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  1. Platoon
    I agree with the concept that the second half of the season could be viewed both separately and with more optimism. Thats the good news. The bad news is .550 ball for example, will allow the ownership and FO to sell the same old theory. The ship is in good hands, it's in the process of a course correction, and all the issues out there,SP, mediocre middle defense, and a out of balance roster, are not really an iceberg. The Twins and some fans fall into the same trap yearly. A few good starts (Santana), an axe bat, and an ersatz AS SS, leave them and us ignoring the facts. We have no ace pitcher, terrible catching, and poor middle defense. The OF will be fine, and the RP will end up average. The rest is far from contending material.
  2. Platoon
    and tasty!
  3. Platoon
    My dad did not allow us to take swimming lessons.mit was his theory that if you could not swim, you would not go in the water, ergo, you could not drown. Of course he didn't water ski, jet ski. Or fish!
  4. Platoon
    Or the dreaded Land Shark! Pizza Man!
  5. Platoon
    I have been to most of Texas, barring Housotn. You haven't missed a thing, unless of course you like brown grass, sand, wind, bat s*^t crazy drivers, and Armadillos! . If it wasn't for What-a-Burger, there is no reason for Texas. I still feel sorry for Davy Crockett or whatever his name was at the Alamo! I often wonder if Mexico would take it back? Or like trying to get rid of Nolasco, we would have to throw Oklahoma in with the deal?
  6. Platoon
    good bread, chunky peanut butter, and bacon! Yummy!
  7. Platoon
    And when did money purchase maturity? He may be paid to play baseball, but his salary will not dictate personality. For an example, see Moss, Randy! As for the youth in general, many think 1500 PA is the leveling point. These guys are a long way from that.
  8. Platoon
    Which Dozier do you want to keep? Or for that matter trade. His long length slumps are becoming not an abberation, but a trademark. I watch a lot of the Twins games. I see a Dozier who has gotten better at laying off 2 strike away stuff. But also getting an inordinate amount of mistakes on the inner half, from a string of mediocre pitching. Good pitchers, the kind playoff teams see in Oct. don't make those mistakes. Good pitching always negates good hitting. And Doziers large hole in his zone, makes it even more so. I
  9. Platoon
    Murphy had a lot of help from the FO. You can't keep Plouffe if you expect Park to succeed, and if you don't expect Park to succeed, don't sign him. Sano is a generational talent, Plouffe is not. Hedging all your bets makes mediocrity guaranteed. The Park signing was insanity for this team. But once you did, Plouffe just plain had to go. It was the first domino tipped, towards Mr. Murphy. I won't go into the SP, that is such a jumble, I don't think a coompetent GM could fix it in less than a year. One last thought. The Twins expected a group of average players to all be at their peaks at the same time. Dozier to be first half BD, Plouffe to be a main stick They expected a guy who hit AA pitching in Korea and struck out at an ABW rate to fill the power gap, Suzuki to be AS Kurt again, etc. That's not Mr. Murphys Fault, it's that other Irish guys fault.
  10. Platoon
    I was against the Jepsen trade for the simple fact I thought our playoff chances were an illusion. But that's just me. May has broken down twice as a reliever and has been clear in his opinion that it's due to lack of normal rest. I guess we are going for the trifecta. There is only one good thing to come of this miserable year. It has made even a waffler like Ryan see some need for expediency. That said, he butchered the Plouffe situation, and now is stuck with him until he is off the DL. And he will butcher the Dozier thing also. The real proof in the pudding will be if he starts eating contracts, because there is no other way to unload any of that driftwood pitching staff, Santana being the exception. Don't be too easy on the manager though. Good grief the things he has done this year could fill a book on how not to manage any baseball team, yet alone a MLB one. The most recent stealing second with Sano up and two outs? And please don't tell me they ran on their own. That's what either signs, or the bench is for. That was three times as stupid as Rosario taking that open base.
  11. Platoon
    not as bad as stealing yesterday with 2 outs and Sano up!
  12. Platoon
    I have no idea what the plan is? Did I say the P word. Sending Nuck down is idiocy. He knows how to hit AAA pitching. Or maybe he is nursing one of those quiet little ailments the Twins seem to hide on occasion, like its a state secret.
