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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    Can some one please show me when Plouffe and Parmelee were ever talked about in the way Buxton and Sano are?
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    I had a coworker afraid of clowns. When he was away on a Hawaiian vacation, I replaced all the pictures of his hot wife and hot sisters with images I found googling the phrase "scary clowns". It didn't change his disposition either, though he and his chair nearly went through the wall between his and my office.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    I haven't heard of the leprosy STD, but I have to think that has to be one of the worst.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    Rumor has it that Die Hard 5 will feature aliens, and he won't need a world war 2 battleship to do it.
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    I unfortunately don't seem to have any sort of witty response.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    This losing streak is clearly your fault. Break out a better avatar and maybe they will reward you.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    Doing a google image search for Gibson, I found this gem underneath a bunch of guitars and photos of Mel Gibson... I much prefer this one.
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    Smith did demand pitching in return when he traded Santana... The problem was that he got 3 crappy pitchers, and the irony is that most people were upset that they didn't get some kid named Mike Pelfrey. Truth be told, had Ryan been at the helm, I don't think he would have accepted the deal the Mets gave us. The one thing he has shown is that he does not execute a trade until he gets what he feels is fair value, which means we'd have kept Santana and offered him arb.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    Of course they'd choose a player "LIKE Sanchez"... he's succeeding. This argument would never be framed in terms of a player like Edwin Jackson or Dan Haren. It never has, nor will it ever be. It's all a hindsight guess. Me personally, I had hoped for one of two big moves... trading Slama for Haren so they could offer him arb or signing Jackson... One would have made me look smart (this year at least)... and the other not so much. Truth be told, at this point, I suspect Ryan's choice to avoid the big contract may have been the right thing to do.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    He may not be a catcher forever, but I think it's in the Twins best interest, both now and for the next wave, to have him catching as long as possible. I could see giving him some breaks down the stretch to let Pinto get some reps (assuming he's ready), but beyond that, Mauer should be catching until he cannot catch anymore.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm guessing a trade is in the works.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    I cannot help but wonder if you are saving the best fits for last. Boston makes a ton of sense, but you haven't profiled them yet... As for the guys on this list... I'd be OK with a Jenkins/Duensing swap, but that might be about it. The rest are pretty MEH. That 1B is nice, but if the Twins are going to trade something of value to get a guy of that caliber, I'd rather it be a higher ceiling SS or more SP help.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    Buxton is good. Sano is good.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    Not sure the pen would be quite as good if they were backing up the current front 5... just a thought.
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    Plouffe should absolutely be in the Twins plans. He can play all infield positions as well as corner outfiled and has a bat that at worst will be league average at the offensive positions. He's also under team control for several more years. He should not be moved unless they are blown away. As it is now, the premise that there are better options all across the diamond is true. But Plouffe has done one thing that none of these other prospects have yet to do... he's succeeded at the ML level. I don't think he gets traded until our prospects force the issue and he has nowhere to go, as he can be plugged into whatever open spot occupied by a failed prospect.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    The 20 year wait for the Pirates has more to do with mismanagement than anything else. Up until a few years ago, I think we'd all have stated that they were an incredibly poor run franchise. Not the case now. I don't think the Twins have to worry about it, because they are well run. Will every one of our prospects pan out? Probably not, but I think there's good reason to believe that the Twins will be a very competitive team over the latter half of this decade.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    You do realize that what Sano is going through is pretty normal for prospects in general? Even the top prospects tend to struggle, and Sano had his moments last year as well. He hasn't had that issue this year until his promotion, so I'm not too concerned, and at this point you shouldn't either. He also just made one of the most difficult jumps a prospect can make... And yes, age matters, especially when you are dealing with a 20 year old kid. Most men are not done developing physically until their mid 20s, and that makes a huge difference when he's playing against guys much further along in that cycle. That said, I wouldn't be surprised at all if his struggles last most of the remaining season. To an extent, it's expected. It essentially means that we won't see him in Minnesota opening day 2014. That really isn't the end of the world. If he really struggles into next year, his rankings will start to drop, and it would be justified. Right now, though, I'm not worried about it.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    I think he's gone personally.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    6.5 games out of the Rodon experiment... closing in on the Whitesox and Brewers.
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    Just an FYI, I wouldn't recommend eating it.
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    5 years 40M? Morneau is my favorite player, so bringing him back is something I'm quite fine with... but no team in their right mind will give him a 5 year deal... much less 8 per year. If this power surge continues, someone might give him 2/20, but I think he's likely in the market for a 1 year deal.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    SSS I know, but Randy Rosario is off to a pretty nice start for Elizabethon too.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    8 starts on the season? I'd go with "not much more than Corriea".
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    Used... American Pie style.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    I doubt they add pitching this offseason. Assuming Correia is traded and Pelf is not resigned, they will go into the rotation with Gibson, Deduno, and Darnell for sure with Diamond, Worley, and Hendricks fighting for the last two spots. Meyer and May will be worked in as the season progresses. Oh, and Morneau hit another HR today. He's doing everything he can to show he's heating up... Might fetch something of value yet...
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