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  1. Vanimal46
    The coaching hires have been safe, internal picks. OC - Gary Kubiak DC - Andre Patterson & Adam Zimmer* *But really, it’s still Mike Zimmer. Continuity can be good, I’m just bored with the old school, anti-analytics folks running this football team.
  2. Vanimal46
    That’s okay, the term is harmless. Didn’t Rosario or some other player introduce it or something last year? Can’t recall. I think it’s silly personally but not enough to get worked up over.
  3. Vanimal46
    Over 272 with the juiced baseball. Under if they switch back to pre-2017 baseballs. Side note, can we leave the term Bomba in 2019?
  4. Vanimal46
    So with Seth confirming Morneau calling 60 games this year, how do the rest of the games break down? Morneau - 60 Bert - 20? Smalley - 25? Will Torii Hunter be back? Who else am I missing?
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    I understand he's had the injury bug during his career... Then again, I see actual elite prospects and how many at-bats they had before getting called up: Acuna - 1,002 Guerrero Jr. - 1,075 Tatis Jr. - 1,064 Jimenez - 1,585 Robles - 1,438 Bichette - 1,302 Compared to Kirilloff who has 1,103 at-bats already. If he's indeed elite, then this should be the year he makes his way to the Twins.
  6. Vanimal46
    The positives: - 11 batters are projected to be at or above 100 OPS+ - 17 pitchers are projected to be at or above 100 ERA+ - Arraez is a god in this projection. Winning the batting title would be awesome to see! The negatives: - Question marks surrounding Berrios and Odorizzi. Probably why Odorizzi took the QO... - Dobnak 147 innings? I don’t want to see that. - Lewis’ decline. Which has been a concern of mine for over a year now.
  7. Vanimal46
    More food ideas: Over the (Rich) Hill Hotdog - We found old Dome dogs that we think are still edible! I'd wait until June first before trying them... Eggs Odorizzi - I mean, how is this not a food item right now? 2 over easy eggs on toast, topped with GarvSauce. Taylor's Tots - a small size of tator tots is all you need when Rogers is pitching.... Because the game will be over soon! Just a Littell Bit of Everything - a Platter option to choose 1-3 food items for the low, low price of $35! Home® Cooking - A station with a microwave so you can bring your home cooked meals to the ballpark! $10 for every 10 seconds in the microwave.
  8. Vanimal46

    Flying

    Vanimal46 replied to Squirrel's topic in The Sports Bar

    This lady was something else... No less than 10 minutes after drinks were served she pushes the attendant button, and says to the flight attendant “I need water right now, there’s a chip stuck in my throat.” Flight attendant: “Can it wait? We just put the drinks away.” Lady: “No I need something right now.” Flight attendant brings her a glass of water no less than 2 minutes after the demand... “Thanks I don’t need it anymore.” Flight attendant looks dumbfounded, shakes her head and walks away.
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    Flying

    Vanimal46 replied to Squirrel's topic in The Sports Bar

    A real conversation I just had boarding a plane and getting to my seat... Me: “I’m the window seat.” Lady in middle seat: “Oh, okay. Do you want me to slide down?” Me: “What?” Lady in middle seat: “You want me to slide down to the window seat so you don’t have to get by me?” Me: “No... I want the seat I paid for.” Lady in middle seat begrudgingly gets up and glares at me like I’m in the wrong... I respect she took her shot upgrading from middle to window seat. Makes me wonder if she got away with that before.
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    Flying

