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  1. nicksaviking
    Please advise: which current pitcher loses a rotation spot to the guy who's heater tops out at 88 MPH?
  2. nicksaviking
    True, it's possible he was talking about Eddie Matthews.
  3. nicksaviking
    Did it end up at a thrift store? Pretty sure that's where the Pohlad's get the team apparel.
  4. nicksaviking
    He doesn't need to sweat it, Gladden just credited Matthews with giving up the HR to Perez. Okert's off the hook.
  5. nicksaviking
    Sounds like a good idea in any case.
  6. nicksaviking
    Poor timing on that one. sounds like we got playoff Kep instead. To be fair, I'm only listening to Gladden, maybe it was a double in any case?
  7. nicksaviking
    "Thank you sir, may I have another?"
  8. nicksaviking
    Sure. Lewis, Wallner, Miranda, Larnach and Castro are all worse than Kepler. Cut the cord on the sentimentality, it leads to treading water, not progress. Longevity does not equal superiority.
  9. nicksaviking
    Agreed, he's throwing low 90s and doesn't miss bats, I figured he turned himself into a smoke-and-mirror sinker guy, but looking at the pitch values, looks like he did something to his curve to make it deadly? But there's a reason that curveballs have become a bit passe; once the book is out on a pitch that basically just breaks vertically, the dam will come crashing down. Ask Tyler Duffey.
  10. nicksaviking
    People decide to go to games based on whether or not Max Kepler is playing? Unless his family is in town, I doubt there's ever been a fan who's done that. And if the impetus is putting fans in the stands, not winning a championship, they might as well sign Tony Oliva, Kent Hrbek and Rod Carew because they actually would sell some tickets. At the expense of winning games.
  11. nicksaviking
    You're speaking for all fans now? I missed the vote. Long time vets are a nice comforting blanket to stoke nostalgia and sentimentality. At this point, I'm sentimental for championships, not the players though. Once we get a championship here, then I'll be nostalgic for the players, like I am with Tom Brunanski, Greg Gagne and Chili Davis. Until then, Kepler has had plenty of chances to carry this team through the post season but hasn't, try someone else.
  12. nicksaviking
    Does a full repair take him out for the season? I was thinking it was only a couple months.
  13. nicksaviking
    Of course he is. Bad news, but honestly it probably doesn't change much. They were likely going to use kid gloves with him anyway. Surgery sounds scary, but this one typically isn't that bad. Unless it's a bad tear, he'll probably be back early into the season.
  14. nicksaviking
    There hasn't been a four team playoff in 30 years. Seems like just yesterday to me too, but baseball played in those days was a completely different game than it is now.
  15. nicksaviking
    Kiriloff is on the 60-day-IL, he won't impact this decision. There's lots of options I don't mind cutting, but if Blewitt is on the roster for a full four game series that included a double header and he still doesn't get used why is he on the team to begin with with?
  16. nicksaviking
    Based on the article photo, the most impressive thing about Matthews is that he has top end precision while throwing with his eyes closed! Maybe he's the offspring of Daredevil and Hawkeye?
  17. nicksaviking
    Obviously they are all a gamble, but the more bets you are able to place, the more likely one of them will payout.
  18. nicksaviking
    Close to AARP eligibility?
  19. nicksaviking
    Not looking forward to Blewett, but honestly, I'd rather FIND the Jay Jacksons and Justin Topas rather than trade for them or sign them after their unexpected fluke season. He looks pretty much the same as those two.
  20. nicksaviking
    The crow population is going to be put on the endangered species list after our TD community is finished.
  21. nicksaviking
    Still, winners shop on 5th Avenue, losers shop at K-Mart, and we all know the Twins would have been browsing Blue Light Specials even if they were going to be buyers.
  22. nicksaviking
    Dang, I wish I would have thought to ask. Or at least thought to ask if he'd prefer I pay him in non-perishable canned goods instead of actual money.
  23. nicksaviking
    I'll take Dobnak over my Uber driver last weekend. Guy kept trying to get me to subscribe to his podcast about the literal Apocalypse. He swore the end times were here and if I wasn't already right with God, it was too late.
  24. nicksaviking
    Even with the sketchy rotation situation, at this point I put Paddack in the pen. Behind Matthews. Behind Varland even. I don't think he can hold up as a starter.
  25. nicksaviking
    I'm not complaining, the Twins went nearly two years without losing a starting pitcher of consequence, that was a pretty dang good run. The gripe shouldn't be that the team didn't have starting pitching depth, the gripe should be that Paddock and Desclafani WEREN'T the pitching depth. Both of them had no business being considered rotation pieces for a team coming off their first playoff win in two decades. Maybe one for the 5th/swing spot, but not both.
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