kielty4life

Well 2008 was the big one I had a problem with. Additionally, there were a couple seasons in recent years where we actually played OK until the AS Game, only to completely collapse in the 2nd half (and I realize we were not contenders in those years). I'm hoping our guys don't quit on Molitor. It became a staple of the Gardy regime....a quitting team. Good riddance. I have some hope Molitor can keep things together in August and September. Once a Gardy team ran into tough times, the entire thing folded. And that had a lot to do with the manager. That's a big reason why he was FINALLY put to rest.

A lot of people like my post.

It's never a good idea to trade your #1 position prospect for a "proven closer" or any other reliever. That's what I'm going on. Then they lied that Capps had a role in making the playoffs in 2010. Capps had nothing to do with us making the playoffs. We made it by like 7 games or something. It was a horrible trade at the time and just as horrible now. I don't care how it panned out. It was never going to be a good trade and I knew that. Even if we won the WS in 2010, it was a bad trade because Capps was not any better than Rauch. And we win the division easily with Rauch or anyone else closing games in 2010 anyway.

Mackey and Judd hit on some good points today. The frustrating part is Mackey can’t make up his mind if he’s pro-TR or anti-TR. He alternates days. It’s actually Judd that made the good points today, and Mackey couldn’t argue against him because there are no logical arguments against what he was saying. Judd says it’s a self-awareness problem with the Twinis front office. They look at the Blaine Boyer signing and think "that wasn’t so bad. We did pretty well with that." Instead they should be looking at it and saying, "we can’t keep doing this to ourselves." They probably still look at the Stauffer signing as a success because it could have worked out. That’s also how they look at the Capps/Ramos trade. "It could have worked. Would have done it again." There’s zero accountability. They sure aren’t holding themselves accountable. They keep doing the same crap over and over again. There’s no way they can learn from their mistakes if they don’t think they’re mistakes.

Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story.

I don't remember the last time this team finished strong. Maybe I do - there was a short 2 or 3 year stretch where Gardy's teams had some nice Septembers to get them into the playoffs. But assuming this is gonna be another one of those years where we stumble to the finish, that has to be about 8 years in a row we've struggled down the stretch. Even in 2010, which was a playoff year, I seem to remember struggles in late September. It's barely August and it already feels like we're playing out the string. I'm not sure what it is with this organization that they can't finish out a season.