    Vanimal46 replied to Squirrel's topic in The Sports Bar

    *Plane stops at the gate* Everyone in row 24 and later immediately get out of their seat and clog the hallway, expecting to get out of the plane at that exact moment. Never seizes to amazing me... Every single flight.
  11. Vanimal46
    https://twitter.com/jonheyman/status/1220348414271029248?s=21
  12. Vanimal46
    Trading Lewis/Kirilloff for Thor sounds pretty good right now eh? That’s why I am always up for trading prospects... Lewis needs a big year at the plate to get back to top 10. If Kirilloff is indeed an elite prospect, he needs to be on the MLB team this year. He’s not getting any younger...
  13. Vanimal46
    I thought that was a typo when you listed his HR and RBI total last year. Good lord, I don’t want to hear anyone to pump up HR or RBI anymore after reading that. In no unjuiced baseball world would someone like Eduardo Escobar have 35 HR in a season.
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    Amazing, really. Would anyone ever have guessed he would have 8 years service time in the MLB and play professional baseball at 36 years old? The dude has a career -3.2 bWAR!
  15. Vanimal46
    Another year has gone and more data to work with. I wonder what percentage of prospect publications think he is a reliever vs. a starter? I don't have a BA account to dig into it, but if someone else does, I'm curious to know if they think he's just a reliever? Resulting in a slide down the rankings.
  16. Vanimal46
    If you were curious, this is the trend of Twins' Prospects from pre-season 2019 to now from Baseball America: Royce Lewis - down 17 spots Alex Kirilloff - down 15 spots Trevor Larnach - up 55 spots (not ranked in 2019) Brusdar Graterol - down 5 spots Balazovic and Duran were unranked. And if you want to look back further than this, I had a thread in the past called Royce Lewis vs. 2017 Draftees Update Club with more rankings.
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    I like this change and thank you for resolving this issue quickly. It was hard to feel like you have a platform when 4-5 new daily front page articles were mixed in with community posts...
  18. Vanimal46
    Former Twins legend Hector Santiago signed a minor league deal + ST invite with the Detroit Kitties.
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    Great link, thanks for sharing. It’s crazy thinking after all of these years, the leagues still play by different rules. Imagine if other pro sports did that... Like the Western Conference in basketball saying you know what? We don’t want to play games with a 3 point shot.
  20. Vanimal46
    We love idolizing athletes in this country, don’t we?
  21. Vanimal46
    The Twins have been signing ‘aging stars’ since before I was born, and probably after I’m dead. They can’t afford the price (FA or trade) to acquire them in their prime. So they get them on the back side of their career.
  22. Vanimal46
    There are more writers and mods on board than any time in TD history. Where are short on resources? Someone reading the blogs? Much like the Twins and spending big money on free agents, let’s start with promoting 1 blog before discussing a strategy for getting a blog promoted. The count is still at 0. If resources are very limited here’s an idea... Forum Friday. The writers get a much needed day off each week and the community gets their day to get their work its time in the sunshine of the front page. Instead of the dark, isolated corner of the blog section...
  23. Vanimal46
    Yep... The talent floor is too high to lose 10+ games without several season ending injuries to key players. I’m getting flashbacks of “unfinished business” 2010 thinking about next year... I’ve accepted this core won’t get over the hump and would rather see them bail a year early vs a year late.
  24. Vanimal46
    Old friend Carlos Gomez will be retiring at 34 years young! 12 years service time and peaked as a 7.8 bWAR player in his age 27 season.
  25. Vanimal46
    Thanks for taking the time to respond. I do appreciate you linking forum threads to the “Front Page” article... A couple thoughts: Re: Blog Posts to get ‘promoted’ Like I said before, I just don’t see community blogs being promoted to the front page. Perhaps that’s where some of the newbies came from, and if so, I am wrong. I also see people like mikelink and his 142 posts. How many have I seen on the front page? Zero. I see Stringer and his 60 posts. Zero promoted to the front page. It’s easy to say if you have a pet topic go write a blog post... What we’re really saying is go to the dark corner of TD very few know about so it’s out of sight, out of mind. “Don't just say ''Hey, talk about this over here" ... comment on the article, give the author his/her due, and other posters, but feel free to point out the discussion and your work in another thread.” - Isn’t that exactly what we do as soon as a TD Writer posts an article about the same forum topic we have going? The forum topic is locked and we all have to take our comments to the Front Page... My Astros topic in the other baseball section was consistently top 3 updated stories for the last 2+ months in that section. Never slipped off the first page. I just think there’s a better way to promote the talent we have in our community and give them their due...
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