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  1. Platoon
    While he might not be "doing" the drafting, he is most assuredly overseeing it. If he isn't, why the word "General" before manager.
  2. Platoon
    Now I not only have to apologize to dead horses, and the SPCA, I have to apologize to wsnydes also. . I went back and re-read, the error in my ways was apparent.
  3. Platoon
    While the franchise has no particular duty to Reusse, maybe the reason he keeps beating this dead horse over and over, is because the horse is still dead after twenty years. And it's the same horse. A season of competing for a playoff spot that was added for TV, and a few seasons of winning a weak division, and getting our asses handed to us by the other divisions in twenty straight years would allow for a lot of horse beating, dead or otherwise. (apologies to the SPCA)
  4. Platoon
    I don't specifically remember the Vargas weight issue. But I think some of the Sano thing comes from Sanos conflicting comments and actions in winter ball, and his apparent disinterest in learning the OF. Normally there would have been glowing, fawning reports of Miguel gettin after it, talking with Torii, and how athletic he looked in late January chasing 225' pop ups. Not a peep. I read almost nothing. I got the feeling Sano was not that excited about being an outfielder.
  5. Platoon
    A degree in arithmetic?
  6. Platoon
    I read this early this morning, and agreed with most he said. Reusse knows baseball, he came from a baseball family in Fulda, his dad was very active in it. And for those on here who don't understand how intense old time town ball was, it will be hard to imagine that a product of amateur ball would have enough knowledge to opinionate on MLB. By chance yesterday my baseball savvy son and I were dissecting the Twins, and this idea/question popped into the my head. I asked him, what would the Twins team look like with a Bud Grant in his prime, or Mike Zimmer running it? I don't know if the Twins would have had a better record, but I do believe they would more likely resemble a ML team than they currently do.
  7. Platoon
    . "Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” ― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics. This in actuality precludes watching the Twins and drinking!
  8. Platoon
    For me it would be Nunez, solely for his bat. You watc a guy like Lindor play short, and it's not fair to say we have a SS. That is not really a knock on Munez, he plays hard and to his ability.
  9. Platoon
    Please listen closely for our menu has changed: Press 1 for ML Trades Press 2 for MiLB Trades Press 3 if you are a FA looking to get to the show this week. Press 4 if you are a former Twin looking for employment. Press 5 if you have just been released from anywhere. Press 6 if have room for Kepler on your drive to Rochester NY Press 7 if you know what metrics are. Press 8 if you want to buy playoff tickets. Press 911 if you are that delusional!
  10. Platoon
    This is appropriate I think. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliana%27s_Pony:_Total_System_Failure
  11. Platoon
    One of my favorites, that was quite a group!
  12. Platoon
    Disco Dan the guy who backed across home plate? That's what I want to see!
  13. Platoon
    Same here, I thought it had reached a level that can only normally be achieved with the help of pharmaceuticals, illicit or otherwise!
  14. Platoon
    Yea but you have the ratios reversed!
  15. Platoon
    Mel Ott on the other hand has serious problems. . Luckily Hu is no longer here!
  16. Platoon
    So why is that usually the way? Because the FO won't stick it's neck out to make a change? Monetary? Incorrect talent assessment? In essence this formula leaves an underachieving healthy team intact indefinitely!
  17. Platoon
    Quick question, take out injuries and how many of the Twins youth would be playing regularly on the ML team? Replacing injured players with another player is not constructing a roster, it's plugging holes temporarily.
  18. Platoon
    I hate to mention Reusse on here, it drives people nuts, but yesterday he said the rumor ar the park is 20% discount if you renew season tickets in August?
  19. Platoon
    Good piece. And all basically relevant. The sad part, for me and I imagine quite a few others, is the hopeless feeling that virtually nothing significant will be done. Everything you have listed is valid and needed. But nothing in this owners or FO history allow optimism that any of the following will take place with enough impact to change the face of this team drastically: 1. Trading beloved vets. See Dozier, Suzuki, and add Nunez, Grossman, Escobar. Plouffe might be the exception, and if he doesn't go, the rest of your article is bird cage lining. 2. Eat contract money. The big three SP. And if things don't change, I would add Park. If that's the kind of hitting it takes to get to thirty solo HR's, I will pass thank you. 3. Introspection. I can look in the mirror everyday, and think I should get a haircut! I can tell my wife, "I need a haircut". I can even issue a press release. But until I go to the barber, my hair is still gonna be too long. The best the optimist in me can do is hope what you wrote happens. The pessimist in me thinks little will.
  20. Platoon
    My wife was in the room, she cares a bleep about football. I said hes gonna miss this kick. She said how do you know? I said it's the Vikings! That's what they do!
  21. Platoon
    Yes, and next week, er month, we will again! .
  22. Platoon
    My parents and all the neighbors got into homemade wine making years ago. They bought these kits with the bottles, and all you did was mix the ingredients. Neighbor Muriel couldn't understand why you would use a ballon on top of the bottle, so she tossed it and put a cork in the bottle. It's amazing how far wine and broken glass will fly! The Twins depression the last 6 years is like an alcoholic who has been at it for years, and just can't quit. The Vikings are more like, you go to the meetings for almost the whole year, and then suddenly you walk into a bar..............
  23. Platoon
    My parents and all the neighbors got into homemade wine making years ago. They bought these kits with the bottles, and all you did was mix the ingredients. Neighbor Muriel couldn't understand why you would use a ballon on top of the bottle, so she tossed it and put a cork in the bottle. It's amazing how far wine and broken glass will fly!
  24. Platoon
    See, all you guys who wanted him to go to RF, take that! . Just to prove you wrong, I will do it again in July!
  25. Platoon
    We start with serial killers, and close with psychopaths!
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