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  1. Platoon
    Molitor is managing, and doling out playing time, and talking like he is trying to win games. We are so far past that. This should have been an extended tryout camp since about May 15th. I would like to hear Molitor, or for that matter Antony give one coherent rational reason for the continued procession of Indy league players into Mpls, while we have guys running out of options in MiLB. For example, ABW, Palka, and Vargas. I don't know there option status, but they gotta be running out pretty soon. While I am not sure of ABW and Palka, I am fairly sure that Vargas will at least make a MLB DH. But I can say with a 100 % degree of certainty that the latest Shaefer is not going to help this team in the future. So why exactly is he here. One good rational reason, please. And for heavens sake, don't tell me it's to help the vets win, ugh!
  2. Platoon
    ........day after day and night after night it went on and on..........
  3. Platoon
    Not sure, the meat tasted like chicken tho!
  4. Platoon
    Which reminds me, a moment of silence for Mr. Fuji please, and a pinch of salt!
  5. Platoon
    The first time I went through there on I80 I called one of the kids, and told them i stopped at the rest stop and ran into a family named the Donners, and they had asked me to join them for lunch. She asked, why would they ever do that? She had no idea who they had been.
  6. Platoon
    I watched E1 of season one the other day. So far I am up in the air on it. But I generally like horror shows. (Please no Twins comparisons, that is too obvious)
  7. Platoon
    The doctors report is in...... To quote........" Platoon has the range of Delmon Young, Grossman like routes to the ball, a Revere like arm, and to answer the specific question, a heart that pumps like the bilge pump on the Edmund Fitzgerald! Tremendous athlete, likely will be the greatest left fielder that ever played....... He goes on (and on) but those are the pertinent parts.
  8. Platoon
    I was about that age and drank a half a quart of homemade dill pickle juice...... BARF
  9. Platoon
    Ok, that made laugh hysterically
  10. Platoon
    Be right back, I am having my doctor whip up a one page report on my health. He said it would only take 5 min. (If some of the wording is similar to mine, it's only because we have known each other for years). He is a D.O.D. Doctor of Orthopedic Dentristy
  11. Platoon
    No matter ones take on the quality of drafts, or development of pitchers, hitters, and fielders, or the advancement of same, one thing remains an indesputable fact. The Twins are either not emphasizing fundamentals, or are not getting through to the players on their importance. Fundamental baseball has nothing to do with physical talent. It's all about the mental side of the game, and the acceptance of the philosophy. And that is obviously not happening system wide.
  12. Platoon
    What Robbie gonna do
  13. Platoon
    If in my youth I had known how easy it is to get a cup of coffee in MLB, I would have went to those Twins tryout camps. Wow, Indy league to MLB in a few short weeks. (Be back later, my grandson is gonna hit me some fly balls, there's still hope)
  14. Platoon
    Years ago, at the State Fair, I left my wife and two girls and took my 4 yr old son to machinery hill, about 4 blocks away. I crawled up on something for 30 seconds, turned around and he was gone! Finally called the cops, and they assured me they never lost one yet. Just wait here. Half an hour later he shows up with his mother and sisters in tow, asked where I had went. Lol. He got tired of looking for me, so he walked down to them, and brought them back. How he knew where and how to find them or me remains a puzzle to this day. I can tell you, it's one crappy feeling to lose a kid. Of course once they grow up, you can't lose them, they keep finding you no matter how often you move.
  15. Platoon
    I cam here from the Nicks post about the Twins Plan, to regain my sanity. That is so sad!
  16. Platoon
    And I might add, Sano did not lack range, re lacked the ability to end up in the same general area the fly ball was landing in. More or less a large version of Grossmann. Phil Hughes has a history of on and off seasons, and still does. As for May, even if you can excuse or justify his move to the BP, you cannot excuse the teams refusal to re-stretch him when it was apparent that his body did not respond well to short rests, nor a plethora of quality starters stood in his way. That's where the big mistake on May was, and apparently remains.
  17. Platoon
    As in any argument, yours has a few valid points. But really, not everyone on here is always negative, nor one sided. But at one time or the other, everyone on here has been negative, and one sided. Including me. I can say with a certainty that I have followed this team as long as anyone. And even in the worst of years, I have never seen anything like this. Even in the Punto era, there was a plan, good defense, baserunning and awareness. Mediocre hitting and SP, and a decent BP. Always. This? This is a complete cluster. Does the web change the tenor of the discourse? Certainly. But these comments aren't made from fans who are casual, "buy a Torii Hunter in 2015" jersey types. They are mostly people who have followed for years and expect, rightfully, that after 6 years even a blind pig will find an acorn! I do not know if what I read this morning is accurate, but the article said that no draft choice from '13 or '14 is up yet? If that's true, on a team with these issues, from where does any optimism originate? And frankly if it's not totally accurate, the question remains the same?
  18. Platoon
    Terry Ryan seemed for his whole career to be a pitching and defense oriented GM. Or was he really? Was it actually Kelly and Gardy? While I don't know the answer to that, one thing is obvious. For some inexplicable reason the team started to head into the offense first side of the game. Almost all decisions were made on who had the best 'perceived' bat. Hitting far outweighed the totality of your total game, and generally was the only thing that sent you to the bench. While the pitching and defense are indeed putrid, going offense first had a major impact on both. The quickest example is the Park and Plouffe decision should have been turned into pitchers. Or if you insisted on keeping them, someone else has to go, like Vargas. You just cannot keep piling them up like cordwood!
  19. Platoon
    Of course they aren't spending that amount of money for giggles! Nor do I care how much they spend. Money doesn't make good decisions, people do. I don't think anyone here wants them to fail. I certainly don't. The last 21 years have removed any possibility of giving them the benefit of the doubt. And that fact scares many. They get this wrong, and with the history of loyalty in this orginisation, you'll be waving that pitchfork while you are on social security!
  20. Platoon
    This is the TD! There is no optimism. There is only wishful thinking, interspersed with bits of gallows humor! There are a few who put forth a faux happy face, but they are dwindling faster than our chance for the second WC slot!
  21. Platoon
    A little like Edward John Smith!
  22. Platoon
    At one time, I would have had a list of untouchable players, mostly prospects. But I have begun to wonder if the entire roster of players at all levels has to be on the table to straighten this out. One of the following two statements have to be true to explain the pitching, and possibly the development of field prospects as well. A) The Twins scouting and drafting depts are absolutely clueless, and have managed to draft high, and fail. The coaching staff has no idea how to develop promising talent into MLB players. You can be a around the bush, and make excuses against either argument, but the bottom line is its almost impossible to achieve this level of futilely, for this long, and this consistently!
  23. Platoon
    Surely you realize I knew that know you were.
  24. Platoon
    18 min late my friend! Lol
  25. Platoon
    THANK YOU! Two bad execs, do no a good one make.
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