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And the point you're trying to make, counselor?

GM MALPRACTICE. He shopped at the Goodwill store for that acquisition.

The inherited runners percentage goes up again. Alcala overthrows on every pitch to India and then lays a fat cookie to de la Cruz who had the eye for all those off-speed pitches that Ober was serving up there. And the inning was started with a reminder of the GM malpractice with the Mahle trade. Now I gotta go find my receipt.

If ownership wasn't so cheap, they could probably keep you in those seats for the last few home games of the year.

Smoooooooooth

He hit the ball real hard.

Color me shocked.

Did anyone think Watkins would send Larnach on that Santana single? 😵

Didn't you hear that there's a memo out that Camargo isn't allowed to get off the bench when he gets called up to the big club?

Finishing the season like they started it. Correa and Bux better be back by the weekend or it might be too late for them to even save things. Of course, all of today's pregame talk may have been just that. I'll believe it when they're on the field.

I have made my Rocco opinion very often in game threads so I'll take this from the perspective that the manager is liked by the vast majority of the fanbase: This postgame blowup has probably been needed long before Sunday. I'd say that it should have happened at least by the 15-0 demolition to Toronto. Maybe even before that after getting swept in a largely listless effort vs the Braves. If the manager is as well-respected by the players as it has routinely been reported, these guys should respond tonight with one of their better efforts in over a month. If they come out and get dominated by Detmers and look just as bad, then you can maybe make the case that they've packed it in a bit. If we gave some of these vets truth serum, it would be interesting to hear what they'd say about the constant lineup juggling as well as the position switching. Bottom line is that their best player has been out for 2 months and arguably, their second-best offensive player has been out 3 weeks and neither have any sort of light at the end of their injury tunnel. I don't know too many contending teams that would be able to weather this storm as it is. Certainly if they were on the outside looking in at the moment, I'd have zero confidence that they could overtake for a spot. The only glimmer of hope I see of winning the division is because they still have games left vs Cleveland. But for those to mean anything, they've gotta treat the Angels this week like the Royals treated them this weekend. If they come out and drop 2 out of 3 and look disinterested doing so, then I think you could say that the manager has lost them. We saw what happened in Seattle when they arrived at that conclusion.

You're right. Rosenthal's wording was 'I remembered that last year Duran gave up a 9th inning walkoff grand slam to Witt' and (paraphrasing now) maybe the Twins didn't want to put him in that situation again in the 9th so they switched roles.

The fact you come on here strictly to troll people and add zero to any baseball conversation amuses me. Go away.

We realize you have to stay on Rocco's Christmas Card list.

DUMBEST MANAGER IN THE ENTIRE LEAGUE

HE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN IN THE GAME!!!!!

And there's those inherited runners scoring again. F THIS MANAGER

How does Larnach not come up gunning?

And here we go. The harebrained manager makes a dopey decision and the closer can't execute. Meanwhile, the Royals were clueless against Ober.

Go sit down.

This manager... It better work out or this place is gonna become Agent Orange.

Someone tell Sands to have a seat.

You're asking that of a manager who doesn't have the same lineup twice over an entire season.

Lessons from Brooks Lee.

Yayyyyy, we won. But now Santana's out for the season.