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February 12, 2016: The End

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...of Arizona. After countless phone calls and holdups, I was told I got the job in Eagan. I don't have a start date yet, but I hope to be in Target Field for the home opener this year, and whatnot. What a long process it was.

The Milkmaid is poised to steal my thunder, as she is being eyed by Target's corporate office for a job that would represent an insane 40% increase (as the one who didn't waste time in show business, she already makes more than I do).

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  4. Congrats, man. I get closer and closer every day to wanting to do the same thing, but just can't quite pull the trigger on a search just yet.

  11. Two thumbs up, Spookman. And you better get tickets to the home opener fast, I checked yesterday and there's nothing left except upper deck seats.

      1. Well, they're improving anyways. If they had made the playoffs last year, I think the home opener would have been sold out within hours of individual tickets going on sale.

        1. One of the Reno casinos has over/unders out for win totals: Twins at 77.5, last place in the Central, 3 behind Sox.

          Seems low to me, but my optimism on the teams I follow is the reason I don't win those bets. Anyone think the Twins are really 6 games worse than last year?

          1. They over-performed last year and haven't done much this offseason so I can see it. FanGraphs has them at a bit over a .475 winning percentage; 77 wins translates to .4753 so there you go.

              1. My optimism says that's a good guess, but that there's substantial upside opportunity rather than downside risk. Full seasons of Sano and Buxton and progression from a couple of young pitchers could thrust the team into the divisional mix.

                Unfortunately (and FWIW), Steamer projections have only two Twins' position players (Sano, 3.4, and Dozier, 2.6) and two pitchers (Gibson, 2.1, and Hughes, 2.0) above 2.0 WAR. That's projecting a whole lotta near-replacement level performances.

  12. Good luck to the Milkmaid, too. When I left TV news to do tech marketing back in the 90s, I realized a 100% increase in my salary. I figure that has to be about a once-in-a-lifetime deal. The best I've done since is a 20% raise that came with my last promotion.

  14. Thanks, guys. Now it's all logistical nonsense for a while, of course. The Milkmaid's phone meeting got pushed to this coming Monday because none of these phone interviews ever seem to be on time. She already has found a place she'd like to move into that would be available in April and takes my job and both schools into account, so as long as her job situation pans out, we're already ahead of the game. I expect to start on March 8th or 15th, and will more than likely stay with one of my college friends for a few weeks until that time.

    Or maybe everything after this will be a disaster and we'll be left homeless. Which is another KIND of adventure, I suppose.

    1. It worked out OK for Jewel Kilcher.
      If things do get that desperate, we can always put your family up for a while.
      Plenty of room, but not like a mother-in-law apartment with separate entrance and a kitchenette.
      Not ideal, but better than living out of a vehicle.

    2. When we moved here from Idaho, my wife got a year-round teaching job at the last minute, so we had less than 3 weeks from when she took the job to when she was going to start teaching. Since she only taught for 3 weeks before having a 3 week break (this was back in the days of small classroom counts and teacher shortages in California so had rotating schedules so that 1/4 of the students were always on break) she came to SoCal and stayed with her principal for 3 weeks before flying back and helping me move our stuff to SoCal. While she was teaching those 3 weeks, she also found us a house to rent.

    3. FTA:

      “Athletes are wired a certain way where you play through anything,” he said. “I think there were some things maybe I should have taken a step back and taken a look at and tried to take care of (the symptoms), especially physically."

      But I always heard he was a giant pussy who asks out at every opportunity. Strange.

      1. Of course the point will have to be made that if he wasn't a pussy, his vision wouldn't be blurry. To the comments section!

        1. of interest to me, anyway, was a comment my wife made yesterday w/respect to yet another outrageous statement from The Donald, in which he called someone a "pussy."

          She said that the use of that word to describe someone as a piece of female anatomy (or to refer to said anatomy) really offended her. And then she said that ... maybe calling someone a "dick" or a "prick" should be thought of in the same way. Made me think.

          Not that I'm going to stop referring to certain folks as prominent examples of male anatomy, but it did give me pause. Because I agreed with her on the "pussy" part without ever having really stopped to think about the "dick" usage. Hmmm.

          1. I don't use the term "pussy," but I have no problem calling someone a dick in the right circumstances.

            Male anatomical slang doesn't have the same mysogenistic/homophobic connotations, so it's a very different thing to me. Then again, maybe a-hole is the better way to go; equal opportunity offense!

    1. MLBTradeRumors said that Mejia would have to wait a year before being even able to apply for a reinstatement that would require another two-year suspension, so if I read it right (and they had it right), that sounds like a minimum of 3 years. Not that it really matters. This guy had tested positive three times in about a year's time, so I don't see how he could get reinstatement unless he can prove a false positive, in which case this ban should be overturned immediately.

      1. He tested positive April 2015, tested positive again in July 2015, and then a third time recently. That's crazy. First, I can't see any team wanting to have him now. Second, I wonder if there's something else wrong and he's addicted to them.

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