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Post by AustinHoya03 on May 4, 2011 0:22:59 GMT -5
I'm currently mad at myself for not going to the game, but still, ;D What a game by Liriano and against the White Sox too! Sick plays by Valencia, Morneau and Span to keep the no-hitter going too. Not to mention the fact that Liriano > Freddie Garcia & Jacque Jones > Adam Dunn ;D God I hate the Twins so much. The Sox often suck in the early season, but the past three weeks have been a particularly painful stretch. I am inclined to believe that being no-hit at home by the division arch-nemisis will not improve matters. There must be statistics on W/L records following no-hitters somewhere, right? Someone please tell me my inclination is unsupported by stats.
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Post by hoyainspirit on May 4, 2011 9:35:30 GMT -5
I'm currently mad at myself for not going to the game, but still, ;D What a game by Liriano and against the White Sox too! Sick plays by Valencia, Morneau and Span to keep the no-hitter going too. Not to mention the fact that Liriano > Freddie Garcia & Jacque Jones > Adam Dunn ;D How great it would have been to have seen a no hitter in person. I've seen exactly one on television, and listened to two on the radio in my lifetime of loving baseball!
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Post by hoyarooter on May 4, 2011 12:18:11 GMT -5
I'm currently mad at myself for not going to the game, but still, ;D What a game by Liriano and against the White Sox too! Sick plays by Valencia, Morneau and Span to keep the no-hitter going too. Not to mention the fact that Liriano > Freddie Garcia & Jacque Jones > Adam Dunn ;D God I hate the Twins so much. The Sox often suck in the early season, but the past three weeks have been a particularly painful stretch. I am inclined to believe that being no-hit at home by the division arch-nemisis will not improve matters. There must be statistics on W/L records following no-hitters somewhere, right? Someone please tell me my inclination is unsupported by stats. This. Well, I don't really hate the Twins, they just drive me crazy. And now for my no-hitter story. I believe it was 1971 or 1972. I attended a Dodger-Phillie doubleheader on a Sunday, and the Phillies were crummy then. The Dodgers led both games going into the eighth inning, and lost both games. Needless to say, I was thoroughly disgusted. The next afternoon my Dad called me and asked if I wanted to attend the Dodger game that night, as he had access to a couple tickets. I said no thanks, I didn't want to subject myself to any more of the crud I had seen the day before. I went to the movies instead. Bill Singer pitched a no hitter for the Dodgers that night.
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Post by nashvillehoyas on May 6, 2011 21:32:17 GMT -5
Hall-of-Famer and baseball great Willie Mays turns 80. Mays is the last of the great CFs of his era....It's unfortunate that Mays is not still active in baseball as a manager, general manager, or coach.
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Post by TBird41 on May 7, 2011 10:22:25 GMT -5
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Post by hoyainspirit on May 7, 2011 10:40:48 GMT -5
Hall-of-Famer and baseball great Willie Mays turns 80. Mays is the last of the great CFs of his era....It's unfortunate that Mays is not still active in baseball as a manager, general manager, or coach. Not too many people 80 years old still active in baseball. But I understand what you mean. The fact that he was hired by casinos as a goodwill, meet-and-greet type was a ridiculous reason to prevent him from having some role with a club. Mays was one of my first sports heroes. As a youngster, I would throw a ball in the air as high as I could, off on an angle in order that I would have to run after it, to practice making basket catches. In college, my teammates razzed me as being a hot dog because I made basket catches on flies hit at me. Love me some Willie! BTW, TBird, excellent read. Thanx for the link.
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 3, 2011 21:31:24 GMT -5
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Post by kchoya on Aug 3, 2011 22:23:21 GMT -5
Hmm, how did I know what Dan' post was going to be on without even clicking on the thread?
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 3, 2011 22:49:29 GMT -5
Hmm, how did I know what Dan' post was going to be on without even clicking on the thread? It's OK... I'm sure he was just waiting for the lockout to be over.
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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 4, 2011 12:59:27 GMT -5
So some joker lost half a mil, huh? Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley say that's whack.
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Post by kchoya on Aug 31, 2011 9:59:04 GMT -5
I wonder how Francisco Cervelli will celebrate when he reaches the milestone of 10 career home runs.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Aug 31, 2011 10:55:22 GMT -5
So, what would the White Sox season have looked like if they had benched the bums and brought up the young talent three months ago?
Peavy pitching with a chance for a sweep this afternoon, huge series in Detroit coming up this weekend.
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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 31, 2011 11:55:16 GMT -5
So, what would the White Sox season have looked like if they had benched the bums and brought up the young talent three months ago? Peavy pitching with a chance for a sweep this afternoon, huge series in Detroit coming up this weekend. Uh, better? Let's be honest, though. Dunn had no history of anything like this. Not even close. Yes, I would have benched him sooner, but probably not before some time in July. You had to figure that at some point, he would snap out of it. Same with Rios, although to a lesser extent, since he has had a couple really poor seasons before. Even average performances by those guys, and the Sox are in first place.
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Post by kchoya on Aug 31, 2011 12:01:04 GMT -5
So, what would the White Sox season have looked like if they had benched the bums and brought up the young talent three months ago? Peavy pitching with a chance for a sweep this afternoon, huge series in Detroit coming up this weekend. C'mon Sox. Beat the Twins so the Royals can climb out of the cellar.
