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  1. USAFChief
    Triples are made out of the box. Like that.
  2. USAFChief
    I thought you liked Mauer.
  3. USAFChief
    The AB where Abreu hit the HR is an example of why watching Mauer leaves me...frustrated. 2-0 pitch, Abreu is looking fastball, takes a big hack. Foul ball, nothing exciting, but the middle of your order SHOULD be looking to hit the ball hard on a 2-0 pitch. Mauer would have taken that pitch. The count goes to 3-1, same situation. Abreu is looking to hit the ball hard if he gets a pitch he can handle. He does, and does. Mauer would have taken that pitch. Different strokes for different folks, I guess, but IMO Abreu is playing the game the correct way.
  4. USAFChief
    I watched the Gopher game during the break between doubleheader games. I had too much time and had to find something else to do for a few minutes.
  5. USAFChief
    Coming into today, Ben Revere had 561 PAs, and 12 walks, one of which was intentional. 12.
  6. USAFChief
    Hughsie's 11 K performance today was the first 10+K outing by a Twins starter since Liriano in July, 2012.
  7. USAFChief
    I'm searching for a word to describe today's game, despite Hughes' effort, and the end of this season. "Desultory" comes to mind.
  8. USAFChief
    We scored!!1!
  9. USAFChief
    "I DON'T BELIEVE...WHAT I JUST SAW!" A Twins starter with double digit K's. In one game!!1!
  10. USAFChief
    Bert: "Look at that waterfall." I guess one needs a lot of medication to call a Twins/Sox doubleheader in September.
  11. USAFChief
    sssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
  12. USAFChief
    Well, you know what they say...it's one, two, three strikes you're out at the ol' ball game when Quintana's pitching.
  13. USAFChief
    .290/.329/.434 in 234 PAs entering today.
  14. USAFChief
    E3.
  15. USAFChief
    1. Mauer put up a .729 OPS (102 OPS+) in an injury shortened 2011. His numbers are almost identical this year. He came back to put up .861 and .880 OPS's in 2012 and 2013, hopefully he can rebound similarly in the future. Good, but not great numbers. 2. I'd hope to see a FA LFer, and Hicks starting in CF, hoping one of those works out and Buxton arrives by midseason. I can live with Schafer as a 4th OFer, but ideally I'd want someone better for that role, too. I am pretty confident in predicting everyone currently in love with Schafer will be asking for a divorce if he gets regular playing time next year. It's too bad pitching staffs have grown to12 or 13...in the old days he'd have been a good 5th OFer...a guy who rarely starts but is useful off the bench. Alas...it's difficult for teams to carry 5 true OFers these days. As an aside...I don't worry much about corner OF defense. Plenty of teams have won, and won big, with questionable corner OF defense. 3. I don't see the current options as enough to form a decent starting rotation in 2015. So either sign someone better than anyone they have now, or accept that the team won't compete in 2015. I'd like to see a serious effort to sign one of Lester or Scherzer. I doubt that happens, though. 4. They'll win more...at home and on the road...when they field a better team. 5. The time is long past for new leadership in the dugout. Maybe that will help. 3.
  16. USAFChief
    Everyone's watching the Goph's, I guess? No scores please, I'm recording.
  17. USAFChief
    I agree that the strike call on Johnson was a close call.
  18. USAFChief
    Having watched the AB, it appears to me Stanton was expecting to get pitched hard inside, as he often does. He was sitting on an inside fastball, hoping to get out in front of one and hit it 450 ft to left. He recognized "inside fastball" and started his swing...too late realizing it was too far inside and too high. At that point there was nothing he could do. And I thought it was correctly ruled a swing as well.
  19. USAFChief
    Still trailing the 2013 team's W-L pace, btw.
  20. USAFChief
    Ugh.
  21. USAFChief
    winnah!!
  22. USAFChief
    merci
  23. USAFChief
    non.
  24. USAFChief
    Pop quiz (no fair looking it up): Who has the higher career OPS, Jason Giambi or Joe Mauer?
  25. USAFChief
    Bert: "pulled the string" as the screen shows 93.
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