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  1. wsnydes
    Nor I. I was just using it as an example of something that drives people nuts.
  2. wsnydes
    Taking first pitch strikes certainly trumps almost anything A-rod has done. Is some flack deserved? Sure. Does any of it make him the most hated player in the game? I think not. That was the argument, not that Mauer is void of fault or flack.
  3. wsnydes
    In high school, my canoe party landed on the wrong island in a lake in the BWCA believing we were on the US side. A friendly Mountie notified us of the er of our navigation and was very kind in escorting us back to the correct side of the border.
  4. wsnydes
    Not if you can't get the suitcase closed...
  5. wsnydes
    Correct, my timeline was off. Thanks for the correction. I've amended my original post. The opening of the new ballpark is a worse time than securing funding. It doesn't really change my statement though. The team still would have been crucified if he were to walk. I do agree that a more aggressive approach by TR to extend him would have been a better approach. It never should have gotten to ST of his walk year. That gave Mauer more leverage even without the MVP season.
  6. wsnydes
    Let's not also forget that Mauer's new deal was negotiated around the time that the team was having a funding bill being signed for a shiny new ballpark. This team would have been crucified if they let the hometown boy walk when they were using the "we need the ballpark to keep players like Joe" excuse and he was coming off of an MVP season. Edit: my timeline is off...The deal was negotiated as Target Field was set to open, which would make him walking look even worse in my view.
  7. wsnydes
    Were you calling for a pay increase when he was putting up MVP numbers making $10.5M a year? This notion is laughable. Salary means nothing on the field.
  8. wsnydes
    During the Morneau years, I had no problem with him in the 3 hole. There's a reason Morneau put up monster RBI tallies in those years - the guy hitting in front of him was on base 40%-45% of the time. How the rest of the roster is constructed is out of his control and certainly not his issue. With no true #2, #3, or #4 hitting in the lineup for the last handful of years, there's only so much that could be done. That lies on the FO and to perhaps a far lesser degree on the manager. Even today, I realize that he isn't a 3 hitter but I don't know where to put him and I certainly don't know who to put in the 3 hole in his stead. Again, that's not on Joe. I've always enjoyed watching him hit. I don't stop whatever I'm doing during his plate appearances like I used to, but I still enjoy watching the swing. I think he's a borderline HOF player who will be on the ballot all 10 years.
  9. wsnydes
    Well that was a fun game while it lasted.
  10. wsnydes
    You say that as if that picture is of you...
  11. wsnydes
    Probably drive across the lake on a layer of mosquitos in July.
  12. wsnydes
    Being the gateway to the Boundary Waters will do that.
  13. wsnydes
    I'm jealous. Been a while since I've been to Ely. We usually head up the north shore and tool around there. My wife won't camp, so that's as close as I get much of the time. It's always hard to come home from up there.
  14. wsnydes
    Seriously, what was that?!
  15. wsnydes
    God's country. That's what I call it.
  16. wsnydes
    Figures. Thank you Danny. Way to go Dozier!
  17. wsnydes
    12 of 21 steals with his speed is criminally putrid. Watch some tape boy! And he gets thrown out...right on cue.
  18. wsnydes
    Needs to change his pregame meal to square pizza or turkey gravy.
  19. wsnydes
    That was an ok toss, if you like that sort of thing. Which I do.
  20. wsnydes
    To keep you on the dance floor for laughs or to get you off of it to save an ounce of what was left of your dignity?
  21. wsnydes
    It's been raining in Apple Valley since about 7 and it doesn't look like it's rained a bit downtown.
  22. wsnydes
    Anyone dissing square pizza spends a night on the box.
  23. wsnydes
    No Neil Young? Even I'm offended.
  24. wsnydes
    Until you realize that Molitor won't play any of them.
  25. wsnydes
    I'm on mobile... It also appears that I was the only one paying attention or understood, so I should get some credit!
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