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If not longer than that.

Only the bottom of the 2nd and I've already decided to turn this game off. Ober throwing stuff that should only be seen in batting practice. Thankfully, his awful day is mercifully over.

Thankfully, I've got better things to do later this afternoon than partake in the rest of this fiasco of a game.

Hopefully, it's not smoked chocolate.

Because this game is going nowhere awfully fast.

A classic understatement, at least for today.

Thomas Henry (Tom) Burgmeier was born August 2, 1943, in St. Paul, MN, the fourth of eight children. He grew up in St. Cloud, MN, and graduated from St. Cloud Cathedral High School in 1961, where he was a significant contributor to Cathedral's Catholic state championship baseball team in 1961, as a pitcher. Tom signed with the Houston Colt 45's in September 1961 and subsequently bounced around the Houston and California Angels organizations until making his major league debut on April 10, 1968, for the Angels. He was subsequently selected by the Kansas City Royals in the expansion draft prior to the 1969 season. He spent all or parts of 5 seasons with the Royals before being dealt to the Twins on October 24, 1973, for minor league pitcher Ken Gill. Tom pitched out of the bullpen for the Twins for the 1974 to 1977 seasons. He became a free agent after the 1977 season and signed with the Boston Red Sox. He spent 5 seasons with the Red Sox and became a free agent again after the 1982 season. He then signed with the Oakland A's, where he pitched for 2 more seasons, before retiring after the 1984 season. Tom spent many seasons after his playing career ended with the Kansas City Royals, serving at various times as the video coordinator and on the coaching staff. He also served as a minor league pitching coach for a short time in the Baltimore Orioles organization. To this day, Tom has retained close ties with the Royals organization and still resides in the Kansas City area. View full player

Plus he can catch, to boot. Even better!

A very interesting read!

My thoughts exactly!

I think there is some validity to this point, especially if they're interested in limiting Paddack's innings early in the season, which I believe to be a distinct possibility.

For me, the short answer is No. To me, at this stage in his career, he's nothing more than roster depth and a fallback option when the inevitable injury to a higher level starter occurs and we need someone else fast. I'd be more inclined to give #5 innings to Varland or someone else deemed to have a reasonable chance at long-term success. I like Tony's thought above. I'd be perfectly fine with that.

I'd do a hard pass on Hernandez. We have enough of his type already available to us in some form. If it becomes someone who can play CF on at least a semi-competent and semi-regular basis, then I might be interested.

Fortunately, I am an out-of-market customer, as I live in central Indiana. I'll likely be streaming Twins games via MLB.tv, just like I did last season. Except for games against the White Sox, Cubs, and Reds, which are all considered the in-market teams where I live.

Based on last season, I also think that Gordon's presence on the roster this year is more than a little redundant. Not a good situation for him.

Extremely cautious optimism on my part. Maybe the plica surgery was the "missing piece". However, only time will tell the full story there. The more we can have him playing pain-free in CF, the better it is for both him and the team, IMHO. Not even going to try putting a floor on the number of games in the field, however.

Good point. To those out-of-market fans like myself who stream off of MLB.TV, it begs the question on how that potentially affects our ability to view games, both in the short-term and the long-term. Obviously, a lot more will need to be worked out here, pending on the approval of the bankruptcy court, that will be hearing facts and thoughts that average fans, like most of us, are not privy to. Time will tell, I suppose.

He does seem rather redundant, as things currently stand with the team. The others seem to have a better recent track record, plus, Gordon hasn't really shown a ton of upside, even when he was healthy.

Spot on. Bravo for saying it!

I agree wholeheartedly with this thought. Therefore, I'd give two thumbs up to this post, if I could.

I agree with this thought. I used the MLB.tv streaming option this past season and found it to be a fairly good experience. However, because I live well outside any reasonable definition of the local market, I can't speak for any local broadcast options.

Looks great! Congrats for hanging on to all of that over the years. That's no small accomplishment in itself. At one time, I had a rather sizable inventory of similar items, but, because I ran out of space to put most of it, it ended up in storage. Almost all of it eventually made it to one of my cousins, who already had a sizable collection of Twins memorabilia in his man cave. He now displays all of that with his own stuff. And it looks good there.

Well put!