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  1. nicksaviking
    The Boss has had six #1 albums this century including The Rising which everyone has heard of, you're just listening to the wrong music! Talk trash all you want about Molitor, but so help me, if I hear another bad word about him I will amend the Comment Policy to say negative expressions toward Bruce Springsteen are expressly prohibited and may result in a perma-ban from this site.
  2. nicksaviking
    I learned it from Ann Coulter reading an article about her Twitter war with Delta. I forgot she was a thing. Sucks for her that Trump went and stole her special brand of crazy and left her in a forgotten heap on the side of the road. Sad.
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    I'm a big fan of phenoms, I approve the pick.
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    Especially still into October!
  5. nicksaviking
    Or one could read into it that the guys with swing-and-miss stuff will be fine because that's mostly umpire independent, and guys who need strike three called will be hurt. But I got faith! Prediction: A nervous Severino allows eight base runners in the first two innings, six of which reach on base on balls, and gets pulled prior to getting six outs.
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    After all the dead people in LV it seems really small of me, but this one hits me hard. Big fan of Tom Petty, this one hurts.
  7. nicksaviking
    You can never go wrong with beer. Interesting that the top four and five of the top six picks are large market clubs. If intentionally tanking big market clubs start getting the top picks while the small market teams at least try to win to salvage attendance income, and the big market teams also can quickly reload in free agency, there's going to be some huge inequality issues upcoming. But maybe this is a one year fluke, not the beginning of a trend.
  8. nicksaviking
    I wanted Molitor replaced, but now I hear he's great friends with Bruce Springsteen and is hoping to get him into the clubhouse prior to the WC game? Ugh, that gets him so many check marks in the 'Keep him' column, I'm torn now. However Molitor loves his song No Surrender, how does he not see that bunting is a total surrender! Maybe The Boss can explain the song to him.
  9. nicksaviking
    Sorry, this sounds like an older trope but my social media and comment section perusal is pretty exclusive to TD so this acronym only recently caught my attention, but myopic ethnocentrists are using the acronym SJW to describe liberals, and it stands for Social Justice Warrior? What am I missing, how is that an insult? Sounds like the first line of the most kick-*** obituary ever.
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    I have a hard time believing that the people who can't tell those are the same conversation would ever be convinced to back any kind of equality. Those people are either too intellectually challenged to have a real conversation or too stubborn to admit it's about equality. Trying to model your protest to appeal to those people is as useless as trying to appeal to a rock.
  11. nicksaviking
    How about Old Timer's games?
  12. nicksaviking
    A three game DH tuneup sounds good to me. I might not even start him in the WC game, but if it comes down to a RH pinch hitter against Chapman, I'd tather run him out there instead of Giminez or Garver.
  13. nicksaviking
    *Cough, cough, https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/09/pete-mackanin-moved-to-phillies-front-office-will-not-manage-team-in-2018.html
  14. nicksaviking
    Keep it down, some of us have to work in the morning! Don't make me call the cops on you; I know you have some minors in there!
  15. nicksaviking
    In my experience all dogs are completely frank.
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    Sorry, late to this one. I thought my explanation in the closing post was pretty explanatory. It was only being used by others to take you to task or by you or others still upset by the trade to take the Twins to task. Any meaningful dialogue had long expired. If it wasn't being taken seriously, why the need for a five month old thread?
  18. nicksaviking
    One thing that isn't being taken into account is the difference between a playoff roster and the regular season roster. Yes the Twins have deficiencies, but the biggest is the back of the rotation, which doesn't matter in the post season as you only go three deep regularly and touch on the fourth in only a couple of games. The Twins 4-5 starters surely are worse than the other teams', I'd guess the Twins would close the gap a bit in run differential, other team metrics and actual W/L record if every team only went with 3.5 starters in the regular season. I mean that was the exact situation in 1987. Your team is a whole lot better when Mike Smithson and Joe Niekro aren't starting 2/5 of your games.
  19. nicksaviking
    I don't see anyone here upset with his stance (or lack there of), simply the premise is lacking. I love Fangraphs, but frankly, they have been shoving out a lot of stuff like this lately. I don't know how their organization works but it's starting to look like traditional print media in that I'd guess their contributors are contracted to come up with x amount of material in a given timeframe. Perhaps I'm wrong, maybe this is some kind of outre passion project by Sullivan, but to me it reads like deadline filler. If that's part of the job, he's got to do it and I don't blame him. However I'd prefer fewer articles with more substanative ideas, if that's at all possible in an age where companies count the number of "clicks". I mean, this article is way more Bleacher Report than the Fangraphs I first bookmarked.
  20. nicksaviking
    Perhaps too far into the forest to see the trees. With a magnifying glass: the number of micro level discrepancies between the Twins and the Dodgers is stunning. High level: this happens in every sport nearly every post season. This is routine not an abnormality, if you take a step back.
  21. nicksaviking
    Does Jeff Sullivan think this is the first non-elite team to ever make the post season? Odd to think that this situation has only just now occurred to him.
  22. nicksaviking
    Is there anything more American then civil disobedience? Surely the Tea Party nuts stand behind the players right? Or is it possible the don't really understand what the Tea Party was named after.
  23. nicksaviking
    In my opinion, if the extent of your patriotism is standing still for a song and criticizing others who don't stand as you prefer them to, you're probably more concerned with outward appearances than you actually are about patriotism. Kind of like the people who shame homosexuality for religious reasons but only go to church at Christmas. I'm guessing there is a significant overlap with those two examples as well.
  24. nicksaviking
    Geez, it's almost like they're trying to rectify hundreds of years of purposeful and unsubstantiated stereotypes and terrible social injustices they helped cause which has still even today lead to an unfounded persecution complex that some middle class white males still unfathomably embrace.
  25. nicksaviking
    It's long past 14 months and this thing only gets resurrected for one party or another to yell I Told You So, the party being dependent on how Aaron Hicks is fairing that day. It's run its course, I'm closing the thread.
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