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  1. USAFChief
    My new all time favorite TD post.
  2. USAFChief
    IIRC, We've even spoken with two of their agents!
  3. USAFChief
    Or ownership and management have accepted it as the normal costs of doing business in Major League Baseball in 2014, aren't in it to accumulate the highest profit margin, and won't spend any time in the future regretting a move today.
  4. USAFChief
    True, but in Berardino's defense, Ryan doesn't give a beat writer covering the winter meetings much chance to justify the per diem costs of a trip to San Diego. "Monday Twins Notes from the Winter Meetings: Nada." "Tuesday Twins Notes from the Winter Meetings: Zilch." "Wednesday Twins Notes...etc etc"
  5. USAFChief
    / to pile on to this, a repost of my response the last time this "inconsistent" claim was made: Last five years: ERA: 3.06, 2.79, 3.05, 3.60, 2.46 IP: 208, 216, 215, 220, 204 FIP: 3.67, 3.05, 3.30, 3.26, 3.07 What sort of inconsistency were you observing?
  6. USAFChief
    Did the Twins just win the AL Central by NOT making any moves?
  7. USAFChief
    It's good to know they're serious. Serious enough to meet with the agents of TWO of the four pitchers mentioned. How did Ryan manage to squeeze all that in?
  8. USAFChief
    When was that string of 8-9 inning starts? Liriano had no 9 inning starts last year. He had only one 8 inning start.
  9. USAFChief
    And Gardy would be hired by sunset the day he was fired, too, amiright?
  10. USAFChief
    First New Year's Day Bowl since 1962. And perhaps the least frightening opponent.
  11. USAFChief
    Looks like the Citrus Bowl vs Missouri Jan 1. Just about the best possible scenario. Congrats Gophers!
  12. USAFChief
    Nit pick: Hamels doesn't require an extension.
  13. USAFChief
    Prolly not a "real" piñata.
  14. USAFChief
    Is it possible you are making way too much of this? If there are intangibles the Twins hope to get from Hunter's presence, my guess is it's related to his unwavering desire to win, and willingness to do whatever that takes. Which, by the way, I think they could benefit from. I doubt any teammate pays much if any attention to a quote about minorities in baseball made a while ago.
  15. USAFChief
    Teach your children to throw with their left hand, people.
  16. USAFChief
    If by full, you mean in the same way my wallet is full because there's twenty $1 bills in there...no room for $5's, $10's, $20's, or heaven forbid Benjamin's, then yeah. It's full.
  17. USAFChief
    What's Halsey's take on this?
  18. USAFChief
    http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BOTU1NzEyNjE1NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNDQzMDc3._V1_SX100_CR0,0,100,100_AL_.jpg
  19. USAFChief
    Kill has had basically the same staff for a couple different jobs now.
  20. USAFChief
    http://blogs.twincities.com/twins/2014/12/04/twinsights-terry-ryan-defensive-metrics-twins-ignore/ With all the talk about OF defense recently, I thought this piece in the PP was interesting.
  21. USAFChief
    Both Berardino and Hunter were out of line. There is no reason to pursue that line of questioning. And Hunter needs to be smarter than that.
  22. USAFChief
    And the Mariners Happ-y. //not my best work, but it's the offseason for all of us...
  23. USAFChief
    Well, that wasn't the press conference anyone had in mind, I'll wager.
  24. USAFChief
    I think perhaps one lesson we can relearn from this is the problem with " wait until you have specific needs and/or are one player away before signing a free agent" line of reasoning. The Twins pretty clearly needed an OFer...and the choices available were unimpressive, to say the least. I think it's always better to add to what you have when you can, no matter where you are on the "competitive curve" so you aren't forced into worse choices later.
  25. USAFChief
    It was a better team...despite bad corner OF defense. Perhaps it's not all that critical.
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