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  1. jimmer
    It's a team projecting blame on the batter instead of where it belongs: On the team decision to walk the previous batter and the pitcher who served up the meatball. And of course the managers would agree, because they all grew up in this same stupid culture that says everyone must follow these stupid old school rules lest players, who are looking for any reason to say they are insulted instead of looking to themselves for the blame, are given anything close to an excuse to say they are being insulted.
  2. jimmer
    This. All these dumb old school unwritten rules drive me crazy. He wasn't yelling at the Twins as he rounded the bases, he wasn't staring down Nolasco as he crossed home plate, he got excited about hitting a HR. Be a boring robot kid, stop showing up a team that you hit a HR off of after that they walked a guy to get to you.
  3. jimmer
    Maybe another reason the kid was excited, besides the fact he doesn't hit a lot of HR, is because the Twins had walked the previous batter to get to him even though there was already two outs so there was no strategic reason to do so?
  4. jimmer
    Do these guys ever grow up? Things like this kind of make me glad my kids have no interest in the game. Be hard to explain why grown men got butt-hurt because their pitcher threw up a meatball, it got served over the wall, and now they want to project that blame on a guy who was happy he did something well at the plate. It's hard enough to get kids to admit their own mistakes and to stop deflecting blame without having millionaires showing them it's okay.
  5. jimmer
    Or how about not doing anything about it because getting mad about it is stupid to begin with? Maybe they can pretend for awhile they aren't children?
  6. jimmer
    And the 3 best records in baseball all come from one division in the National League and there could very well be five teams in the NL with 90 or more wins.
  7. jimmer
    I'm just happy we are 158 games in and still well within reach of making the playoffs. Were there decisions made that were questionable (like taking May out of the rotation) that maybe cost us? I think so. But we are still in it which means there was a lot of things done right too. So I'll applaud the effort by the players, the coaching staff, Molitor and the FO. Not sure it's repeatable with the talent on this team, but that's a discussion for the offseason. For this season, we're in it.
  8. jimmer
    We have a lot of starting pitcher depth but no #1s or #2s (and our #3 types are iffy).. Every time I read about our starting pitching depth I have flashbacks of what was being said about our rotation prior to 2011.
  9. jimmer
    Iwakuma is going to be a FA after this season.
  10. jimmer
    I imagine this lawyer talk is going to continue endlessly. All this he said this and this and this but that doesn't add up to him saying that. So I will bow out of this particular thread with this, which goes back to the OP. It's absolutely ridiculous to think he deserves even a single vote for MVP.
  11. jimmer
    birdwatcher just said that my loathing of him is what my argument is about. It's not. And I, in no way, am saying his leadership is anywhere near a sizable reason for why we have won more than our talent dictates. I say mentorship is needed for sure, but most all veteran players mentor younger players. It's not unique to any one player and, in the end, the players still have to come through at the right time. No leadership makes them do that.And M And Molitor IS saying he's the major reason. So, yes SOMEONE IS SAYING THAT. He says he deserves MVP for goodness sakes. Read his quotes again and if you don't think he's saying Hunter isn't the main reason, I don't know what to tell you. At least nothing I can say.
  12. jimmer
    Okay, so I have intense loathing of him because I take issue with the idea that leadership (in this particular case his) made this team win way more than the way they performed dictates? I loathe him because I say maybe there are other reasons we've won that make more sense, IMO. That's interesting logic. Stop taking cheap shots at posters you don't agree with. I already granted that mentorship is important. I didn't deny he provides it. And I think it's important. I have taken no personal shots at Hunter in this thread, have I? It's a debate in philosophies and if someone was saying it about Dozier or any other Twin, I'd say the same thing. And there are people in here giving him a really good size credit, to include Molitor to start the whole thread.
  13. jimmer
    Considering where this team ranks in pitching, defense and hitting it makes no sense they are where they are. Do we have anyone who would make a 25 man AL roster? How about a 25 man AL Central roster? Sano at DH? Yeah, maybe. None of these guys, besides Sano, are killing it. Clearly they've been fortunate to have good things happen at the right times. Cause, in the end, it's about what gets done on the field. Leadership doesn't make a batter get a key hit, or make a key pitcher, or make a key play.
  14. jimmer
    Name me a baseball analyst who is perfect in everything they say? Anybody can point to any analyst and find a thing and claim that discredits him. It's about what you do that bring you to create your opinion, the work put into it, the way they back it up. Can't always be right, but there are some analysts that do the homework and give the best opinion they can based on that. They give an opinion, they say why with lots of info, and sometimes they still get it wrong. That happens, not only in baseball, but all sports and all professions.
