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Count me among those that are happy Dozier isn't hitting like last year.

Mmmmmmm....chicken

Cover your eyes kids, here comes Taylor Rogers!! I asked before and I'll ask again -- Kintzler can't get 4 outs?

I got my review of 3-man today in a game since we have playoffs starting next week and once you remember how the responsibilities work, it's like riding a bike.

Hey Dick, it's not difficult to do 3-man umpiring. Everyone knows what they're responsible for. So of course they got those calls right. It's a very small adjustment.

I don't think much of CB Bucknor as an umpire but damn, those cage rattlers are the absolute worst. And he wears that hockey-style mask that is supposed to be safer than the standard mask (I've never tried it, just heard reports about it). Looks like it got him closer to the throat area which might have pushed that bottom piece into him. Ooof, that just gives me chills whenever I see that cuz I've been there, though not to that severity.

That's a hell of a mistake on 0 and 2 when your catcher is set up outside and you try to bust the batter inside. Maybe that's why you'll only be a AAA pitcher, Boshers.

Is that 'player' or 'playa'? And I'm still looking for it to jumpstart my career.

I'd stop watching the Twins. They'll only accelerate your decline! =)

Ahhhhhh, that's why I didn't remember Pressly being so effective.

I don't remember Pressly being this effective!! And a real sweet play by Dozier.

Could finally tune over from hockey to catch the second half of this one. While we're in an inning break, here's a question for ya out there....answer a bit later. How is it possible (and it is) to have 4 outs in an inning? Stay tuned...

I went to college in the Baltimore area around the time Klingenbeck came up and I remember how excited the Orioles were about him coming up thru their organization. So when the Twins traded Erickson for him, I thought that it could end up being ok. Ummmm, no. He definitely deserves to be on this list. I would nominate a number of players that showed up from the late 90s when the team was beyond awful...guys like Kevin Maas, Scott Stahoviak, Matt Merullo, etc. I'm sure you'll find plenty of pitchers from that time too.

In the linked video below, that crawl ran BEFORE Reardon delivered the final pitch. A bit ballsy by the powers-that-be at KARE back then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S2pZ6QGtg0

Good times. I was at this game AND got a ball during BP.

Admittedly, I haven't watched too many Twins games this season because of various reasons, one being how embarrassingly terrible they've been. My opinion is if you have a lot of young players that you think are going to be part of your organization going forward, it doesn't make much sense to me in a totally lost season to have them hanging out in AAA not learning how to hit MLB pitching. What good will it serve the Twins in 2017 and beyond if you send Bux or Kepler or Park to AAA where they won't see MLB pitching and then bringing them back up again and they flail away like they continually have? The one thing that I've noticed throughout this thread that hasn't been mentioned is why the hell Bruno is still the hitting coach. I thought he should have been axed after that 0-9 start and it's not like they've been racking up the offense since then. If long swings are what we're seeing as a flaw in a number of these young players, isn't it up to a competent hitting coach to start correcting that and seeing some positive results? The only way today's move works is if Arcia clears waivers and he rebuilds himself at Rochester. But dumping him and getting nothing for him is just another colossal fail. I wasn't the biggest proponent of trading Plouffe in the offseason until they decided to send Sano to RF. Why Nolasco wasn't traded (even for unstitched balls and broken bats) in the offseason is beyond me. I was also very skeptical of the Park signing simply because you can't glean anything from someone tearing up Korea. He's like the reverse Pedro Cerrano -- can't hit the fastball. This team needs a complete overhaul and it needs to happen by the ASG.

Do we know who this is? Asking for a friend...

Viola, Radke, Tapani, Erickson, Santana This team sucks across the entire organization. I've never been more down on any team I root for in a very long time as much as I am about these guys. Zero leadership on the bench or in the field. No one steps up in a clutch situation. No pitcher wants the ball in a big spot and comes through. I've tried to stay patient but everything they've tried to work for has been shredded and there needs to be a new way of thinking around these parts. Otherwise, we're gonna become what the Royals were for 25 years.

For those of you who want May in the rotation, his ERA would be astronomical and he'd tax the bullpen. What is that, 3 leads he's blown this year? Worthless. Speaking of worthless, how about these clowns leaving the bases loaded again twice tonight. Either get new players or fire Bruno and bring in someone that can actually teach clutch hitting.

If I had a dollar for every time this franchise left the bases loaded, I'd be swimming Scrooge McDuck style in my basement of gold coins. If we weren't playing in an NL park and the bench wasn't already short, I'd have sat Arcia for that at-bat. But then, someone probably told him to go after that first pitch after 8 straight balls.

Well done everyone. Let's do it again in 13 hours.

Hopefully he can get another hit to try to break that timing mark.

Are we gonna play again tonite?

Fixed it for ya.

If you can get to Vegas quickly, I'll take a Bananas Foster (scroll to bottom of menu) http://www.holsteinsburgers.com/menus/las-vegas/