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Minnesota Twins 2010: Part II - The Franchise Strikes Back

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Brenthoven said:
Ihaven't paid attention, but I guess this is as good as any time to ask....where is Wang? Honestly. He was one of the exceptions to my "No Yankees" rule in FBL (picked him up on Day One, and had him the next year, and then no more by choice).
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signed a 2 million dollar deal with washington, but hasnt pitched for them
 
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BigPieps said:
I get upset that people are okay with another central title and a first round exit. "Well, they won a lot of series throughout the yeary!" "Oh, Joe Mauer!" "At least we made the playoffs!"
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Indeed.

Brenthoven said:
12 year olds throwing curveballs and sliders and such can't be the best thing.
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This is probably the smartest thing said on this thread. Seriously. The worst part is that it's more like 8-10 year olds. I hated watching that when I was umpiring little league ball. These kids are just destroying their joints. Rock and fire baby, stop trying to throw breaking balls until your elbow is strong enough (high school).
 
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There's no problem with throwing the curveball young on its face. The problem is young pitchers won't use proper mechanics to throw the curveball, using their arm and shoulder twist to create movement instead of using the wrist: which is the proper way to throw it.

They're trying to create unnatural movement and that's the problem.

Then throw in the absurd amount of pitches they're letting these young kids throw, and it all boils down to a lot of stupidity.

Sliders mess up your arm no matter how old you are. Just depends on what kind of pain you're going to let yourself go through.
 
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I didn't even include the #CrainWreck in my "How to Fix the Twins" listing.

Yikes. He sucks.

As much as I love him...the Twins *START*...START...Nick Punto. START.

AT THIRD BASE.

There has to be *SOMEONE* who is better.

Anyway, I'm so relieved that the Twins beat the Yankees. The "1 out of 3 ain't bad against the Yankees" is relived.

I dunno. Maybe it's Gardy? Who knows.
 
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Nice to see Slowey take the good fortune of having the Texas HR taken off the board and give them the run anyways 2 straight hits later. :rolleyes:
 
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Cuddyer bounces to short, but he was leading off the inning so no double play. :p
 
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I thought the Twins were playing the Rangers today?

Anyway, some team just got a 2-run double with the bases loaded to take the lead over the Rangers, and followed it up with a 2 run single after that.
 
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Brenthoven said:
I thought the Twins were playing the Rangers today?

Anyway, some team just got a 2-run double with the bases loaded to take the lead over the Rangers, and followed it up with a 2 run single after that.
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And another 2 RBIs with RISP! What is happening :eek: :D ;) :)
 
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People next to me at the game today were funny.

The guy was trying to tell his date/friend/whatever girl about baseball. Which is fine, except he didn't seem to know much at all.

He could only name 3 of the retired numbers. Again fine, but why did you bring it up if you didn't know 42 was for Jackie Robinson (couldn't come up with Carew and Oliva either)?

There were other little anecdotes, but you get the picture.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
People next to me at the game today were funny.

The guy was trying to tell his date/friend/whatever girl about baseball. Which is fine, except he didn't seem to know much at all.

He could only name 3 of the retired numbers. Again fine, but why did you bring it up if you didn't know 42 was for Jackie Robinson (couldn't come up with Carew and Olivia either)?

There were other little anecdotes, but you get the picture.
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Did you at least wang-block him by telling him everything he was saying was wrong? :)
 
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An announced crowd of 39,659, the largest crowd in Target Field's 26-game history, put the Twins over the 1 million mark already this season. It's the fastest they've reached the plateau in club history, surpassing the 31 games it took in 1988.
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Woo I was part of a record crowd. For a little while at least. I am sure that will be broken sometime this year.
 
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Oh Joe Morgan, how can you say such dumb things?

He finds it interesting that the Twins are a small market team but have a higher payroll than the Dodgers.

Really Joe? Do you think that has anything to do with the Dodgers owner going through a messy divorce in which his ownership of the team could be in question.

Also Joe did you notice the Twins have a new stadium this season? I hear that brings in more revenue.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
Oh Joe Morgan, how can you say such dumb things?

He finds it interesting that the Twins are a small market team but have a higher payroll than the Dodgers.

Really Joe? Do you think that has anything to do with the Dodgers owner going through a messy divorce in which his ownership of the team could be in question.

Also Joe did you notice the Twins have a new stadium this season? I hear that brings in more revenue.
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At least John Miller's good.
 
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thebrain said:
At least John Miller's good.
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On his own, he is okay. When he's with Morgan, there must be a clause in his contract to feed Joe's ego at least once every half inning. It's disgusting; Orel Hirshiser(sp) is doing it now, too :rolleyes:
 
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redheadzeb said:
On his own, he is okay. When he's with Morgan, there must be a clause in his contract to feed Joe's ego at least once every half inning. It's disgusting; Orel Hirshiser(sp) is doing it now, too :rolleyes:
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Miller has a good delivery and the correct pronunciation of Hispanic names is neat. Like Jose ME-Harris
 
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thebrain said:
Miller has a good delivery and the correct pronunciation of Hispanic names is neat. Like Jose ME-Harris
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Good work on Patrick Roy, too ;)

I forgot he thought the Wild played at the Target Center earlier in the night. Surprisingly, the folks in the truck corrected him very quickly and he "apologized" to St. Paul :D
 
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redheadzeb said:
Good work on Patrick Roy, too ;)

I forgot he thought the Wild played at the Target Center earlier in the night. Surprisingly, the folks in the truck corrected him very quickly and he "apologized" to St. Paul :D
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He's a Californian, gotta cut him some slack... Ha Ha...
 
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