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Lineups are posted in the main article ...

Let me introduce you to some people ... snark and sarcasm.

Finally! Yay!

http://twinsdaily.com/topic/25883-article-jo-20-will-adjustments-pay-off-for-berrios/

All I can say is ... there just wasn't enough booze for me to forget this moment.

I like threads that start with the word 'Behold' ... it means I have something to look forward to reading, and I did.

If it was a trap, you knowingly set it ... and that you actually know enough to tell him he fell into it ... which means you really knew the last name ... which means ... now everyone knows you like Garfield! Ha!

It was his 1000th post. But he posted since then so his avatar updates in each of his posts to his current number.

Yes, I'm sure they feel that the FO is doing everything possible to augment the problem.

He's yours. Take a look at some of the other prospect threads to get the gist. If you have any questions, you can ask me, goulik or AshburyJohn. But I'll mark him down as yours ... go to it!

Glad to have you aboard. And yes, that ignore feature can come in handy from time to time. If you are into the minor leaguers, check out the Adopt-a-Prospect forum. Perhaps once you get into posting and participating more, you might want to consider contributing to this forum. And as always, one of the best ways to 'hit the ground running' at this site is to join in on a game thread or two (or three or four). For someone like me who is out of market, it can feel a bit like I'm at the local watering hole watching the games with the crew. Discussion can go far astray of topic, but it usually swerves in and out, and of course there is plenty of cheering or cursing depending on the play at hand. So just jump in, anytime.

Since the game wasn't on I was able to finish my binge watch of 'Grace and Frankie.' Best. Show. Ever. (after the original Dick Van Dyke Show.) Can't wait for Season 4.

I called it (like that was difficult to do, given the current weather here and what the radar says)

I'm pretty much this way, too, re flying. Although less about the TSA drill itself than the masses who don't know the TSA drill and hold up the lines with their unintentional non-compliance. And I used to routinely take the train between Chicago and Minnesota (Winona) when my parents still lived there. Was great. Yeah, was a little longer than driving, but it was nice to be able to sit back and relax and let someone else do the driving, and dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer.

I still don't think this game will be played tonight. Either a double header tomorrow, or later in the season when the Twins are here again. Although ... maybe it will just go unplayed if it doesn't matter.

The White Sox seem more optimistic than me, as this was posted: Melky Cabrera LF Tyler Saladino 2B Jose Abreu 1B Avisail Garcia RF Todd Frazier DH Matt Davidson 3B Tim Anderson SS Omar Narvaez C Leury Garcia CF

It's raining here in ChiTown. Looks like there might be a break in the rain late afternoon, but by game time, more rain through the night. My guess? Double-header tomorrow ... stay tuned ...

ugh.

As I've said to many people many times ... it's one thing to mention a tangent or player as an example to the larger point; it's another to go off on the tangent and redirect the subject of the thread. That's what we try to do to keep things to topic and help facilitate discussion. At some point in the thread, when the subject itself has been hashed and nothing more can be said that hasn't already been said, yeah, I don't really care. People are going to mention Hicks for various reasons, but that doesn't mean that it's an open invitation to take the tangent and run with it. Yes, it is a subjective thing of when 'tangent running' is okay, but early on in a thread is definitely not the place for it. We don't want to have every thread devolve into the same topic. It happens frequently, for instance, with the mention of the FO. Yes, the FO is involved in most every topic discussed and I can understand when that gets mentioned in most threads ... but that doesn't mean we need to take every topic we discuss and turn it into a FO discussion. As to your other point of the game threads, yeah, the 1st time was funny; the 2nd time, yeah, still room for a 'heh,' the third time, 'eyeroll, whatever,' the 4th time ... 'Dave, man, come on ... you've ruined your own joke.' Many of us don't know when to let a good joke go, and timing is everything, but there is a point where it becomes too much. Yeah, Hicks has kind of become your 'schtick' ... and okay, I get the 'all in fun thing,' sort of ... but too much of it and we just start getting complaints of trolling, and the 'all in fun' goes out the window for most. So, I appreciate that you've backed away from this particular schtick and are letting it rest. But the next schtick of yours that comes up, keep this in mind - too much of a good thing is just too much.

Never knew this about O'Hare ... and I fly through there all the time, and from Terminal 3, too, since I mostly fly on American.

Let's stay on topic, please, and not take unnecessary 'digs' at anyone ... players, managers/coaches, addicts, alcoholics or frat boys. We can have this discussion about Matt Harvey, even bringing into it other players with similar issues, without taking unnecessary pot shots. I know some have less sympathy than others with issues of substance abuse, but try not to make that the tangent of discussion. If you want that to be the discussion, start a thread in the Sport Bar.

Especially since it's a ball and not a strike!

I liked Jerr's answer better.

Indeed. <hic>

Yes