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  1. USAFChief
    Great post, Peanutsfromheaven!
  2. USAFChief
    I hate to resort to cliches, but when a classic barn burner of epic proportions comes along once in a generation like this, well sometimes you have to: the resistable force meets the movable object.
  3. USAFChief
    Summer, 1963, with my mom and dad. The only things I remember are the parking lot, how perfect the field looked as we emerged from the tunnel into the upper deck, and frosty malts, with a wooden spoon.
  4. USAFChief
    Good grief.
  5. USAFChief
    I'm reminded of former Tampa Bay Bucs coach John McKay's answer to the post game question "what do you think of your team's execution?" "I'm in favor of it."
  6. USAFChief
    Long "lunch" as he waited out a rain delay.
  7. USAFChief
    Gibskn needed 89 pitches Thursday to record 11 outs.
  8. USAFChief
    Catching up on game tbread on my phone...just wanted to say, there were multiple posts that actually caused me to laugh out loud. Much appreciated! Honorable mention to the pythag projection post, the SNL dance post, but I gotta go with jimmer's "took me till I was 16 to get to third base" as the thread winner.
  9. USAFChief
    Unless there's a medical or similar reason, I too would not sit Arcia against a RHer.
  10. USAFChief
    Gracias, SSOO. I'll go with e). Walk off balk. See posts 97-327, 329-440, and 443-506. Warning: NSFW.
  11. USAFChief
    Quite the confidence inspiring testimonial. ;-)
  12. USAFChief
    A few rebuttals: If May and Meyer need more time, they're by definition not blocked, no? If Tonkin, Burdi, Reed et al are ready, but blocked by current bullpen members, because the staff "made a call," that's an argument the current staff should be replaced, no? Or an argument they're not ready, which goes back to my point..."blocking" of prospects is a myth that rarely happens and isn't worth planning for. I don't see how it's not one or the other. Ditto Rosario and Buxton...if they need more seasoning, they're not blocked. And the A ball thing is no mystery...neither of these two have had any success higher than that level. For me, it's simple. I don't believe in rebuilds, and I distrust prospects. Put the best team on the field at the big league level you can and worry about finding space for a prospect when and if that becomes a "problem." What I'm not fine with is waiting for years hoping for a future that might or might not happen, while the present is teh suck.
  13. USAFChief
    You can see examples in the top half inning of many road games.
  14. USAFChief
    Those constitute a handful of examples in what, more than a decade? And I would argue none of them are examples of "blocked" prospects. Their future success wasn't based on success in the low minors, and when they were ready to force their way into the big leagues, voila! Turns out they weren't blocked. Trades happened...because its better to have two players than none, which is what you stand a good chance of having if you "unblock" the path of a minor leaguer.
  15. USAFChief
    Nishioka, and it's not close.
  16. USAFChief
    The return of my favorite thread! Day-twah's 8 and 9 hitters each scored a run in the 3rd, 4th and 5th innings today. 6 runs from the bottom two hitters in 3 innings.
  17. USAFChief
    I think good GMs try and "block" prospects all the time. Particularly when the prospect being "blocked" hasn't gotten out of A ball. My guess is good GMs don't worry about "blocking" prospects because they know the most likely outcome is that nobody is being "blocked" at all. Most prospects never force their way into the big leagues, including shiny ones like Byron Buxton. And if they do, that's a marvelous situation to be in...having two players is WAY better than having zero. If TR truly is purposely punting CF solely on the HOPE that some day out there in the future Byron Buxton MIGHT be a competent MLB CFer, we need a new GM.
  18. USAFChief
    THIS whole thread is allowed to exist in THIS forum because we've specifically created this forum for topics like this, about the nature and operation of TD forums. Questions/concerns about moderation. Suggestions, complaints, inquiries. Pet peeves. Compliments, perhaps, far fetched as that may seem. We try to honestly consider everyone's points of view,but as you can see, just from this thread, those views can be widely different. For the record, I've been a mod for a while now. And I will state, under oath if necessary, that in my tenure not one single poster has been warned, much less banned, solely for being too negative, or too positive. I will also state, under oath if necessary, that we spend a great deal of time and electrons debating actions before taking any, in an attempt to do the right thing. My suggestion, to both "sides," is to relax just a bit, don't take things quite so personally, ignore some of the things that annoy you, and try to be an example of what you want the board to be,
  19. USAFChief
    Not to speak for SweetOne69, but by "not true" I think he means "not true." His facts are correct. Milone and Gibson, for example, are not "technically signed" for 2016 or any year past that.
  20. USAFChief
    FTFY.
  21. USAFChief
    Again?? I'd be happy with just once this year.
  22. USAFChief
    "...possible thunderstorms are predicted." Not much of a prediction, if you ask me.
  23. USAFChief
    I think we'd all agree we're better off with Hunter not playing third for the Twins.
  24. USAFChief
    Well, see, he didn't. That's the point.
  25. USAFChief
    I admit I had no idea there's been that many Twins just since TF opened. Well played.
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