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  1. USAFChief
    Pohlad specifically said there WILL be payroll limitations in this column..."it won't be $150 million...".
  2. USAFChief
    Cobb's last game was in 1927, two decades before baseball integrated. I wasn't there, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say Cobb had little if anything to do with influencing the segregation of baseball.
  3. USAFChief
    What's Meatsauce's take?
  4. USAFChief
    pfft...general admission ducats prolly.
  5. USAFChief
    He would have more of a point if anyone , anywhere, had ever said Mauer is all that ails the Twins. Not to mention if Mauer had actually been their best player last year. Or had a history of playing through injuries, for that matter. I love Vonnegut, though.
  6. USAFChief
    I hope he not only collects every penny owed, but mans third base at such an abominable level as to drag the Yankees below .500 and kill for good any remaining chance he has at the HOF.
  7. USAFChief
    Lots of intriguing names on that list.
  8. USAFChief
    Nitpic: Gonzalez will be 29 next yr, not 30. In general, I also don't buy "injury prone" as something to pay much attention to, unless it's a chronic condition such as a bad back...and technically that's not injury prone either. And it may be Coors-aided, but for the record his career OPS is higher than Mauer's. I'd strongly consider a trade, but I'm not a fan of sitting around waiting for the minor leagues to turn this franchise around.
  9. USAFChief
    Concur.
  10. USAFChief
    Molitor has never managed. IMO the last thing he needs is to add a pitching coach who has never been a pitching coach. Get someone who has at the least had some successful minor league experience, if you can't get a guy with successful major league experience.
  11. USAFChief
    Sign me up if it includes a new contract for Heyward. I'd ask about Kemp first though.
  12. USAFChief
    Startrib icon Sid Hartman has reached 70 years with the paper. I'm not young, and I can remember looking forward to reading what he had to say in the "Sunday paper" even as a young boy. My parents didnt subscribe to the paper, but would almost always buy one on the way home from church. That's where I got my weekly update on all things sports...looking through the weekly posting of MLB stats, for example, to see who was leading the Batting average race, what the standings were in the NL, etc. it's hard to imagine for some of you, I suppose, but in those days there was no Internet. No ESPN. Little but the Twins game on the radio. And I started, each week, by reading Sid's column. Say what you will about Sid...what he was, and what he's become, but I salute you Sid! Congratulations on doing what you love for a long, long time. I hope I'm still reading you when I get to be your age.
  13. USAFChief
    I think it was first reported here at TD by a couple guys who witnessed it, and later saw the forearm wrapped and then in a cast.
  14. USAFChief
    True enough. Like I said, if Molly is the hire, I hope he does fantastically well.
  15. USAFChief
    I can't shake the feeling this decision was made a year ago. And I can't help but feel disappointed about the apparent strong phobia over going outside the organization. I've been wrong before, hope I am again and Molitor turns out to be a great hire.
  16. USAFChief
    Monitor may well turn out to be a fine manager, if he's the choice. But "put in his time?" "Has the credentials?" "Earned this?" He's never managed. Anywhere.
  17. USAFChief
    And just like the game threads, there's a good chance you don't want to.
  18. USAFChief
    Yes.
  19. USAFChief
    And by doing it their way, the Twins have been in deep doodoo for the last four years, and have in their past been in the same condition for decades at a time. I think we all understand there are limits, and ideally your minor league system provides a good chunk of what is needed. Some of us just have different ideas about how and when to augment that pipeline, and perhaps about what ownerships responsibilities should be.
  20. USAFChief
    I don't think anyone has made that claim.
  21. USAFChief
    I feel the need to point out the series winning hit was allowed on an 0-2 count. Fine his @$$!!
  22. USAFChief
    I'm probably in the minority, but I have long since stopped paying much attention to LENIII. He's gotten pretty lazy as a beat writer. Last week I heard him on KFAN and his comment about Lovullo was "yeah, I need to figure out how to pronounce his name." That coming from the Twins beat writer for the state's largest newspaper, who's supposed to be in-the-know about all things Twins. I'll believe the Twins contacted Madden if Berardino reports it.
  23. USAFChief
    Lack of pitching talent is not related to the managerial search. Do you not fix the hole in your roof because you also have water in the basement?
  24. USAFChief
    That seems like a contradiction to me. If Buehrle "has skills that have been demonstrated to lead to an ERA better than FIP," what does that have to do with defense?
  25. USAFChief
    , You're as disappointed at that as me, I take it.
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