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  1. USAFChief
    this is one we will have to disagree on. I think no other GM keeps Robinson around when he has the option of adding a top prospect.
  2. USAFChief
    one reason the bullpen is worn out was the decision to start May last Friday. That's what I would call a decision that makes me question if they are trying to win.
  3. USAFChief
    If he wasn't ready then, 10 games doesn't make him ready now. If he was kept in AAA because he isn't reaxy, he shouldn't be up now. If he is ready now, he was ready 10 games ago.
  4. USAFChief
    I don't have any idea. I just question what I view as decisions that don't seem likely to help win the most games. Do you think they make mostly good decisions? Honest question.
  5. USAFChief
    You seem to be forgetting or ignoring the obvious, The Twins needed two starters: one for Friday and one for Saturday. Berrios AND Duffey. That was the obvious choice.
  6. USAFChief
    I'm hoping this was sarcasm.
  7. USAFChief
    And in the meantime, one of Robinson or Hunter pretty much had to be in the lineup. A team trying to win doesn't voluntarily put itself in that position.
  8. USAFChief
    Would this move be a tacit admission that sending him to Rochester in the first place was unwarranted? If he wasn't ready then, why is it OK to bring him up now? What does Hicks' injury have to do with Buxton?
  9. USAFChief
    Specifically, in last nights game, I start the 7th with Graham. Not a good option, but the best available. Letting O'Rourke start, presumably because the 3rd and 4th hitters were left handed hitters, was idiotic. He's a LOOGY. You can't turn the bottom of the Yankee order into legit hitters by letting them face a soft tossing lefty. And once you've made the poor decision to bring O'Rourke back out, you can't compound it by sitting on your hands and let him pitch to 4 hitters when even on TV you can see he's so nervous his hands are shaking. Ultimately. Molitor was put in a tough situation last night. But he managed to make it worse.
  10. USAFChief
    It's not "hindsi There were more than "two thoughts." Some of us questioned the decision making, predicted these exact results, and offered up Berrios on Friday night as a much better option. We questioned these things prior to the weekend. Please don't refer to these questions now as "hindsight."
  11. USAFChief
    Pretty interesting question. My guess is they won't.
  12. USAFChief
    The Hughes and Suzuki extensions are the worst, IMO. He missed on Nolasco, maybe on Santana. That can happen. But when he gets lucky and hits on cheap pickups, he immediately turns assets into liabilities. That is worse, to me, since it sort of points to a lack of understanding what he has, and how to take advantage of it.
  13. USAFChief
    I'd have disagreed, but "We know the timing is bad, but we're transitioning May back to the rotation" would at least be a plan. Heck, for all I know, maybe the correct plan.
  14. USAFChief
    The Twins really can't be faulted for Hughes going on the DL. It happens. But I think you can make a legitimate case their decision to use May for an emergency 50-pitch max start Friday night contributed to at least two losses, and possibly three. He didn't pitch after August 8th. Having him available for the extra inning loss to Texas might have made a difference. Having Berrios start the Friday game possibly means a different result, and at the least probably means the pen doesn't have to throw 6 innings. Having May available for last night's extra inning loss might have been nice, and might have meant more of the bullpen was available tonight, where we got to watch O'Rourke and Graham turn a three run lead into a four run deficit in 4 outs because there literally weren't other options, unless you wanted a three inning outing again from May, which would then make him unavailable for another half week, even IF he could have done it. Two losses, maybe three. Four if you stretch it. That decision was just plain poorly thought out. It really can't be defended, IMO. And it was pretty predictable.
  15. USAFChief
    If the reason O'Rourke and Graham were in the game turning a 4-1 lead into an 8-4 deficit in the space of 4 outs was because the bullpen was plenty rested, then I'm assuming you are calling for Molitor to be fired before the post game reports are filed in the Strib and Pioneer Press, amiright?
  16. USAFChief
    It really wasn't Graham's fault. He was put in a position he shouldn't be in, and Molitor can't let O'Rourke stay out there with pee running down his leg and load the bases. He shouldn't have even started the 7th. And his GM can't put Molitor in that position, either. This was entirely predicatable, much like the May fiasco last Friday possibly costing them three games.
  17. USAFChief
    One team has an owner and a GM and manager who play to win. One team doesn't.
  18. USAFChief
    The arrogance is rather annoying.
  19. USAFChief
    I stand corrected. The Twins bullpen was in fine shape for tonight's game. Plenty of options available.
  20. USAFChief
    It's up there. I like "I'll have what she's having."
  21. USAFChief
    Tied? Optimism...me likee!
  22. USAFChief
    Three fewer than I drove into my head listening.
  23. USAFChief
    Patton: Nobody ever won a war by dying for his country. You win a war by making the other poor SOB die for HIS country.
  24. USAFChief
    Caption contest. Go!
  25. USAFChief
    Sano and May would be two, no?
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