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  1. USAFChief
    What was the response when one windmill asked the other windmill "What kind of music do you like?"
  2. USAFChief
    yes.
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    On asphalt.
  4. USAFChief
    safe, but hilariously bad slide.
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    phrasing.
  6. USAFChief
    So Mrs Chief wanted a pet, and went and got us one of those Asian potbellied pigs. I thought to myself..."why not?" and taught him karate. We named him pork chop.
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    http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/012/132/thatsthejoke.jpg
  8. USAFChief
    So the other night, I was telling Mrs Chief about this study I read about. The study claims that men use around 15000 words per day, and women around 30000. She went into this long spiel about why, but the Twins game was on so I wasn't paying much attention. When the half inning commercial break came on, I asked her "Sorry, hon. What?"
  9. USAFChief
    I'm quite happy the Twins didn't trade Ervin Santana.
  10. USAFChief
    This one time, trying to remember the cast of "Batman Begins," I googled Gary Oldman, and by mistake left out the r. bad times.
  11. USAFChief
    There's no such thing! //furiously checks site map//
  12. USAFChief
    Lots of September game thread volunteer opportunities. Should be a fun September. Jump on em.
  13. USAFChief
    There's also massive risk to the player in not signing such a deal. I think he was a perfect candidate, and I think teams will still be able to lock up young players to cheap, long contracts. But it has to be done while there's still incentive for the player....say when he's putting up a .500 OPS and shuttling between AAA and the show, or at least before he has any sort of sustained breakout.
  14. USAFChief
    Mauer's sitting again today?? Or is who DHing?
  15. USAFChief
    Probably too late now to tempt him to sign a cheap 8 year contract, I think.
  16. USAFChief
    On the other hand, they're due to bust out offensively this weekend. Just. In. Time.
  17. USAFChief
    No. But back on topic, if Buxton has a season like his last month or so, he will absolutely be an MVP candidate. He's also damn fun to watch, which is cool.
  18. USAFChief
    Not to get too far off topic here, but... Babe Ruth had a lifetime OPS of 1.164 in over 10600 PAs. Lifetime OPS+ of 206. His lifetime OBP is higher than Trout's best season to date. Oh, and 94 wins and 1221 IP of 2.24 ERA as a pitcher. If Mike Trout continues on pace for another 10 years he won't be better at baseball than Babe Ruth.
  19. USAFChief
    Babe Ruth says hi.
  20. USAFChief
    Explain then why the Twins were so slow to get him to Minneapolis, and the manager seems reluctant to put him behind the plate. I also believe, if he were a good defensive catcher, he wouldn't have been spotted around the diamond in the minor leagues. That wasn't, IMO, an attempt to add versatility to a good skillset. Rather, that's an attempt to find a way to potentially wring a little value out of a guy who can't be a regular catcher. I could be wrong, of course.
  21. USAFChief
    there's no evidence of that, other that perhaps you'd use your worst relievers less. In any case, even if true, that has nothing to do with the bullpen, that's about the starters. It's also unrealistic...every team in baseball uses it's bullpen almost every game. Your statement is sort of like saying when the Twins score double digit runs, the bullpen usually performs well enough to preserve the win. The answer to the bullpen isn't the starting staff. It's better pitchers in the bullpen, and trading away Kintzler was a bad idea toward that goal, for a team that (obviously) wasn't out of the WC race when they traded him.
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    first half: .216/.288/.306 OPS .594 second half: (not counting today) .309/.350/.553 OPS .903 last 365 days: (not counting today) .251/.317/.436 https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.fcgi?id=buxtoby01&year=2017&t=b
  23. USAFChief
    Yup. Trading Santana was wrong, and many of us said so at the time. Keep him, put another 230 IP on his arm, and take the draft picks.
  24. USAFChief
    Hopefully they were laundered some time in these 30 years.
  25. USAFChief
    That's why Polanco has to score from second on the hit to right center. Even with no out.
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