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  1. USAFChief
    The best plan? Sign him tonight, have him on a plane to Arlington in the morning, in the pen for tomorrow night's game. I'm only half kidding.
  2. USAFChief
    blech. Nice job Tommy Milone.
  3. USAFChief
    Feel bad for Hicksie. Obviously should have been caught, but the problem originated with Aaron $$*(#(ing Thompson walking a the 8 hole hitter, a left hander, to start the inning. Pressly gives up a base hit, and the ball Hicks doesn't catch was hit pretty hard off Duensing. Hicks will get blamed, but he's not the problem.
  4. USAFChief
    The ticking time bomb that is the Twins bullpen has gone boom.
  5. USAFChief
    How losing streaks are made and continued, ladies and gentlemen.
  6. USAFChief
    winner.
  7. USAFChief
    Dick: //disgust dripping from his voice//..."nearly hit him...2 and 1."
  8. USAFChief
    The only out this inning so far is one Texas gave us on purpose. um..thanks!
  9. USAFChief
    Sign the kid from Illinois, and have him in the pen by Sunday.
  10. USAFChief
    Jeebus Mauer, that was weak sauce. New to playing first?
  11. USAFChief
    more like "Mauer with a little 10 hopper back to the pitcher."
  12. USAFChief
    Dozher-zee!
  13. USAFChief
    c'mon big Tommy. All we ask is shutout ball.
  14. USAFChief
    Fine with me. But don't play for 2018, please.
  15. USAFChief
    sumbitch.
  16. USAFChief
    //obligatory//
  17. USAFChief
    C'mon big Tommy. All we ask is shutout ball.
  18. USAFChief
    Prolly just your upstairs neighbors.
  19. USAFChief
    Monte opens door #3..."wahh, wahh, waaaahhhhhh...Shane Robinson!"
  20. USAFChief
    I'm not an advocate of a six man rotation, but wouldn't the theory of "less innings might mean less injuries/more effectiveness" be the same as when teams went from 4 man rotations to five man ones?
  21. USAFChief
    Great job JB. Just settling in, made some potato soup and fresh bread for supper, gold glass of milk. I figure this game would be in the bottom of the second by now.
  22. USAFChief
    You prefer Eddie Escobar at DH?
  23. USAFChief
    After four years of suckage, you want to put off contention for another 2 or 3? No thank you. If this team is within shouting distance of the postseason over the next month, they should absolutely go for it. That's what you assemble minor league talent for, to help the big league team.
  24. USAFChief
    I'm not saying Graham pitched similarly, I'm saying they've been used similarly. Not trusted except when there's no choice or the game is decided. Graham has been protected in the pen, and only used in low leverage situations or when he's the last or second to last option. He wouldn't have been used in Pitt either if Molitor had any choice. The effect of that is to reduce the size of the pen in most games. Maybe they'll start to use Graham more, which would help get down to 7 relievers.
  25. USAFChief
    My guess is Molitor would prefer 12, but -carrying Graham effectively gives him, on most nights, a 7 man bullpen instead of 8. Graham hasn't been used much if at all in any game still undecided, which isn't unusual for rule five guys and was probably the plan all along. Until now, that problem was compounded by having Stauffer but not wanting to use him unless the game was effectively over, one way or another. -they don't exactly have a whole bunch of relievers you'd feel comfortable putting out there for very long in a close game, so on most nights Molitor's going to play 'matchup' to the extreme, hoping to get an out from one of his LHers, an out or two from a RHer, another out from a LHer, and then hopefully look up and still have the lead in the ninth for Perkins. I'm sure he'd rather just put one guy out there for the 7th, but if you don't have that guy, what's the alternative.
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