Paul Mantooth

Ted - this is embarrassing. His leadership is highlighted for...doing his job? Look I'm on the side of more the front office's fault than Rocco. I don't even care that much if he calls out players publicly or privately. What does matter is results. In terms of results, whatever he's done in the past 2.5 years isn't really working. There could be a lot of reasons why, some probably good ones. However after his big display of leadership this weekend, the Twins played different inspired baseball for...3 innings. Otherwise, it was more of the same. To me, this is a 'hot take' - just on the other side from what is typically characterized as such.

I 100% agree with this sentiment. For me, 2006 was the year. Ryan and company completely lost me that year. That truly was a once in a lifetime type of team, and type of lightning in a bottle streak. Batting champ, MVP, Cy Young, probably the best closer in the game. Cuddyer and Torii may have had their best seasons. And yet...we roll into the playoffs with the decaying corpse of Phil Nevin and Jason Tyner as our DH options. Wayyy pre Twins Daily, I remember getting obliterated for suggesting a Matt Garza for Alfonso Soriano trade on a different site. I'm sure I would still get obliterated by some but I stand by it. Would Soriano have made the difference? No idea. But damn that team deserved it. I think there were Cliff Lee rumors in 2010 as well? Another team that had a real chance. Tl;dr I realize this is a different management team but they seem pretty much as risk averse as previous. I'm remember when Michael Restovich was mostly untouchable. Would be nice to take a shot once in awhile...