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  1. Platoon
    I just wrote a pro Mauer post myself in a different thread. I wrote mine because I thought it was reality. Mauer is the least of the teams problems, SP with bad arms are far more of an issue. This isn't the NFL, players don't take cuts and there is no salary cap. It's a free for all. If a billionaire who got his money from dad, asked me to take a pay cut I would imagine I would find that hard to takes seriously. As for talking in the clubhouse, he doesn't have too. We do it for him! (I now return you to the original poster, lol)
  2. Platoon
    This is a one shot deal! It took 4 yrs of 90 loss seasons for them to change managers. It took a myriad of strange extensions, DH acquisitions, and one of the oddest roster constructions in history to change the GM. If the Twins promote from within, it will be another 20 years for a correction to be made. The standard for mediocrity has been set, and it isn't that hard to match. Thankfully I don't think JP will go within, he needs a marketing move badly. Every other sport in this town is on the upswing, and his team teeters on the brink of irrelevance. A fate far worse than losing. The only good that could come from Pohlad listening to his comments to the press is the realization he needs insulation, i.e. a baseball operations Pres. Heaven help us if it's Dave St. Peter.
  3. Platoon
    It seems every inside tidbit ever written has given the impression that Molitor was Pohlads guy. Even back in the Gardy era, I remember It said Gardy didn't want him as a coach, and the next year it appears Molitor was forced on him. Something is missing in this story, and I wonder if we will ever know? Here's another pleasant thought. After JP read all those team media guides, and discovered that a lot of teams have baseball operations Presidents, and he looks back at his own success dealing with the media jackals, maybe he will have the new GM report directly to DSP! That way Scoggins can call Dave up late at night!
  4. Platoon
    In defense of Dan San a) I would have run there also. b ) I would not have gotten too early a jump and got picked off since it was basically a hit and run. c) sometimes a catcher makes a perfect throw, and you are just plain toast!
  5. Platoon
    since I can't edit this, I have to correct it! How the hell did I want to type girl, and end up with cat! I hate cats in the house! Now I admit there were days I wasn't that happy with girls either, but my mom was!
  6. 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! My dad was one of five boys, and I am one of 5 boys..... My mother was tickled when we had a girl!
  7. 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!
  8. Platoon
    Scary don't cover it! and two of them is like a horror story sequel!
  9. 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.
  10. 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!
  11. Platoon
    . That's a principle TR should have put on a plaque and hang on his wall!
  12. 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!
  13. Platoon
    ........or icelands
  14. Platoon
    He will be the only guy who brought his own recliner!
  15. Platoon
    Stick around til the end of next week, the weather should suit you just fine.
  16. 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!
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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!
  21. 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.
  22. Platoon
    and tasty!
  23. 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!
  24. Platoon
    Or the dreaded Land Shark! Pizza Man!
  25. 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?
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