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  1. Vanimal46
    I suppose change can happen with internal candidates too. Though as an employee I'd wonder why he or she didn't speak up before to usher in these changes.. Kind of like when the Gophers football coach Claeys took over for Kill. His first change he implemented was getting rid of the other coordinator he's been working with for the last 20+ years. Almost made you think "How long have you been waiting to do that?"
  2. Vanimal46
    Unfortunately I only have 2 screens to view at my desk. One of them is used for actual work, the other is used to look at Kate Upton pictures. How's the game shaping up?
  3. Vanimal46
    "Nick Punto is my everything." - Ron Gardenhire
  4. Vanimal46
    Maybe another reverse jinx like yesterday is in order... Can today be Santana's last start to make room for Berrios? God I hope so.
  5. Vanimal46
    For an internal hire if I were an employee I'd think not much is going to change. The culture remains status quo, and why wasn't I being considered for the role? For an external hire if I were an employee I'd think man, maybe things are about to change around here. New person to impress, I better be on top of my game or else I may be a casualty with the new regime.
  6. Vanimal46
    There are hot dudes in the world too! Normally I wouldn't comment much on player's wives/girlfriends/boyfriends/husbands, but Kate Upton is an exception in my book...
  7. Vanimal46
    Also, any time Verlander pitches against the Twins and his fiance is not mentioned, is a total system failure....
  8. Vanimal46
    Speaking of Tigers, is anyone familiar with Toygers? http://www.pets4homes.co.uk/images/classifieds/2013/11/18/484728/large/toyger-champion-retired-stud-for-sale-528a46d2ab94e.jpg Domesticated cats that look like little Tigers. My college roommate and I were seriously considering buying one for the house when we lived together. I was hoping it would have some wild blood in it, but unfortunately it's just a normal cat with tiger stripes.
  9. Vanimal46
    It's never a good thing for the sport when the best pitcher in the World suffers a set back on their injury. That unfortunately happened for Clayton Kershaw, who's now on the DL indefinitely after a recent set back with his back injury. Get well soon, Kershaw! http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/la-sp-dodgers-kershaw-20160719-snap-story.html
  10. Vanimal46
    Yeah he appears to just shoot from the lip without really thinking about what he's saying. If I were him, I'd probably hire someone with a PR background to prepare some statements for him if he's going to talk to the media. Nothing wrong with that. Not all owners want to be in the spot light. The Vikings owner comes to mind. He's terrible at public speaking, and unless there's a prepared speech for him, he delegates that responsibility to his brother. Something that Jim should think about.
  11. Vanimal46
    The auto-play ads are back and it's really killing the speed of the website. It's taking forever to load pages and type out responses as the auto-play video loads.
  12. Vanimal46
    I have no reason to feel this way, but I'm confident that Antony is not going to be anything more than an interim GM. Would I trust the braintrust to conduct their own search and interview process to find the next GM? No. You may think search firms are a racket, but I believe using one is critical for an important hire like this. Let's use a neutral third party resource to identify 4-5 quality candidates, and use their expertise to create a process for selecting the best person for the role.
  13. Vanimal46
    Whether firing TR was for financial or pure baseball reasons, either way I'm glad they did it. This offseason is going to be rough for season ticket sales reps. I wouldn't blame anyone for not re-upping their season tickets until things turn around with the team.
  14. Vanimal46
    I figured Craig would be on top of things today. Because.... Today is National Moon Landing Day! July 20, 1969. Apollo 11 lands safely on the moon with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" as they say. Today is also National Lollipop Day! When was the last time you had a lollipop? I think the last time was when I had to get my car fixed a couple of months ago where they had Dum Dum's at the front desk. Finally, on this day in 1976, the first human made object successfully lands on Mars! Viking 1 was able to take the first known pictures of Mars' surface.
  15. Vanimal46
    Could tonight be Milone's final start to make room for Berrios? God I hope so.
  16. Vanimal46
    Walkin' papers... You know, a guy gets fired. "Jeesh, poor guy, well they gave him his walking papers today." Did you ever get any walking papers? Seriously? Believe me, in my life I got fired a lot of times. You can tell... Never got any walking papers. Never got a pink slip either. You know what I would get? A guy would come over to my desk and say "GET THE F*** OUTTA HERE!" - George Carlin
  17. Vanimal46
    Those 3 are locks to be called up ASAP. Hildenberger presents a good case for a call-up, and I'd imagine there are some folks on the 40 man who could be DFA'd for him. As far as people already on the 40 man, may I suggest Melotakis as an option? He's bounced back this year after injury, with a 2.52 ERA, 9 K/9, and 2.2 BB/9. Considering he's a lefty as well (always needed in Minnesota) I'd like to see him get a chance this season.
  18. Vanimal46
    Well, we sparked a conversation from the podcast! There are times when I agree with John and think Gleeman is off-base, and vice versa. With this episode, I lean heavily towards Gleeman's opinion over John's.
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    Agreed. When it comes to the Cardinals penalty, it should come from the MLB itself instead of a federal court. It's going to be interesting how they handle it. Other than the New England Patriots, there's not a ton of examples of teams in the US sports leagues that have been caught doing shady things in order to gain an advantage.
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    That's the amazing thing to me too, is Correa taking 100% of the punishment, and somehow the Cardinals are off scotch-free. That doesn't seem right to me. As far as the value of information they saw from the Astros, I don't know if I believe the $1.7 million in damages, but they still saw all of the Astros' notes from contract negotiations, trade negotiations, trade targets, free agency targets, etc. over a 10+ month period. Is it possible to put a true monetary value on knowing what your competitor's are looking for, the value they're looking to pay the players they want, and what names other teams in the MLB are offering for a specific player? I'm not sure it is. Either way, I agree that the Cardinals deserve a penalty too from this mess. My preference is the Cardinals losing draft picks.
  21. Vanimal46
    I guess I'm not understanding why the difficulty of a password qualifies as hacking or not hacking. If the password for my bank account is "password" and someone steals my money, it's still hacking, no?
  22. Vanimal46
    Preach it.
  23. Vanimal46
    Correa still accessed a competitor's database and analyzed their inside information. In what world is that okay to do? The court needed to set a precedent so this kind of thing will not happen in the league again.
  24. Vanimal46
    Maybe I'm in the minority but I would not be okay with Torii as the main man. The organization needs a complete overhaul with their culture. Bringing in a former Twin IMO is not going to fix the culture problem. I'm curious why you're not a fan of search firms, Seth? A resource like that should be a requirement in this search considering Pohlad's not very connected in the baseball world.
  25. Vanimal46
    Raising a person in general is scary. I'm going to need some guidance if I were to become a parent. Especially when they're teenagers.
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