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  1. ScrapTheNickname
    Not a very scintillating list, unfortunately. And not too tantalizing either.
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    Rally Raspberry. I like it.
  3. ScrapTheNickname
    Twins' baserunning is such a puzzle. Nunez made it into third, but was it a good idea stretching a double into a triple with two outs and you're down by 2?
  4. ScrapTheNickname
    If you squint Atchison looks like a very slightly more athletic Richard Nixon.
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    Also, my first game was probably 1967. Just as we walked from the concourse (?) up to where the field was in view, Cesar Tovar ripped a single between short and third. Very memorable.
  6. ScrapTheNickname
    When I was in 5th grade I went to a game and I signed a baseball "Tony Oliva" (using my best imitation signature) and I showed it to my classmates and I think they actually believed it. The things a kid will do for attention.
  7. ScrapTheNickname
    Lack of heart? I think they're just not very good, up and down the lineup.
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    I don't disagree, but I had a look at his stats for myself, and O'Neil is a career .314/.418/.393 hitter in the minor leagues.
  9. ScrapTheNickname
    Murderers Row at the bottom of our order!
  10. ScrapTheNickname
    Not every x-Twin becomes a Gomez, this must be kept in mind. Span? Revere? They are both mediocre, disappointing players for their teams. (Span has upside yet though, I'm sure.)
  11. ScrapTheNickname
    Unusual shape.
  12. ScrapTheNickname
    A lot of exciting activity here tonight.
  13. ScrapTheNickname
    Dozier had 12 steals on May 11. So ... in the last two months (doing the math) he has had 4 steals. That's 2 a month, an average 12 for an entire year. What happened? What happened?
  14. ScrapTheNickname
    You just have to make it complicated, don't you.
  15. ScrapTheNickname
    Suzuki is only 30 years old. He has a small, lithe body. He doesn't get dinged and bruised and kapowed like Mauer did. Makes me wonder if he could be someone you stick with for 5 or 8 years, as your guy. (I don't know enough about stats to know if he's actually a good catcher though; he seems to block well, and frame well, and he seems to throw okay ...). And of course, as I said just now, he's a lifetime .257 hitter, and his averages have been going down since he was 25, so is this year's .307 average an aberration, or has he figured something out? These are the secrets that dictate his value.
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    My heart goes with Kelly Vance's comment (keep Suzuki, he's a .300 hitter, and we have no one else who is ready) but my head goes with stringer bell (we know Suzuki is NOT a .300 hitter, his average, before the season ends, will most likely drop sharply), so this is a classic case of trading while the value of the commodity is at its peak. Of course this still doesn't answer who would be Suzuki's replacement. So, maybe, even though he's actually just a .250 hitter wearing a disguise, we should keep him ... I'll be unsurprised if the Twins go either way.
  17. ScrapTheNickname
    And I keep thinking Suzuki can't keep this up, then he keeps this up.
  18. ScrapTheNickname
    With Cano's out, the Mariner's are now 1 of their last 33 with RISP. Nice. I'm posting this before the at-bat is over to make sure it comes true, otherwise I'd be a liar.
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    Does it have something to do with skipping F. Hernandez and saving him to pitch against the more formidable A's?
  21. ScrapTheNickname
    Henry James, you know, RF for the old Philadelphia Athletics, 1890-1916. Long, long career.
  22. ScrapTheNickname
    Mike Blowers, TV guy for the Mariners, sure can talk. He gets going and he's like Henry James, there's no stopping him. Then, suddenly, he's finished. Then, again, he starts up again.
  23. ScrapTheNickname
    As a relative newcomer to the site, I just want to say I like it. I appreciate it. I come to it regularly. I find the comments so much more civil than those found at the Twins site or the Trib. Keep up the good work, all of you. I also love the creative humor that runs rampant in the Daily Thread. I only wished I typed as funny.
  24. ScrapTheNickname
    When they got Morales they knew he was s-l-o-w, but do they have a plan for how to deal with him? It seems not.
  25. ScrapTheNickname
    I like the Comeback Bunny because he is so cute and ineffectual, which matches our team so well.
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