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What was the name of your character? Can you say it if it's the character's name and not the name of the play?

Gotta go. I'm expecting everyone on this thread to do everything possible to help this team to victory. No jinxes!

Whatever happened to old David? Did he amount to much?

Quite possibly true, and quite possibly the most damning thing one could say about the shape of the organization.

Thin at catcher or not, Suzuki has become our best trade chip.

I was going to add yeahright to the end of my post.

Cmon, Dick I dare you to ask him about mishandling Arcia.

Way to pull that one, #2.

Well, old Erv's on pace for another 3.2 inning start.

I really got a charge out of that one.

When I picture a large hairy animal it makes me think of Sasquatch, which reminds me that I'm at the point where I can't bleeping stand the messing with Sasquatch commercials. I just want to close my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears and yell la-la-la for 30 seconds.

I agree about this, but before I move on I have to say this last thing... If Arcia succeeds it shows that the Twins mismanaged him. If he doesn't succeed it shows that the Twins made a very lucky good guess. In either case the Twins erred in not giving him more playing time during the last two months.

That's about $11 Canadian.

Mainly because we'd need one less pitcher out there and we could remove KJ.

Reading back thru the thread I notice that everyone spells Aroid wrong.

Grab the next plane to Vegas and go nuts.

That's right.

This discussion is a reminder that I dislike the All-Star Game because it is not an All-Star Game. Here are some changes that might, repeat, might make this curmudgeon interested: 1. 25-player roster: two players for each of the 9 positions, seven pitchers. No one-player-from-each-team rule. 2. Players are chosen by a predetermined statistical formula based on performance in all games in the current season up to and including the Sunday before the game. The player with the best formula rating at each position starts. The second place player is the reserve. Players who have played multiple positions are considered only for the position at which they played in the most games. No fan voting. No player voting. No media voting. No manager selections. 3. The manager has no constraints on in-game substitutions. He chooses the starting pitcher. 4. Pitchers who start a game on the Saturday or Sunday before the game are ineligible but those who would have been chosen otherwise receive bonuses as below. 5. Players selected are required to play unless on the DL. Those on the DL receive bonuses as below. 6. 11-inning maximum. The game is declared a tie if the score is tied at that point. (It is an exhibition game, after all.) 7. All players selected receive a predetermined bonus. No additional appearance bonuses in individual contracts. The players on the winning team receive a larger bonus than players on the losing team. In the event of a tie all bonuses are the same. 8. Home field advantage for the WS is given to the league with the better record in interleague games. In the event of a tie the ASG is the tiebreaker. If there is still a tie a coin flip is the tiebreaker. (To be edited if I think of anything else later.)

How about 3?

Dang! I passed my 2,000th post without making a self-aggrandizing celebration out of it!

Maybe we'll have a sunshower during the early part of the game. Or, as Brian Dozier would say (because he is from Mississippi), "The devil is beating his wife."

Love it!!!!! I remember CCO used to play this when rain coincided with Twins baseball. And yes, it does mean you are really old if you remember it.

Does Mr. Greinke get a pass because he spells it Zack?

Exactly. If the front office makes a move that breaches the contract, whether intentionally or unintentionally, the union is there to represent the player and make sure the contract is honored. The same thing would apply in the other direction. If a player or the union breaches the contract then management is fully within its rights to get matters set straight. Perkins did nothing wrong in this matter. The team screwed up and Perkins merely pointed out the mistake (by going through proper channels) so it could be corrected.