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  1. USAFChief
    wait for it... ... yes.
  2. USAFChief
    SOMEbody needs a bannin'. And I'm just the ************ to do it. ... Right after my nap.
  3. USAFChief
    no.
  4. USAFChief
    Thanks Brock...one of the neatest things I've read in a while!
  5. USAFChief
    You win the internets.
  6. USAFChief
    Well it's not a secret any more. Thanks. Thanks a lot.
  7. USAFChief
    Levi stepped way out on a limb with that'n, too.
  8. USAFChief
    Not "perfect." Just good, and aggressive. The Twins have been awful for over half a decade. Historically bad, drafting near the top all that time. What do they have to show for it? Hope that Buxton continues to improve? That Berrios--the only highly rated pitcher in the Twins system--can be an above average pitcher in a couple years? THAT'S the reward? Judging by comments here, we shouldn't even expect contention for another couple years. Meanwhile...what about the minor league system, that Twins management so jealously guarded? Could the Twins have even put together a package good enough to land Chris Sale? I don't think they could have. Yet Boston can, and still have plenty of talent in their minor league system, AFTER being in contention and active in the FA and trade market for, like, forever. Could the Twins even trade for Brian Dozier? How can the Dodgers? How can Detroit trade for David Price in 2015? It isn't a given that "not trading the farm" gets you anywhere, nor it is a given that "trading the farm" leaves you with nothing for the future. The evidence suggests it's often the opposite. Holding on to minor leaguers, playing for the future, hurts today and often doesn't do anything for tomorrow, either.
  9. USAFChief
    So why not just take the guy with the first pick?
  10. USAFChief
    Shouldn't a smart GM have been able to restock the farm system by the time core gets old? You don't stop adding players to your farm system because you traded some off.
  11. USAFChief
    I thought there was also a PTBNL coming the Twins way in this transaction, from the Padres. No?
  12. USAFChief
    Yes. ... There...now it's a game thread.
  13. USAFChief
    Dave?
  14. USAFChief
    I'll take the over on number of posts.
  15. USAFChief
    I'll take the over on number of posts.
  16. USAFChief
    That's it, GC...gonna have to show you the door.
  17. USAFChief
    I "unliked" your first board cred post.
  18. USAFChief
    Vince McMahon, more like.
  19. USAFChief
    Stuck?? You told us you found a way to put your phone on vibrate and then set it up to continuously dial itself.
  20. USAFChief
    Don't forget the fees to change flights.
  21. USAFChief
    Perhaps I over-generalized. Let me restate...of the friends and family I have in MN who are to some extent Twins fans, none would view a Dozier trade positively, or be more likely to buy tickets to a game (which is the context of this discussion.) They would view it as "why are they trading their best player? Same old cheap Twins. They just don't want to pay him."
  22. USAFChief
    I'd take the "win now at the expense of some prospects" route 100 times out of 100. There are always more minor leaguers.
  23. USAFChief
    Most Twins fans are casual fans, and I guarantee those fans would view a Dozier trade negatively. I agree they need to win to turn around the attendance decline, but I also believe a Dozier trade would negatively impact interest in the Twins, at least for 2017.
  24. USAFChief
    Since you brought it up...the Johan Santana trade is the perfect example of why it is self defeating to ever put yourself in a position of "needing" to trade a good player. The Twins got bent over a barrel, and ended up with virtually nothing. The move then was to keep Santana, put another 230 innings on his arm and get the value of one more season, and take the picks. Instead, they forced an "obvious" trade and hurt themselves.
  25. USAFChief
    There is only one option available to the Twins? Trade Brian Dozier? They can't get some natural internal improvement from last year? They can't make other trades, targeting lesser known prospects from other orgs that they feel are undervalued? Or trades for other major leaguers? They can't target FAs they feel will emerge next year as terrific bargains? Trading Dozier hopefully wouldn't be the only move, because in and of itself it's not enough...and not trading Dozier doesn't doom the future. I'm very hopeful our new management is smart enough, and courageous enough, to look at trading Dozier as only one possible avenue to improvement. One they WON'T pursue unless they feel it makes the Twins immediately better. And all the while they are pursuing other ideas...in addition to as well as instead of trading one player. A good player, by the way, probably the team's best, and one who is absolutely capable of being a big contributor to a winning team.
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