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  1. Fritzderkat
    I recommend the Sports Illustrated profile on Joe Ryan. This fella is a different breed of cat.
  2. Fritzderkat
    Here's a plug for Josh Donaldson. Not too many others in the bigs who play so hard.
  3. Fritzderkat
    Here's mine to Hector, one of the classiest professional athletes I've ever had the good fortune to follow, that principally being his time here with the Twins, which provided the opportunity we'd otherwise seen from only afar. I've been following this team for 20 years, and few other Twins if any in that time have shown his commitment and effort. Best of luck tomorrow and beyond, Hector. You're a credit to the game.
  4. Fritzderkat
    Stupid article. If Donaldson is most unlikable, who among them is dearly loved? I'd say La Tortuga has the inside track.
  5. Fritzderkat
    What if Sano were to keep hitting 'em out? What if Buxton were to come back strong? (See what small vestiges of hope will do to a guy around here?)
  6. Fritzderkat
    What might you have one do? I've followed this team for 20 years and consistently have been nothing but disappointed. Why do I follow? Because they're all that is here. We used to have the Saints at least, but now the Twins have screwed that up, too. The Saints had better rosters when they were in the sticks league.
  7. Fritzderkat
    Lots of bellyaching today, all of it justifiable.
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    I'm for La Tortuga. One of the few bright spots on the team. (Quiz: Name another. No one on the DL counts.)
  9. Fritzderkat
    Over time time and again they've earned the reputation That's why they call them the Twinks
  10. Fritzderkat
    And thus they are known as the Twinks..
  11. Fritzderkat
    Way, way too loud for old folks and babies. In fact I doubt if anyone would miss it if they just cut it out. Same goes for the organ. Since it goes back to antiquity in baseball lore, I would support the between-inning organ breaks, but I really wish she'd play some new riffs. Anything, actually, than the ones she plays now.
  12. Fritzderkat
    All of these comments are helpful. Somehow in my dotage I forget that everything is relative. Beauchamp puts it very well. The only things missing are domed stadiums and artificial turf.
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    Wahl, now that there seems to be agreement on several reasons for the home run surge, how 'bout answering my other question: What is this doing to the integrity of the game? For reference, in the good old days, sluggers had to earn their swats and dink hitters were dink hitters. How is it reasonably possible to contrast stats set today with, say, stats set in the '40s and '50s? It's not, from and practical standpoint, so it's silly for the leaguesteams and sports media to keep running with it. A record every week, possibly on any given night. Stand by! Tape at 11
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    It's hard not to keep talking about the Twins being on a pace to shatter the team record for HRs, but we're also on pace to top the team record for doubles, set back in 2002. (record 348, current pace 354) The biggest thing that's going to stop this team from knocking off that record is the fact that we hit so many HRs! (btw, the 2002 Twins squad? hit 167 HRs for the year. the 2019 team might clear that by the all-star break!) I'm sure I'm way late on this, but I've been ill. How many here are convinced that the home run totals are rather totally a result of MLB screwing with the ball because normally no team hits four in one game with any sort of regularity, hardly ever, and secondly because a lot of these guy with 10-15 HR would at this point in the season normally be expected to have around 2, maybe 3 to 5. It is what it is, I realize, but am I one of only a few who care about the integrity of the game?
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    Don't you think it's a tad premature to be deciding the 40 man roster even before Rocco has a chance to see with his own eyes what he's got? Or not?
  17. Fritzderkat
    Agreed. He should have a niche in the Hall strictly for what he accomplished prior to his injuries..
  18. Fritzderkat
    So, generally disregarded here, what if Falvey and Levine like Gimenez so much, ostensibly for his "leadership", what's to make you think that maybe they intend to keep him around, if not as a coach, how 'bout as manager? I don't know who's "led" the Twins since Torri Hunter. There were times when it seemed like Dozier, and among all of them Escobar seemed to me as the steadiest, most positive guy on the roster. Belisle? Can't personally say I ever saw anything about leadership coming out of him, but then we weren't sitting next to him in the bullpen every day, were we? For all we know, Falvey and Levine like Belisle just as much as Gimenez and maybe for the same reasons.
  19. Fritzderkat
    Okay. How 'bout we put him in the top six?
  20. Fritzderkat
    Joe's earned his place here, I'd say. When you add them all up years from now and ask who were the great ones, he'll be among the Twins top five. How much more do you want out of a guy?
  21. Fritzderkat
    Best of luck, Bobby.
  22. Fritzderkat
    I went on record on this about a week ago, reading the comments and remarking on the fact there are so many fans who are easily persuaded it's time for Joe to go. I like a comment above that says he's still one of the two-best players on the current 25-man roster, and in my opinion if you measure his stature and positives over the length of his career (who's the other?), he's as good as the Twins have ever produced; indeed, a franchise icon: Killebrew, Oliva, Carew, Puckett, possibly Johann Santana. Who else do you have? Meantime, you can nickel and dime over who you have better to play first base next year, or second, for that matter.
  23. Fritzderkat
    And who's to say anyone ever knew that Mauer, principally due to injuries it appears, would not provide full value through the entire contract? He was, before that, a three-time batting champ, MVP, has a career BA of .306, and holds a career WAR of 54.7, which still ranks him 10th among all MLB players. Who else among Twins has stats that even come close? And yet most people here seem overly anxious to push him out the door.
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