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  1. IndianaTwin
    It sounds like the 20-man taxi squad concept is part of the proposal, for purposes of having players available for call-ups, etc. Here's my thought -- to minimize the need for travel for Florida each time someone is activated, play 7-inning "JV games" in the morning to keep those 20 extra players sharp! With so many of us quarantined, the TV ratings would be better for those games than four hours of SportsCenter repeats.
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    And by that point in the relationship, I’d hope she realized what/who she was dealing with! :-)
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    Sneaking off to watch the game during the anniversary dinner, huh? Oh well, at least when you were stuck on the couch that night, you were able to watch the highlight shows.
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    I've thought, too, that the simplest thing would be to just pick up the schedule, but it would certainly leave things uneven in terms of schedule strength, home/away balance, etc. I don't know if the three 10-team leagues/divisions/conferences still has traction, but at earlier time, we were hearing the goal of getting to 100-120 games. In this structure, it would be very easy to have 12 games (two home and home series of three games each) against 9 teams for 108 games. If that's too many to fit, another option would be 10 games against 9 teams for 90 games. And if they wanted to minimize travel, they could turn them all into five-game series. That would mean each team just makes one trip to each city. It also has the advantage of having synching rotations with the series, so a team doesn't run into the unfortunate situation of having all four series line up with Cole or Scherzer. Each team sees each pitcher twice (assuming health). With an off-day after every other series, that would require 107 days of games from start to end. Start July 1 and you'd "only" have to extend the regular season to Oct. 6. Take out some of the playoff off days and three rounds would still get done pretty early in November. I haven't checked this, but I'm pretty sure the "Old Farmer's Almanac is calling for mild weather in the Twin Cities through the 10th of November.
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    I don’t know if this is Baker’s rationale, but one thing I like about the current situation is it gives one more thing for fans to argue about. I do have a proposal for interleague, however. I think they have it backwards. Use the DH in the NL park so that NL fans get to see the Nelson Cruzes of the world hit. Go without it in the AL parks so that AL fans can see the novelty of pitchers flailing. I mean, of Bartolo hitting.
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    From what I see, most things on the Internet seems to be written by 10-year-olds.* *Exception being Twins Daily, of course.
  7. IndianaTwin
    I'm biased and would put 1991 over 1975, but 1975 was more than Fisk. G1: 0-0 through 6 before Boston scores 6. G2: Reds score two in T9 to win 3-2. G3: Reds win 6-5 in 10. G4: Boston leads 5-4 after 4 and both teams go scoreless the rest of the way. Complete game for Tiant. Reds get 5+ innings of scoreless relief. G5: 6-2 Reds. G6: Carbo 3 run PH HR to tie in the 8th, Foster throws out Doyle at home from foul territory in B9, Evans great catch to start 9-3-6 DP at 1B in 11th, and Fisk. G7: Morgan plates winner with 2 outs in T9. First Red Sox series in a long time and Cincy in a streak of 4 appearances in 7 years.
  8. IndianaTwin
    At least until the next night.
  9. IndianaTwin
    Winner, winner, looks like it's Korean Fried Chicken for dinner!
  10. IndianaTwin
    Remember that Thorpe and Smeltzer can't be LOOGYs. Now they have to be LTO(OETI)GYs. That's Lefty Three-Outs (Or End The Inning) Guys. Doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it?
  11. IndianaTwin
    Close to 20 years ago, I was in next-door Johnson City for an indoor track and field meet and took advantage of a break to drive over to Elizabethton to see if I could find the ballpark. After I got home, I told people how I'd stopped by this minor league park where I was able to talk to the assistant general manager, the head groundskeeper, the assistant groundskeeper, the ticket manager, the p.r. guy, their souvenir shop manager and probably a couple more positions. Then I'd say, "Of course, that was all the same guy." He was about ready to head to spring training, and a new batch of caps had come in. I don't remember if he gave me one or if I had to buy it, but I still wear that E-Twins cap proudly and think of that day each time I pull it out of the closet. It would be a bummer to have them go away, because I never was able to get back there for a game.
  12. IndianaTwin
    Here was my attempt to create a 25-man roster using each number only once: http://twinsdaily.com/topic/36284-twins-all-time-roster-by-the-numbers/
  13. IndianaTwin
    MLB Network is playing Nats games all day and now has Game 5 against the Dodgers. I know this isn't a "how's Maeda going to do" thread, but he just came in and finished the eighth after Kershaw gave up back-to-back solo shots. He struck out the side, getting guys to swing at pitches that were way outside the zone and flinch at others that were out there as well. Then, when it seemed like guys were paralyzed looking for that, he'd bust a strike up and in. Guys looked very uncomfortable against him. Methinks he's going to be really fun to watch.
