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  1. Squirrel
    says one who should have no mind or body left
  2. Squirrel
    I do. Remember it well
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    We see bodies stretched to their limits … how fast they run, how hard they throw … it’s got give in some way?
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    I’m actually more concerned with who goes. I guess it’s sort of the same thing, as it’s all connected. This could really hurt depending on who and how many are out and who the replacements will be. But it’s not like they didn’t know they’d have to plan for this eventuality. But with so many on the IL as it is, I really wonder what the team is going to look like
  6. Squirrel
    Considering the number of players already on the IL for various reasons, the roster is a conversation, How many is a handful? How this impacts the roster? These are legitimate questions.
  7. Squirrel
    How many is a ‘handful’? Is there anyone left in St. Paul to bring up for the trip? As a reminder, whatever your personal feelings on covid and vaccinations, these are the rules of customs and immigration of another country. MLB has to work within that framework. Discuss the roster crunch, not covid and vaccinations, please.
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    Not anymore since I edited your post and changed it back to the default font
  9. Squirrel
    lol ... I would still rather watch a game there than at Wrigley. Wrigley might be the iconic stadium in town, and certainly is a must see/experience, but unless you have very specific seats, it's a terrible, terrible place to watch a game with all its partial view or obstructed view seats, not to mention, more difficult to navigate to/from/into, higher crime in the area, more expensive. Impressive, though, you've been to them all! (once your re-checked the Rangers stadium off your list.)
  10. Squirrel
    Stop it, both of you. Stick to the topic and off one another.
  11. Squirrel
    If Alacala and Canterino can add to the mix positively, that will be just like making a trade!
  12. Squirrel
    It was mentioned in one of the Twins Minor League reports. I don't think anyone brought it up here, but there is a transaction page for minor leaguers, too, in the Minor League forum. (And no one mentioned it there, either, so I moved your comment to that transaction thread. )
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    I voted ‘something else’, meaning my answer is ‘yes’. The whole team surprises me. I thought we were going to have another dreadful season and for all the reasons mentioned, and a few more, it hasn’t been dreadful. We may not win the WS this year, but I don’t put it completely out of the scope of possibilities. But the team is much more fun to follow for a host of reasons.
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    I don’t know for certain or not if Donaldson was a negative on the team chemistry. Possibly. He could have been part of the whole with that. Sometimes players and personalities just don’t blend. It’s interesting to see the turn around this year. Kepler commented that they just didn’t blend last year, they weren’t a team, just a bunch of individuals, but I’ve not heard a single report specifically pointing to Donaldson as the cause. Just a lot of scapegoating from Twins Daily, imo. At the time I liked the signing. Without any hindsight applied, I still like the signing. The Twins showed a commitment to signing a big name. We needed better defense at third and we needed a bat to replace the bats that were leaving after 2019. We needed more fire and personality. I thought the Twins were making a commitment to better the team. I still think that, even though it didn’t work out as hoped. Of course, in HINDSIGHT, it didn’t work out the way I think anyone hoped for various reasons. Part of that wasn’t Donaldson’s fault, because pitching didn’t do us any favors. If I knew all of that before, no I don’t sign him, then what? No way to know for certain if we’d be better off today or not. We got good pieces in return so it wasn’t a total loss. So, maybe there was something worthwhile. But I don’t think it was the worst signing ever. Far from that, even though it didn’t work out as hoped.
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    That’s not what happened. He had words with the pitcher regarding sticky stuff. It was just after the league cracked down, and we all know how vocal Donaldson was before then, and Donaldson did a kind of a ‘See, I told you so’ that led to his being tossed. Not condoning it, just clarifying it
  16. Squirrel
    I ate mine before the game started. I think there’s something to the win we had.
  17. Squirrel
    Who said this was a science-y thing? I didn't.
  18. Squirrel
    I'm testing a theory ... I'll tell you all what it is after the game, if we've won
  19. Squirrel
    These threads are for baseball discussion. I live downtown Chicago and understand what some of you are saying why you won't attend games. But let's leave it at that. If you want to have a more in depth discussion on social issues, police justice, riots, urban centers, the media's role ... please visit our Current Affairs club and have that discussion there. But leave these forums to baseball. It has been proven time and time and time again that we cannot remain civil when delving into these complicated issues and we end up with the train far off the tracks in a heap, spilling each others' proverbial blood along the way over our differences of opinion on these issues. These forums exist for baseball. Let's leave it at that.
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    I'm not sure who would be worth more in a trade, it's about what we would get back. There is a difference there that I think you may be forgetting. What Correa is worth isn't necessarily what we would get in return and probably wouldn't even get close to that for so many reasons. But, for the Twins, the SS we have is most definitely more valuable to keep on the team.
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    I don't think anyone has said that we wouldn't even listen to offers, because of course they will. They will listen to offers on every player on the team. But I don't think the expectation of return is as great as anyone thinks. Remember the Santana trade? They traded him to a team who wanted to sign him long-term. And we really got nothing in return. Oh sure, a couple of years of Carlos Gomez and prospects that did nothing. The lesson in that debacle was that Santana would have been more valuable to us to have him on the team one more year and let him walk than giving him up for what we got. I think the argument against trading Correa (at least its my argument) is that he is more valuable to the team now, play for the Twins, and will be if we stay positioned to make the playoffs, than he would in a trade. If we are out of contention, yes, that becomes a different discussion. Then it becomes 'What can we get and how low should we sell?'
  22. Squirrel
    We had this discussion in the Twins Talk forum a week or so ago. If anyone wants to catch up with that discussion, here's the link:
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    Despite the fact that this writer opened this article mentioning Donaldson’s altercation with Anderson, this article is about the trade and where we are now with it. This is not a discussion about whether or not Donaldson’s comments were racist. So let’s move away from that because we cannot seem to have a discussion about that without getting overly defensive and snipey with one another. Those comments will be removed going forward as you’ve all said your piece on that. Back to the trade. i was upset when Donaldson was traded, and for whom, and that it wasn’t just Donaldson but our newly acquired SS AND our catching depth. I thought this was another one-sided, horrible trade and the Yankees just found another way to beat us. But at this point in the season I’m saying ‘Donaldson who?’ I’ve always liked Donaldson as the player and always wanted him on the team for a lot of the reasons mentioned here. But that was more the Donaldson that went from Oakland to the Jays, and that’s not who he is anymore. And I think he wasn’t fairly judged or reported on by a large portion of the writers here. That said, looking back where we are right now in the season, I’m really good with the trade. I like having Correa and Urshela on the left side of the infield over K-F and Donaldson. Both Urshela and Sanchez have performed better than my expectations. But the only part of the trade that still niggles at me and that was losing Rortvedt.
  24. Squirrel
    Eh, can’t win them all
  25. Squirrel
    If you lived in town would you be there? I think the people on this thread probably (mostly) all live elsewhere ... or are commenting from their work computers, as I am
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