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  1. Yoke
    Thorpe doesn't seem super jazzed about the whole thing on Twitter.
  2. Yoke
    Should have let my high school buddies work more concession stand dates. Wouldn't have had as many leftovers We worked one game and a guy walked out with 9. Ate them all. We became familiar with local gas stations on the way home.
  3. Yoke
    That was what I was nervous about, but I don't have a contract with Spectrum, so it worked out best case scenario. I was researching all of the different streaming services when we were going to get rid of Sling, and they were either cheap, or had what I wanted, and there wasn't much in the middle of the Venn diagram. I would use the whole year either way, though, since the two main things I watch are the Twins and the Wild.
  4. Yoke
    I just switched from Sling back to cable, since it ended up being about the same price to get cable and internet vs. Sling and internet (plus a better channel lineup). I don't get why the RSN's are such a pain in the ass, but the streaming services just aren't as great as they once were, IMO. When I first got Vue, it was cheaper and had all the channels someone would want. Then they got rid of 10 channels and raised the prices. Switched to Sling and they raised the prices, then got rid of FSN.
  5. Yoke
    Here are his Twins specific rankings: https://theathletic.com/1615856/2020/02/27/keith-laws-prospect-rankings-minnesota-twins/
  6. Yoke
    I'd watch any lineup at this point. I just want to watch baseball with the curtains closed, and pretend the grass outside my house is as green as the grass on the field.
  7. Yoke
    I don't think it should have happened, but I'm not stunned it did. A GM always wants to have their guy in there as the head coach. Bruce might have had a couple questionable player usage things IMO (make some adjustments to OT and PP units), but he isn't why the team struggles. Sieve goaltending is probably the main one.
  8. Yoke
    Quite a ballsy time to get arrested.
  9. Yoke
    I kind of got that feeling, too. It seemed like the more he was in trade talks, the further down his game went. I imagine it's really hard to not avoid that kind of thing, though. Tough to keep your head in the game when you could be moving a thousand miles away. I read that they will still be around in the summer, so that's good. They do a lot for the area. Hopefully Galchenyuk can help the Wild out for the rest of the season. If they aren't going to tank, I hope they get up to the first Wild Card spot, and play someone from the Pacific. I like their odds vs. that division better.
  10. Yoke
    I think they should get rid of the National League and American League, and just have one big league. Top 12 teams make the playoffs (same format as the current playoffs). Next 8 teams make a single elim tournament for an additional first round draft pick. I don't know what number pick you'd make it. Maybe that'd lead to less tanking. Then you're either building for the playoffs, or building to try to get another draft pick. Fewer teams trying to finish in the bottom 3rd of the league.
  11. Yoke
    Doesn't look like anyone posts in here anymore, but it's worth a shot I think the trade works out pretty even for both teams. Wild got a good pick and a good prospect (and Galchenyuk can be gone after the season). Zucker will do well as a complimentary player in Pittsburgh. @OhHiTony on Twitter posted that if the picks stayed as they are right now, it would be as many top 40 picks as they've had (combined) since 2016.
  12. Yoke
    I'd like to have some of the older guys get together and have half hour shows that run throughout the season where they tell old stories. Just three or four guys around a table shooting the ****. Put out a new one couple weeks. Then, we get cool old timer stories, and we also don't have to weed through a 3.5 hour game to get that one that will make us laugh.
  13. Yoke
    Only paper coupons you can print off their Geocities website.
  14. Yoke
    Barry is a friend I follow on Twitter, but I have him on mute so I don't have to actually see what he says.
  15. Yoke
    I think he'll be good insurance to have at AAA for if Sano gets hurt. Miguel is usually good for an injury or two during the season, so having Rooker around to come up would be nice. If he comes up, he can find some things to work on when he goes back down. Later in the season he could be a good 26th man, then, and it hurts me on the inside to say this, Astudillo can go to AAA.
  16. Yoke
    It's a really odd thing with baseball, where a lot of analysts and commentators are older guys that don't seem to enjoy the way the game is played now. And they make that very clear every time they talk about the game. So you watch a game and the older guy (like Bert or Morris) will bag on the players. Same thing for some national games, and I'm sure it happens on other local broadcasts. Three and a half hours of someone telling you that what you're watching sucks. Then they wonder why fewer people are watching. Would you go to a restaurant after watching a food network show, and the guys says "this broth tastes like curb water"?
  17. Yoke
    It will be interesting to see how all of the prospects move up and into the majors over the next few years, with the way all of the starters are signed to contracts for a couple more years. Either the guys on the team now will be moved for more pieces and these guys end up on the Twins, or the guys in the prospect pool could be traded for stronger pieces. Good problem to have, I suppose.
  18. Yoke
    I like Bremer. I think the newer color guys have helped him, too. Him and Bert start to get a little to much on schtick, and it gets old. The only thing good about Bert or Morris doing games is that I can catch up on podcasts while they're on, since I've got to turn the volume down. Smalley and Morneau do a good job. It'd be nice to get Perkins or Plouffe in there as well, as someone mentioned earlier.
  19. Yoke
    It's like reading the previews for the next five Sportive podcasts, including the dates.
  20. Yoke
    Should be good enough as the backup catcher. Let him play vs. right hand pitchers and it'll be alright. If Garver gets hurt and Avila is the starter for a while, I won't be real jazzed up.
  21. Yoke
    I feel like I should get back into it. We watched season one, then stopped a couple episodes into season two.
  22. Yoke
    ....oh goodness, no.
  23. Yoke
    Dan Hayes wrote: "One industry source said Jeffers is already a top-15 pitch framer in all of professional baseball and that the Twins envision a combination of him and Garver behind the plate over the next few seasons." Seems like they could start splitting time sooner rather than later. Article: (have to be subscribed to The Athletic) https://theathletic.com/1387576/2019/11/18/twins-notes-gm-meetings-jake-odorizzi-mitch-garver-free-agents-coaching-staff/
  24. Yoke
    Maybe I didn't explain the whole thing properly. You can call up the whole 40 man roster, like you've been able to do every year for lord knows how long. So you've got 40 guys in the locker room that day, and a couple hours before the game you have to hand in the 26 that are going to be on the game roster for that given night. So your question "how do you keep the minor league players game ready?", the answer is that you put them on the game roster a few times between the end of the AAA season and the end of the MLB regular season, and they play in the game. Hopefully that makes more sense.
  25. Yoke
    I would have preferred September stayed the same way as the regular season (with the 26 it'll be for next season), but you can call up anyone from your 40 man roster. Before the game you have to set your 26 man roster, and some guys are healthy scratches (like hockey does). Mostly what'd happen is they'd healthy scratch the 4 SP's that wouldn't pitch for 4 RP, but you could call up 6 RP and rotate them in and out. You could also do the same with hitters. If you need more lefty hitters one day, you healthy scratch a couple righty hitters, and so on.
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