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Indeed. I'd heard he has the best arm? Maybe I heard wrong, but he can throw

While I agree, and have stated here many times, I can’t get overly upset or expend negative energy on things over which I have zero control, let’s keep our comments directed to the topic and not speculating on the mental well being of fellow posters

There was much I could agree on with your post but not this part, The depth they acquired this year is WAY better than the depth they had to rely on last year. Solano, Taylor, Gallo and Farmer are hardly cast offs.

There is still plenty to read

I think this was his response to those who complain about 30-60 second video clips. Bring on the sound, John!

Welcome to Twins Daily! Great first post!

Things in Fort Myers are just plain expensive this year. You may have to go further out. Because of the hurricane and the destruction of Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel and places near there, many residents are still displaced who are now renting many places that would go to monthly visitors in ‘normal’ times. And there is such a high demand still for construction workers and related subcontractor work, it’s been a slow process getting homes and condos back to habitable. My Mom’s place went through a remediation process that was just completed a few weeks ago and now begins reconstruction. In turn, there then has seen a higher need for hotel rooms since the usual condo rental market is tight. It’s the basic concept of ‘supply and demand’ at play here this year. You may have to go further away to find a rental or hotel within the range you mentioned.

I’m not exactly sure what you mean anymore. You say the forums, yet I’ve very clearly stated that the Front Page News forum is not really a forum that operates in the same way the other forums do. If what you want to suggest is more organization of what articles are written, when so there are not so many of the same articles, then yes, that is specifically an owner question. However, you are in the minority when it comes to big, breaking news or stories such as all the articles and forum posts we had about Correa. The data showed that most readers could not get enough on Correa and it was big news how that all went down making it a pretty wild off season, so all the articles written and published on that was very intentional. As for the regular forums, like the Twins Talk forum, yes, we do take great strides to streamline the threads that get started there, with the exception I noted about the rumors function, which was new and now something we need to tweak. So, I’ve explained, this is how it is. If an owner wants to step in and discuss the process of how it’s decided on what gets written and when, then they will. But the rest just feels a bit … overly picky

You are always free to find a website that does things as you wish them to be

I’d worry, too, if that were against lefties … still concerned with our offense, but think it’s trending in the right direction. Time will tell, and when it does, I hope I’m enjoying it!

Geeeeeeez … a 2-minute video clip and with the comments here you’d think every offering is video. I don’t know about you all, but I can’t get through every written article and every written comment, so I appreciate a 2-minute clip from time to time. Podcasts are a different thing. Those I don’t always have time for because they are waaaaaaay longer. Some users like the video, so there is video on the site. But there is and will always be way more written word to read. Get over it already. @John Bonnes and @Nick Nelson, thank you for all the ST coverage in whatever format you deliver it for those of us who can’t be there … although I was fortunate to be there for a bit and am returning on Friday … but you guys have the access and give us way more info. Thank you!

That was his line against righties …. This was the quote: ‘ if he's not at least holding his own against righties. Last year he slashed just .235/.291/.320 against them.’

Again. We are not EVER going to merge articles written by our contributors. Those are the articles that are in the Front Page forum and on the Front Page. Never happening. Maybe separate forum for certain subjects could be a thing? In the Twins Talk forum, though, those aren’t articles and we generally do merge those with the exception I noted, when they got posted as rumors.

