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  1. Platoon
    Did you get any decent pictures of you? Duh, that was a silly question. :)
  2. Platoon
    Noah at least responded to the flood by building an Ark, not just patching the hole in his canoe!
  3. Platoon
    The rebuild I welcome, and I understand the mistakes by younger players. But playing for one run with this pitching staff? In what inning? ...... Arrrrrgghhh. Molitor is what I think all bad managers are, i.e. I don't think a good manager raises the level of the players, but he doesn't lower it. Molitor lowers it.
  4. Platoon
    There is little in anything Brian has ever put on digital paper to make me believe a thing he writes. But I do have to wonder if his point #1 pertaining to Ryans cloned pitchers, has some merit. It's by far the best explanation yet for the past 20 years of Twins pitching.
  5. Platoon
    True story. I went to the local small PO to buy a few rolls of forever stamps. When told they had went down 2 cents per, I jokingly said I was bringing my leftovers in for a refund. . She said, don't laugh! Some woman came in last week with two rolls, and wanted her $4 back. I said, let me guess, of German ancestry? I asked what did you feel the angry kraut? She said she told her, "Forever is Forever at the PO"
  6. Platoon
    Dozier has had three major slumps in the last two and a half years. And he will return to one as soon as they go back to pitching him outside. This spring he crowded the plate and you could get him out jamming him. Now he's off the plate and still gets an absurd number of inside pitches. Some are missed spots and some are just plain stupid. Our renewed offense is also because we went through the some pretty weak SP opponents. That said, they are hot now. Red hot. Suzuki will definitely return to a pumpkin. Dozier will definitely slump big again. Look at their ages, it's not like they have no history. One last thing about Dozier. His attitude is blatantly selfish, and if anyone wonders why this team has no mojo, no apparent drive, they might look at the team leader. To paraphrase the old saying, 'all for one, and one for me too'! BD has made it clear he only cares about BD, and while Molitor and Brunansky either ignore it, or kiss his butt, the other 24 guys are fully aware of the way him, and Plouffe, are handled. There are a myriad of players in MLB who could hit 20 HR's if given the green light to pull everything with no repercussions when it fails for months. It's not talent that allows Dozier to do this, it's gutless management.
  7. Platoon
    I will preface my first comment by saying I was a fan of the new Target Field. And one of the loudest selling points from the Twins was, "we need the new revenue to compete". The money arguement should be off the table. Secondly, I did not know the Twins weren't allowed to draft college players, i.e. Chicago and the Twins made choices.
  8. Platoon
    My absolute best ole and Lena joke involves a mouse, ole, Lena, Sven, and shall we say, an uncompromising position. If I told in on here I would be put on Double Secret Probation. Even worse I'd get another terse 3 word PM from a mod, and I quote. "Knock it off" End quote.
  9. Platoon
    I go into Ole and Lena mode. "Yah vot du you vant"? One guy tried to sell me 4000# tie down straps for $59. I tout dat vas a good price, but I cout neffer lif dem! Who Dah hell can lift four tousand pouns?
  10. Platoon
    Who would a thunk that by the end of 2016 the Timberwolves would be a franchise on the ascendency, and the Twins after having 2 or 3 of the top MiLB prospects for a minimum of 3 years running, are sending Robbie Grossman and some guy named Boshers? unto the field. And your cleanup hitter rotates between Dozier and Plouffe! Arrrrrrrrrrrgh
  11. Platoon
    What makes me sad, despondent, and depressed is the almost certainty that IF Ryan falls on his sword (he won't be fired), your new GM will be the much sought after Rob Anthony. And the Twins incestuous orginisational lifestyle will continue unabated! I don't know if they know it or not? But they are becoming irrelevant in the Twin Cities sporting hierarchy. Not just down at the bottom, but irrelevant. A far worse fate. If the Gopher FB team has any success at all, and the Wolfies youth plays like expected, you're going to have to go to pg 6 to find coverage of ST next year. I have been a fan since Pedro Ramos, and I have ever felt such apathy to this team. So why am I writing? Never confuse apathy with peed off!
  12. Platoon
    Well he has certainly achieved mediocrity, or worse. Snark aside, I fear he truly is in denial, and we will find moves made at the trading deadline far short of either expectations, or common sense. The pervasive "we are just a couple pieces short" will continue to permeate,and cripple the orginisation.