  15. jimmer
    'Comment From Mr. Thell: Given the influx of talent from the minor league system and the surprising performance of some guys already up, how do you see the Twins future? Are they going to be a playoff team for the next few years Dave Cameron: They weren’t a good team this year; they just won a bunch of games due to sequencing. They’re not particularly close to being a good team, I don’t think.' Of course, that's only coming from a person paid to analyze the game for a living not a Hollywood writer, so with a grain of salt. Considering where this team ranks in pitching, defense and hitting it makes no sense they are where they are. Clearly they've been fortunate to have good things happen at the right times.
  16. jimmer
    Because it's asks us to make tons of assumptions. First we assume it's leadership as opposed to fortuitous sequencing. It assumes it's only him providing leadership (and discounts other people's leadership and the individuals player's hard work which could just as easily be the main reason). It assumes it's not Molitor, or the influx of rookies (and their energy), or just players getting more experience. It assumes any leadership actually translates to players playing better on the diamond which there is no sign of. In fact, most players held over from last year aren't playing better than they did last year, are they? I buy that he's been a mentor to some of the players and he's a veteran who has a lot to share. There is value, but baseball is, for the most part, a bunch of individual battles. Pitcher versus batter, batted ball versus fielder, etc. Hunter's leadership isn't going to make Escobar get the game winning hit or make the pitcher throw 7 innings of shutout ball.
  17. jimmer
    Not sure what the point is. I never said it did. Most years, for most teams, it's pretty close, but individual players' WAR can't account for team sequencing and such. People who do WAR don't say we should add all the players WAR together, along with replacement WAR level, and it will match the teams actual win-loss record. The team is obviously playing above it's talent level, which I think everyone is happy about. Doesn't really change what I said though. My point was a player who performed just as Torii did, or better, would have been as valuable, or more valuable, and that a lot more has changed about this team from 2014 to 2015 than the addition of Hunter.
  18. jimmer
    He's been a 1 WAR (0.9 actually, but we'll round up) player, which is scrub level, so I'm not sure it's pretty clearly true the Twins are better with him. The Twins have been better this year and and he's been on the team. That's all we know for sure. But he's not the only change. New manager, influx of rookies, some new pitching, etc. Pointing to him as a huge reason as some have done because it's a good story (which local and national reporters love to push and some fans eat up) discards a very real possibility that any other player who would have provided scrub value or better, would have given us just as much (if not more) value. I hope he takes that charisma, if that's what you want to call it, to ESPN next year.
  19. jimmer
    Which loss do I want back right now? Any of the ones in September. All the old school people tell us the most important games are in September. :-)
  20. jimmer
    Let's see, Molitor said '“I think guys have bought into the energy that he brings in. He’s probably been a big reason we’ve been resilient the way we have, so I don’t know if I can really quantify it. I just know that it’s made a vast difference.” Then he says Hunter deserves AL MVP consideration. Even goes so far as to compare Hunter to Gibson in his MVP season even though Gibsons's OPS was about 48 % higher than league average and Hunters is 9% below league average. Sure seems to me that at least one person is certainly buying into the idea Hunter has been the main reason for the Twins being wild card contenders. And just because someone doesn't actually say something verbatim doesn't mean that their statements, when viewed as a whole, aren't saying the exact thing. Baseball talk isn't a court of law.
  21. jimmer
    Twins lose 92 or more games 4 years in a row. Twins sign Hunter and they are in playoff contention most of the year and have a winning season for the first time in 5 years. Ergo, because the Twins signed Hunter, the Twins are in playoff contention most of the year and have a winning season for the first time in 5 seasons. There's a name for this kind of reasoning. Seems plenty of people are just accepting that Hunter was the difference as if it was fact.
  22. jimmer
    I just threw up a little in my mouth. And yet, why am I also not surprised by Molitor saying this stuff? And as far as whether or not Hunter comes back, I've been saying for quite some time that the Twins will bring him back.
  23. jimmer
    Funny, I was gonna say the same bolded statement about the Star Spangled Banner and God Bless America.
  24. jimmer
    Could be as simple as veteran versus young guy and players almost always go in favor of the veteran. But I agree, I wouldn't want to hang out with anyone who puts the blame on the guy who GOT CHOKED. And remember, this all started because this relief pitcher was behind-hurt because Harper didn't support him beaning someone in a recent game (didn't support old school ridiculousness). THAT is where it really stems from. Nowthe same relief pitcher gets in the face of, and then chokes, Harper because he didn't unnecessarily sprint out a sure out. Convenient excuse. Harper busts his behind in the field and on the bases when it warrants it. That play didn't need an all out sprint at all. It's an out for sure and if it's dropped, he's safe at first. Would have been hilarious if he sprinted out, was halfway to 2nd, the guy drops it and throws him out at 2B. What would the old school, behind-hurt people say then? :-)
  25. jimmer
    Only a complete jackwagon starts a fight with a teammate in the dugout for all to see.
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