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  1. PopRiveter
    Sorry about your Dart, RB. Your tale of self-control and understanding is what I needed to hear to stop me from punching Brian Dozier in his handsome face. Him not producing over an over has to be harder on him than me.
  2. PopRiveter
    I want to punch Dozier is his handsome face.
  3. PopRiveter
    Hop out of the game for a conference call and come back to find a 4-0 deficit... ...and before I can hit "Post," Kinsler hits one out. Twins performances are constant and reassuring to Minnesotans, like a forest fire to a Californian, or the smell of trash to a Detroiter.
  4. PopRiveter
    ...and the no hitter, and the shut out. But, we can still hope for what I call the "Nolasco No No." That is to say, a no decision.
  5. PopRiveter
    so much for the perfect game.
  6. PopRiveter
    I've only gotten to talk water quality with Stew. Good guy. Good scorer. Dry sense of humor. A little too cat-friendly if you ask me, but you didn't. Why would you? Thanks for writing this. I enjoyed looking in on this part of the game.
  7. PopRiveter
    Looking back, I really envy that young man. What a dreamer I was.
  8. PopRiveter
    Yep
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    I've been trying to write a "Talkin Baseball" parody song called "Tonkin Baseball" but I'm struggling to find a rhyme to "Underperforming conservative expectations," so I'm hoping he can just sustain a little success so I can start the line differently.
  10. PopRiveter
    I'm watching it on the FSN Go App.
  11. PopRiveter
    Nice play Park!
  12. PopRiveter
    For my dollar, Dozier has been the single most disappointing player on this team this year.
  13. PopRiveter
    You jerks are going to make me run out of "Likes" and have to leave the thread.
  14. PopRiveter
    I sure wish we hadn't given him that lengthy extension immediately following the 5th. Who am I kidding. Those were 8 quality pitches. I'm going to still believe.
  15. PopRiveter
    for those of you listening, a handsome woman sports a fanny pack full of headsets...
  16. PopRiveter
    I'm thinking of turning into a cricket fan.
  17. PopRiveter
    A little slight-of-hand by the bullpen and we may be able to ride this 3 run deficit all the way into the ninth!
  18. PopRiveter
    That run put us right where we want to be. Down by only three runs. We are really good at being down by three runs this year.
  19. PopRiveter
    That's not the Twins Way. Who's this clown think he is?
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    Sooooooooo... disabled list? If he insists he's healthy, I'd willingly grab hold of an arm and twist.
  22. PopRiveter
    and Hughes reminds us who we're watching again, again, again
  23. PopRiveter
    They're giving him big league chances each time he starts to show he deserves a look... ...and he poos the bed. Not yet a starter. Not yet a reliever. I don't blame the Twins one bit for how he's used. If he was successful at this level, you could say they're jerking him around, but they're just trying to give him shots and he's blown them all.
  24. PopRiveter
    Twins relief pitchers AL ranking: strikeout rate: 4th (9.67/9) WHIP: 15th (worst-1.44) Wild Pitches: First (worst-11) Innings: 2nd (85.2) ERA: 8th (3.26) All in all, I see a bp that is getting middle-of-the-pack results, despite heavy use. They are inducing a lot of strikeouts, but it is coming alongside more walks and hits than you want to see. This unit is actually outperforming my expectations, but their failings are so stark and obvious when paired with the stagnant offense. That's the part I didn't see coming.
  25. PopRiveter
    I like this approach. It definitely allows for some subjectivity, but I think it tells a valuable part of the story. In this view, a sort-of-clunker appearance and a mega-clunker appearance are equals. Long-term, you'd have to establish rules for a successful/unsuccessful appearance and you'd, of course, have to be ready for all sorts of arguing about why the rules are wrong. subjective or not, i think this is a cool exercise... ...and I think we'd all be less concerned about this bullpen if the offense was doing its job. 3.4 runs per game has put the pitching staff in an impossible spot.
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