  13. Platoon
    Buxton should just stay where he is. Why torment MiLB pitchers any further. Robbie G. does not belong in the long term plans. Rosario should return, and the OF should be him, Buxton and Kepler. You put Sano at third until he proves he can or can't play there. I would bring Polanco in at SS, not because I think he can play there, but to see if he can force Dozier out at second. There is no need to comment any further on the 1B situation. Give Suzuki the AXE, and bring up Ryan and see what you have or don't have. If you don't, then bring up Turner, who we have been told for two years is MLB ready defensively. It won't change the offensive side of the position at all. Start slowly moving in the arms in MiLB to the pen. As for the SP, short of Berrios, I got no idea.it truly is a cluster intercourse!
  14. Platoon
    Leaving him in the pen is silly. He has made it clear, crystal, that the lack of days off make it physically difficult for him. He's been down twice already for that reason. While I realize ho difficult it is to break into this stellar rotation, they need to figure out something,
  15. Platoon
    I think Jimbo has a definite point. He has seen an inordinate amount of mistakes. And if you go back and look, at least on tv replay, he is getting a large amount of pitches in his sweet spot. We also have not been exactly facing this years list of Cy Young candidates lately, as the teams recent overall hitting seems to show. He also seems to have hit an awful lot of foul GB which used to go to the third baseman. A lot of hitters have a hole in their zone, let's say 35% of the zone. With Dozier it's likely reversed. His hits in about 35% of the zone, and is virtually an automatic out otherwise. While he has been able to foul off some good two strike pitches, good pitchers are going to keep eating him up with that amount of a weakness.
  16. Platoon
    I was surprised Tanaka did not show some mercy to his fellow countryman! At least the Christians had a chance.
  17. Platoon
    I was surprised Tanaka did not show some mercy to his fellow countryman!
  18. Platoon
    Just catching up, 11 straight strikes. It is sometimes better to leave sleeping dogs, sleeping. As for Milone. It's a great idea to attack the strike zone. But it would also be great to have so,ethic to attack it with.
  19. Platoon
    How could we know? They don't even seem to have any idea!
  20. Platoon
    I seriously doubt Rob Anthony would announce that the phone is ringing off the hook and increase the pressure on th FO. C'mon! I would move Plouffe, he is just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Kind of like whoever was the Vikings wide receiver when Randy Moss arrived. You really have a choice between Dozier and Polanco. That's the reality. It seems Polanco is a pure hitter, Dozier certainly is not. Glove wise, might be closer than some think. I am not on the EE is an above average shortstop train. But I would keep him over Nunez because I trust his glove more. Which is why a SS exists, not for his bat. Nunez goes, sell high for a change. Park? A guy like Kang makes you think it could some day work, but so far he has actually regressed. You could flip him and ABW for a month, and see what you have in each. That's what this season should be about. But remember, while you might fleece a GM desperate for a fill in, they all know that the bats of Dozier, Plouffe, EE, and Nunez for the last month are not real. Each has enough history to go back and look at that far exceeds thirty days. And also remember this is Terry Ryan we are taking about. You'll be damn lucky to see Park go to AAA, trading Plouffe would be over the top for him!
  21. Platoon
    Plating a run is on a par with Gladdens constant "elevating a fastball" I got so sick of that term, I start d using the stair again!
  22. Platoon
    Plouffe could? have a chance to put up some numbers, but he isn't getting the soft stuff he used to, and he isn't a great FB hitter. Dozier as a long ball threat is cooked. He either goes the other way for doubles and the rare mistake HR, or he goes back to pull happy Brian. He still is kind of, the ground balls through the hole, and the foul ground balls down the line, are hiding it for now. It has been better, but anyone who thinks he's a changed man is listening to theTwins publicity machine. Park is still a lotto ticket. Huge uppercut. And seems to be a big guess hitter. The big time power is there. I have no doubt Sano and Buxton will be just fine. Only in TwinsWorld would this be considered a power lineup. Of course only in TwinsWorld would anyone put all these guys on the same team and expect results!
  23. Platoon
    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!
  24. Platoon
    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.
  25. Platoon
    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. .
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