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  1. USAFChief
    The next time somebody tells me Joe Mauer never has any RBI's because he never gets any chances, or spouts some dribble about his BA w RISP, I'm gonna play a tape of that AB. "Take two and flip one to left with 2 strikes" never won a pennant and never will.
  2. USAFChief
    Busted. But I gotta ask...of all the "personal" stories I've told on game threads, THAT's the one I get busted on??
  3. USAFChief
    http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/shot-glass-whiskey-27414884.jpg concur.
  4. USAFChief
    http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2540157.1456171265!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_635/108024005.jpg I thought that guy from Utah had the record in Jeopardy.
  5. USAFChief
    Technically...he didn't steal.
  6. USAFChief
    A bear walks into a bar and says "Give me a beer ... ... ... and some peanuts." The bartender says, "OK, but why the long pause?"
  7. USAFChief
    shellshocked
  8. USAFChief
    ftfy.
  9. USAFChief
    Total system failure.
  10. USAFChief
    So I've been going to the same barber shop for a couple years now, and almost every time I go, the same scenario plays out. The barber sees this kid walking in, looks down at me and says "Watch this. This is the stupidest kid in the world!" He puts a dollar in one hand, and two quarters in the other, holding both hands open so the kid can see what is in each. "Hey kid," he says. "Which one you want?" Sure enough, the kid picks the two quarters over the dollar bill. After the kid walks out, the barber says, "He does the same thing every time!" and laughs and laughs. Yesterday, I was walking down the street after leaving the barber, and I saw the kid walking out of a candy store with a small bag of candy. "Hey kid," I says, "why'dya take the two quarters instead of the dollar? That's stupid!" The kid just looks at me and laughs and laughs. "Yeah, real stupid. The day I take the dollar bill, the jig's up."
  11. USAFChief
    System failure. Nobody is to blame. Not a very encouraging interview.
  12. USAFChief
    That's the thing. If they thought they were a playoff team over the winter, they sure didnt act like it. And if they thought they weren't, they didnt act like that, either. And maybe I'm not bright enough to follow, but I see little evidence much has clarified.
  13. USAFChief
    I am going to blow a gasket if Mastro wears a Twins uniform this season. WTF? How does that do anything to improve the present, or the future? That would be the GM throwing his hands in the air and admitting he has no plan, had no plan, and doesn't expect to have a plan. He simply needs 25 men in uniform, and Mastro had a couple singles a couple years ago.
  14. USAFChief
    Unlike others here, I do care about wins and losses, so it's pretty tough for me to stay positive when the season is a month old and the team is already out of contention. In fact, any positivity I had going into the season is pretty much over. I don't care if the player is 22 or 42, I care about how much entertainment they provide when I watch, and for me, caring about the outcome is a good part of why I watch sports. "This rookie might be good in three years" doesn't do much for me, but I understand others feel differently. I will still watch, because it's baseball, and I love baseball, and it's the Twins, and I can no more change my Twins fandom than I can change my age. But I sure wish the games mattered.
  15. USAFChief
    Both would swing and miss a lot.
  16. USAFChief
    Yes.
  17. USAFChief
    The rest of her, too.
  18. USAFChief
    I got a round of golf in this afternoon with Halsey. As we were standing on the 18 th tee, he was taking forever. Checking the wind, checking his alignment, agonizing over club selection, rechecking the wind. "Halsey, lets go," I said. "Mrs Chief is waiting for us in the clubhouse. I gotta get going." "I know," said Halsey. "That's her standing on the deck, watching us, isn't it? I want this last shot to be perfect." "Yeah, that's her, Halsey. But you're dreaming. You"ll never hit her from here."
  19. USAFChief
    She's a "perv!" Burn her!
  20. USAFChief
    She's a WITCH! Burn her!!
  21. USAFChief
    I hid the other one, lets use this game thread. Sorry to those who posted in the other! And ... Please ... Lets try to stay away from vitriol in the game threads. Don't like something? Fine, have your say. But don't attack other posters, and lets leave discussion of long term issues to those threads. If you absolutely feel the need to blast someone, blast my choice of joke(s). You'll be wrong, of course, and demonstrate to EVERYone you lack my highly evolved sense of humor, but nobody will take offense. Lets get a W tonight.
  22. USAFChief
    I prefer a team puts a minor leaguer in the lineup when he forces his way into it. When he's better than the player he replaces, or likely soon will be. I don't like letting clearly inferior players lose games in the big leagues in the hope they might someday be better. Right now, I doubt Alex Meyer helps the Twins win more games. I would, for example, let Buxton play CF for the Twins, because I think he's better than Santana, or soon will be. I wouldn't pay much attention to 2017, much less the years after that. It's difficult to predict next week in baseball, much less next year. Thinking you can plan 3, 5 years ahead is folly.
  23. USAFChief
    Provided he has success in Rochester, he'll get another opportunity in Minnesota. It's a long season and a rotation spot will open up. Personally I don't like his chances of harnessing his stuff and being a good big league starter, so I'd bite the bullet, put him in the pen, and hope to have him up and contributing in a month. But I understand the lure of hoping for a dominant starter, so I can see why others might choose that route. Either way, I'm not that upset with this past week. He got an opportunity--not a long one, but an opportunity--and crapped the bed. Twice. Go down and earn more opportunity. If he's truly ready, that should be a snap.
  24. USAFChief
    I think the Kepler appearance (and Polanco) were forced primarily by a poorly constructed 40 man that has no "use if necessary" position player options. Couple that with a disastrous start that leaves everyone from TD posters to Molitor to the front office desperate for wins, and it's not hard to understand why Kepler would be called up, but not play much.
  25. USAFChief
    concur. And I might be in the minority, but I really don't want to watch a team that gives up on the season on May 4th. I expect a MLB team to try to win. Every. Single. Game. If you want to run out a AAA lineup in late September against another team also running out a AAA lineup, fine. I guess I can live with that. And I can understand playing some youth the last couple months of a season if that makes sense. But I do expect more from the organization than throwing up it's collective hands in early May and pretending that's about 2017, and not about just plain having no idea how to make the present any better than it is.
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