Lots of things to unpack here. The Front Page News forum is generated from the creation of front page articles. It’s basically a secondary front page. Most everything from the front page is automatically duplicated and deposited into that forum for those posters who by-pass the front page to get those articles in that forum instead. The articles there are written by the site’s contributing writers and owners. Moderators have no control over what is written, when it’s written or when it’s published. An owner would have to explain that process, but I think other than some specific stories that must be covered, I think the writers pretty much can write what they want. Again, I don’t know if there is a schedule or organization to how those articles get written and published. Those articles cannot and should never be merged, ever, either with other articles in that forum or with threads in other forums. If you don’t like the number of articles on Correa, don’t read them. It’s as simple as that. But each writer has a different perspective on these events and are given latitude. What content there is in the Front Page Articles forum is completely generated by contributing writers and very separate than what gets posted in the other forums. The Twins Talk forum and the Other forum and with some exceptions, the Minor League forum, are poster generated. In other words, those forums don’t have front page articles in them, with a few exceptions in the Minor League forum and even less so in the Other forum. But everything in the Twins Talk forum is its own entity and completely poster driven. When news breaks and multiple posters post the same news stories, yes, those do get merged. However, this year we were trying a new function with Twins rumors. Unfortunately, some posters were using this function not as intended, and were using that to report actual news of signings rather than strictly rumors, so signings came out as rumors. And, unfortunately, we couldn’t merge those, but we did try and lock and redirect threads in that case. We will definitely look into how to do this better as the season goes on. But, posters want to talk about things, and sometimes topics do get repeated that were discussed weeks before. We don’t merge those. We try to post links to the previous discussion, or other posters do, but mostly we view these as separate discussions even if it was had weeks previously. Again, you have control over what you want to read. But the duplication of discussions between the Front Page News and Twins Talk forums … basically nothing we can do about this. I try to cross link the two entities when I can, but mostly it is what it is. In today’s discussion of ‘Who will start?’ it’s doubtful that writer even saw the poll and discussion in the Twins Talk forum from a couple of weeks ago. But there is a difference between the two. One was a fully fleshed out article, while the other was just a poll question. While the discussion ends up being similar, or even the same, again, no one is forcing you to read anything. I did put a link up in the new article, but it’s still a separate entity. There is never a way to perfectly organize things, however, we can’t limit content. That just wouldn’t be a good thing to do when we need writers and posters on a content-driven website.

While I know you were being funny, I still had to dislike this on two points … the use of an opener and the use of Pagan in that position. It’s just too horrifying to laugh!

If you don’t want to participate in a discussion, don’t. If you have suggestions for the site or want to make complaints, please use the ‘Questions about’ forum. These kind of comments are off topic and derail the discussion. The original discussion was in the forums, linked above, but it was a poll and not a full article. Thanks.

I don’t know if there was more than one and from my vantage couldn’t tell if there was one directly behind home. The one I noticed was just to the left of the Twins dugout looking in. It didn’t seem distracting or obtrusive at all

I think Gray is opening day starter with Ryan being given the home opener. Although, it depends on how the rotation is set up and how pitchers are doing. If Maeda continues to progress, I could see the Twins giving him one of those games

A poll on this subject is in the forums, started a couple weeks ago, if anyone wants to vote, check out the totals so far

I think they need to make Sands a RP and hope they are working with him with that in mind. I’d still like to see Winder and Ober start, but I think Winder’s role is eventually as a RP.

I, quite frankly, want neither. And I don’t want Megill, either. Again, the BP is an after thought. The starters need to go deeper and lots of current RPs need to step up and stay strong. It’s a lot to bet on.

Welcome to travel days. My guess is they will either be in Monday’s or Tuesday’s lineup or both. Since Monday is just across town, more of the regulars might be willing to ‘travel.’ In the past I’ve gone to games at Hammond with friends who were fans of other teams, and they were always disappointed when regulars from their teams weren’t there. But, considering how early it is in the ST, yeah, this is it. As more players get sent to minor league camp, we’ll see more regular and longer playtime in a couple weeks.

I don’t disagree that if you have that one person who can fill that role, they can be a primary DH. (I clarified that in a later post than the one you quoted.) We don’t have a Cruz, Thome or Davis on the roster, and Miranda is too young yet to put him there. So, because we don’t have that role player, I like the idea of a rotating DH for the flexibility it brings … for how this team is currently constructed, I think it makes the most sense. But I don’t like the idea of having one person DH who NEVER plays the field. I do think it’s a wasted roster space.

I was there, and yes it was.