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  1. spinowner
    I am asking for TD posters to contact me via private message. I have the honor of opening the game thread for game 162, Sunday, October 1. I have decided to use the time-honored 5-item format, with the 5 items being plays, events, or other occurrences from the 2017 season. I am asking for TD posters to send me suggestions for these 5 items via private message. I'm not necessarily looking for the most spectacular plays, events, or other occurrences, but rather the most interesting ones. If you have a link to video of the play, event, or other occurrence you suggest please include that. I hope to incorporate that into my post. I will review all suggestions, assign a weighted rating to each suggestion, do a statistical analysis of the results, and then throw out all the ones I don't feel like including. Or something like that. Please don't make suggestions of plays, events, or other occurrences by posting here. Instead, please contact me ​via private message. I look forward to seeing the suggestions and I thank everyone in advance.
  2. spinowner
    Texas loses to Oakland 1-0. All three teams now 4.5 back.
  3. spinowner
    In many organizations the rules are not just rules, they are laws. That particularly applies to government, health care, and legal issues. Now, such laws obviously do not apply to MLB, but I think more and more organizations of all types see the value of such policies and incorporate them into their rules as they see fit. And these rules are almost always in writing so everyone can read and know exactly how the organization will handle issues that may arise. And that's a good thing. To me it would be a surprise if Falvey (and Jim Pohlad) were not developing written policies for everything about how the team operates.
  4. spinowner
    This assumption is not valid in my opinion. In many cases the party that doesn't want to talk is protecting the privacy of those who are entitled to that privacy.
  5. spinowner
    Baltimore has been eliminated from contention for the postseason.
  6. spinowner
    After a bit of thought, I take the spirit of the question to be "Does this team deserve to be a postseason team?" Or, to generalize, does whoever earns the second wild card berth this year deserve to be in the postseason? In most years, no. As I write this it appears that the second wild card team could easily have the worst record for an AL postseason team since the current format came into use in 2012. Last year the second wild card team won 89 games. In 2015 it was 86, in 2014 it was 88, in 2013 it was 92. In 2012 Detroit won the AL Central with 88 and the second wild card team had 93 wins. Two teams with 89 and 90 wins, respectively, finished out of the postseason. I think it's a combination of two things. One, having two dominant teams, Houston and Cleveland, each of whom could finish with 100 wins, and, two, having a lot of teams at a similar middling level. This year's second wild card team, whoever it turns out to be, will be the one of this mediocre group finishing with a few more wins than the rest of them. Back in July it was not unreasonable to look at the Twins, project us to finish with 83 wins, and assume that this would not be good enough to make the postseason. After all, with as many teams as there were in the hunt it would be certain that at least one of them would make a big move forward, right? Well, here we are with ESPN giving us a 95.2% chance of a postseason berth. And we did that with a 36-31 record since the All-Star break. Not exactly a big move forward, but this year it turns out it's better to be lucky than good.
  7. spinowner
    I was just going to type: Been there done that, just one season ago.
  8. spinowner
    Once you agree to talk it doesn't matter.
  9. spinowner
    Kansas City has been eliminated from contention for the first wild card berth.
  10. spinowner
    Luck of the draw for lack of a better way to say it. The schedules are set a year in advance. For example, the Twins have an off day on Monday, September 24.
  11. spinowner
    There goes Belisle's save opportunity. As we all hoped.
  12. spinowner
    The Yankees will start whichever pitcher they feel has the best chance of doing well against our lineup. And they will start the lineup they feel has the best chance of scoring runs against our pitchers. No looking past, no assuming they'll win. We will have to beat the best they have to offer.
  13. spinowner
    It's not 2009 any more.
  14. spinowner
    We like!
  15. spinowner
    Buck!
  16. spinowner
    Excellent. 2 GIDP's in 3 innings. Keeps the damage to a minimum and lets our boys blast away to win it.
  17. spinowner
    Going from first to third on an infield grounder. One of the Twins did that in the first game I ever attended in 1963. I don't remember who, but probably Zoilo.
  18. spinowner
    Interesting. Bert says there have only been 5 stolen base attempts against Gibson. Helps explain all the GIDP's he's thrown.
  19. spinowner
    I don't care who hit that ball or who caught it, any baseball fan loves that catch in center field.
  20. spinowner
    Guess which two beverages are my favorites.
  21. spinowner
    Now, THAT is how a teammate picks up for his pitcher!
  22. spinowner
    Just think how Angels fans feel about the Cleveland series.
  23. spinowner
    This rivals the millstone that is Albert Pujols' contract.
  24. spinowner
    Buck will be on second base before the next at-bat is completed.
  25. spinowner
    Apropos of nothing, I really enjoy the commercial where the picnic table pontoon boat with the grill dragging behind putt putts its way out into the lake. I've seen it a hundred times but I still can't tell you who or what is being promoted.
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