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  1. Squirrel
    Yes ... they can't. I know they can't. It would be unprofessional. Still, I'm left ... just sad.
  2. Squirrel
    If the twins offered 10/360 it would have been competitive. 10/285 was not. It’s not about the years
  3. Squirrel
    Oh, come on ... and quite a bit short on the money. Seriously. And Correa is a better SS. It wasn't the years, it was the total dollar amount
  4. Squirrel
    Perhaps I’ve just cherry-picked your thoughtful response to this situation, but I keep coming back to these two points. They knew they had to keep it close, yet they were no where near close. And they knew Boras, where the highest bid wins (most of the time), yet we were so far from it. I get the disciplined part, too. But they were just so far off the mark. And yet we outsiders had a better sense of what it would take. Many here wouldn’t have gone that high, some would, but we all had a better sense than 285/10. We saw what other SS were paid both this and last off season. I have a difficult time accepting this is just a disciplined approach. I don’t doubt their sincerity in wanting to do a good job. I understand how it feels when outsiders judge your work when they have little to no understanding of what you do and how it all works. But how could they seriously not know they were so far off the mark? This leaves me, the fan, defeated and wondering if we will ever have a winning team again. We are left with development and trade as a means to an end, and it will never be enough in this environment. We may get lucky and one year just have that ‘special’ team, when it all just clicks, but that is too much hope. I’ll keep watching, sort of, but winning matters in the end. And disciplined is just not going to win.
  5. Squirrel
    Proven and consistent winning team, I should have said ... :)
  6. Squirrel
    A proven winning team.
  7. Squirrel

    Okay ... time to bring on the trades!

  8. Squirrel
    Whoa ... my small little table of collectibles couldn't handle that ...
  9. Squirrel
    Yes, yes, yes and YES!!!! Did I say yes? Yes! Yes!
  10. Squirrel
    Yep. We keep playing for the future, never for the now. For once I wanted to see the 'now' ... and for all these people saying 'Good, I'm glad' ... they'd better not complain about the SS in game threads this coming season ? We certainly could have matched the dollars, but chose not to. I'm glad we don't have a 13-yr contract, though, so ... disappointed but not overly surprised. Hope now they go all in and get one quality starter and two quality BP arms. And hope the infield can keep down the hits.
  11. Squirrel
    For once, I whole heartedly agree with you ?
  12. Squirrel
    Maybe. And in a few years. So we play the wait game that never comes on prospects. Playing for the future is what we’ve been doing the last 10 yrs. Goodie, we’ll keep doing that. It’s a winner, That said, 13 yrs is ridiculous and as disappointed as I am, I’m glad the Twins wouldn’t match that.
  13. Squirrel
    So, he prefers the Yankees ... does that mean if he doesn't go there, he's going to have a piss poor attitude a la Lance Lynne from a few years ago when he doesn't get what he wants? That said, he'll be going to the Yankees.
  14. Squirrel
    That is no longer an issue so I think we can now move on from this subject
  15. Squirrel
    That’s the bad part of this sport. I still miss Escobar. But for the right price, I’d trade anyone because that’s how it works ?
  16. Squirrel
    That was a previous management. We traded with them last year and it wasn’t that bad
  17. Squirrel
    We traded with them last year and it worked out okay
  18. Squirrel
    This was on TD's FB page ... "Hi friends. Earlier we briefly published (and quickly deleted) a story suggesting Luis Arraez had been traded to Miami. You probably didn't see it, but we still wanted to quickly explain and apologize. Our site policy is to write article "shells" for rumors we feel have legs, so we can quickly update and publish when news breaks to let people start discussing right away. In this case, when the Christian Vázquez signing broke, we accidentally published the wrong story, then corrected the error. The Arraez/Marlins rumors aren't exactly a secret, but we have no reason to believe such a trade is imminent or set to happen at all. Again, we apologize for the miscue and will make sure it doesn't happen again. Thank you!"
  19. Squirrel
    try living in downtown Chicago .,. I’m looking forward to returning to the Twin Cities and some room! ?
  20. Squirrel
    Oooh ... Christmas is coming ...
  21. Squirrel
    So excited!
  22. Squirrel
    All fair. But I think the Twins have shown they are willing to go out and get players. They made some trades last year that we were mostly all excited about ... until we weren't because of injuries. Imo, go in on Correa, trade for a SP that is as good or better than Mahle, get a better BP piece or two ... that's a good commitment to show Correa. But, if it's truly only about money, then he may take the deals with the other places ... we'll see how high it goes. I'm not worried about not spending more in FA as many others are here are angsty about (I do NOT want to go all in and above for Rodon, for example) ... but I do want to see some trading before I start whining about the off season.
  23. Squirrel
    I guess you and I look at rebuild differently. Imo, the team should always be looking to trade and acquire, no matter where they are. If you are rebuilding, you are trading off vets for prospects, when you are contending, you are trading off prospects for proven players, or trading proven players for better proven players. So, I don’t think what the Twins have done last year or this qualify as rebuild to me. That said, if Correa wants to avoid that, I think the Cubs are in a worse position as the Twins. And I also think he wants to make sure that the acquisitions made are to continue to contend vs selling off pieces for prospects for some future contention time years from now
  24. Squirrel
    I'm sorry, but Rogers was far from proven, imo. He had never been truly consistent and was coming off injuries. That's not to say I approved the trade (although I did at the time, if they had done more to then address the BP, that was always my concern). But Rogers, imo, was never a proven closer. And we are way better off than the Cubs are right now. So, it will be interesting, if the Cubs offer the most money and/or years, what he does.
  25. Squirrel
    Last minute is waiting until the day before the season starts. We are a long ways yet from it being last minute. And sometimes it's not the Twins waiting out the market, but the market waiting itself out
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