbers alone, you'd expect lots of guys not in a list of 50 to be as good as those in the list. There are thousands of minor league players.....
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