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  1. bighat
    When the season started, I thought that Nick Gordon deserved a chance to earn a roster spot. As the season progressed, I started thinking that Nick Gordon was definitely worthy of a roster spot and would have a great career as a utility guy. As we roll into September, I now believe that Nick Gordon is a full-time starter and should play every day, without fail. There have been so many games where Gordon is in the middle of everything, He's given this team serious contributions on offense, he stays on the field and makes plays on defense. Maybe he's not even reached his ceiling? I want to see his name in the Twins lineup every day for years to come, alongside Miranda.
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    Twins face another no-namer tonight with a 5.30 ERA? Great, that means they'll score 2 runs, maybe 3. This team hasn't looked good - much less dominant - for months now. Twins need to keep making hay while they can, really no room to even lose a game against the Red Sox here. Dylan Bundy has lowered his ERA by half a run in August. He's certainly earned himself a contract next year in the majors. Good for him.
  3. bighat
    Right? Twins just got swept easily in HOU by the Astros. There's absolutely no reason to assume the Yankees won't do the same, and that's a 4-game set.
  4. bighat
    Nice sweep. Still, looking at this horrific roster I see no reason to get hopeful. Even if the Twins get some players back in the next couple weeks, they're going to need time to shake off the rust. There's just not enough time, not enough talent on the field. It's very likely the Twins go 3-7 over their next 10 games (BOS, at CHISOX, at NYY). I just don't see any way for this goes our way.
  5. bighat
    I loved the write-up! Great job Theo, keep it up. As someone who introduces game threads once in a blue moon, I know first hand that writing about the Twins on this site is not an easy task! As a journalism school drop-out, I do recall learning that when covering any event, you lead with the MOST IMPORTANT part of the story and then get to the little details. For example, first paragraph might be something like "The Twins won on a walk-off walk by Gilberto Celestino in the 10th inning to complete a comeback and win their second straight game against the Giants" or something like that. That way, the reader knows the basic facts right away: Twins won, 10th inning, on a walk, by Gilberto, against SF. Then if they want to read more, they can. But they don't have to. That's it for unsolicited advice from a j-school dropout. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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    Don't see how this team wins a series against any team not named Detroit or KC the rest of the year. Honestly don't. And I'm not shocked or surprised, the team looked cooked a week before the ASG.
  7. bighat
    Yeah it's over. They can't score runs against the TEXAS RANGERS. Not just one night, but for 4 straight games. At home. Embarrassing. At this point I'd prefer they just end the season now just to save us the agony of checking the scoreboard for the next month. It's extremely likely they lose all 3 in Houston, then split with SF, go 1-2 against the Red Sox, 1-2 against the White Sox and then get swept by the Yanks in NY. That'll put them at 4-12 over their next 16 games. Even if they do better than that (5-11, 6-10) they'll still be below .500 by Sept. 8. The Correa experiment was bold but it unfortunately didn't work out. Shows how bandboxes like MinuteMaid can make guys look way better offensively than they really are. Trevor Story hasn't been that good either after leaving Coors. Not sure how anyone can truly believe this team has a chance at finishing .500, let alone the division at this point.
  8. bighat
    It's not Rocco's fault that Buxton, Correa, Kepler and Polanco can't hit. Losing a series at home against a poor Texas team in late August with the division on the line? It's over folks. And it has been for a while. The coffin is ready and the nails are in hand. When the Twins head to NYY for a 4-game set to start September, and something tells me the Yankees will be bringing the hammer.
  9. bighat
    Aaron Sanchez still available? Seems like he'd be a good fit.
  10. bighat
    It's been a pretty rough last 2 months. Almost everyone has been a big disappointment down the stretch. The new closer looks like he was getting lucky in Baltimore, Correa's disappeared, Mahle to the IL, and our most exciting player Buxton hasn't been able to counter-adjust to the league and is really only hitting mistake pitches at this point. I suppose Miranda being the best hitter on the team this year is both very cool and also extremely depressing. Honestly this looks like a team that's disinterested, and it appears most guys are just running on fumes. Funny, considering Rocco's given everyone tons of rest this year.
  11. bighat
    Whether you like it or not, the people who are in charge of most things now - including sports - grew up with the internet. Social media is going to be a big part of EVERY pro & college sport moving forward. The only question is whether or not sports marketing departments can keep on top of current trends and/or even jump out ahead of them. The way it works is that MLB hires marketing people to see what kids are attracted to. Turns out, kids watch more TikTok than they do TV these days. Thus, the MLB is coming to TikTok. Alas, it's not just the MLB who's coming to TikTok. It's Burger King, Johnson & Johnson, Royal Caribbean, Motorola, and Ford. And that brings us full circle, because as soon as brands start to wade into the waters of social media, it ruins the platform. All the kids, teens, and young adults the brands came to target will then scurry off to find the next new thing. And the cycle will repeat. Every new social media platform has one destiny: to be sniffed out by advertisers and hugged to death by overbranding.
