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Long haul covid, and before that, didn’t he have some kind of lengthy battle with an intestinal issue or virus? He seems to have had a couple of seasons where illness really zapped his physical strength and abilities. It’s good to see him contribute as he has. His will along with assistance from the coaching staff … and I’m sure his family has helped, given their pedigree in the MLB … Gordon has become a valuable team member. I’m glad the Twins didn’t give up on him as easily and quickly as most fans did.

It doesn’t look like Jansen dropped the ball. It looks like he never had it in his mitt. But yeah, if Chapman makes a better throw and/or if Jansen actually has the ball in his mitt, yeah, Gordon is out and we would be one out with runners at first and second. Or, if the catcher hadn’t missed the catch on strike three to Cave or if he had made the throw to first, there would have been one out with Gordon at third when Beckham came up to bat. And then if Beckham hits the same way, we’d still likely have the same play at the plate and if Chapman makes a clean throw and if Jansen makes a clean play then we’d be at two outs with a runner at first with Contreras up to bat. If he gets out, then it’s back to our BP and we if ourselves out of a win. The if game is an interesting exercise, but I’ll stick to our win, and choose it gladly. Because we won! Woohoo! ?

The Twins don’t have the option to opt out, only Correa does. But even if the Twins had that option, no, they shouldn’t. Correa is well above average. You obviously haven’t watched him play. Yes, his offense is down this year and I hope that picks up for the remainder of the season, for however long that is. But Correa is far above an average SS. And we’d be lucky to have him for longer, imo.

He stopped by to enjoy the win with fellow fans and found none were enjoying the win but crabbing as usual.

Eh, not really, but I do like that song.

And then there’s the young fan down the row looking down … probably into a cell phone. Lol … I like looking at crowd shots. (And I didn’t take your comment as a dig about Rocco. I was just going for of a juxtaposition comment about the overly outwardly expressive Bremer to the more reserved expression of Rocco.)

My hopes are he stays or the Twins find a way to redo and extend his contract. Yeah, pie in the sky. I like pie, though. Despite that, you can’t always get what you want and I don’t think Correa will be a Twin next year. I’ll be eating that pie to console myself.

Neither did the Jays, so since we won that made us less less deserving than them ? … but as you said a win is a win and yay us!

Rocco doesn’t look unaware to me. At least he’s looking in the right direction and maybe was just was keeping his ‘Bremergasm’ controlled just in case. But look at the guy in the green shirt next to the guy in the black shirt with glasses. He must be a Jays fan.

He’s finally healthy. It makes a difference

He's finally healthy ... he's had a couple of bad years healthwise ... good to see him respond

Tell us how you really feel!

Okay ... a few things to agree with here and a few things to disagree with. First of all ... amusing with the assumptions ... I don't find that amusing, but I am one to not count the chicks before they hatch, so, yeah, I'm tempered, but still think it can be done, because of the division and what we've done to date. (But, tbh, there are LOTS of tempered comments on TD; I think many don't think it's a sure thing.). 'They haven't been playing like a first place team' ... which, I agree with in theory, yet, they are in first, despite all the things you say are and will be their downfall. The injuries, especially to our pitching staff, has really been the worst and I've said in other threads, the team's health could/will determine our playoff chances more than anything else. I'd be surprised if we see Ober or Winder up the rest of the season. And our BP ... Alcala, Coloumbe and Romero all on the 60-day, with Alcala for sure not returning (not sure of the status of the other two) ... that hurts us, a LOT. It's forced us to rely on pitchers we shouldn't be relying on. I, personally, don't think the 5-inning starts hurts as much as just not having the pen to counter it. I think these things are flip sides of the same coin ... either we need starters who can go longer, or we need a better pen to compensate. We've added two good arms, but without the ones on the 60-day IL, we are still short. Duran, López, Fulmer and Jax .... then who? The manager comments I'll just ignore because I don't think that's the issue. Whether or not Rocco is right for this job, he would be replaced with the same 'type' of manager, using analytics to help manage. It's just an easy finger point for those 'not into' that aspect of the game.

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Yeah, agree ... me thinks we are getting ahead of ourselves just a tad ...

Reading that, doesn't it make you wonder if Correa just might opt to stay? I mean, I really hope so, but it just doesn't seem possible.

Heh ... just mentioning that will bring in Ash and Chief to go on their usual roll with that

Yeah ... I don't think a return of 'been bad for' and 'has been putrid' along with a B prospect is getting anything for what we have and could play out the season with, whether in 1st or last place. My opinion is that's way worse than just letting him walk at season's end. But ... I get it ... not everyone agrees, so I think we'll just leave it there. Thanks for playing

Your sarcasm is noted.

He's already been added to the 40-man, so the decision becomes ... who gets sent down when he is activated. I think there are candidates for that.

I'm pretty sure it was the plan, but we had injuries pretty fast to the starting rotation which put Winder in, who I think would have been the natural piggy-back for Archer at the beginning ... but between injuries to our starters and our relievers, it just wasn't possible