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  1. USAFChief
    There's no "there," there?
  2. USAFChief
    For years now, and prolly for all my remaining days, I cannot say, see, or hear the word "Utah" without the phrase "We're the flyin' Elvis's, Yew-tahh Chapter" running through my head.
  3. USAFChief
    That's not you??
  4. USAFChief
    3 outs per inning, Herm-zee.
  5. USAFChief
    And we're off and running. We get a soft liner for a DP, they get a soft ground ball and soft liner for hits.
  6. USAFChief
    Tomsaviking? Ralphsaviking?
  7. USAFChief
    By the by, middle son is in attendance at Target Field tonight, all the way from New Mexico.
  8. USAFChief
    Having lived through it, the Pleistocene Epoch is wildly overrated, IMO. No cable, and finding a good restaurant was impossible.
  9. USAFChief
    Not sure how, but it might explain a few things.
  10. USAFChief
    Thanks Dave, Thanks Bark, Thanks Always33. I've been out with Mrs Chief today having lunch and watching Jurassic World. Spoiler alert: Skip the lines and rent the original. Better movie and the popcorn's a lot cheaper on your couch.
  11. USAFChief
    It seems to me his reduced hard hit percentage and reduced fly ball distances are ample proof of a drop in bat speed.
  12. USAFChief
    Concur. Torii was a welcome and useful addition in 2015, IMO. He has helped them, is blocking nobody, and the handwringing over corner OF defense is misguided. But there is zero need for an extension.
  13. USAFChief
    On the other hand, small improvements add up over the course of a baseball season. At the least, there isn't any reason a big league team should be regularly running weak hitters out at DH.
  14. USAFChief
    I don't know if Dozier is "elite," but as for batting average, Harmon Killebrew's career BA was .256.
  15. USAFChief
    To me that quote is pretty ridiculous. If he isn't ready, "perhaps by September" makes sense. But a couple weeks is not going to make any difference. He won't be much, if at all, more "ready" than he is this morning. You might work back from injury in a couple weeks, but a prospects "readiness" doesn't suddenly change in two weeks. Ever. For anyone. People don't learn the game in 2 weeks or 50 ABs.
  16. USAFChief
    This is what the FBI is wasting time on??
  17. USAFChief
    Dozier, Plouffe, Mauer, and Hunter are only candidates for the 5 hole if you move them from spots above the 5 hole. Someday, maybe Rosario is a candidate, ideally that isn't now. The rest of your list? Are you seriously suggesting the problem can be solved by putting Shane Robinson in the lineup regularly? Hermann? They are missing middle of the order bats. They don't have ANY (given what Mauer has become), much less multiple options plus whoever is occupying those spots now.
  18. USAFChief
    It was a tough call...made tougher by the fact I was at games 1& 2 in '91, and as you say because the 91 WS was one of the best ever. But to me, all of that comes behind 87, because 87 was the first. It hadn't happened before, and that's the experience I want for my kids.
  19. USAFChief
    I have been right there with you. Highly skeptical. But the falloff has been so dramatic offensively, and the defensive play so seemingly lacking in reaction time and intuitive decisions, that Im now wondering. There has to be something wrong, no? Good players don't fall off a cliff in their early 30s often.
  20. USAFChief
    Free fall in progress, bottom unknown. CBU.
  21. USAFChief
    Wait...Randy Choate is the best LOOGY in the game??
  22. USAFChief
    I have been skeptical of the "lingering effects of concussion" theories. Both he and the Twins have said just the opposite, for quite some time. But I'm starting to wonder if there isn't something to those theories. Something has to be wrong. He doesn't even make loud outs any more, and teams have stopped defending right field.
  23. USAFChief
    Mike made a comment, yesterday I think, that went somewhat unnoticed but deserves further consideration: When it comes to Mauer, the Twins need to show some courage. We'll see it they have it.
  24. USAFChief
    seriously...what is up with him? It's bad enough he's hitting like a pitcher, but he keeps making really poor decisions on defense.
  25. USAFChief
    why would u need to mow Gibby's lawn too? Gibby already did it.
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