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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    I'm hoping they have a couple of SS before this signing period is over. They have a lack of decent options at that position and that's something that Latin American in particular seems to naturally develop.
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    This.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    No, let's get it straight. The government was the one breaking the law. Snowden may have committed a crime in the sense that he leaked classified information, but he was not the one actually breaking the law here. The NSA was. He does have "official channels" to use, but as other whistle blowers have found out over time, that's nothing more than a means for the government to retaliate against the whistleblowers. What he did needed to be done.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    This is true... I also think that people actually realized that voting for the lesser of two evils always gets you evil, that they might start voting for a decent candidate regardless of party. It wouldn't take very long for things to change.
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    Not sure what to say. Prosecutor charged him with murder as opposed to manslaughter. I'd have thought manslaughter would have been a pretty easy conviction given that Zimmerman went against what he knew and was told to do... Murder is a tougher standard, and I don't think Zimmerman was planning on killing the victim...
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    ruht rho
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    They are just trying to fit in with the rest of the team when they play the Yankees.
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    No. They had 3.9M in the pool. They have 2M left and have supposedly signed at least 3 others players whose terms haven't been announced.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    I think the rule is that a reliever has to do that.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    Minier 3 for 3 with 2 doubles. Buxton with another multi hit game and his average sits at .360 (game not over yet).. Lewis Thorpe notched a couple more Ks in 2 innings of work.
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    speaking of which, with the Yankees in town, I should break out the good rum.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    yes... I know I missed a few too... Wasn't Ramos one?
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    Hicks should play because he needs playing time... I really don't care at this point if it's in MLB or AAA. I could see him getting sent down for no other reason than service time issues if he doesn't continue on the improvement he was making before the injury.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    Just in time for a suspension?
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    Let's see. Rich guy hires appraiser to appraise his asset low and appraiser does it... Bit of a conflict of interest there. Perhaps the law should go hard after appraisers who do that as well. That would likely end that practice rather fast.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    Doubt it. Baring a catastrophic collapse, Gibson is up for good.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    There isn't a person on this board who would say no to that one... Not sure Texas would do that.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    No not really. He could have a decent Randy Bush career, but I'd much rather see him having a chance to prove he's more than that, not being pushed in the Randy Bush role and then saying he was a Randy Bush type guy.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    I think it would have made more sense to have the international signing period open August 1st after the deadline...
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    No, more like a guy the Nats could use right now plus a decent A ball prospect for a nice SP or SS prospect at a higher level. Not sure if the Nats would match up well with that, but that might be how the Twins can turn guys like Morneau, Doumit, Burton, etc. into something that a contending team would buy.
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    Again, no one disagrees, but for whatever reason, it doesn't happen. The closest I can think of that might result in a front loaded contract may be for a guy like Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez who is coming in as a Cuban free agent and is reportedly going to receive around 60M. He's an unknown who will be getting his first deal, but it will likely be a major league deal. First deals seem to be the only deals in baseball that have significant singning bonuses.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    I wouldn't be shocked if the Twins shipped off a non-Perkins asset with a lesser prospect to get a much better prospect... That, I think might make a bit of sense if the other team wants a player such as Morneau but doesn't want to massively overpay with a top 150 prospect.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    This article fails... no reference to purple unicorns.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    This. There was a cap in place of 2.5M, and the Twins spent 2.5 M. I don't get what it is that is being complained about here. The Twins have been out spending the majority of their peers in this area for quite some time and it has netted prospects like Sano, Kepler, Goodrum, Lewis Thorpe, Minier, etc.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    And you need to stop excluding his big games to validate your point that he's not hitting. I agree he's not getting enough of those big games, but when you start 3 games a week at best and pinch hit another one or two, you aren't getting enough opportunity to even get into a rythm.
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