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  1. Original_JB
    Ouch.... https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/04/carlos-correa-leaves-game-with-oblique-strain.html
  2. Original_JB
    Were they showing clips of the "testicular eclipse" on the big screen at the time?
  3. Original_JB
    Now remember, if we do the "guessed at" QB thing, that will eat this year's 2 and likely next year's 1st round draft picks. We already have no 2nd rounder this year. We need a center, another OL, pretty much the entire secondary, and DL help. Yes, you can be very, very good at lower round drafts picks and FA's (which we know KAM is so good at), but the top talent is in the top rounds.
  4. Original_JB
    I know this won't be popular, but I really think they should be working on a draft day trade of Justin Jefferson. The Vikes have gotten too old and expensive for the talent level on the team; too expensive to get good 'buying' FAs to improve. They really don't have the cap space with the talent they have on hand, to be paying JJ top of the league WR money --- even if he deserves to be paid that way. They didn't get the extension figured out last year.... If Darnold is only OK, and whoever they draft isn't the savior, what then? The likelihood of any of those top 6 QBs being a franchise guy is actually pretty slim. If JJ is as wanted and liked around the league as much as he appears to be, wouldn't a trade for an extra 1st rounder and and couple of 2nds (or whatever the pundits say is 'fair') of young, high talent, 'low cost for a few years' type players be overall, more help to this club?
  5. Original_JB
    Solid choices.
  6. Original_JB
    Did they follow through on not selling large sections of the park until the lower bowl (more expensive seats) was 'sold out'? If so, people may just be waiting for seats in their price range to be available.
  7. Original_JB
    Well, they are in the 'entertainment' business; The Twins (and they are not wrong) know that by and large people like to get attention, be spectacles. Back in the dome days, I was looking to get some extra playoff tickets and was offered top of the 1st deck seats right next to the milk jug like I was being offered some insider special deal; I told them that I'd rather sit in the upper deck anywhere towards the infield than out there. Ticket salesman was incredulous that I didn't want the seats that "get shown on TV all the time". I asked if he was joking about that, no one cares about that, c'mon. He was not. So, I'll bet that those dock seats get sold for every game, even at $1200, to people who really don't care that they aren't that good of seats, or that a game is even being played, as long as they get their Social Media shots.
  8. Original_JB
    Ahh yes; brings back the memory. Got online the minute the tickets went on sale. Got what I thought would be good seats (about 2/3rds of the way up the lower level along the 1st base line). And they were, for the infield and viewing the left fielder's shoes. They don't count as 'obstructed' (yeah, saw some of those "pillar" view seats), but the 2nd deck overhang is so low, you kind of watch through a slot. I guess the locals had it figured out because all the seats around us were filled with travelling Twins fans.
  9. Original_JB
    Did this trip the 1st time the Twins played at Wrigley years back; caught the trifecta: Ribfest and the Chicago Blues Festival were also that weekend. Stayed at the "historic" Palmer House and got an "El" pass for the weekend. Wrigleyville was fun, Wrigley itself was a dump in sort of a quaint way. Even caught a Snappers game on the drive home. Highly recommended.
  10. Original_JB
    I guess after hearing the interview, and just watching the other developments, (expansion, really?), I just cant continue to pretend that Baseball is the game I grew up with anymore, especially with the owner coming out and stating as much. I mean, I know it's a business and have forever, but in my mind, tried to keep thinking of it as the game I grew up with. It came to me today that the closest business that MLB compares to is Six Flags. It's all about the entertainment and ways to collect the consumer's cash. When your "at one time" biggest ride (Mauer) is broken down and used up, you put up another one (Correa). When you don't have the funds or wherewithal to add a new ride, you add "new" concessions, you add "concerts after the park closes", etc., to keep people coming in. Sounds just like Valley Fair, doesn't it? I hate amusement parks.
  11. Original_JB
    Less and less like the Senators, and more and more like the Generals as time goes by.
  12. Original_JB
    With the number of injuries plaguing this team the last few years, at this point, I wait until the logjam actually appears before I spend too much time worrying about it. Unless magically, a trade opportunity arises where we're picking up a frontline pitcher and the other team wants an infielder, and even then, worry about that if/when it happens.
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  14. Original_JB
    saw this live last night with fab seats. 80's 2-fer!
