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He needs to work on the home run to go with it.

Do they need the costumes? How about next time in Milwaukee Park and Plouffe just join the race.

Gave that lead back much more efficiently

Good to see Kepler do something. If he and Buxton can start hitting the season won't be completely wasted.

I didn't know that about the pitcher and I was still wondering.

He's definitely living on the edge, like he's done all year.

Good thing, because we were starting to fondly remember Jimbo's dissertation on the use of the word "irony." In the likely event I used or spelled dissertation incorrectly, I'm not caring in advance. (For the record, I liked the comment that defended Jimbo's grammar nazi post, and I'm really only playing here, too.)

Worked with my kids. The oldest took it a bit too far - he's a Yankees fan.

Posting at 2:14 AM - the insanity is striking in advance

I was at this game in 1986. Viola would have probably gone past 7 ER if he had been allowed to pitch long enough to get two outs. He turned out OK. (HR by Gagne off Clemens is probably still in orbit.) http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS198605200.shtml

To us, it meant the Twins needed better prospects. (Gibson was a decent prospect, not a great one). Fortunately, they got some. Unfortunately, they had to lose a lot of games to get into position to draft them.

That's what we do here. It's cheaper than seeing a therapist.

I'd think a couple of them might have some free time for a road trip.

I still don't like the rationale behind the trade, but the result hasn't been as painful as it could have been.

That was my recollection too. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have advocated for forcing him to legally change his name to Jim f****** Hoey if it was Brendon Harris.

Something doesn't look right. Did I sleep through the Twins winning 94 games last year?

It's fun to come here because no matter how crazy a fan you are there is someone here who is crazier. (Unless you're Seth)

Unless it's a minor league deal, free is too expensive.

Burn it! Burn it! Just kidding. I'd keep it too. But then I also have the program from Dave Goltz' 1-hitter against the Red Sox (complete with my scorekeeping) from the 70's ('76? It was the year he won 20. Twins won 7-0. Jim Rice got the hit in the 6th or 7th).

There are two girls in our Awana club at church that know I'm a Twins fan, and they are pretty proud of the fact that their uncle (or possibly cousin - I can't remember exactly) pitches for the Twins. I might be able to get you that autograph...

I've this before, so I'm just goi copy and When I was about 12 I got to go to a couple of games at Fenway with a friend of mine. We stayed at the same hotel as the visiting teams (my friend's family had some kind of partial season plan and they knew their way around).I bought a 3x5 spiral notebook and we just hung out in the lobby getting autographs. The Orioles were in town for the Sunday game (rained out - got to see Rick Dempsey do his routine on the tarp before they called it) and the Yankees came in for a Monday night game. Reggie came out, and of course he was mobbed. He excused himself after a minute or two (before we got to the front of the mob) and went into a restroom. I turned to my friend, said "I think I have to go' and followed him in. I took care of business, finished washing my hands about the same time as Reggie, then asked him if I could get his autograph. He said, "You don't even let a guy pee in peace, do you?" I don't know if I even answered, but he signed my book. I still have the darned thing, and it's amazing some of the names in it.Palmer, Weaver, D and T Martinez, Oscar Gamble, I think Catfish Hunter...I'm going to have to get that out again, because there were a lot more familiar names. I also got the autograph of some guy who turned out to be one of the trainers for the Orioles, but he looked like somebody and he was with somebody... OK, I dug it out. McGregor, Bumbry, Singleton, Ruppert Jones, Dempsey, and Tommy John were the other significant names. (No Catfish Hunter)

I'm not necessarily ready to concede that yet.

If he retired because of the stuff he read on TD, he needs to retire again. (If he even reads TD, he might want to think about retiring.)

Apparently that's just from July 31 to the end of the season (See post #31 on this thread)