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  1. Seth, Thanks for this post. It makes the most sense to me.
  2. This whole Correa matter is bizarre and becoming weirder by the day. Boras and Correa, SF and the Mets and the Twins are just playing a different game with rules which are not clear to me, amid swirling speculation and assumptions based on something called sabermetrics, which conflict with my old time gut feelings based on high school baseball experiences from the 1960's. I feel that there are deceptions and half truths mixed in also. So I have decided to take some time off. I will dance with the girl who goes to the spring dance with me and I will leave with her at the end of the dance in October. This is taking too much of my time and energy.
  3. Not without knowing the absolute truth about what SF perceived the problem to be and getting the problem throughly checked out before offering anything. Due diligence, my friends.
  4. I hope the Twins spend the $24,000,000 on signing the best FA relievers who are available. There's not much left in position players of SP which I would want to be playing ahead of what the Twins currently have or will have when Lewis returns.
  5. It's OK. We're still good Chief. I admit I am shooting from the hip and am just really frustrated with the way this off season has gone for the Twins, except I'm pleased about Vasquez. Besides that, I really appreciate anyone who served in the USAF.
  6. 5 % of $65,000,000 is $3,250,000. That is how much more Boras apparently got by Correa signing for $350,000,000 instead of $285,000,000.
  7. Wait a minute. I just read a Forbes magazine article which said Boras got 5% of his clients' contracts. What do you base your statement that Boras had a flat rate or that Boras did not make more money by getting Correa $350,000,000 than Boras would have made ig Correa had signed for $285,000,000?
  8. I did not realize that I assumed Boras charged a percentage of his client's contracts. My mistake. I apologize.
  9. A quote which comes to mind is from the long gone cartoon, "Pogo" : "We have met the enemy and it is us."
  10. Also Boras will most certainly be getting a percentage of the additional 65 million, so that further depletes Carlos' share that goes into his pocket. Plus the SF deal was for a longer period of time and we all know money today is worth more than the same amount of money tomorrow.
  11. Plus Lewis and Lee may prove to become difference makers themselves. We just don't know yet.
  12. Your reply is really helpful when I examine the Gallo signing. You made some really good points that have helped me see the Gallo signing as not as bad as I first thought. Thank you.
  13. Thanks for the article Doc. I still do not like the signing, but I respect your opinions and I pledge that for 1 week, I will read your article each night before I go to bed, with the hopes that eventually I will regain my usually sunny disposition and positive, hope-filled out look for the coming Twins' season.
  14. Nick, I can solve your mystery with three examples: 1) Watch some old videos of Miguel Sano at bat, with runners on the bases, when he swings and misses that low, outside slider time after time. That is what it is going to be like in 40 % of Gallo's at bats. 2) Watch videos of the Twins last year fail to advance the runners by bunt, sacrifice, stealing a base or hitting behind the runners. For over 100 years this has been good fundamental baseball. 3) Watch Kepler's videos from last year as he hits and grounds another 2 hopper to 2B. Nick I agree that contact is not always good, but it is usually better than the alternative.
  15. I really am at a loss for a reasonable explanation about the Gallo signing. I am very disappointed in the FO decision to sign Gallo. But then I'm old school. What do I know. Not much, since I only played baseball 7 years during the spring and summer, and through high school 50 years ago and only coached little league 3 seasons and only played intermural softball in college and a few years after in a men's church league. Really not enough experience to form an opinion that anyone else, much less the professional and experienced FO with the Twins organization, would pay any attention to. Now I only watch baseball and attend a dozen games a year. But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that hitting under .200 is bad and striking out 40% of the time is bad. Am I wrong? Has the game I love and thought I understood, changed so much? What am I missing here?
  16. I still think it is a poor signing by the FO. Those SO's are rally killers.
  17. Your two cents plus 10, 999,999.98 will apparently buy you Joey Gallo.
  18. Mike I wholeheartedly concur. An incredibly stupid signing.
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  20. I really am glad that Falvine does not tell all the details of his negotiations. I feel that is more professional on their part, even when there is widespread public interest in wanting to know all the details.
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