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  1. Vanimal46
    Concur from my perspective in Austin. I guess Dallas could be perceived as a high end city because it's littered with what we call '$30,000 millionaires'. The ones acting like hot shot millionaires but only make $30k... Houston is a concrete beast of a city with 7+ million people. Worth visiting, but I wouldn't want to live there.
  2. Vanimal46
    What do you do with a bobble head once you acquire a bobble head? I ask that as someone who has probably 10 of them packed somewhere in a storage unit.
  3. Vanimal46
    Old friend Hector Santiago signs with a minor league contract with the White Sox. And... Old friend Craig Breslow signs a minor league contract with the Blue Jays.
  4. Vanimal46
    Here's to hoping you feel like a newborn baby today, Chief!
  5. Vanimal46
    You made it another year around the sun, Chief! Two men were sitting in the lounge of their retirement village when one asked, "How do you really feel? I mean, you're 82 years old. How do you honestly feel?" The other man replied, "Honestly, I feel like a newborn baby. I've got no hair, no teeth, and I just wet myself!"
  6. Vanimal46
    We're also starting a protest in a furniture store later today! It's called "Bummin' it for Bumgarner" We will refuse to get off of the couches in the showroom until the Twins trade for him! Hmm, this may take a few days.... So we're switching up the location to IKEA! We'll stay nourished on sweedish meatballs until something happens!
  7. Vanimal46
    I liked Lincecum back in 2011!
  8. Vanimal46
    I'd like to know the same. They're building an all star baseball lineup of writers, that's for sure. Ken Rosenthal, Jayson Stark, Petter Gammons, and I'm sure they're going to have Eno focus on analytics related topics.
  9. Vanimal46
    Tampa doesn't want to trade their best pitcher on a ridiculously team friendly contract? You don't say.
  10. Vanimal46
    Agreed. I think there's a 0% chance Nola is even on the trade block. Just wanted to show how truly expensive it would be to pull off. And even with all of those names it's probably not enough for Philadelphia to do it.
  11. Vanimal46
    If there was a precedent don't let the Pohlad's know! I don't want to trade Dozier away for $20 million
  12. Vanimal46
    So you're saying the Twins would give the Phillies $60-100 million in cash? Has that ever happened in a trade before?
  13. Vanimal46
    Okay, I'll bite. If you want to make a deal for Nola, who has 4 years of control left and already one of the best pitchers in baseball... The Twins would most likely have to give up Lewis, Gonsalves/Romero, Kepler/Rosario if they want an MLB ready player, and Gordon.
  14. Vanimal46
    Follow up: Eno Sarris announced this morning on Twitter he's joining The Athletic. I'm getting closer to making the purchase for access to their site.
  15. Vanimal46
    I forgot about that. Great point. At the very least, wait until whatever that date is to get the additional year of control. Like you though I want both of those players to get a month or 2 of AAA experience before considering a call up.
  16. Vanimal46
    Right, Berrios struggled mightily in the majors even with sparkly AAA stats. So Romero and Gonsalves are different and do well in the majors with no AAA experience to think of? I don't think some realize how huge of an ask it is to jump from AA to MLB as a pitcher.
  17. Vanimal46
    Exactly. I will praise the regime when they do something well, and criticize when they blunder. I'm not happy they "tried their best" to get the only player they specifically targeted to sign this winter. They didn't get it done, and it's a failure. Simple as that.
  18. Vanimal46
    Let's reverse roles. Would you trade Berrios for two 18 year olds?
  19. Vanimal46
    I doubt Tampa sweetens the pot. They could get a top 100 prospect for Colome in July. So they're probably hanging up the phone first here.
  20. Vanimal46
    Any trade that doesn't include Lewis is a non-starter for Tampa IMO. We're fooling ourselves if we think Tampa isn't going to immediately ask for the top prospect of any team interested in trading for him.
  21. Vanimal46
    Because it's more realistic than finding the magical #1 pitcher. Do you think Archer's getting traded anytime soon? I don't. They can continue to search for a #1 pitcher and look for a more realistic target like McHugh.
  22. Vanimal46
    Right now there doesn't appear to be any plan at #4 or 5 in the rotation other than throwing numbers at the problem. So I would say they have holes throughout the rotation. The Twins' priority should be acquiring any pitcher who projects to be better short term than Slegers, Jorge, Gonsalves, Hughes, etc. Which shouldn't be that hard to do.
  23. Vanimal46
    FWIW, Lavelle E Neal 3 was just on 9 to noon with PA, and he said there's a "zero percent" chance the Twins sign Arrieta.
  24. Vanimal46
    I don't think that's fair to say at all. Darvish was the hope being sold all winter long... We discussed creative ways to sign him, discussed signing him regardless of the price, broke him down to the studs, and discussed the open windows Minnesota has to make a move such as this. It sounds like you got inside information weeks ago to make this news easier to handle. Many of us simpletons that followed this all winter just learned about it yesterday. When we were sold hope on him all winter and it doesn't happen aren't we allowed to be frustrated about it?
  25. Vanimal46
    I'd prefer forfeiting every game in April... That way ALL of our pitchers save wear and tear on their arms! Games in April are silly anyways.
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