  13. Platoon
    What aggravated me about the Jepsen acquisition was tha it was in pursuit of an illusion. The Twins were not a playoff team in 2015. And they weren't chasing one team, they were chasing two or three. It's a shame that the combined desperation from the previous 4 years, and the bizarre May, 2015, caused the FO to make so many short term decisions in a long term situation. Arrrggghhhh
  14. Platoon
    This is a reversal of my normal thought process, but I would keep Ervin. I don't think enough can be gotten for him to make any difference, and he is healthy and could be worthwhile. I would dump Nolasco, that's a lost cause, and not count on Hughes at all. Anything from him is just gravy from here on out. The extension was idiotic, but it's history. May has broken down twice as a RP. I guess we will get to see if the old fool me once, fool me twice...... Comes into play. I do know that with the paucity of DECENT starting pitching on this staff, I would convert him back to SP.
  15. Platoon
    I was out of touch with reality yesterday, more so than usual. So I see in the Trib that the Twins announce a couple days ago that after Jepsons stellar inning he is getting it figured out. Then EE gets hurt. Then they bring up an OF, as an IF gets hurt. Then they decide the IF is not badly hurt, but instead of sending the OF back to Rochester, they DFA the pitcher that they just said was getting it together. Now they will have to figure out what to do with May, which means either Plouffe, the unhurt EE, or another RP goes. I am really not against getting rid of Jepesn, although he was miscast as a closer. But I am tired of the continued reactionary philosophy of The FO. Arcia was quoted as saying he knew his DFA was coming. He should hit Vegas next, because anyone who can foresee what this FO is going to do has to be psychic!
  16. Platoon
    The only problems Polanco faces is the fact that trading Plouffe does him no good, that Dozier will likely not be traded. And that the Twins seem to believe that Nunez is actually a competent middle IF. Personally I would trade Dozier while the lights still on, but that's just me. More likely they will end up with Polanco in a crunch next year. Out of options, and still with no lengthly evaluation of him in MLB. I agree Rosario should be up, Grossman should sit down, and I don think Buxton should go anywhere. It's sink or swim time, this bunch is either going to lead us out of the desert, or its gonna make Moses 40 years wandering aimlessly look like a field trip. Now about that pitching staff...............
  17. Platoon
    This from Mike Bernadino last night. I am a little surprised it wasn't Polanco, since EE is an IF. And it's not that Rosario doesn't deserve the promotion, it just seems a chance to give some eval time to Polanco in general, although I still don't think he is the SS of the future. I am pretty tired of seeing hit first, glove second SS. Hopefully they are just in the beginning of stabilizing this roster, the move of Sano out of the OF was a start, getting Rosario is another, and making Grossman the 4th OF should follow. http://www.twincities.com/2016/07/02/minnesota-twins-recall-eddie-rosario-from-triple-a/
  18. Platoon
    Did you get any decent pictures of you? Duh, that was a silly question. :)
  19. Platoon
    Noah at least responded to the flood by building an Ark, not just patching the hole in his canoe!
  20. Platoon
    Well put. And I don't consider it hindsight for this reason. Your thoughts include a plan for after the signing of Desmond. After Ryan "won" the bid on Park, that was it. No plan. No dominoes fell. Simple. We just move Sano to RF, where Hunter did us a huge favor by retiring. So we have a spot where no one is standing that needs filling. Problem solved. That's the difference between your plan and Ryans lack thereof. Whether it was Park or Desmond, there had to be further actions to meld it all together.
  21. Platoon
    The rebuild I welcome, and I understand the mistakes by younger players. But playing for one run with this pitching staff? In what inning? ...... Arrrrrgghhh. Molitor is what I think all bad managers are, i.e. I don't think a good manager raises the level of the players, but he doesn't lower it. Molitor lowers it.
  22. Platoon
    There is little in anything Brian has ever put on digital paper to make me believe a thing he writes. But I do have to wonder if his point #1 pertaining to Ryans cloned pitchers, has some merit. It's by far the best explanation yet for the past 20 years of Twins pitching.
  23. Platoon
    True story. I went to the local small PO to buy a few rolls of forever stamps. When told they had went down 2 cents per, I jokingly said I was bringing my leftovers in for a refund. . She said, don't laugh! Some woman came in last week with two rolls, and wanted her $4 back. I said, let me guess, of German ancestry? I asked what did you feel the angry kraut? She said she told her, "Forever is Forever at the PO"
  24. Platoon
    That puzzles me, they carried him all year, and then he misses t shirt day. Just another seemingly odd contradiction.
  25. Platoon
    If they jerk Kepler around so they can keep Plouffe at third I will have a conniption! Or something!
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