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  1. Platoon
    Personally I think the trading criteria should be "how can I straighten out our own roster, and our 40 man" not what can I get in return. If you are waiting for return on this years version of the Twins, next years will look much the same.TR is either going to have to acquire some proactive agression from somewhere, or about the best you can hope for is Buxton, a couple middle of the pen moves, and maybe Kepler. That is not going to solve the Twins!
  2. Platoon
    Shakespeare's legacy is still save, but I liked it anyway!
  3. Platoon
    All teams take an individual's successes, shot term or long, and celebrate them, and of course market them. It's how they sell tickets. The difference in the Twins vs many other clubs, is they seem to believe the short term blips in a players production is the real thing, despite no history or rationale to encourage that optimism. See Suzuki, Willingham, (for his age), Jepsen and others. My belief in that is based on their continually signing extensions, or keeping them past their sell high date, and then having to sit on someone who is not what they paid for. If that is not the case, the alternative is worse. They did know the guys was in a positive bubble, and still paid him for the bubble. Players aren't stupid, they see tons of HR's hit by big strong guys like Sano, Park, Arcia, and know they cannot match that. But then they see a Dozier, not only getting a nice contract but management adulation, and until the recent benching after a 5 month slump, solid playing time, and they think "I could do that". And it alters their approach. And after what the radio guys described as a nice Dozier pitch in the first inning yesterday, all the talk and video clips on his changed approach are just that. Talk!
  4. Platoon
    Are you saying I can get my Tommy Milone jersey out of storage.,
  5. Platoon
    After 2014 I was dumbfounded that he saw anything inside, ever, at all. And the first half of the year they still drifted in there. And to his credit he hit the mistakes frequently. Now he is having to cheat so far outside, the occasional inside pitch cannot be handled. By the middle of 2014 it was obvious to some outside observers that the hole in his zone was the better part of the strike zone. But that's only half the equation. Inside guys should have known by then his personality, temperament, and preferences. Combine those two observations, and an adroit FO would have put him on the block early last year. Now it's too late. The tipping point for me was his willingness to go to the HR derby in 2104. That may seem insignificant, but it identified his mentality. And still does
  6. Platoon
    So unless Burnett pulls a Murphy and retires, he will be in Mpls around 6/13?
  7. Platoon
    Abad will likely end up like Suzuki, Perkins, Willingham, even Nunez. And there are times and teams where the "you can't trade all your good players away" guys are correct. But this isn't one of them.
  8. Platoon
    I waited for you at Tim Hortons till 9, we would have still made the rain delay!
  9. Platoon
    That is what I want a SS for. If he can hit over .200, yippee. Against a normal team a play like that would be deflating, unless the team you are playing is already deflated, like one of them waving socks in front of a used car dealership on a Sunday!
  10. Platoon
    Yes, you just typed Win 1 lose 3 over and over and over.
  11. Platoon
    Yes but it cannot be revealed until they win there 15th game. Early July?
  12. Platoon
    I am catching up on TiVo, did anyone else catch Berts comments on the fight participants?
  13. Platoon
    It was a helluva an effort
  14. Platoon
    That guy Audra interviewed was only 63 when the season started, this is what Twins baseball does to you!
  15. Platoon
    The view of Molly sitting in the dugout, with the rain falling on him told the whole story of the season.
  16. Platoon
    Omg Marney is from Langdon ND. . That bakery looked excellent
  17. Platoon
    You seem a walking Wikipedia of EGF nightspots!
  18. Platoon
    I cannot believe the smoke from the tar sand fires in Canada drifter that far?
  19. Platoon
    And that is the first run the loss of Gordon will cost
  20. Platoon
    I don't know about MLB, but in amateur ball making the guys bunt with two strikes improves his effort remarkably.
  21. Platoon
    Yes and apparently barely!
  22. Platoon
    Dozier would have caught that!
  23. Platoon
    A friend of mine who is in radio, now in Belle Fouche, told a tormented version of this one night after a softball game. Side splitting hilarious. Despite repeated requests, bordering on begging, he absolutely refused to ever tell it again. Said he normally only told it at paid events? Lol
  24. Platoon
    I keep wondering, and begging, for some defense first players. Especially up the middle. NO I am told, we need offense! Like our 6,7,8, and 9? It makes me
  25. Platoon
    Now that set my snark meter to full alert!
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