  12. bighat
    Ugly. Offense remains a concern and the bullpen is still unfortunately keeping things very interesting at the back end of games. Same old Twins: score early, unable to add on even against a struggling sub .500 team. Hat's off to Bundy. I thought he was going to go the way of Shoemaker in early July but give credit where it's due. He's showing up every 5th day and is the only Twins starter to never skip a turn this year. I looked at the September schedule for the Twins today. Something tells me that we should just enjoy the rest of August. Here's hoping for another win tonight.
  13. bighat
    The "long guys" of yore would pitch more innings per appearance than the starters of today. Diff game.
  14. bighat
    In my analogy, "thrift store" pitchers are the Bundys and Archers of the world. I compared Mahle to a TJ Maxx purchase - nothing to sneeze at, but everyone knows they're not top-of-the-line. Mahle's fine.
  15. bighat
    Agreed. Twins do most of their shopping at garage sales and thrift stores - so when they go to TJ Maxx and get a guy like Mahle, we're supposed to be impressed. Wake me up when they're looking through the new collection at Macy's. Oddly enough, the only two signings that have really impressed me (Correa, Donaldson) have been extremely disappointing. It's a shame the Twins have missed on these big swings, as I'm afraid it will keep them from trying again.
  16. bighat
    No they're not, and this is why Mahle's likely either gone for the year or gone until the last week of the season. Incredibly bad luck with the Twins big pitching additions (Paddack, Mahle). Time to stop trading for guys with injury histories, maybe?
  17. bighat
    A win, but it's still a team with the same old problems: the inability to score runs and a bullpen that will always make things interesting. This could have easily gone the other way - just imagine how low we'd be on this team if that'd happened. Until they do something like win 9-out-of-10 and blow out a good team or 2 in the process, I really don't see any reason to feel differently about the Twins today than I did yesterday. A team that's been treading water for months, finally getting tired and slowly sinking without putting up much of a fight.
  18. bighat
    DFA'ing Duffey is understandable, but doing that and then deciding to keep running Pagan out there every 3rd day is very puzzling.
  19. bighat
    Yeah I think we just have to sometimes just say "ya know what, I'm done with baseball for a while" and stop paying attention. I also have the MLB package here in Florida. It's not the money, but like you said it's the wasted time that really leads to regrets. Last year I turned off the MLB.com notifications on my phone and it really led to a much more peaceful summer. I turned them back on this year, but they're getting zonked again as of today. There's nothing worse than seeing a notification like "Angels 5, Twins 3" when you're using your phone as a flashlight at 2am when you're stumbling to the john.
  20. bighat
    Losing games like last night's - blowing a winnable game in the 9th, wasting scoring opportunities, etc - are the worst kinds of losses in baseball. Every fan has to watch their team blow a game like this once in a while, it's part of the game and part of being a fan. Being a tride-and-true fan means that sometimes the rug gets pulled out from under you, but you come back and live to fight another day. But with the 2022 Twins this kind of thing happens twice a week. It's not even newsworthy when they blow games like this, it's become so commonplace. How much more of this can fans take? At what point does thinking about Gopher football, or Vikings, T-Wolves, or Wild pre-season games become a more rewarding pastime?
  21. bighat
    Nice start for Mahle, he'll be great to have in the rotation next year for sure. Fingers crossed no fluke injuries for this guy. Clestino and Urshela with the big hits. Who'd a thunk it. Still waiting on Buxton and Correa to show up and carry the team for a 6-game win streak.
  22. bighat
    Probably something like 6 games below .500, 3rd in the Central.
  23. bighat
    No longer in sole position of 1st in the Central, the Twins and Guardians now tied atop the division. Chicago licking their chops 1.5 back, playing the Royals and Tigers the rest of the week. Meanwhile the Twins are still playing their "B" team every other game and seemed happy splitting a series 2-2 at home against Toronto. That loss (and many other winnable games thrown away) are sure hurting this team now. This team needed way more than Tyler Mahle and the 9 more starts he'll get before the end of the year. No sense of urgency, nobody to step up.
  24. bighat
    Correa is supposed to be among the top MLB shortstops - he should be putting up numbers like Francisco Lindor, Trea Turner, Corey Seager, and Xander Boegarts. Yes he should, yes that's absolutely what we all expected and so did the Twins. But his numbers aren't even close to what those guys are putting up. In fact, shortstops who are having BETTER hitting seasons than Correa include Bobby Witt, Bo Bichette, Gleybar Torres, Willy Adames, Andres Jimenez, and some guy named Thairo Estrada. If you buy a Corvette and it runs like a reliable Honda Civic, you got a lemon. And yes, watching the lead dwindle to 1 game as the Twins fly out west to take on the best team in baseball is definitely adding to my bitterness on this matter.
  25. bighat
    This is exactly where I'm at. Correa is essentially a slightly-to-somewhat above average player this year. I don't mind having an above average player on my team, but that's not what we expected from Correa. The Twins signed perhaps the most coveted free agent of the '22 season, a guy who was going to be the foundation for this team this season. And he's got 13 HR and 37 RBI as we head into mid-August. Unless something else is coming from Correa - and I don't see any reason to believe there is - he's a been a major disappointment and didn't deliver as advertised.
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