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Oberholzer pitching to Kepler should be a big draw in Duesledorf!

Mine played last night, you have a point. To the poster who wanted to show this too youth. Don't, they are too impressionable . Show them something less traumatic like Psycho, Friday the 13th, or The Mist. No child should be subjected to this.

I know, she did that to me last time you came home early.normally I wouldn't mind, but between me and the UPS man, it was kind of crowded.

It is rumored that there are people who have paid money to attend this game? Legion teams would be running laps after games like this!

Not if he looks at himself in a mirror.

If you can't swear there is no sense in remodeling.

And if Plouffe doesn't go, where does Kepler go? I cannot see this operation pulling Grossman, and moving Kepler to left. Plouffe may have to go, but he should take Ryan with him!

I have not first hand knowledge, but I believe Van is likely hiding under his IKEA desk. I am not sure he would be interested in talking to a nearsighted werewolf. . As for Santana, I prefer Merenque Pie to Merenque singers.

2 1-/2 Car loads? How many of them were shoes? When your done I will pay your air fair to come clean out my wife's closet.(s). Sadly it will be a one way air fair. Our daughters have tried, the only thing that saved them was a quickly diminishing sense of family. . You, as a complete stranger to her would likely perish, lost in the dietris of one of the closets. You will be sorely missed!

TiVo is salvation. No Dick Bert, no commercials, can see the plays, and blow off the out of hand games. WAIT. That's most of them... So Netflix comes in handy, or yard work.

It was interesting Plouffe got to play 1st in front of the Yankees who need a 1st baseman, or six. And of course he lets one roll through his legs. Esco is on his usual hot streak after he sits, maybe a reason a lot of teams consider him a utility guy? The SP is going to be very very difficult to fix. The BP not so. And if they would get their act together, and get Rosario back and Polanco here, they would start to turn the corner. But they still are missing a middle IF and a catcher. I would still bring up our best defensive catcher and let him play. It's time to move on. The core of this team has proven they will never win.

I don't know how they calculate it but my eye test says a poor outfielder that runs tentative routes and has a mediocre arm. We did not find Roy Hobbs. .

The Vikings are the most recent example of what happens if you change personnel in management and operate together as a team. With the Twins, it's not even evident that Molitor and Ryan are on the same page. But the bottom line is clear and easily seen. Twenty years of the Ryan administration is enough. And I include the Bill Smith era, because Ryan was listed as a special advisor, Smith was his hand picked successor, and no one in there right mind could believe Smith did anything to serious with out running it by his mentor first. Twenty years winning some titles in a crappy division, getting embarrassed by teams in the other divisions, especially the East, and exiting the playoffs, generally with our tail firmly tucked somewhere. It's enough! How anyone who is a supposed baseball guru, "one of the most respected men in the game" could put this DH laden lineup on the field and expect to win with a low SO staff boggles the mind. ENOUGH ALREADY!

There are a lot of things said here that are correct about Arcia. And I imagine some that aren't. But this is irrefutable. He has not been handled like the other players have been. Last year when he went to Rochester Ryan announced the suddenly new Injury Recovery Protocal. (IRP). Under the IRP players sent our for rehab not only would have to prove they are healthy, they would have to produce before they were returned to the AAAA team. For whatever reason the IRP was instituted, analyzed, and discarded almost immediately. It must have been, since no other player was ever subjected to it. Apparently Arcias inclusion was not only exclusive, it was forgotten, as he was. When you don't treat your players with consistency, you end up with what the Twins appear to have. Unmotivated, and at times virtually selfish play. Brought on by the knowledge that for some there are no consequences.

There will be an extensive list, let's see? Rob Anthony and er? Ah? Hmm,? Let me get back to u on this!

Ryan apparently has/had determined that Vargas, Arcia, ABW, et al were not going to cut it at DH. But then Hunter saved the team the embarrassment of signing a 41 year old OF on a rebuilding team. What if he had not? I think that you would have seen the Sano Experiment anyway. Remember, they did not want Sano DH'ng full time. A rare agreement between me and Ryan. I imagine the story line would have been the legendary Twins OF'er mentoring Sano to replace him whilst splitting time between RF and DH. If Ryan didn't trade Plouffe in the current situation, he sure would not of if Hunter came back. Torri screwed this all up by retiring, and Ryan saw Park as likely both a lottery ticket he could bid on, and while unlikely to succeed, have the annual "we were in it to the end on the guy" presser. Sadly for the Twins we got our man. This whole thing is like a house of cards that collapsed. But what was the first card pulled? It almost has to be that Ryan really believed in 2015. All the decisions made seem to point to that. I waffle on the BP decision, but remember, TR always thinks he can simply dig around in the dumpster and bring in uncovered jewels for the pen. It's never been a visible priority. Arcia is yet another casualty in this collapse. Ryan cannot bring himself to admit this just needs to be trashed and start with a fresh slate. That the core veterans on this team have been the genisis for years of lost baseball and cannot carry a team anywhere near success. His actions suggest that Dozier, Plouffe, Park and the elite pitching staff will return for another year, as this was simply a blip. Look how well we did in ST. That's the real ceiling for this team!

I gave this a like, and it wasn't because I liked what it said. . I gave it a like because sadly I think your are totally correct! Ryan is going to come to the conclusion that this season was bad luck and an outlier, and Sally forth into 2017.

We're gonna get this right! (Sooner of later)

yy Chi town is psychotic.

Oswaldo should have stuck around. Molly has just discovered that PH is legal in the AL!

I know this smacks of hindsight but playing the IF at DP might have helped. Molitor is a big fan of the IF in, even very early in games.

Up until about a month ago Eddie Rosario might have tried it, but I think those days have passed.

I laid down for a nap. I shoulda stayed in bed.

Just think, by the end of the summer it will smell like the real thing! The hat, not your head.

I guess I come from a different era, or mindset. If I have to watch a guy flail for two weeks at a time, and hit .204 to hit a few HR's, I'll pass thank you! A periodic HR does not make up for being a guaranteed out the rest of the week.