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  1. USAFChief
    I'm too lazy to look it up, so you'll have to trust my memory, but It's a 10 day rule, and has three exceptions: the 10 day rule is waived if, 1. If the major league team places someone--anyone--on the DL in the 10 day period after the demoted player reports to the minor league team 2. the minor league team's season ends 3. the player demoted is traded
  2. USAFChief
    1. Duffey could turn right around and come back to MN if Santana goes on the DL. If they're worried about the cost of a r/t airline ticket, just have Duffey stay in Minneapolis with friends. He's not going to get a start for Rochester for a few days, either. 2. Then DL him. Of course, then they'd have to pay him a MLB salary for 15 days. There's no reason to let Duffey just sit on the roster. Do something.
  3. USAFChief
    How to tell when things aren't going well for your MLB team: David Murphy requests his release and leaves the organization.
  4. USAFChief
    How to tell if things aren't going well for you at work: On a conference call, they have you put your phone on mute.
  5. USAFChief
    League bowling tonight. I read somewhere about this two handed technique, I'm thinking of giving it a try. One hand around my neck in the 10th frame when I need a double just isn't quite doing it for me anymore.
  6. USAFChief
    That's a mistake. No sympathy.
  7. USAFChief
    I think you can blame people for mistakes, too. I don't blame people for misfortune. Accidents. Plouffe getting hurt, I can't blame anyone for. It happens. But if you don't consider, ahead of time, what MIGHT happen when you tie your hands and feet together and jump off a diving board into the deep end, well, that's a mistake, and I hold no sympathy for you.
  8. USAFChief
    That's the thing...it wasn't even a good bunt.
  9. USAFChief
    Why in heaven's name is Duffey sitting there on the 25 man, unusable and possibly injured? Either ESantana should be on the DL, or Duffey should already be off the 25 man (sent down or DL'd). But they've got themselves in such a 40 man jam there's no logical position player to recall anyway. Unbelievable.
  10. USAFChief
    Looking at the big picture here, it's pretty darn inexcusable for a MLB team to find itself--in late April, no less, with all winter to plan--in a position where they have a game tonight and feature a 25 man roster with no less than 14 pitchers, and a 40 man roster short a man, but featuring only 17 position players. I mean, I could see if a rash of injuries tore up a plan, by maybe July or August. That's not the case. They've had a couple injuries, but nothing out of the ordinary or not faced by lots of teams, lots of times. They had all winter to plan this out, and come out of spring training with this mess.
  11. USAFChief
    Get Buxton to work on bunting How about they get him to work on hitting first? You can't make a successful MLB career out of being a good bunter.
  12. USAFChief
    Haven't seen that, and if they did, they've got a 24 man roster.
  13. USAFChief
    SO, do I have this correct: for tonight's game, the Twins will feature a 14 man pitching staff and 11 position players? Polanco down, Duffy up. 12 players and 13 pitchers. Buxton and Kepler down, Meyer up and Santana activated. 11 and 14. I guess that explains why Molly didn't PH for Suzuki late in tonight's game.
  14. USAFChief
    Personally, I have a lot more faith in Milone giving me five than Meyer.
  15. USAFChief
    But no Masters invite. Win something, meat.
  16. USAFChief
    ...wait for it... .... Yes.
  17. USAFChief
    IMO, there is no rationale--none, zilch, zippo, nada, zero--that justifies Murphy being in Minnesota short of about 4 additional injuries. That's a move a contending team makes in July to try to squeeze a bit more production from a corner OF spot, not a move a 5-14 team playing a young OF makes. Letting Milone start tonight, with Meyer available to pitch multiple innings in relief, makes some sense to me. There is next to no bullpen tonight, if you start Meyer and he implodes in the second inning, you've got big problems.
  18. USAFChief
    Still an open 40 man spot. What else?
  19. USAFChief
    We don't do math in public around here, friend.
  20. USAFChief
    At the least, terribly perplexing. Now 39 on the 40 man roster. Only 17 position players.
  21. USAFChief
    This is the kind of stuff that someone with access should be asking Molitor. "You're going to put Park at first one game of the Washington series...why would you NOT make it the game with a lefthander on the mound?" It's seemingly such an easy call.
  22. USAFChief
    But they already had one. And now they don't. So they no longer have him as an option, if needed, and will need to expose someone else to waivers to open a spot, if they do. They specifically kept Hicks on the 40 man, meaning they thought he was closest to helping if needed, and then decide before April is up they were wrong? Who is running this show?
  23. USAFChief
    Better pray it works out. I don't think there's another C on the 40 man
  24. USAFChief
    Sitting in a sports book in Vegas, came in just in time to see Dozier 'so HR. Got kicked out of the book when May gave up the 0-2 double to Ramos, some bs rule about throwing things at the wall of tv's or something But FORTUNATELY what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
  25. USAFChief
    David Murphy. Duh, It's the Twins.
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