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Ahhhh, Baaaach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYSG8AQO3tw

Get a Frenchie!!!! So cute!!! (Okay, that isn't really an informed opinion. Friends of mine have one, and she is adorable!)

Rail Baron! An Avalon Hill fav of mine! My circle of friends aren't really into board games, I mostly play when family comes to visit ... board and card games.

This is what I think the Russians wanted ... a **** show, confusion, no one really in charge ... and for what, I ask ... the answer to that is more than worrisome. There is an end game here, I feel, that no one seems concerned about because all the daily distractions and complete incompetence in Washington.

If it's a legit medical concern, I'd likely just drop the deal altogether. Guess it depends on what they think they know. Edit: haha ... I see others basically made the same comment ... note to self: read to end of thread first.

Heh ... I kinda like this one better ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w3u1kvxQvI

Hmm ... what did she find?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knp9-GY6fHE

Please continue discussion here: http://twinsdaily.com/topic/26831-article-twins-close-to-acquiring-lhp-jaime-garcia/ Thanks!

Stick to the topic without pointing accusing fingers and characterizing other posters. Please. Disagree all you want, but leave others' personalities or character out of it.

I think I heard kab say a few times 'competent' as in a 3 or 4 starter. That is different, at least in my opinion, from 'good.' I think Santana and Berrios are good; if Mejia keeps it up he might be above competent. If we could get another Mejia type (of recent Mejia), I think that's the kind of move the Twins should do now, for this season, above competent, because what we have had in the others isn't. I don't think that will cost us Gordon. And if it does, that's someone asking for too much and we don't go there. And I think we have a good combo in Rogers/Kintzler. I wouldn't write Duffey off either, if not over used. I think we should be finding better options than Breslow and Belisle. I don't think that's asking a lot either, and I don't think should cost the farm. These are the types of things I want the Twins to do this year. I don't think that's an overly positive direction, and I don't like it when people sell it as such. I think that's fairly modest and a fairly realistic approach. NO ONE knows what any outcome might be, no one. And I think it's a legitimate and valid opinion without a handful of people calling it otherwise because it's not what they would do or want to see done. We have a WINNING RECORD for once in a long time. Most all I think are pretty realistic as to what that means. Yes, some want to sell the farm. It's not an opinion I share. But I think for this year it is a far too conservative approach to do nothing. (And no, I realize you haven't said 'do nothing.') But I think jettisoning what has gotten us to this point will also not play well for the future. Ugh ... I'm just too tired of all of this discussion and side taking and accusations of what their opinions mean because people disagree.

This is what I want to do ... exactly this. Although I don't know how realistic it is to get that little and not have it hurt a lot into the future, but we need to somehow make a play without being 'all in.' We aren't in 'all in' mode, but we are in 'give it a shot' mode.

Wooohoooo ... chicken dinner ...

~~ ... a total eclipse of the heart ...~~ I really can't help it.

Every time I see this thread that Bonnie Tyler song pops into my head ...

Meh, I don't think you can make that conclusion from one game and comparing it only to one game. Maybe it boosted sales for that one game, as it was a novelty, but the novelty buyers won't buy for the next or the third ... if there is a third. And I don't think players are signed on their ability to sell tickets. I don't think that has a consistent result. Winning sells tickets consistently.

My opinion ... while I know that some RPs perform better under different situations, if a RP comes in at any time and can't shut it down, in more than a few opportunities to do so, the problem isn't when he was used.

Discuss the Rooker promotion here: http://twinsdaily.com/topic/26802-article-rooker-promoted-aggressive-or-no/

I read somewhere that that was his plan for his first ML bat ... to swing at the first pitch.

Well, crap.

First at bat, first ML pitch ever ...

Nah. I could see another trio co-opting that moniker. I have a batting helmet signed by Jones, Hunter and Stewart.

Is he wearing the same number he wore elsewhere? Sure it's a Twins jersey?

No, I don't.

I call him Chief.