  15. Original_JB
    I sorta know what you mean. I have a nephew who does the aluminum can thing (saves them up, cashes in at the metals place in Mpls.); he doesn't poach anywhere, just has everyone in the family save theirs and makes a run every few months. I did some math a while back and it's about a penny a can. Hardly seems worth it (considering we pay the recycling company to take all that stuff), but I got a can crusher and save them up for him. I like to support his initiative, especially for the amount of work he puts into it, As an aside, where do you live? I can't imagine a community in this day and age eliminating (or even being allowed to eliminate) such programs.
  16. Original_JB
    Reminds me of the big box they had over at KQRS in the "Pennies For Pitchers" thing I think it was Viola (?) at the time. (picture from KQRS public gallery) LASSMAN: There was a Twins pitcher holding out for more dough. Everybody hated this guy. We got a big hopper and invited listeners to come down to Golden Valley to throw pennies in this big hopper. Well, the hopper started filling up. People were lined up down the street.
  17. Original_JB
    Oh boy, don't get me started. I listened to the interview he had with Barreiro the other day, and whatever drug cocktail the FO has him on, I want in! He came across as totally lucid and aware, his demeanor was even keeled and even a bit optimistic, as he went on and on how the Twins just keep replacing quality guys with new up and coming quality guys. But whatever they have him on must really skew his judgement of time and space in regards to reality. I don't think I could have gone through the interview saying what he did and kept a straight face. Like I said, I want some of that!
  18. Original_JB
    25+% overall for me this past year
  19. Original_JB
    I'm thinking along TopGunn#22's line; with this odd December weather, I'm going to go with the Twins having their 1st two series washed out due to cold/sleety/snowy weather (April 4,6,7 (CLE) and 8,9,10 (LAD)), with the rest of the season thrown into turmoil with having to squeeze 6 extra home games into the schedule right off the bat. Went and took a peek; Twins only have 8 days off between the start of the season and the All Star break, and 2 of those are straddled by away series, so only 6 'make-up' days available there. We do have a home series against CLE starting Aug 9th if they needed to do some doubleheaders to fit games in.
  20. Original_JB
    Off the board to the Red Sox; 2 years $38.5M with an opt out after the 1st year.
  21. Original_JB
    If, as they are saying, he is truly healthy, he is the starting CF, 5 days a week; no coddling, no trying to minimize his innings to 'preserve him' for later in the year. Play him as a full time player, until you can't. And when/if he breaks down, he goes on the IR, not nibbling around at DH or PH for weeks at a time. So, some of this is on the Twins' handling of him. Quit pretending he's the shiny new tool you're too afraid to scratch up in use; Use him as the everyday tool he is supposed to be, until he's not, then set him aside.
  22. Original_JB
    You may enjoy this article (in regards to disparity of wealth in general): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/
  23. Original_JB
    Have you looked at the payroll disparity of Premier League Soccer? https://www.planetfootball.com/quick-reads/premier-league-wage-bill-ranking-2023-24-man-utd-liverpool-arsenal And that's not including the "lower" Champion League teams. I've floated this idea before, and it is this: Combine the Majors and AAA teams (condensed down to around 50 teams total) and run MLB as a 2 tier system similar to the Premier League. Run the same type relegation plan. That way, the big spenders can do as they will, and teams that are more modest in how they want to run their team can be opportunistic and move up to the higher league depending on how they perform. Sure, you'd need to upgrade a few stadiums, but with so much of the money being in TV and the blackouts going away, I think you could grow the game. Yankees/Dodgers coming to Toledo/Durham? Heck yeah. You might get owners who are more willing to own teams if they felt they could run a $25M payroll and be competitive for the lower championship, and not trying to "keep up with the Jones". And this whole thing only comes about if they (owners/players) decide that there will never be a cap and never be a floor and every team is more or less, an independent contractor.
  24. Original_JB
    Sounds like they ought to change from the "LV Athletics" to the "Nevada Nova".
  25. Original_JB
    Well, we know he's had at least one cleanup procedure in the knee, and most recently had a plina flap removed because it was irritated and barking and they couldn't get rid of the inflammation after all that time. I realize that the plinas aren't super important, but it's another chunk taken out. The Twins themselves have said the knee is 'chronic'. He can exercise and rehab all winter and still 'trigger' it simply by slipping on the ice a bit getting out of a car; It's a shame, but that doesn't change the reality of it.
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