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  1. USAFChief
    The Oakland A's?
  2. USAFChief
    If memory serves, he pimped a dinger.
  3. USAFChief
    As Danchat posted above, I would think it'll be Berrios and Duffey getting starts, with Meyer in the pen. Unless Duffey is hurt, then prolly Meyer.
  4. USAFChief
    BTW...low around 39?? Fahrenheit??!?
  5. USAFChief
    Thanks Hrbowski. Great job!
  6. USAFChief
    Sore back. It's why Duffey came up and started Sunday.
  7. USAFChief
    the law firm of Brian, Spycake, & Chief "BS et al, LLC."
  8. USAFChief
    .071 SLG At least it's not an empty .036 BA.
  9. USAFChief
    "OK...I really screwed the pooch on the whole Hicks/Murphy thing. What would make those jerks over on TD shut up?"
  10. USAFChief
    I'll go way out on a limb here and say Gibson to the DL.
  11. USAFChief
    And I get the criticism, but the conundrum only really arises because Buxton and Kepler were sent down simultaneously preceding the bizarre retirement of David Murphy. I have a hard time blaming the organization for that. (Because we're not ganging up on you enough yet) Forgive me, but it seems you're having a hard time blaming the organization for something they did. Buxton and Kepler didn't decide on their own to be simultaneously demoted. It wasn't due to league president orders. I believe one T Ryan made that decision. As well as the one to have only 18 position players on the 40 man (39/17 after waiving J Hicks), at least one of which isn't any kind of realistic MLB option. Those all seem to me to be things we can blame the organization for. It's not the weather...those are all conscious decisions they made.
  12. USAFChief
    I'm pretty sure that's incorrect. If the MLB team DL's a player, a recently demoted player can take his place, regardless of the position of either player.
  13. USAFChief
    Wed is Gibson's next scheduled start, amiright? Interesting.
  14. USAFChief
    FTFY.
  15. USAFChief
    ALLRIGHT! A 15 man pitching staff!!! //i kid, i kid.//
  16. USAFChief
    I think I can guarantee we won't see Plouffe against the Tigers. IIRC he was placed on the DL on Apr 17, meaning he can't be activated until May 2.
  17. USAFChief
    I think the relentless criticism is based on looking around the league for the past 50 yrs and not seeing other teams be put in a similar position often, if at all. There's no defense for a major league team to be in this roster position, particularly before May 1st. None. It's just...bad management.
  18. USAFChief
    This isn't correct. You're double/triple counting blown saves (they had 3 blown saves in one game Sunday). The Twins have let leads get away from the bullpen in four games, not six (4/7, 4/8, 4/10, and 4/24). If they had no blown saves, they'd be 10-10. With two, they'd be 8-12. All of which is pretty pointless anyway. Baseball games are 9 (or more) innings long. Having a lead, or being tied after 5, doesn't equal a win. That's what many of us said all winter...this bullpen isn't going to hold up. And it isn't even May 1st, and lookie here...the bullpen hasn't held up. A healthy Glen Perkins wasn't something that should have been depended on, both because he hasn't been healthy or reliable the last two years, and because even if he was currently healthy and reliable, he can't be used for the entirety of the 6th-9th innings every time the team has a lead.
  19. USAFChief
    Maybe so. And maybe that's an example of how and why an organization sits at 6-14, loses 390 games in a four year stretch, and has won one playoff series in two decades under the current GM. This is the major leagues. It's a zero sum game, and some organizations are only too happy to get the W at your expense if you run around thinking otherwise.
  20. USAFChief
    It really doesn't matter to me that Murphy chose to go home, what matters is losing the only other C on the 40 man to make a spot for him. That's wrong in and of itself. I have nothing against David Murphy, but he isn't the direction the Twins should be voluntarily going.
  21. USAFChief
    .718 in AAA means he's earned it? This isn't little league. Everybody doesn't get to play.
  22. USAFChief
    Only the pinnacle of the television era, against which all previous and subsequent efforts are to be judged, and against which all, to date, have been found lacking. http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/b4c5d7adbd94de6905c81a05b055275c021752c0/c=0-0-480-360&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/Tallahassee/2015/03/21/B9316676012Z.1_20150321211445_000_GG7A9EEUV.1-0.jpg
  23. USAFChief
    Turn down the sound while DickBert are doing the pregame.
  24. USAFChief
    That would be logical. Any other MLB team would do that. Except...they've jacked up the 40 man so bad, there's no position player to recall, and utility man Danny Santana (.215/.241/.291 in 2015), on the roster only because he's out of options, will be starting in CF. With a 1 man bench (not counting the catcher.)
  25. USAFChief
    That's what kills me about this. Not that I want David Murphy on the Twins, but here's a team that's desperately grabbing at straws at 5-14, has an open 40 man spot, has only two other minor league position players available that weren't recently demoted, he's clinging to some pretty thin hopes of an MLB career while not earning a MLB check, and he says "let me out of here."
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