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Post by RDF on Aug 31, 2011 13:25:12 GMT -5
I hear Joe Mauer had an arm hair infection, so he'll be sitting out the rest of the season. A lot of fans rocking Mauer jerseys in Twin Cities with his name covered in tape and saying "General Soreness". Twinkie fans not happy with "The Balsa Man".
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Post by TBird41 on Aug 31, 2011 16:21:48 GMT -5
I hear Joe Mauer had an arm hair infection, so he'll be sitting out the rest of the season. A lot of fans rocking Mauer jerseys in Twin Cities with his name covered in tape and saying "General Soreness". Twinkie fans not happy with "The Balsa Man". Its never a good sign if you are coming to the same conclusions as the local MN media. Obviously, Mauer's injuries aren't good (and the trend is definitely not good), but all the crap about him being soft is just classic MN press tactics--anytime anything goes poorly, attack the stars. Also, the Twins need to fire their training staff (and their GM!), b/c it is ridiculous how often they turn 2 week injuries into months on the DL.
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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 31, 2011 19:35:44 GMT -5
I hear Joe Mauer had an arm hair infection, so he'll be sitting out the rest of the season. A lot of fans rocking Mauer jerseys in Twin Cities with his name covered in tape and saying "General Soreness". Twinkie fans not happy with "The Balsa Man". Its never a good sign if you are coming to the same conclusions as the local MN media. Obviously, Mauer's injuries aren't good (and the trend is definitely not good), but all the crap about him being soft is just classic MN press tactics--anytime anything goes poorly, attack the stars. Also, the Twins need to fire their training staff (and their GM!), b/c it is ridiculous how often they turn 2 week injuries into months on the DL. Why the GM? I think he certainly has to be given some of the credit for all the Twins' success in recent years. This year has been a train wreck, but I'm not sure why the GM should pay the price.
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Post by TBird41 on Aug 31, 2011 19:46:59 GMT -5
Its never a good sign if you are coming to the same conclusions as the local MN media. Obviously, Mauer's injuries aren't good (and the trend is definitely not good), but all the crap about him being soft is just classic MN press tactics--anytime anything goes poorly, attack the stars. Also, the Twins need to fire their training staff (and their GM!), b/c it is ridiculous how often they turn 2 week injuries into months on the DL. Why the GM? I think he certainly has to be given some of the credit for all the Twins' success in recent years. This year has been a train wreck, but I'm not sure why the GM should pay the price. The players on the team that are good are from Terry Ryan. The only moves he's made that have worked out so far are trading for Jon Rauch and signing Jim Thome. Garza and Bartlett for Delmon Young was Bill Smith's, so was the Johan trade, so was choosing Nishioka over JJ Hardy, so was the 4 year contract to Nick Blackburn and trading Wilson Ramos for Matt Capps. He was also trying to trade Denard Span for either Drew Storen or Tyler Clippard. He was also unable to realize how bad this season was prior to the trade deadline and so won't be able to get anything for Michael Cuddyer or Jason Kubel, both of whom are free agents. He's also overseeing a training department that is awful and a culture that has turned toxic (the amount of scapegoating from inside the team is pathetic). He's not a good GM and his drafts haven't really been all that great. He doesn't seem to have a plan, nor does he seem to have any idea of how to put together a bullpen. It's only going to get uglier too.
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Post by RDF on Aug 31, 2011 23:51:09 GMT -5
I hear Joe Mauer had an arm hair infection, so he'll be sitting out the rest of the season. A lot of fans rocking Mauer jerseys in Twin Cities with his name covered in tape and saying "General Soreness". Twinkie fans not happy with "The Balsa Man". Its never a good sign if you are coming to the same conclusions as the local MN media. Obviously, Mauer's injuries aren't good (and the trend is definitely not good), but all the crap about him being soft is just classic MN press tactics--anytime anything goes poorly, attack the stars. Also, the Twins need to fire their training staff (and their GM!), b/c it is ridiculous how often they turn 2 week injuries into months on the DL. No it actually comes from fans--and if you are going to have an injury, put off surgery to do commercials and one of the commercials is for a local Health/Fitness club and you proceed to miss 4 games due to "strainging your neck looking for a pop up", are in the 1st year of a huge contract extension, have hit less HR's in history of Target Field then Russell Martin hit in 1 game, you are going to start catching some heat. Mauer has missed games due to: heat, weakness in legs, fatigue, neck strain due to looking for a pop up, a sore foot, ear infection, etc......and whether you want to admit it or not-perception becomes the reality. When you are about to be a 29 year old veteran ballplayer and you state "I promise to follow a rigourous conditioining program in offseason" the question has to be why wouldnt that already have been the case? He openly wanted more endorsements and got them and had the worst year he's had in Big leagues and missed games while other players played hurt. I do agree about the GM though. Twins are better being the little engine who could because spending money they proved to not have a clue as to what the hell they are doing, which they'll likely prove again by giving an average player in Cuddyer a big extension when they should let him go.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Sept 1, 2011 7:59:08 GMT -5
He was also trying to trade Denard Span for either Drew Storen or Tyler Clippard. I'm glad he failed to pull that one off. Storen and Clippard are the anchors of an excellent Nats bullpen. From the Nats' perspective, Capps for Ramos was a much better transaction.
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