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  1. USAFChief
    So I stopped by my dentist's office yesterday afternoon, and inquired about the cost to remove a couple troublesome wisdom teeth. "It's $500 per tooth," said the receptionist. "Wow," I said. "TOOOOOO much." "Well," said the nice young lady behind the desk, "Let me get the doctor up here and see what we can do." My actual dentist, Doc Lee, was soon up at the desk. "Chief!" he said. (I'm one of his favorite patients, y'know. He LOVES my jokes.) "What can I do for you?" "Doc," I said, "What can we do about lowering the cost to get a couple wisdom teeth removed?" "Well," he said, "I guess we could cut out the pain reliever. Without novocaine, I could do it for $250 each." "Too much. What else?" "I guess I could let the intern do it. He's never removed teeth before, and I expect it'd be pretty painful. I would charge you $100 total." "OK, that sounds more like it," I said. "I'll bring Mrs Chief around Monday. I'm tired of hearing her complain about those two wisdom teeth."
  2. USAFChief
    http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2011/03/21/KOWALSKI_S1_BobLeonard1.jpg Stan "The Big K" Kowalski
  3. USAFChief
    I opted for the Rangers broadcast today. A couple innings of Laudner was enough for me.
  4. USAFChief
    Impressive! And it only cost the Rangers just the one run.
  5. USAFChief
    Arraez in the cleanup hole again. As expected.
  6. USAFChief
    perhaps they can hock a couple WS trophies
  7. USAFChief
    What's up with Cron?
  8. USAFChief
    He is correct, though, that in recent decades the Twins haven't had much power. They went for something like 15 years between 30 HR hitters, for example. I also present, your honor, prosecution exhibit B...playoff DH Jason Tyner.
  9. USAFChief
    1. Astudillo isnt coming back any time soon. Oblique strains take at least a month, usually more. At which point you need a rehab assignment. Best case scenario is probably late July, probably more like early August. So that reason to send Arraez down won't be a factor for a while. 2. That leaves Rosario, who it sounds like should be ready immediately after the AS break. At that point, they will need to decide between 13 pitchers, and keeping Arraez. My guess is they will try, right out of the break, to go with 12. Arraez stays for the short term. 3. In the meantime, there's always the possibility someone else goes on the IL, which would push the decision back. There is the small chance a trade involves someone on the 25 man, which could be Arraez, or could open up a spot. If not, it's only a matter of time until they decide they need 13 pitchers again, at which point Arraez goes down. 3. Arraez doesnt look very good in LF, but corner OF defense just isnt critical. His hitting so far has been more than enough to not worry about that.
  10. USAFChief
    Focus on improving the pitching. But it will be a lot easier to improve the bullpen.
  11. USAFChief
    True story, but he only bought the safe, low power fireworks. The ones that can't do much damage.
  12. USAFChief
    Great. Just great. Another guy not signed to a contract past 2019.
  13. USAFChief
    I doubt this is the case. Scorekeepers are trained to give errors only when plays require "normal effort." Any ball that's on the edge of a player's range isnt considered "normal effort," so it's very unlikely an error would be assessed because the Twins are getting to more balls. It's possible a throwing error or two has resulted from a Twin trying to save a single from becoming a double, but that's about the only way range leads to more errors assessed.
  14. USAFChief
    In the Strib game story, it appears the failed suicide squeeze last night was supposed to be a safety squeeze. It says "players" mistook the sign, but that can only be Adrianza, who was on third. I dont like either play, but a safety squeeze isnt as bad as a suicide squeeze, if you ask me.
  15. USAFChief
    Someone in the game thread last night described watching Parker pitch as like "watching someone juggle chainsaws." I thought that was pretty accurate. Still, good win. Really good win. Sort of...needed, somehow.
  16. USAFChief
    his average has dropped like a hundred points in just a week or so!!1!
  17. USAFChief
    he once removed the wrong organ frim a patient during an operation.
  18. USAFChief
    honorable mention to Gibson.
  19. USAFChief
    he sure did. every single player in the history of baseball makes an occasional error.
  20. USAFChief
    WINNAH!!!
  21. USAFChief
    Schoop keeping the tag on Profar might get the Twins a win today.
  22. USAFChief
    Smart play Eh-Ray.
  23. USAFChief
    Had him 0-2.
  24. USAFChief
    he's one of those hitters who looks like he's on everything for a week, but then hors 2 weeks looking like he'll never get a hit.
  25. USAFChief
    FFS!
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