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  1. Squirrel
    I'm not sure you are getting what I'm saying ... I'm saying we can and absolutely need to do better. It's not about either/or with Cron or Austin, it's not about how we can roster them both, it's not even about if either or both provide any kind of positional flexibility ... NEITHER provides enough improvement. I'll wait to see where we are at the end of March, but if this is an example of the moves we are to see this winter, (and I've got to believe better is coming, but also won't hold my breath) and nothing significantly better, the very small increment of improvement this move might make will make little to no difference to where we are now. You might say we are moving in the right direction ... I'm saying that movement isn't enough to matter right direction or not. Maybe we've moved enough so we aren't standing right ON the hornets' nest, but we still need to move significantly farther and away from it not to get stung.
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    That's a good take ... and I hope that's the case. It's difficult to move away from 'In the past ...'
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    Heh, that doesn't surprise me ... it would have surprised me if he wasn't the one who homered on a pitch farthest off the plate. It wouldn't surprise me either if you looked at all his homeruns and the he would be the one who hit the most homeruns off the most different pitches.
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    But this is my issue ... is this even an improvement, even if incrementally small? I think it's debatable and no way to know. I also don't think an incrementally small improvement is the improvement the Twins need. An incremental improvement, imo, is not an improvement in the Twins' case. In this game increments might make the difference between top teams edging out the other, but a small incremental improvement does not make the difference for the Twins getting to the top. Even if it might nudge the needle, it's not enough. We don't need a needle nudger, we need needle pushers.
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    Just like they weren't counting on winning the bid for Park ... hope their 'we weren't counting on this and now have to make room' doesn't screw us up.
  6. Squirrel
    Me, too. I don’t think this is an upgrade move and doesn’t really fill holes.
  7. Squirrel
    Seth, is the asst pitching coach the BP coach? Are they doing away with that definition?
  8. Squirrel
    A girl can't carry on an athletic tradition? I mean, get them both playing tennis and we could have a new generation of dominant sisters in the sport.
  9. Squirrel
    Wow, yay for Tommy Watkins! That makes me happy! Hefner as asst. pitching coach? Is that a new name for bull pen coach? I’d say that Baldelli held true to wanting a diversified staff.
  10. Squirrel
    It's funny ... I have a very small purse ... clutch size ... and half the time it gets checked, half the time it doesn't at various venues and sometimes at the same venue. At the White Sox stadium it all gets put through a detector. You take it all off, put it in the bin at the side as you walk through the metal detector and pick up your stuff at the side. It's really quite efficient whether or not you have a bag.
  11. Squirrel
    I don't think it's a problem they are trying to fix. If you read the NFL bag policy, after they give you all the specs of acceptability, there was this line: 'Official NFL team logo clear plastic tote bags will be available through club merchandise outlets' And I think your solution regarding traffic into the stadium was a good solution ... no bags to check, go into this line; bag to check, go into that one. I've been to plenty of places that do this and it works fine.
  12. Squirrel
    That was my response, but was so dumbfounded couldn't even articulate it, so thanks for that.
  13. Squirrel
    Both Lewis and Kirilloff are Boris clients? Oh boy ... neither is going to sign here long term. Once they are able to go they are gone.
  14. Squirrel
    I think 280 is as low as he can go.
  15. Squirrel
    I think the Carolinas are pretty entrenched as Braves territory. There are also a LOT of minor league teams in and around that area, including the Charlotte Knights, the AAA team for the White Sox.
  16. Squirrel
    I like the idea of adding two Canadian cities. Wonder what the Blue Jays would think of that?
  17. Squirrel
    Maybe. There is more to being in shape than losing weight. I’ll see what he brings to Spring and how he performs next season. That said, I think your earlier 260 is completely unrealistic if not impossible. When was he 260? When he was still growing. He is not going to be 260 again, imo.
  18. Squirrel
    Back on topic. If you want to express that Nick’s blueprint isn’t financially viable, fine, you’ve done so. What I’d like to see from you is YOUR off-season plan. If you think Nick’s here is too ‘pie In the sky’ then tell us specifically what and how you would do things differently and stop the lectures about how you know more than the rest of us on running multi-million dollar businesses. Put your money where your mouth is and give us specifics of who, what and how much, if you were GM. And if you had bothered to read through all the ones posted, by the owners and writers here and other posters, you’d see a wide range of ideas with plenty of fiscal conservativism, and much more to discuss than how we don’t know how to run a big business. This is a message board, not a board room. It’s for sharing and debating ideas. Telling us all we don’t know what we are doing is neither. Yes, this a moderator warning.
  19. Squirrel
    Ditto!
  20. Squirrel
    Yes. In baseball, I think the path is revealed after you’ve traversed it not before. It seems more often than not we plan for one and get the other.
  21. Squirrel
    The tortoise and the hare might disagree with you re the Lamborghini.
  22. Squirrel
    This gets discussed on and off. The short answer is no, nothing can be done, for now. You can comment further on this subject in these forum threads in the Questions forum: http://twinsdaily.com/topic/28591-two-spaces-after-a-period/?hl=%2Btwo+%2Bspaces http://twinsdaily.com/topic/21610-why-are-my-posts-reformatting/?hl=%2Btwo+%2Bspaces http://twinsdaily.com/topic/17104-if-youre-suffering-from-the-no-space-after-punctuation-issue-please-read/?hl=%2Btwo+%2Bspaces
  23. Squirrel
    I don't think you say 'every' ... but you get so excited about positional flexibility I think you sometimes go overboard to make a point and then confuse us all, until we remember it's Brian.
  24. Squirrel
    Pfft.
  25. Squirrel
    Since his career was cut short, way short, there was no way to know when the latter part of his career was. His career ended, rather abruptly, at a young age (relatively speaking) and he's been working in some capacity ever since. He said he knows some Spanish, but isn't fluent. I'll take that as a good start. Also, as Pseudo mentioned, languages are not easy for everyone to just learn ... I had years of French, some German and some Italian ... no fluency whatsoever, not even broken conversational abilities, despite living for 2 1/2 years in a French speaking country. And I had the same SAT score! Not to mention to various Spanish-speaking countries players come from. There are likely different dialects and idioms to learn that are specific to certain countries, even areas of certain countries. While I had hoped for someone with a level of fluency, I don't fault him for this lack and I'll give him time to build on the some that he already knows. Or see who he hires to 'help' in that area of 'weakness.'
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