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I have a 20-game plan and have had season tickets since 2010. I'm now in section 233! Plan D!
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Just watching Kirby be Kirby was always fun. His compete level was always at 100% and you could see it when he played the game. One of my favorite moments was when he did the top 10 on the David Letterman show -
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Stealing Signs? Cheating or part of the game?
TwinsTakes-RD replied to TwinsTakes-RD's topic in Other Baseball
Here's another article from ESPN from last August about Toronto's HR rate at home - http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/6837424/baseball-toronto-blue-jays-suspicion-again-stealing-signs-rogers-centre -
Stealing Signs? Cheating or part of the game?
TwinsTakes-RD replied to TwinsTakes-RD's topic in Other Baseball
My take (TwinsTake? Haha) is it depends on how it happens. It's one thing to have a guy hiding somewhere in the stands or the bullpen and relaying the signs somehow to the dugout and the batter. I think it's different thing if it's from the players actually playing in the game. The Mauer video has him doing various things to let the batter know what pitch is coming while he's at 2nd base. I consider that a part of the game and a component to beat the other team. Tony Gwynn didn't want to know what pitch was coming as he trusted his eyes and his instincts as a hitter. He was a great hitter but how 'bout a player who isn't a great hitter or is in a slump? I think I'd want to trust my eyes and instincts. The baseball video games sometimes have an option where you can guess the pitch and it will tell you if you are right. I tried that for awhile and it hurt my hitting. I did try just guessing fastball because it was nice knowing if a fastball was coming or not but I went back to just watching the ball after awhile. Not sure that relates in any way to actually playing the game though. Haha -
I just finished reading an article from the Wall Street Journal about the Giants stealing signs to win the pennant in 1951 aka Bobby Thompson's "Shot Heard 'Round The World!" and I was wondering what everyone thinks about stealing signs? Here's the article if you want to read it. It's very interesting and explains how they did it: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB980896446829227925.html There's a video of Joe Mauer allegedly stealing signs that I'm sure most of you have seen. The title of the video even has the words "not cheating" in it so you know what the person who took the video thinks of sign-stealing. Is sign-stealing still prevalent in today's game? Or at least to this extent where players are hiding in clubhouses and sending messages to the bullpen and/or dugout? Do you consider that cheating? Does it even matter to the hitter? Do they even want the sign? Does it matter how good of a hitter they are? Say Joe Mauer doesn't want the sign but someone like Drew Butera might want it to help him out a little at the plate?
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Fenway and Wrigley just because of the history there. Those would probably be first for me.
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Baseball Prospectus vs. Baseball America vs. ESPN Insider
TwinsTakes-RD replied to Cody Christie's topic in Other Baseball
I have Insider. I like it. There's a lot of good blogs on there including Keith Law, Jimmy Bowden and an MLB Draft blog. The nice thing is that Insider is free when you subscribe to the magazine. If that wasn't the case, I probably wouldn't have it. -
The Twins made the decision to go the way of speed for some reason. I like speed but it's more fun and exciting to see the ball go over the fence especially if it's Jim Thome hitting it further than anyone else has ever hit it in a particular ballpark! Our Twins decided to get rid of a decent hitting SS that can play pretty good defense in Hardy for what will most likely amount to nothing to get more speed in the lineup. Will more speed equal more wins? Better defense? More stolen bases? More singles extended to doubles? More doubles extended to triples? More triples extended to being thrown out at home (Benny on the Jets)? Triples can be exciting especially if you do a somersault between 2nd and 3rd! At least they went out and got Willingham and Doumit who have the ability to hit it over the fence!
