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  1. Platoon
    Scary don't cover it! and two of them is like a horror story sequel! 4. Watch other kids, and admit and remember that yours aren't really any different!
  2. Platoon
    Scary don't cover it! and two of them is like a horror story sequel!
  3. Platoon
    So now it appears the die was cast a month ago. Ryan was not coming back in 2017, and Pohlad allowed him to orchestrate the end. Apparently on Friday Ryan walked in and pulled the pin? Per Trib.
  4. Platoon
    Something had to have precipitated this move. The Pohlads don't operate this way, and certainly not in their highest profile position. But nothing seems to track. Ryans modus operandi would be cautious minimal movement, with little cash spent on eating contracts. If the Pohlads disagreed, it's their money and Ryan could/should have spent it. The vice versa is Ryan wanting to eat huge amounts of contracts, he signed players too. That isn't in his DNA. Ryan wanted to fire Molly? And JP didn't? Doesn't seem like the thing TR would fall on his sword for. and throw in the timing before the trade deadline and it's odd, odd, and very odd! Sadly, the only thing I can come up with is JP wanted to make a big trade involving a couple ignore prospects for veterans that would win some games short term? But even that's a stretch, since I am not sure if JP knows what the infield fly rule is. The trouble with thinking out loud is everyone can read it!
  5. Platoon
    . That's a principle TR should have put on a plaque and hang on his wall!
  6. Platoon
    I saw Sano at Beloit. He made two errors in one game, one a pop up behind him, that most high school player stick in their pocket, but I would never ever put him back in the OF for a couple reasons. He really isn't going to be a suitable OF'er, and his fielding problems in the IF seem to be concentration related. It's not an athletic inability to play the position. Frankly, he seems a little to impressed with Miguel Sano. The good news: He is young, and hopefully will discover that just hitting a baseball does not a baseball player make. But it does a DH make!
  7. Platoon
    ........or icelands
  8. Platoon
    He will be the only guy who brought his own recliner!
  9. Platoon
    Stick around til the end of next week, the weather should suit you just fine.
  10. Platoon
    That smart guy got like a month in the hole for using the word obtuse. I think that was pretty extreme! A couple weeks in The Dells should encourage you to return to a language the rest of us can understand!
  11. Platoon
    I am not going to pretend to know enough about the value of Hu and Jepsen to say this was a good idea at the time. But I was against the deal for another reason. I did not consider the Twins a playoff team in any part of 2015. So I didn't see a need for bull pen help. And from the needs that this team has, especially in SP, giving up one was not a good idea. The playoff run was a great story, but we were chasing too many clubs, and our own tails. We never caught either.
  12. Platoon
    It is really nice to see some of the younger talent getting to play. By far the biggest difference is in the OF defense.that and the RP's are starting to rack up some K's, another change. I am a little more suspect of the offense than some. Some of its coming from career high production numbers from Suzuki, Grossman, and even Nunez. And while we have beaten Cole Hamels twice, his not being able to hit a barn door with a baseball didn't hurt. I don't remember any Cy Young candidates amongst the others. I think the OF defense when Rosario, Buxton, and Kepler play is there already. The offense and RP have also moved forward. But the IF defense, the SP, and the catching have a long ways to go.
  13. Platoon
    Sometimes a slump is just that a slump. Like This Quote MultiQuote A slump is something a player has after having achieved a success level off of which to judge. Neither I nor Park have achieved the status of having a slump at this point in our careers. I will concede though, that he does have a better chance to do so.
  14. Platoon
    I have no idea if he is injured or not. But I do think he very early became aware of the fact he had trouble keeping up with the velocity. And became an extreme guess hitter, well before Molitor will admit to it. The crazy awkward swings seem to show that. And they started to pitch him backwards. When you can't hit a FB unless you are sitting dead red, you're in trouble. I don't know if he can adjust, but I know this. There are lots of guys who can hit hanging mistakes. We have more than one in MiLB, and they are years younger and cheaper. I just cannot see why we chased a 29 yr old minor leaguer, and gave him a 4 year contract. And while that's water under the dam, 25% of the contract is already a waste, even without factoring in the Sano Experiment!
  15. 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.
  16. Platoon
    and tasty!
  17. 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!
  18. Platoon
    Or the dreaded Land Shark! Pizza Man!
  19. 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?
  20. 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.
  21. 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
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. Platoon
    not as bad as stealing yesterday with 2 outs and Sano up!
  25. 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
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