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  1. USAFChief
    And speaking of game thread intro's //ba-dum-tschh// we are in need of volunteers for the following dates: 8/4 TEX 8/6 TEX 8/8 MIL 8/12 @DET 8/13 @DET 8/17 CLE 8/26 @TOR 8/30 CWS 8/31 CWS Do the right thing...PM me and Chitown.
  2. USAFChief
    Something like a game thread intro, then?
  3. USAFChief
    Sort of a sad day here in Tucson. We have something called the "Tanque Verde Swap Meet" that is open every weekend, a sort of giant ongoing yard sale. There's even been a small circus there for years, made up mostly of part time, semi-amateur locals. They've had to shut down one of the main acts, the "human cannonball." The guy who got shot out of the cannon had reached the age where he just wasn't able to do it anymore, and they can't find a replacement. ... ... Seems it's hard to find a man of that caliber.
  4. USAFChief
    ftfy.
  5. USAFChief
    Aks him.
  6. USAFChief
    I was just wondering the same thing. Again.
  7. USAFChief
    With good reason.
  8. USAFChief
    Incorrect. It's Lacey Underall.
  9. USAFChief
    without using google, can you tell us who that is?
  10. USAFChief
    l'chaim!
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  12. USAFChief
    That's a fair read, too. "They ****** up."
  13. USAFChief
    That seems to me the most plausible explanation. If so, discouraging.
  14. USAFChief
    I've, too, often been described as "hardly working."
  15. USAFChief
    And his six XBHs per month!
  16. USAFChief
    What I think: You might not build a staff in one offseason, but you don't build one by sitting the offseason out, either. Get started already, for Petesakes...or we'll be having this conversation every year. The Twins WERE positioned to be in contention a couple weeks ago, "sequencing" or not. Adding some quality pitching last offseason would have possibly helped to lower that magic "baseruns" number, added a few wins, and helped avoid this disastrous road trip, where the bullpen is the reason they're not having a winning trip. Side notes: using terms such as "fanciful, laughable" to describe other posters is out of bounds on this place. Please don't. When TD owners pass away and leave me this place in their will (I'm going to outlive them all), I'm going to ban the word "sequencing."
  17. USAFChief
    That still left them an entire offseason and spring. There's been a non-trivial change at the top, but we're still waiting for non-trivial change elsewhere. I realize Rome wasn't built in a day, and I still have hopes for the hires, but I'm also not going to give them credit for accomplishments that haven't been accomplished yet.
  18. USAFChief
    Here's a list of completed deals last offseason: https://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2016/11/3/13470044/mlb-trade-rumors-tracker-2016-2017-offseason Lots of pitchers changed hands. The Twins are absent from the list, and I find it difficult to believe that's because they couldn't make an effort. And this list is just trades...it doesn't include FA deals.
  19. USAFChief
    So is the situation the same going into 2018? 2019? It's forever hopeless? "...not possible" is actually the unrealistic position to take, IMO. Of course it's possible. It certainly takes smarts, courage, and decisiveness. It probably takes money. There will certainly be some luck involved, with injuries if nothing else. But I'm simply not buying "nothing could have been done."
  20. USAFChief
    Nobody said it would be easy, but that's the job. "It's too hard, let's do nothing" isn't the answer either.
  21. USAFChief
    True, but don't taunt Mrs Chief
  22. USAFChief
    Concur. concurconcurconcurconcurconcurconcur. Not to mention, it's legal to acquire help between opening day and July 31st, too.
  23. USAFChief
    All of that is fair, I just look at it differently. All but the bolded part, that is. I see this often, and it just boggles my mind. If quality relievers are so easy to find, we must have the worst string of GMs in the history of baseball. And one look at the trade deadline should tell you that isn't true...virtually every team in contention is looking for pen help. In actuality, quality relievers are very difficult to find. Highly underrated, too. If it was my money, and I was forced to scrimp somewhere to spend elsewhere, the last place I'd try to limp by is the bullpen. I can find a corner OFer relatively easily, and by perhaps platooning, get decent production with little risk. But when my bullpen is littered with question marks, I'm going to lose lots of games I should have won. Lots. Guar-own-teed.
  24. USAFChief
    Speaking only for myself, I'm disappointed that the self-fulfilling prophesy of "we can't compete with these holes" while doing nothing to fill those holes is somehow vindication for yet another wasted season. "Play for 2019" does nothing for me. It's what the de-facto farm teams that always seem to be providing talent to the real teams do.
  25. USAFChief
    Sad. Twins had the type of team over the winter that was obviously ready for a step forward, but had some easily identifiable holes. They do virtually nothing to address those holes, then watch as those holes tank a somewhat promising season. Then dump, for what appears to be most likely org filler. Not my idea of how I want this franchise run.
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