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And that call was right in front of him and he had zero reason to miss it. Hmmmm, sounds eerily familiar.

I wouldn't mind adding Bobby Wilson to that list.

Dammit Joe, get the rocks out of your pocket!!

Shifting Joe Mauer to the right field side. At least he's one hitter who can go the other way and tear that shift apart.

They're still 6 games below 500 so until they at least get to that point, I can't really take seriously looking at the standings. Of course, now this continues to muddle the trade deadline situation too. A 3-1 weekend in Boston would muddle it further but if they're winning, that can only be positive.

Another fine example of Molitor's pitiful bullpen management. You have a big 4-game series against the Bosux coming up and you bring in your closer for how many pitches in a 6-run game?

Rodney in the game during a 6-run lead. Interesting. *strokes beard*

Grand Slam anyone?

Look again at where the ball was thrown to him. He caught that throw like a tight end catches a pass for 5 yards on 3rd and 4. He had no chance to make that turn.

The clown walks the bases loaded and the clown manager leaves him in the game. The day that Molitor figures out how to manage a bullpen, he'll probably be in AAA somewhere.

Holy hell, Mauer is hitting his 2nd half stride again.

HAVE A DAY, MITCH!

Soooooo, who gets the 8th now that Reed is hurt? Pressly come out for more tightrope walking?

*covers eyes*

Well done, Mr. Garver. Santana back on the hook for the W.

Said not many ever. I'll need a heads up if he does come in so I can change the channel.

I like how some have already written off Santana and he's just 4 innings into his first appearance against MLB hitting since October. It's like y'all expected him to have a perfect game with 7 K's thru these 4 innings. The last couple of innings he seems to have settled in a bit better. 3rd time thru the order in the 5th will be key though. Be nice to get him a few more runs for cushion.

It seems that every batted out that Santana has gotten in this game has come on a hard hit ball. They've got him squared up pretty nicely.

I will do a dance of joy if Pressly gets jettisoned to the Cubs for a prospect at the deadline. Hell, I'd take a few broken bats and some scuffed baseballs for him.

Pressly's in the game and I'm watching. I'd better turn this off.

Nice hanger by Hu and Rosie swats it into the flowers.

81 pitches thru 6 innings. I don't know who this guy is pitching and wearing a Twins uniform but I'd like to bottle him for the rest of the staff.

To me, it's amazing how mistakes by the previous administration 5-7+ years ago are still coming back to haunt the organization now. Trading Ramos for Capps was an absolute joke. Now, we have zero solution at the catcher position, something Ramos could have easily stabilized. Then in less than a month, they traded Span (which we knew was likely) and then traded his replacement in Revere (a bit of a surprise). The returns on those trades? Meyer, May, and Worley...yeah, incredibly overwhelming. But what that also caused was the organization rushing Hicks to the majors as the opening day starting CF. Instead of bringing him along slowly and having him back up Revere in center in 2013 (let's face it, Revere wasn't going to singlehandedly turn around a 99-loss team but at least it would have provided stability), Hicks began his rookie season 2 for 48 and was banished to AAA in mid-summer. Total waste. So then because they rushed him along that early, they expected too much, he didn't deliver, and they figured it would be a lot easier to unload him. Hicks would look pretty good in center or right on today's team. And that brings up the bigger point in all this is the player development side of things. It seems the Twins don't know how anymore. Injuries don't help in the Buxton & Sano cases but you see Hicks doing well with the Yankees the last couple of seasons. You see that dope Murphy hitting well at Arizona. Niko Goodrum was beyond terrible in his callup last year but he goes to the Tigers and he's adding offense. I'm looking forward to trading some of this dead weight on the pitching staff (Lynn, Duke, et al) and watching them 'find something' and lead their new teams to a playoff berth. It's all very frustrating and seems to be a vicious cycle that continues to bite the Twins. As for Buxton...I leave him in AAA until he figures it out again. He seemed to find it in the 2nd half of last year but this season is lost so there's no sense in watching him flail away in losing causes and maybe be a part of a winning attitude in Rochester.

Oh look, let's bring in the worst pitcher in the bullpen in a high-leverage situation (which could be said about any of about 3 of them).

No Hawk tonite, thankfully, since I have to watch the Sawx feed.