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  1. USAFChief
    Tortuga! As expected.
  2. USAFChief
    I blame Stringer.
  3. USAFChief
    Mrs Chief and I were getting dressed for church Sunday when I looked at her and said "Your underwear is just too tight. It doesn't look good." "Well, wear your own then," she said.
  4. USAFChief
    Walk away.
  5. USAFChief
    I asked Alexa which Apple product I should consider buying, and she responded with "Considering your bank account, juice."
  6. USAFChief
    Roster filler.
  7. USAFChief
    No reason? They have one major league starter on the roster. One. They're going to need a lot more than "better health and some good breaks." I don't see it. Hope to be wrong.
  8. USAFChief
    Some of you may know, I spent a good part of the summer in my camper up in northern MN. I got home a couple weeks ago, and Mrs Chief asked how many fish I froze and brought back to Tucson. "Well," I said. "I didn't catch all that many. I froze a dozen walleyes and they're in the freezer." "Jeez Louise," she said. "Those damn fish cost over $100 each." "Well then, Dear," I said. "You're lucky I didn't catch more."
  9. USAFChief
    Since I'm retired now, I don't stop on the way home from work at my favorite little neighborhood bar any more. I decided to wander over there this afternoon, just to say hi. As I was sitting at the bar, a grasshopper walked in, and jumped up on the barstool next to me. "Hey there," I said. "Pretty cool. They have a drink here named after you." After a long pause, he looked at me and said, "They have a drink named Norm?"
  10. USAFChief
    Yes.
  11. USAFChief
    Garver has some of the worst hands of any major leaguer I've ever seen. My personal over/under on "balls that Garver doesn't catch that hit his glove" at 3.5/game.
  12. USAFChief
    Is there a path to contention in 2022?
  13. USAFChief
    Spot on.
  14. USAFChief
    I would have a much easier time chalking up 2021 as some bad luck if I could look optimistically at 2022. But from where I sit--and I realize there's an entire offseason to change the roster--it's very hard to imagine this team anywhere close to even .500 next year. They're short 4 starters, half a dozen relievers, and a SS at minimum. I'd say there's a reasonable chance they're WORSE next year rather than better. They said their goal is to compete every year. Hard to see them giving themselves a passing grade on that goal, so I don't know how I can.
  15. USAFChief
    "Throw enough **** against the wall and some is bound to stick" doesn't sound like a solid method of pitching staff construction to you??
  16. USAFChief
    This is all you need to know about the talent difference between these two clubs: up 11-1, the Sox can send out a LHer throwing 97 for mop up duty.
  17. USAFChief
    Right away in the bottom of the first the Astros put a threat together with some bloop base hits and shoddy Twins defense, but Maeda struckout Yordan Alvarez and Carlos Correa to end the inning and limit the damage. Nitpick: Maeda didn't K Alvarez and Correa. The 'stros had one in, two on with none out when Maeda got Alvarez to hit into a DP. He then K'd Correa. Like I said, nitpick, but it is the game writeup. If nothing else, rest assured someone actually reads these.
  18. USAFChief
    I'm about as diehard a Twins fan as you're likely to find. I've watched 95% of games for as long as cable and internet have made that possible. Before that, I used to sit on the roof of my house after dark wherever I happened to be stationed trying to tune in some clear channel AM radio station from somewhere or other just to catch a fading, scratchy signal for a few innings. My mother on law used to record Twins games on cassette tapes and mail them to me overseas, where I'd listen to them over and over. I paid to watch the Twins again this year. And...I'm at less than 60 percent of games watched. That's less than any year since I've had the ability to watch them all. The biggest factors for me: The poor quality of baseball I see from the Twins. The lack of action. TTO baseball is not very entertaining. The competitive imbalance. Baseball badly needs a salary cap. The pace of play needs attention.
  19. USAFChief
    Yeah, I'm too lazy to actually look it up, but I'd imagine the real takeaway here is the fact the Twins have given up 6 or more runs in ~45% of their games so far. That's ... awful.
  20. USAFChief
    At the point Donaldson is keeping someone better off the roster...which is pretty far fetched IMO ... DFA him. Costs only money.
  21. USAFChief
    Strawberry banana milk shake, made with good ice cream.
  22. USAFChief
    There's no risk either way, except for money.
  23. USAFChief
    I found lowering my pants prior to the dumping helped with that problem.
  24. USAFChief
    Yes.
  25. USAFChief
    Harrison Bader. Darth's kid, id'n it?
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