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  1. nicksaviking
    Yeah, there was absolutely no effort put into improving the offense this year. But, this offense has seemed to start slow every year lately. Taking months to get the team to gel maybe is on the manager.
  2. nicksaviking
    Oh, I’m quite confident his replacement can also dabble in foolishness
  3. nicksaviking
    Yeah, I guess if I only bother to watch five games or so won’t be that bad.
  4. nicksaviking
    Have to say, that having to use a system where I have to cast my phone doesn't sound like it should be a $100 investment.
  5. nicksaviking
    Wow, what an underwhelming group. Where are you getting those draft rankings? Yeah, Harmon might be an option for an early pick, but the other three look like they are being scouted as UDFAs. And bringing UDFA prospects in for looks makes more sense than bringing guys you actually think you'll draft in the middle or late rounds for looks. Showing other teams your hands for rounds 3-6 or so is a big disadvantage.
  6. nicksaviking
    Don't have cable, don't have dish, tried to find Twins.TV as a Roku app and it wasn't there. It just brought me to the MLB.TV app which would make me pay $150 for every game that WASN'T Twins. I see the stupid app on my computer, but I'm not watching baseball on my computer all summer. I get that I'm middle aged (old) and technologically illiterate, but how did they not understand that this is pretty much 80% of the demographic they are trying to market to?
  7. nicksaviking
    I have no affinity for Dobnak, but as mentioned previously, his contract basically makes him an optionable player. No one is likely to claim him.
  8. nicksaviking
    My Roku won't even locate a Twins.TV app. I can only go to the MLB app where it prompts me to pay for every MLB game. Like anyone cares about the Pirates.
  9. nicksaviking
    Based off of Margot and Gallo? September.
  10. nicksaviking
    9. Harrison Bader, LF Hopefully we will not see Bader starting in an outfield corner against a right-handed starter too frequently. Sigh. He was the team's 'big' free agent signing this year. Anyone who assumed he'd be a short-sided platoon player wasn't looking at the money. If he stays healthy, I expect he'll play more games in the OF than any other Twin this year. That was definitely not an endorsement.
  11. nicksaviking
    Am I wrong, or does it seem that some of you telling me to cut the cord five years ago are still the ones talking about cable and Direct TV now? Now I'm thinking you were all in on it, and just out to get my money too!
  12. nicksaviking
    And it's not just the big market clubs doing it because they know they can afford these players later. I'd 100% be confident the Pirates promoted Skenes just to sell tickets (because they have the worst and cheapest owner in the game) but the Brewers and Orioles obviously promoted their players because they actually wanted to win. Why the A's did it is anyone's guess. That's a crazy, messed up, crooked situation there. Still not convinced the Twins leadership has the mental fortitude to do it though. From being fearful of young players, to being fearful of losing their jobs, to worrying about money and always trying to straddle the fence between short-term and long-term decisions, they're the complete package of indecisiveness and non-committal.
  13. nicksaviking
    Right, but the getting injured part is the issue. I don't think pitchers have the capability to sustain and come back from an infinite amount of injuries. The next one could be the last one for all anyone knows. I know we've been conditioned to see these guys as commodities, but I wouldn't intentionally put him in a situation where the worst case scenario is also the most likely scenario.
  14. nicksaviking
    I'm not against him starting as he's been productive and looked good. But how often does this end well where the consistently injured starter keeps trying and trying and trying to make it work in the rotation? I'm not talking about with the Twins, but overall in the MLB? I think the smart move is to just make the move to the pen now. I know he doesn't want to, and I know the Twins want to desperately make their investment pay out the highest dividends, but I think the overwhelming odds say the pen is best option.
  15. nicksaviking
    Looks like he's managing that about as well as he managed the TV deals the last 25 years!
  16. nicksaviking
    Right, so coinciding with real estate losses and then increasing interest rates. In other words, the kinds of debts and losses their PRIMARY ventures would incur. The debts are likely only baseball related because they put Twins LLC down as a partner in these other non-related businesses. But plenty have suggested that the Pohlad's were only looking to sell the Twins to gain liquidity due to the current struggles of their other real estate businesses. Makes sense they'd try to also make a prospective buyer eat some debt from those same businesses that they care more about than the Twins.
  17. nicksaviking
    Yeah, they may not, but they are not being given full opportunities to show they can't do it any longer. It would be different if they were bringing in GOOD free agents that they had to climb over and out perform but they aren't. Bader, France, Vazquez, Margot, Gallo? Those guys aren't required to 'earn their keep' but they give long leashes to broken down vets, even when it's clear that nobody else wants to roster them.
  18. nicksaviking
    This is all really dumb and also really expected. It's my favorite team so I shouldn't laugh at the ineptitude, but I'm going to anyway. What were those two radio stations the Pohlad's bought for Joe to manage that he quickly ran into the ground? If they made a Twins jersey, but with those radio call sign letters on it, I'd probably buy one.
  19. nicksaviking
    I mean, the cynic in me says it's other real estate losses they sloughed on to the baseball team they also own. Twins LLC is listed as a percentage owner on the K1s for other ventures and they get to play shell games with losses, liabilities and earnings.
  20. nicksaviking
    Yeah, Wallner was in my core-4. I would have liked to put Miranda, Larnach, Jeffers and even Julien in that group, but the team keeps going out if it's way to show they they'd rather give guys who'll likely be out of the league in a year or two at-bats instead of those players.
  21. nicksaviking
    That would be nice, but it won't die, it will just morph into a reflection of our society. There will be oligarch teams that have all the money and take all the good players, and the blue collar schools whose student athletes will totally get screwed over when the big schools take all the TV money, attendance drops at their games and school leadership decides that the sport doesn't make the school enough money so they just start cutting the programs. The smaller, more obscure programs first, like swimming and soccer and dance teams. You know, the ones that had nothing to do with this mess and don't deserve it.
  22. nicksaviking
    I have to disagree. This off season looks an awful lot like that era of the Twins. They were always signing Butch Husky's and Otis Nixon's and Quinton McCrakon's. Guys who at one point had some name value but now were just veteran filler for the sake of being veteran filler. Ty France and Harrison Bader are basically the exact same caliber of free agents they were always cycling through, but that history has already forgotten. And at the end of his tenure, Tom Kelly showed NO patience with the young players who didn't perform. But unlike Rocco Baldelli, he also showed no patience with the veterans who didn't perform. Therefore he didn't cut off his nose to spite his face; he gave the young guys reps because it was clearly the best answer for the long term.
  23. nicksaviking
    Yup, my 14--year-old and I watch it. Pretty solid.
  24. nicksaviking
    Definitely the right thing to do. It is going to kill the current system though. Just look at the NCAA tournament. The lowest seeded team left is a 10 seed? And it's Arkansas in the SEC with John Calipari as coach? Football and basketball will not be very competitive in five years. There will need to be one league with about the top 40, maybe 50 big spenders. Schools like the U of M are going to have to hook up with the lesser spenders. Which sounds like saying they're cheap, so maybe I should instead say, schools and states that prioritize spending money on things that actually matter.
  25. nicksaviking
    I also don't get the team's reported desire to keep Castellano. Is it just to save the Rule V down payment they were forced to cough up? This organization has NOT suffered starters or relievers with control issues. Why would they make an exception for Castellano? No way they think they can 'fix' him, that's almost always a fools errand. They don't even draft guys with control problems they have to 'fix', they just avoid those pitchers all together or run them out of the system early if they don't show the ability. Mostly I've been negative, so I should clarify that the previous paragraph was actually a complement and an endorsement of their pitching decisions. Stay true to it, let Castellano go.
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