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  1. Squirrel
    You should take all the AA pitchers in Adopt-a-Prospect!
  2. Squirrel
    Sounds like you could use better trivia partners ... Like your report on Sano. I saw the same as you did when I was there a couple weeks ago.
  3. Squirrel
    I'm posting a plug for Adopt-a-Prospect. You can follow Romero's season here. Goulik will keep us all updated on Romero's progress.
  4. Squirrel
    And I will add, as a moderator, particularly in threads where it has no bearing. Start a new thread, please, if you want to go down the TR vs Levine path instead of thread-jacking this thread.
  5. Squirrel
    Yeah, if the off season had gone differently I might have begrudgingly been okay with that eventually if we hadn’t done anything else. I just think he’s going to have a huge drop off. I’m not sure I’d have given him a guaranteed 3rd year. And I agree. I like what we ended up doing much better.
  6. Squirrel
    Wow, no way I’d have given Arrieta that. I’d have been back to ‘What are they thinking!?!?!?’ if our FO committed to him for 3 yrs.
  7. Squirrel
    Round 2 is posted and will open for business Monday morning! Check it out here: http://twinsdaily.com/topic/28867-round-2-adopt-a-prospect-2018-monday-mar-12/
  8. Squirrel
    Ack!!! I'm getting political ads now ... for candidates I would never vote for ... ugh!!! So much for TD being a respite from all of that!
  9. Squirrel
    <GROAN> And of course you jumped right on that. You are nothing if not predictable. But I would have been disappointed if you didn’t.
  10. Squirrel
    You can question these things all you want; there will be those who agree with you, and those who don't. You will get those who feel as strongly about their opinions as you do yours. That's the nature of it. It's not always easy, especially if your opinion is in the minority (although on Joe, I think it's not so lopsided as say, extending Buxton, on this site). Just becuase someone has something to say opposite you, they aren't telling you you can't question it, they are rebutting your statements because they feel differently.
  11. Squirrel
    Omg ... The Sting was AWESOME! I saw it several times when it first came out. Redford and Neuman ... it simply does not get better than that.
  12. Squirrel
    My only comparison is the degree I liked the whole thing, because there are other categories for all those other things. Unfortunately, I can't see every single one. Each year I say 'I'm going to see every good movie out there' and then I go months without seeing one.
  13. Squirrel
    Lol ... well, so much for listening to all your reviews ... I never saw 'Shape of Water' and I see that it won for best picture ... not sure how that is possible after seeing 'Three Billboards ...' but now I'm intrigued again but will have to wait, unless it's still in a theatre somewhere.
  14. Squirrel
    Hmm, who’s out ... Vargas? Guess they have time to make that decision since there’s an open roster spot.
  15. Squirrel
    Hmm, who’s out ... Vargas? Guess they have time to make that decision since there’s an open roster spot.
  16. Squirrel
    Hmm, who’s out ... Vargas? Guess they have time to make that decision since there’s an open roster spot.
  17. Squirrel
    It doesn’t sound like it, but I hope this doesn’t become the reason we lost Chargois.
  18. Squirrel
    Taking my Mom to see ‘Early Man’ for hopefully some Wallace and Grommet like humor.
  19. Squirrel
    As much as Levi is being cautioned about arguing against things no one said, I’ll caution you as well. The majority of people here are in in-between land. You seem to have an all or nothing take, which is fine, it’s your opinion. But if others want to take a more tempered road that is acceptable as well and there is no need to say they are being unconditionally fanatical about it. Agree to disagree short of the implied name calling, please. That last sentence is for everyone.
  20. Squirrel
    Or what they’ve tried isn’t working because of things in the article Craig posted earlier and they are chalking it up to him not trying, or whatever, instead of their own lack of fully understanding the issues, specifically the manager. As I’ve said I don’t give Sano a full pass but I can’t and won’t at this time lay it all at his feet, either, as many are so wont to do.
  21. Squirrel
    This is a very interesting study. It makes me wonder if those with a genetic predisposition of being leaner have difficulties understanding those whose genetic predisposition is, well, larger. They can’t understand the difficulties in maintaining and losing weight because it’s never been difficult for them and then chalk it up to the person with difficulties not trying hard enough which leads to all sorts of messages of ‘We’re just not getting through to him,’ or ‘He’s not taking his profession seriously enough.’ I’m not saying that I give Sano a pass to go out and load up, but I wonder if our lines of what’s reasonable in his case are just off. When I saw him at drills, he just didn’t look as bad as some are making him out to be. Yes, I think he needs to catch up with some of his conditioning and maybe trim down some, but I don’t think he’s egregiously out of shape and/or overweight. Maybe where you’d expect him to be after recovering from surgery. Wasn’t the initial timeline on that going to run into ST anyway? But I don’t know what he has and hasn’t been doing to at least help his case. So I don’t give him a complete pass. But it worries me the comments Molitor is making. Not from the standpoint of Molitor really trying the help Sano, but worried he’s ready to write him off because he can’t relate.
  22. Squirrel
    And that video was a very accurate view of how he looked doing infield drills yesterday, as I said earlier.
  23. Squirrel
    Have to say seeing him in person he didn’t seem as overweight as what I was expecting after reading some of the comments here. Yes, I think he could be leaner and yes, I think there needs to be some conditioning. I’ll give half a pass to that because his injury didn’t allow for him to work on things as much as we would have hoped during the off season. But I am concerned about the other I won’t give half a pass to, him. He’s 24 and I’ll give that a little bit more time, but I do think he needs to make some choices sooner rather than later on who he wants to be as a player as others have alluded to. And after seeing him today, man, he’s just one big dude with huge thighs, but not hugely overweight.
  24. Squirrel
    Saying that it was a good trade isn't making it one-sided. I, frankly, don't really care what Tampa got out of it, we didn't give up a lot to get what I think is better than what we've had. That's improvement at a good cost, imo. Yeah, Odorizzi could really suck this year and Palacios could rock it ... or the opposite could happen. I'm not going to rate the trade today what could be tomorrow. Of course, when tomorrow gets here, I might rate the trade today differently. But for right now, I think it quite okay.
  25. Squirrel
    I don't think we fleeced them ... and I haven't seen that from very many posters, in fact I think I read those words from one or two, and good for them on their opinion, so it is by far from a lot ... but I call it a win because we got something that makes us stronger without giving up much from the perspective of our own system. While we didn't get a front-end starter, which I think we need to make it deep into the playoffs, Odorizzi will slot well for us and be better than most of the 4-5s we put out there last year. Shoring up the back end of the rotation does make us stronger, albeit not strong enough. This was a good trade. And what we gave up is our 4th best SS prospect. Palacios was never going to be a starting ss for us because we have better. So I call it pretty even and good for us.
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