  14. IndianaTwin
    He's before my time, so I'd have to look it up on baseball-reference.com. But I love the concept. My guy was very highly regarded coming out of both high school and college (that's a hint) and came over in a trade in 1979 after turning in a 141 OPS+ in limited action with California. He had some pop and managed 8 homers, 6 triples, and 19 doubles out of his 103 hits over the next three seasons in Minnesota, before getting released and picked up by Oakland. He only mustered 252 games over the course of his career, though 172 of them were with the Twins.
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    And looking at that 1974 staff, there were only 49 innings spread over four guys outside the five starters and four relievers who carried the load. How times have changed. Along with the alphabet rotation I just mentioned, the bullpen was three guys named Bill (Campbell, Hands, Butler) and another B in Burgmeier.
  16. IndianaTwin
    What an awesome list from my childhood! TD needs more Bill Campbell, Tom Johnson, and especially Tom Burgmeier sightings. Please, please, please, can we include Paul Thormodsgard? And as a nerdy kid, I thought it was neat that the '74 rotation followed the alphabet with Albury, Blyleven, Corbin, and Decker (plus Goltz). That was my first year listening to WHO in Des Moines, "coast to coast, border to border, and then some." Now I should go over to the hitter list and beg for Craig Kusick. And my all-time favorite utility player, the awesome Jerry Terrell.
  17. IndianaTwin
    Jim Hughes, anyone? I was so fired up for him 1975. But hey, what does a nine-year-old know...
  18. IndianaTwin
    That was a great way to spend 36+ minutes. Now I’m going to spend the next 36 minutes watching from 32:42-32:53 over and over.
  19. IndianaTwin
    I'm 54 and still working on mine. I figure it's my last shot of making the majors, since there seems to be little interest in a center fielder with no arm who has lost any speed he once had. Oh, and who can't hit a curve.
  20. IndianaTwin
    I was in class and didn’t get home until like the 8th inning. This was the first time I’ve seen the whole game. There were some great performances/plays along the way.
  21. IndianaTwin
    I missed it this afternoon, but my DVR is set to record any Twins game. It’s been great to see Mauer behind the plate. And now to see Nathan doing the bpbpbpbpt thing.
  22. IndianaTwin
    Is that how you understand Pineda's suspension? I read "suspensions will apply as usual for the upcoming season but will not carry further into the future if the 2020 season is cancelled" to mean that he will still have to sit out 39 days, but that if the season is cancelled, it will be assumed as served. For example, here's a Joel Sherman tweet on Domingo German. It's a different issue, but still a suspension. "The way that the MLB/MLBPA agreement reads on domestic abuse suspensions, Domingo German will have to serve the remaining 63 games of his ban, but if there is no season or a shortened season, it does not carry over to 2021."
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    My son just ordered a copy of "Hall of Name: Baseball's Most Magnificent Monikers," a new book by D.B. Firstman, with the foreward by Jayson Stark. It's like an encyclopedia of about 100 of the best names in baseball history. For each player, there's some basic bio information, an etymology of the name, several paragraphs of bio, his pick for the best day of the player's career (by WPA or some other measure), "Not to be confused with" (references to other names from pop culture), anagrams, and an ephemera of tidbits that didn't make the rest of the entry. Chapters include: 1. Baseball Poets and Men of Few (Different) Letters, led by our own Boof Bonser. 2. Dirty Names Done Dirt Cheap. Fortunately, this is the shortest section, with just 10 entries. But did you know that, according to the ephemera, Gene Krapp died from an unsuccessful surgery to deal with bowel cancer? 3. Sounds Good to Me, chosen for the way the name rolls off the tongue, like Billy Jo Robidoux and Van Lingle Mungo. 4. No Focus Group Convened, which is the leftovers chosen just because of being interesting or unusual. I assume that Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish was a no-brainer for inclusion. His anagram is "Oh Jesus! Unlavish, tragicomical, social lame duck." I haven't read it, but it's been fun to flip through. Though he has fun with it, I didn't find anything mean-spirited in the book. It seems to be very well done.
  24. IndianaTwin
    Teddy Ballgame led the league in hitting at 39, slumped a bit at 40, and then turned in a 1.096 OPS at age 41. Of course, I suppose one could say he was starting to slide, since his OPS+ at age 40 “only” matched his career average of 190.
  25. IndianaTwin
    That's why this site is great. On back-to-back posts, we get why I like him and you don't, and it's for exactly the same reasons!
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